The art of the narrow victory: How the Chiefs keep pulling out close wins

New Orleans – They cannot stay away from this.
This was the common abstinence regarding Heads of KansasUsually winning. Patrick MaqoumAnd Andy Reed and the leaders won 17 consecutive games in a row, drawing in the history of the US Football Association. You might even argue that they are the stalkers – they are waiting until the last minute to close their victories.
It is not a coincidence that the Super Bowl line is at 1.5 – and the presidents are preferred.
“I just make a good TV. That’s what I do,” Mahamz said during “The Match” in 2023.
At that time, Maasoum was joking. Or so we thought.
Now … well, it is clear that there is some truth.
So, instead of just saying they cannot get rid of this, let us instead ask a question: How do they continue to stay away from this?
Because Mahries is the master of the art of narrow victory.
“I think that the art of the nearby games is the extent of the team’s dealing with circumstantial football and their willingness during this week, and how this week is delivered from the preparation from the training staff,” Julian Edelman Tell Fox SPORTS. “I think it is to all of this together, and this is something that the heads of Kansas City city enjoy.
“I went and watched their practice. It was clean. There was no lost time. … I think this way to use your time when you prepared is what ultimately helps you win near games. They had experience to do that. [to beat them]”
Preparation is the nature of being a repeat hero. No one ignores the city of Kansas. On the contrary, each team brings the best-with the increase in the motivation to stop the three peat. It is somewhat similar to 2007 PatriotismWith every team that wants to destroy the unacceptable New England record. Of course, we got some patriots to intensify the cause and how presidents can continue to convert nail poles at a higher rate than the third landing.
“If you are better prepared in circumstantial football, you can flourish [in close games]And you can overcome the challenges and teams that are better than you. ” Rob Gronkovsky He said. “This is what we did in New England, and you see that it is happening all the time. The heads of Kansas City city are more willing to stand more than the team they face.”
Here is an example: In the training camp, the presidents run obsessed-engine training more than 15 games.
“They are to adapt the mind and the body,” Dan Williams, QBS coach, told the team.
These tablets were the basis for KC identity this year. The presidents are difficult. They are difficult. They are unavoidable. They run strongly – even when they get tired – play intelligence in the traffic game. These exercises impose taxes to the point that they abandon them for the normal season to ensure that they are not draining their players in the game weeks.
Those weeks are already draining.
Defense coordinator Steve Spaniolo, the modest as it was always, said that the leaders were “lucky” to stop Josh Allen and Bills In the fourth final, as Kansas City sent a strange raid that assembled QB and his offensive line, thus making the playless play. The ball fell incomplete and was rotating at the bottom. It has never got the ball and the tribal heads advance to Super Bowl. Spaniolo laughed when I indicated that it was not luck. I knew alike that it is not by chance that a specific Blitz was confused.
“I just hope we can get more forward,” he said.
Then he said something that has strengthened it was not luck.
“We have a list of things intended for those situations we are going through during the week, and this is a collective effort. Assistant coach and me, then we feed them for the players,” said Spaniolo.
This is how the American Football Association works. The teams play the basic defenses for the first time and the second. Then in the third place and – when necessary – the fourth below, the presidents ask for more interesting. This is true for both crime and defense. For this reason, the crime and defense address the moments of the crisis at the top of the week. It gives priority to the most important moments.
“I really think this starts at the top with coach Red on how to prepare for the entire team. We, as a defensive unit, are always talking about circumstantial football, and we spend a large part of the time early in the week at the fourth Downs and two minutes [drill]Spaniolo said. “We do this from the beginning. We are not waiting until the end of the week to do a fourth or two minutes, because we feel that these are the positions-the red area, the third to the bottom, the two graves, and the fourth to the bottom-where you win and lose football matches. This is evident from the way we talked It has things this year.
Things often do not go to planning during these situations.
You may not get the shape you want. You will definitely get something confusing or strange on the other side of the ball – and it may not be something familiar or even clear. So presidents are preparing for that too.
“It is always a matter of not giving the perfect appearance in practice,” said QBS coach David Gerardi. “Maybe I gave them this secondary [look]That third. It may be that the team can offer, and then allow men to work through it in the field and know that. So I think you know your opponent, the good idea of those who are, and what they like to do. Also, get to know yourself, who you love to do, and you have answers to the team. “
We are not yet in the era of anatomy who is more responsible for the leaders of the leaders. But one day, we will get there. The issue of Mahries or ReID will be.
The special team coordinator and assistant coach Dave Top also said that the narrow victory art “begins with Andy. He puts the bar.” The traffic coordinator Joe Pleimer attributed it to Maqoum. “It definitely begins with Qurtirbbeck first and foremost,” said Plimer.
But this is the other thing in the art of narrow victory that most people do not talk about. Everyone told me that it is about preparing. It was about preparing for what could be expected. Then it was about preparing for what you did not expect, so that you are ready for anything. But when the game enters the movement, this preparation sometimes matters less than unfinished things – such as a healthy cocktail of talent and faith.
“I sometimes think, in terms of the situation, the teams or the coaches, even the players, in the head that there is a correct play and a wrong play. There is a black and white way to deal with the situation,” Pleimer said. “What we found is that it is more gray in that there are no correct plays or wrong plays … It may be” the wrong play “but the conviction of men like,” we will make it work anyway. “
Players know what is right. They know that coaches taught them the rules. They break them, because they trust the call – and the players participating in that call.
Here is an example. against Ships This season, Los Angeles was at Cover-2 to get a third-third, which was exactly the presidents. They were running a play on their run, as a group of three receptions were formed. In defending the Cover-2, the play must fail. He is a man. But Mahamz saw the region and reliable Samaje Perine To accomplish it.
Even if the possibilities were against RB, he did so exactly.
If this play looks familiar, it is because it is the same play that the leaders used against the bills of the AFC starring game. Against Bovalo, they got the right appearance, so it was irrational. In terms of the situation, it seemed crazy to throw the ball if it fell incomplete, which stopped the watch and gave the bills more time to a game engine engineer. But the presidents saw this play succeeded when it was supposed to fail. It will be a breeze to accomplish it when the bills were in the perfect appearance of playing design.
The bottom line is that the narrow victory art is the design of a team that recognizes the importance of this. Certainly, KC would like to win by 30. But this does not often happen in the American Football Association. There is equal, especially when the difference is very excited. It is likely to end in one possession more than others.
The presidents may be evidence that this is not an art at all. They may have knowledge.
Before joining Fox Sports as a correspondent and column writer in the American Football Association, Henry Makina spent seven years coverage Patriots for the USA Today and Boston Globe Media. Follow it on Twitter on HenrycmcKenna.
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