Clash Daily by Nathan Clark
After a gruelling season of inconsistent football and heartbreaking losses, the field has finally been pared down to the same two teams most of us expected to see here, as though kismet is the undercurrent of the NFL. You had to be unconscious to not see how complete (and doggedly confident) the Eagles have been all season, from the head coach on down. Confidence comes from backing up your talk, and this team has gotten bolder as the year progressed, justifiably so. While the 49ers were victimized several times by asinine NFL refereeing garbage calls, they weren’t going to win that football game. If you want to beat Philly, Job 1 is to slow down that historic pass rush. They broke repeatedly like a tsunami against that O-line of San Fran, and knocked TWO quarterbacks out of the game. Dominance is what you call that. The Niners never really had a prayer after that. The insult to injury was the plethora of ticky-tack and phantom penalties the stupid refs piled on top of them, making it appear to be a home-field advantage. Roger Goodell needs to spend a little more of his very expensive time on the quality of the game and not so much on being woke and making 32 billionaires richer off tv deals.
The Chiefs are the Chiefs. As long as Reid, Mahomes and Kelce are together, this team is going to be in the fast lane to the late playoff rounds, reminiscent of the Brady/Belichick dominance in New England. Some combos are just lethal every year, and this club is one of those. The real kicker to KC’s late round success, in my opinion, is what Steve ‘Satan’ Spagnuolo is able to do with his defenses. I call him the Dark Lord of Defense with affectionate admiration, because he is always able to scheme up some wicked devilry to make his available talent better than they are in the biggest games.
I pulled for and picked Cincinnati to knock off the Chiefs again because of their stalwart defense, which then didn’t show up in the championship game. Kelce shredded them and several times was alone in the end zone after beating SINGLE coverage! The Bengals held him to NOTHING in their previous matchups, but in this game they let him be Travis Kelce. I’m at a loss as to why they failed at the single most important job in that game. Here we are, so let’s break it down.
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