Lonous wrote:Some reasonable analysis in here
But this probably comes closest to believable.
mookiemcgee wrote:also... it was overtime, and Mahomes still had fresh legs from not running much and was moving alot faster then Fred Warner who was exhausted from chasing people around for the entire game. His partner in crime at the other linebacker position Dre Greenlaw had the non-contact achilles injury earlier in the game so Fred was just depleted in my opinion.
Although I still have trouble thinking that the NFL's top rated linebacker forgot to tackle in the biggest game of the year, tired or not.
If you look at it via your twitter link at full speed, I'm not convinced he could 'easily reach' and tackle myhomie. Another angle would be helpful. First he is basically running the wrong direction and has to change direction 90+ degrees which entirely takes away his speed (and again overtime he's gassed), while myhomie is basically in a one direction full sprint. Secondly it doesn't appear to me he can reach myhomie in time without diving but then he losses his ability to chase after him and help prevent a touchdown on the play if myhomie has to slow down or change direction downfield to avoid another defender. Diving at big name QBs is also something they train you against all year because of how 'protected' big name QBs are with penalty flags.
Now sure its a fair argument that he should have dove towards him anyway, it's the superbowl, it's stop him or lose the game situation... but he has like .2 seconds to decide if he should dive vs chase and if they have been training him all year NOT to dive tackle qbs for fear of penalties I think it's super reasonable to believe that is just what his brain decided to do in the moment he had (plus he's gassed).
I wonder if he commented publicly about that play during the press conference?
I think aside from all this, if we are questioning if there was big conspiracy for chiefs to win by deepstate. Does the deepstate leave their entire plan up to Harrison Butker kicking a 29 yard field goal with time expiring? He's a great kicker and broke all time records that day but if the next presidential election is riding on the result of this game does the deep state really take this gamble? Is the implication if he missed the refs would have found a way to give SF a penalty so he gets a second try?