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Kansas City and San Francisco met in the Super Bowl two years ago and should be meeting again in the big game in LA in two weeks but instead they each found brutal ways to choke in their respective championship games yesterday.
I mean it was bad. For both of them. Big yikes all around.
Yes, the Bengals and Rams played great and deserve all the respect in the world for punching their tickets to Super Bowl 56, which should be a very entertaining game.
But come on. We must call what we saw yesterday and what we saw were two very good teams throwing their seasons away in the most embarrassing of fashions.
We have to start with the Chiefs, who are wasting prime years of Patrick Mahomes’ career. In the past four seasons they’ve lost two AFC Championship Games at home, won a Super Bowl and lost a Super Bowl. Only getting one ring in that time with such a special QB who has had such a talented offense around him seems really bad to me. I know Super Bowls are tough to win but this team has been underachieving when it matters the most, and that continued yesterday.
The Chiefs jumped out to a 21-3 lead against the Bengals and it looked like Mahomes, who toyed with Cincinnati’s defense on one spectacular TD pass, and Co. were going to cruise at home in front of a fired up crowd at Arrowhead.
But then they scored just three points in the second half and had the ball for only 14 seconds in OT after Mahomes threw an interception on third and long.
That’s just an ugly way for the Chiefs to go down. Three points in the second half? With that offense and that QB?
Woof.
Then we have the 49ers, who led the Rams by 10 points in the fourth quarter and seemed poised to beat LA for a seventh straight time. A Kyle Shanahan team blowing a double-digit lead late in a playoff game? Who could have seen that happening!?
I’m assuming everyone. Everyone could. They did it in the Super Bowl two years ago and, of course, Shanahan was a big part of that 28-3 debacle for the Falcons.
A dropped interception by 49ers DB Jaquiski Tartt, who had a classy message about that after the game, and one final awful pass by Jimmy Garoppolo sealed San Francisco’s fate in what felt like a home game for them in LA.
The Bengals and Rams made the plays when they had to Sunday and are absolutely deserving of a trip to the Super Bowl.
But the Chiefs and 49ers need to be remembered for what they did yesterday.
Because they both threw it all away with a pair of epic collapses.
Quick hits: Josh Allen’s funny reaction to OT coin toss in KC… Bengals troll Mahomes with brilliant Grim Reaper tweet… Joe Burrow’s outfit inspired by The Rock?… And more.
– Bills QB Josh Allen had a hilarious/sad one-word tweet when he saw the Chiefs and Bengals going out to midfield for a coin toss before OT.
– The Bengals found a funny way to troll Patrick Mahomes after their win yesterday.
– Joe Burrow’s postgame outfit had lots of people thinking he looked like The Rock.
– You need to listen to the Bengals’ radio call of their game-winning FG.
– Odell Beckham Jr. had such a classy moment with an emotional Deebo Samuel after yesterday’s 49ers-Rams game.
– Here are the odds, spread, over/under and more for Super Bowl 56.
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