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Originally Posted by revots33
Shanny's biggest mistake was having his defense play super soft at the end of reg and in OT. Can't think of a single tough pass Mahomes had to make, they were all underneath throws to wide open guys in soft coverage.
This is pretty standard in football. It irks me all the time. I think it's for a few reasons:
a) guys don't want to get beat deep to end the game
b) coaches don't want a
c) defense is tired
Yards always seem easy to come by on the late drives. And I don't buy hurry-up offense as a valid reason for easy yards because if that was true, should do hurry-up offense every drive.
Especially in this game, knowing they less to a TD, they give up easy yards so long as they don't get beat, hoping a FG will be the end result. Of course if you give up enough easy yards and now they are 1st and goal at the 5, it's going to be difficult to stop them.