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Oh, no! I think the Chiefs showed us that, you know, they can win a variety of ways, obviously.

But when it does come down to crunch time, no one is better than them.

And I'm not comparing the way that Buffalo handled the clock at the end versus the way Kansas City did. But if you look at time of possession on a piece of paper from that Chief's Chargers game, 30 minutes for the Chargers, 20 minutes for it. It felt like it was all Chargers. But in those final six minutes, which wasn't really captured in the highlight, every time there was a third down conversion to be made to bleed the clock even more, the chief's found away.

This is the stuff that isn't going to show up in next-gen stats, and this is the stuff that's not going to show up when we do all 22 film.

It's just the ability to make the play when it matters most.

I look at the chiefs, and I'm like, at some point it's not a coincidence.

It's not some lucky feather.

It's not some rabbit's foot that's doing this. They win these games because they know how to win games,

and they've got great experience winning games. And they've been in these big spots.

All due respect to a lot of those Chargers players, they haven't played big games in the NFL before.

This is the biggest game of many of their careers. And when they needed to make a stop, they couldn't. And it's just simply that. And that's what it's been in the last, you know, eight weeks for the Chiefs. Whether it was a win over the Panthers by three points or a win over the Raiders on Black Friday, it's not pretty. It's not gonna be the stuff that we start to show off doing flips about Mahomes like we used to with no look passes. And yet you look at the record there as good as they've ever been in a season. They're 12 in one right now. And they keep on just knocking off division opponents. They've lost in the division yet. They've already clinched the division title. Pretty impressive.

Fourth team in five years for Sam Darnold. And it's a one-year deal, so it's likely like

fifth team in six years, or is it? This guy's been unbelievable. His numbers yesterday were

incredible guys. He threw for 350 yards, five touchdowns, no interceptions. They won the turnover

battle, three to nothing, And Jefferson and Addison both went

off. Like, here's my thing with Donald. It's very easy to look at him and say, okay, he's a game manager. He's not going to hurt you. He's not going to throw the bad. That's not going to that's not going to throw the bad. That's not Sam Donald. He has in the past been the guy that has thrown the bad interception or has made the bad fumble or has said something afterwards that makes you scratch your head and say, wait, what?

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