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Officiating Hurt The Chiefs In The Super Bowl
It’s pretty rare that any NFL game, much less the Super Bowl, is defined by a second- quarter drive. But one series of pre-halftime plays on Sunday served as a microcosm for the Buccaneers’ 31-9 blowout vic- tory over the Chiefs.
With less than a minute to go before intermission, the Buc- caneers got the ball on their own 29-yard line. What fol- lowed was a series of bad breaks for the Chiefs—in the form of self-inflicted mistakes and questionable officiating deci- sions—that wound up costing the team seven points. Those points alone wouldn’t have changed the result, but similar miscues and penalties through- out the game gave the Chiefs virtually no chance at defending their Super Bowl crown.
This was a drive that
Tyrann Mathieu On Exchange With Tom Brady: 'He Called Me Something I Won't Repeat'
TYRANN MATHIEU AND TOM BRADY
Following his team’s 31-9 loss to the Tampa Bay Bucca- neers in Super Bowl LV on Sun- day night, Tyrann Mathieu took to Twitter to share his side of the story regarding that much talked about back and forth he had with Tom Brady.
The heated exchange, which took place right before the first half ended and included Math- ieu waving his finger at Brady, raised eyebrows. The incident resulted in Mathieu being flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.
“He called me something I won’t repeat but yeah I’ll let all the media throw me under bus as if I did something or said something to him,” the Kansas City Chiefs safety wrote in a tweet that has since been deleted. “go back to my previous games against TB12 I showed him nothing but respect. Look at my interviews about him... I show grace.”
After deleting the tweet, Mathieu returned to Twitter to write, “Blessed & grateful! God is Good!”
PATRICK MAHOMES
shouldn’t have even really hap- pened. Tampa Bay got the ball in its own territory with 55 sec- onds left and promptly handed it off to Leonard Fournette. That indicated they were con- tent to take their 14-6 lead into halftime. Rather than letting them, though, the Chiefs called a timeout, hoping to force a quick defensive stop and get the ball back. That was all the open- ing Tom Brady and Co. needed. On the next play, Brady found Chris Godwin for an 8-yard gain, and the Chiefs called an even riskier timeout before third-and-2.
The Buccaneers started that drive with just one timeout, so the Chiefs’ decision to stop the clock twice gave the Tampa Bay offense all the breathing room it needed. Brady converted the third down with a strike to Rob Gronkowski for 5 yards. And on the next play, Chiefs corner Bashaud Breeland fell down while covering Mike Evans,
tripping the wide receiver and drawing a pass interference penalty.
The Bucs then gained 15 on a pass to Fournette, putting them on the 9-yard line with 13 seconds remaining. And on Brady’s ensuing end zone shot to Mike Evans, the Chiefs drew another pass interference call, this time against Chiefs de- fensive back Tyrann Math- ieu.
The penalty on that clearly uncatchable pass put the ball at the 1-yard line, and the Bucca- neers converted on the next play (a Brady toss to Antonio Brown), sealing a perfect storm of errors for the Chiefs and sending the team into the locker room down 15 when they could have been down just eight.
That drive had everything. The timeouts were just classic bad decision-making by Andy Reid. Coming off an NFC championship game in which the Buccaneers marched down the field to score on the Packers just before halftime, Kansas City should have known not to give Brady extra time with the football. The Breeland pass interference was just bad luck. And the second pass interfer- ence call was dubious at best. But these weren’t the only mis- takes that doomed Kansas City.
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