Super Bowl Domination

Chapter 1487: Smoke of War
First-down touchdown, cheating motion, Hill breaks through the sideline.

Everything happened too fast.

Although the San Francisco 49ers are trying their best to put pressure on the pass rush and disrupt Mahomes' passing rhythm through surprise attacks, in fact, they have achieved results. Mahomes' pass control under pressure is obviously not at its best, which gives the San Francisco 49ers a glimmer of hope.

"Press a little more, keep pressing, and we'll be able to crush the opponent soon", this thought tempted Shanahan to continue to show strong performance -

Seeing his opponent's weakness, Shanahan had no reason not to seize it.

However, at the truly critical moment, the Kansas City Chiefs immediately changed their attitude and took the initiative before the kickoff with a "cheating motion" attitude, not even giving the San Francisco 49ers' defensive front a chance to continue to step forward and put pressure, regaining the initiative and reminding everyone:

The right to attack has always been in their hands.

In an instant, all nerves were tense. Regardless of whether the San Francisco 49ers wanted to or not, their attention was reflexively focused on Hill's footsteps.

But this is still not all. If it were only Hill's words, "Cheating Motion" would not need to choose this specific time to appear.

On the left wing, Hill is on the outside, and Watkins and Hardman are working together on the inside.

Watkins was responsible for opening the way and breaking the defense, but he only rushed out three or four yards. Hardman stabbed diagonally to the right side into the center field and cut into the heart in one fell swoop.

On the right wing, Levi and Kelce cooperated well, breaking up each other's defense and advancing together. The two relied on continuous cross-position switching to quickly open up the situation, knocking Sherman away, breaking up Kiwan, and making a two-on-one pass against the wall to shake off Greenlaw. The San Francisco 49ers' tight net was thrown into a blender and torn to pieces.

Then, at the five-yard line, the two split up, with Levi cutting into the end zone and Kelce dropping back.

In a flash, the two top players demonstrated their speed, strength and cooperation to the fullest. The dazzling running routes made it completely impossible to see the purpose. The defensive players were led by the nose with no choice but to have their brains completely frozen and could only be passively caught up in the storm.

Smoke is rising everywhere! Fire is raging everywhere!
The San Francisco 49ers' end zone instantly became a sieve.

Overwhelmed!

Up to this point, the San Francisco 49ers still didn't realize the root cause of the problem - those involved were in the dark, but the live broadcast room had already glimpsed some of the secrets.

If the San Francisco 49ers stick to the zone defense, with everyone guarding their own area and helping each other, they can calmly deal with the current tactics, especially in the red zone on the first down, when the area that each member of the defensive team needs to cover is reduced and their attention can be more focused.

The zone defense is specifically designed to deal with the Kansas City Chiefs' shotgun formation passing attack.

Now the San Francisco 49ers have been pressing forward and trying to break the balance, but this has disrupted their own zone defense. On the surface, it is still a zone defense, but the players are losing their positions, and the coverage area that each person is responsible for is beginning to become chaotic, and the rules and order are disrupted.

Then, at this moment, the Kansas City Chiefs seized the opportunity and used the "Cheating Motion", with dazzling running routes attacking from different positions, and the San Francisco 49ers were in chaos.

Like a headless fly.

Of course, the reason why professional players are professional players is that when the brain doesn't work, the instincts deeply imprinted in the body can still play a role. One by one, they follow their intuition and keep up with the pace, making full use of the narrow space in the red zone, and filling every corner with white figures as much as possible.

This scene fell into Mahomes' eyes.

So, Mahomes is focused.

Mahomes remained alert, worried that the San Francisco 49ers would ignore the Kansas City Chiefs' early start and force a sudden attack regardless. He took the football from the center, stood up straight without saying a word, raised his right hand and made a passing motion.

Pull the trigger immediately.

The lifelike passing action immediately suppressed the defensive player's reaction. Then, without pausing, Mahomes retracted his right hand and turned to look to the right.

Between a breath and a breath, that is, a brief pause, Mahomes had already passed the ball for the second time, completing the pass towards the deep right area of ​​the end zone.

There, Levi and Kelce are positioned. With Levi in ​​the deep area and Kelce in the short pass area, Mahomes has different options.

The San Francisco 49ers defensive players reacted quickly and rushed out without hesitation.

Mahomes, pass the ball.

It was a pass, but the trajectory of the football...

Just before he was about to shoot, Mahomes twisted his waist and slightly pulled the passing angle back 49 degrees. Without fully exerting his arm, he flicked his wrist and the football flew like a bullet, leaving a reddish-brown trajectory and shockingly penetrated the San Francisco ers' disorganized zone defense.

Pierce into the central hinterland.

In an instant, all the eyes of the San Francisco 49ers' defense followed the reddish-brown parabola, but they found that their direction of advance was completely different from the direction of their sight. This cruel reality dragged their hearts down, and their brains froze instantly, stopping thinking.

Whoosh, whoosh.

The sound of the wind seemed to have stopped.

At this moment, in the area where the front line was entangled, a figure struggled to stand up:

Defensive tackle Buckner.

Buckner tried to straighten his back, but it was not easy because he was entangled with the two offensive linemen in front of him, and because Mahomes passed the ball very quickly, Buckner did not have much time to struggle and even the reaction time was far from enough.

However, Buckner still raised his right hand awkwardly, and with his vision limited, he could only stretch out his hand to block the attack.

Snapped.

Buckner felt the weight and force of the football in his palms and held his breath: Got it!

Not only Buckner, but everyone was caught off guard by the unexpected situation. They had not yet been able to react to the Kansas City Chiefs' change of formation, and they didn't even know Mahomes' pass target, let alone seeing Buckner's moves. As a result, they saw the football change its flight trajectory.

I couldn't help but take a breath.

Thousands of eyes followed the reddish-brown parabola upward.

At this moment, a figure appeared from behind Buckner, jumped first, and stretched out both hands towards the football that changed its flight trajectory.

That was Hardman.

Hardman's heart was beating wildly, almost exploding. He was nervous and excited, but the sudden change in front of him cut off all his wild thoughts. He immediately entered concentration mode, subconsciously jumped into the air and grabbed the football in mid-air.

There was no time to be happy, as he turned around and rushed towards the end zone again.

A white figure appeared in front of him. That should be... Tate? A safety?
Hardman had no time to look around, he just lowered his head, hugged the football tightly, and charged forward head-on.

boom!
After a collision, Hardman turned clockwise due to the reaction force, avoiding the entanglement of the white figure, thrust forward and broke out of the encirclement into the boundless green. The cool, bright air hit his face, and the world was instantly filled with splendor.

“Touchdown!”

The words came out of his mouth, and Buck was even slightly stunned. It was only a second before he realized that it was really happening, and then he was overwhelmed by ecstasy.

“Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…”

The world suddenly fell into a noisy roar, and reason was burned to ashes.

(End of this chapter)