Super Bowl Domination

Chapter 797 Frontal Breakthrough
Focus. Calm. Collected.

Mahomes knew that he should fall to the ground at this point. The first attack was already in his hands, and as a quarterback, there was no need to be stubborn and continue to break through.

But after calm analysis and judgment in Mahomes' mind, he only had one thought at this moment:
If it were Levi, what would he do?
Elandon-Roberts, a third-year player who has been taking turns with Bentley as the starting inside linebacker this season, has had inconsistent performances. After Bentley was ruled out for the season due to injury, he has established himself as the starting player, but is still not very stable.

Roberts was completely confused by this scene.

what happened?
Wasn't it because Levi was running the ball? Why did Mahomes rush out? Was Mahomes preparing to pass the ball? Who was the target of the pass?
Wait, is this a read-option offense? The Kansas City Chiefs actually chose the read-option offense. What kind of fantasy is this? But it doesn't seem right, because Mahomes didn't perform the read-option action.

So, what is this?
Roberts' mind was full of question marks.

In a flash, while his brain was still working, his body's conditioned reflex had already responded. Roberts took a step and subconsciously pounced towards the red figure.

That’s when Mahomes hit the brakes.

An emergency brake was applied to control the body and stop moving forward.

Roberts: ???
Now, it was Roberts who failed to brake in time and could not control his body. He staggered out and brushed past Mahomes.

Roberts stared at Mahomes with longing and reluctance, but Mahomes had already waved his sleeves and turned away without a cloud, turned from behind Roberts, cut into the center of the New England Patriots, and regained the space for advancement without any physical contact.

Until the New England Patriots' second-line defense followed up in time to complete the encirclement, Mahomes was no longer greedy this time. Before the encirclement was closed, he slid to the ground and ended the advance.

Twelve numbers, easy to get.

"Wow."

Nantz looked at Romo, Romo looked at Nantz, and both of them couldn't help but sigh. It seemed that this was the only sentence that was most appropriate among thousands of words.

"Wow."

"In the first offensive wave of the second half, the Kansas City Chiefs showed their tenacity, with continuous ground attacks, toughly and decisively tearing through the New England Patriots' ground defense."

"Frontal breakthrough!"

"Obviously, the Kansas City Chiefs did not choose to cut in from the New England Patriots' not-so-great pass defense, but instead broke through on the ground, because Reid also knew that in such bad weather conditions, ground offense was the only way to open up the situation, and they needed to break through head-on."

"But surprisingly, the Kansas City Chiefs used Levi as bait and handed the football to Mahomes, who ran the ball with the team's quarterback, and the New England Patriots defense was completely caught off guard."

"Mahomes got twelve yards easily."

"This is a promising start. It will be exciting to see how many adjustments the Kansas City Chiefs make during the halftime break."

"This season, the Kansas City Chiefs' offense ranks first in the league, even better than the Denver Broncos in the 2012 season. This young offense has shown its ability in all aspects of passing and running."

"However, the Denver Broncos were ultimately unable to go further in the 2012 season, which reminds us of the famous saying 'Offense wins games and defense wins championships.' Now the Kansas City Chiefs are also facing a severe test. The weather and the opponent's double-handed pressure have put the offense in trouble. The situation is not so easy."

"Next, we'll see if they still have potential to tap. It's not easy to play well offensively, but it's even harder to overcome adversity and continue to challenge for the championship."

The answer is yes.

1st down, 10 yards, Levi runs the ball, advances 4 yards. 2nd down, 6 yards, Levi runs the ball, advances 3 yards.

On third down and 3, Hill ran the ball and gained 13 yards.

Wait, what happened in this third-gear offense?
All of them are ground attacks. The Kansas City Chiefs are very tough. The core of the entire tactics is still Levi. Everything starts with Levi.

The offensive line, wide receivers, and tight ends all cleared the way for Levi and created opportunities, relying on Levi's personal ability to forcibly break through the defense.

Judging from the advancing data, Levi's advancing efficiency is far inferior to his performance in the regular season; but the tough attitude shown by Levi in ​​the positional battle forced the New England Patriots' defense to strengthen its defense.

Moreover, there is a key point here. Reid did not use Damien, who is good at positional warfare, to open the situation. He continued to use Levi as the team's starting running back, confusing the judgment of the New England Patriots' defense in this way. They had to be wary of Levi's ability to break through deep areas and Mahomes' possibility of sneaking passes.

Judgment becomes complicated.

Reid's goal is to force the New England Patriots' defense to think, think for one more second, hesitate for half a second, and this may be the Kansas City Chiefs' opportunity.

Then, unexpectedly, the Kansas City Chiefs suddenly changed their pace.

Mahomes. Hill. Kelce.

Players in different positions all played as running backs and ran with the ball.

Originally, during the first wave of offense, Mahomes ran with the ball, and Belichick thought the Kansas Chiefs were going to use the read option offense.

Reid was able to deceive other coaches, but Belichick always kept an eye on him. He knew Mahomes' physical fitness and running ability. Although Mahomes' number of rushing times with the ball was lackluster throughout the season, Belichick remained vigilant.

If you are fooled the first time, you must never be fooled the second or third time.

Belichick immediately became alert and used the experienced senior linebacker Hightower to guard Mahomes to prevent the Kansas Chiefs from using the read option offense.

But Belichick guessed wrong.

Reid was not prepared to activate the read option offense. Instead, he made the ground offense flourish, relying on Levi's personal threat to attract attention and making the double running back tactics incredibly diverse and varied.

The New England Patriots' defense was overwhelmed, and coupled with their full vigilance against Levi and Hightower's mistake in marking Mahomes, which resulted in the loss of a defensive position, the entire confrontation situation was completely overturned.

Kelsey's ground running skills were still unfamiliar, and he relied entirely on brute force to break through, with mediocre efficiency; but unexpectedly, Hill made full use of his advantage of being light and agile, seized the opportunity when Levi attracted the defensive force, and continued to run with impressive advancement effects.

The New England Patriots are helpless——

This is an open conspiracy.

The Kansas City Chiefs made it clear that they were going to attack on the ground, and even made it clear that they were going to make full use of Levi's personal abilities, but they always had a hidden edge, and the New England Patriots had to be on guard.

Because Belichick knows Reid's ability, passing the ball is the most powerful. Once they let their guard down, Mahomes' pass will be able to overturn the situation.

Have to guard against it.

(End of this chapter)