I was wondering what possible interest the Super Bowl might hold for Washington Commanders fans.
Really, I think, if your team doesn't make the big game, it is time to go over team lore. Make sure the oral tradition continues. Have your own Super Bowl festival. Make your Christmas List for the draft. Make sure that even though the nickname vanishes memories of the players and their accomplishments do not. Do what you can to restore the once great atmosphere that existed in Washington. Resurrect the spirit of the "Sons of Washington".
But this Super Bowl is interesting because Eric Bieniemy is reportedly an Offensive Coordinator Candidate for Washington. He coached running backs for the longest kind of time. Why is this important?
If the Philadelphia Eagles have a weakness, it is defending the run. The Chiefs know it. The Eagles know it. The Birds have been good in the playoffs. San Francisco had a great run attack. The Eagles kept them under 100 yards.
Now, teams have run on the Eagles and were still beaten. They won that Lions game. And to ask the Chiefs to run goes against their style of play. Teams tend to stick with their strengths. Trouble is, the Chiefs' strength on offense will ram into the Eagles' strength on defense. Patrick Mahomes is not 100 percent. The Eagles' pass rush is no joke. These are birds of prey. They defend the pass like Eagles picking off Herons in the sky. It's disgusting but it is how they roll.
If the Chiefs are damned and determined to pass the ball no matter what as a demonstration of their manhood, it won't be pretty. This is the idea that Patrick Mahomes is all they got. If the Chiefs win, it is because Mahomes went nuts.
Mahomes is not all the Chiefs have. They can run. I'd be surprised if they won the Super Bowl and didn't post at least a hundred if not one-fifty on the ground.
The old ways are still good ways. You face monsters in the pass rush. You run right at the monsters. You smack them in the mouth. You back them off. You tucker them out. This is Bieniemy territory. His model may as well be the Commanders' second game against the Eagles. And the Chiefs are far superior to the Commanders in the RPO/Play Pass department. At least right now.
This isn't new to the Chiefs. They ran on the Eagles last year and won. The mental task is not to be so dazzled by the Pass that you forget the other tools you have.
The Chiefs would have to defend the run, which they do reasonably well, better than the Eagles, and seduce Jalen Hurts into thinking he has to win the game all by himself. He won't fall for that later in his career. He may at this point.
The Super Bowl does things to the Jedi Mind that some consider to be unnatural.
We have to beat the Eagles in Washington. It is of interest to us how Eric Bieniemy and the Chiefs get the vic in the Super Bowl.
If I were the Chiefs (insert laughter here), I would run the ball down the Eagles throat on the first drive. No passes. Bull it into the end zone. Let them know they are in for a day.
Lately, the Press has been gushing. The Eagles Defense is impregnable!
Show me.
The Eagles are going to pound them.
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