On Sunday we saw two brilliant young quarterbacks who embody the future of the NFL. That outlandish talent was not on view on Houston’s sideline
Bad decisions are going to haunt Bill O’Brien this offseason, and may cost him his job.
The Houston Texans leapt out to a red-hot start in Kansas City, taking a 21-0 lead in the blink of an eye. For the Kansas City Chiefs it was a different story: Andy Reid’s team was off to an Andy-Reid-Team-In-The-Playoffs sort of start. They didn’t look ready to play and had a bunch of miscues. A mistake led to a walk-in touchdown. Tyreek Hill muffed a punt. They dropped four passes in the first quarter alone, which was striking given that they had had four dropped passes in the preview six weeks combined. This would be another Andy Reid adventure: a good regular season, a brilliant offensive mind, a disappointing postseason collapse. But O’Brien wasn’t going to let Reid maintain his postseason incompetence dynasty so easily.
Written by Oliver Connolly
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jan/13/houston-texans-kansas-city-chiefs-nfl-playoffs-mahomes-watson under the title “Chiefs-Texans was a classic, the future … and a coaching apocalypse”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
