Circling back to the first game:
@Deathofthebambino was 1000000% correct on Lamar. He is now 0-4 in the playoffs when the opposing team scores more than 13 points.
Harbaugh is now 3-6 over his last 9 playoff games.
KC had an awful rushing defense this year and yet the Ravens had only 8 rushes all game that were handoffs to running backs.
Absolutely brutal performance in every way by Baltimore. They were, are and forever will be frauds under their current leadership.
KC's rush defense was 18th best in yards allowed, 25th best in yards per attempt, and 15th best in first downs by rushing allowed.
I'd say that on the whole their rush defense was mediocre AT BEST, but on the whole, not very good. It's inexplicable that Baltimore only handed off 8 times all game to running backs. Inconceivable. And even then, Lamar only had 8 rushing attempts, but most of those were scrambles. He had almost no designed runs.
They were the #1 rush offense in the NFL this year by a wide margin.
#1 in total rush yards (262 more than #2). The difference between them and #2 was bigger than the difference between #2 and #9. They were #3 in rush yards per attempt. #4 in rush TD. #4 in rush first downs.
Dominant running game and they completely, utterly abandoned it in the AFCCG against a team with a poor rush defense. And not because they were down big or because KC was running up the score. They just...gave up on it. Moreover, when Jackson dropped back to pass, he rarely hit the short or medium pass. He kept looking for the huge play.
It's almost as if Harbaugh and Jackson said, look, in order to make sure everyone knows that you are in Mahomes' class, we need to win, yes, but we need to win by you throwing for 400 yards.
What a gag job.