On three straight fourth quarter drives, Chiefs gained 190 yards, scored 21 points

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The Chiefs’ offense put together one of the great fourth quarters in NFL history in Super Bowl LIV.

After trailing 20-10 heading into the fourth quarter, and facing a 49ers team that was tailor-made to protect a lead because it was built around its defense and running game, the Chiefs did the following on three consecutive fourth quarter drives:

10 plays, 83 yards, touchdown in 2:40.

7 plays, 65 yards, touchdown in 2:26.

2 plays, 42 yards, touchdown in 0:13.

Those three straight fourth quarter drives combined for 19 plays, 190 yards and 21 points, and took only 5:19 off the clock.

The Chiefs showed all postseason that once their offense gets going, it’s almost impossible to stop. They did it in the AFC Championship Game against the Titans, they did it in the AFC divisional round against the Texans, and they did it in the Super Bowl against the 49ers. The Chiefs’ fourth quarter scoring run was a sight to behold.

15 responses to “On three straight fourth quarter drives, Chiefs gained 190 yards, scored 21 points

  1. Honestly, in this case it looked more like the 49ers defense running out of steam than the Chiefs looking as if they had finally “gotten going”. KC still didn’t look all that polished or dynamic, but the 49ers started to give up big throwing windows in coverage and missed some key tackles. As has been said many times before, a comeback starts on defense, and the KC D stepped up to give the offense a chance to answer once SF hit the wall.

  2. Not a fan of either team, but this shows a clear breakdown of a D that was supposed to be elite.

    They said during the halftime report the defense had to shut down those backyard style plays. Well, guess they couldn’t

  3. Not a fan of KC or SF (Vikes fan), but there was obvious PI on Emmanuel Sanders not called, and that would have been a massive blow to the chiefs if it was called, giving the 49ers a fresh set of downs in chiefs territory already up 10. No doubt if the 49ers were down 10 vs up 10, that flag comes out, just like how easy it came out on the kelce PI. The refs werent fixing the chiefs to win. But it’s obvious they were fixing a close game, and it’s very easy for them to make that happen in the NFL, and very much happened to help the chiefs in this scenario. This has has happened in so many games all year long imo. But those flags aren’t remembered because they weren’t in the last minute of the game.

  4. The defense did shut down that offense. The penalties called against San Francisco on both the defensive and offensive pass interference calls have no place in any game, let alone one of this magnitude. Dan Francisco had taken control of that game in the 3rd quarter. The NFL wanted no part of a game that ends with a clearly superior defense and running game grinding it out. So what do they do? They made a conscious decision to let KC back into the game. And once that initial, subtle implementation of their most valuable weapon… a yellow flag, was in place…the writing was on the wall.

    I have no vested interest in either team. So I’m as impartial as they come…but that game belongs to San Fran, and if you disagree, you’ve forgotten what the game of football is about, and you care more about points and exciting plays than you do about the integrity of the game. Poor officiating and rules that handicap defenses are making it harder and harder for purists to watch the modern nfl games.

    Rant over.

  5. redsoxu571 says:

    February 3, 2020 at 7:57 am

    Honestly, in this case it looked more like the 49ers defense running out of steam than the Chiefs looking as if they had finally “gotten going”. KC still didn’t look all that polished or dynamic, but the 49ers started to give up big throwing windows in coverage and missed some key tackles. As has been said many times before, a comeback starts on defense, and the KC D stepped up to give the offense a chance to answer once SF hit the wall.
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    Clearly you haven’t watched the Chiefs all year, but their play calling is very conservative until they need to open things up and that’s what you saw. As the Texans and Titans if their Defense just hit a wall or if there wasn’t much they could do.

  6. Here is an amazing stat in regards to when the Chiefs fell behind by 24, 10 and 10 points. After those points in these three games the Chiefs outscored their opponents 100-14.

  7. I fail to see how the “superior” 49er defense would be tired. They didn’t spend that much time on the field. It appeared that the ONLY defense they were able to offer was to harass MaHomes. And after seeing the defense for three quarters, he discovered its weakness and exploited it in rapid fire succession.

    Don’t worry, sorry 49ers fans, you put up a good fight for three and half quarters and would have lost the game anyway taking your three quarters of offensive output against 7 minutes of KC’s!

  8. The pass interference call was correct – absolutely so by the very definition of the call. The defender NEVER turned his head back to track the ball. Anything after that was icing on the cake.

  9. No one has said much about it, but I was very impressed with the Chief’s O-line, particularly after watching the 49er front 7 demolish the Vikings and Packers O-lines in the NFC playoffs.

  10. Shanny’s play calling contributed to that! He should have benched Sherman and played to win not to lose!

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