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Originally Posted by Pointer19
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I’m going to use this position to ask a question I’ve wondered about for ages..
Why does TOP matter? If you get the ball and score in ten seconds, is that any different from scoring in ten minutes?
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Well you can argue that against some teams, you're going to wear the defense down and tire them out by the 4th quarter and be more effective.
That doesn't work on Mahomes though because he can score so quick. The real reason to try and control TOP against the Chiefs is just literally to limit the number of drives each team has. You want Mahomes touching the ball as little as possible. Chiefs only had 4 drives in the 2nd half today, and he still did damage. You don't want to go toe to toe with that, so you limit the number of punches each side can throw.