Super Bowl LIX Review
The latest newsletter from KCSN Sports Data Scientist, Joseph Hefner
That sucked.
Honestly, I could just leave it at that. I’m tempted to. Nothing else you read here is going to make it any better. That sucked. From start to end, from kickoff to kneel-down, it was bad. The Chiefs could do nothing at all on offense until the game was so far out of reach nothing mattered. I don’t know how many of you made it to the end of the game. I did, but honestly I almost left the Super Bowl party we were at when halftime began.
Unfortunately for both me and you, BJ hired me to write 750+ word articles, not 2 word articles. I could just copy/paste “That sucked” 375 times, but I think that’s probably not in the spirit of the word limit. So I guess I’ll write my normal review.
But that game sucked.
The Chiefs lost this game 22 to 40. They had 13 drives to score points, and only managed to score 22. That’s 1.7 points per drive. The Eagles scored a ton of points, and managed a very respectable 2.8 points per drive. The sharp-eyed among you might notice that 2.8 points per drive times 12 drives doesn’t equal 40 points. You would be correct. They scored 6 defensive points on a pick 6, which isn’t counted in these numbers.
The Chiefs scored on 3 of their 13 drives. That’s a mere 23% of their total drives ending in scores. Their first score came with 2:06 left in the third quarter. The Eagles already had 34 points at that point. The Chiefs made it to the red zone exactly once this game. To their credit, they scored a touchdown on that drive, their second of the game.
Fun and interesting fact! That drive actually had three touchdowns scored on it! On 3rd and 6, from the Eagles 36 yardline, Mahomes threw it deep to Hopkins. It was intercepted and returned for a touchdown by CJ Gardner Johnson. That pick 6 was nullified by a very blatant offsides by the Eagles. Mahomes then threw a four yard touchdown to Hollywood Brown, which was nullified by an offensive pass interference penalty on JuJu. Finally, Mahomes threw it to Hopkins for the third TD of the drive, and the only one that counted. Fun and interesting!!