Dominate the Super Bowl

Chapter 677: 676 The Bourne Identity

Chapter 677: 676 The Bourne Identity

“Fly, pop pop!”

“Fly, pop pop!”

Arrowhead Stadium continuously erupted with amazing energy, fully leveraging the home field advantage as a strong support for the youthful and unbeatable Kansas City Chiefs Offense.

Pressure, layered upon layer, surrounded the Baltimore Ravens and forcefully crushed down.

However, the reason why strong teams are considered strong and heroes recognized as heroes is precisely during these moments of intense collision and extreme pressure when they often manage to give outstandingly tough performances, not only keeping up with the intensity but also finding opportunities to counterattack.

Harbaugh’s Baltimore Ravens were just like this, having faced numerous daunting challenges this season, their Defense truly forged some real gold.

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First and ten yards, Mahomes, without warning, dared a medium pass, but Cornerback Humphrey performed excellently, sticking close to Wide Receiver Watkins, not only disrupting the pass connection but also nearly intercepting it.

Second and ten yards, Mahomes faked a run but truly connected a pass with Hunter, relying on Li Wei as a decoy to divert attention, and Hunter successfully caught the ball, but was encircled upon landing, unable to advance further.

Third and five yards, Li Wei and Kelsey ran a dual route, creating confusion. With both receiving points open, Mahomes chose Kelsey, who completed the catch for a first-down conversion. Li Wei was in charge of cutting blocks; Kelsey continued advancing, breaking through the defense until he was brought down in a triple tackle.

Back and forth, neither yielding an inch.

Mahomes tried to unleash explosive power but encountered a wall again, forcing him back into an awkward rhythm, and the game once again became disjointed.

Continuous third-down dilemmas, the offense stumbled and fumbled.

But awkward as it may be, the Kansas City Chiefs Offense still displayed strength and focus, consecutively achieving third-down conversions and forcefully advancing.

The game was tough, extremely tough, and both teams had already fought fiercely. Despite being physically exhausted and running on empty, each player continued to burn fiercely.

Now, the players standing on the field were all like pulled out of a swamp, with red eyes and gasping breaths, yet still struggling and battling.

Then.

“01:11”, the time-out had passed, and there was one minute and eleven seconds left in the game, Kansas City Chiefs Offense laboriously pushed into the opposite half of the field:

Thirty-one-yard line, facing third down again, this time it was third and three.

Huff, puff.

Each breath brought a slight sting from the lungs, and the cheering at Arrowhead Stadium gradually receded, stirring in a vacuum.

Mahomes took the ball from the center, stepping back and readying to throw.

The key was “speed.”

Quick short pass.

In the situation of Third Gear, three yards, there was no need to covet moving many yards forward, just completing the conversion to take the first attack was enough; although there was little time left in the game, the Kansas Chiefs were already at the forefront of the Red Zone, meaning the time control should worry the Ravens, not the Kansas Chiefs.

So, this was a favorable situation.

Mahomes didn’t hesitate, ready to fully utilize this opening.

The Baltimore Ravens defensive frontline had just begun to move, taking their steps, when they saw Mahomes start to throw the ball, they immediately braked and turned, instinctively following the football.

But where was the football?

All the defensive players looked up, fixating on Mahomes’ right hand as he threw, but they couldn’t find the trajectory of the football in the air.

Their first reaction was that they had made a mistake, as the Kansas Chiefs had three wide receivers on the left wing, with confusing routes that might have led them to miss the correct target, naturally not seeing the football’s parabola.

It was only in their second reaction that they realized they had been duped—

It was a fake run.

Unbelievable!

Not only because Mahomes’ deceptive throwing motion was incredibly misleading, but also because Li Wei had just been intercepted, hindering the ground attack.

Since Li Wei had been cleared of a concussion and returned to the game, the Baltimore Ravens had heightened their ground defense, blocking the repeated impacts from Li Wei and Hunter; yet at the crucial moment, the Kansas Chiefs had once again given the ball to Li Wei.

An unexpected move, two unexpected moves, in an ever-changing game were enough to accumulate into minor deviations, eventually morphing into an opportunity for a breakthrough.

Wait, or was it that their judgment was incorrect?

This wasn’t a fake run but another smoke bomb from Mahomes, the pass was still a pass, just that its target wasn’t on the left wing but on the right—

After all, Kelsey was on the right side.

Despite three wide receivers on the left, with Kelsey alone on the right, his presence there undeniably made it the strong side.

Could it be that Mahomes’ intended target for the pass was still the tight end, Kelsey?