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[Highlight] The Rams and Chiefs put up 105 total points in a legendary Monday Night Football Game
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I'll never forget this game, mainly because I happened to watch it at a bar in Costa Rica on the beach. Life was good
Beach bar viewing is an elite way to watch football.
So true! I watched that Boise State vs Oklahoma bowl game while in Hawaii and there were fans of both sides at the bar going nuts. It was the single greatest neutral viewing of a game I've ever experienced.
Hell yeah. I saw the 28-3 Super Bowl in Mexico surrounded by Falcons and Pats fans at a beach bar. It was a wild experience.
I visited Costa Rica for the first time this year. Highly underrated and under appreciated paradise.
I miss chifrijo.
Scoring 51 points and losing..
The 2018 Chiefs scores were consistently wild. Couldn’t be stopped and couldn’t stop anyone.
If you liked offense their games were right up your alley because everyone was putting up points
When people say things like Joe Burrow can't win without any kind of defense, it's fun to look back and see the 2018 Chiefs allowing 26.3 points per game and getting within OT of the Super Bowl.
*within a Dee Ford offsides and a coinflip of the Super Bowl
That offsides made the next years Super Bowl so impactful. I mean, it was huge anyway because it was our first one in my lifetime but also screaming at the tv THAT DEE FORD BETTER NOT GET A GOSH DAMN RING AFTER WHAT HE DID TO US LAST YEAR. Lol
I mean, the 2018 Chiefs were an all-time offense that we haven't even come close to seeing out of anyone again.
That being said the Bengals being 5-6 last year when scoring 25+ points is flat-out insane.
I mean, the 2018 Chiefs were an all-time offense that we haven't even come close to seeing out of anyone again.
The Ravens a season later has only 28 less points scored and 200 less yards.
Kansas City's offense scored more TDs on its own in 2018 than Baltimore's entire team did in all phases combined in 2019 (so not even just offensively), and it was nearly 300 fewer yards, not just 200.
18 Chiefs are still a tier above the 19 Ravens. Closest is probably the Lions just this past year or the 20 Packers.
The Chiefs were better. It’s just you said we haven’t seen “anything close”. I feel like 2 PPG is pretty close
And honestly, if the Ravens had a worse defense in 2019, I'm sure they could have kicked an extra fg per game. They just happened to have the third best defense in the league and coasted plenty of 4th quarters, whereas the 2018 Chiefs offense had to keep scoring most weeks.
Just tell them Brady never won a SB without a top 10 defense and watch them foam at the mouth.
I’ve said that and gotten hate from every possible angle lol
While this past season we had multiple game O/Us in the 20s lmao
The Joe Burrow experience
Fun fact: The Bengals have never scored 51 points with Joe Burrow.
Bonus fun fact: The Bengals have only scored 30+ points and lost 5 times in Joe Burrows career. That's about once a year.
Bonus fun fact: last season, the Bengals lost 4 games where they scored 30 points.
Commanders 38, Bengals 33
Ravens 41, Bengals 38
Ravens 35, Bengals 34
Steelers 44, Bengals 38
Is that not normal? Asking for a friend.
Tell your friend it is totally normal. The standard is the standard
Burrow wishes he could score 50.
Eli Manning managed to throw 6 TDs and no picks vs the Saints, and the Giants still lost 52-49.
Unironically the last game I really enjoyed
Tony Romo having flashbacks.
The Bob Sutton Special
I can imagine it
People that say this game was "not that good" because there "wasn't any defense being played" need to remember two things.
1) these were two historically great offenses. It isn't like they were mediocre offenses that were just flying down the field because the defenses sucked. They were doing this to every team that year.
2) the defenses forced a ton of turnovers and there were multiple defensive touchdowns that are a part of those 105 points.
This game had 7 punts still somehow
That doesn't seem like it should be statistically possible. How do you cram that many points into a sixty minute game when SEVEN possessions end in punts? I think there were punts that ended in points being scored, so that makes it slightly less impressive than the numbers seem at first, but still, that's got to be an incredible anomaly.
2nd most points scored in a game with 7+ punts behind giants vs washington in week 12 1966, which had 10 punts and 113 points scored
Highest scoring game of all time.
That made it perfect
I don’t know how you could watch that game and suggest there wasn’t any defense. There was an insane number of turnovers and defensive scores.
That is what made it so awesome. We got the whole football experience in one game. This is one of my favorite games of all time. It really felt special while watching it, and everyone seemed to get that same vibe.
The thing I remember most about this game was both teams giving up 50+ points but both defenses scoring 20+ in fantasy.
Greatest MNF game of all-time.
Also, I miss those Rams unis. Didn't know what we had until it was gone.
some of these color rush unis were so horrible but some of them were so great too. hate that they’re gone
Jets and bucs flair. Dude is my long lost family how ya been cuz
Doin' good! Excited for this upcoming Bucs season, and cautiously optimistic for the Jets.
Feeling the same way, fields could actually do something productive for the team or help us get to bottom of the league. I’m okay with either option lmao
Thos eones are garbage. The old Rams Away Jerseys were the best jerseys.
This was the Mexico City game that got moved to LA last minute due to fires. We scrambled for tickets and it sold out. It was a great game to see live!
The current look is trash. Those gold jerseys with white or blue pants would be incredible
And I watch it live with my gf at the time and all the Chiefs friends. It was awesome
Still pissed I miss this game. It was appointment viewing and of course I had a mens league hockey game start started at 830.
Johnny Hekker sent me a signed jersey just like he wore in this game, with the captains patch, the 100th season emblem and everything, straight from the Rams locker room. Still my most treasured possession
I was so entertained by this game I hardly even cared the Chiefs ended up losing. I think I was too drained from the whole thing to even process that it was a loss in the end.
That game was on insane mode for the entire 60 minutes with basically no break.
My cousin & aunt got to attend the game in person and I was so unbelievably jealous.
I was at this game. It was, nuts. 3-whatever hours of nuts. Had my kid with me. Core memory stuff.
I would have been at this game but it moved from Mexico City like, 4 days before gameday. Watched with a bunch of other fans that still made the trip, pretty fun all things considered.
I wonder if the altitude would have slowed down the offenses?
I was down something like 80+ points going into Monday night in fantasy. Mahomes, Tyreek, and Butker secured me the win. Craziest comeback our decade+ league has had and still gets brought up occasionally when someone has a massive lead going into Monday night but no one left.
Having Mahomes in 2018 was basically a guaranteed championship.
My former boss had tickets to the game in Mexico, but he ended up just staying there for the rest of his vacation instead of coming back up to LA to go to the game when it got moved. He regrets it to this day.
Genuinely one of the best MNF games of all time.
The hype for this game along with being moved from Estadio Azteca was crazy. And then the fact that it lived up the hype made it even better.
Saw the game live- had to scramble for tickets when it got moved to the coliseum- great atmosphere- great game.
Goff remains underrated. In an era of legendary QBs, he’s more than held his own
For both teams he's been on, no less.
I never understood the Goff hate his final year in LA. The Rams still made the playoffs and upset my Seahawks.
Yeah, the Rams basically completely opened up the floodgates for people to discount him. They basically said “we can’t get it done with this guy” and proceeded to immediately win it all with his replacement lol.
The problem is extremely high variance in his play. It’s hard to run a 4 game gauntlet of the best teams in the league when goof can come out at any moment. But if the variance gods do let it work out one year, I legit think Goff will treat us to a Flacco style all time Super Bowl run one time
Please God I’m begging you
tbf it would have happened in 23 he was the best player on the field vs san fran, but everyone else decided to bottle it.
Agreed but you still need goof to not show up against the chiefs 😅
He lost several games for us that year
I mean look at those, all those games are winnable and he is getting out played by Nick Mullins and Jets era Sam Darnold. The guy couldn't execute the offense any more and the worse he played the more trust McVay lost in him. I love the guy and still root for him on the Lions, but he was bad bad that year. Although him beating the Seahawks in the playoffs with a broken thumb was hilarious.
8.3 QBR is wild lmao
I really think the Jets game was the nail in the coffin. It was for me as a fan at least
It really was just watching him crash and burn. I’m glad he found a home in Detroit and they have a killer roster for him to turn it around, but man he was imploding and every game he just progressively looked more uncomfortable and worse. McVay coddled him and the trade he said he regrets how it goes down, but it was just a disaster and that was the only right move to make.
I don't think McVay really ever trusted him, kept him on a leash and didn't build back his confidence after being bad.
His 1st year in Detroit he was not great with an extra not great roster but he was allowed to fail and learn without being thrown under the bus for playing bad.
I think the narrative of McVay throwing him under the buss is way overblown. McVay to my knowledge had made one public comment critical of the QB play and that was in 2020 after the loss to the Dolphins I believe, he said that for us to win the QB has to take care of the ball better, Goff had four turnovers in that game. Other than that one time he publicly shielded Goff from all kinds of criticism. His go to line was that he had to coach better and put the players in a better position to win. He had to call better plays etc. Now McVay could have handled the trade better for sure which he has publicly admitted, he should have called Goff before hand and explained the situation. But before that McVay was very protective of his QB
Also Campbell said basically the same thing the very next year. The QB has to protect the ball if the team wants to win, thats just a fact.
I really never understood why McVay got so much shit for that. You're right, he made one comment after a game we lost that wasn't even that bad, and it turned into this huge thing.
With the #1 defense the rams that yr should’ve been fighting for the 1 seed. Instead, they dropped several very winnable matchups (both times vs SF, MIA, NYJ, SEA) because of actively bad QB play when they just needed average in those games, and they had to win the final week just to get a playoff berth.
Even the playoff win vs Seattle had way more to do with the Rams defense/special teams playing lights out all game, Akers going off, and Russ forgetting how to play football, than anything Goff did.
10 of the 30 pts came from Wolford driving them to a field goal + Williams pick 6.
And for one of their TD drives Akers took a checkdown 44 yds before he punched it in. Their next TD drive was 36 yards long because of their special teams recovering a muffed punt in Seattle territory.
So yea Goff “beating” the Seahawks in the playoffs that yr wasn’t really anything to write about either. He wasn’t bad but it wasn’t good enough to override how much of a bottleneck he was on offense, and the Rams made the right choice to not let that trap them in purgatory.
The Dolphins game was one of the worst performances ever put together. Goff was horrendous and despite the defense putting together an 2000 Ravens performance, he couldn't do anything well that day.
Mahomes kryptonite… he’s never beat him.
The only reason Mahomes won in 2023 is because Goff lost early.
/s obviously
Imo, if that ended up being a chiefs/lions game I do think the lions would’ve won.
The fact that Jared “Goof” Goff has beaten Patrick Mahomes, one of the greatest QB’s of all time twice, and did so one of those times with the Detroit Lions is fucking wild lol
That Lions team was sturdy and they’ve only gotten better. I personally don’t get the Goff hate, he’s a gamer.
Dude that season opener against you guys was crazy. I was talking to my dad before the game and I was like “it’s kind of a win-win for us. If we win, we beat the Super Bowl champs in their house, if we lose in a competitive game, we held our own against the Super Bowl champs” I couldn’t believe that we found a way in the end. I was just like “I can’t believe it” lol hearing “let’s go Lions” in Arrowhead was surreal
Jared has his shortcomings, and sometimes, like anybody, he lays an egg. But he is a great QB and honestly a great guy too. Him and his wife do a lot for the community. He is loved in Detroit
That Goff-Stafford trade might end up going down as one of the most mutually beneficial trades in NFL history.
Rams got a ring out of Stafford.
Lions got a franchise QB in Goff who had a career resurgence in Detroit, Jahmyr Gibbs, Sam The Porta, Iffy Melifonwu, Jamo Williams, Josh Pascal.
Both kind of won that trade, but the Lions are getting more long-term dividends out of it.
Both kind of won that trade, but the Lions are getting more long-term dividends out of it.
And that was exactly why it was such a good trade.
The Rams had the pieces right then and there. They just needed the consistency at QB to lead them. Lions had a future and the chance to develop a very good QB was a better fit.
The Rams did what a lot of "win now" teams fail to do... They actually won it.
And we have an actual future too, probably one of the brightest in the league
I'm not sure I'd say one of brightest, but we're certainly not looking down the barrel of the collapse everyone thought we were going to have. 2022 we kinda did but it wasn't the typical post-Super Bowl hangover, everyone just died.
Unless the Lions win a Super Bowl, the Rams win this trade. This trade doesn't become win/win until the Lions win it all.
the Lions are getting more long-term dividends out of it.
Rings are forever though
How many QBs have lead 2 different teams to the conference championship? Brady, and Manning at least though I’m sure I can’t think of.
And neither of those guys did it with the Lions.
I just saw a post the other day that was like “QB’s who have led multiple teams to 11+ win seasons” and it was Brady, Manning, and Goff lol
When you go to perennial power houses like the Buccaneers and Lions, you’re guaranteed at least 10 wins
It’s simple, you want to win? Go to the Detroit Lions lol
I’m just imagining a Lions fan from 2008 reading this sentence
Well I was actually being sarcastic lol so I imagine a 2008 Lions fan would probably laugh into their sadness beer
Holy shit your flairs, you must really be a masochist, I feel for ya
No one ever suspects me of being a fair weather fan.
Favre won 12 with the Vikings. I'd assume he did the same for GB so he should be listed as well.
No so you’re right, I double checked, it was 14+ games. The list is Tom, Peyton, and Jared who have won that many games with different teams.
Warner (STL, ARI) and Favre (GB, MIN) have also lead multiple teams to conference championship games.
Joe Montana
Kurt Warner, Joe Montana
Everyone thought this was going to be the Super Bowl rematch but instead we got maybe the most boring game of my lifetime because Dee Fords dumbass doesn’t know which side of the ball he’s supposed to be lined up on
I maintain Saints vs Chiefs would have been a much better matchup. Drew Brees was destroying the league that year. It would have been an offensive shootout for the ages
But nope, the refs don’t know what pass interference is.
To pile on, it's also frustrating that the next year they implemented the penalty review only, according to I think Gene Steratore on the Pat McAfee show years ago (I think during COVID (or during the lockdown year of COVID), to put a dumb stipulation on overturning. I think it was something along the lines that it had to be as bad as that saints/rams PI to be overturned, something stupid.
Maybe one day we’ll be allowed to acknowledge how badly the Saints blew that game
It’s pretty hard to mentally recover from that in the late 4th quarter ngl
refs also didn't know what roughing the passer (or targeting) was in 09, so you won't find any pity for the NRC no-call from minnesota. It's karma for them cheating their way to the super bowl.
Both of these things can be true
I would have thought your revenge would have been the Minneapolis miracle
Any of the 3 other possible matchups would've been better.
I still maintain that most recent Patriots vs Rams Super Bowl is underrated. Bill Bellichick put on a MASTERCLASS of defense against an offense that destroyed teams all year.
That offense was a shell of its former self in the SB. Not that it discredits the Pats D, it just wasn't some juggernaut that got shut down inexplicably. Gurley was injured and Kupp didn't even play.
Not to mention Higbee was out too. And our defense kept the Patriots to three points though the 3rd quarter. We didn't deserve to win, but the defense sure as hell did.
Fuck it Hekker should've been the only player on the field to get a ring
That’s over the line
Yuuuuuurrrrrrrrrt
No complaints from me. Loved that game.
The McVay era is so cool to experience after Fisher and Haslett and Spags and 14 straight years of no winning seasons or playoff wins
There's just so many great moments to look back on
Including Fisher with the likes of Linehan and Spags is insane
I hear you. We were at least competitive with Fisher instead of bottom feeders. But also Linehan did manage 8 wins in a season, something Fisher didn't manage in 5 seasons with us lol. And Spags got us to a win and we're in scenario in week 17 one year (before the fuckin Clipboard Jesus game) so we at least sniffed the playoffs with him, something we also never did with Fisher.
Fisher was obviously a better HC than any of those guys but he was also the definition of mid.
he was also the definition of mid
I cannot and will not dispute this statement
Don't know if we will ever have a game this exhilarating again.
That Rams/ Bills game this last season was pretty great
We sure will, the start of every drive is getting closer to the endzone every year
We Arena Football now!
13 seconds
13 seconds had the better ending and higher stakes, but Chiefs-Rams was the better game from start to finish
Pre-game felt special. It was basically Super Bowl level excitement (with the knowledge that a loss wouldn’t end the season)
Never felt that way about a regular season game before or since. Electric.
idk a lot of bozos in this sub like to pretend they prefer a 13-10 defensive battle
Coliseum was rockin! Love that atmosphere.
This was the one that was planned to be in Mexico City right?
To me it may have been the game of the century due to me being there and obvious bias. LA was going through a lot at the time with the fires and the city needed a win. And it got one in a really big way.
At about the 1:40 mark ... big number 79 moves early AND holds on that Goff TD run, right? lol
Yes, but also let Goff have a rushing TD man he doesn't get many of those
I'm definitely a "defense wins championships" guy but this was the most entertaining football game I've ever watched on TV in my life. It was like watching a super heavyweight prize fight where both fighters deliver juggernaut uppercuts to each other nonstop.
It wasn't just an offensive shootout either, both defenses were making huge plays and scoring off of turnovers.
"This was no ordinary football game, this was two drunken frat bros playing Madden" ~ UTree
Watching some of the stuff the Chiefs do on offense this game just cements to me that Matt Nagy is a terrorist
The style of our offense was changing well before Nagy came back. 2021 broke us and Reid changed how we ran the offense. 2022 Mahomes wins MVP with a dink and dunk style offense, and now defenses have caught onto that and the past few years we've been solid but not great.
I expect another change this year, especially with the WR group we have now.
Goff actually looked pretty quick on that scramble TD
Triple threat
Vanilla Vick is back!
He runs a 4.8 just has zero agility
Goff and Mahomes both ran basically the same 40 time after all.
I remember when redditors were saying this game secured Drew Brees the mvp lol
Rams football as it should be. Played on grass, no gradients on the unis, no embarrassing logos, no golden ratio broken horns on the helmet, and no puffy paint numbers.
The box score for this game is just nuts
14 total TDs (3 defensive), 7 turnovers, 1001 total yards, 2 missed kicks, 30 combined drives
Both teams had <100 rushing yards and over 400 passing yards lol
And still finished a 3-point margin. Probably the most entertaining game start to finish that I've ever seen
I bet the over which was locked up 5 minutes into the 3rd quarter. And then they proceeded to double it.
I remember being hyped for this game then forgot about it to go socialize. Saw the score afterwards and said “never again”
Kinda unrelated but man I hated these MNF announcers. Tessitore ssssssssssssucked
I remember I needed like 93 fantasy points from 4 players ( I think it was like Goff, Woods, Hunt and Rams D) and I somehow almost pulled it off, this game was insane
I can always tell Joe Tessitore is commentating because he’s a current voice in WWE commentary, but more notably the EA Fight Night games.
Game was fucking epic. I was on a southwest flight back home for that game and I'm pretty sure every dang seatback I saw was tuned into the game.
There was cheering, booing, trash talking...there were a ton of fans of both teams on the flight somehow.
It was so crazy by the end of the game when a team scored and took the lead back (again) I was lowkey afraid that the plane would shake because of all of the running up and down the aisles.
Even the flight attendants were all watching with us. It was so fucking cool..one of the best flights ive ever taken tbh.
Fun game until my team lost
Fun game regardless of who won
Goff is still undefeated against Mahomes
The triple handoff fake into a td pass around 0:50 is more creative than anything I saw fro. The chiefs last year
Wow I can’t believe how long ago this was. I used to have a family and a job
Im sorry what?
I had Mahomes, Hill, and Cooks on my fantasy team that season. Those three outscored my opponent's entire team this week.
“Wow.”
I was at that game :)
These the type of games that make or break your fantasy week
Look, I don’t care how we win, and will never complain about our success with shifting to a more balanced offense given the changes to defensive formations, but I do miss the first couple years with Mahomes where it felt like every week we were going to see things on offense that felt like actual literal magic.
Robert Woods was so good for a couple years there. Felt like every game was 85 yards and a TD.
Mahomes threw for almost 500 yards and 6 touchdowns, but he also had 5 turnovers, two of which were returned for TDs.
This was the Super Bowl we should've gotten that year instead of that dud. Such an epic battle
This game was complete insanity, I was standing watching the 4th quarter
It was the game of the year
One of the few times the pre-game billing of “this is going to be an epic shootout!” actually came to fruition.
Yeah, the hype for this game was insane, and it actually lived up to it. Pretty rare for it all to work out that way. Too bad Gurley and the Rams' offense died on the way to the SB.
Actually they died on a cold Sunday night in Chicago, BB just watched the game and said "Yea I can do that."
Tarik Cohen will forever grace my nightmares
And the way his career ended will grace mine, one of the biggest what ifs of the last decade.
For real, could've been an all time return men and probably the greatest gadget player I've seen honestly Edit maybe Fred Jackson was a bit better but it’s close
Hey c'mon now the defense also died. AD could barely move by that SB game.
Yeah but the defense did their job. Offense laid an egg that game.
Bother, we went into that game with our no.1 RB crippled no TE no WR 1 or 3. The offense was pretty much just Goff and Robert Woods.
That was also the time when the offense started and ended through Gurley so him spending the whole game on the bench was what killed us. now your right and the D still played amazing that game but new England didn't have to do much to shut down the offense.
Basically they needed Goff to win that game, and he wasn’t at that point where he was capable of doing that.
Still isn't, in all honesty. Not sure if he ever will be
The cooler part is that it was not just an offensive onslaught shoot out. Looking at the score you'd assume that it was just all offense all day.
Multiple defensive touchdowns and huge forced turnovers. Defense also showed up.
One of the rare games where everyone ate.
It's funny to think this game actually had 7 punts and 7 turnovers combined between both teams.
There's been multiple no-punt games where neither team even scored 40 points and in the Washington/Cincinnati no-punt/no-turnover game from 2024 the final score was only 38-33.
No punt or low punt games from the last few years can be a bit misleading on this because teams are so much more willing to go for it on 4th downs now.
It used to be not punting meant a turnover, TD, or FG attempt, but now it might mean a stalled drive near midfield.
I remember having to observe an afternoon/nighttime class at college and hoping that this game wouldn't be that good -- and then just watching the score go up and up.
I was working when this game aired and I had it streaming on my phone and the sound was piped into a big portable speaker.
We didn't get much done that night as whenever there was another score everyone would run over to see it
Didn't have a dog in the fight but wow, was an incredible game.
Genuinely has there ever been another regular season game that was this hyped and actually lived up to it?
I was about to say, going into this game everyone knew what about to happen except for who would win.