Dominate the Super Bowl
Chapter 1211: 1210: Ugly Victory

Chapter 1211: Chapter 1210: Ugly Victory

High up, it’s unbearably cold!

Everyone understands this saying, but only those who have truly experienced it can understand the loneliness and helplessness of being surrounded by enemies on all sides.

This season, the Kansas City Chiefs, as two-time defending champions, were already the target of everyone’s attacks. Now, as the league’s only undefeated team, coupled with the official support from Goodell, they are showered with love, standing in the eye of the storm, while all thirty-one other teams and countless fans are eager to take them down.

Among them, Li Wei is the focus of all focus.

Regular-season and Super Bowl dual MVP, the first player in league history to have an annual income exceeding a billion, breaking the salary cap and upending the league’s quarterback-dominated landscape; his off-field activities, from fashion to charity to entertainment, cause waves everywhere, creating history on all fronts.

And all of this, coincidentally, falls on an Asian running back. Imagine the surrounding gazes.

Even without opportunities, people are trying every way to create chances to attack; let alone now, when rare opportunities do appear, there’s naturally no reason to miss them.

Li Wei, again and again, finds himself under fire for being deemed “unprofessional and arrogant.”

Bart had a pained expression on his face, seemingly wholeheartedly worried about the defending champion’s prospects, “Success belongs to Li Wei, and failure too. The Kansas City Chiefs need to sound the alarm; there’s still time to adjust.”

“Otherwise…”

The words were left unsaid. Bart didn’t need to finish, as netizens quickly filled in the blanks, unleashing overwhelming criticism and curses at Li Wei.

The pressure is gradually accumulating. The closer it gets to the playoffs, the tenser it becomes. Every game could determine the fate of the playoff landscape.

In such an atmosphere, the Kansas City Chiefs ended their bye week adjustments, took the home field, and faced the challenge of another divisional arch-rival, the Oakland Raiders.

The match was especially tough.

The Oakland Raiders continued to play their usual role — even if the season’s performance was dismal, even if the playoff hopes had been dashed, whenever they faced the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium, they would perk up —

And play exceptionally well.

This season, the Oakland Raiders drafted first-round rookie running back Josh Jacobs, who faced his second “Crimson Tide Storm Derby” of the season. Jacobs was filled with fighting spirit and enthusiasm, delivering a highlight performance.

Seventeen carries, advancing 156 yards, averaging over nine yards per run.

Throughout the match, he provided many highlight moments, leading commentators to exclaim wave after wave, unable to stop themselves from continuously sighing in admiration.

“The Crimson Tide Storm surely lives up to its name!”

Following Derrick Henry and Li Wei, yet another top running back has emerged for the league. Once the Raiders relocate to Las Vegas and establish themselves, they may revive like the Los Angeles Double Heroes, and Jacobs may very well become the best heir apparent in AFC West to counter the Kansas City Chiefs.

After all, this season, the Oakland Raiders have already shown tremendous potential.

No one should forget that during this year’s draft, the Oakland Raiders made bold moves and showed frantic intentions, preparing for their move to Las Vegas next year. Even while adjusting and coordinating this season, they have shown promising youthful potential and performed well —

Currently, with a season record of six wins and five losses, although they cannot threaten the Kansas City Chiefs Division’s top position, they temporarily rank second in the division, ahead of the Los Angeles Chargers and Denver Broncos, and maintain a slim chance of advancing to the playoffs.

It’s worth watching.

Facing their undefeated divisional arch-rival this season, the Oakland Raiders, who are fighting for a playoff spot, were seeing red. Their performance was commendable, with their offense consistently making head-turning advances, and their defense exploding with unbelievable energy and bringing surprises.

In stark contrast were the Kansas City Chiefs, seemingly confirming Bart’s worries —

A brief break during the bye week, the Kansas City Chiefs appeared to have lost their rhythm; just a week without competitive matches, and they seemed to lose their form.

Overall, they appeared distracted.

It wasn’t a lack of focus or motivation but a heaviness in their steps as if all their starting, reacting, and confronting rhythms were slightly slower.

As if walking in the desert.

No one knew what was happening, even though the news of Felix’s hospitalization wasn’t a secret, people outside Kansas City didn’t know what Felix meant, never connecting the Kansas City Chiefs’ performance with an ordinary fan.

Perhaps… the only explanation is that Bart was finally right for once?

Li Wei did not perform well.

Fourteen carries, rushing for sixty-three yards, averaging 4.5 yards per run.

Additionally, four receptions, advancing thirty-three yards.

Objectively speaking, if you remove “Li Wei” from the name, such performance is certainly praiseworthy, a ground average of 4.5 yards per rush is undoubtedly top-tier in the league, and a total of ninety-six yards in rushing and receiving proves the player plays an essential role in the offensive group.

After all, the benchmark for whether an offensive group’s performance in a game is excellent is advancing three hundred yards, and now one player takes care of one-third of the yardage, which is worth highlighting in anyone’s book.

Undoubtedly, Li Wei remains the core, and his performance remains solid.

However, this is Li Wei, who has stood at the pinnacle of the league for three consecutive seasons —

People are not satisfied.

This was Li Wei’s second game of the season with ground yards under one hundred, the first time this season with less than one hundred combined rushing and receiving yards, and the first time this season he did not score a receiving or rushing touchdown.

Criticism and dissatisfaction naturally followed.

Of course, before the disparagement, people were truly amazed that only by referencing this supposedly “slump” game of Li Wei could one appreciate his dominance this season. His worst performance could already wipe out ninety percent of the league’s running backs; how fierce is the peak state of Li Wei then?

Not to mention, Li Wei still occasionally played quarterback every now and then.

A small number of netizens expressed that if such a performance also faced backlash, it leaves no room for other players.

But during the ongoing game, those critiques, those condemnations, were heartlessly poured out.

Despite Li Wei’s “poor performance,” he still played the role of a stabilizer, helping to steady the team’s mindset, then Mahomes stepped up.

This young quarterback continued his growth trajectory this season, finally adapting to the intensity of the competition after enduring the London Bowl trial, running and passing in critical moments, helping the Kansas City Chiefs overcome hurdle after hurdle.

The Kansas City Chiefs did exhibit a bumpy performance, with noticeable ups and downs, struggling hard under the continuous onslaught by the Oakland Raiders, as the game remained locked in a seesaw battle into the fourth quarter, the suspense of victory continuing till the end.

At a crucial moment, the Kansas City Chiefs, who had matured this season and completed their transformation, held on under the shock, narrowly defeating the Oakland Raiders by a narrow margin.

Final score, “16:18”.

Visitor first, home team last.

An ugly win, but in the end, the Kansas City Chiefs still secured the victory, extending their unbeaten season record to twelve games, continuing to dominate the league.

However, with the game over, the storm had just begun.