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Anybody taking the Saints HC job is almost guaranteed to be looking for another job in 2 years. They have no QB, no means to draft one this year, and are in utter Cap Hell. You can't turn a team like that around without breaking down & fixing the Cap, and that'll take 2 seasons. If Brady takes that job, chances are he's looking for another OC position in 2 years. I think he's smarter than that. Stay as Bills' OC another year, he'll be next year's Ben Johnson and can pick the best situation. I do think the Jags situation could maybe be enough to sway Brady, but not the Saints or Raiders.

If Rapp is out for the AFC Championship game, that constitutes an emergency. In case of Emergency, break glass...

We only threw 22 times, and the Ravens flooded the middle of the field to take that away. I'd have liked to see Kincaid run some seams, but I think better days are ahead for him.

I blame Taylor Swift. KC has gotten an overabundance of favorable calls for several years, but it really took off when Swift started appearing at their games. The NFL has hundreds of thousands of new people tuning in just to see her shown up in the box. The powers that be obviously prefer another Taylor Swift-laden Chiefs appearance in the super bowl to CJ Stroud.

Goff can be a good QB when everything around him is really good- like the Lions the past 2 seasons. In a vacuum- he throws a ton of wobbly balls, is borderline immobile, and prone to a lot of picks.

He pouted in the locker room after a playoff win because he only played 20% of snaps and caught 1 ball. He had to make himself a distraction instead of celebrating advancing in the playoffs, and now he'll be at home this weekend instead of Arrowhead. You just joined the Texans 2-3 weeks ago, they weren't gonna make you the focal point of their offense. All you had to do was play your role the best you can, ride it out, then go look for a new opportunity in the offseason. Now it's unlikely he's offered much of anything in the future.

This! You're allowed to hit the QB on RPO/Read-Option plays when he doesn't have the ball, but fakes like he does. When these plays first started popping up with Chip Kelly's offense, one of the criticisms was that the QB will take a pounding. But nobody ever made it a priority to blast QBs who did it. Now would be a great time to start. Hit Jackson every time he does it & hands off.

The key to slowing Henry down is tackling him by his legs. So many of Henry's runs show tacklers falling/bouncing off his upper body & waist. Get his legs & he goes down, it will hurt more in the cold & wear on him.

Darnold kinda blows. A lot of his poor passes are bailed out by excellent WR play, and he's somehow less mobile than Stafford.

The Ravens Run-D stats are skewed by 2 things. 1- The fact that they played with a lead for much of the year behind their run game, teams pass more to keep up 2- The book on them is that they can be passed on, so that's what most teams game plans featured Sure, their Run-D is solid, but probably not any better than Denver in reality

It's pretty crazy that Surtain & Bonitto are the 2 front-runners for DPOY and I didn't hear either name during the game. Bonnito was mentioned on an early run play for getting washed out by Dawkins, but that was it.

Who's going to want the Cowboys job? The already had a meddling owner who makes the whole situation toxic, and then he prevents the coach everyone knows he's going to fire from interviewing with other teams until his contract expires. They're going to have to scrape the barrel for their next coach.

There is no way the Refs will let the Texans beat the Chiefs. Every time KC fails to convert a 3rd down anywhere near the redzone, there will be an inevitable flag for defensive holding. I predict this game will be comical from a "fabricated penalty" perspective.

This game feels like the Seattle game earlier this year. Everyone worried about what a solid Seattle team "could" do against us, and we came out & punched them in the mouth. We'll do the same to Denver.