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Ravens burned 2 TO already which could be huge later on

Man Henry looks slow and old

Just like NE with Brady

A little too much compete there

That's getting called every time but man it has to be hard not to do

I was shocked to hear Reid give up so much information

So the giant rat in Chiefs gear just smashes his head into the goalpost regardless of how the FG goes? He did the same thing when Tucker missed

Tucker has also been having a rough streak... Kickers are hard to figure out

Well I guess they got Taylor once so far

Each team has one OL who cannot line up

Harbaugh looked like he knew the outcome pre play... Lol He looked like he was shaking his head no

My prediction is Ravens will win by 10 The SB winner hasn't done great in these games lately. Hopefully next year's opener in OP goes better!

it might possibly work, but if it was ever tried even once then every team would drill for it and prepare for it, making it impossible to pull off a second time

If you had a QB who could also punt sometimes that would make for some interesting options/fakeouts. It's been done before! There's a lot of psychology to going for it on 4th down or faking it. 3rd down stop! Everyone is excited! Defense jogging off the field, high 5's helmets on the posts, gatorade... All the fans of the team on defense are feeling relief: we stopped them! We're getting the ball. What does the team who just made the 3rd down stop want more than anything? A simple punt that isn't muffed or fumbled.

Jets are going to be a top 4 AFC team this year if Rodgers stays healthy. Chiefs Bills Ravens Jets That's your divisional round, IMO

In the AFC: Jets... IMO they will the #1 contender the Bills need to deal with for the AFC East crown. Dolphins are a video game team, but that only works for so long, as we've seen. In the NFC: Rams: they seem to have retooled and added a lot of young talent

I'm not saying it's planned but man does it feel like it! Every weekend is trash (including most of last) then the weeks are gorgeous. At least it looks nice out the window from the office...

Yeah it was a total team loss, that much is for sure. Diggs isn't much different from most WR not named Kelce. Once the playoffs start you're playing the top 2-3 teams in the conference, and they are good enough to neutralize your #1 guy. That doesn't change the fact that Diggs creates drama everywhere he goes. That much is just a fact.

IF (and it's a big IF) the story is actually true about some huge blowup at Allen's house the night before a playoff game then I could understand Diggs being furious. You work all year for that opportunity and in 3 hours it's gone and you start all over again at 0 with OTA's in a couple months. Imagine Coach Kilmer from Varsity Blues in that post game locker room. He would make Diggs look like Mr. Rodgers. Now, things happen and life often doesn't happen at convenient times. And Diggs could probably have handled it better. But I 100% get being furious about that, and I can also understand it being the type of thing that ruins a relationship. After something like that being OK is probably the best case scenario, but nobody is taking photos of piggy back rides for the cover of sports mags after a blowup like that. As much as we like to say we can move on, forget/forgive and all that, there are just certain things that happen between people that you can't come back from. That's of course an individual thing. Diggs seems to be done when he's done and that's it.

I like football in late January and all the way to mid to late February better. Nothing else going on

The Jets are interesting at least. I'm really curious to see Rodgers actually play. Can't figure him out. He obviously pushed himself like crazy to rehab that Achilles, and seemed intent on proving something. But then he misses mandatory camp because he always wanted to visit Egypt? I'm pretty sure he could have made that happen whenever he wanted. It's been a long time since a Jets game was interesting so I'm all for a little chaos.

If I was living outside of WNY I would do it for sure, but Red Zone is much better to watch to me, anyway, if there isn't a Bills game on. Even then, the minute a commercial hits I switch over until the game is back. I'm so happy for the people who want the ticket that the NFL has finally woken up and joined the 21st century. Now anyone who wants it can just buy it, which is the way every other league has been. No more asking your landlord for permission, installing dishes (if you even can), not being able to but having Direct TV say according to them you CAN, etc. etc. Getting it off of a satellite company is enormously beneficial for fans.

one type of defense slows down elite passers: physical on all 3 levels and with DL who can get to the QB. That is really, really hard and quickly becomes expensive to assemble. A great team usually has a top QB and some offensive weapons, who make such a defense even harder to assemble or keep together.

It's been said earlier in the thread, but football is a game of matchups, maybe more than any other major sport. You can be great yet struggle with an average team because of the way that team plays the game. It's part of what makes NFL football great, IMO. The Dolphins take moonshots to track starts and when it works it looks like a video game. Totally unstoppable. The Ravens can run it 57 times a game , including with their superstar QB who can make a huge play on any down. Coupled with a vicious D. 49ers have the Shanahan system, which works amazingly well until Super Bowls. Lions are a gritty, fun team that will score 40 points and hope it's enough. That's an oversimplification but it's why we love this game! McDermott has a system that works, and it does work against KC. We're just evenly matched with them and it could go either way each time. Plus they have the uncrowned (for now) GOAT in Andy Reid.

I think so too... It could be that they win some games with 13-9 or 14-6 type scores until Rodgers gets up to speed. I wouldn't underestimate the impact of optimism and hope on that team either. Last year their season basically ended 4 plays into week 1 and they still battled and gutted out 7 wins, including that game. If the D starts to see Rodgers look like Rodgers and starts to believe that they can do some damage then it will get very interesting.