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The Bills have predominantly picked at the end of rounds also which is always dismissed/overlooked. The Chiefs always get unanimous praise for their drafting (particularly the 2022 draft), but they've had some whiffs too. Clyde Edwards was a late 1st rounder. FAU the DE was a late 1st rounder. Skyy Moore 2nd round. Their left tackle from BYU (2nd round) looks like a bust. When you're picking #30-#32 every year, your first rounders are really early 2nd rounders and your second rounders are basically early 3rd rounders. Degree of difficulty much higher picking in the 1st round a guy that everyone else in the entire league passed on.

Yup, and Marty was with the Chiefs for 10 years.

Monos was director of personnel for the Bills 2013-2017. Pretty good listen for those interested (this podcast is non paywall): https://www.golongtd.com/p/pod-state-of-the-buffalo-bills-with -Monos criticizes Beane/McDermott for the 1st and 2nd round selections they've made. Says they've done much better in the mid-rounds but says the 1st and 2nd rounds are the GM and the coach picking, and they simply haven't been good enough there. He thinks Beane needs to defer to someone else if need be to make those picks if he must and says self reflection needed. -Monos: "Brandon Beane was never a scout, he was a salary cap operations type. He knows how to organize. I'm not saying they shouldn't have their jobs...the goal is for sustained success...and that's what the Bills have...I think the Bills need to understand, who is the trusted talent evaluator in that building? Who is making these calls in the first and second round? Where are the big physical freaks?" -Monos on Buffalo's potential interest in a Myles Garrett trade: "You should want Myles Garrett. Go get him. It might help you win the Super Bowl. But that's lazy GM'ing. That's a lazy GM in my opinion. That's an easy one. The hard GM's are finding those first round." There was a discussion about NFL teams likely trying to replicate Philly's defensive approach after the Super Bowl by loading up on DL. But he says it's not like teams don't already try to do that. Buffalo has tried. They've drafted D-Line, and they took a big swing via free agency for Von Miller hoping it'd put them over the top and it backfired. -Monos criticizes Beane/McDermott for bringing up the refs/officials before the Chiefs game and again afterward. He says it's loser talk. Dunne questions why they would even plant the seed of doubt in players' minds ahead of the game. Why let your players play the victim role? (Monos agreed.) -Monos criticizes the Bills' poor safeties, calling Bishop "a linebacker." -Monos doesn't seem high on the Coleman pick and returned to his talking point about Buffalo not getting enough true difference makers at the top of the draft. "Guys that run 4.2's, they don't exist later in the draft. Coleman types exist later in the draft. You can get big jumpball wideouts that can't run. That's what the fourth round is for." -Dunne noted that McDermott is entering his 9th year and only three coaches ever - Tom Landry, Hank Stram, Bill Cowher - have ever won Super Bowls that deep into their tenure with an organization. "Even Andy Reid had to leave Philly and draft Mahomes before he got his first ring." -Monos wonders if McDermott wrestles control of defensive play calling in playoff games. "I'd like to ask somebody on that staff if Sean does call any defenses in playoff games? I have a feeling there might be some...which is fine, that's your right to do whatever you want." -Dunne: "I think the GM understands everything should revolve around Josh Allen. I don't know if I can say the same about McDermott....he says complimentary things about him. When it comes to managing the game, what kind of game it's going to be, how the roster should be constructed, I'm not sure he sees it the same way as the GM. Gut feeling." -Monos says he wouldn't pay Cook what he wants.

They've rallied from 10-point deficits to win three previous Super Bowls and overcame a 24-0 deficit to win a playoff game. They've rallied from 14-0 down at half in an AFC title game to force OT at 31-31. They've won despite trailing with 13 seconds left. This exact core, and this exact coaching staff. It's okay to simply get your ass beat from time to time. The better team won.

It costs $8 million to air a 30 second Super Bowl commercial. I don't think these advertisers are getting duped with false numbers.

The number would have been a good bit higher if the game wasn't terrible, so it's an impressive number. That being said, it gets easier to set new ratings records every year w the various simulcast/streaming options. Without knowing next year's matchup, I'd predict it will be record setting. Same with the year after that and probably the year after that.

wow launch an investigation immediately, this must be conspiracy.

The single highest-impact penalty on win probability over the past 10 postseasons—a defensive holding on cornerback Trent McDuffie that extended a 49ers field-goal drive in overtime of Super Bowl LVIII—went against Kansas City. The penalty made the Chiefs 20% less likely to win.

Andy Reid said last week that Mike Holmgren taught him early in his career to "always keep a few bullets in the holster." He was referring to the idea of saving/preserving your best plays for when it matters most. It has long been theorized that the Chiefs save their best plays for when it counts and go out of their way to not use them during the regular season. It's unknowable, but let's assume for argument's sake that every team has 50 amazing plays that they bring into the regular season: short-yardage plays, goal line plays, 2-pt plays, 4th-and-desperate plays, whatever it might be. Let's just say there's 50 of them. Lots of teams have to use these plays week by week for pure survival. Maybe you're down 5 points Week 1, facing 4th-and-goal with 5 seconds left...that seems like a good time to use one of your great plays. Later in the year, as you pursue the playoffs or a better seed and face critical situations in critical games, you might have to tap further into your 'great play' reserves. I'd love to know how many 'great plays' the Bills used in their regular season matchup vs the Chiefs, for example; and how many the Chiefs used in the same game (they were trailing, and were unbeaten, and the game was important in the grand scheme of things.) And I'd love to know how many 'great plays' each team had left in their holster by the time the AFC championship game came around.

terry pegula didnt whiff on mahomes.

https://www.sportico.com/leagues/football/2025/super-bowl-2025-nfl-refs-kansas-city-chiefs-1234826911/ the best article written on chiefs/refs so far. a little something for everyone here.

The one where the Chiefs got screwed over by the refs repeatedly. But instead of pout about it or claim some grand conspiracy, they came back the next year and won the Super Bowl.

The Bills defense performs just fine against non Chiefs offenses. They had a poor game in the snow vs the Bengals (but the Bills offense performed even worse, scoring just 10 points.) Bills points allowed in playoffs vs non chiefs teams: jaguars 10 texans 19 colts 24 ravens 3 patriots 17 (7 in garbage time, really 10) dolphins 31 (mia def TD, really 24) bengals 27 steelers 17 broncos 7 ravens 25 18 pts per game allowed vs non chiefs teams Bills points allowed in playoffs vs chiefs: chiefs 27 chiefs 36 (excludes OT) chiefs 38 chiefs 32 33.3 pts per game allowed vs chiefs

The Chiefs have won playoff games allowing: 29, 35, 36, 31.

The Commanders ran 74 plays (48 passes) without an offensive holding penalty vs the Eagles in the NFC Championship game. It can be done.