NFL 2024

[The Buscher]

If you go back and look at the games the last few years where the Chiefs won mostly due to a backbreaking late penalty, it's almost never ticky tack.  Like yesterday, they're often clear penalties that come down to a player doing something boneheaded in the heat of the moment.

Mahomes/Reid and Brady/Belichick comps are obviously going to keep happening as the Chiefs' legacy grows but really they were completely different players and coaches with different styles - all very effective but not that much to compare other than them all being great at their jobs.

One thing I think is comparable, for lack of a better term, is the Choke Factor.  There's an intangible pressure to playing these teams and closing the deal.  Players get caught up in the moment (the Bengals with a backbreaking final drive penalty twice now, Dee Ford the last year before the Pats finally passed the baton to the Chiefs), coaches overthink basic things (a couple of the Bills and Ravens losses to the Chiefs, multiple Pats SBs).  Even if you get off to a big lead on them we see teams inexplicably opening up the one path to let them back in.  And if it's a one score game, there's just this inevitable feeling that you're gonna lose and you just hope to not be the guy that makes a mistake.

Not sure how else to explain it.

[gunnar hendershow]

Hey now the Ravens' losses to the Chiefs have almost all been because of coaching overthinking things less than players making boneheaded mistakes.

It's why when Likely's toe was out last week I almost exhaled since it saved us from what was going to be a catastrophically bad 2 pt conversion play.

It's very much like our losses to the Pats. Not calling the timeout when Cundiff is rushing out for the FG, getting blown away with the Pats trying to hide which TE was eligible, etc. It's just repeated coaching errors. Refs haven't screwed us against either of the dynasties that we've come up against.

[Maxx]

Gotta tell ya folks, its a lot of fun to see your team pay a QB the richest contract in NFL history, and then watch Sam Darnold do something he hasn't been able to do.

[Michelle Branch]

1 hour ago, Maxx said:

Gotta tell ya folks, its a lot of fun to see your team pay a QB the richest contract in NFL history, and then watch Sam Darnold do something he hasn't been able to do.

You're telling me. 

[The Buscher]

Bryce Young has been benched, Andy Dalton named Panthers starting QB.

[LL!]

And the Dolphins have snatched away Tyler Huntley from the Ravens' claws much to @gunnar hendershow's chagrin. 

[Lineker]

24 minutes ago, The Buscher said:

Bryce Young has been benched, Andy Dalton named Panthers starting QB.

Wonderful.

[gunnar hendershow]

Young will go down as the generational bust it Stroud & Williams are both great.

[Pooker]

It's insane that the Ravens are so deep that they had a former Pro Bowler just sitting on their practice squad.

[Your Mom]

No pressure on Cousins at all on this last drive. Philly might have just blown it

[Forky]

Just now, Your Mom said:

No pressure on Cousins at all on this last drive. Philly might have just blown it

Might turns into definitely

[The Buscher]

As a Giants fan I’ve seen them in this situation in Philly many times before.  34 seconds and 2 timeouts, I still expect a long Elliott walkoff

[Szumi]

Nick Sirianni remains an overrated head coach with terrible decisions. Saquon should've caught that pass on 3rd down, but fucking stupid to call a pass play there. Wasted over 40 seconds. Game would have been over before that TD.

[The Buscher]

I WAS WRONG! 

[Your Mom]

That's it! Wow that is rough for Philly fans

[gunnar hendershow]

Giving the Falcons those extra 40 seconds was just stupid. Terrible decision. And then to not put any pressure on a QB who can't move at all? Somehow even worse.

[Szumi]

Nothing says Philadelphia Eagles like Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts choking when the game is on the line. Absolutely pathetic.

[Your Mom]

4 minutes ago, gunnar hendershow said:

Giving the Falcons those extra 40 seconds was just stupid. Terrible decision. And then to not put any pressure on a QB who can't move at all? Somehow even worse.

Yeah he had all day back there! Like I know people like to laugh at Cousins a bit but you give him time like that and he is going to get it done

[Maxx]

Saquon doing enough to keep me out of the guillotine, and Siriani looking like a fool?  That’s a good Monday night.

[LL!]

Lmao Eagles