NFL 2024 | Championship Day

@Sandyman update your title - it’s Championship weekend baby!

Hoping for the Bills and Commanders. Expecting the Chiefs and Eagles.

Catching up on the weeks news too.

Happy with McDaniels. A familiar face and hopefully at least a steady offensive coordinator who can help Maye progress.

Carroll to the Raiders is just :lol:

And Schottenheimer to the Cowboys has sort of come out of nowhere. Funny world we live in!
 
It's the worst hire by Jerry in his entire tenure owning the franchise. It's beyond the hires of Gailey and Switzer, but even Gailey had actually called plays and Switzer was a big time college coach with a pedigree - neither were NFL head coach quality. It's worse than the hires of Campo and Garrett who also had earned their bones as play/scheme calling coordinators but were obvious yes men and terrible managers. It reeks of those weak, ring-kissing politicians, basically Brian saying "I'm your puppet" (great song btw) for the head coaching title and we all believe he's fine with Witten coming aboard as the head coach in waiting along with Jerry picking the assistants solely to call himself 'Dallas Cowboys Head Coach.'

Total trainwreck of an organization culture. Zero philosophy, zero planning, little hope. I'll gladly eat these words if Brian proves himself the next great coach but I have zero doubts this will occur. Rinse and repeat, we'll revisit this in 3-5 years for the next puppet, if Jerry is still alive. But what's that you ask? Rumor is the sons wanted Brian. Feck me.
 
Having just seen the announcement on the Chiefs website - the national anthem is going to be absolutely fecking lit in the AFCCG.
 
I'd love the Bills to win just so Stefon Diggs can be sad
 
RoadTrip said:
@Sandyman update your title - it’s Championship weekend baby!

Hoping for the Bills and Commanders. Expecting the Chiefs and Eagles.

Catching up on the weeks news too.

Happy with McDaniels. A familiar face and hopefully at least a steady offensive coordinator who can help Maye progress.

Carroll to the Raiders is just :lol:

And Schottenheimer to the Cowboys has sort of come out of nowhere. Funny world we live in!
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Madness, the guy just simply doesn’t want to retire. He’s been coaching in the NFL before Sir Alex came to Man Utd.
 
Okay so two nice things happening on the same night is definitely too much of an ask for me. I'll take a convincing 5-0 United win if it means we can have Commanders vs Bills in the Super Bowl.
 


You know something is really up if even the likes of Schefter are getting involved in this debate.

Allen is also prone to some serious flopping but a few of Mahomes' actions last week were downright embarrassing, slowing down when going out of bounds to initiate some contact. God I hate his guts, hope they get properly smashed tonight.
 
RoadTrip said:
@Sandyman update your title - it’s Championship weekend baby!

Hoping for the Bills and Commanders. Expecting the Chiefs and Eagles.

Catching up on the weeks news too.

Happy with McDaniels. A familiar face and hopefully at least a steady offensive coordinator who can help Maye progress.

Carroll to the Raiders is just :lol:

And Schottenheimer to the Cowboys has sort of come out of nowhere. Funny world we live in!
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Busy weekend. It's done now

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:devil:

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/43538463/snyder-hates-commanders-success
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Love to see it :drool:
 
For balance here's another cherry picked Chiefs playoff stat: Prior to this year's playoffs the last 3 TDs overturned in the playoffs were Chiefs TDs. This streak spanned almost 2 years. Two of the TDs were called back for offensive holding and one was initially ruled a fumble return then overturned.

And this ain't a stat but it's something that's worth noting. In last week's Texans game there was a 50 yard pass to Hollywood Brown that was ruled incomplete which was shown to be clearly a completed catch. In the next play Kelce then makes another 50 yard play so this is crap zebra call is forgotten about.

People only really care about reffing decisions when it's their team or a team they are rooting against.
 
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So looking at who the "neutrals" are rooting for today, majority of them favour 2 teams over the other 2.
 
P-Ro said:
For balance here's another cherry picked Chiefs playoff stat: Prior to this year's playoffs the last 3 TDs overturned in the playoffs were Chiefs TDs. Two of them were called back for offensive holding and one was initially ruled a fumble return then overturned.

And this ain't a stat but it's something that's worth noting. In last week's Texans game there was a 50 yard pass to Hollywood Brown that was ruled incomplete which was shown to be clearly a completed catch. In the next play Kelce then makes another 50 yard play so this is forgotten about.

People only really care about reffing decisions when it's their team or a team they are rooting against.
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What does it disprove about the overprotection of Mahomes, which is what the controversy is about to begin with?
 
Sandyman said:
So looking at who the "neutrals" are rooting for today, majority of them favour 2 teams over the other 2.
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Well that's pretty obvious, isn't it? Why would neutrals root for the favourites and the same Super Bowl as a couple of years back instead of the underdogs and something different?
 
Florida Man said:
What does it disprove about the overprotection of Mahomes, which is what the controversy is about to begin with?
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Actually the "controversy" is that the Chiefs get all the calls. It ramped up this week with that article about penalty differential which was about the totality of the Chiefs penalties in the playoffs over 11 games, rather than just being about Mahomes.

Edit: I note how that article earlier this week from Warren Sharp gave the Chiefs penalty yardage differential versus their opponents as 225 yards in those 11 games. Had he written the piece a week before and sampled the 11 games prior to the Texans game that yardage differential falls from 225 yards to 91 yards. Essentially he cherry picked a sample size that gave the most skewed results.
 
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V.O. said:
Well that's pretty obvious, isn't it? Why would neutrals root for the favourites and the same Super Bowl as a couple of years back instead of the underdogs and something different?
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At least in the Commanders case, because their fanbase was insufferable for decades about rightfully changing the name of the franchise.
 
V.O. said:
Well that's pretty obvious, isn't it? Why would neutrals root for the favourites and the same Super Bowl as a couple of years back instead of the underdogs and something different?
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I am thinking it's also because Chiefs and Eagles are high on the unlikable team rankings

Florida Man said:
Because they are good human beings.
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Then they should should come and celebrate in the City of Brotherly Love today

RoadTrip said:
Let me check my notes. Yep, seems correct!
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At this rate, it looks like Chiefs winning is the only way Eagles (provided we win of course) will get some outside love for the Super Bowl :lol:
 
P-Ro said:
For balance here's another cherry picked Chiefs playoff stat: Prior to this year's playoffs the last 3 TDs overturned in the playoffs were Chiefs TDs. This streak spanned almost 2 years. Two of the TDs were called back for offensive holding and one was initially ruled a fumble return then overturned.

And this ain't a stat but it's something that's worth noting. In last week's Texans game there was a 50 yard pass to Hollywood Brown that was ruled incomplete which was shown to be clearly a completed catch. In the next play Kelce then makes another 50 yard play so this is crap zebra call is forgotten about.

People only really care about reffing decisions when it's their team or a team they are rooting against.
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Well they weren't overturned if the holding flag was thrown during the play? It was always going to be a hold no matter the outcome of the play.

If they were wrongfully penalised then fair enough. But this seems a massive clutch at straws.
 
Stobzilla said:
At least in the Commanders case, because their fanbase was insufferable for decades about rightfully changing the name of the franchise.
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Rookie QB reaching the SB for the first time in history is a nice storyline though.
 
Stobzilla said:
At least in the Commanders case, because their fanbase was insufferable for decades about rightfully changing the name of the franchise.
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Yeah if their rookie QB wasn’t so likeable I probably wouldn’t care too much between the two. If the Chiefs win, I think the Eagles will give them a much tougher game due to the inexperience of the commanders, so I’m just going to enjoy the first game for what it is and not care too much who wins.
 
We need more Chiefs fans. Poor @P-Ro is fighting the rising tide alone.

Remember we had loads of Pats/Brady fans back when they were good.
 
RobinLFC said:
Rookie QB reaching the SB for the first time in history is a nice storyline though.
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I always thought Big Ben won it in his rookie year for some reason. Was it his 2nd year?

I think I got the years mixed up - Patriots beat him his rookie year in the AFCCG and then they beat the Colts the next year? Always thought it was the other way around.
 
JJ12 said:
Well they weren't overturned if the holding flag was thrown during the play? It was always going to be a hold no matter the outcome of the play.

If they were wrongfully penalised then fair enough. But this seems a massive clutch at straws.
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They were both TDs ruled out by tick tack holding calls. It's no more clutching at straws than the other stuff posted on here so I thought it was relevant.
 
Sandyman said:
We need more Chiefs fans. Poor @P-Ro is fighting the rising tide alone.

Remember we had loads of Pats/Brady fans back when they were good.
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Yes but the Patriots fans had nothing to defend

Yes I'm joking
 
P-Ro said:
They were both TDs ruled out by tick tack holding calls. It's no more clutching at straws than the other stuff posted on here so I thought it was relevant. Especially because of their huge impact on the respective games (a one score Super Bowl and a one score AFCCG).
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I disagree with you to be honest but you're only doing what any other fan would do.
 
JJ12 said:
I disagree with you to be honest but you're only doing what any other fan would do.
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Fair enough. I removed the last sentence because they were in the divisional and AFCCG rather than the Superbowl and AFCCG. I might not be objective but I won't be a liar.
 
JJ12 said:
I always thought Big Ben won it in his rookie year for some reason. Was it his 2nd year?

I think I got the years mixed up - Patriots beat him his rookie year in the AFCCG and then they beat the Colts the next year? Always thought it was the other way around.
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Yeah 2nd year. Was also the youngest to win it

JJ12 said:
Yes but the Patriots fans had nothing to defend

Yes I'm joking
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:lol:

Swarm said:
Let me check my notes. Yes, seems correct!
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You are far from neutral though. Also, was hoping Bills/Ravens win it if the Eagles were out of it so you'll have some more support if Hurts shits the bed
 
RedDevilRoshi said:
Steelers fan here.

Don't know what will happen first - Steelers winning a SB or Man Utd winning the premier league
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Sorry but the Steelers are one of the most successful franchises of the 21st century.

You are now a Jets fan
 
I started supporting a team that hadn't been to a Super Bowl in 50 years. Hard to be more non bandwagon than that!
 
altodevil said:
Sorry but the Steelers are one of the most successful franchises of the 21st century.

You are now a Jets fan
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No thank you, Steelers all the way. We haven't come close to winning a SB for some time. Done well to reach the playoffs in recent seasons but our O Line still remains an issue.
 
RedDevilRoshi said:
No thank you, Steelers all the way. We haven't come close to winning a SB for some time. Done well to reach the playoffs in recent seasons but our O Line still remains an issue.
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What are your thoughts on the Glenn hire?
 
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