Fixed? No. Tiresome? Yes.74_75_78_79_ wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 7:31 pm I, personally, in this far-from-the-"old days" era in the NFL am excited about this, here, Chiefs/Eagles Super Bowl (rematch) to be! I actually wanted it going into this 'final four'!
The nasty brute-force squad against the two-time-defending-Champs who, now, decide (seemingly on purpose) to win in un-dominating fashion just for the "fun" of it. Setting the controls..."Okay, today we'll beat this bad team by just 3 points, then next week we'll beat this contender by just 1. Steelers are pissed, they're trying to win their division and just lost their last two. Let's go in there on Christmas Day and win a lopsided one this time. Beat Texans at home in the divisional by less then 10 but put up 32 against McDermott's defense to punch our ticket to New Orleans! Why not?"
That's how it seems, at least. In-control all year long. Putting ego aside and winning practically all their games close - just for the fun of it!
Some of my coworkers are also talking the 'fixed' stuff lately. They all disregard KC's run this year. And I keep telling them, "The moment you think it's fixed, you stop following (caring), plain and simple." Well, I'm still following.
You can't depend on close 4th down calls in your favor in order to finally get over the hump against this current Dynasty in KC. Everything that Colin Herd said today about the Bills coming up just short, if any of you watched his show today, I fully agree with! Josh should simply make the 3rd down in the first place! He even mentioned Chuck Knox, as I did in a previous thread, when talking of McDermott...
https://profootballresearchers.com/foru ... =mcdermott
Perhaps (perhaps not) Sean has now gotten himself ahead of John Robinson with this, now, other CCG-berth to his credit. But despite he being a defensive mind (as Colin said, reminding us of the 30 pts given up), he simply needs to do something further to finally get past KC. Just like SF losing those recent close SBs to them, it's not "fixed". It's simply a case of..."so close, so close and yet so far." And, FWIW, at least it HAS been "close" for these teams whereas my own Steelers never were near "solving" Brady & Hoodie's Pats in any post-season match!
Will the Eagles be yet another "victim" of this? I'll sure be rooting for them as I did two years ago. But I'm afraid it will be the case. Chiefs had their rematch against San Fran last year four years later. A bit of difference, main example being a different QB (Purdy instead of JImmy G) along with CMC being onboard! Well, despite just two years later in this case, the Eagles got...Saquon Barkley! Philly such a more forcecful/dominating team, they'll be out for revenge, they'll charge hard from both sides of the ball! Saquon all but likely will put in another killer performance!
But KC will have such an advantage in both the all-too-important HC and QB departments! THAT, right there, can and most-likely will make just the difference! A real close game. I think it'll be even closer than two years back, but this one-meaningful-loss version of the '72 Dolphins will squeak it out by a less-than-TD margin. I won't be surprised if it goes into OT. And if Eagles score first, outrageously confident I'd be of KC still pulling it out.
I hope I'm wrong, and just maybe I will. We'll see.
If Eagles win, a Lombardi now to his credit (along with another CC), you will not be able to disregard Sirianni! I'm still not going to know WHY he's a champion HC (many call him half fan, half coach - NOT a compliment), but he WILL be one and cannot be ignored! Not "just" a 'CEO'. right?
And if Eagles win, and Saquon is the SBMVP, does that make him not only "one of" the best but THE best (Numero Uno) Philadelphia sports icon EVER??
An Eagles win will also mean THIS...they beat Lombardi's Pack, beat Brady/Hoodie, and beat...Mahomes/Reid! Not bad.
oh and spare me the mcdermott stuff. Andy Reid was a generational choke artist before Mahomes fell into his lap
