Thurman#1

Well, that is certainly one guess. It could be right. Or wrong. Anyone with a clue knows that all we can do is guess, and one guess is pretty much as good as another. Which is how it works with the future.

Seems weird to me too, but there are a lot of people out there who believe in it. Seen Bill Burr's story about how it changed him? Strikes me as being - at least - worth looking into. But Logic is right that with Rodgers you've got a dolt for a poster boy.

Oh, man, yeah. That's wonderful to hear. I'm sure it will do her good. Best of luck and health to Kim.

This makes no sense, John. They wouldn't have known. He either plays and they find out, or he doesn't play and they don't find out. He's right, if he hadn't played, he'd have gotten a ton of guff about how he didn't even try. Um, no, it was precisely hindsight, and your own post points it out. The reason they knew that in Week 17 was that they had played him each game earlier and seen what happened.

That's not the way it worked. He and the team knew he wasn't ready each day. But both thought that with the work, he might get better and be ready to be a difference maker before the end of the season. That's not the way it turned out. But it could have. That's what they were hoping, and it wasn't unreasonable to think it might.

Wait, you mean hindsight is 20/20? Who'da thunk it? This. He thought he was doing the best thing for him and the team. Turned out not to work that way. If only he'd known the future, he might have acted differently.

Astro is the single source I look forward to the most at TC. His stuff is observant and really fun. Damn shame.

The defense was playing third and even fourth stringers, and injured firsts gutting it out (Poyer and DaQuan most particularly). And yet they kept the Bills in the game the whole way, and were very effective late. But yeah, you're quite right, blaming it on only Diggs is flat-out ridiculous. An absolute joke. Allen himself, while he played a good game, had two chances to bust things open and didn't quite manage it either time. You can say it may have had something to do with his injuries forcing a change in throwing form. Maybe. But he still missed on two fantastic chances. The Chiefs were all over Diggs defensively. He should've caught that pass, but as you said, it was a tough play and a better Allen throw would have greatly increased chances for success. Ty Johnson played very solid, as did Shakir. Seven catches on nine targets and a TD, that's good play from Khalil. Same with Kincaid, who had 5 catches on 5 targets. It's not really possible to make catches on balls not thrown to you. The guy who thinks that? That's you. Confusing your own unsupported opinion with fact is poor thinking.

I don't mind them trying to use the rules and regs creatively. The business guys do. Why shouldn't the football players? But nearly 80% of pro athletes go broke within three years of retirement. And it ain't because of the state taxes they did or didn't pay. It's because of the squandering spendthrift tax, the believe-the-sycophants tax, the unsophisticated tax, the bad financial advice tax, the don't-worry-about-the-future tax, the wanna-live-like-a-star tax, the splurging spendthrift tax, the start-a-business-without-studying-how tax, the trust-Uncle-Roger-to-be-your-financial-advisor tax ... These are the things they need to worry about, not so much state taxes. But again, if they want to try to be creative, why not? Everyone else tries.

Thank you. Worth noting.

Dude, if I were to mail you a gyroscope, a GPS app and the best map available, could you find the point then? Or are you simply unwilling to try? Yeah, Mahomes had relatively bad passing stats. AND THEY WON A LOMBARDI TROPHY!!! Which is more important? I genuinely believe that you do not know the answer to that question. So I'll tell you. Winning the championship is the goal. Not gettiong your QB good passing stats. Talk to Mahomes, Allen, Reid, McDermott, anyone on any of these teams, and they will tell you the same thing. If you can win a championship by building up your defense and other areas at the temporary expense of your WR room .... YOU DO IT!!!! And the Chiefs have proved you indeed can. You're right they traded Tyreek, my bad, but the point on Tyreek is that THEY COULD HAVE KEPT TYREEK. AND THEY DIDN'T. And they won not one but two championships in a row while he played in Miami. Because they were very fully aware that the important thing is NOT having the best WR room, it is having the best team. They traded him like we traded Diggs. They got more for him. But the point again is that they could have kept him. And if having a good WR room was the most important thing, that's what they'd have done. Um, no. That's dumb. Let me correct it for you. Rice MIGHT be #1 WR on this team in target share. Certainly possible, particularly if he doesn't get a suspension or jailtime. He might even be the favorite, but that there is a guess. As is the ENTIRE remainder of your post. The Bills will have a bunch of guys who have never played in this system or with this QB. Same with KC. It's not clear how things will go for either team.

Yes, that is the argument. An unassailable argument. But again you state this poorly. They weren't terrible. They just weren't very good. They won a Super Bowl with a fairly weak WR group, making up for a ton of it by having a terrific QB and a terrific TE. Both of which we appear to have. As for arguing that our weapons in 2024 will be better than theirs, yeah, nobody's saying that. Not many are saying the converse for sure either. Too many unknowns on both sides. That's why nobody is saying it. What we know is that the year KC most recently won the Super Bowl, their WR room was pretty weak. It will likely be stronger this year. But will they win the Super Bowl? Nobody knows yet. That's why people talk more about last year than this. We know what happened This coming year we don't. My guess is 65/35 the Chiefs WR room will be stronger than the Bills, and that the Chiefs don't win the SB again. But that's all guesswork. Again, last year the team with the relatively weak WR group DID win the Super Bowl. Because they had a really excellent team.

They keep you young, but at the same time they take years off you. It goes both ways. Still the best decision I ever made, though. Only wish I had more. Giving a friend advice, I once said that anytime they ask you to pick them up, do it if it makes sense. You don't want to spoil them. But those are just the best moments. And they ask less and less as time passes.

Um, first, duh. And second you missed the point. Two or three of them, actually. First, of course it wasn't their plan. Nobody said it was, so I don't know who you are trying to contradict there. You're not managing to contradict anyone, certainly not me. Of course it wasn't the Chiefs plan. Nor was it ours. Nor anyone's. But they were willing to cut Tyreek knowing that by far the most likely impact on the WR room was a major drop in overall quality. Nobody was surprised that cutting Tyreek ended up leaving a poorer WR group. But a stronger team. Again, what you want is a strong team, not a strong WR group. Second, they weren't "***** on offense," your (dumb) words. They had a pretty bad WR group and yet they finished 7th in the league in passing and 9th in total offense. So your statement there has a sense quotient of zero. They were a pretty good offense. And, you know, Lombardi trophy winners. Due to being a very good team despite a not very strong WR group. It's never anybody's plan to be ***** in any area of their team. Duh. And yet nearly every team has a position group that's not that good somewhere. It's a result of circumstances and limited resources and the fact that you can't address everything you'd like to. Your point that they didn't plan to be bad ... well, it's true but again, zero relevance or impact on the argument. What they showed, though, is that you can be below average at WR and particularly if you have a very good TE and a very good QB you can still be very good on offense ... and win the Super Bowl. Again, you need a good team. You do NOT need a good group of wide receivers. This idea that below average WRs mean a bad offense, it's wildly popular here among a certain group of people. Unfortunately, it's dumb.

Best of luck to you. Had my first well into my 50s. Exhausting, but having a great wife helps a ton. Still the best thing that's ever happened to me, that kid.