The Frankish Reich

Maybe 5 more rings?

Right. The old “you don’t want the refs deciding the game” is a thing of the past. The late hit here didn’t have any impact on the game between the lines, Mahomes wasn’t hurt, no need to throw that flag.

And there you have it. The unnecessary unnecessary roughness call.

Bengals got a bit pissy in the end after that playoff win. But I won’t forgot how well they treated us when Damar went down. GO BENGALS!

Holy crap. 33 seconds this time.

I mean, it looks like KC may get the ball back in regulation.

At least KC won’t get the ball back in regulation

Wow

We are careening toward 13 seconds, v 2.0

I HATE this decision. oh, never mind. They changed their minds

Joe Burrow going all Josh Allen now. What’s wrong with getting a first down? Oh well. It’s a good punt.

OK up till now I had dismissed all the “Chiefs get every call” comments as homerism. But this one? I gotta hit rewind.

Oh. Never mind.

5th down poetic Justice

There is something to that comparison.

Pretty sure that in the same situation the Bills would’ve tried to draw them offside then punted. Fortune favors the bold.

Yea. That is aggressive all right.

True. But people forget how good McNabb was in his peak years.

True. HOF head coach who also happens to be the best OC in the game. But as for personnel: they lost their best receiver this year. Before that they completely retooled their O line overnight. They lost their best RB a few years ago when they cut him (for good reason). They are turning guys like Pacheco into significant producers. They are really good. And Mahomes is really, really good

Very early returns: "better than the Bills"

Wasn't Gilliam inactive for the game? We had some good drives with that set this season. It's a mystery why Dorsey didn't mix it up more.

Yep. That's the inconvenient truth. 28 year old CB coming off a very serious knee injury. I think he'll be better next season, but I don't think he'll be anything like the shutdown corner he was close to being a couple years ago. In defense of Beane: this is what happens when your team is good. Based in part on cap considerations, you sign guys to extended contracts in which the team gets excess value in the early years, and the player gets seriously overpaid in the latter/decline years.

Well, that's certainly a glass half full take. Maybe I'm just a glass half empty guy, but my fear is the opposite: free agent/trade prospects for MIA/NYJ (Brady to Miami: I'd be surprised if it doesn't happen) will be less likely to be scared off by the Bills dominance since the Bills suddenly don't look so dominant.

Thanks for the post. This is what I’ve been saying: one good starter, two marginally acceptable starters (who really should be backups, including Morse at this stage of his career), 2 sub-replacement level players who amazingly continued to start all season long.

Well … no. I’ll still take Josh over Burrow, but raw talent isn’t the deciding factor here. Steve McNair had a lot more “raw talent” than Peyton Manning or Tom Brady. So did a lot of other guys who won’t be in the Hall of Fame or anywhere near it. Reading defenses, using good judgement, getting rid of the ball quickly — those skills are real, and even if you want to limit the idea of raw talent to physical attributes, the all-time greats usually have more of the intangibles than they do of physical attributes.