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    The future of the AFC is KC, Cleveland... and Buffalo!

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    16 hours ago, TheFunPolice said:

    Yup. The Dynasty might be "Not Done!" but this was it for them. Hubris will bring Brady back next year (and hopefully more) which will serve was a nice catharsis for us as the Bills regularly beat them with Brady still on the field. Doesn't erase his titles, but it eases the pain a bit AND creates a few "passing of the torch moments" in the AFC overall and the AFC East. A nice ugly situation where the Patriots practically force Brady to retire OR end up benching him midseason to "protect him" would be fantastic but might be asking too much. Either way, he is nowhere near the same QB. They won this year by running the ball and Dee Ford lining up 6 inches Offside.  

     

    So who takes over in the AFC going forward?

     

    You need a great coach + a great QB. In my view, the AFC has ONE of these combos outside of Brady and Belichick. Reid and Mahomes.

     

    One pair is #ALMOSTDONE! and the other is #JUSTGETTINGSTARTED!

     

    My predictions: KC becomes the big dog, Cleveland and Indy become the perennial winners who can't close the deal most years but get a SB trip or two, and the Bills become that mean, nasty, tough team that you do NOT want to see in the playoffs and win 1-2 Super Bowls in between Mahomes and KC winning!

     

    Here are my future outlooks for all AFC teams:

     

    AFC East

     

    NE: #DONE! or at least # ALMOSTDONE!

    NJ: a possible threat but Gase is a nut who has authority issues

    MIA: nowhere

    BUF: the new 2000's Ravens... tough, good defense, nobody wants to see them in the playoffs but not flashy

     

    AFC North

     

    CIN: LOL... I predict misery... they will be the 2000's Bills

    PIT: Still good, and might get another SB berth but falling apart due to locker room/off field issues. Plus, Ben is getting old.

    BAL: Not sold on Jackson and fully expect them to be 6-10 or worse this year before imploding

    CLE: I know it's Cleveland but NE was NE before they became NE (if that makes sense). Loaded roster, great young QB, good coaching, good GM. Wild card is an awful owner.

     

    AFC South

     

    Indy: Luck is decent and I love Reich. They are going to win games every year. But when it's cold Luck looks miserable. Division round fodder for KC, CLE and BUF!

    Hou: the ultimate "meh" team with fading stars on defense. I like Watson, but I feel like the roster's window is closing. Could be a current Seattle like team that goes 10-6 and goes nowhere.

    Jax: LOL.. implosion incoming

    Ten: another "meh" team. Mariotta is mediocre, which is just good enough to get people fired for not replacing him.

     

    AFC West

     

    KC: On track to make people sick of them in 10 years. Reid could easily coach another decade if he stays healthy, and Mahomes is great. QB/HC combo of the AFC

    LA: Rivers is on his last legs and always chokes in the playoffs anyway. They'll be another divisional round fodder team for a couple more seasons before the wheels fall off.

    Oak/LV: A mess, but they have a ton of picks. No idea.

    Den: Just another team... nothing jumps out about them as great, and the defensive players are not getting any younger.

     

    When you look at the landscape of the AFC it is stark overall, which is part of how NE goes to the bowl every year, especially now that Manning is gone. But the torch will be passed, then what?

     

    Luck

    Mahomes

    Watson

    Allen

    Darnold

    Big Ben

    Rivers

    Mayfield

     

    Those are your AFC QBs of note, with Big Ben and Rivers being on their way out as well. KC missed ring #1 this year, but they aren't going anywhere. One of these (Mahomes/Reid) is head and shoulders above all of the others.

     

     

     

    Kansas City missed ring #2

    They won super bowl IV

    vs Minnesota 

     

     

    Most Boring Super Bowl Ever?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    I only saw about 10 minutes real time of the third quarter. Wasn’t interested at all. It was 3-3 and you could see at that point the pats would put together one drive good enough to score and win the game.

    I love watching defensive battles. Probably would have been entertained but as I said before, uninterested in watching the patriots, random shots of their owner with Bon Jovi, and announcers raving about Brady Belichick and Gilmore.

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    Share Your Super Bowl 53 Predictions

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted · Edited by nickrage

    7 hours ago, frostbitmic said:

    No way the league allows Brady to lose two in a row and tie Jim Kelly on the list of most Super Bowl losses by a QB... Easiest bet ever is the patriots straight up.

     

    As I see it ... The Sacrificial Rams will go into the 4th quarter with a 30-14 lead ... The patriots will score 10 unanswered points down the stretch.

     

    In the last three or four minutes left in the game, the patriots march down the field, helped by questionable defensive PI and questionable roughing the passer penalties, both on 3rd down that the patriots didn't convert. With less than a minute to go, Brady throws the ball to Gronkowski in the end zone . Gronkowski blatantly knocks the defender down in an obvious offensive PI but it's not called, TD Gronkowski, patriots up 31-30.

     

    Sacrificial Rams return the ensuing kickoff into patriot territory but it's brought back on a phantom block in the back penalty. Two plays and two offensive penalties later the clock runs out.

     

    31-30 patriots.

    Goodell couldn’t have scripted it better himself

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    Canned crowd noise

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    I spoke with someone who attended a game in Seattle, when the topic of crowd noise came up his response was "it's different. It's fricken loud, but there's Something weird about it."

    Basically said either the design amplified it or it was speakers. He said at times the sound seemed to be coming from above or behind

    Atmosphere at last nights game

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    That stadium looks awesome under the lights. Crowd looked and sounded pumped.

    At one point I could barely hear Murph and Kelso. If we could get some consistant winning records for this team to deserve more of these games No team would want to play there in primetime. Any hint of an offense wins last night. 

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