The Red King

KC eliminated Miami and Buffalo. Look at how each QB played. Josh played a great game and was let down by his supporting cast on offense. Can you say the same for Tua? Guy was terrible.

That's...not what I meant by 'fixed' at all. In fact my last reply (right above your quoted reply) pretty well explained what I meant by it. In detail.

Are you aware of Diggs and the cap situation? He would cost more against the cap if we got rid of him then he'd be if he remained on the team this season.

One more time, for those in the back, 'scripted' and 'fixed' are different things. The NFL can have interest in how a game plays out and use the refs to nudge it that way. If it still doesn't go the way the want, oh well. If there is fixing, it's more "We want <x> to win, see what you can do." rather then "<x> must win at all costs!!!". That's why you hear the phrase "Yeah, we had to beat them and the refs!". Look at the two key, blatent, PI non-calls in the AFCCG for a potential example of the former. Also, consider the league may have interests beyond win/lose, such as keeping games close to retain viewers, or covering a spread. And yet again, since some people apparently can't read, I do not in any way, shape or form think the league is scripted. That would be an untenable logistical nightmare. But again, 'scripted' and 'fixed' are not the same thing.

Perfect fit for Miami. His Ds could bully and blow up bad to mid offenses, but failed against elite ones. That, and the man makes no adjustments. None. Ever. He drew up plans on dry erase boards with permanent markers. If you have a good enough O, you can break his D, and if you figure out his scheme he simply will not change it. In other words, he's perfect for a Miami team that wrecked bad to meh teams and then absolutely soiled themselves against quality opponents.

This will give McD a chance to devote his full attention to head coaching. There is a reason teams have coordinators and assistants. I'd rather have McD squarely focused on his head coaching responsibilities during a game.

The current scheduling system is a formula. Every team in a division plays the others twice each, play (the same) AFC division and same NFC division. That's 14 out of 17 games. Then they play a team from each of the remaining AFC conferences that finished in the same spot aa them. Then one game against a team from the NFC that finished in the same slot. That means the AFC West teams play the same 14 games, and the other three are stacked *against* the higher-ranked teams. KC has to come here next season because we both finished in 1st. Five of KC's seventeen games, almost a third of the season, will be against teams that finished in first place in their divisions. Meanwhile, five of the Chargers' games will be against last-place finishers. KC has a harder road to the Super Bowl going through the AFC. They beat Buffalo and Baltimore on the road. Let me ask this. In the '90s do you think any Bills fan called for realignment after Buffalo won the AFC for four concecutive years?

This. Although I'm more inclined to believe the refs are biased toward KC. The PI that wasn't called on the pic when Lamar threw into triple coverage, and the horrifically blatent PI near the end that forced the Ravens to settle for a field goal stand out. The calls on Baltimore were legit, but the refs let KC get away with murder.

They were covering for him. They were doing him a favor. He just...wow. How to torpedo your career with one social media post.

Yeah, but go check the thread. A number of posters here said they wanted KC to beat Miami. The idea being Houston had a better chance of knocking out Baltimore and giving us a home AFC Championship game. That...worked out exactly as I warned.

For everyone that wanted KC to beat Miami in the Wild Card round, this is what I warned you about. I said I wanted KC out at all costs b/c they have the postseason experience to win any game they're in.

It is. It was knocked out when he dove. Given the situation, he needed to protect the ball better.

When is the last time you said "Wow, that was brilliant coaching?", "He had that team ready.", "Yeah, he was ready for..." in regards to McD? He can keep a locker room together, he can squeeze a lot out of his players, but when it comes to gameday coaching, he's just...meh. McD is the Tyrod Taylor of coaching. Good enough to elevate bad teams, but bad enough to limit good ones.

Ravens made too many mistakes. And the refs on that non-call at the end...oof. I hate to say it, but the Chiefs are the new Pats.

Who's fault is that, though? I'm not going to hold Buffalo's inadequacies against Detroit. Buffalo wasn't cheated or robbed. The games they lost, they lost.

Seeing the Bills drop three straight Divisional Round games, the last two at home, and McD still having his job, would you have enough faith in the Bills to give them a discount?

Let Detroit win it. It makes for the unique situation of the Lions and Rams QB trade resulting in both teams winning a Super Bowl.

Obviously enough people care to make it an active thread. Why post just to say you're not? There is a simpler way. It's called hitting the back button and then never opening the thread again. If you post in a thread saying you don't care about the thread it makes you look like a fool. If you really didn't care you wouldn't have wasted the time and effort replying, would you?

We lost to a backup in SB XXV, and didn't Baltimore win a SB in 2000(?) with an average QB?

I said here I wanted to fire him into the sun. I wasn't serious. If people are actually attacking him over this...those people need to get a life. I still think he needs to go, and certainly shouders a good amount of blame for the loss, but c'mon people...

He's not the sole reason we lost, but dear lord he shoulders a chunk of the blame. He makes it, at least Mahomes has to work for it. One fluky play, a turnover, and it goes into OT. There is *no* excuse for that miss. None.

Fire Bass into the moon. Get rid of him. Cut him and run him out of town. We just pulled a Packers. Somehow, somehow, this hurts just as bad as 13 seconds. I...am...so...sick of this!

Yeah, I mistook the snowball for a flag, too. XD

The refs are making their position known early.

Feeling decent, but worried about that officiating team and our special teams, atm. Bass has been erratic, we're on our backup punter, and that ref team is calling an average of ten penalties/game on us iirc.