Chaos

its 2025. If the technology allows better officiating why not use it. There are seven officials on the field. Why can't the eye in the sky just be the eighth official and throw flags during the play, and if need be overruing other refs after the play. Why wait until after the play only, and for some penalties only?

Stroud impressed last year. And was solid yesterday against the Chiefs (more yards, no turnovers, two very good WRs injured, fewer zebras on his team) He regressed when Nico Collins got hurt. I think Daniels has been more impressive, and Stroud never had a tour de force game like Daniels did yesterday.

Burrows misses too much time. Availability is an important factor. Allen-Mahomes-Jackson-Daniels are the current top 4. (Eagles fans probalby put Hurts ahead of Burrows too)

Burrows during his career has lacked the ability to be on the field consistently. His talent is so great, that lift him above most. Daniels is the real deal. He is as cool in the pocket as Joe Burrows. He is doing what he is doing without the benifit of any super star weapons on his offense. I am not sure if you are saying Josh decided to just "huck it deep" or if you are saying he didn't run, because he is told not run.

Josh being free doesn't mean not running. Josh has a natural rhythm where he is at his optimal level. Changing that rhythm to protect the defense leads to a sub-optimal performance on the offensive side of the ball. And it won't likely stop Derrick Henry.

Daniels has passed Burrows into the top 4 among NFL QBs.

D needs to have its big boy pants on today.

Disagree. Don't play the Raven's game. Henry led rushing attack > Bills rushing attack. Let Josh free to be, and score on every drive. That is the key.

Does anyone know if the refs are betting on the Bills or betting on the Raven's tomorrow?

I hate the Houston Texans. But I hate the Chiefs more.

I hope he stays quiet and lets Josh be Josh.

so many serious responses.

Who is your second favorite team?

All the players and coaches are temps in the NFL. No player or coach expects any other player or coach to deprioritize their careers for the greater good. There is no message sent or received by this activity.

Free bird needs to be made a stadium song that plays whenever Josh makes a Josh play.

Here's the thing. Only two teams go into the playoffs with the two best QBs in the league each year. One of them keeps winning super bowls. The other one does not advance past the divisional round. Pretending, that losing with rookie Bo Nix is the same as a losing with Josh Allen (ie, .500 is good enough in the playoffs) is silly.

I think the coach is more important than the QB. Top coaches have won super bowls with less than elite QBs nor often than elite QBs have won with less than elite coaches.

very odd that your comment seems to have been posted nine minutes before mine, but did not appear until after my most recent comment.

I am surprised, that no one has really challenged the equal breakdown among the three pieces of HC QB and Everything else. The people who are confident Defense makes Champions, or everything has to first be built out from the trenches might want to disagree. My bias was QB was more important than head coach previously. But among the rarefied group of multiple Super Bowl winning head coaches, several did it with less than elite QBs, and with more than one QB. Only two QBs won super bowls with more than one Head Coach, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. I now lean towards thinking coaching is the most important. Obviously the mix of QB and Everything else can be radically different. The 1985 bears would make a case for busting the limit and getting a 50 on "everything else" with a 25 QB and a 30 Coach.

If the goal is to get to and win the super bowl the Rams/McVays wide gamut strategy seems more effective than building to be consistently above average without the ability to hit the highest peaks.

I just established 2023 Chiefs as 100 to pivot around. three parts, 33,33,34 =100, then adjusted the components leaving Reid, elevating Mahomes, lowering everything else. Since the 2023 Chiefs were not the greatest super bowl winner ever, their needs to be room to grow. I arbitrarily picked 120 as the point to grow two, and then divided it equally to say 40 is the peak. I believe you.

Playoff history suggests Lamar and Allen are quite different. I ranked Lamar very high based on 2024 regular season results. I think the perception of Lamar is higher because of the supporting cast, in particular Derrick Henry. With all due respect to James Cook who had a great season. Coaches are not worrying nearly as much about defending him as Henry. Everything else as I mentioned, includes home field advantage for the playoffs. That favors the Bills. And overall I think the Bills roster is not that far behind the Ravens. I don't put much stock in pro bowl selections. Ravens defense has holes too. How would you score the Ravens vs the Bills. Yes that is why I closed the original post mentioning past is not prologue, and taking specifically into account the possibility of playoff Mahomes.

It ridiculous hard to win a super bowl. Since 1966 there have been 314 Head coaches in the NFL. Only 35 have won a Super Bowl. Five Head coaches have won a full 1/3 of all Super Bowls between them. 14 have won almost 2/3s. Winning CoachWinsRunning Total Similar Story for QBs: In my opinion everyone on the HC list above, except Siefert (who inherited Walsh's team and system) demonstrated coaching greatness during the careers. That is not quite as obvious on the QB list. Griese, Eli Manning, and Plunkett would all be sort of forgetable other than their Super Bowl wins. Notwithstanding statistics, the rest of the QBs on the list demonstrated greatness.

Its 2025, and there is still no prompt for spelling errors. Which does lead to humor

Thats not the correct conclusion. The correct conclusion is that this years super bowl team will be flawed compared to last years winner. Separately, the team that wins, will demonstrate some elevation of one of the components over the last three games.