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Imagine Allen with this SF defense.

What a nifty play call. Makes me think about how we ran ZERO “trick” plays this year. Unless there is some play im forgetting.

Only a few picks from us.

McDuffie is so good. Ugh.

This is who he was in the Chiefs playoff game. He was taking the underneath passes most of the game and took his shots when the defense gave him an opportunity. He was 2020 Josh. .

ALL of the past two decades of Super Bowls have been top 5 at the time.

Causation = / = correlation. Super Bowl's become more popular over time in general. We saw increased viewership from 1966 until 2016. The NFL is doing a great job of marketing it every year. However, starting in 2016, numbers actually started to decrease. One thing I will say is that I didnt consider the Swift angle too much when I made my original post, or I wouldn't have made it. Her fans may make the difference and put it over the edge. I was simply talking from an NFL fan perspective. This is not accurate. Last years Super Bowl had an all-platform viewership of 115.1M. The most watcher Super Bowl ever had over 126M. The second most watched had 119M. The third most watched had 118.5M. The fourth most watched had 115.8M. Last years Super Bowl wasn't in the top 4. You can see the rankings here. The reason you think it was the most watched telecast ever is because you fell for the clickbait Nielsen advertisement where they said that. However, what they didn't tell you is that they didn't start accounting for out-of-home streaming until 2021. So the 2022 Super Bowl was the most watched telecast of their new rating metric.... that came out in 2021. So, it was the most watched of 2021 or 2022.

Coaching is DEFINITELY a limiting factor in the Bills-Chiefs equation. Swap the Chiefs and Bills coaching staff in 2021 and the Bills are in the Super Bowl. The sad part is you could make the same argument for the early 90’s Bills teams. Swap Levy’s staff with our Super Bowl opponents and we have at least 2 Lombardi’s.

For one, we have beaten them two of the last three games. We should have beaten them 3 of the last 4, if not for some very poor coaching decisions. That doesn’t happen with a team (talent wise) that is better than you. If the argument is really that we are not their equal after 4 offseasons of trying, then Beane needs to go (I don’t agree with that argument). Those really good young players you talk about on their defense we’re all added in the last 2 offseasons. And we are talking about a Chiefs offense that was so bad at times this season that Chiefs fans didn’t think they would make it out of wild card round.

Perhaps you’re right about this. I’m coming at it from an NFL fan perspective but that’s a wrinkle.

But we ARE as good as them (talent wise). That’s the part that kills me. We have beaten them two seasons in a row. Poor coaching killed us in 13 seconds. And injuries decimated us this year. Last year we didn’t even get bounced by the Chiefs - we got beaten (badly) by the Bengals. The only year KC was truly better than us was 2020.

Tyrod played 3 less games. Edit: 2 less, since Lamar sat the last game of 2023.

Tyrod was SO close! Just a few hundred yards and 4 TD’s.

KC isn’t popular. They are the most disliked team in the league, according to a survey conducted two weeks ago.

I’ve been wrong before so it wouldn’t be the first time if i’m wrong here. But the “X market is large” doesn’t work for Super Bowls. Because those markets tend to watch whether their team is in the game or not. I’m going to guess 110M average (not peak).

I won't be shocked if this Super Bowl has (relatively) very low numbers. NFL fans have Chiefs fatigue, and their opponent has 5 Lombardi trophies themselves (and was in a Super Bowl just a few years ago) These may be the two worst possible teams to have in this game, from an interest perspective. I honestly think Bills-Lions would have drawn record viewership because of how different/new it would have been. I'll watch, because its the last NFL football we will have for 7 months, but I won't be all that interested in anything other than the Chiefs hopefully losing.

This sounds so stupid that I could see the Texans doing it. Really poorly run franchise.

QB2 even. I see flashes in Wilson. Not starter flashes, but he can be a backup for sure.

I have a feeling the Bills think Shorter is pretty raw, so they stashed him on IR.

Yep. And it’s stupid. The voters have changed the meaning of Most Valuable Player.

3-2. Playoff losses don’t count in MVP voting. Unless you’re playing the semantics game where you don’t count the Denver game because Lamar played the first 4 snaps before Huntley played the final 62 snaps.

Words mean something. And it meant Most Valuable for 60 years of NFL history, before the talking heads took over voting. Before the last 10 years, it truly was a value award. Favre won it 3 times with 18+ turnovers and once with 21 turnovers, because he was the simm most VALUABLE. Not most consistent. Esiason won it with 18 turnovers. Montana won it with 18 turnovers. Again, it used to be most valuable. Now it’s most consistent - apparently. Which is not the same thing. 3-2 last season. Not 2-3.

But is it the Most Consistent Award or Most Valuable? It’s valuable - so why do we keep changing what words mean? Thats more a question for the voters than you. No player is more valuable to their team than Allen. None. Mahomes left the AFFCCG last year with an injury and his backup led a 99 yard TD drive the very next drive. And Tyler Huntley won 3 of the 5 games he played for the Ravens last year when Lamar was faking his injury. And Jake Browning went on a tear with the Burrow-less Browns. The Bills would implode without Allen.

More than that, right? I think something like 4 or 5 of the winners from 2008 to 2020 were not the 1 seed if I recall correctly.

Brett Favre also won it 3 years in a row with 21 turnovers, 19 turnovers, and 22 turnovers. Every one of those years, he had less TD’s than Allen had this year. And while winning only 11 games one of those years.