I asked my brother about this last night (he works for ESPN). He said with the weeks they have had multiple MNF games, they are experimenting with different start times to see what draws the most combined ratings. I think he said the first week they had 2 games they started them an hour apart, then the second week they did the same but flipped the networks (so if the ABC game started an hour earlier the first week, the ESPN game started an hour earlier the second week).
I like Mahomes and understand why he was upset, but it is graceless to complain about how the officiating cost your team the game in the ears of the other team's QB as you are congratulating them! Why bother congratulating your opponent if all you have to offer them is "we wuz robbed!"
The AFC playoffs are going to be super interesting. I agree that it feels like KC will get there despite it being a "down" year. If 2 of KC, Miami, and Baltimore make the AFCCG it should be a great game.
I agree with a lot of this, but they are going to have to go on the road this year, and that might make a difference.
I think the receiver has to "ask" the ref (that thing we see almost every play where they point at the line judge) and then they will let them know. If Toney didn't do that, that's 100% on him.
Yep. Philly was the gritty “know how to win” team. But that’s typically code for “you’re getting pretty lucky winning a ton of close games and the chickens are gonna come home to roost at some point”…last two weeks have had the chickens coming home to roost for Philly.
Agreed. The Bills could legitimately beat any team if Allen brings his A game…they’d be super dangerous if they can find a way in.
I don't think that's true. I mean they are definitely better than even last year because Pacheco has improved.
Yep - Pacheco is great (though he kind of ascended there during the playoff run) and I think McKinnon is still the same player he was last year, just has been underutilized to this point. The sweet irony in discussing their offensive woes on this board is that they really miss Juju (though I think his struggles this year are health/being cooked as much as they are Patriot QBs, so I'm not sure the '23 version helps).
Philly as front runners? They had a big comeback against Buffalo. They were down against Dallas and came back to win their first matchup. They were down 24-17 in the fourth quarter against Washington and came back to win that game. They were tied against Miami in the third quarter before putting them away. They were tooth and nail with Washington in their first game and it went to OT and Philly pulled that one out.
You may be right.. i have Pacheco on two fantasy teams so I watch him every week and he’s been hit or miss.. and I thought he’s had better receiving RBs but I’ll have to look. Their RBs aren’t asked to do as much because Mahomes is such sn effective weapon running.
I can see a scenario where that wouldn’t be the case.. how about if an offensive side needed to waste a few seconds and just lined up their entire receiving core majorly offsides.. would play be stopped for illegal formation? Or would the play still run? It would be a scenario that nobody has seen so im not sure what would happen.. I’m probably missing something…but it feels like it could be used somehow that would help the offense.
Yup. Toney deserves 0 benefit of the doubt. The guy has all of the talent in the world but has a 10 cent head (although that may be too generous honestly)
That point doesn't get discussed enough in this whole thing. How many mental mistakes/ unforced errors had he made this season alone?
It's fun to root against Mahomes but aside from his sideline tiptoeing I've never had any real issue with how he carries or conducts himself. The guy is an awesome player. He let his emotions fly yesterday, and hopefully cools off now. He's going through adversity this year. The flaws make these guys interesting.
He is a young Farve, great arm talent, but also knows it so he tries to make throws he should not.
Come on. Now people are losing their minds.
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They don't need stud WRs, they need professionals instead of guys they added for physical traits who can't catch or run routes. They did just fine with the Juju's of the world. They swung for trying to find a new Tyreek Hill a couple times and got a bunch of Tyquan Thorntons.
Farve is like a top 10 QB of all time. Getting compared to him is not a major insult.
Really? I’ve always liked him, but that bratty meltdown was pathetic. Who was he having to be held back from?? The refs?? So stupid. He didn’t react that badly when the play was called back, only when they lost. Honestly seems he’s having a hard time dealing with the adversity every other team has had to deal with so lol boo hoo, hope the refs call every ticky tack cs they can against them now.
Tom Brady is the best. He will always be the best. Watching him gave me more joy than any athlete in my life. It will never be better.
This is quite a zag.
Re: Bolded….it was mentioned once further up but it seems in a lot of the discussion nationally about this game, it has kind of been glossed over that Allen would’ve had like 1:15 and all 3 time outs left to try and either tie or win it in regulation. Not exactly a Mount Everest task when you have Allen’s talent and know you have 4 downs to play with it.
I mean, kinda, yeah. I used to love it when Brady got all pissed off too, and not just because he was our guy.
He's the anti-Rodgers and Roethlisberger in this regard. Although Rodgers tended to publicly shit on his WR as a group and not individually.
I know man. It's slightly depressing knowing that I'll never experience anything close to that again, but man did that era happen at a mostly perfect time in my life where I could dedicate a ton of energy and attention to the team. I will forever be grateful and remember those times.
Yep. That was the Golden Era, right there. We could go through all the numbers again and they'd still be as staggering as ever, but the real point is that it was an absolute joy to be a Pats fan then.
I would have loved to see Josh Allen's face when he said that. If Allen didn't visibly react, I would never want to play poker against that guy. If Mahomes had said it to me, I wouldn't have resisted laughing in his face.
Reid kind of pulled back on his comments today, which doesn’t surprise me because he’s a great coach who knows he can’t be perceived as memorializing excuses for mistakes the team makes. But it’s the second time he’s lit up the officials for calling clear penalties under some philosophy that the officials should be proactively warning a player about the alignment penalty before throwing a flag. Utter nonsense.
