Week 10 NFL Game Thread

Mystic Merlin

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They seem a bit too comfortable turtling at this point in the field. It’s not like they have prime Justin Tucker.

Super odd to kick on third down with four seconds left. A fumbled snap would end the game.
 

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That miss to Dell was ballgame. Texans just didn’t know it yet.

This Lions team is so fun.
 

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That's a good line by Collinsworth - "they're lucky the Texans didn't put an extra coat of paint on the uprights."
 

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Big win for the Lions with Mac coming to town next week. Lions will probably be double digit home dogs in that one.
 

Mystic Merlin

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I’m rooting hard for them this season. Know a few old timers would be overjoyed if they won it all.
Great, underrated fanbase. They’re not a national team by any means, but they’re out there up through the Northeast dutifully pulling for that club, year in year out.

Feel good team of the past few years.
 

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Being a Chiefs fan right now means being confident you're going to win no matter who you're playing, where, when, or how much you're down by as long as there are enough plays to be made. It's a literal feeling of God mode. We once felt that way, though to be fair, we rarely were this bad offensively. I want to say this team is due, but there is no 7-0 Peyton-led team coming for them.
 

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Being a Chiefs fan right now means being confident you're going to win no matter who you're playing, where, when, or how much you're down by as long as there are enough plays to be made. It's a literal feeling of God mode. We once felt that way, though to be fair, we rarely were this bad offensively. I want to say this team is due, but there is no 7-0 Peyton-led team coming for them.
It's unbelievable, they are 9-0 with the 9th best point differential in the league.
 

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It’s a bit reminiscent of that Steelers team from 2020. Obviously Mahomes is incomparably better than that diminished version of Roethlisberger, but they got to 11-0 on the backs of an unsustainably point diff before falling apart.
 

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I don't care to look at DVOA stuff anymore, but the Chiefs definitely aren't doing anything particulary impressive or historical. Teams just simply fail to beat them. Chiefs@Bills next week seems like a monster game but if the league feels scripted this will go the way we think it goes.

When the Pats were this dominant they crushed weak opponents and beat the strong ones in ways that let the league know they were superior to everybody.

The Chiefs don't feel superior to everybody but there's an aura about them the Pats never had. People like the Chiefs and root for them to continue trucking opponents. After 07 the Pats were on their own.
 

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Why are you trading away Drake Maye to the Bengals??? I mean, sure, we could use some salary relief.

The Bengals offense plays to the level of the competition. The D does not have another gear, unless it is even slower. I would love to see #85 on the field for two consecutive weeks.
i was thinking more like jamarr chase to the pats
 

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I’m rooting hard for them this season. Know a few old timers would be overjoyed if they won it all.
Me for one. I go back to watching the Brownies in the late ‘40s on the Dumont network, before they foisted the Giants and Chris Schenkel on us.. Go Lions!
 

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Wait, you were watching football in the late 40s? Hell, go, @Otis Foster!
I was actually a Pittsburgh Steeler fan before the Patriots were even a gleam in Billy Sullivan‘s eyes. The reason was that the other otherwise miserable, Steelers, whacked the insufferable Giants 63-7 and finally stifled schenkel, at least for a little while.

Over 75 years, I’ve accumulated any number of sports vendettas, mostly involving New York teams.
 

Mystic Merlin

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What on earth was that rush by Verse on the scramble and throw to Waddle?

No wonder he’s got so many pressures, he must just cut loose on passing downs without any regard for gap discipline.
 

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It's amazing how different Miami looks with competent QB play. They're flying around all over the field on defense (not that the QB should impact that, but still) and the offense made a bunch of plays. They look very dangerous, when they didn't look like they could beat the Little Sisters of the Poor without Tua.
 

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It's amazing how different Miami looks with competent QB play. They're flying around all over the field on defense (not that the QB should impact that, but still) and the offense made a bunch of plays. They look very dangerous, when they didn't look like they could beat the Little Sisters of the Poor without Tua.
McDaniel honestly should have to answer a lot more for this than he has. It’s not like Tua’s injury problems just appeared. I mean, is there no other QB available who can run his system at an even mediocre level?