At Ravens and then at Chiefs. Likely 5-5 after those games, but who knows. You could put the season stats for Nix and Mahomes side by side and barely tell the difference. Still, Denver very likely isn’t winning at KC.
At 5-5, it’s home vs Falcons… should be a loss, but they’re not consistent either.
Then on the road vs Raiders… best shot at snapping the streak.
Then home games vs the Browns and Colts.
Should win 2, wouldn’t be shocked with 3 wins if those 4… would 8-6.
Then it’s at the Chargers, Bengals and home vs KC.
They will win one of those and get to the 9 win mark that I projected for them.
If Denver enters the final 3 games at 8-6, I think they’ll win 10 games.
You are going to start facing functional teams that will spy Nix and take away the run game...Spags 100% will force him to beat man coverage.
You guys have been extremely fortunate to face almost exclusively bottom-tier/injured offenses. Your defensive rankings are wildly exaggerated...as would be the case if you had only faced top 10 offenses. Your team could easily be 2-5 if the same schedule has been ordered differently...
The win against the Bucs was the only one worth mentioning...but it was also in the 2nd week.
I have you at 7 wins...8 tops. Raiders, Panthers and potentially Browns....all three on back-up QBs (again).
I'm not sure what about the Chargers game would give you any confidence in beating them...they were up 23-0 to start the 4th and went into auto-pilot. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BlackOp:
You are going to start facing functional teams that will spy Nix and take away the run game...Spags 100% will force him to beat man coverage.
You guys have been extremely fortunate to face almost exclusively bottom-tier/injured offenses. Your defensive rankings are wildly exaggerated...as would be the case if you had only faced top 10 offenses. Your team could easily be 2-5 if the same schedule has been ordered differently...
The win against the Bucs was the only one worth mentioning...but it was also in the 2nd week.
I have you at 7 wins...8 tops. Raiders, Panthers and potentially Browns.
I'm not sure what about the Chargers game would give you any confidence in beating them...they were up 23-0 to start the 4th and went into auto-pilot.
They beat the Bucs on the road in week 3. And yeah, results would be different had they opened up against the tough teams like Baltimore.
It is what it is and I realize that, I’m certainly not expecting greatness and they haven’t turned it around. They have a lot of work to do. [Reply]
Originally Posted by jjchieffan:
The crazy thing about Superbowl 55 was that they didn't have throw all of those phantom flags against our defense. The Chiefs offensive line was trash. The Chiefs never had a chance with 4 backups started on the line for that game. SMH
Ohhhh I dunno about that. That uncatchable PI TD right before half was a back breaker. [Reply]
Originally Posted by brdempsey69:
While we're at it, perhaps you can explain to us what merits does Donks owner Pat Bowlen have to be inducted into the HOF? Would did he ever do -- other than maybe win a game of tiddlywinks playing against his Aunt Fannie? He never played a down in the NFL or did anything at all (except cheat & violate the salary cap and then lie to the public about it).
"Tiddlywinks," really?
Not much on history, eh Dempsey? Well, if you poll the owners on which owner meant the most to the game in the last, say, 30 years, Pat would win.
Pat Bowlen was the TV Committee chairman in 1993, and along with Jerry Jones, negotiated the massive, landmark TV rights deal with Fox and CBS and I think ESPN. Rupert Murdoch came in with a huge offer, way more than they expected. Tagliabue later said it was Pat who kept them from being too shocked and over-celebrating right away, he said Pat kept them mellow enough to extracted more from the other networks. NBC had to bow out completely.
Anyway, Pat and Jerry made the owners much MUCH richer than they were before. And NFL market cities saw local TV stations swapping network affiliates for several years after. And FOX became a real network.
Oh yeah, and the NFL Network was Pat's brainchild. He marshaled it from the idea-board all the way to cable TV tiers.
Plus his team was 7-2 in AFCCGs in just 30+ years of his day-to-day control:
