The mighty Bills from Buffalo will take the AFC this year.
For two decades I watched people say the Patriots window was closed, that their time was dwindling, that it was all over… seemingly every time those predictions happened, the Patriots went and won another Super Bowl.
A lot of doom talk simply because we lost to the Bengals in the playoffs. Let us not forget that the Bills watched their brother DIE on the field just a few weeks prior. Their heart was simply not in it. If it had been, the Bills would have captured the AFC last year.
The Bills have won 2 of their last 3 in Arrowhead and they’re ready to make it 3 of the last 4.
Originally Posted by Bob Dole:
As someone who was heartbroken by his team for 50 years, I guess I’m numb to their pain.
Yeah, sorry for their pain and we have inflicted some more pain on then recently.
But, we went 50 years without a SB. We had so many painful playoff losses. We all shared those on here. We earned our fan happiness.:-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
Yeah, sorry for their pain and we have inflicted some more pain on then recently.
But, we went 50 years without a SB. We had so many painful playoff losses. We all shared those on here. We earned our fan happiness.:-)
Yeah, I don't really care if they've suffered as a fan base or not. The NFL is not set up to let everyone win the championship on a rotating basis. It is a competition and those who fail don't get to celebrate. If you don't like it, get better at the game of football.
Buffalo has seen their team advance to the Super Bowl 4 times. That is unbelievable success to fans of the Lions, Jaguars, Texans, and Browns who have never seen their team advance to the championship game. Shouldn't they get 4 Super Bowl appearances each before Buffalo gets to go again?
Nobody likes losing. Losing a competition that you desperately want to win is supposed to spur you to improve yourself, or yourselves, to be better. "What did I/we do wrong? How can I/we improve and win the next time?" These are the questions and the answers are important. If you don't come up with the answers, or fail to ask the questions, you put yourself in position to experience the same pain next year. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
Yeah, sorry for their pain and we have inflicted some more pain on then recently.
But, we went 50 years without a SB. We had so many painful playoff losses. We all shared those on here. We earned our fan happiness.:-)
It has taken the greatness of Mahomes to realize the difference that having a top 10 QB really is come the playoffs. I remembered a ton of those games being so close in the 90's and if not for payer X or Y we would have won those games.
I see now that was never true. Without a top QB you were never going to win those games. The other team was always going to make the play at the end, get that final score that was the difference, or just outlast you and not make the back breaking mistake. The score may have appeared close but we were never winning those games without a franchise QB.
We'll never see another D like the 85 Bears or 2000 Ravens. The NFL won't allow it. So even that rare collection of talent that comes around once every 10 years won't even happen to upset the great ones. That exception to the rule has been eliminated. The truly great QB's now dominate like T-Rex's and we have the best of the bunch. [Reply]
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I mean, if Diggs makes that catch, it's a very different game. If Chris Jones gets there a half second later, it's a different game.
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Last year was an experiment by commissioner to see if he could control who would make it to Superbowl by rigging schedule against team.
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Totally unexpected for them to be 20 yards from victory, which was amazing in itself
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And Allen is better than Mahomes - I wonder what Allen would have done vs our D that day and if Mahomes went against his.
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Its all garbage, i wish the 18 week regular season counted for a lot more as it is a better indication of who has the "dynasty". Chiefs haven't won any more games than the Bills have in the past 5 years... so which team is the "dynasty"?
Was Asshole McGee in favor of giving the perfect regular season Patriots a Lombardi because of all that hard work they did compared to the 9-7 Giants? Or did his belief about regular season importance fly out the window because fuck the Patriots?
Originally Posted by staylor26:
At least on here, people would get laughed at endlessly for takes like those.
Yeah those quotes I believe were from five different people. Those are not unique posts from that fan base.
I’ll never stop laughing at their fantasy that they just need to be healthy to win and that if they had our injury luck they’d be the dynasty. Which of course ignores we’ve had plenty of our own injuries, including to our QB in the playoffs. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tredadda:
It’s just the mental gymnastics that they need to do. Curious if KC fans were this bad once.
Definitely when it comes to rationalizing the gap between say the Alex Smith Chiefs and the true SB contenders... the "just get in and anything can happen" bullshit, being naive about playoff experience and franchise QBs.
But.... redefining dynasty to include all teams with good regular season records? Yeah, that one is new to me. :-)
The Ravens and Packers are only two wins behind, so we're currently witnessing 4 dynasties? :-)
Originally Posted by Bearcat:
Definitely when it comes to rationalizing the gap between say the Alex Smith Chiefs and the true SB contenders... the "just get in and anything can happen" bullshit, being naive about playoff experience and franchise QBs.
But.... redefining dynasty to include all teams with good regular season records? Yeah, that one is new to me. :-)
The Ravens and Packers are only two wins behind, so we're currently witnessing 4 dynasties? :-)
The maddening thing about Smith was that he truly possessed the ability to go farther. We all saw flashes of it. That perfect pass he dropped to a streaking Hill in that 2017 Pats game was magical. But then his balls would get sucked back up into his body and he'd morph into Damon Huard.
BUT..... he was a fantastic mentor to Pat, and that makes up for it. Hell, it wouldn't even bother me if the Chiefs tossed him an honorary ring at some point. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frazod:
The maddening thing about Smith was that he truly possessed the ability to go farther. We all saw flashes of it. That perfect pass he dropped to a streaking Hill in that 2017 Pats game was magical. But then his balls would get sucked back up into his body and he'd morph into Damon Huard.
BUT..... he was a fantastic mentor to Pat, and that makes up for it. Hell, it wouldn't even bother me if the Chiefs tossed him an honorary ring at some point.
no he didn't possess the ability to go farther.
winning a playoff game is the farthest that type of play gets you any more. We've seen what it takes to go farther. And that ain't it.
As far as giving the guy a participation trophy , I think it's insulting to him., the team and everyone else involved. The idea that Smith had much of anything to do with what Mahomes is , is absurd. Look at the preseason games from 2017. Mahomes showed up ready. The things mahomes dies are not anything he got from Smith.
You wanna the guy a participation trophy? LOL. why? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frazod:
The maddening thing about Smith was that he truly possessed the ability to go farther. We all saw flashes of it. That perfect pass he dropped to a streaking Hill in that 2017 Pats game was magical. But then his balls would get sucked back up into his body and he'd morph into Damon Huard.
BUT..... he was a fantastic mentor to Pat, and that makes up for it. Hell, it wouldn't even bother me if the Chiefs tossed him an honorary ring at some point.
no he didn't possess the ability to go farther.
winning a playoff game is the farthest that type of play gets you any more. We've seen what it takes to go farther. And that ain't it.
As far as giving the guy a participation trophy , I think it's insulting to him., the team and everyone else involved. The idea that Smith had much of anything to do with what Mahomes is , is absurd. Look at the preseason games from 2017. Mahomes showed up ready. The things mahomes does are not anything he got from Smith.
You wanna the guy a participation trophy? LOL. why? [Reply]
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Its all garbage, i wish the 18 week regular season counted for a lot more as it is a better indication of who has the "dynasty". Chiefs haven't won any more games than the Bills have in the past 5 years... so which team is the "dynasty"?
