After a decade of failed predictions, you may have finally got one correct. All it took was for the scheduling to align. If the AFC West had drawn the NFC North...both the Chargers/Donks would be fighting for their post-season lives.

There is a direct correlation between the AFCW having 3 potential play-off teams and the NFC South not having a single team with a winning record.

The NFC South in not only inpet but the Donks played two of the teams running out a MASH unit the week they played.

Couple that with Tua's injury and Bengals defensive collapse..you have a magical, uncontested path for the Donks.

All of these factors are leading to the Donks being over-hyped...we all saw what their defense is against the Chargers/Ravens/Browns. They are improved but feasting on bad/wounded teams to pad their stats.

They are an average team in a perfect storm scenario...next year is a regression to the mean. They beat the bad teams on their 3rd place schedule...but timing/injuries fell in their lap.

I hope your team sends the Jets kicker some flowers...those 2 misses in the final 2 minutes are why they might back-door into the post season.
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7 teams now get in, rather than 6, which really helps fringe teams.
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Yeah..it's a horrible arrangement based off greed.

7th seeds are 1-7 since it began...
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Are we finally going to have an interesting rivalry again? I thought my son was going to be born and graduate before I cared again.
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COWARD. TRAITOR. LOSER.
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Congrats to Bronco fans. Nix looks like a competent QB. Pretty impressive really considering he is a rookie. I think the rivalry is back on.
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They’ll be the Alex Smith Chiefs at best until it comes time to pay Nix. He’s in that Goff, Tua, Purdy realm where he’s got good coaching and good enough talent situation boosting him up but it won’t last forever.
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Burrow's a fraud, but he's scared of Nix. Lol
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That's true. I saw a graphic the other day showing Pat's stats since DHop was brought in, and it's significantly better, especially the TD/INT ratio. It's like 8-1 or something like that.


However, he has thrown some questionable balls since DHop arrived, they just didn't turn into INTs. Or they sailed out of bounds or whatever.
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There's a pretty realistic scenario that has Denver going to Buffalo in the wildcard round. Win-win for KC. Either the Broncos get sent packing or they eliminate the Chiefs' top competition. I actually think they match up pretty well with the Bills.

Also a good chance KC draws the Texans in the divisional, with Baltimore and Pittsburgh softening each other up.

I'm all for hosting Denver in this year's Arrowhead Invitational. Go Donk!
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Nix may be ok but he may not. You gotta be consistent and good each year to be considered franchise. One year means nothing.
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Half of Mahomes' INTs this year were bad luck. Balls tipped up by a fatty, receiver falling down, etc. His INT rate was bound to come down, which it usually does late in the year anyway.
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That's quite a step up from what people here said he'd be.
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They cant reap the benefit of a cheap rookie contract...have a lot of pending FAs.

Also the draw of playing in the same division as Mahomes/Reid cant be appealing to anyone other than paycheck collectors.

They will have to over-pay any top FA to come there...that's why the further they drop in the draft, the better. It's their only outlet for improvement...
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I would be imagine being given a chance to actually beat Mahomes/Reid counteracts that a bit.
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