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Mahomes is all in on winning. I really don't know why there is so much bitching going on in this thread.
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Great! Every player should have this goal and this attitude!
Of course, Andy has to temper this enthusiasm with decisions that are best for the team overall, which means resting starters if/when the postseason schedule is decided in order to win championships. |
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To be on UK's level, they need one more title in the past 40 years... UNC, +2... Duke, +3. Sure, one or two more titles in my lifetime would have been great, but they also don't have seasons that end in the NIT or worse like the other 3 teams mentioned (and sure, their fans don't care because they have the extra titles). Quote:
OTOH, the Chiefs were literally talking about how they just wanted to fast forward to the postseason all of last year, how they were opening the playbook in January, etc. In the past couple of seasons, if you said "take the Chiefs or the field", most people would probably take the Chiefs... just like for most of 20 seasons, you would take the Patriots over the field. I don't think that's really true for CBB, outside of say Kentucky's 2012 pre-NBA team. |
Bottom line is that Patrick Mahomes doesn't like to lose! What else would you expect out of him after that horrible loss to the Buccaneers in the Superbowl? He has to have a sour taste in his mouth and the only cure for that is to go out and destroy every opponent in his way to another Superbowl victory! I wouldn't expect any other response from him, let's sit back and enjoy the ride!
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To act like only KU fans appreciate the achievement is ridiculous. In fact, I probably appreciate it less than a lot of national analysts because it got boring and expected about halfway through. Bilas and others have called it one of the great achievements in sports history. When Virginia beat Texas Tech, did you hear anyone call it one of the great achievements in sports history? |
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This thread should be in hall of craptastics. Awful. |
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That winning titles in sports is more memorable and important than even rare and cool and notable regular season accomplishments. The conversation WAS about weighing which was more memorable/important - an undefeated regular season that doesn't end with a Super Bowl win, or a 5-loss regular season that does end with a Super Bowl win. That's the context my original comment dropped into. Unless you're a ku fan. As several of them (you?) have shown in this thread. What's more impressive on the national landscape: North Carolina winning 3 national titles (and 9 conference titles, with a long "streak" of 3 years) since Williams and Self got there? Or kansas winning 1 but pulling off the 14* year title streak? Which baseball team is considered to have been better this century - the Braves with all their division titles and long division title streak, or the Giants with their World Series wins? End point: Focus on the winning the Super Bowl. If they can add some cool trivia items along the way, awesome. But regular season accomplishments are distantly secondary to postseason ones. |
What's more impressive, KU winning 14 conference championships and one title
Or Mizzou fans winning absolutely nothing but commenting on KU the entire time desperately trying to undersell their success meanwhile trying to convince us that wrestling is important |
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This seems to keep morphing into different arguments. If you want to say it's more memorable to win one natty vs 14 straight Big 12 titles, that's a matter of personal opinion. But I'm not sure how you can say it's a more impressive feat to win six games in one postseason than to dominate one of the top leagues for 14 years straight. Come on. Again...national analysts have called that streak one of the greatest achievements in sports history. No one has said that winning one single title is one of the greatest achievements in sports history. There wasn't another team in the country who was consistently good enough during those years to have matched what they did. Even Duke had a few down years during that run. It's just silly to me to downplay something that no other program could have achieved. But enough on that. And yeah, it's lunacy to argue that any season that ends in a loss is better than one that ends with a SB victory. |
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"More memorable" can easily be championship or not and it's highly subjective. I watched "40-16" KU/UNC in the Final Four with my dad in KC, which was more memorable than DVR'ing the NC game against Memphis due to work and then watching it alone in my apartment in Omaha. One of my absolute favorites was beating Duke and that douchebag Grayson Allen in the Final Four.... or there's the relatively unexpected run of 2012... or way back to the vastly underrated KU/Texas rivalry. And for the Chiefs, the 2018 AFCCG ranks right up there with the past two in terms of being memorable, even though of course neither compare to the SB comeback. But then the argument changes to importance/impressive on the national landscape..... yeah, don't care at all what ESPN thinks. They once ranked a horse as one of the top athletes of all time. And then 'better this century'... of course, most people will look at titles first. And that conversation isn't black and white, IMO... the Chiefs could go undefeated in the regular season (meh), then beat the Raiders and then a 52 year old Tom Brady playing for the Broncos in the playoffs, then lose in overtime in a 45-44 on a last second field goal. ....or they could go 12-5 and beat a couple of shit teams in the playoffs, then some unmemorable AFCCG, and some Patriots/Rams type of boring ass SB that would only have any entertainment value at all because the Chiefs were playing in it. But yeah, most people would still look back on one with negativity for not closing the deal in the much more memorable season, and positively that at least they won a SB in a year where they might not have deserved one... guess I'd go back to saying enjoy the ride. :shrug: |
Adam Teicher... LMAO
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They talked about this on 810 today. Evidently, Mahomes was specifically asked about going undefeated- and now the hacks in the media are trying to make it like he is arrogant.
How many times will they keep repeating that the Chiefs lost the SB? |
You only build 'em up to tear 'em down. Sweat sucks
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Not sure of the odds but I am guessing there are a few teams with equal odds as the chiefs in going 20-0. I am getting a bit nervous about the Dolts right now. On paper they are getting lethal....if their coaching is decent, they are contenders for this division right now. Yes I know there are idiotic fans that say they are going to be good every year but this year feels a bit different to me. Hope I am wrong.
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