Tbh the Bills playoff game last year was brutal aswell. But like you said the Cincy one was hard to deal with because of everything we had to endure against them over the past year. The emotions of it all took a lot of me and like you been pretty unfazed this week. I'm just praying Pat will bless us with one more superhero effort on Sunday.

The last 9 regular season MVPs to make the SB lost. Now it’s Patrick’s turn…and if anyone can buck this trend it’s him.

That game was nerve racking too. I flew in for that game and brought my wife and son, and it was their first Chiefs games I was concerned we might lose at the end and they wouldn't think it was worth coming back. Needless to say that didn't happen. The loved it and it hooked them into big Chiefs fans. It's just an awesome epic memory.

You know it's just crazy... we've been to quite a few cool places on vacations and such, but I don't we've ever had a better time than we did in those for hours in a field in the middle of Missouri in the freezing cold. My son said " Dad that's the happiest I've ever seen you!" I told him " I think that's that happiest I may have ever been!"

Is this the most combined regular season wins by 2 Super Bowl teams ever? 28 is a lot.

I think the Giants won like 9 or 10 when they beat the 16-0 Patriots. I’m pretty sure the Broncos were 12-4 when they beat the 15-1 Panthers.

This has to be the record, right?

Hurts faced the 3rd most zone blitzes this season and was 38th out of 39 qualifying QBs against that scheme.

Just prepare yourself for Wallcrawler and ChiefsFanatic to be apoplectic when they see Clark back in coverage.

Mahomes fluke fumble was analogous to Cole Trickle making it through that first wreck in Days of Thunder. He's in the clear, time to drive to victory lane...in Nicole Kidman's Fire Red Aussie of a crotch.

Why is it that on all the football shows I've watched this week all of the pundits are picking the Eagles to win? Do they not realize that Pat Mahomes plays for my very favorite National Football League team the Kansas City Chiefs? I've tried to warn people in advance about supporting the Philadelphia team but to no avail. So Patrick Mahomes will have to show the nation once again why it is foolish to doubt Mr Mahomes and my favorite football team the Kansas City Chiefs. I can barely contain my excitement. :evil:

I feel the same way. I was far more nervous for the Bengals game than this one. I do think it had a lot to do with how many times KC came up short against them. For whatever it’s worth I am very relaxed for this game.

Colin Cowherd, Shannon Sharp, Mike Florio, Chris Simms, Nate Bureleson, Rich Eisen, Mina Kimes, Max Kellerman, Swagu, Greeny, Dominique Foxworth among many others are all on the Chiefs. Tbh the closer this game gets the more I see folks picking the us to win. At the start of the week it was all Eagles but I think people are starting to understand how special 15 and Andy are.

Yeah I don't get it. No one is giving the Chiefs much of a chance to win this game. Don't they know we have 15 playing for us? :shrug:

With the injury update yesterday I would think late money would come in on chiefs and possibly move the line

Not sure what ya'll are watching, besides I guess a lot of ESPN. :shrug:

ESPN is 45-26 Eagles
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...gles-score-mvp

CBS is 5-3 Chiefs
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2...efs-vs-eagles/

Fox is 10-5 Chiefs
https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nf...-eagles-winner

SI is 4-4
https://www.si.com/nfl/2023/02/09/mm...-eagles-chiefs

The Athletic is 6-3 Chiefs
https://theathletic.com/4144961/2023...rt-picks-odds/

NBC is 2-0 Chiefs
https://sports.nbcsports.com/2023/02...-does-it-take/

NFL Network is 13-11 Eagles
https://www.nfl.com/news/super-bowl-...es-win-lombard


So, that's 73-64 Eagles, or 53% Eagles (didn't account for any overlap).


This poll is 55/45 Eagles

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They have a better more talented team than we do. Thats just a fact.

We are going to test the current theory that you need an elite QB to win a SB or at least a QB playing for one game like an elite QB.

My thinking is they have seen nothing like a Mahomes level QB all year. We have seen teams that can run the ball, have fantastic defenses. We are on our 3rd SB. They are rooks.

Mahomes and Andy with the bye week are going to bring the SB trophy home and KC is going to have another fantastic parade.

Eisen yesterday with Mooch went Eagles. The others besides Simms I could care less.

Yeah I know it doesn't mean anything. But it bugs me. Maybe KC hasn't built up enough respect yet. I don't know. :hmmm:

One more sleep

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On his own show yesterday he went Chiefs. It's on youtube.

The media at large doesn't actually know how good our team is outside of the big names (Mahomes, Kelce, Jones, Clark) and thats why we're getting discredited. I think the talking points about Mahomes legacy or his ankle are too alluring. It turns it into this Mahomes vs the Eagles storyline rather than people realizing "Hey, that Chiefs defense really seems to be turning it up in the postseason. And they have been for the last 4 years. Thats strange! Thats not what the statsheet is telling me."

Seriously, has any media member even mentioned L'Jarius Sneed, Nick Bolton, and Willie Gay by name outside of the injury report?

Then he's flipping back and forth. Guess we'll find out tomorrow.

It's the Buccs SB abortion, and Brady vs Mahomes stigma without context.

I'm not sure after two weeks of this sheet, I care what other so-called analysts think. Yea, it's kind of interesting but I've had enough of it all, including the comparisons between the so-called. I'll check the line on Sunday and see if it moves.

Yes every national game broadcast. That defense gets tons of love from guys like Romo. The young secondary is talked about a lot in positive ways.

I don’t know about sports talk shows because I can’t be bothered with them.

Thats fair.

I dont usually care about what the news pundits have to say, but this "better team" thing just bugs me. They seem to pretend our defense (and offense) is a bunch of nobodies.

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Son said "you mean the happiest other than the day I was born, right?"

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Ringer experts 5-4 Chiefs.

https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2023/2...-eagles-chiefs

Remember folks, nobody creates the game day thread other than Nut.

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The respect is actually what's driving this. The NFC was garbage this year and the only other team that really had a chance to challenge the eagles was the niners, who immediately suffered a catastrophic QB injury and the eagles coasted. Its easy to have thought about them as a juggernaut all year. The chiefs are the complete opposite. First we would struggle without Hill and the AFC west all got better, then it was clear the Bills were going to make a run at the 72 dolphins, then the Bengals finally got healthy and now they are simply better than the chiefs. And to top it off well maybe the chiefs were gifted the one seed and there was all the talk about the officials in the Bengals game and maybe they didn't deserve to win. Every step of the way this year it's been " the chiefs have mahomes but..." and sure enough that's pretty much the narrative this week.

And also the haters are harping on Mahomes’ stats from his previous Super Bowls which are below his usual standard of greatness.

In the first Super Bowl the 49ers defense was damn good (look at what they did to Aaron Rodgers in the NFC Championship Game that year) and Mahomes’ stat line in the 4th quarter of that game powered the Chiefs to the win.

And of course in the Bucs Super Bowl, Mahomes was playing behind a dog shit offensive line and getting no help from his pass catchers (see the multiple drops and no separation from the non-Tyreek/Kelce guys).

Context is key.

Diggs is a believer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAPYDanjnbM

there is absolutely no respect for the chiefs defense

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This is true.

Mahomes, however, will need to play a great game this time around, otherwise the "doesn't play well in the Super Bowl" thing is gonna stick.

I swear it's like the AFCCG all over again.

I just get this feeling that Mahomes is going to light the Eagles overrated secondary up.

Our defense is being seriously underrated. The team on the field Sunday is miles better than the first half of the season and our secondary has come on strong. Not to mention our d line had the second most sacks in the nfl with a much more difficult schedule but all you hear about is philly’s d line. And our o line has given up less sacks than Philly. Those points are being overlooked by doubters.

Agree the D is just completely under the national radar. They held back to back playoff opponents to 20 points. That wins when your QB is Mahomes.

Had a lil bit of a drive yesterday listening to 610.

These Philly fans and media are LMAO.

They think they're the 85 Bears.

the sheer level of wishcasting by the national media is truly something to behold. they really, really do not want a flyover town dynasty.

You can include Kelce & Tyreek in the drops group for the Tampa Super Bowl. Kelce dropped a 3rd down conversion that would have gained 20+ yards early in the game. Who knows how that might have impacted the game compared to punting. Tyreek also dropped a TD, which cost them at least 4 points early in the game as well.

They just don’t want one in KC, they would have been fine with it if it were Burrow and Cincy.

Deadspin is a junk, brain dead site these days.

I honestly didn’t even know they were still around.

Honestly, is there any chance we see this kind of stuff if the Bills or the Bengals made it to the SB?

I just don't see it.

This is such a true statement. Everyone is sleeping on this defense but they performed well against a solid Jax offense and even better against the Bengals offense.

It's a corpse of its former self.

One would hope, at least had the Bengals made it. This Eagles Dline vs their patchwork OLine would have been such a mismatch.

This is probably going to be the most basic offense the Chiefs have seen in awhile. They do everything they can to protect Hurts from non complicated pass game to running etc..

The Eagles basically think they can put talent you.

Which is exactly why their schedule and easy path in the playoffs is relevant.

This is interesting. They ripped up that shit grass weeks ago and are using something new: Tacoma 31. That’s the grass used by the PGA.

This is the first time that’s happened and a cool experiment. I’d normally be against this but anything other than the shit they had that injured our players is fine by me.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...rimental-grass

Which is good so hopefully Butker can get past any heebie jeebies he might have had kicking on the grass he got hurt on.

I agree on the secondary.

But counterpoints on pass rush: 1) our opponents are in must-throw situations a lot, 2) Mahomes has been pressured a ton, he's just great at avoiding sacks.

The Patriots went something like 11-47-14 in sacks over three years. You can guess which year was Cassel.

LMAO

But the team that is almost always playing with a lead is not?

Or as Booger McFarlane put it yesterday on PTI, "Mahomes hasn't played well in the Super Bowl."

:banghead::banghead::banghead:

Chiefs by 10
book it!!!!

Yes the team playing with a lead is not in must-throw situations as much. Not sure what your point is.

No, I'm talking about the Eagles opponents being in "must-throw" situations.

If the Bengals had eeked it out in KC, it would be worse. The NM would be saying how the Bengals had no shot because their line would fold like a cheap sheet. TBT, i think they would have had a very hard time against that Dline. Probably would have been a repeat of the Tenn game last year.

What they do is look at the most recent games and base their predictions on that. In the Chiefs, though short due to injuries and a hobbled Mahomes, they saw a game where neither team played particularly well and one team got by on a FG at the gun. Then they watched the Eagles dominate a team that had been dominating everyone else for the last 10 games or so.

95% of the people on TV don't know their asshole from a hole in the ground and they especially don't know how to break down a team vs their opponent.

Everything you watch, you should take with a grain of salt and a chuckle because a large percentage of the time, they have no idea what they're talking about. If you're watching it to see if your favorite team is getting respect or not, you're likely to be disappointed because the "best team", in their mind, is usually based on what they did 'last week'.

Its true.

If a team has a good couple of weeks, or a big game on national television (like the Chargers beating the dolphins), you'll likely wake up to the media saying "Watch out for the Chargers!!"

Amazing

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoiNE...d=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

What makes me chuckle is when they point to what Aaron Donald did to Cincinnati in the SB last year as some type of defense wins championships gotcha moment when Chris Jones and the Chiefs defense mirrored that exact same performance 2 weeks ago.

Yea, and the Eagles have quantity, not a quality guy like Donald/Jones.

I keep thinking about how off balance Andy kept the "mighty" SF defense
Big Red will have something for the Eagles d

Theyre right, Defense does win championships.

I just don't think its gonna be from the Eagles.

Sure and we're bringing one that took over the AFFCCG for us and dominated the same way LAs did in the SB last year.

The narrative that I've seen though seems like defense wins championship only applies to Philly like we're rolling in with Bob Sutton's D and the same oline TB beats us with.

The Media honestly believes that the Eagles defense will wreck the game like the Buccs against the "poverty" O-LIne that played.

Going to be harder.

The 49ers defense is elite but they're young.

The Eagles defensive line has Cox and Graham, and there's not much they haven't seen.

Hurts vs Mahomes post season 2 games played each

Mahomes 69.9%
Hurts 63.3%

Mahomes yards passing ...521
Hurts.............................275

Mahomes Tds/Ints..........4/0
Hurts...........................2/0

Rating
Mahomes 108.3
Hurts 91.8

mckinnon and pacheco and toney are going to eat in the flats all day

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May be Q, but it's pretty relevant. And Fangio's influence is all over this defense.

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It’s how it always is. If we limit mistakes….we win.

Yup

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Been saying it all week. It’s nice to have our WRs back to keep the secondary honest but if we win this game it’s Pacheco, JMK, Kelce and Gray.

Make the Iggles do what they don't want to do; pass the football.

I’m not smart enough to know why, but it seems like McKinnon has gotten a light load over the last few weeks. The overthinker in me wonders if he’s been hidden or given rest for this game? Like Andy knew he’d need him. McKinnon absolutely blew up the last quarter of the regular season and seems like he’s had very low usage lately.

If Brown Jr has a rough day it may not be much different than how the OTs got blitzkrieged by the Bucs. It would be up to the skill players and Mahomes to make up the slack in that scenario, but our IOL will be much better regardless.