stevegroganfan |
01-25-2022 08:15 PM |
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Originally Posted by TEX
(Post 16106797)
To be even more fair, no Honey Badger for KC / No White for Buff. :shrug:
But let's talk Patriots...Didn't we, "Hear it here first," from you that they would be playing the CHIEFS in the. AFCCG? What happened?
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Based upon what Chief fans think of Honey Badger this season and the greater importance of cornerbacks when facing KC, Buffalo had the bigger loss there. But end of the day, I do think Chiefs were superior team and would have won a little "more often than not" on a neutral field.
I never said "Here it here first".... You have me confused with someone else. I sure like the Patriots and at their peak this year, I thought they had "a chance" to make the AFC championship game if they avoided injuries/players missed to covid but for sure by the end of the season I thought it was more likely they would lose in first round of playoffs.
I am a logical person and I knew with a few weeks left in the season, just as much of a chance Patriots would face chiefs in wild card or divisional round and not AFC Championship game if the two teams even met. That was assuming both teams would advance.
I thought Patriots would lose to the Bills. I just didn't think the patriots defense would completely collapse like they did. It was kind of obvious that the Patriots were weaker at the end of the season than they were during the middle of the season. Team literally ended up playing without 3 of their top 4 cornerbacks entering the season and their 2 best players in their front 7 were hurt. And an aging veteran like Hightower wasn't getting better at end of the year.
If you want to criticize me for any "prediction" this year, I got the Titans-Bengals game wrong. I do think I was 100% right that Titans > Bengals but both Tannehill and Henry had bad games. Yes, Tannehill is not an elite QB but he rarely throws 3 INTs in a game. And Titans kind of blew the game at the end. Just normal mediocre game from Tannehill or Derrick Henry not playing probably wins the Titans the game. That game was obviously close and the Titans sacked Burrow 9 times.
My prediction in that game was sound/logical but as Brady himself says, there is no guarantee at all the better team will win in a playoff game. The team that plays better that day wins. Barring a close game being turned by truly horrible officiating.
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