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Originally Posted by suzzer99
Ok I finished watching all three Bunholes games (NFLN network is spamming the shit out of them - how about some Eagles/9ers or something?).
Takeaway is that while they were painful, especially last year's AFCCG, I feel a lot better about our chances tomorrow than I did before watching them. We were in all 3 games, and our D for the most part did better than I remembered, although they do seem to get gassed at the end of the game.
One thing I liked was Andy was noticeably more ballsy in this year's regular season game - going for it on 4th down when Mahomes did the Jordan dive.
I kept thinking in the AFCCG - what if we just handed the damn ball off on the 1-yard line before the half? Yes it's risky, but they'd never be expecting it. Has to work 80-90% of the time. Or just do one damn QB sneak. Mahomes doesn't have to fall down, he just needs to push the ball over the line and get out of harm's way. They would NEVER expect that. And as we saw, even passing is risky.
It looks to me like maybe Andy took that to heart and said **** it - we're going for it vs. these guys in the future. We need that. I'm sick of the fear of Mahomes forcing the other team to be correctly aggressive on 4th down, and us turtling up. I don't think they're going to get complacent this year if we get a lead. And the regular season game showed we can come back if we get behind.
I really think there's a good chance we come out and smoke these guys. If not, they're just the better team right now.
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Yeah, watching last year's game, I think we are clearly the better team. I don't think you can make the case this year -- both teams squandered opportunities. I actually think we were outplayed. Orlando Brown without Thuney is not a pretty sight. I think our offensive line will play much better this game, and I think theirs will be much worse.