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Originally Posted by HC_Chief
These talking heads are making their picks based upon spreadsheets rather than watching the games. If I had a dollar for every time I've heard "The Eagles are the much better team... if you compare player by player the Eagles are so much better..." well, I'd have a lot of dollars!  They are L A Z Y. Same shit, different week.
The guys who spend their time studying film and breaking down the gameplans, execution, and coaching rarely regurgitate that stupid "if you compare all of the positions" mantra. What they are saying is "this is going to be one hell of a game!", often followed by "I think KC wins it because Mahomes is that guy, the KC D is vastly underrated, and Reid & Co are the better coaches who have been there before and won it all". |
I follow a lot of the advanced analytics stuff. Most of them have it a 3-point game either way. ESPN's calculator has it at 50/50.
For comparison's sake, most of the talking heads had Cinci winning the AFCCG. ESPN's calculator had a 66% chance of KC winning.