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Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brother
10-7 is your ceiling
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Reading the corporate tea leaves, I have to believe the Donks will win one against KC this season...most likely in Denver.
Two of the worst officiated regular season games concerning KC over the past few years have been the Blakeman Raiders game and against the Chargers. There have been a couple against LA but KC manged to make back-to-back record setting FG attempts in one of them...the late season Bengals game was pretty terrible too...overt enough for Burrow to publicly mention it.
Surprisingly, this hasn't happened with the Donks since HGH retired. The match-ups haven't really had any questionable game defining calls either way.
Have a hunch with a new Walton/Rice ownership group and the 2022 emphasis on illegal contact, their fortunes are about to change. They set it up like this so officials will overtly call these fouls through the first half of the season...then when public outcry/controversy happens they dial it back...while all along steering the pre-packaged narratives. It's really kind of surprising that NFL corporate allowed it happen for 6 1/2 years in a rivalry....they want parity...not only to keep a fan base engaged but for betting lines as well. "Any given Sunday" is very profitable...(See Cowboys/Donk and Jaguars/Colts games last year).
The Denver hype train is in full-effect across all major mouthpiece outlets....I've seen this ruse before. Donks dropping both games, again, with Wilson/new ownership...especially in front of their fans would be counter-productive. This is about selling hope... They play on Sunday Night Football on Dec 11th in Denver...then 3 weeks later in KC.
Donks almost HAVE to win that Sunday night game...setting up the rematch in KC in the final two weeks. Surely a post-season bid will be on the line...right?
NFL corporate is like Westworld...deliberately build narratives for most people to believe. They use the off-season to start planting their predictive programming seeds...makes it's believable when it happens.
How did Denver do it...well they now have the #4 OL so it really wasn't surprising.