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01-26-2021, 08:14 PM | Topic Starter |
Would an idiot do that?
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Narratives That Need to Die
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New for 2023-24! Fallacy: Big underdogs willing themselves to victory in the playoffs. Possible Narrative: The underdog has nothing to lose! They'll B-E aggressive! The Truth: Mahomes has only ever lost to Brady and Burrow in the playoffs, and two of those games went to OT. Stop worrying about every brokedick quarterback, every run-first team, every "tHeY'rE cOnFiDeNt AnD nOt InTimIdAtEd!!" team. Examples: Being fearful of the Browns, Jags, the Titans FFS. Fallacy: Paying a franchise QB handcuffs your team towards mediocrity (or at least fewer Super Bowls) Possible Narrative: Rebuild year, reload year, the imminent demise of the Kansas City Chiefs, and the general "complete team vs quarterback". The Truth: The quarterback position is pretty important. It's so important, in fact, you can get away with having an average or below average defense, a mediocre run game, unproven receivers, and so on... even to the extent that a one-legged franchise QB is better than most NFL teams. Obviously, the rest of the team can't suck ass and there's always a fine line between winning and losing in the biggest games of the year, where those other pieces matter the most, but you wouldn't be in that position if it weren't for paying the man. Possible Narrative: The Chiefs need to retain non-Mahomes guy or sign the best player at their position in free agency. The Truth: A franchise QB makes up for lesser talent elsewhere on the roster, and having the top QB in the league is a much larger gap than "only" having a top 15 guy at another position. Examples: Tyreek, Hopkins, needing the best LT ever, etc. Fallacy: The NFL is out to **** the Chiefs. Possible Narrative: Every loss is rigged for whatever reason is made up after they lose. Basically everything that happens is the NFL's way of figuring out how to **** the Chiefs. The Truth: Can we please just let this one ****ing go? The Chiefs won the AFCCG and SB on defensive penalties at the end of the game and still didn't have to play a road (or neutral site!) game. I think we're good. Examples: Every single loss. Hamlin is the drama the NFL needs to push the Bills to the SB... oh, and the NFL wants to experiment with neutral sites forever after they force the Chiefs to play in Atlanta. Ratings. Fly over country. Vegas. New stadiums. Fallacy: Regular season momentum exists. Possible Narrative: Teams can't flip a switch. (this is from the 2021 version, but should be reiterated) The Truth: A team with playoff experience and success can certainly play vanilla in the regular season and do things to avoid injury, etc; and then dig deep into the playbook while recklessly throwing themselves into defenders when the games really matter. Examples: The Defending Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs Last edited by Bearcat; 08-03-2023 at 03:26 AM.. |
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01-26-2021, 08:29 PM | #2 | |
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01-26-2021, 08:47 PM | #3 |
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Good stuff. You should direct every troll to this thread.
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Would an idiot do that?
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01-26-2021, 08:51 PM | #5 |
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The only problem I have with SoS is that by definition teams that the Chiefs play and beat have a worse record (lower SoS and SoV). So a team that sucks but also plays in a tough division will really have a high SoS while the team that wins a division with no other good teams (AFCW) the winner has a lower SoS (and probably SoV as well).
Of course the biggest issue that the NFL season is too short to get truly meaning full data about these things. |
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01-26-2021, 08:53 PM | #6 |
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Forgot TOP.
And 'sacks have anything to do with winning.'
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01-26-2021, 08:59 PM | #7 | |
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Oh, I actually had that one in mind and did forget... I was going say "TOP and run it down the throats of the Chiefs".
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I just watched nick Wright on that show he's on with the other hosts. He made the argument and showed a graphic that low scoring TOP games don't work against mahomes.
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Here is that show, First Things First.
Nick makes a great case. It's just a matter of having to suffer through Eric Mangini. https://youtu.be/F-kggF9B-F8 His thing starts about 3:30
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Do you have the condensed version with pictures?
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This is the condensed version of it!
It's the past 3 months of opposing fan arguments in one thread. As someone who posts gifs like 70% of the time, I did fail when it comes to not providing pictures. The reddit video that I posted earlier sums it up in a way though. |
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I went completely "dark" this year as far as listening to sports pundits, talking heads, dweebs like Skip B, SAS and the like. Frankly they are all full of shit. It's like turning off the news, I'm happier. I don't even pay attention to any of the homers.
The proof is in the pudding. I don't need smoke blown up my ass, or someone else to tell me what they think about my favorite football team, the Kansas City Chiefs. If a person brags that they are hitting the gym all the time, and you see them for the first time in a year and they are still fat, you know they are talking smack. Then you have the person that actually DOES work their ass off, said nothing about it, and you see them for the first time in awhile and they look like a Brick Shit House. The Chiefs are that BRICK SHIT HOUSE. Nothing more needs to be said, RESULTS DON'T LIE. |
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I do love Simms because he talks about the "X's and O's and Jimmy's and Joe's." I avoid Cowherd, Bayless, Smith et al because they have nothing insightful to say other than their opinion which isn't any better than my own. At least guys like Simms understands more about the game than I do and can explain to me what he is seeing.
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