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Wait, the Commanders going from four wins a season ago to playing for a chance to go the Super Bowl isn't fun?!? The possibility of the first rookie QB to ever play in the Super Bowl isn't a fun narrative?
Eh, a little. "Fun" was the wrong word, I should've said compelling. The other two are still far more compelling. The Daniels stuff is a decent fallback.. But with a young guy there's also the feeling of "he'll have more chances." We're not getting (m)any? other chances at a threepeat, and it's very plausible this is the last best chance for this incarnation of the Bills, though my guess is not quite.

I'll definitely be rooting for Washington on the NFC side, though.



Sticking with my pick for the Bills to make it on the AFC side (though I'm cheering for the refs to push KC back to the Super Bowl just to watch the league further burn itself down)

I like the idea of Daniels taking down Mahomes to become the new NFL darling. Maybe he can convince someone on Washington to start dating Sabrina Carpenter to further the case




I don't have thoughts about aggregate penalties either way, if only because some teams are obviously a lot more disciplined than others (and play in ways that naturally draw more or fewer fouls). Only times it's potentially significant to me are when a team that was disciplined all season is suddenly hit with a ton in the playoffs, and even then I don't find it ipso facto unfair or anything.

Anyway, the NFL says it might add QB slides to the list of things that can be reviewed with replay, which I think is the right call. Defenders really have no good way to do this stuff when a QB is flicking between runner, passer, and (potential) slider all within the span of a second or so.

With some rare exceptions I don't think the refs are really calling this badly, either. They usually have clear, broad guidance, IE: err on the side of protecting players, particularly skill position ones, and they mostly call accordingly. If we want it to change that guidance needs to change. It's also an important distinction since a lot of fans talk themselves into thinking this is calculated/based on ratings or whatever, which I've always found to be silly and untenable, personally.



I don't have thoughts about aggregate penalties either way, if only because some teams are obviously a lot more disciplined than others (and play in ways that naturally draw more or fewer fouls). Only times it's potentially significant to me are when a team that was disciplined all season is suddenly hit with a ton in the playoffs, and even then I don't find it ipso facto unfair or anything.

Anyway, the NFL says it might add QB slides to the list of things that can be reviewed with replay, which I think is the right call. Defenders really have no good way to do this stuff when a QB is flicking between runner, passer, and (potential) slider all within the span of a second or so.

With some rare exceptions I don't think the refs are really calling this badly, either. They usually have clear, broad guidance, IE: err on the side of protecting players, particularly skill position ones, and they mostly call accordingly. If we want it to change that guidance needs to change. It's also an important distinction since a lot of fans talk themselves into thinking this is calculated/based on ratings or whatever, which I've always found to be silly and untenable, personally.
The Bills had one penalty agianst the Ravens. I have a feeling it will be higher today agianst the Chiefs.



I do, too, but partly because I think the Chiefs just draw more penalties for completely legitimate reasons. In general I'd say good teams do, though technically one could do a chicken-egg kinda argument, at least around the margins.



Looks like the Eagles are running all over the Commanders so far lol
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Commanders scored and got within 11, got a stop and were driving yet again, and then they fumble and lose it at midfield. Wild. Just determined to lose this game, it seems.

Not just fumbling, which is obviously bad, but in not recovering anything (historically fumbles are a coin flip in terms of which team recovers, IIRC).



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This game is dragging, Just get to Bills -Chiefs.
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