****Super Bowl LIX - Kansas City 17-2 vs Philadelphia 17-3****(+1.5, 49.5) The Eagles are your 2024 Champions!!! (5 Viewers)

[unckeyherb]

Against playoff teams . . .

PHI: 8-2, +7.9 point differential/gm, +27.2 yds/gm
KCC: 9-1, +5.4 point differential/gm, +0.8 yds/gm (not including Week 18 vs. DEN)

If we're excluding the DEN game from your calculations, I'd like to exclude the 2nd WAS game as well since Hurts got injured on the 11th play. So effectively, he didn't play the final 3.5 quarters.

Knock yourself out. The Chiefs didn’t play any starters, had nothing to play for, and made no effort to win. If you want to compare those as similar situations, have at it. WAS had 5 turnovers and still won.

Don't bother. They're doing this on purpose.

This is totally obnoxious, this thread. It's like every other Philadelphia thread. Man, I hope the Chiefs are up to it. So many salty ham tears around here for a team that managed to slip by with an easy schedule in a lousy conference.

Wait...what? Eagles easily handled both Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Was far from an "easy schedule"

I mean, the only conference to rep in the NFCCG was the NFCE. Lousy conference my left nut.

The NFC East is a division, unckeyherb. And the conference as a whole was lousy besides Detroit and Philly. I still am a bit stunned Detroit went the way they did, but given there was a coaching raid immediately after, one can't be surprised.

That's why the Super Bowl windows are one year and one year only. After that, if you're doing something novel or excellent, you're getting poached or losing guys in FA. Win it when you've got the shot at it. One has to when they get the chance because they might not be going back.

You got me there, rock. But you are correct about it being a window. Me and most of my friends here in Philly were devastated in ‘22 because we know it’s exactly that. We had the better team (at least we thought so) in ‘22 and they missed their opportunity. You usually don’t get another bite at the apple.

It’s why this year is so special to us fans. After the late-term-abortion that was the 2023 season, to see this team reset and do what they are doing now is magical. Even to a deplorable fanbase like ours. Forgive us our obnoxious ways, for we know not what we do*.

*Actually we do, we’re just insufferable.

Eagles are set to be good next year too. Just re-sign Baun, everyone else either has a replacement on the team already or is replaceable.

of course. And I think we will have a really good shot next year. But lets be honest, there are a ton of variables out there. Maybe Lane decides to hang it up. BG probably will. Kellen Moore possibly will be the NO Coach so we're going to have to go through another season of fresh OC. Saquon is almost certainly not going to have the record setting season he's had this year. Our schedule next year is nuts (outside of the normal NFCE runs which have gotten harder with Washington- we've got @BillS, @Packers, @KC, @Vikings, @ Chargers, Lions, Rams, Denver, TB). I can pick 6-7 losses without breaking a sweat from that list.

I'm just saying, 2022 felt like a massive missed opportunity. We were the better team and Jalen was the better QB than Mahomes that season and that day. I think this year's Eagles team is batter than that 2022 team and I think KC's team is worse. We have to finish the job this year.

 

[Snotbubbles]

Against playoff teams . . .

PHI: 8-2, +7.9 point differential/gm, +27.2 yds/gm
KCC: 9-1, +5.4 point differential/gm, +0.8 yds/gm (not including Week 18 vs. DEN)

If we're excluding the DEN game from your calculations, I'd like to exclude the 2nd WAS game as well since Hurts got injured on the 11th play. So effectively, he didn't play the final 3.5 quarters.

Knock yourself out. The Chiefs didn’t play any starters, had nothing to play for, and made no effort to win. If you want to compare those as similar situations, have at it. WAS had 5 turnovers and still won.

Don't bother. They're doing this on purpose.

This is totally obnoxious, this thread. It's like every other Philadelphia thread. Man, I hope the Chiefs are up to it. So many salty ham tears around here for a team that managed to slip by with an easy schedule in a lousy conference.

Wait...what? Eagles easily handled both Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Was far from an "easy schedule"

I mean, the only conference to rep in the NFCCG was the NFCE. Lousy conference my left nut.

The NFC East is a division, unckeyherb. And the conference as a whole was lousy besides Detroit and Philly. I still am a bit stunned Detroit went the way they did, but given there was a coaching raid immediately after, one can't be surprised.

That's why the Super Bowl windows are one year and one year only. After that, if you're doing something novel or excellent, you're getting poached or losing guys in FA. Win it when you've got the shot at it. One has to when they get the chance because they might not be going back.

You got me there, rock. But you are correct about it being a window. Me and most of my friends here in Philly were devastated in ‘22 because we know it’s exactly that. We had the better team (at least we thought so) in ‘22 and they missed their opportunity. You usually don’t get another bite at the apple.

It’s why this year is so special to us fans. After the late-term-abortion that was the 2023 season, to see this team reset and do what they are doing now is magical. Even to a deplorable fanbase like ours. Forgive us our obnoxious ways, for we know not what we do*.

*Actually we do, we’re just insufferable.

Eagles are set to be good next year too. Just re-sign Baun, everyone else either has a replacement on the team already or is replaceable.

of course. And I think we will have a really good shot next year. But lets be honest, there are a ton of variables out there. Maybe Lane decides to hang it up. BG probably will. Kellen Moore possibly will be the NO Coach so we're going to have to go through another season of fresh OC. Saquon is almost certainly not going to have the record setting season he's had this year. Our schedule next year is nuts (outside of the normal NFCE runs which have gotten harder with Washington- we've got @BillS, @Packers, @KC, @Vikings, @ Chargers, Lions, Rams, Denver, TB). I can pick 6-7 losses without breaking a sweat from that list.

I'm just saying, 2022 felt like a massive missed opportunity. We were the better team and Jalen was the better QB than Mahomes that season and that day. I think this year's Eagles team is batter than that 2022 team and I think KC's team is worse. We have to finish the job this year.

If you're scared, get a dog.

 

[Anarchy99]

Look at Detroit getting their coaching staff poached.

This is what made the Patriots run even more impressive. They were constantly getting their coaches and player personnel guys plucked away from other teams.

Look at all the people that got snatched up by other teams (ignoring how successful they were on other teams): Scott Pioli (KC GM), Charlie Weis (Notre Dame HC), Romeo Crennel (CLE HC), Eric Mangini (NYJ HC), Brian Daboll (left with Mangini), Jeff Davidson (ended up as CLE OC), Rob Ryan (Raiders DC), Dom Capers (GB DC), Josh McDaniels (DEN & LV HC), Jeff Hufnagel (NYG OC), Brian Flores (MIA HC), Matt Patricia (DET HC), Dean Pees (BAL DC), Josh Boyer (MIA DC), Bill O'Brien (HOU HC), Chad O'Shea (MIA OC), Nick Caserio (HOU GM), George Godsey (HOU OC), Joe Judge (NYG HC), Bob Quinn (DET GM), Mike Lombardi (LV OC), Jed Fish (U of Arizona HC), Brad Seely (CLE Asst HC), Jason Licht (ended up as TB GM), Thomas Dimitroff (ATL GM), Joel Collier (KC Asst GM), Jon Robinson (ended up as TEN GM), Shane Waldron (ended up as SEA OC), Patrick Graham (ended up as MIA DC), Monti Ossenfort (ended up as ARI GM), Dave Ziegler (LV GM), Ray Ventrone (ended up as CLE Asst Coach), and Bret Bielema (Illinois HC). That's not including guys that took positional jobs at other teams (which would probably be a list almost as long).

 

[TheAristocrat]

I had this as more or less a pick 'em, but I think Philly is who they thought they were back in '23. The Chiefs are excellent even with all the close games.

Should be a good one. I think Philly is better, but Mahomes handling the ball every snap from center is a big advantage because Saquon won't (though I'd run him thirty-plus times if I could—and I think they will try), and those two are by far and away the best players on each teams' respective offenses.

Will Mahomes miss throws? That's what I want to know. He's missed a few this year and it's been noticeable. If he's on, we've got a barnburner, I think. Lots of WR screens to Worthy and Brown. Not many deep shots with Fangio's Cover 2. Man, I'm getting excited and it's next week we have to wait for.

If we had a FBGCast for the games, you'd be in the box

 

[GoBirds]

Look at Detroit getting their coaching staff poached.

This what made the Patriots run even more impressive. They were constantly getting their coaches and player personnel guys plucked away from other teams.

Look at all the people that got snatched up by other teams (ignoring how successful they were on other teams): Scott Pioli (KC GM), Charlie Weis (Notre Dame HC), Romeo Crennel (CLE HC), Eric Mangini (NYJ HC), Brian Daboll (left with Mangini), Jeff Davidson (ended up as CLE OC), Rob Ryan (Raiders DC), Dom Capers (GB DC), Josh McDaniels (DEN & LV HC), Jeff Hufnagel (NYG OC), Brian Flores (MIA HC), Matt Patricia (DET HC), Dean Pees (BAL DC), Josh Boyer (MIA DC), Bill O'Brien (HOU HC), Chad O'Shea (MIA OC), Nick Caserio (HOU GM), George Godsey (HOU OC), Joe Judge (NYG HC), Bob Quinn (DET GM), Mike Lombardi (LV OC), Jed Fish (U of Arizona HC), Brad Seely (CLE Asst HC), Jason Licht (ended up as TB GM), Thomas Dimitroff (ATL GM), Joel Collier (KC Asst GM), Jon Robinson (ended up as TEN GM), Shane Waldron (ended up as SEA OC), Patrick Graham (ended up as MIA DC), Monti Ossenfort (ended up as ARI GM), Dave Ziegler (LV GM), Ray Ventrone (ended up as CLE Asst Coach), and Bret Bielema (Illinois HC). That's n ot including guys that took positional jobs at other teams (which would probably bea list almost as long).

I hear you, but good ole BB wasn’t afraid to work around some rules as well and did whatever it took to get his advantages.

 

[ChiefD]

think this year's Eagles team is batter than that 2022 team and I think KC's team is worse. We have to finish the job this year.

I agree with this. If I look at your starting 22 vs the Chiefs starting 22 the Eagles have the edge overall other than at QB.

The difference in this game will be a couple of things, as they always are:

1. Coaching
2. Turnovers

These teams are so close overall. Should be a good one.

 

[jasvic]

think this year's Eagles team is batter than that 2022 team and I think KC's team is worse. We have to finish the job this year.

I agree with this. If I look at your starting 22 vs the Chiefs starting 22 the Eagles have the edge overall other than at QB.

The difference in this game will be a couple of things, as they always are:

1. Coaching
2. Turnovers

These teams are so close overall. Should be a good one.

Having a hard time taking your posts at face value, Mr. Reverse-jinx. Never know when it's a legit take or not.

 

[ProstheticRGK]

So, I was curious about Vic’s record against Big Red. Not looking so good for Philly.

I didn't even click the link, but Fangio is responsible for slowing down the KC machine by playing cover two and having his safeties hang bang deep. I forget what year it was, but it was when he was with Denver and KC was steamrolling everybody up until that defense. Then the league copied it a year later and you saw a drastic slowdown in KC and Mahomes.

And they know it, too. It was Fangio that put the krypton in the Reid/Hill/Mahomes combo and once Hill left it was done for good because nobody had Tyreek's jets to beat what Fangio was running.

So don't worry about the link and whatever it said. It needs to be in context and judged accordingly.

Yeah, thanks. I just googled Vic’s record vs KCC with Reid and found that tweet.

Lies, damn lies and statistics/

Tooling around later, I saw that those W/L records didn’t tell the whole story. Somebody else listed that Mahomes’ 3 lowest rated/ lowest stat games all came against that Vic Fangio D during his time in DEN.

I can’t wait to see them play. This should be a really epic game.

 

[rockaction]

Tooling around later, I saw that those W/L records didn’t tell the whole story. Somebody else listed that Mahomes’ 3 lowest rated/ lowest stat games all came against that Vic Fangio D during his time in DEN.

Cool. Glad that I didn't misremember. Mahomes is my dynasty QB and I've been seeing red ever since Fangio figured out what to do to slow him down.

Doesn't mean Patrick doesn't still win (he's won two SBs since then). It just means that nobody was going to give him chunk plays. Now every team is running it against every other team because it was such an effective defense that it caused a seismic shift not just in how to defend Mahomes, but also how to defend everybody in the NFL.

That's why you've seen the movement back to running the ball, which I can't take credit for noticing (that goes to others and guys around here like Matt Waldman). Saquon is back because of cover two and nickel bases (and a great OL mixed with a generational talent).

Peace!

 

[Terpman22]

Saquon Barkley and Cooper Dejean both have a birthday on Super Bowl Sunday.

 

[ChiefD]

think this year's Eagles team is batter than that 2022 team and I think KC's team is worse. We have to finish the job this year.

I agree with this. If I look at your starting 22 vs the Chiefs starting 22 the Eagles have the edge overall other than at QB.

The difference in this game will be a couple of things, as they always are:

1. Coaching
2. Turnovers

These teams are so close overall. Should be a good one.

Having a hard time taking your posts at face value, Mr. Reverse-jinx. Never know when it's a legit take or not.

It's funny actually.

Before the Chiefs started this run I lived literally my entire life (50 years) with playoff failure. The Chiefs were one of those teams to get kicked in the balls every year in the playoffs. The Marty years with the failures over and over.

The Vermeil years where they couldn't play defense. And then all the lean years in between all of those. So I am ingrained to have playoff pain, and consequently despite the success now I still see the flaws.

All those failings override even the most positive thoughts I have. Look, I know the Chiefs are a good team, but I also know they haven't really played their best, complete football in a couple years.

Everybody thinks I'm just trying to reverse jinx all this time but at my core I'm a realist and focus more on the flaws. It sucks but I can't shake 50 years of heartbreak just like that.

 

[TheAristocrat]

Saquon Barkley and Cooper Dejean both have a birthday on Super Bowl Sunday.

John Kruk and Charlie Day as well.

Eagles by 50.

 

[ChiefD]

Saquon Barkley and Cooper Dejean both have a birthday on Super Bowl Sunday.

dammit

 

[Terpman22]

think this year's Eagles team is batter than that 2022 team and I think KC's team is worse. We have to finish the job this year.

I agree with this. If I look at your starting 22 vs the Chiefs starting 22 the Eagles have the edge overall other than at QB.

The difference in this game will be a couple of things, as they always are:

1. Coaching
2. Turnovers

These teams are so close overall. Should be a good one.

Having a hard time taking your posts at face value, Mr. Reverse-jinx. Never know when it's a legit take or not.

It's funny actually.

Before the Chiefs started this run I lived literally my entire life (50 years) with playoff failure. The Chiefs were one of those teams to get kicked in the balls every year in the playoffs. The Marty years with the failures over and over.

The Vermeil years where they couldn't play defense. And then all the lean years in between all of those. So I am ingrained to have playoff pain, and consequently despite the success now I still see the flaws.

All those failings override even the most positive thoughts I have. Look, I know the Chiefs are a good team, but I also know they haven't really played their best, complete football in a couple years.

Everybody thinks I'm just trying to reverse jinx all this time but at my core I'm a realist and focus more on the flaws. It sucks but I can't shake 50 years of heartbreak just like that.

Sort of related, but barely, and I'm not talking trash, truly, its just the nature of humans, as an adult, watching a team get all the bandwagon fans and my personal observation.

Before the Chiefs started this run, I met exactly one Chiefs fan my entire life. Now, I'm from the east coast, and got sent to the west coast, so there is that, but I only met one guy and that was when I was forward deployed during my glory days.

During that time was the beginning of the Pats dynasty, the Cowboys bandwagon still chirped but not too much. Same not for Pats fans as well really.

Now all those Pats fans are sorta back in the bushes with Homer, hanging around the corpses of those Cowboys fans.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

Saquon Barkley and Cooper Dejean both have a birthday on Super Bowl Sunday.

You can't bet against Birthdays

 

[Terpman22]

Saquon Barkley and Cooper Dejean both have a birthday on Super Bowl Sunday.

You can't bet against Birthdays

Fun fact

We won SB52 literally on my wife's birthday.
Then they changed the schedule, so that can never happen again.

 

[jasvic]

think this year's Eagles team is batter than that 2022 team and I think KC's team is worse. We have to finish the job this year.

I agree with this. If I look at your starting 22 vs the Chiefs starting 22 the Eagles have the edge overall other than at QB.

The difference in this game will be a couple of things, as they always are:

1. Coaching
2. Turnovers

These teams are so close overall. Should be a good one.

Having a hard time taking your posts at face value, Mr. Reverse-jinx. Never know when it's a legit take or not.

It's funny actually.

Before the Chiefs started this run I lived literally my entire life (50 years) with playoff failure. The Chiefs were one of those teams to get kicked in the balls every year in the playoffs. The Marty years with the failures over and over.

The Vermeil years where they couldn't play defense. And then all the lean years in between all of those. So I am ingrained to have playoff pain, and consequently despite the success now I still see the flaws.

All those failings override even the most positive thoughts I have. Look, I know the Chiefs are a good team, but I also know they haven't really played their best, complete football in a couple years.

Everybody thinks I'm just trying to reverse jinx all this time but at my core I'm a realist and focus more on the flaws. It sucks but I can't shake 50 years of heartbreak just like that.

Fortunately, us Eagles fans have no experience with the bolded.

 

[Judge Smails]

Gronk on the Today show. Has been picking winners throughout the playoffs. Loves the Chiefs. Mahomes is 8-8 vs Fangio lifetime and excels going against bend don’t break defenses. Reid will just design 5-10 yard plays and pick them apart with long drives. I agree. I have more faith in the Reid/Spags/Mahomes trio than I do Sirianni/Moore/Fangio/Hurts side

 

[JAA]

Gronk on the Today show. Has been picking winners throughout the playoffs. Loves the Chiefs. Mahomes is 8-8 vs Fangio lifetime and excels going against bend don’t break defenses. Reid will just design 5-10 yard plays and pick them apart with long drives. I agree. I have more faith in the Reid/Spags/Mahomes trio than I do Sirianni/Moore/Fangio/Hurts side

Hard to argue with this.

If we can hold KC to 50% of scores to be FGs and we are 75% of scores TDs, I think we win.

I am very curious about how we will run the ball. I still believe the best way to beat KC is to keep Mahomes off the field. This means slow and long drives. We kinda didnt see that to open the Was game and it ended getting me a bit nervous as we scored on long plays. All that to say I think if we can reduce the overall number of possessions we win.

 

[Terpman22]

I will say this - if Mahomes tries that "bait the defender to see if he bites" the bite might be bigger than Mahomes can take, pending on who he chooses to toy with. This opportunity *will* present itself at some point.

Shoot, Jalen Carter might just even take the bait to send a message....

 

[rockaction]

Now all those Pats fans are sorta back in the bushes with Homer

Pats fans were never considered that omnipresent. The Red Sox are the toast of New England. Pats had a very, very big bandwagon aside from the guys on this board that seem to have been with them through thick and thin. But notice even the good commenters have names like "Landsdowne" and other Red Sox references. Or they're from Boston and not Foxboro. Those things make a difference and tell you something.

Every KC fan I've ever met (and I've met a bunch because my ex-girlfriend is from KC and I used to visit back around the years '99-'01) has been pretty diehard and pretty up front about their fandom. It's much different than New England before the Super Bowls.

And I crack on NE as a Jets fan, but it's not sour grapes. You'll hear that criticism everywhere of the Pats. No fan base could be dispassionate or not vocal about a dynasty like that with Belichick and Brady as the lead guys in the drama. That **** wrote itself. But they were a joke organization until Kraft, who has a really good case for Canton if they're letting owners in there, IMHO.

 

[Terpman22]

Now all those Pats fans are sorta back in the bushes with Homer

Pats fans were never considered that omnipresent. The Red Sox are the toast of New England. Pats had a very, very big bandwagon aside from the guys on this board that seem to have been with them through thick and thin. But notice even the good commenters have names like "Landsdowne" and other Red Sox references. Or they're from Boston and not Foxboro. Those things make a difference and tell you something.

Every KC fan I've ever met (and I've met a bunch because my ex-girlfriend is from KC and I used to visit back around the years '99-'01) has been pretty diehard and pretty up front about their fandom. It's much different than New England before the Super Bowls.

And I crack on NE as a Jets fan, but it's not sour grapes. You'll hear that criticism everywhere of the Pats. No fan base could be dispassionate or not vocal about a dynasty like that with Belichick and Brady as the lead guys in the drama. That **** wrote itself. But they were a joke organization until Kraft, who has a really good case for Canton if they're letting owners in there, IMHO.

I believe the bolded, and being honest ya know, back when the Cowboys were bandwagon ASF - it was mainly my family members, and BFF from HS that were the die hards, but man, do I meet those star-wearing mfers literally everywhere. There was no intranet back in the VHS days, and even the early Pats dynasty days, but yeah over the years it gotta to be unbearable. Just the national media and everyone including broadcasters of Super Bowl games the Pats are in, just unable to hide how much they loved them. And ESPN being in MA and all. Ugh. Annoying.

But yeah the only Chiefs fans I still see for the most part are not IRL, but online presence etc. You got to a big sports bar in the playoffs now and ya know, like I said "never seen this many Chiefs fans in my life" but that's kind of how America goes. The casual folks are usually big front runners.

 

[Snotbubbles]

Gronk on the Today show. Has been picking winners throughout the playoffs. Loves the Chiefs. Mahomes is 8-8 vs Fangio lifetime and excels going against bend don’t break defenses. Reid will just design 5-10 yard plays and pick them apart with long drives. I agree. I have more faith in the Reid/Spags/Mahomes trio than I do Sirianni/Moore/Fangio/Hurts side

"Me know that not real football analysis."

ETA:

Gronk past SB predictions:

SB 57: Picked the Eagles over the Chiefs
SB 58: Picked the 49ers over the Chiefs

 

[zoonation]

Philly has more talent on both sides of the ball for sure. But KC has the two great equalizers: Mahomes and Reid/Spags. Significant advantage to KC in coaching and QB.

 

[Cowboysfan8]

Apparently any team that loses to Cousins in the regular season cannot win the SB

 

[TheAristocrat]

Apparently any team that loses to Cousins in the regular season cannot win the SB

Birthday luck vs the Cousins omen.

These are offsetting superstitions, replay the Super Bowl.

 

[Snotbubbles]

Apparently any team that loses to Cousins in the regular season cannot win the SB

Birthday luck vs the Cousins omen.

These are offsetting superstitions, replay the Super Bowl.

I'll take Super Bowl logo color scheme for the win.

 

[beef]

Swifti3-peat

 

[Terpman22]

Swifti3-peat

Technically, if it happens, it would just be a repeat for her.

 

[Deamon]

Apparently any team that loses to Cousins in the regular season cannot win the SB

Birthday luck vs the Cousins omen.

These are offsetting superstitions, replay the Super Bowl.

I'll take Super Bowl logo color scheme for the win.

Damn, it's red and green? I think last year broke it didn't it? Still wild.

 

[Terpman22]

Apparently any team that loses to Cousins in the regular season cannot win the SB

Birthday luck vs the Cousins omen.

These are offsetting superstitions, replay the Super Bowl.

I'll take Super Bowl logo color scheme for the win.

Damn, it's red and green? I think last year broke it didn't it? Still wild.

Last year they credit the purple to Taylor Swift

 

[Snotbubbles]

Apparently any team that loses to Cousins in the regular season cannot win the SB

Birthday luck vs the Cousins omen.

These are offsetting superstitions, replay the Super Bowl.

I'll take Super Bowl logo color scheme for the win.

Damn, it's red and green? I think last year broke it didn't it? Still wild.

Yes but the bottom color is the winning team which is green.

Taylor Swift's last album she was wearing a purple dress, so...

 

[ProstheticRGK]

Purple would mean MIN wins. Prince, man!

How bored are we to be talking color scheme jinxes?

 

[ProstheticRGK]

But what color gatorade are they gonna have?

 

[ProstheticRGK]

So, with BG officially off IR and open to practice- what kind offimpact do people see him having?

Does Huff see the field at all? Does Nolan give up snaps?

 

[jasvic]

So, with BG officially off IR and open to practice- what kind offimpact do people see him having?

Does Huff see the field at all? Does Nolan give up snaps?

I can't imagine him seeing a lot of snaps. He hasn't played in 2 months and obviously won't be 100%. Maybe just situational pass rusher? Huff won't sniff the field.

 

[Terpman22]

So, with BG officially off IR and open to practice- what kind offimpact do people see him having?

Does Huff see the field at all? Does Nolan give up snaps?

He will get some playing time, but he's taking back seat to Nolan Smith. At the same time, the more creativity we allow Vic to have, the better....

 

[kylechoffman]

But what color gatorade are they gonna have?

Yellow/ Lime

 

[ProstheticRGK]

2012 Ray Lewis came back from a torn triceps after 12 weeks and had the 2nd most tackles for the Ravens in their SuperbOwl win over SF.

Pretty sure it was in New Orleans, too.

 

[unckeyherb]

So, with BG officially off IR and open to practice- what kind offimpact do people see him having?

Does Huff see the field at all? Does Nolan give up snaps?

I can't imagine him seeing a lot of snaps. He hasn't played in 2 months and obviously won't be 100%. Maybe just situational pass rusher? Huff won't sniff the field.

If BG dresses I’d think that Huff would not. You can’t just add BG. Someone has to be replaced.

 

[jasvic]

So, with BG officially off IR and open to practice- what kind offimpact do people see him having?

Does Huff see the field at all? Does Nolan give up snaps?

I can't imagine him seeing a lot of snaps. He hasn't played in 2 months and obviously won't be 100%. Maybe just situational pass rusher? Huff won't sniff the field.

If BG dresses I’d think that Huff would not. You can’t just add BG. Someone has to be replaced.

I was going to say that, but then thought no in case BG can't finish or pushes too far, wouldn't want to be thin there.

 

[unckeyherb]

So, with BG officially off IR and open to practice- what kind offimpact do people see him having?

Does Huff see the field at all? Does Nolan give up snaps?

I can't imagine him seeing a lot of snaps. He hasn't played in 2 months and obviously won't be 100%. Maybe just situational pass rusher? Huff won't sniff the field.

If BG dresses I’d think that Huff would not. You can’t just add BG. Someone has to be replaced.

I was going to say that, but then thought no in case BG can't finish or pushes too far, wouldn't want to be thin there.

That’s going to be the analysis. Can BG go more than 10 snaps if need be. Personally, I’d bet my mortgage that he suits up.

 

[Terpman22]

So, with BG officially off IR and open to practice- what kind offimpact do people see him having?

Does Huff see the field at all? Does Nolan give up snaps?

I can't imagine him seeing a lot of snaps. He hasn't played in 2 months and obviously won't be 100%. Maybe just situational pass rusher? Huff won't sniff the field.

If BG dresses I’d think that Huff would not. You can’t just add BG. Someone has to be replaced.

I was going to say that, but then thought no in case BG can't finish or pushes too far, wouldn't want to be thin there.

That’s going to be the analysis. Can BG go more than 10 snaps if need be. Personally, I’d bet my mortgage that he suits up.

There is zero way on earth they opened his practice window and he is NOT dressing. Just for the emotional boost to the young defense alone...and *if* he can actually be productive....

 

[King of the Jungle]

Spags will be MVP of this game, although they will give it to Patrick for his 180 yards and one TD.

 

[ChiefD]

Chiefs have no chance:

Saquan birthday + DeJean birthday + Graham comeback > Kelce's mook haircut

 

[jasvic]

So, with BG officially off IR and open to practice- what kind offimpact do people see him having?

Does Huff see the field at all? Does Nolan give up snaps?

I can't imagine him seeing a lot of snaps. He hasn't played in 2 months and obviously won't be 100%. Maybe just situational pass rusher? Huff won't sniff the field.

If BG dresses I’d think that Huff would not. You can’t just add BG. Someone has to be replaced.

I was going to say that, but then thought no in case BG can't finish or pushes too far, wouldn't want to be thin there.

That’s going to be the analysis. Can BG go more than 10 snaps if need be. Personally, I’d bet my mortgage that he suits up.

This is a good read with a doctor's input. The risk of further injury is the concern and lack of strength, making him less effective. If that happens on his first snap, you'll want another body, even one as useless as Huff.

Eagles open practice window for Brandon Graham's return from IR: We spoke with a doctor about his ability to play

The Super Bowl might be the most ideal scenario for Graham to return for one more game.

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[jasvic]

Chiefs have no chance:

Saquan birthday + DeJean birthday + Graham comeback > Kelce's mook haircut

Never change.

 

[sm8680]

There’s way too much hype around Steve Spagnola; I'd choose Vic Fangio any day of the week

 

[Terpman22]

There’s way too much hype around Steve Spagnola; I'd choose Vic Fangio any day of the week

The thing is Jalen is better against man than zone, historically speaking. He isn't great against the blitz against either style, really, but he is IMO much better against man than zone. And while he doesn't toss INTs often, if he does, its usually against some sort of zone.

Seems like there is a lot of potential for boom/bust on the KC Defense/Phi Offense side of things.

When KC has the ball/Eagles defense I expect/hope it to be boring

 

[sm8680]

If you're Kansas City's defense, you almost have to go with a zone coverage. Man-to-man might work against other offenses that don't boast weapons like Goedert, Smith, Brown, and Barkley. In the last Superbowl, I felt Jalen outperformed Patrick. The Eagles' run game, minus Jalen, was lackluster, and that fumble recovery for a touchdown was particularly painful. This year, the Eagles will likely pressure Patrick more effectively, given there were no sacks in the previous game. At times, Philly has been dominating with their running game, but their passing attack can be equally lethal. Running touchdowns tend to be safer to score, in my opinion.