NFL 2024-25 Season

[Zzzptm]

I'll start the discussion with the Cowboys aren't supposed to suck THIS early in the season...

[Vyn]

Chiefs pulled down a win last week, avoiding OT by a toe. Facing off against the Bengals in about fifteen minutes. Going to go pop some popcorn for me and the wife, and will watch it until such time as they either suck so bad it hurts, or they dominate so bad it's boring lol

[Vyn]

The Chiefs managed to notch another win. Not due to executing a more commanding strategy, or more performant athleticism, or anything having to do with them. Rather, the football gods flipped a cosmic coin and it came up red and white.

Could just as easily have been the Bengals celebrating a Sunday win.

So, I'm glad that my hometown team is 2-0, but have this empty feeling where my confidence for the rest of the season should be.

After the Raiders rubbed their face in the dirt, I'm thinking the Ravens are going to be seriously looking for a win next week against...who is on deck? Oh yeah, the Cowboys. Good luck Z!

[Zzzptm]

Hard rain is gonna fall on the Cowboys...

and then turn to steam when it hits Coach McCarthy's chair... sucker is RED HOT!

[Zzzptm]

KC-Chargers are 10-10 in the 4th Quarter...

... guessing Vyn's on the edge of his seat, either mentally or physically.

[Vyn]

I was on the floor after the first quarter, wherein the Chiefs played the worst football I have ever seen in my life. I was stoked when they finally started playing for real, and the smartest thing they did was letting the clock burn off at the two minute warning. Hard to fathom the Chiefs are 4-0, but I'll take it!

I haven't caught any Dallas games, but note that they are 2 and 2. Are they looking good for the season?

[Zzzptm]

There's a huge mix in the middle, power rankings are garbage stats right now. Equality of talent for lots of teams can produce a mess like that, which means a lot more games just got a lot more interesting.

As for the Cowboys... they won against the Giants but in a way that did not instill confidence that they'd perform strongly across from a tougher side than the Giants. McCarthy's seat is still running hot to boiling.

[Zzzptm]

The city of Dallas no longer has a football team after yesterday's blowout courtesy the Detroit Lions.

Score was 47-9, a historic loss for Dallas on Jerry Jones' birthday, no less.

Temperatures on McCarthy's seat were so hot that climate scientists are asking for sanctions if he's not fired soon.

[Vyn]

I watched that game (since the Chiefs, you know, are lounging somewhere tropical). They would show Jerry's face everytime some bad play happened on the part of the Cowboys. He got a lot of airtime.

[Zzzptm]

Man, it's a massacre.

[Zzzptm]

Question to Vyn:

How many games with the KC Chiefs win by *more* than 7 points this season? So far, it's just the Saints and 49ers.

[Vyn]

Two - and you named them - per game avg. is exactly 7, and looking to the rest of the season their dance card is supposedly "easier".

Their offense has struggled this entire season. It's almost as if, as a team, they only have so much focus in the bank, and they spent so much of that focus on defense that it took away from their offense. Because, why have both?

Although, when the goal is "win" it seems their strategies have been hitting the mark. I would feel more comfortable about it all if they would show some dominance on the field every so often, rather than this "seat-of-the-pants" approach.

[Zzzptm]

Yeah, it's like they're gonna win... but... just...

[Vyn]

Chiefs vs Broncos - Broncos held a small lead most of the game, then the Chiefs managed to grab a two-point lead. Broncos got the ball, ran the clock down to one second in the 4th quarter, and setup for an easy 35 yard FG.

The odds of their kicker not making the FG were exceedingly small. The odds of our special teams blocking the kick were microscopically small.

We blocked the kick and recovered the ball. One second clicked by and the Chiefs won it.

...but...just...



Chiefs are now 9-0 for the season!

Oh, to add - when KC managed to do the one and only thing they had any agency to do to win that game, people in Red Deer Canada could hear the cheers from that stadium (the game was in KC). Here was a football stadium with tens of thousands of people, most dressed in red, at three o'clock on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the midwest US, and I mean it exploded with excitement!

[Zzzptm]

16-14, Chiefs >barely< win!