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Forums - Sports Discussion - The NFL Thread 2019: The Kansas City Chiefs Win Super Bowl LIV

 

Who do you believe will have a stronger defense in 2020?

Patriots 2 66.67%
 
Steelers 1 33.33%
 
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SwitchUP said:
Awesome game. I was asking all of my friends and coworkers to bet that the niners would smash the packers again. Not even their most diehard fans were willing, they knew they had no chance. None. No one dimensional team has ever won a superbowl. The packers get a REAL running game going, then watch out for them.

The Packers also need some more depth at wide receiver.



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Leynos said:
SO many non holding calls on KC. NFL rigged it. Like they did last year against KC. This year for KC. I wish XFL had a shod but it doesn't. I'm done with the NFL. 25 years of watching. Last few years been too obvious how rigged it is.

Man, the NFL must have quite the rigging scheme. Not only are the refs involved, but I guess they paid Dee Ford to line up offsides in last year's AFCG? And then rig the coin toss in OT? Also did they rig it so the refs missed the pick penalty that gave the Chiefs the lead in the fourth? Or did they just know that they were going to rig it even harder so the Patriots could score the go ahead TD?

Get outta here with these stupid conspiracy theories. If the NFL was rigging games, it would've been found out by now. There'd be so many people you'd have to involve that keeping it on the down low would be impossible. Fact is bad calls happen in every single sport, sometimes it goes more one way than the other.



So anyone know the jersey colors being worn at the Super Bowl? Who's playing away/who's playing home?



RolStoppable said:
SwitchUP said:

So you're mad that the niners understand the rules and exploited them? Start a petition and get the NFL fo change them. Regardless,  the packers looked like a high school team up against the 49ers. The same tactic was used against the pats...  Even if the 49ers didnt use that, the game was over at halftime.

Which is exactly the point. There was absolutely no need for the 49ers to be so cheap, but they did it anyway.

Yeah, it was definitely over at halftime just like when the Falcons were leading the Patriots 28-3. Oh, but that was late in the 3rd quarter. It was over at halftime when the Houston Oilers were playing the Bills in the playoffs and leading 28-3 and then went up 35-3 early in the 3rd. No need for the teams to keep playing as the game's already over.

https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/09/06/biggest-comeback-nfl-history-buffalo-bills-houston-oilers




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smbu2000 said:
RolStoppable said:

Which is exactly the point. There was absolutely no need for the 49ers to be so cheap, but they did it anyway.

Yeah, it was definitely over at halftime just like when the Falcons were leading the Patriots 28-3. Oh, but that was late in the 3rd quarter. It was over at halftime when the Houston Oilers were playing the Bills in the playoffs and leading 28-3 and then went up 35-3 early in the 3rd. No need for the teams to keep playing as the game's already over.

https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/09/06/biggest-comeback-nfl-history-buffalo-bills-houston-oilers

Ok... I dont know what point you're attempting to make here. Should I say, the packers still have a chance? If you show more examples of comeback wins, maybe it will prove me wrong and the packers will end up winning? Sorry, but I dont get your point. I didnt say anything about not playing second half. All I said was, the game was over at the half..... and I was right. The packers got SMASHED.



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SwitchUP said:
smbu2000 said:

Yeah, it was definitely over at halftime just like when the Falcons were leading the Patriots 28-3. Oh, but that was late in the 3rd quarter. It was over at halftime when the Houston Oilers were playing the Bills in the playoffs and leading 28-3 and then went up 35-3 early in the 3rd. No need for the teams to keep playing as the game's already over.

https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/09/06/biggest-comeback-nfl-history-buffalo-bills-houston-oilers

Ok... I dont know what point you're attempting to make here. Should I say, the packers still have a chance? If you show more examples of comeback wins, maybe it will prove me wrong and the packers will end up winning? Sorry, but I dont get your point. I didnt say anything about not playing second half. All I said was, the game was over at the half..... and I was right. The packers got SMASHED.

My reply was meant for Rol who was saying that it was “cheap” for the 49ers to continue to try and score before the end of the half even though they were up 27-0.  




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RolStoppable said:
smbu2000 said:

My reply was meant for Rol who was saying that it was “cheap” for the 49ers to continue to try and score before the end of the half even though they were up 27-0.  

SwitchUP had changed the context to make it solely about the instance of winding down the clock in the fourth quarter, so that's the only thing I called cheap.

The timeout before the end of the first half is a case of plain boneheadedness because the chances to score another time when only 11 seconds are left on the clock are close to zero. 11 seconds on the clock, then the punt is executed and more than 95% of the time it's a fair catch, a roll out or a return for less than 10 yards. Best case scenario is that there's time for one more play left on the clock, so a good return would have allowed for a hail mary attempt. That's the kind of odds only a desperate team would gamble on, but any half-decent coach would have taken the 27-0 halftime lead and allowed the 11 seconds to run out instead of taking a timeout.

No, I was only talking about the game being over at the half. Obviously, the game wasnt over, because theres time left. I said, it's over, as far as the way the packers were playing. I wasnt responding about the cheapness of running time off the clock. I think that's cheap as hell too, but it's in the rule book. I would almost bet the NFL will dump that rule. The first time I've ever seen that in a game was the titans-Patriots game. I've been watching NFL for 35 years, and only just saw it. Crazy rule, but nothing wrong in exploiting it.



KLAMarine said:
So anyone know the jersey colors being worn at the Super Bowl? Who's playing away/who's playing home?

Jerseys likely won't officially be announced until the end of this week, but Kansas City is designated as the "home" team for this Super Bowl, so they will likely wear red and San Francisco would wear white.



RolStoppable said:

Everyone with half a brain doesn't watch their games to begin with. That's why people on VGC stopped caring about the Super Bowl. Their game against the Rams netted one (1!) post while the Super Bowl was played.

https://www.thewrap.com/nfl-ratings-championship-sunday-face-plant-chiefs-niners/

"Fox’s late matchup between the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers suffered an even bigger slide when compared to the late game in 2019. The 49ers-Packers game averaged 43.56 million when factoring in Fox, Fox Deportes and all streaming platforms — coming in nearly 20% below the 54.2 million total viewers CBS enjoyed last year for its late game between the New England Patriots and the Chiefs. One thing to consider, though, is the Chiefs-Pats game was the most-watched AFC Championship Game in eight years."



Perhaps worthy of mention: Since the Ravens' Super Bowl run in 2012 (7 years), no team that played on wild card weekend has even reached the Super Bowl, the longest drought since realignment.