You're a bunch of superstitious children. Enjoy the Lamar Hunt trophy game from Arrowhead Stadium 2 weeks from today. Their Luck ran out. Our time is now. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frazod:
Well, I may have just guaranteed a Chiefs win - I bought a ticket for the AFC Championship Game.
So if the Chiefs win on Saturday, I'll be at the AFC Championship Game at Arrowhead, and the irresponsible idiot who said "fuck it" part of me will be thrilled. And if they lose, I won't be out the obscene amount of money I paid, or have to drive a 1,000 mile round trip in three days, and the pragmatic "what the hell are you doing?" part of me will be relieved.
Originally Posted by Frazod:
Yep. I could have got cheaper, but I'm not driving 500 miles to get a nosebleed in the endzone.
understood. If all I had to do was drive 500 miles, I'd be with you but I would have to waste a day on each side to fly there plus that cost....We shall see... Stranger things have happened [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
That is what got us here. Look at the Cardinals, Rams and Broncos games. We did exactly that when teams started doubling and even triple teaming Tyreek to stop the deep ball.
The Colts are the worst team in the league at defending the TE. If they want to put an extra DB deep and leave their LB’s in man-to-man coverage against Kelce and Watkins, it would be monumentally stupid not to take advantage of it.
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
The Colts are going to play cover 2 shell and try to avoid getting beat deep. We should abuse the interior of that zone early and often. The other side effect of their style of defense is that it makes running screens harder.
That doesn't necessarily mean "ball control", it just means using more intermediate routes.
I agree with you. Kelce, Watkins, Conley, heck even Harris - push the center of the field over and over.
They stay in that Cover 2, the middle will be open all day! Eventually you will get somebody streaking long open or catch Hill with lots of room on a crossing pattern.
Colts can't stop us.
As for the Colts offense, just who have they beaten that is a top notch quality team? I'll give them the Cowboys at home. They had to come back down the 1st half to beat the Giants at home!
They split the Jags ( 1 & 1 ), won against the Bills, Titians ( 2 ) Dolphins, Raiders,Giants,Cowboys so I ask you these questions.
1).Who among the last 10 Colts opponents games had a Top 10 Offense to play the Colts so called Top 10 Defense?
2). Was the Colts Top 10 Defense Top 10 the first 6 weeks against the Bengals 34 pts home, Redskins 9 on the road W,Eagles 20 home L,Texans 37 home L, Patriots 38 road L and Jets 42 road L ( You kidding me 42, Jets ) ?
3). How many Top 10 Offenses has the Colts faced this season against their Top 10 Defense? Eagles and Pats' maybe the Bengals in the 1st week of the season.
Was the issue the offense or the defense in the 1st 6 weeks of the season of the Colt's 1 - 5 start? The Colts has score plenty of points this year to win games, only one game they did not ..... The 6-0 shut out to the Jags, their 12th game of the season! WHAT? Your offense should be in sync in week 12! Now I will give some leeway to the Jags tired of losing and attempting to coming back around. Only 6-0, oh BTW, it was vs Cody Kessler!
10 wins vs nobodies!
6 loses vs teams they should have been 2-4 in had they had a good team! Bad losses
Bengals
Texans
Jets
Jags
They only get 1 win in these 5 games.
Good losses
Pats
Eagles
2. Only TWO tough teams that they had any business losing other than an occasional game you lose you should have won.
If the Colts were a good team they would have been 14-2, not 10 - 6 !
So now, somebody tell me why we should fear the Colts? [Reply]
Originally Posted by :
The NFL's socialist model continues in the playoffs. Playoff home teams in baseball, basketball and hockey keep anywhere from 50% to 100% of ticket revenues, depending on the sport and the number of games in the series. In football, all gate receipts flow to the league. The New England Patriots generate more than $10 million in gate receipts for each home game, but don't see a dime of that. Teams get a stipend to cover expenses for each NFL game. Teams also receive money from the NFL to pay players for their participation in the playoffs (contracts only run through the regular season). Each player on last year's Super Bowl winner, the New York Giants, received a total of $172,000 for four playoff games.
The home team in the NFL playoffs does get to keep revenues from things like concessions and parking at the stadium. A team like the Patriots can net more than $2 million from concessions and parking for a playoff game, but the NFC's top seeded Atlanta Falcons will receive less than $500,000 under the terms of their stadium lease. The number of playoff games also differentiates the NFL from other sports. Baseball played 37 playoff games last year, while the NBA and NHL had 84 and 86 respectively. The NFL will play only 11 games this year.
NFL teams, as in other sports, can get a payoff in future years from a big playoff run when they are able to charge higher prices for tickets, suites and sponsorships. The biggest benefactors are teams moving into new stadiums, which my colleague, Mike Ozanian, wrote about this week. He cites the Falcons, Minnesota Vikings and San Francisco 49ers as potentially this year's big money winners with new stadiums on tap.
