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Speaking of the Giants, the way they showed their ass last year on Hard Knocks has made it impossible to find a team willing to do it this year. I thought Goodell would have been able to force some team but apparently not. So instead they’re turning to Belichick’s UNC team. https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/report-bill-belichick-unc-to-appear-on-offseason-hard-knocks

The franchise beat Tom Brady twice! It must be good!

Sometimes successful strategies are legislated out for being boring, unattractive, or game warping. Some examples I can think of are hockey’s neutral zone trap, baseball’s infield shift, or playing defense too well for Peyton Manning’s liking

Kendrick did a rather admirable job of self censoring himself. Actually impressive given the volume of cuss words and the possible penalty of slipping up.

Who knew that the Kendrick/Drake feud was going to be more competitive than the Super Bowl?

I stepped away from following hip hop in the 2000's, though I learned about the Kendrick/Drake feud and watched dozens of videos about it. I don't know Kendrick's catalog, though. I admit I could use a posse cut with some guest stars about now.

"A 24 point deficit for Mahomes and the Chiefs. Tom, surely no quarterback can hope to come back from that big of a hole." "Well..."

Alright. Drake slander time!

NFC absolutely railing an overmatched AFC opponent is real 1980's nostalgia for the Super Bowl. 2nd half commentary will be Brady singing "I am still the great-est, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah!" over and over for 90 minutes.

Well, it's the day, so let's make a prediction. Late in the game, Eagles protected a small lead in a mostly defensive game. Say 16-14 with two minutes left. KC has the ball from deep in their own territory. Mahomes hits a few passes and quickly gets to midfield. Everyone goes here we go again. On third down at midfield, Mahomes hits Kelce for a first down up the middle. He runs for more. As he's getting tackled, Kelce turns and fires a perfect backward pass straight to the hands of Juju Smith-Schuster... who just drops it! It goes straight through his hands and an Eagles defensive back scoops it up and streaks towards the game sealing return touchdown! But... Whistle! The refs blow the play dead. They ruled Kelce down by forward progress, and the play cannot be reviewed. Replays show and sentiment is mostly that Kelce should not have been ruled down, but not 100%. With the new life, Mahomes hits a few more passes, and Butker hits a chip shot FG as time expires. In the postgame interview, Mahomes goes "Well, you gotta enforce the rules." The end.

Either everyone was actually kept in the dark as they're saying, or all of the parties involved are doing some Oscar worthy acting to keep up the pretense. Luka recently closed on a $15 million house in Dallas, apparently.

By hook or by crook, the universe always finds a way to get fresh superstar players to the Lakers. It's like Slayers in the Buffyverse. They can't be irrelevant for five minutes, no....* *the few years after Kobe's retirement the exception.

For me it’d be my pinky.

Yeah, I have no idea whether the Celtics can just turn it on in the playoffs or if they’ve just fallen off as a group.

People will talk about refereeing with the Chiefs and ymmv but an underrated advantage for the Chiefs and before them the Patriots was having a very very good coordinator that no one wanted to hire away as head coach. The first three Pats Super Bowl had Charlie Weis and Romeo Crennel, neither of whom were hot commodities. Their departures in 2004 lead to the relative dry spell. The second three Pats Super Bowls had Josh McDaniels and his baggage This Chiefs era has Steve Spagnulo who has been a wizard. If anyone can figure out a way to disrupt the Tush Push it’s him. At this point if you were a division rival to the Chiefs like the Raiders you might have considered hiring away Spagnuolo as a move to weaken the Chiefs as much as to gain a coach.