Are You Ready for Some Football - Week 8

[Dis]

But he did have 2 or 3 TD passes.

And it looked like it might be halfway close when Tim Dwight ran a kick return back for a touchdown for the Falcons.

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by badams52
And it's funny how the year after Parcells left the Patriots, they won the Super Bowl.

Parcells led the Patriots to Super Bowl 31. Belichick won Super Bowl 36.

[badams52]

Okay, we're down to just one undefeated team left in the NFL, and you all know what that means. It's time to decide which week will the Kansas City Chiefs lose their first game and the surviving '72 Dolphins will uncork the champaign as being the only team ever to go undefeated (they were a great team but damn I hate the pride of the '72 Dolphins. Now if they instead took the winning team out to a steak dinner, then that would be something.)

So enter the Kansas City Chiefs first loss challenge!!!

KC has a bye week this week, but here is their remaining scheudle:

Nov. 9 Cleveland 1:00 PM ET
Nov. 16 @Cincinnati 1:00 PM ET
Nov. 23 Oakland 4:15 PM ET
Nov. 30 @San Diego 4:15 PM ET
Dec. 7 @Denver 4:15 PM ET
Dec. 14 Detroit 1:00 PM ET
Dec. 20 @Minnesota 5:00 PM ET
Dec. 28 Chicago 1:00 PM ET

Pretty weak schedule isn't it? The first half wasn't much more difficult, but I'm betting on San Diego to be the team to pull off the upset! What do the rest of you think?

[Zopperoni]

Nah, I think the Chargers are just too weak on defense to beat the Chiefs.
Denver on the road should be a good one.

[Japher]

And even the best coaches can't win with **** for players.

It takes time for coaches to build a team... Yes, build a TEAM.

Good Talent + Bad Coaching does not mean a good team
Bad Talent + Good Coaching does not mean a good team
Good Talent + Good Coaching does not mean a good team
Bad Talent + Bad Coaching? Yeah, that's a bad team.

Heck, look at the Raiders this year! Best of all worlds and the don't amount to a hill of beans. Why, no TEAM. They aren't behaving like a team and that is the coaches fault. Why?

It is the coach's job to fill in the wholes. Sometimes it takes years, when those wholes are on the field. Yet, when they are off the field (like having to deal with sheity owners) it is up to the coach, and only the coach, to handle them.

Parcells is an excellent coach. The Pats won because he built them too.

Same with Tampa Bay and Dungy.

Seatle is good because of great coaching.

Niners were good because of great coaching and great front office.

Browns will be good because they have that front office, now all they need is to get rid of the coach.

Rams are skidding because of bad coaching (IMO).

It ain't one thing going right, it's everything going right... at the right time.

[Tuberski]

Oh, btw, Elway won the AP MVP in 1987 as well.

ACK!

[Japher]

So enter the Kansas City Chiefs first loss challenge!!!

That's a tough one... Every week each team looks so different. It could be Cincinnati for all I know! They sure showed the Seahawks what for.

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Japher
Rams are skidding because of bad coaching (IMO).

It seems they've found the winning groove again.

I'd like to add Bill Belichick to that list as well. Fourteen (semi-)starters injured, and still 6-2. That's not bad, not bad at all.

[badams52]

Originally posted by Zopperoni



Parcells led the Patriots to Super Bowl 31. Belichick won Super Bowl 36.

Okay so I remembered it wrong, it wasn't the year after he left, but Parcells didn't win the Super Bowl with the Patriots.

[Dis]

Minnesota or Denver. Both away games. If not there, then they may go undefeated. Cincy is dangerous though

[badams52]

Originally posted by Japher
Same with Tampa Bay and Dungy.

But they needed Gruden to win the Super Bowl

Nah, I think the Chargers are just too weak on defense to beat the Chiefs.
Denver on the road should be a good one.

Might I remind you of the year Denver was 13-0?? (can't remember the exact record) in 1996 (I think, it was the year before their first Super Bowl win) and were playing the Giants 1 week before the show down against the Dolphins. That was when the Giants were pretty bad, but somehow managed to beat the Broncos making next week's showdown against the Dolphins moot.

Oh, and though they talked about the last 6 years, 5 of the teams who lost last went on to the Super Bowl stuff. Well they don't take it back any farther than 6 years because it must not be that good of a predicter.

[badams52]

Originally posted by Dissident
Minnesota or Denver. Both away games. If not there, then they may go undefeated. Cincy is dangerous though

I would put money down saying it will be one of the 4 games before Denver. Just remember Minnesota of this past week.

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by badams52
Okay so I remembered it wrong, it wasn't the year after he left, but Parcells didn't win the Super Bowl with the Patriots.

He lost to the Packers who were superior in that period.

He still did an impressive job as coach: the Pats were 2-14 after the 1992 season. Parcells came in and they went 5-11, 10-6, 6-10, and eventually 11-5 and a trip to the Super Bowl.

[Dis]

boy, the Chargers really suck

[-Jrabbit]

I say KC makes it to the Denver game, then lose.
(Check my pathetic Lombardi standing for the likelihood that this prediction is worth anything... )