The Thuney injury is massive. If he can't go, that is a big loss for KC. Baltimore is very healthy, in general. Sure, they did that annual thing where all their RBs got hurt but their best RB is Lamar anyway and Edwards and Cook are good enough for what they do.
The Chiefs defense is much better than Houston. Plus Mahomes. I think that is a fair line.
The closest I can think of is the Panthers and Broncos opening the 2016 season after facing off in SB 50, but that obviously isn’t in the same season. Over the past thirty or so years, I think only the 2020 Chiefs, 2014 Seahawks, 2004 Patriots, 2017 Patriots, 1997 Packers, 1998 Broncos, and 1993 Cowboys returned to the SB as defending champs, and none of them had a rematch against the team they played in week one of that season.
The NFL roster rules are very silly.
That could have resulted in the greatest story in sports history! (And eventually the greatest sports movie.)
Joe Flacco?
This is what wildcat is for. And I think both Deebo and Macca would have been good
https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/philip-rivers-was-49ers-emergency-qb-plan-for-super-bowl-says-kyle-shanahan
Yeah, I said Jow Flacco because he literally got off the couch and led the Browns to a playoff spot (or at least completed the journey).
Looking at his game log, he actually didn't do a Ravens game for close to five years after. I thought we might've had a Walt Coleman in Oakland situation, but he's worked 10 of their games since the end of 2019.
You could easily have some contingency for injuries. Obviously. They increased the practice squad to 16, just make teams pull from that. If you didn't have the foresight to put enough guys at important positions on there then oh well.
If a contingency for injuries is OK, then why the complaining about the Lions filling a roster spot created by injury? What's the problem that you're trying to solve?
How do you deem “important positions”? 16 practice squad spots isn’t enough for even two emergency options at each position given the specific nature of some jobs. Some guys can only play left tackle, some only play right. Some corners are slot only, some DT are 0/1 technique only, some WR only play X. There’s 28+ positions in football (including long snapper, kicker, punter, slot receiver, slot corner, blocking TE etc). Unless you’re expanding practice squads to like 40 guys, you’re never going to have enough injury coverage and even then you get runs of injuries at a specific position in one or two weeks. Unless you’re suggesting no freeze on practice squads which just adds an unnecessary transaction - we need to sign Dalvin Cook to the PS before we elevate him to the 53? Or do practice squads (which churn constantly) get frozen too?
Right - freezing rosters is a solution in search of a problem that itself creates problems for players and teams.
Sure they did; they had to move to Baltimore to do it, but still............
It’s solidarity among Democrats plus they’re long time friends.
Clearly he wants to protect Brady's records.
