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It’s comical. Clangs a 31 yard chip shot off the goalpost …and in. KC definitely in the driver’s seat for the #1 seed now, even with the head to head loss with Buffalo. 2 games up with 4 to go, although not an easy schedule still having to play Houston, Pittsburgh and Denver. Chief’s +56 pt differential is 11th in the NFL. It’s even just 3rd best in the division they just clinched with 4 games to go!

Harbaugh, why call your 2nd timeout at 2:28 to go, saving 28 seconds, when if you used it after the first play coming out of the 2 minute warning you’d save 40 seconds?

If the Lions win the next three, they’d be just the 8th team ever to be 15-1 or better after 16 games. If they win the next four, they’d be just the 2nd team ever (and first NFC team ever) to win 16 regular season games. The NFL played a 14-game schedule from 1961-1977, a 16-game schedule from 1978-2020, and 2024 is the 4th season with 17 games.

Despite the Bills’ loss today and the Lions’ two extra days of rest, I expect this to be the Lions’ toughest game. If they win this, there’s no reason they can’t go 16-1.

Since the stop was on 1st down they could even have afforded to spike it. The Lions were stopped by the Niners on 3rd down so couldn’t spike it and couldn’t hurry too hastily on 4th down.

The Bills have scored 30 or more points in 7 straight games. Last 3 have been: 30 vs Chiefs, 35 vs 49ers, 42 at Rams.

Same thing the Lions did in the NFC championship game. Going from 3 timeouts down to 2 timeouts with a minute or so to go has to be one of the most negatively impactful "plays" that can happen. It's the difference between the leading team that recovers an onside kick getting to kneel thrice for a victory, or run 3 plays and have to kick the ball back (albeit with maybe only 20-30 seconds to go) if you don't pick up a 1st down.

And while Barkley had another good day rushing, Hurts was 14/21 for 108 passing yards.

Eagles win but were a narrow incompletion away from most likely being down to 3-9 Carolina in the final minute.

Can Bryce Young lead a 3-minute, 98 yard TD game-winning drive overhead Eagles?

Bad news: Vikings are going to win today Good news: I think this could be the Vikings’ last win of the season. Could see them losing any or all against Bears, Seahawks, Vikings, Lions.

What a swing. Looks like Darnold is about to be sacked on 3rd down, instead he eludes and hits a wide open Jefferson for a 50+ yd TD.

Panthers lead. If nothing else, makes the Eagles seem a bit less scary. 16-14 after missed PAT. Falcons so spooked by Cousins’ near pick-six they waste 3rd down with a basic run up the middle

Right. 35 yards in 40 seconds. I heard some pundits say 50 yards in 30 seconds and that’s wrong and might have been enough to impact the decision if correct. It’s 40 seconds because a FG attempt with 43 seconds to go would take 3 seconds and a touchback would take 0. It’s 35 yards because a touchback places the ball at the 30 and 35 yards gained from there makes it a 53 yard attempt. So even 25-30 yards gained would have led to a FG being attempted in today’s NFL. 39 seconds before a FG attempt with 1 second to go, even without timeouts, is time for a good 4 plays (unless you’re the Bears), any one of which could be a spot call on Arnold. I wanted the Lions to go for it even before Campbell called it.

And the 2019-2022 drafts didn’t yield superstars at the top. The only person from near the top of those four drafts that could reach the level or Hedman or Stamkos is Jack Hughes picked #1 in 2019. #2 picks those 4 years were Kakko, Byfield, Beniers and Nemec. Seider-Raymond-Edvinsson-Kaspar is a better collection than that. Heck it might be better collection than #1 picks Jack Hughes-Lafreniere-Power-Slafkosky. So I can’t fault Yzerman for his 1st rounders, that’s one thing he seems to have gotten right.

Loss. 2-1 final.

Wings trailing Avs 1-0 after 2. I agree with Buddha that this season is a write-off. With Washington and New Jersey off to great starts, the Wings are already 9 points out of 6th place. 7th and 8th are not as close as it appears, since NYR and Tampa have games in hand and, more importantly, superior rosters. Maybe the Wings can get a surprise top 5 pick this season, and if they pick that high that player could be an NHLer by the 2026-2027 season.

And if that is teetering, what does that make the Vikings? Their past 8 games: - beat Jets at home by 6 - lost to Lions at home by 2 - lost to LA Rams on road by 10 - beat Indy at home by 8 - beat Jacksonville on road by 5 - beat Tennessee on road by 10 - beat Chicago on road by 3 - beat Arizona at home by 1 Is there one impressive win in there? Except for winning in Chicago, the Vikings’ other 5 wins in the past 8 games arguably would be poorer than the Lions’ worst win of the year. I’d say 11 of the 12 of Lions’ wins have been either by big margins of victory or against good opponents. Only beating 4-8 Chicago at home by 3 being the only outlier (maybe only beating the Rams at home in OT being another, if you have impossibly high standards)

Pack scares me more than the Vikings. I expect the Lions to thump the Vikings in the final game of the season if the Lions still need a result there. I'll be cheering for the NFC South and NFC West champs to knock out both the Vikings and Packers.

I suspect London is just about the outer limit of Lions territory. Still a good amount of Tigers fans in London, the Tigers had an A-ball affiliate there for a bit in the '90s, IIRC. London is heavily Leafs territory, the number of Wings fans dwindles beyond Windsor-Chatham-Sarnia/Lambton.

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Saved By The Ducks.

You are correct. Hamilton-Niagara Falls is big Bills territory. Manitoba definitely the Vikings. It has been stated that at least 5% of Seahawks season ticket holders are from B.C.

My brother was visiting my mom in Sarnia and says Lions merch is all over town. On the shelves and on the backs of people wearing it. Lots of Bluewater Bridge traffic on gamedays from people heading over to Ford Field.

Ha, I'm an idiot. The game last night scrambled my brain.