Your “Can They Possibly Do It Again?” AFC Divisional Round Playoff Game Open Thread

Twas a lovely feel good moment for a fan base that has been kicked in the nads so often for the last quarter century and beyond, really. And to do it against the team that has grinded their hopes down into an ashy paste under their jackboots won’t soon be forgotten. Are they emotionally spent though? For the non-answer to this and other questions, read below…

TO THE GAME!

Browns/Chiefs:

-Hey, good luck to HC Stefanski, coaching his very first playoff game. As far as harbingers of good fortune, I Preifer someone else.

-Chubb should be able to impose his will. He’s had 100 yards from scrimmage the last three games and scored in the last 6 of 7. And that KC run D is nothing to be afeared of.

-Tyreek is all set up to dominate-he has the most deep TD passes caught (8) this year and the Browns have given up the 3rd most (11) long scores. Though they do get back secondary starters in Ward and Johnson. Pro Bowler Bitonio is back to protect his Baker as well.

-Folks rightly point out that the Browns o-line is elite (although 4 dudes are questionable for this one) but t’udder side has allowed only 3 opposing rb’s to run for more than 65 yards this year. So maybe temper your expectations for CEH (also listed as questionable) or Bell or Williams or Thompson.

-“Just Win, Patty!” After a blowout of the Jetskis back in week 8, the Chiefs largest margin of victory was a 6 point trouncing of the Broncos.

-The Rich Get Richer: The Chiefs hit it big in the 4th round of the draft when they landed cb L’Jarius Sneed, who became an instant starter in the secondary and on special teams. Needless to say, when a scouting staff can find gems in later rounds a team’s overall depth improves dramatically.

-You’d think that the Browns would need a defensive turnover or two to keep pace with the opposition but it’s highly unlikely they’ll get the 4 picks that they generated last week-Mahomes has but 6 for the year.

-Sleeping With Bieniemy: The Chiefs OC has been pegged (damn!) by the Eagles as an HC candidate and/or a Rooney Rule checkmark.

Scribble your kibble in the comments.

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Col. Duke LaCross

Cleveland just pissed away a timeout.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Stupid challenge.

Gatoraids

Andys playbook went from Cheesecake Factory menu to deal a meal choices

Doktor Zymm

What was the line on this game?

Gatoraids

Think chiefs have 9.5

Viva La Tabula Raza

I think 6.5

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

HAHAHAHAHA! I can’t believe the Universe actually took the bait and contradicted my “Mahomes will be back” prediction! Sucker! Stupid universe…

[is hit by a meteor]

Brocky

just because god has it out for me doesn’t mean he can’t multitask.

i wouldn’t tempt fate

Brocky

Marty schottenheimer’s fingerprints are all over this game

clint greasewood

The Lake Erie Prophecy lives.

LemonJello

Mahomes has been foreclosed for the remainder of this game.

Dunstan

He’s been sent to an upState Farm where he can play freely.

Doktor Zymm

How will things go wrong this time?

Viva La Tabula Raza

Quite a catch there!

Fronkenshteen

Anyone else seeing a KC 25-CLE 23 final score?

Gatoraids

Some real urgency with this clock management

clint greasewood

Still have 3 timeouts and will have to get a defensive stop regardless.

ArmedandHammered

Chad Henne is now the QB, so very possible.

Redshirt

Did the Browns enter a Game Genie code for eight quarter games?

Gumbygirl

I’m going to make a pineapple upside down cake. I am old skool!

Doktor Zymm

Yum!

Gumbygirl

I tried something different, pineapple bundt cake with pineapple glaze. Will let you know how it turns out!

Dunstan

I have plenty of groceries left, but am so bored with my own cooking that I feel compelled to order in. I’m thinking Japanese curry….

Doktor Zymm

Andy Reid will be right over

Doktor Zymm

Going with Brokeback for one of my playoffs-long fantasy picks is looking better and better

Fronkenshteen

browns showing absolutely zero urgency.

LemonJello

Bold strategy to use your Chubb so much before the big finish.

May lead to some premature celebration?

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Horatio Cornblower

It’ll probably be all right; 33 years later I hardly remember my prom.

Dunstan

In a game like this where I don’t have a real cheering interest, I am always hoping for the 4th down attempt to succeed and be rewarded.

Fronkenshteen

Every nipple in Buffalo must be enstiffened right now.

LemonJello

Looking into the Defense Production Act to increase the supply of folding tables.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Reiterating my prediction: if the Browns score a touchdown on this drive, Mahomes will pass his evaluation.

Doktor Zymm

“Turns out it’s just an inner ear injury, no big deal”

Gatoraids

They’ll give the Doctor a concussion first before letting them evaluate Mahomes

Dunstan

Trump’s former doctor just died, so the Chiefs are on the phone with the Chargers to see if they’ve got a guy they can recommend.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Trump’s other doctor is now a Congressman.

Senor Weaselo

Mahomes comes out with the steel chair! Wait no, that would be Buffalo.

Senor Weaselo

Afternoon lizard people. Has this game gotten interesting yet?

The Maestro

The Virgin Mahomes versus the Chad Henne.

Col. Duke LaCross

Did Tyreek just hallucinate that coach was his kid?

Brocky

chad henne has been in the league so long that i remember someone’s user name from the old site

Dunstan

I sometimes regret that I put no thought into my KSK/DFO username, and then I remember that if I had, I’d probably have some obscure NFL reference from 10 years ago

Col. Duke LaCross

Chad Henne Checkdown Clinic!

Brocky

that’s what it was!

simpler times

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

If the Browns make a game of this, it will turn out that Mahomes does NOT have a concussion, according to NFL doctors.

Redshirt

Nice inverted DDT.

Viva La Tabula Raza

State Farm will probably disallow an insurance payout on that injury because that type is not covered when you get the Patrick Price.

herodotus450

“Ooh sorry, you’re covered for concussions resulting from helmet to helmet hits, but not helmet to ground hits. See ya.”

Fronkenshteen

Mahomes ded?

Doktor Zymm

Ouch, It looks like his head slammed into the ground there

hippofant

It looked to me it didn’t somehow. Defender’s arm seemed to hold it up. Dunno.

Doktor Zymm

Might just be the angle in the shot I saw, that and it pretty clearly wasn’t a helmet to helmet so that seems like the only possible head impact

LemonJello

Also looked like a bit of a choke hold in there, may have caused a little grey out.

hippofant

Yeah. I thought the defender’s arm kept his head from hitting the ground. Not that that’s better: still could be concussed within the helmet and could also be a neck injury now.

Gumbygirl

Owwie.

WCS

….and there goes any chance of a Super Bowl repeat.

LemonJello

The lights are on, but no one’s Mahomes.

Doktor Zymm

Why are there so many insurance commercials during football games? Are other TV shows the same way, or does the insurance industry know something about football fans?

herodotus450

Insurance companies would want to sell to people who are NOT risk takers; so that explains why you never see them advertise on Buffalo games

Dunstan

I think other shows are the same? I suspect insurance is a big advertiser because most people don’t have a ton of “brand loyalty” to their insurance company, so it’s possible to attract new customers, and the benefits of getting someone to switch are pretty big, because you could be cashing their checks for 20+ years.

The funniest for me is watching tennis coverage, in which 90% of the commercials are for brokerage firms, luxury watches, and occasionally even private jet shares.

Doktor Zymm

It’s so weird that tennis remains a rich people sport, it made sense when it first started, but nowadays it’s one of the cheapest sports in terms of equipment

herodotus450

It’s not very space efficient though. You can fit 10 or 20 little brats on a basketball court of the same size

Dunstan

Yeah. Depends where you live, of course. I grew up in a place where we had a publicly-owned club, so even a “tennis club membership” was cheaper than pretty much every other sport by a longshot.

Brick Meathook

Because of the size of the audience. Geico sells completely through advertising and then you apply on-line; that’s why you’ve never seen a Geico office. The other insurers have to compete with that to make sure they don’t get the business. Insurance is big money: ask Warren Buffett.

Game Time Decision

I work as an outsourcing for big insurance company. They mail tens of MILLIONS of letters every month. A 1% increase in response is worth a million dollars in revenue, so worth it

Gatoraids

Oh God the Jets practice squad what ninthh circle of hell is that

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Bloody Lethal

Yes give us a Chubb.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Shades of Marshawn.

Gumbygirl

We will never know, because Andy Reid would stuff it in his maw as soon as it comes out.

WCS

So the toilet overflowed 90 minutes ago. This is fun.

How’s everyone doing?

Dunstan

So the toilet overflowed 90 minutes ago.” — Chiefs’ locker room attendant

WCS

RRRREEEEEIIIIIIDDDDD!!!!!!

litre_cola

Kicking is hard

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Those goalposts are badly designed in that they deprived us of a satisfying “doink” sound.

Gatoraids

Should sound like a tuning fork when hit

hippofant

I bet the Nickelodeon broadcast would have set off an airhorn or something.

Gatoraids

They had the initimidating Spongebob fill the goal post to jinx then

Bloody Lethal
Bloody Lethal

I know. Really it should light up like a pachinko machine and shoot slime.

LemonJello

SHANK’HLOR WILL FEAST THIS WEEKEND!

Last edited 3 years ago by LemonJello
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I really shouldn’t mess around with hope, but this is almost exactly how the first half of the Chiefs-Titans game felt a few years ago.

Bloody Lethal

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hippofant

Sooo is Buccs-Saints going to be competitive or …?

King Hippo

fuck, I hope not. Saints by 30 is sommet I would watch from start to finish

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Would the Real Cleveland Browns please stand up?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

INTERVIEWER: Let’s talk movies. What villain have you hated the most?

ANDY REID: Oh, that’s easy – Chet from Weird Science. He offered Gary a nice greasy pork sandwich, and then didn’t even give it to him! What kind of monster does that?

King Hippo

Honey Badger Ain’t Care

Gumbygirl

Why doesn’t Tracy Wolfson have that witchwart removed? I don’t like it!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I presume it serves some kind of important biological function, like without it her circulatory system would stop functioning or something.

King Hippo

Think I’d still risk it.

Gumbygirl

She should grow a mustache andbeard and cover that shit up.

TheRevanchist

This is such a great game so far. Hopefully KC does better in the second half and really drive that nail in the coffin!

King Hippo

As a Donks homer, I have no idea why I still want y’all to win. Must be because I want Mahomes to shred MRSA Dreamboat’s records.

TheRevanchist

I think everyone knows the Browns are not that good. Then just showing up to the game is probably what everyone expected.