NFL 2024-2025 Season

Eagles 28 - 22 Rams
Conditions played a big part in this. The Eagles were able to pull off some massive plays in the snow which proved decisive.

Bills 27 - 24 Ravens
A compelling contest between 2 great teams & also 2 of the greatest quarterbacks to play the game. The very best are measured by their playoff success & importantly their Super Bowl rings, so far neither has landed the big prize, Allen is one step closer to a career defining goal. Jackson will have to settle for a consolation MVP perhaps, but there's no guarantee, as Allen could even scoop that.
A game play with sporadic snow flurries throughout, will be remembered for the dramatic dropped by Tight End Mark Andrews in the corner of the End Zone which would've added 2 points & a probable win with seconds remaining.
The Ravens had more yards of offence, but the 2 fumbles & 1 interception were the major difference despite still having a chance to win the game.
After initially being kept on a tight rein, Henry became a factor on the ground along with Hill & Jackson. By contrast Allen got the hard yard with 10 carries for 20 yards & 2 TD's.
Credit to both defences who kept 2 usually high scoring units under 30 points. The Bills forced the mistake on the Jackson interception with pressure & forced both fumbles.
A fascinating contest with some clever game planning by the coaches & adjustments at half time which executed by the talent on the field. The team that made the least mistakes came out on top, for the Bills to have no turnovers in the conditions was quite remarkable.
With the game won, Allen showed his class by going straight to Jackson to convey his respect.

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Sunday 26th January

NFC Conference Championship 20.00 K/O GMT
Commanders @ Eagles

AFC Conference Championship 23.30 K/O GMT
Bills @ Chiefs

Jacksonville Jaguars are set to appoint Liam Coen as Head Coach. Coen was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Offensive Coordinator.

Former Seattle Seahawks Head Coach Pete Carroll is set to become the Las Vegas Raiders Head Coach.

The Eagles have one of the best all-round squads I've ever seen - so much strength in depth across both defensive and offensive lines.

The Chiefs seem to possess almost God like qualities - well, their quarterback especially... but could complacency enter their game and throw them off?

Perhaps not against the Bills - but there is something about Buffalo's ability to survive mistakes to take the wins this season.

And Washington - well they're rolling back the years - back to when they were on top of the league under a better name.

I'm thinking of tipping the Eagles to win the SB. Is there, any possible way that they could topple the Chiefs?

I'm on the fence with both games. The Bills can beat the Chiefs, & already have this season, but as we get constantly reminded of, the Playoffs are different, lose & your done. Chiefs are favourites by 1.5 points, very close this one.
Eagles are 6 point favourites over the Commanders, they must contain Barkley & try to make Hurts have to win the game, I guess he plays but not fully fit. The Commanders beat the Eagles this season, but Hurts didn't play. If the game stays close I wouldn't bet against Daniels late in the game.

Hoping for a Bills v Commanders SB.
Which means it will be Chiefs v Eagles .

Eagles 55 - 23 Commanders
The Commanders did their best to overcome the turnovers, but the game eventually got away from them. The 3 fumbles resulted in TD's for the Eagles, by the time that Daniels threw an interceptions the contest was all but over.
A dominant running game, with Barkley setting the tone early with a 60 yard TD run. Hurts & Barkley had 3 rushing TD's each.
Despite all of Daniels talent, he was met with his toughest challenge yet, as the Eagles played a clever game by not over committing with blitzes, but still applying pressure, allied to great coverage from the secondary.

Chiefs 32 - 29 Bills
A classic match-up between 2 great teams, nothing stands out in the stats to pinpoint even the smallest advantage. One or 2 key plays decided the eventual victor. Despite 2 strong defences, it was impossible to completely stop all the weapons that Mahomes & Allen had at their disposal, often it was down to both QB's to keep drives going either by designed run option plays or improvised scrambling.
Maybe when it counted the most the Chiefs defence made more stops on 3rd downs often forcing the Bills to go for it on 4th down which they were 4/6. The chief had a superior 3rd down efficiency & they were 1/1 on 4th down.
The Bills failed on a 2 point conversion, the Chiefs were successful on their 2 point conversion, that is a 4 point swing right there, small margins.

(26-01-2025 14:19 )Snooks Wrote:  Hoping for a Bills v Commanders SB.
Which means it will be Chiefs v Eagles .

Bloody knew it .

Booooooo.
Snooks throws toys out of pram and reserves the right to find other prams to throw toys out of as well .