NFL 2024 season

Total domination from start to finish...

Impressive stuff from the Eagles... Almost last to first defensive turnaround from last year to this year.

Hurts just does the basic stuff really well....

Defensive front 4 should have won a joint MVP....
 
I didn't watch it last night as I'm still bitter about the Championship game, but it was good to wake up and see the Chiefs had been smashed. Can't help but feel we'd have put up a better fight against the Eagles though.
 
Yeah, I was never going to particularly enjoy the game, how can you when you want them both to loose? It's a shame it wasn't Lions (or Commanders of course) v Bills or Ravens. I stayed up until the end of the 3rd.
 
Made it to HT then called it. First time I haven't watched the whole thing for years.

Echo everything said really, as someone had to win it, I'm glad it was the birds. Impressive showing.
 
Although I'm paying for it today, I stayed up until the very end and then some. Watching the trophy presentation and the reactions come in. Even though I have no real love of either team and wasn't particularly looking forward to the game, I strangely really enjoyed it. Was a very fun watch and I was laughing at times.

Whether it's the Bears fandom in me where the forward pass is a novelty, I will always enjoy watching defensive excellence. I know why this Superbowl will be quickly forgotten about, but there are parallels to the Buccaneers winning 4 years ago, or the Seahawks demolishing the Broncos. I also grew up watching the NFC monsters decimate the big game. My own Bears, Giants, Washington and 49ers all destroying whomever had won the Lamar Hunt trophy. It took years for the AFC to win and this defensive master class was on that scale. On that note I'm glad Vic Fangio will get the credit he deserves. I watched him turn Mel Tuckers 50-points giving, all-time rubbish into one of the top-tier Defenses in 2018. He was the real Coach of the Year that year, not Nagy. As someone said that Eagles D-Line deserves the MVP. Despite the complete performance the way they pirouetted and leaped about at will, with no extra help to crush Mahomes was stunning.

I've said in this thread several times, whilst the Chiefs are one of the greats, a dynasty, what tends to never be mentioned is their high amounts of luck. Obviously the bias towards Mahomes has finally been acknowledged this year and become a talking point. And I'm glad that luck, along with other things ran out last night. For winning covers over the cracks and watching that fan base scream 'fire Nagy, or Reid' is truly poetic. Still they came closer to the SB-era three peat than anyone else. And I think they just had an off day, including Mahomes, even with the Eagles brilliance. They are human after all.

That said I desperately hope that we see some new teams next year. A Bills, Ravens, Bengal, Lions, Commanders. Whomever. Since 2000 we've had 14 Superbowls with the same two AFC champions and it's gotten a bit boring. I fear this might not be the last time we see the Chiefs, or Eagles though. Even if the Eagles are going to have to start paying some of their defensive studs soon.

Sorry for the long post. Anyway time for the Bears to own you all and be off-season champions again. Our Superbowl.
 
The refs have been propping the Swifts and the 3-peat narrative up all season, but even they could not save a team that's getting blown out in front of the entire world. It was chef's kiss watching it all fall apart for them.

Congrats to the Eagles, their front four just destroyed the Chiefs.
 
Anyone watching tonight?

Maybe @GIBURROWS will be excited seeing Cam Ward enter the NFL. Elsewhere I wonder if the rest of the picks are as predictable as last year, so; Hunter, Carter, Campbell and Jeanty all make up the majority of the first 5, or 6 picks. Some rumours around someone trading up in the first round, although obsiously speaks volumes that nothing has happened even this late.
 
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Tennessee ruin every QB so.....
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But yeah will be watching.
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Hopefully he turns out to be a star. It was one of the nice things last year to see a few of the QBs have good debut seasons, even if Caleb wasn't one of them. Did put pay to that nonsense that some fans parrot that rookie QBs should always be benched.

Will probably watch up until our pick and then call it a night. Hopefully the there is some drama and it doesn't involve the Bears!
 
Browns probably trade away the 5th pick too. Maybe to a team that want Jeanty.

Need to collect picks and 1st rounders so they don't need to pay anyone until the Watson money is done.
 
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Browns probably trade away the 5th pick too. Maybe to a team that want Jeanty.

Need to collect picks and 1st rounders so they don't need to pay anyone until the Watson money is done.
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Yea, I like the move from the Browns, although as some on r/nfl have pointed out they got a haul for Julio Jones all those years ago and it didn't work out. Given they said both the Browns and Giants enquired about trading for Ward it shows how he was the real QB the top 3 teams were interested in.

I'm just hoping Bears aren't that team that tries to get to five. Of course Jeanty could go next. Might impact how 5 pick pans out.

EDIT: Of course can keep trading down and still take a QB.
 
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Jeanty at 6 to LV. Apart from the actual trade this draft has been very, very predictable in terms of players going where so far. Interesting given all the fluff in the build-up about how unpredictable it might be. As if!
 
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Bears could do with an RB to suit what Johnson did in Detroit. Hampton is very good so maybe they take him.
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Yea we could, and Jeanty ticks all the boxes, but the price was probably way off. I do think we'll pick up a RB somewhere, not sure if we do at 39/41.

Banks at 9. Could be TE for Bears at 10.
 
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