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The Chiefs Need a Makeover 

The Chiefs Need a Makeover 

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I remember Patrick Mahomes’ first week 1 start against the Chargers in 2018.   Watching him, I remember thinking “this is supernatural”. It was how I imagine people felt when The Beatles released Sgt Peppers: I couldn’t tell if I was more confused, amazed, or scared.  It was like he was playing quarterback from the future. He had Matt Stafford style crazy arm angles, but with Randall Cunningham movement abilities and a rocket ship attached to his right shoulder.   The ball just exploded out of his hand. The pass catchers exploded with the ball in their hands. This was a team built on explosiveness.…
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The Jahmyr Gibbs Contract Conundrum 

The Jahmyr Gibbs Contract Conundrum 

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Immediately after running back Jahmyr Gibbs delivered Detroit yet another win, destroying the Cowboys to the tune of 19 touches for 120 yards and three touchdowns, the Lions leaked via Ian Rapoport that extending Gibbs is their “priority #1 this offseason”.  Extending Jahmyr Gibbs considered "priority No. 1" for Lions in offseasonMore performances like this for years to come in Detroit(via @RapSheet) pic.twitter.com/aZKXtINHyu— B/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) December 5, 2025 In recent years, the Lions have shed their tag as a cheap organisation as Sheila Ford Hamp has taken over from her mother and, unlike most children of billionaires, is, refreshingly,…
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Seattle’s Superpower might be their Undoing 

Seattle’s Superpower might be their Undoing 

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In the mid-late 2010s, the NBA turned heliocentric. The general idea was that a team has one clearly dominant guard, why not just have that guy make virtually every decision for the team.   The poster boy for it was James Harden and the Rockets. Between 2014 and 2019, Harden was never below a 30% usage rate for a season. It was generally successful in the regular season, with the Rockets at .500 or over every year of that run.   I still can’t believe James Harden dropped 60 points in 3 quarters.Rockets Harden was different. pic.twitter.com/WcrGZsW3sZ— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) October 19,…
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A Christmas Wishlist for the NFL Teams in the Wildcard Race 

A Christmas Wishlist for the NFL Teams in the Wildcard Race 

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Have you been making a list?  Have you checked it twice?   I’m 29 now, so I want to move from a Dyson vacuum to a Shark. Maybe you have a more exciting list.   Maybe you’re an adult who games.   I understand that they exist.   The NFL is heading down the stretch too and seems like the Wildcard spots are going to come down to the wire in both the AFC and the NFC.   With that, the teams that are currently just out of the playoff picture could be relying on a Christmas gift to give them a boost over the…
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The AFC has an Exceptionalism Problem 

The AFC has an Exceptionalism Problem 

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Post World War II, the US was riding high.   They’d swanned into Europe’s war in 1942 after Pearl Harbour and swung the tide for the Allies.   They beat the Nazis, dropped the bomb, and won the war. Then they reoriented the western world in their image, economically and militarily colonising Europe with the Marshall Plan, the introduction of NATO, the UN and I could go on and on.   They asserted themselves as a global power and they were feeling themselves in every way.  However, slowly but surely, the world changed but the US didn’t change with it.   They won the…
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Who Can Actually Win the Super Bowl?

Who Can Actually Win the Super Bowl?

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Who Can Actually Win the Super Bowl   Bill Belichick always said “I have a real thing for litigious, domineering younger women who know how to use Adobe Photoshop”.   Okay, he didn’t always say that. Back before his potentially elder abuse era, he used to say that the season didn’t start until Thanksgiving.   Given we’re heading into that time of year, it’s worth looking at who you can mount a reasonable case for a Super Bowl chance heading into the  season’s stretch run.   In a season where we have lacked excellence, as well as genuine WR2s in fantasy, to my eye…
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Caleb Williams Makes Me Feel Like I’m Taking Crazy Pills 

Caleb Williams Makes Me Feel Like I’m Taking Crazy Pills 

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I was about 30 years late to the party on Twin Peaks.  For the first time in my life, I watched it last year. The first season and a half were genuinely dazzling, basically right up until Leland is revealed as Bob and is then killed.   That sentence made me remember the sequence in a way that gave me goosebumps again.   The guy that plays Bob is in hall of fame of people with scary faces. It’s him and Peter Pettigrew.  At the centre of it, you could feel a level of genius with David Lynch.   Having said all of…
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Three Key Takeaways from the 2026 AFL Fixture

Three Key Takeaways from the 2026 AFL Fixture

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The AFL released its fixture in dribs and drabs last week, but now, finally, the full thing is out. Anyone need a trifold #AFL fixture for next year? pic.twitter.com/wchgDV2lS4— calculon559 (@calculon559) November 14, 2025 After taking some time to mull it over, here are three key takeaways from the 2026 AFL fixture. The AFL is a real estate business My dad’s side of the family came to this country from Greece in the early 70s. All the Greeks that came here worked hard and bought land pretty much as soon as they could. That, combined with free university education from…
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The Recession the Bills had to Have

The Recession the Bills had to Have

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In 1990, Paul Keating famously described an incoming recession as “the recession we had to have”. I bet Brandon Beane and the Buffalo Bills are thinking the same thing, at least offensively. Fresh off a drubbing at the hands of the Dolphins, the Bills are having the year offensively that they were meant to have last year. 2024 was meant to be the reset year after running into financial and existential football problems and deciding to let key offensive contributors Mitch Morse, Stefon Diggs, and Gabe Davis walk in the offseason as well as a number of ageing defensive starters.…
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The AFL has a Plagiarism Problem

The AFL has a Plagiarism Problem

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I started the new Vince Gilligan show Pluribus last night. The first two episodes are really good and it’s nice to see Kim from Better Call Saul back. The genius of Pluribus is that, like with Breaking Bad, Gilligan has clearly taken pieces from other shows that he likes and retrofitted them onto the world that he wants to live in. With Pluribus, at least early, I see a lot of The Leftovers and a bit of Severance, but it’s not exactly the same. It’s inspired by rather than copied from. Gilligan did the same with Breaking Bad: borrowed the…
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