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Why the Patriots Have to Make the Super Bowl

Why the Patriots Have to Make the Super Bowl

• GuyWhoLikesSport
I hate to sound like a centrist, but two things can be true:  This is an average Patriots team, and   It would be a major disappointment if they don’t make the Super Bowl.   Let’s start with the first thing, this Pats team isn’t very good.   For the regular season they were first in offensive EPA/play and 11th in defensive EPA/play.   That first in offensive EPA/play number is a Drake Maye and schedule stat, because he has deeply mediocre help elsewhere.   The Pats were 16th in EPA/rush with their leading rusher, Treyveon Henderson, running for 911 yards at the 29th best success rate in the league. Their leading receiver this year was 32-year-old Stefon…
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The Broken Promise of Charlie Curnow

The Broken Promise of Charlie Curnow

• GuyWhoLikesSport
The Sydney Swans are big game hunters.   They kind of embody the city in that way.   They want stars, glitz and glamour. Often, they want to import it.   They’re like the Lakers.   Sure, they home grow talent, but when they’re looking for a cherry on top, since the mid 90s they’ve gone with Demott Brereton, Tony Lockett, Barry Hall, Buddy Franklin, and now Charlie Curnow.  While they’ve not always turned into premiership glory, each of Lockett, Hall, and Franklin were stars for the Swans and made the Swans a name brand in the AFL.  But with Curnow, my fear is that they’re barking up the wrong tree. This player is not Lockett or Franklin. He’s far closer to the broken…
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Is This the Rams' Last Best Chance to Win the Super Bowl?

Is This the Rams' Last Best Chance to Win the Super Bowl?

• GuyWhoLikesSport
Heading into the playoffs, I picked the Rams to win the Super Bowl.   To me, they have the right balance of an efficient running game, an explosive passing game, a young and dangerous defensive line, as well as a super hero at quarterback and play-callers on both sides of the ball that have built mansions on the cutting edge of the NFL scheme world.  This is, to my eye, the best McVay team ever including the one that won the Super Bowl.   Even after a relatively average last month of the season, and a life and death win against the 8-9 Panthers, I…
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Three Key Takeaways from the 2026 AFL Fixture

Three Key Takeaways from the 2026 AFL Fixture

• GuyWhoLikesSport
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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Can Anyone Stop Barcelona from Reclaiming the Women's Champions League?

Can Anyone Stop Barcelona from Reclaiming the Women's Champions League?

• Chandler Milligan
If there was doubt, it’s been quashed. Three games into their UEFA Women’s Champions League campaign, and last year’s runners-up have made their intent clear. Having featured in each of the last five UWCL Grand Finals, Barcelona Femeni have been comfortably the best team in Europe since the turn of the decade. Following last summer’s shock 1-0 defeat to Arsenal in the UWCL Final, their dream of a stunning three-peat was ended. And in the aftermath of that pain, it looked like the walls were crumbling down around the incredible dynasty that the Barca Femeni has created over the last…
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The Recession the Bills had to Have

The Recession the Bills had to Have

• GuyWhoLikesSport
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

• GuyWhoLikesSport
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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It’s Time to Accept Vincent Kompany as One of the Best Managers in the World

It’s Time to Accept Vincent Kompany as One of the Best Managers in the World

• Chandler Milligan
When Vincent Kompany was announced as the Bayern Munich manager ahead of the 2024/25 season, it felt like a bit of a joke. A real ‘games gone’ moment. He had, after all, just steered Burnley to a miserable 19th-place finish in the Premier League. Somehow, he failed upwards and was rewarded for a disastrous relegation campaign with the keys to one of the greatest football clubs in history. Off the back of Bayer Leverkusen’s invincible season, it was imperative that the Bavarians reclaimed the title that they had won 11 times in a row before Xabi Alonso’s historic campaign. With…
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Why Not Seattle?

Why Not Seattle?

• GuyWhoLikesSport
The Seahawks are contenders this year. I don’t know why we aren’t talking about it. Maybe it’s because the last time we saw their new quarterback Sam Darnold in a big spot, he turtled like Dee Reynolds doing stand-up. Is it because their head coach Mike McDonald hasn’t quite penetrated the mainstream as a defensive genius yet? Whatever it is, they aren’t getting the respect they deserve even after demolishing the Commanders in prime time. But if you look around the league, they have to be in the conversation. Part of the reason has to be their recent history. The…
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The Nostalgia Trap And How The MLB Avoided It

The Nostalgia Trap And How The MLB Avoided It

• GuyWhoLikesSport
Two things happened this weekend that seemed to be in conversation with one another. The first was that Oasis came to Melbourne, continuing their world tour of bangers from the 90s. Here's the story Liam Gallagher promised us here on @oasisworld_ Proper psychedelic 😅#oasislive25 https://t.co/TZ4CWm0zDI pic.twitter.com/5JDcMtY8QC— Oasis World (@oasisworld_) November 1, 2025 The second was the LA Dodgers won the World Series in a classic Game 7. Video: Japanese announcers react to the Dodgers winning the World Series. It was wild seeing Yamamoto pitch two days in a row, but it worked out in the end. pic.twitter.com/UFsi0kRd71— Jeffrey J. Hall…
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