And now the eight teams in the divisional round...

Tampa vs. KC again, eh?

And it'll have the same result as 55 did.

I mean, the problem here for the AFC is that I don't see any of the four teams beating Tampa, LA, or Green Bay.  And San Francisco comes down to whether they decide to show up that day.

But the fact is that you are now down, if they aren't going to send Mahomes to yet another Super Bowl, to Buffalo, Tennessee, and Cincinnati.

I'd take the Chiefs over an all-star team of all three of those teams.

Tennessee, you've got a little engine that could, and they did answer when it looked like their one Q-Rating player, Mr. Henry, went down.

Now they get Henry back, and you're thinking they have a chance.

The problem is:  As much as this whole Reid family situation stinks (and has held back this team on multiple occasions in the last five years), the fact is this league would like, end of the day, to go with Patrick Mahomes as The Next Man.

Buffalo is probably the best full team in the AFC, but we know that and 75 cents might get you a cigarette in some jurisdictions.

And someone had to win the AFC North.

I do think, though, that the AFC team loses the Super Bowl, and that will redouble, and hard, if Kansas City is not that team -- and redouble again in any event if the opposition is Tampa...

AFC Divisional Politicals

1) Kansas City

Significant gap

2) Tennessee

Significant gap

3 and 3A)  Buffalo and Cincinnati

NFC side:

I think the real question is:  Did they get rid of most of the obstacles of making LVI a Tom Brady High Mass?

I've been criticized by readers of the blog as that Tom Brady is rent-free in my head.

This motherfucker has been the NFL for the last 20 years.

He's a cheater.

He's on performance-enhancing drugs of his own program.

And he's a perfect representative of the Rigged National Religion Era of the National Football League.

If there were one guy who could pop positive for COVID and get the Super Bowl postponed singlehandedly, it's TB12.

Why?  Because this cheating druggie motherfucker has been basically the entire existence of the National Football League since he came in after an injury to Flutie Drew Bledsoe ("Unknown" is a jackass, but right is right...) in 2001.

He'd be the Michael Jordan of the NFL (in every negative connotation), but he's gone past that about 50 miles down the road.

Getting rid of Dallas is another example of why they need a housecleaning there, probably Jerreh on down -- Dallas draws numbers, so why would the NFL undiscipline and Refball Dallas out?

Green Bay?  They're jobbing somewhere -- and I'm beginning to wonder if we're looking at this weekend.  San Francisco is a matchup problem for them, and between that, Aaron Rodgers being an unvaxxed idiot, and the problems with rural Green Bay representing a very urban NFL, I very easily could see San Francisco winning on Saturday, and would probably place that bet if I had the money to lose and was in Nevada at some point soon.

The only real case you have for Green Bay in any capacity is that Rodgers leaves (probably retires) at the end of the season, and this one is Services Rendered.  But why do that after all of Rodgers' COVID bullshit?

San Francisco...  Remember, they were the job-boys for Mahomes two years ago.  They aren't that far removed.  The problem is:  That same two years ago, Tom Brady switched conferences.  I can see them winning one game -- I cannot see them winning two.

LA Rams...  SHUT UP, KROENKE!  That is all.  The only difference between Kroenke and the Davis Family is that the Rams don't continually disgrace themselves in the crime and drug suspension blotters.

NFC Politicals

1) Tampa Bay

Significant gap

2) San Francisco

3) Green Bay

4) LA Rams