Breaking down Lions’ historic collapse, plus Chiefs and 49ers headed for Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas

Welcome to the Monday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!

I hope you’re ready for two weeks of Taylor Swift! I’m just trying to mentally prepare you now because that’s almost certainly what we’re going to be getting with the Kansas City Chiefs advancing to the Super Bowl, where they’ll be facing the San Francisco 49ers, and no, you are not having déjà vu. We did just have that same exact Super Bowl in February 2020. 

Besides Taylor Swift, another thing you might hear NFL fans talking about over the next few weeks is “WHAT WAS DAN CAMPBELL THINKING?” The Lions coach loves to gamble and he bet the house on two different fourth-down plays on Sunday, and he now has no house. 

We’ll be talking about those fourth-down calls in today’s newsletter, plus we’ll be breaking down the Lions’ entire collapse. We’ll also be taking an early look at the Super Bowl, but we won’t go too deep into that since we have the next two weeks to talk about it. 

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1. Today’s show: Breaking down the AFC and NFC title games

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Ryan Wilson, Will Brinson and I almost didn’t record a podcast for today and that’s because we were basically in shock by what happened to the Lions during the second half of their 34-31 loss to the 49ers in the NFC title game. 

For today’s episode, we spent 60 minutes talking about that game plus the Chiefs’ 17-10 win over the Ravens. Here are some of the topics we covered:

Did Dan Campbell lose his marbles? The Lions coach has been aggressive all season, but that aggressiveness came back to bite him in the rear end on Sunday. During the second…


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Author : John Breech

Publish date : 2024-01-29 18:00:27

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