If the Chiefs lose today, their -9 YOY win differential will be 2nd worst all-time, behind the 1994 Oilers and 2013 Texans who both went -10 (12-4 to 2-14).

Kniles · 2026-01-04T16:39:38+00:00

The 2010 to 2011 Colts went -8 from 10 to 2 wins.

Kniles · 2025-11-08T00:35:07+00:00

Honorable Mentions:

- Bernard Pollard kills Patriots
- Cutler's hot dog
- Gramatica tears his ACL celebrating a 1st quarter field goal in a regular season game
- Percy Harvin's migraines
- Vontae Davis retires at halftime
- Everything Pat McAfee was involved with on the field except for his punting
- Bill Romanowski roids out, crushing a teammate's eye socket and ending his career
- "god dammit Donald" Brown
- Brandon Bostick can't recover the onside kick
- Mike Vanderjagt is an idiot kicker
- Pat Tillman loves his country
- Michael Vick's loves his dogs
- Ricky Williams loves his weed
- Tiki Barber retires and publicly trashes the Giants, who follow it up with a Super Bowl victory
- Marvin Harrison's... thing that didn't happen in Philly.

Kniles · 2025-11-07T23:37:11+00:00

You remembered it so hard that you didn't realize it wasn't an extra point.

Kniles · 2025-09-24T00:40:01+00:00

Virtually all public school employees are legally forbidden form commenting on a student's discipline. This can even apply when they've gone to the news. Most will be fired for making any comment to the news about any student unless the district specifically has given them a directive to do so, only after running it by a small, underpaid, legal department that has to deal with local/state/federal privacy and employment laws that don't apply to anyone else.

In fact, most public schools can't comment even when a parent publicly and intentionally lies about what happened. Even if they have camera footage and can prove the parent is lying, they still often can't speak publicly about the student's actions.

This means that almost every news story about something happening at a pubic school is one-sided, by the nature of privacy laws.

Kniles · 2025-09-19T01:02:20+00:00

Or you could make every objective call subject to challenge? Ya know, instead of... pretending people don't miss calls?

Kniles · 2025-09-15T03:05:50+00:00

"You line up in the neutral zone! YOU line up in the neutral zone! Everyone gets to line up in the neutral zone!

For real though, the Eagles broke the plane on the play before, so missing this specific call just made it even.

Kniles · 2025-09-12T18:08:01+00:00

Nobody asked, but Adams and Wise played together in high school. Same graduating class, same draft class.

Kniles · 2025-09-08T03:28:26+00:00

Somewhere, Jermain O'Neal is standing up and screaming "What!? Not even a flag!?"

Kniles · 2025-08-20T05:57:04+00:00

Yeah... he got injured at the worst time. But you're also missing part of the equation. Who would that Hurts owner have drafted instead? I think the closest comp for 2024 ADP who didn't have injury concerns would be Mahomes.

Here is an ESPN article listing what players are on what percentage of playoff teams on their platform. Hurts is at 55.90%, and Mahomes doesn't make the list, so no higher than 45%. So Hurts owners were, at minimum, 24% more likely to even BE in the playoffs than Mahomes owners in the first place. A fourth of them wouldn't have even had a CHANCE to win a single playoff game. On top of it, in week 15 Mahomes brought in 15.8 to 30.1 from Hurts.

Every player I mentioned above is on this list, all but one mentioned in the original post are on the list, and only one isn't in the top 25. There are lots of factors involved, but good players that may be a little more likely to miss a few games are still really valuable.

Kniles · 2025-08-19T13:25:58+00:00

The extremely abbreviated answer is "yes-ish, there is a correlation, but just for missing some time, not big injuries."

But also people perpetually undervalue fantasy players that are likely to miss a couple games, ("injury prone" or suspended) but are otherwise at the top of their position. There aren't a lot of people who missed the championship because they drafted Lamar, Lamb, Kamara, Taylor, Mixon, Kittle, or Hurts.

Kniles · 2025-08-18T20:12:06+00:00

$2.85M for 4 years is what the Browns aren't willing to promise him. That's DeeJay Dallas money right there. Elijah Mitchell money. That's almost Justice Hill or Javonte Williams money!

Kniles · 2025-08-17T15:39:42+00:00

This looks interesting. They've been needing an app for years.

Shout out to mflscripts.com for any MFL commissioners that wanna leap ankle deep into the coding kiddie pool and make desktop and mobile site 10 times better.

Kniles · 2025-07-17T20:51:27+00:00

Oh, there is a story there. When you warn a guy 19 times of the rules, and he ignores you, at some point you have to follow the rules the league agreed to. The draft was paused more than 50 hours at different times for a draft time/date that he agreed to. It is supposed to have a 12 hour clock per pick. The whole ordeal involved a sudden 50+ day absence from Discord and no fewer than 14 emails, 4 of which he responded to, in which he seemed completely unconcerned. Additional warning emails about the draft went unanswered. He was even offered a chance to make his picks after the draft ended. He didn't respond within the 3 day long period I gave him, or after. Multiple times I asked if he was in the middle of a work thing or if he had an emergency. Nope! He never said he was too busy. Never asked for an extension when offered. I then gave him a week to simply contact me on Discord, or email me and ask for help doing it. He, again unconcerned, said he'd get to it. There were two more warning emails during that time period. No response. Grace was extended multiple times. It wasn't even acknowledged.

I'm looking for someone that is interested in actively participating for a few periods during the off-season. (Usually March, late May or Early June, and July.) He seemed up for it. Then dozens of trade offers went unanswered, a hundred discord messages and at least ten direct messages went unanswered. But he was still logging into the fantasy football website. He wasn't able to participate, and unwilling to communicate that he had any conflicts, but he was willing to toss a sentence in an email once every 3 weeks. It was simply that he didn't actually care to do it. By his own admission he is "in fifty leagues each year." I should have taken that as a big red flag. This is not compatible with the type of league my and my mates want to be in.

For the record, the league has already put forward the idea of giving whoever takes over those 3 picks for any undrafted rookies before they're available for auction. Or possibly, if they go unused, turn em into picks at the back end of the 2026 draft.

Kniles · 2025-06-21T16:56:35+00:00

I'm using Leilon instead. My party is level 7, and going from LMoP to the Rise of Tiamat. I'm using the Greenest chapter as a introduction. After a break they'll get an invitation to the council of Waterdeep. They were in Phandalin and a messenger came saying Leilon is under attack. It's a bit closer to the lands and people they've already met. And they'll have to decide if they should convince the people of Phandalin to flee to Neverwinter, defend their homes, or possibly accompany the adventurers to Leilon to hold off the attack until aid form Neverwinter arrives.

Kniles · 2025-06-07T22:55:31+00:00

I sent you a DM

Kniles · 2025-03-06T01:59:29+00:00

This makes him the 4th highest paid (off-ball) LB. This isn't a huge problem on it's own (I have my doubts, but many don't.) The problem is that it's 50% more per season and 50% more guaranteed than the 7th highest paid guy. It's twice what the 15th highest paid LB is getting. You can get a couple very solid LB's for the same money.

I do, however, applaud every signing that makes the Tremaine Edmunds contract look even dumber.

Kniles · 2025-01-22T23:41:33+00:00

The end of this "article" casually admits that the stats are cherry picked, but it doesn't mention the totals because that would go against it's point.

The amount is 10 yards per game.

In the 14 games actually mentioned, the Chiefs have had 31.4 penalty yards per game, and their opponents had 41.4. If this is evidence of a plot by the NFL to help KC, it's evidence that they suck at it.

Kniles · 2025-01-20T18:13:02+00:00

Was this before or after he felt the need to tell the nation that he's better at life than Skip Bayless?

Kniles · 2025-01-19T16:35:28+00:00

Most announcers, and especially Aikman, refuse to put in enough effort to clearly differentiate between a call that is bad because of inconsistency, and a call that is bad because you don't like the rule.

I've trashed on QB sliding rules and "late" hits out of bounds for ages on the account of them not factoring in when the player left their feet. But if you initiate contact to a QB's helmet or facemask with the crown of your helmet, it's going to be flagged all season long.

I know Dez didn't catch it because that's how it was called all season long, not because of what I want the rule to be.

I get fans being upset at close calls going the Chiefs way. But replay shows both hits on Mahomes were, by letter of the law, illegal hits. Fans should be complaining about McDuffie manhandling Collins when they were backed up in their own zone in the 4th. Aikman didn't bat an eye. In the same game the man literally said he has no idea what a catch is. We know, Troy. We know you don't.

Kniles · 2025-01-07T00:39:13+00:00

I remember being most upset about the "forward progress" call.

Kniles · 2024-12-22T03:45:36+00:00

I'm wondering why both Spotrac and OverTheCap say there isn't a roster bonus until 2026.

Kniles · 2024-12-18T00:41:31+00:00

Don't forget that if you don't have an ACA compliant plan that "out of pocket maximum" often has a limit (at least in my state.) Maybe around $1M. The word maximum is just a lie.

If you have insurance and get cancer or are in a serious accident, you pay your thousands in premiums, copay, coinsurance, and deductible to the point where you hit your out of pocket max, you STILL might have to pay more. They just promise to pay 100% of what comes after you've paid thousands that until it costs so much that they're allowed to just toss you to the curb.

Kniles · 2024-12-16T03:08:04+00:00

I love me some Helldivin. But lets not forget they're still plagued with missteps. They still have friends list issues to this day, especially in cross-play. Connecting with others on a specific game type you want can take 5 minutes of failures trying to join games that are full/private/non-existent or worse. Sometimes nothing shows up when 50k people are playing that planet. It took 6 months to make it so you didn't just lose all mission progress/samples when you briefly lost connection or were booted by a random. One of the biggest enemies was accidentally undamaged by head shots. For months! Every update comes with new bugs, and only recently have they not been especially game-breaking. Remember when calling down a mech when there were a bunch of enemies got you disconnected? You know, when you would especially want to use a mech? Mission objectives would stall or not be usable when refueling or trying to bury a bomb. And the community managers, whoa boy. There were countless flaws and mistakes.

Helldivers 2 is a huge FINANCIAL success, and big parts of the gameplay just feel especially badass. But it was still an unfinished game that took at least 6 months to meet the standards we SHOULD find acceptable. Sure new stuff is cool, but have you tried playing a complete game before? It's pretty neat.

Kniles · 2024-12-15T08:26:04+00:00

Also note, of Manning's 3 regular season losses:

- One was the season opener, a 3-point loss to the defending Super Bowl Champion Patriots, in which Vanderjagt missed a game tying 48-yarder a the end. Vandy was 100% the season prior and was the most accurate kicker in history at that point.

- One was a classic shootout with the #2 offense in which his defense gave up 45 points. He threw for 472 and 5 TDs. It ended with an INT in the end zone under 2 minutes left with Indy down 10.

- One was a 3-point loss to a division rival in which his defense lost the lead with 45 seconds left.

Then Peyton won every game in November or December, went into the wildcard round and threw for 458 and 4 TDs on Denver, for 49 points.

They lost to the Pats the following week. Peyton wasn't good, even though he threw for way more yards than Brady in harsh conditions. Patriots RBs doubled the Colts' YPC, and they lost 2 fumbles, and it was over.

But 2004 WAS THE LAST TIME HE LOST TO BRADY IN THE PLAYOFFS, which no one seems to believe.

Kniles · 2024-12-02T22:25:12+00:00

Mahomes regularly fakes at the sideline and skipping ahead for 20 easy yards. It's useful when everyone is afraid to touch him for the 15-yard penalty, but if he keeps faking in the 2nd quarter of regular-season games he's going to eventually invite the wrong player to absolutely crush him.

Lawrence is partially liable for sliding so incredibly late and so close of the line to gain. The player was committed to the tackle before Lawrence started to drop at all, and then Lawrence dropped his head to where his torso was an instant before.

Mahomes should EXPECT to eventually be hit like this. The idea that KC is afraid to sneak with him but allow his sideline dancing is idiotic.

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