# NFL 2021: Conference Championship Week **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [January 28, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587 "2022-01-28T18:41:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/41 "2022-01-30T23:15:20Z")
Don’t worry, he screwed up in overtime so the loss is still going to be on him. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/42 "2022-01-30T23:17:24Z")
Damn, Bengals in the Super Bowl! Next one should be good, too. Can the 49ers beat the Rams three times this season? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/43 "2022-01-30T23:17:30Z")
Burrow simply has “it”. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/44 "2022-01-30T23:17:51Z")
Another Niners - Bengals SB incoming? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/45 "2022-01-30T23:20:28Z")
wow, a lesson in how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory eh? Mahomes is going to get a "great during the season but always finds a way to lose in the playoffs " tag with another loss or two like that ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/46 "2022-01-30T23:22:17Z")
Well, maybe, but he’s already got the ring. Not that that can’t still be the narrative, but it’s hard to argue against the hardware. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/47 "2022-01-30T23:26:15Z")
I said this over in the Bears new GM thread… > [@Who will be the Bears' new GM and head coach?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-the-bears-new-gm-and-head-coach/957545/34): > > I feel like this in one of those cases where the stats don’t tell the whole story. Most of us watched a lot of Chiefs games and Mahomes was borderline terrible in parts of them. The final score usually ended up respectable but he was missing throws by 15 yards and chucking balls up for grabs. He never did that before. Kinda feels like tonight was a case study on this. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/48 "2022-01-30T23:28:28Z")
Sports radio hot takes are going to be brutal. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/49 "2022-01-30T23:36:06Z")
I liked how Romo referenced his own history, saying the Bengals should kick it on 3rd down just in case the holder messes up 😜. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/50 "2022-01-30T23:39:55Z")
Mahomes is like Favre, but like 30% more extreme in either direction, both good and bad. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/51 "2022-01-30T23:41:20Z")
Nah, Farve was every bit as reckless and occasionally befuddling as Mahomes has been lately. Mahomes apex though far exceeds Favre. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/52 "2022-01-30T23:42:20Z")
Mahomes: 4-1 TD-INT ratio Favre: 3-2 TD-INT ratio ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/53 "2022-01-30T23:42:51Z")
Different eras. Everyone’s TD to int ratio is higher today. Plus, I was just talking about the range of their outcomes, not the average. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/54 "2022-01-30T23:44:36Z")
Also Favre’s total numbers include a really shaky first couple seasons and a pretty ugly decline at the end. Safe bet that Mahomes final 5 seasons will look a lot worse if he sticks around as long. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/55 "2022-01-30T23:59:34Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > Mahomes is going to get a "great during the season but always finds a way to lose in the playoffs " tag with another loss or two like that That’s the first of his three playoff losses that can be pinned on him. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/56 "2022-01-31T00:27:42Z")
A case could be made that Cooper Kupp deserves the MVP. ---
**Author:** ![3AxisCtrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/ecd19e/32.png) [@3AxisCtrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3AxisCtrl)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/57 "2022-01-31T00:28:53Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Safe bet that Mahomes final 5 seasons will look a lot worse if he sticks around as long. Indeed - likely to be true of any QB not named Brady. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/58 "2022-01-31T00:29:55Z")
I really think there should be two awards - whatever you want to call them. Just give one award to the best QB, and then have another award for the MV-non-QB-P. ---
**Author:** ![3AxisCtrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/ecd19e/32.png) [@3AxisCtrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3AxisCtrl)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/59 "2022-01-31T00:32:59Z")
Agreed. For the Super Bowl, call it the Malcolm Butler award. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587/60 "2022-01-31T00:46:12Z")
I really wish Aikman would stop blowing Stafford. He had a guy wide open, threw it behind him, and Aikman blames the WR for a drop. Yes, it was (and should have been) catchable, but if Stafford puts it in the right spot like he should, it would’ve been a TD. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-conference-championship-week/958587.md?page=4)