# The Run to Super Bowl Licks (LIX). 2024 NFL playoffs **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [December 9, 2024, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410 "2024-12-09T18:14:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/221 "2025-01-19T23:41:34Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > I’m seeing Bills favored by 1½ on Vegas Insider. Am I reading that incorrectly? No, I think you’ve got it right. A friend has Buffalo favored, but only very slightly. As he put it, “Might as well be a coin flip.” ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/222 "2025-01-19T23:43:07Z")
WHOOO!!! E A G L E S !!! EAGLES!!! Bring on the rookie. 🕶🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅 ---
**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 19, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/223 "2025-01-19T23:43:55Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > I’m seeing Bills favored by 1½ on Vegas Insider. Am I reading that incorrectly That’s the Opening line. (‘Open’ is the column header.) The subsequent columns are current lines, all of which show Baltimore as a slight favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/224 "2025-01-19T23:48:35Z")
Okay. Open is the Opening Line. Thanks. The Ravens marched down the field very easily to take a quick 7-0 lead. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/225 "2025-01-20T00:00:53Z")
And back come the Bills! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/226 "2025-01-20T00:04:30Z")
Yeah, 7-7 now. But the Bills needed to convert on a 4th and 2 to keep that drive going. And… Buffalo picks off Lamar Jackson! ---
**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 20, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/227 "2025-01-20T00:24:12Z")
Lamar with 2 turnovers. That’s unusual. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/228 "2025-01-20T00:49:11Z")
I wonder what the record is for turnovers in a division round weekend. I suspect we’ve already blown past it. ---
**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 20, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/229 "2025-01-20T00:57:26Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I wonder what the record is for turnovers in a division round weekend. I suspect we’ve already blown past it Perhaps, although there were no turnovers in the Texans/Chiefs game yesterday. There was a turnover on downs, which isn’t classified as a turnover, and there was a blocked field goal, also not classified as a turnover. There were two turnovers in the Eagles/Rams game, both on Rams fumbles. Lions had five turnovers; Commanders none. There have been two thus far in the Bills/Ravens game. So that’s a total of nine so far. Maybe a record. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/230 "2025-01-20T01:12:44Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > So that’s a total of nine so far. Maybe a record. In the 1985 divisional round there were eight turnovers… **in just the Patriots-Raiders game.** And there were eight more in the Rams-Cowboys game. 20 in all that weekend. Teams used to commit more turnovers… WAY more. This year the average team lost 21 turnovers all season. Forty years ago it was almost twice that, about 39 (in a season one game shorter.) Back in the day, nine turnovers would have been a remarkably low number for a slate of four games. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/231 "2025-01-20T01:47:35Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > In the 1985 divisional round there were eight turnovers… **in just the Patriots-Raiders game.** And there were eight more in the Rams-Cowboys game. 20 in all that weekend. Good lord. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/232 "2025-01-20T01:53:20Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Good lord. In retrospect, having Land O’Lakes as the official supplier of game balls may have been an error. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/233 "2025-01-20T02:00:38Z")
Bills are leading, but it is still anybody’s game. I understand that there are a lot of commercials in any football game, but honestly, can TSN find anything other than “Emilio’s dark period” for Bell? In six hours of today’s football, I think it has been shown at least four dozen times. ---
**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 20, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/234 "2025-01-20T02:01:43Z")
Another turnover by the Ravens. ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/235 "2025-01-20T02:03:14Z")
That was some atrocious ball security there by Andrews. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/236 "2025-01-20T02:03:20Z")
If the Bills get a TD off of this one (big if), it would be really hard for the Ravens to come back from. Even another FG will make it difficult if the Bills can take a lot of time off. ---
**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 20, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/237 "2025-01-20T02:19:43Z")
It sucks if you’re a fan of the Lions, Ravens, or Rams, but you can’t turn the ball over that much in the playoffs and expect to win. These were (outside of the turnover plays) well played, close games, but take care of the damn ball. So says @Hamlet, fan of the Packers, who had 1 fumble lost and 3 interceptions in their wild card loss. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/238 "2025-01-20T02:31:14Z")
Oh dear! ---
**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 20, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/239 "2025-01-20T02:31:21Z")
Poor Mark Andrews. Gonna be a long offseason for him. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410/240 "2025-01-20T02:34:38Z")
The Bills only scored 6 points in the 2nd half but it was good enough. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-run-to-super-bowl-licks-lix-2024-nfl-playoffs/1011410.md?page=13)