Before you throw me off a cliff, I don’t think they have, but it’s worth discussing. Especially in light of the injuries.
I DO think that KC has peaked. Ryan Fitzgerald was tweeting about this and I think he’s right—it’s eerily similar to how Philly peaked last year at 10-1 before it all went downhill. It can happen, and no team is immune to it.
I don’t think they have peaked. They’ve just gotten injured to the point that they aren’t as dominating.
Injuries are massive. Team has not peaked. They will be better next year.
Imagine this team with Hutch, Davenport, all the LBs missing, our CBs healthy.
That is an all time great team. Just decimated by injuries on the defense.
All of Dan Campbell’s teams have peaked at the end of the year when it mattered most. Barring injuries, I doubt we see that formula change now.
KC isn’t as good as their record, but Mahomes typically peaks in the playoffs. That’s why he’s Mahomes.
Exactly how I feel.
I think I might ‘fold in’ injuries some times into the definition of ‘peaked’. Because I think the media rarely pays enough attention to how good/great teams get derailed with injuries.
Injuries are a huge factor.
The other one is just a few bad bounces.
Every football game is decided by ~6 key plays a game.
When the Lions were dominating teams, they got all 6 of those key plays.
Houston they damn near lost all those key plays.
Indy they had 2-3 plays that didnt go their way.
Football you have to be good and lucky.
Lions are good and just haven’t gotten lucky a few games.
KC however is just ok but have gotten extremely lucky
Nope. Laportas is just now coming on, Jamo is still a rubber band under tension, we haven’t opened up the deep ball, decker is getting a little rest, Arnold is improving. The list goes on. Not to mention other teams are all dealing with injuries or coaching issues etc etc.
This team has hit a peak, but has not peaked. Honestly which games can anybody point to this year as the top of our game? Dallas? The Thumbtacks and Jags basically did themselves in.
The typical NFL season is full of peaks and valley’s. The great teams find a way to fight through the rough parts, and win games.
We are in a vally right now, but will start to peak again as we get people back from injury.
The Eagles last year peaked, and then fell off a cliff.
It’s all about injuries… We have about 15 good players on injured reserve. Some elite players like Hutch.
The Eagles were a dysfunctional unit at the end of the year.
KC & Lions are a tight group. There’s no comparison here
No we haven’t peaked
KC hasn’t peaked
Did we think they’d peaked last year when we lost two out of three to GB and Chicago?
Because they hadn’t.
An NFL season is all ebbs and flows. Every single year we see it, and yet every year people overreact to losses. What the Eagles did last year was the outlier, not the other way around.
Everyone thinks the Chiefs are gash but they were 9-6 at one point last year. The Bucs were below .500 and lost like 6 games in a row before they won the Super Bowl. The Rams with Stafford were the #4 seed. On and on and on.
So no, we haven’t peaked. We’re just getting started.
The Lions have a 10 day break between the Packers and Bills. That should help resting up some players.
It’s a long ass season for sure. Road game in Indy, followed by playing on 3 days rest with a badly injured defense. We still managed to win both games. The NFL season truly is a marathon. The key is still having some juice left in January. Early bye didn’t help.
I don’t think we peaked it’s hard to peak when you have so many injuries, were struggling a little now because we are missing 1/2 our defense personal. I mean we’re pretty good to still be winning with the guys we lost and still losing, seems every week we lose another starter. I wouldnt call this peaking , I would call it being decimated. There’s next man up , but losing people at this rate you even run out of next man, and now your bringing in guys off the street to be that next man.
My big worry is that being the best team in November very rarely translates to being the best team in January.
With that said, having a close in-division game off four days rest isn’t ringing alarm bells for me. We led the whole game, the stats were significantly in our favor, we just didn’t finish like we usually do, and I’d just put that down to natural variance rather than some kind of decline. If anything, it was a good game to not convert in the red zone, miss FGs and have the defense give up multiple passing TDs for the first time this season because we still got the W.
no we cannot peak as a whole team, unless we have a whole team to peak at full strength. this is a football team , you can’t have 15 defensive guys out on injury and measure peak , bc right now, we are hoping we can hobble through some more games while half our team heals/rests, get’s medical attention, then we hope they can return to finish off the season with a positive.
I like the point that at least half of the defense on IR should be ready come playoffs
The funny thing people want to make trades like this the nba. Glad Brad sees the big picture.
Anzalone for sure. Who else is coming back?
A lot of them are done this year. Like Barnes, Rodrigo, Davenport.
Hutch maybe for the super bowl… But gotta get there first