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For much of the 2024 season, we’ve focused on the Chiefs’ ever-expanding win streak. That finally ended in Week 11, and since then, Kansas City has gone back to eking out victories against teams good and bad. Now we focus on the Lions, Bills and Eagles, who have each compiled impressive winning streaks of their own. But if you can’t win for losing, as the old saying goes, can you lose for winning?
In this week’s roundtable, FOX Sports’ NFL experts tackle that topic and several others, including whether Russell Wilson’s resurgence makes the Steelers a true title contender, whether the 49ers’ championship window has closed, if another QB from the Class of 2023 can challenge C.J. Stroud, and if it’s time for the Falcons to give rookie QB Michael Penix Jr. a shot under center.
Let’s get started.
The Lions, Bills and Eagles have won a combined 25 straight games. Is there any danger of them peaking too early?
I don’t think “peaking too early” is usually much of a factor in the NFL. It can look that way if teams start to slump at the end of the season — as the Eagles infamously did last year — but that usually just means they were flawed teams. I think it’s hard to find flaws with any of these three teams right now.
There are really only two things that I think could derail any of them. One is injuries, which obviously they can’t control. The other is if they pull back the reins late in the season and really lose their momentum — like if they clinch early and rest their starters for a few games. But it’s hard to see that happening. The Bills are likely to be motivated to play hard right until the end as they hope to get what could be a really significant home-field advantage in a potential AFC Championship Game against the Chiefs. And the Lions and Eagles could be in a battle to the end, too, for the top seed in the NFC.
As those fights go on, as long as they stay healthy, none of those teams is likely to suddenly get worse. The players and coaches on those teams…
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Publish date : 2024-12-05 14:25:00
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