☀️ Good morning and welcome back to The Nosebleeds.

😴 Two more sleeps my friends, then NFL football is officially back.

🏈 On tap today, we’ll have a full NFL season preview and talk about how the football season will impact Nosebleed Sports. LFG.

🩸 Changes to The Nosebleeds

We’ll keep this part short and sweet.

For the duration of the NFL season, this is how Nosebleed Sports will operate:

• Tuesday: all things NFL

• Friday: the rest of sports

Game recaps, plays of the week, who balled out, etc.—Tuesday will be our day to discuss all things football.

Meanwhile, Friday morning is when we’ll cover hockey, baseball, basketball, and all the other sports you know and love.

Pretty straightforward—now back to football.

🏆️ The 2024 Super Bowl Champions are…

Who the hell knows?

But odds are, it’ll be one of these five teams:

• Buffalo Bills

• Cincinnati Bengals

• Kansas City Chiefs

• Philadelphia Eagles

• San Francisco 49ers

But there are some other teams with a chance:

• Baltimore Ravens

• Dallas Cowboys

• Jacksonville Jaguars

• Los Angeles Chargers

• Miami Dolphins

• NY Jets

And some Cinderella possibilities:

• Cleveland Browns

• Detroit Lions

• Minnesota Vikings

• New Orleans Saints

• NY Giants

• Pittsburgh Steelers

• Seattle Seahawks

We have narrowed it down to 18 teams (~56% of the league). I’m so good at this…

🤔 NFL Trivia

The defending champion Kansas City Chiefs host the Detroit Lions to open the NFL season on Thursday.

• Question: who did KC play in the 2020 season opener following their Super Bowl victory over the San Francisco 49ers?

Answer at the bottom.

🔮 Official Predictions

AFC Predictions

The AFC will look like this heading into the playoffs:

1. Kansas City Chiefs

2. Cincinnati Bengals

3. Buffalo Bills

4. Jacksonville Jaguars

5. Baltimore Ravens

6. NY Jets

7. Miami Dolphins

In an absolutely stacked conference, the Kansas City Chiefs will be the AFC’s #1 seed heading into the playoffs.

The AFC West is far inferior to the the likes of the AFC North and AFC East, and those easy wins the Chiefs rack up against the Las Vegas Raiders and the Denver Broncos will prove to be the difference.

The LA Chargers and the Cleveland Browns will just miss out on the playoffs this season, even though they would be among the top teams in the NFC.

NFC Predictions

The Eagles and 49ers are considered to be a tier above the rest of the NFC, and will jockey for that coveted #1 seed all season. But heading into the playoffs, the NFC will look like this:

1. San Francisco 49ers

2. Philadelphia Eagles

3. New Orleans Saints

4. Minnesota Vikings

5. Dallas Cowboys

6. Detroit Lions

7. NY Giants

The Niners will be the team to earn the bye in the postseason. They will prey on a weak NFC West division, while the Eagles will be in a dogfight with the Cowboys for the NFC East crown all season long.

New Orleans will earn the #3 seed in the conference by the skin of their teeth over the Minnesota Vikings. Both teams are in weaker divisions, but the strength of the Lions will ultimately cost the Vikings #3 seed.

Wildcard Weekend

• Jaguars < Ravens: Baltimore is simply a better football team, they get the W on the road.

• Bengals > Dolphins: Cinci edges Miami in a shootout.

• Bills > Jets: The Bills prove to be too much for Rodgers and co.

• Vikings < Cowboys: Cowboys show everyone that they are a serious threat in the NFC.

• Eagles > Giants: No contest, Philly dominates.

• Saints < Lions: Detroit gets their first playoff W in more than three decades.

Divisional Round

• Chiefs > Ravens: KC looks shaky but squeaks out a win against Baltimore to reach their 6th consecutive AFC Championship game.

• Bengals < Bills: Buffalo goes into Cinci and does what the Bengals did to them in the Divisional Round in 2023.

• 49ers > Lions: The joy Detroit fans experience only lasts one week as they get run over by the juggernaut Niners.

• Eagles < Cowboys: The Cowboys reach their first NFC Championship game since 1996 in one of the most anticipated games of the year.

Conference Championship

• Chiefs < Bills: Buffalo finally takes down their Goliath and reaches the Super Bowl thanks to an extremely tough regular season schedule that prepared them for this game.

• 49ers > Cowboys: Dallas simply runs out of gas after a war against Philly the week before.

Super Bowl LVIII

49ers < Bills: Josh Allen leads the Bills to their first ever Super Bowl victory—no foldable table in the world survives.

😁 Enjoy the season opener on Thursday!

• Trivia Answer: Kansas City defeated the Houston Texans 34-20 in the season-opening game following their 2020 Super Bowl victory.

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