I love Maurkice Pouncey’s explanation for why there are no easy games in the NFL, why the league is the most unpredictable in all of sports, why you see upsets every week such as the Steelers going to Kansas City Sunday and beating the unbeaten Chiefs, the winless New York Giants beating the Broncos in Denver and the Miami Dolphins climbing out of a 17-0 hole in the third quarter to win in Atlanta against the defending NFC champion Falcons.
“There are no homecoming games in this league,” Pouncey said. “We can’t pay a team $900,000 to come here and play.