Say what you will about Belichick and Brady, but making the playoffs 11 seasons in a row in the NFL is nothing short of amazing.
Now the Chiefs own the longest current streak at 6, which includes this season.
I think the 49ers and Cowboys of the 70s-80s and the 49ers of the 80s-90s had similar runs but that was also during a time when teams were able to keep their core players for their entire careers. You could build great teams through draft picks and switch out odd players here and there. Now teams can literally be pulled apart from one year to the next. You can argue that Brady and Belichick were the continuity, but it takes more than a coach and QB to win a championship. Impressive is an understatement.
Dwayne Haskins was apparently seen partying with maskless strippers last night, after WFT lost to the Seahawks. Also, “Maskless Strippers” would be an excellent band name.
Seriously I think that guy could be a big success if he gets used properly. At one point he was responsible for 50% of Washington’s offensive yards.
Maybe they’re all in his bubble.
According to this wiki page, the Pats streak of 11 is the NFL record. The Cowboys from 75-83 and Colts from 02-10 both had streaks of 9 seasons. Four teams had streaks of 8 seasons.
The 2020 pickup line, “Hey baby, wanna be in my bubble?”
Watching. Bengals. Steelers. Slipping into coma…
The weird thing is that not only do the Steelers look bad (particularly Ben who is just making bad decisions), but the Bengals actually look good. They are balling out.
Probably ought not to count out the Steelers just yet.
Pats had 19 consecutive winning seasons, one short of the record.
In other news, falling behind bad teams, then coming back to win, seems to be the Steelers way. They trailed Dallas by 10 and Cincinnati by 17.
Oof my Steelers…
I wonder if any team has ever started a season 11-0 and finished 11-5 before?
I read an article earlier today about the movement of legit NFL starting QB’s. It kinda started last year with Tom Brady, Cam Newton (somebody please stick a fork in his ass and turn him over, he’s done), Teddy Bridgewater, Nick Foles, Phillip Rivers, Jameis Winston, and Marcus Mariota moving last offseason. This year there are guys like Carson Wentz (lots of dead money there Oofa), Matthew Stafford, Matt Ryan, Derek Carr/Marcus Mariota (never trust Gruden to do the smart thing), Jimmy Garoppolo, and others(do the Bears pay Mitchell Trubisky starting QB money? Please God say yes!!!) who may be moving teams in the offseason. It will be interesting to see who ends up where for next season.
It seems to me, and I’m certainly up for being corrected, that the value of a starting QB in the NFL is finally coming to a more realistic standard. Teams may now realizing throwing massive amounts of money at slightly better than average QB’s isn’t very helpful in building a winning franchise. Or QB’s are just getting older and teams want shiny new toys. I’ve heard it both ways.
Should be interesting…
I am pining for a Super Bowl I rematch; Chiefs-Packers.
I’ve only seen it on a Washington blog so far, but apparently the NFL is looking into Haskins and the strippers. Washington does have a playoff hope (go ahead and laugh but someone has to win it) and if they have to do a Broncos QB situation, it could be ugly. Don’t know if Alex Smith, if the leg is ok, would be able to play if he was in contact
If the Packers beat the Bears in Week 17, they are the one seed, and everyone gets to play at Lambeau in the winter. I couldn’t find a single situation in my five minute experimentation where the Chiefs aren’t the one seed as well.
When is the last time two top seeds met in the Super Bowl?
As long as the Packers win one more game, they’re the #1 seed; they have a one-game lead over the Saints, and they have the advantage over New Orleans if both teams finish with the same record, having defeated the Saints earlier in the season.
That said, of the Packers’ two remaining games, they likely do have a better chance of beating the Bears than this week’s opponents, the Titans.
Edit: I forgot to take into account the fact that the Seahawks are also one game behind Green Bay; I’m not sure who would get the #1 seed if it came down to a tie between Green Bay and Seattle.
I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the following statement, but it came across my Twitter feed from a professional sportswriter:
If KC loses out, PIT and BUF win out, MIN beats NO, DET beats TB, Bengals beat the Texans, Jaguars beat the Bears, Browns beat the Jets, and the Football Team beats Carolina…KC is the #2 seed.
Now, the probability of all this happening is extremely low. Based on last night’s performance, Pitt will probably not win out, and the Vikes probably don’t beat the Saints, and the Jags probably don’t beat the Bears. More likely, the Chiefs will probably not lose to both the Falcons and Chargers.
I bet the Chiefs will see the Falcons jump to an early lead but then lose it late.
The kicker is if it’s a threeway tie between GB, NO, and SEA (Green Bay loses to Chicago, New Orleans and Seattle win out). Then, head-to-head doesn’t take effect (no GB/SEA game or NO/SEA), and it falls to the second (technically third) tiebreaker: conference record. New Orleans wins that tiebreaker, taking the #1 seed. No head to head for SEA/GB and equal conference record, so it falls to common games - Seattle wins for the #2. Green Bay then takes #3 because the NFCE is a joke.
If it’s just a Seattle/Green Bay tiebreaker, Seattle wins the #1. However, if the Packers beat the Bears, no matter the result of the game against the Titans, they’re the #1 seed, due to having the head-to-head over the Saints and the conference record over the Seahawks.
All Green Bay has to do is take care of business against a 100-year rival in their house, when the Bears have a chance to play spoiler. Easy peasy, and I’m just going to stay drunk from New Years through the end of the game. Can’t hate what I can’t remember.
Plugged it all in to the playoff machine and it checks out, with one small caveat: only one of the Browns or WFT need the win. If the Browns win, Pittsburgh is the one seed. If they lose, and Washington wins, the Bills take #1.