Usually Hamlet has been handling these threads but the games just started so I’ll put it up.
GB @ DET
MIA @ NE
LAC @ KC
NO @ CAR
NYJ @ BUF
CHI @ MIN
CLE @ CIN
ATL @ TB
IND @ JAX
ARI @ LAR
TEN @ HOU
WAS @ DAL
PHI @ NYG
PIT @ BAL
OAK @ DEN
SF @ SEA
Go underdogs/confusion-causing results!
(and Beat Army)
For everyone wanting an 18 game schedule, watch all of these games and see how many teams are treating them like the 4th preseason game.
I turned away in disgust – what happened after Rodgers was intercepted? (I saw the end, but not how the Pack regained possession)
Thanks,
Brian
Wow - I cannot believe that N.E. lost to Miami. Good thing I don’t bet 'cause I would’ve lost a LOT of money on THAT result.
Pack forced a punt after allowing about 15 seconds off the clock. Got the ball back about ten yards further back the they were with a minute and a half. The executed a good drive including a great play that got them within the 20.Ran out the clock and kicked a FG with 3 seconds.
More or less.
Chiefs Kingdom is rather pleased with that result.
Man, both the Ohio teams HUGE disappointments this season. I’d have to say Cleveland is the more disappointing though, due to better roster talent, more expectations/hype coming into this season and a LOT less injuries than the Bengals.
Nobody notices this shit but me, but the Bengals o-line play has greatly improved over the last 4-6 games and Mixon has run wild while Dalton has had time to make do with Tyler Boyd and a bunch of scrubs in the passing game. Add Joe Burrow, some linemen, DEFINITELY a playmaker at LB or two, re-sign AJ Green if he’s healthy, get Jonah Williams back at LT (best tackle in college from the last draft) and suddenly the 8 one score losses the Bengals suffered this season start turning into wins.
Burrow is a fucking stud. Seems no game is too big for him this year.
Packers look like maybe the worst #1 (or #2, if SF wins tonight) seed I can remember. Barely beating mediocre and bad teams and getting crushed by the few good teams it plays.
Personally, I hope the Chiefs make it to the S.B. from the A.F.C. Beating Baltimore looks like it’ll be no small task, though.
A month and a half ago a friend of mine who’s a huge Cowboys fans told me the 'Boys would find a way to choke the division away. I assured him he was just being overly pessimistic. I was wrong.
I don’t really want an 18-game season, but this is a rather silly and pointless observation.
Sure, some teams aren’t really trying too hard this week because they don’t really have anything to play for. But that is nearly always going to be the case in the last week of the regular season, no matter how many games long the season happens to be. If they went to an 18-game season, there would be some “preseason game” types of effort in the 18th game of the year, but that doesn’t mean that the 16th and 17th games would also be duds, because presumably there would still be a lot to play for, in terms of playoff spots, bye weeks, home field advantage, etc., etc.
Imagine if there were an 18-game season this year. The Ravens would not yet have locked up home-field advantage, so they would have had something to play for this week. The Pats and the Chiefs would still have two more games to fight over a top-two spot. The Titans would have a shot a taking their division, and the Steelers would still be in the race for the Wild Card. In the NFC, Dallas would still be in the hunt for their division, and the top two seeds would still be up in the air. The Rams would still have a shot at the Wild Card.
As I said, I’m not arguing for an 18-week season, but changing the number of games would, for the most part, simply put off the low-effort performances for two more weeks; it wouldn’t really add more weeks of low-effort football.
There are almost no leads so big that they can’t be blown by Dallas.
AFC wild-card games should be interesting. Pats will have their hands full with the Titans, and the Bills/Texans game has the potential to be a good one.
Eagles win the NFC East ANS the Cowboys are eliminated
Miami ruins New England’s annual easy ride to the playoffs.
Overall a good day!
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13-0 Niners at the half. Looking good for a bye week.
Me, too. Since the Browns crapped the bed so spectacularly this season (despite having the second-best rusher in Nick Chubb), I’m left to rooting for the team whose uniform I like best*. And I’ve always liked the Chief’s cheery red and yellow.
And hey, the Browns fired Kitchens. Excellent idea; having six different coaches since Jimmy Haslam bought the team in 2012 has certainly been successful. :rolleyes:
*Why, yes, I am that shallow a football fan.
A trivia question brought to mind by tonight’s game; has any team, other than the current Seahawks, had two offensive linemen whose last name begins and ends with ‘i’?
Well, that was a great way to end the regular season. Hard to believe that the Saints, at 13-3, don’t get a first-round bye. I don’t remember another season with 3 3-loss teams in one conference.
So the Lions trailed the Packers for, like, 3 seconds this season, yet are 0-2 against them.
And Detroit fans will go back for even more abuse next season. How do I know? I’m one of them.