So Indy chokes against Jacksonville and the Raiders toy with Steeler Nation's heart attacks before winning at the very last moment of overtime against the Chargers to send both of them to the playoffs. Playoff time is here!
Saturday: Raiders at Bengals, Patriots at Bills
Sunday: Eagles at Buccaneers, 49ers at Cowboys, Steelers at Chiefs
Monday: Cardinals at Rams
Bye: Titans, Packers
Who you got at the end? Right now I'm thinking...I dunno, Packers over Chiefs?
Rams-Cardinals will be only the 7th Monday NFL playoff game ever (all others have been Saturday or Sunday).
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So, now that the wild cards are decided, how do you see the journey to the Super Bowl?
Wake me up at your own risk.
It definitely wasn't these guys, and it definitely wasn't like this.
Bengals over Titans 19-16 on last second field goal.
Niners over Packers 13-10 on last second field goal.
Rams over Bucs 30-27 on last second field goal. After the Rams blew a 27-3 lead in the 3rd quarter and Brady did Brady shit.
What the f is going this year?
Edited by megarockman on Jan 23rd 2022 at 6:31:59 AM
Mahomes leading the Chiefs to victory and the Bills blowing it was a pretty predictable result.
Edited by MFLuder on Jan 23rd 2022 at 7:00:51 AM
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A game isn't over until the clock runs out, but so many last minute wins is surprising.
Edited by Blueace on Jan 24th 2022 at 1:30:19 PM
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Close games are always more fun to watch as an audience member anyway.
It's been 3000 years…
It's a Bengals vs. Rams Super Bowl.
Of course, Bengals had to win the AFC championship after being 18 points behind, and losing the OT coin toss.
Edited by GoldenDarkness on Jan 30th 2022 at 9:53:30 AM
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So, it was a Bengals triumph or one hell of a choke?
Wake me up at your own risk.
Couldn't it be both? Also some arrogance on the Chiefs' part being tackled inbounds at the 1 to end the first half when they had no timeouts to leave it 21-3 instead of getting at least 3.
Also, Brady's officially declared retirement this morning, after speculation from several sources via ESPN since Saturday.
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Next year will have the first odd-numbered Super Bowl since 2013 not won by Tom Brady.
As much as a lot of us got sick of him and the Pats always being in the Super Bowl, they were pretty consistently exciting: of the 9 Super Bowls he and the Pats were in, all 9 were won in the 4th quarter, and all but two (2005 and 2019) were won in the last 2.5 minutes. Weirdly enough, the one he was in with the Bucs was a snoozefest, as were the Pats' two pre-Brady Super Bowls.
Edited by MFLuder on Feb 1st 2022 at 10:07:41 AM
The NFL's franchise in Washington has announced their new nickname of Commanders.
Crosspost from racism thread:
The Broncos and Giants have been named as defendants because Flores alleges their interviews with him (the Broncos in 2019 and the Giants this past month) were sham processes done solely to satisfy the league's Rooney Rule, pointing to a text message he received from New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick that congratulated him on getting the Giants' head coaching job — Belichick had meant to send that text to the other candidate Brian Daboll and admitted to screwing up the recipient. This exchange took place on January 18th, well before Flores' face-to-face interview with the Giants on January 27th which had been scheduled earlier that day. (Daboll was announced as the Giants' new head coach on January 28th.) Flores alleges the Broncos had treated him similarly like an afterthought when they were looking for a new head coach two years ago, as then-general manager John Elway and others arrived at the interview drunk and hungover.
All three franchises have issued separate responses defending their practices.
Edited by megarockman on Feb 2nd 2022 at 9:16:21 AM
The NFL is trying to bury the lede here; the real juicy stuff is that Flores is alleging Dolphins owner Stephen Ross offered to pay him 100k per loss in 2019 explicitly to improve the team's draft position. Not only did the NFL finally jump in bed full time with pro betting this year, but Ross has personally invested millions into it.
Having an owner try to bribe his own coach to throw games to improve draft position, while he is financially invested in betting, and possibly run afoul of the CBA because of performance incentives for players? Not to overstate it, but if true, it could be the worse pro cheating scandal since the black sox.
That's Dr. Title, thank you!
I've already seen some people joke that they'll refer to them as the "Washington Commies".
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Well, time for the big game. Anything to say before things get going?
Wake me up at your own risk.
Don't screw this up, refs.
EDIT: Man, what's with the 20-year-old throwbacks on the commercias? First Britney Spears, then the Sopranos homage.
Edited by megarockman on Feb 13th 2022 at 7:25:02 AM
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I'm glad this game is just as intense as the last few playoff games.
It's been 3000 years…
Yeah, everything from the divisional round on's been great
Is there any NFL playoff year that could rival this one for best ever?
Edited by MFLuder on Feb 13th 2022 at 7:33:12 AM
After 40 days in the wilderness of retirement, Tom Brady has returned for another season.
Well at least it wasn't a Brett Favre-type of situation.
So, who's ready for some football? Bills at Rams to kick off the regular season tomorrow night. Other Week 1 highlights: two instances of a quarterback playing the team they were on last season (Cleveland at Carolina in the early Sunday slot, Denver at Seattle on Monday night).
Also, why don't I check to see what the Jets are up to this sea-
ESPN: Zach Wilson likely out until Week 4, Joe Flacco to start
...goddammit.
This is the first time the soccer World Cup has taken place during NFL season, so I thought it'd be a good time to ask something I've been wondering for a while: if Americans called soccer "football" like most of the world, what would we call the sport we currently call "football"?
American rugby?
Gridiron, I believe, is the more specific term for it.
"Any campaign world where an orc samurai can leap off a landcruiser to fight a herd of Bulbasaurs will always have my vote of confidence"
"Warriors" is a cool name. If you avoid having a caricature as a mascot, they'd manage a cool symbol at least.
Golden State pulls it off, at least.
Edited by Blueace on Jan 5th 2022 at 2:10:31 PM
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