Topic: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 - page 205. (Read 57664 times)

In fact while I was writing I thought about that possibility, what if the NFL decided to create a summer league? It will be ridiculous but at this rate it may come to happen.


I am sorry about the whole deal with Matt Patricia, but it seems that with the exception of Flores in Miami everyone wants to impose the ‘Patriot way’ instead of just creating their coaching style and it explodes in their face, BTW if there are some Texans fans here I am sorry about that too, Bill O’Brien legacy seems to still be in effect even if he is not there anymore, while I usually do not believe the rumours the media spreads it seems the Texans have screwed up their relationship with Watson to the point he wants out, and even if that proves to be false the fact they have no first and second round pick in this draft, no cap space and shipping out Hopkins for a bag of Doritos is going to hurt them long term.

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A better chance? Probably, but there will still not be any guarantees the Raiders made it to the playoffs, the Raiders finished 8-8 and the Dolphins failed to make it to the playoffs with a 10-6 record, there are two games Brady could have won, one is the Dolphins game the Raiders lost by one point and the Buccaneers game as they will not have Brady, that is a 10-6 record which is still not enough so "Brady's Raiders" would need to win an additional game, and there are 3 candidates that I think could have been winnable, at NE, at ATL and at home against the LA Chargers which they lost on OT by 3 points.

Looks like this year's Super Bowl will be disputed between the NFC's Old Man Quarterback and the AFC's Young Whippersnapper Quarterback.  Kind of a funny thing I noticed while reviewing the games from this past weekend, the average age of the quarterbacks from the two conferences; the AFC favors the younger generation, while the AFC favors experienced journeymen.

I also notice that as the post season winds down the average age of AFC QBs has gone down, while in the NFC the average age has gone up.

I just came across this thread, I am glad I did although it's almost the end of the playoffs.

I am a big fan of the KC Chiefs, but as much as I like them, I have to side with the Bills in this game.Allen and Diggs have been tremendous this year, while we are still not 100% sure if Mahomes will clear the concussion protocol, even if he does, no one is sure how fit will he be, if he isn't at his best or he doesn't play then I don't see how the Chiefs could win it.
If Mahomes is ready, the game should be much closer but I would still lean on the Bills.

As for the GB Packers vs TB Bucs, I think it could go either way. The over/under is at 51 atm and I feel comfortable taking the over as I expect a lot of production from both Brady and Rodgers.

Good Luck!

They were just too dominant all the time and people hate (kind of envy) that. It's the same in every sport and no reason to worry or be mad about it, the hate/dislike will be gone when the Pats are back to normal. Another thing is, that haters are way more active in (publicly) expressing their opinion than fans doing public praise. So there will always be this disbalance, also because this is a very black/white matter, there is no middle and you have more haters than fans naturally, because the percentage of Pats fans in comparison to football fans/fans of other teams is pretty low like for all teams.

What added to that hate is all this little cheating and pushing the boundaries on top of playing in a super weak division all those years. People thought that NE somehow didn't deserve to be this good, but though I disliked their dominance/success, I always thought it's well deserved, because they were masterclass in a lot of areas and this should get rewarded.

If the Giants ever started such a reign, I wouldn't be too happy about (I think !), because I find it boring in general. It's way more fun to not know, if you will win any particular game or if you will win your division year after year, reach the Conference Championship for the gazillionth time in a row etc.; adds more spice and adrenaline.

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Here are the odds for Sunday:


Source: https://www.oddsportal.com/american-football/usa/nfl/

I like the Bills But you will get them above 3 inplay I think.

I have a question for Tom Brady fans. If he moved to the Raiders instead of Tampa Bay, would the Raiders be having a better chance to be in the playoffs? Las Vegas was one of the places Brady was strongly suggested of going by sports media last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9kECQUXQaQ

No worries, NFL will fix it. The ways things are going soon we'll have 24 teams in the playoffs and two Super Bowls every year. Think about it - some of the stats like "most yards in regular season" or "most TDs in postseason" are already getting inflated due to having more games.


Exactly LOL


"Root" is too strong to describe my relationship with the Lions, a team that y'all can use as a soothing "could be worse" reference whenever you think that your team sucks. But it's great for trivia, for example answering questions like "when was the last time Lions played in the Super Bowl" or "how many conference championships Lions have" or "how many games Lions won in 2008".

I will not be mad but I will have to explain myself, I am NE fan and obviously a Brady fan, but that may bring the question, if I am a Brady fan why I was rooting for the Saints to win? And that is because I am also a Football fan, I enjoy Football in general which is why I appreciate the greatness of other players and teams as well, and while I will be happy if Brady gets its 7th SB win, at the same time I wonder when will we see someone surpassing him? And the most likely answer is that I will not get to see it.

Before Brady came to the picture Montana was this unsurpassable wall for QBs, no matter how good they were they could not compare to his greatness, when Brady won its 4th SB we finally had someone that could rival him at the top, some will still put Montana at the top while some argued about Brady, but it did not matter, we were watching one of the greats and that is all what mattered, when Brady won its 5th SB, and even more importantly the way he did won that SB, people finally began to change their minds, so he is for the most part at the top of the list of the best QBs of all time.

But when he won his 6th SB this created a problem in my mind, Brady has been so dominant for so long that he is now even interfering with the legacies of the next generation of players, on his way to that SB win Brady beat Mahomes on the 2018 AFC championship, think about it Mahomes could most likely have already 2 SBs and could be aiming to get his third but not only Brady interfered with this but he enhanced his own legacy by adding a 6th SB win, if he wins his 7th SB what will the next generation of players have to do just to get in the same level? Win 3 or 4 SBs in a row? Get one or two undefeated seasons and win the SB? The requirements to be on the same conversation are getting more and more ridiculous as we speak, so while I appreciate the greatness of Brady he is leaving the bar so high that if this continues I am afraid we will not see anyone coming close for the foreseeable future.

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Really? I thought you just enjoyed Football in general and did not support any team, which team do you root for?

Haha, that is sad!

I think the only teams worse than the Pats this year were The Jets and Jags!

I never understood the Pats hate, They were the worst team in football the entire time I was growing up and then when they got their shit together people hated on them.

When I was growing up every year the the end for the Pats was always a huge game they had to win against the Colts or they were dead last in the league. Most of the time they lost that game but Plunkett and later Grogan gave it all he got and those poor bastards were dragging their asses in a sling more times than not. Armstrong was literally the only lineman that could block, the rest just stood their looking like idiots while the QB got demolished. I've never seen so many dogpiles, they used to just all belly flop right on top of the pile.

LOL, I'm not a Ravens fan. My team sucks even more than Patriots, if that helps.

Why are Ravens fans always so toxic?

This would be absolutely hilarious.  I'm still not sure who I'm pulling for, I really don't despise any of these teams.  Brady winning it all would be the icing on the cake though.

With Ravens out I'm hoping for Bills vs Bucs... that should make Belichick and Patriots fans smash their TVs.

Brady was obv more then just a system QB at NE.
Yes those turnovers sure helped Tampa but in all honesty, he is one the greats... and thats coming from a Dolphins fan..

I would like to see Brady win it all, that would literally make the Patriots Org look pretty bad...

I wanted to see them go the the conference championship also and make it easier for the Bills to reach the superbowl hehehe.

In any case, on what the Chiefs showed versus the Browns, how do you reckon they perform against the Bills? Is Bills +3.5 a fair handicap?

Also, the joke about Belichick on Tom Brady going to the superbowl is becoming true.

Yep that did it.

Betting against Packers in Green Bay in January would be insane so that's probably what I'll do for next week.

Me too, I would have liked to see them go all the way.  They played hard today, no shame in that loss.

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Four turnovers as of my writing this, it's not looking good for the Saints with two minutes left.  Looks like Brady has to win at Lambo in January if he want's another ticket to the superbowl.

That was brutal, Brees was not right all game - not sure what was going on with that. 

Brady vs Brees 1:1 so far (one TD against one interception that is LOL).

Edit: another turnover. It's going to be hard for Saints to win if they keep gifting Brady these touchdowns.

Ya, I feel the same way. I have a lot of friends who have been Browns fans for a very long time with little to celebrate. I also have a close friend who is a KC fan though so I would have been happy either way. KC seems to have had much more recent success though, but oh well.