Topic: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 - page 82. (Read 57854 times)

From social media hehehe. This idea for a new horror movie. The Chargering.

Congrats on the win! The better team moves on to the next round, as expected, also fully deserved.

It wasn't even a holding penalty, dummy stepped out of his 2-yard zone for no reason (offside), ain't nobody there to block/protect. I knew it was over right there, before the strip sack even. You have to play near-perfect game vs. a superior opponent and it was a nice drive on top of that...costly penalty that was.

Next Schadenfreude, please!    Would be nice going from Urban Meyer and worst in the league to winning a playoff game in one season. Go, Jags!

edit; Schadenfreude sisters, we did it!    What a game...

The weather hasn't been too bad, the sun was out for a bit.  Half time just started and starting to look nasty all of the sudden.   But that's the least of my worries now. 😟

https://i.postimg.cc/XXFcvhYq/20230114-132520.jpg

Geno "they wrote me off, I ain't write back tho" Smith, what a pass that was to DK! Man, this game is better/closer than expected, or at least what the opening drives suggested. 9ers getting everything they want, running, passing to start the game. One long drive by the Seahawks and a momentum switch of sorts. Still, fully expect 9ers to win but you never know....if Seattle can put in some more of those balanced drives in the second half, things could get tricky in the end. Love it!

I'm hearing the weather's gonna be... uhm... fun. Nothing that can't be fixed with copious amounts of beverages though.

Cool beans man, have fun!

Hey guys, in case you haven't seen it, jeremypwr posted a Wild Card Weekend prediction contest on behalf of Sportsbet.  It's free to participate and you can win up to 3mBTC worth of free bets on Sportsbet.io.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.61568696

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That sounds like fun.  If you plan to include Wild Card Weekend you better hurry.  The games start tomorrow at 1:25pm Pacific Time.

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Speaking of tomorrow's games, my brother got two tickets for the 9er's game tomorrow so I'll be attending live!  The last time I was at a game was at Candlestick Park I don't know how many years ago, so I'm pretty excited to see the "new" stadium and watch the 9ers take care of the Seahawks again.

Any interest in an NFL playoff pool? Basically an entry could be like $25 bucks or whatever ( I don't even care if we did $5 worth of bitcoin each, any amount would be some fun action for the playoffs)... each team/person makes picks on each game all the way down to the winner of the Super Bowl.  Each round would have a certain amount of points that you get for correctly picking the winner.  Player with the most points at the end, wins the pot.  

If anyone is interested...

There were some leagues I saw where they decided that they would set up a Madden match, build the teams with their same fantasy players, whoever wins, takes it down lol.

I couldn’t be happier about the Bears losing and the Texans winning. It feels pretty good as a Bears fan going in to the off-season with a quarterback who just might be legitimate as well as having the #1 overall pick. I assume they will trade the pick, but of course I expect some very nice draft capital back in return.

Green Bay Packers losing to the Detroit Lions was icing on the cake.  Maybe Rodgers should focus on building a better team around him rather than his main focus being the top paid quarterback in the league. Enjoy the playoffs from your couch Aaron

This is the outcome when adults deal with a problem, no-one is completely happy but no-one is screwed totally.

Boo on the tie but thanks for the season. See you next (this) year!

I see, well as long as we know what happened then that is enough.

Thanks dude, you did a great job organizing the league and I am glad we could resolve this without any issue.

Now I am not going to deny I am disappointed with this non-ending we had, but no one was at fault so there is no other option but to move on, however make no mistake I will participate again on the next FF league, and while a week ago I was ready for a break, now I wish the league could start tomorrow.

And moving on to the games of this week, currently I am watching the Bills and they are looking good, they went through all kind of emotions so I kind of expected to see some of them absent from the field, but since Hamlin is presenting a good recovery and they need the win if they want to at least play at a neutral site if they played against KC on the AFC championship then they are treating this game against NE very seriously.

Well this is definitely unprecedented and an anticlimactic end to the season.   If you two are in agreement that we should proceed with a tie then that's the way we'll do it.  Send me your addresses and I'll get the funds sent out.  Congrats to both of you.

I'm not concerned what yahoo shows as this is a throwaway account I use for this league anyway and my other real one got the win anyway.

As you said it was a bummer but I could not think of a better player to get a tie with, you played a great season and stuck it out and triumphed in the end.

Even if I set the scores to 0-0 then I think it would set me as the winner as per pre playoff seeding.


So if anyone is interested this is a good primer on how the NFL ALumni Acadamy is working with the XFL to provide players.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK8Z91ftQNY

I'm checking into the leagues now and have found a site https://newshubfantasy.com and am checking it out.

I'll probably join a xfl ff fun team just to get a hang of it this year.

It is not difficult to imagine that things could get ugly in leagues with a lot of money at stake.

Now after thinking about it for some more time it seems to me declaring a tie is still the fairest outcome, Hueristic still had Higgins and Mixon to play while I only had McPherson with a 33.7 lead before the game was suspended and eventually canceled, however with so much at stake for both the Bills and the Bengals I expected some very aggressive play calling by both coaches, which would benefit Hueristic and affect me negatively, all in all is impossible to tell what it may have happened, but I expected the final score to have a margin of difference of less than 5 points.

So if Hueristic agrees to a tie as well we can say this issue is settled and each one can send their bitcoin address to DireWolfM14.

The only remaining issue, even if it is a small one, is that assuming we declare the game a tie yahoo still recognized me as the champion, it would be nice if Hueristic could get the same recognition, but I doubt the platform has the tools to do this, since they were also struggling to figure out how to deal with this unexpected event.

Anyway there is not much else to say except this was a very weird and unsatisfactory way to end the FF season.

In some high dollar leagues its getting bad in terms of what to do lol.  And you are right there is an insane amount of stars that could move the score: Allen, Diggs, chase, Higgins, burrow, Mixon, etc.  All capable of putting up big numbers.  This league specifically is a tough call because of the players involved and the points as of now. 

I agree with this, the news is expected before the end of business today, so around 5pm Eastern Time.



This was my thinking yesterday when I made my post, since it seems that Yahoo has already declared the Cows as champs.  But if the league decides the game is forfeit, or calls it a tie, I think it's okay to let the South Park and Hueristic decide how to proceed.

Well I was hoping the gD BE CONTINUED AND WE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH THIS BUT OF COURSE THATS NOT THE CASE.

Typeing on shit kybd at casino sry.

So I wont be home until maybe tomorrow, I left when the game got postponed.

This is obviousley unpresendated terrirtory as in the past it was assumed games would always be completeleted and have even when players have died. So the league is changing their stance without prior notification and are openeing themselfs up to liabilities which I don't doubt will e settled in court with big players.

Even Damar Hamlin asked who won after he woke up and was told what happened so there was even an expectation from him.

What really sucks besides the guy dropping dead is this had culmilated into one of the greatest matchups in fantasy to date. all the stars aligned for the top players to all be in a position to put up huge numbers. I was really expecting some massive numbers for my number one and 3 pick in this game and am pretty disappointed that we cant see an exiting end.

As Southpark offered I'm of the opinion a tie is the most appropriate outcome.

I guess we could play the gme next week if he wants and I would be fine with that but I relly dont know how playoff contentions and such would effect the play time next week and I have no way to check the teams as I don't have the password with me for the league.

Its weird I had this trepidation about this game and couldn't understand why as its not that important in the scheme of things but i just couldnt shake the thought of something i couldn't put my finger on.

Anyho this is the first game in history that a injury has effected and entire industry.

https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-rules-bills-bengals-a-no-contest-and-afc-title-game-may-be-at-neutral-site-as-owners-prepare-to-vote-on-inequities-021730972.html


I'll make a post with my thoughts tomorrow.

From what i'm reading online Bills vs. Bengals won't happen:

source: https://twitter.com/ProFootballTalk/status/1611061560004280322

The Barbarians' comeback was improbable but not impossible, it's difficult to say what would have happened if the game had been completed. My advice to both is to wait until the NFL officially announces their plans tomorrow and then communicate with each other about what you believe is best. The obvious and also simplest solution is to declare the Cows champions and treat the canceled game as an injury...it sucks, but it can happen.

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...If the NFL goes for it, it will open up a whole new can of worms.