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Post by monodrone on Oct 8, 2021 8:45:57 GMT -5
I had the second half of this game in the background while I was working this morning and my first thought on watching this play was 'wow, good pick up' which was quickly followed by the thought that the punter must be one of those former aussie guys you get punting in the NFL these days because that scoop and kick was pure aussie rules. Good game despite both QBs getting finger knack.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Oct 20, 2021 12:48:22 GMT -5
Given that we're stuck with the inane 17th game, the NFL should realign its divisions/scheduling/playoff formats.
To my mind the most obvious/least disruptive way is to consolidate both conferences into eight team Eastern and Western divisions as follows:
NFC East - Current NFC East and South (keep all the classic NFC East rivalries, and the South teams seem like they'd fit in) NFC West - Current West and North (keep all the classic North rivalries, but liven them up with high flying West teams)
AFC East - Current East plus North except for Bengals, replace them with Jaguars (keeps all the East rivalries, most of the major North rivalries, though maybe Jags and Fins can create a shitty Florida rivalry until the former inevitably moves to London (the real reason you wouldn't want them in the West) AFC West - West and South (but with a new Bengals/Indy rivalry, maybe?)
Everyone plays home and away vs their seven division teams, plus the teams from the other three divisions that fell in the same place last season.
Either skip WC week byes and have just two Wild cards in each conference, or have four Wild Cards with WC week byes for both Division winners.
With half as many divisions, almost certain no 8-9 team gets into the playoffs let alone home field.
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Post by monodrone on Jan 30, 2022 19:22:27 GMT -5
The Bengals?!?!!!??!??!!!!!!
This one's for Rudi Johnson, TJ Houshmandzadeh, Cory Dillon, Takeo Spikes, Adam 'Pacman' Jones, Chad Ochocinco and, to a lesser extent, Carson Palmer because he had that nice run with the Cardinals in 2015.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Oct 17, 2022 13:48:40 GMT -5
I am PUMPED for this lucky-ass Vikings team's inevitable meltdown loss in the first round of the playoffs.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Oct 21, 2022 15:20:30 GMT -5
You know, I can't even laugh or be mad at Tom Brady refusing to retire anymore. It's just depressing as hell that he can't think of a single thing he would rather be doing in his life, not even a hobby, and that he's not going to go out on top. He won't retire until he gets injured, and very badly. And for what? To not eat strawberries or spend time with his kids for the next four, five, six years? (The strawberry thing is facetious, but the kid thing isn't.) It's almost like a compulsion at this point.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Oct 21, 2022 16:17:59 GMT -5
You know, I can't even laugh or be mad at Tom Brady refusing to retire anymore. It's just depressing as hell that he can't think of a single thing he would rather be doing in his life, not even a hobby, and that he's not going to go out on top. He won't retire until he gets injured, and very badly. And for what? To not eat strawberries or spend time with his kids for the next four, five, six years? (The strawberry thing is facetious, but the kid thing isn't.) It's almost like a compulsion at this point. It is kind of morbidly fascinating to see us hit the "we spent so much time asking if we could keep these guys on the field/court deep into their 40's, we never asked if we should" era of training and sports medicine. See also: LeBron's periodic comments about playing with his son which seem destined to result in both a disappointing end to his career and years of therapy bills for his oldest son who keeps getting graded out as maybe a fringe second-rounder.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Oct 21, 2022 16:39:44 GMT -5
You know, I can't even laugh or be mad at Tom Brady refusing to retire anymore. It's just depressing as hell that he can't think of a single thing he would rather be doing in his life, not even a hobby, and that he's not going to go out on top. He won't retire until he gets injured, and very badly. And for what? To not eat strawberries or spend time with his kids for the next four, five, six years? (The strawberry thing is facetious, but the kid thing isn't.) It's almost like a compulsion at this point. It is kind of morbidly fascinating to see us hit the "we spent so much time asking if we could keep these guys on the field/court deep into their 40's, we never asked if we should" era of training and sports medicine. See also: LeBron's periodic comments about playing with his son which seem destined to result in both a disappointing end to his career and years of therapy bills for his oldest son who keeps getting graded out as maybe a fringe second-rounder. I wonder how much of this is the super successful elite athletes having unhealthy attitudes towards competition. Owl, until what age will LeBron need to stick around in the league in order to play NBA basketball with his son? Furthermore, if he never gets to do this, how much consolation do you think it will be that he got to play fictional cartoon basketball with his fake movie son in the Space Jam sequel?
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Oct 21, 2022 16:54:08 GMT -5
It is kind of morbidly fascinating to see us hit the "we spent so much time asking if we could keep these guys on the field/court deep into their 40's, we never asked if we should" era of training and sports medicine. See also: LeBron's periodic comments about playing with his son which seem destined to result in both a disappointing end to his career and years of therapy bills for his oldest son who keeps getting graded out as maybe a fringe second-rounder. I wonder how much of this is the super successful elite athletes having unhealthy attitudes towards competition. Owl, until what age will LeBron need to stick around in the league in order to play NBA basketball with his son? Furthermore, if he never gets to do this, how much consolation do you think it will be that he got to play fictional cartoon basketball with his fake movie son in the Space Jam sequel? He's a high school senior this year, so given current NBA rules he'd have to go play college or in some other developmental league next year for sure. So the best case scenario is he goes pro for the 2024-25 season and LeBron is 39 on opening night. But that seems unlikely at this point unless a team decides it's worth taking a flyer for the sake of the story. Just looking now, Bronny seems to average around top-50 players in his class, so like he'll probably be a pretty good college player but not somebody that screams "one and done first round pick".
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Oct 22, 2022 7:57:05 GMT -5
I wonder how much of this is the super successful elite athletes having unhealthy attitudes towards competition. Owl, until what age will LeBron need to stick around in the league in order to play NBA basketball with his son? Furthermore, if he never gets to do this, how much consolation do you think it will be that he got to play fictional cartoon basketball with his fake movie son in the Space Jam sequel? He's a high school senior this year, so given current NBA rules he'd have to go play college or in some other developmental league next year for sure. So the best case scenario is he goes pro for the 2024-25 season and LeBron is 39 on opening night. But that seems unlikely at this point unless a team decides it's worth taking a flyer for the sake of the story. Just looking now, Bronny seems to average around top-50 players in his class, so like he'll probably be a pretty good college player but not somebody that screams "one and done first round pick". If I were HDB, I would take this opportunity to suggest that, since Mario Andretti raced (and came in second) at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with his less talented son Michael, when he was in his mid-fifties, then this means that Lebron has at least a good fifteen years for his modestly skilled son to make the transition from college to NBA player, but I think that’s probably a bit unrealistic, since Internet says the oldest NBA player to still be playing was 45 at the time, and the only guy I’ve heard of who even came close to that was Vince Carter at 43.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Oct 24, 2022 9:49:52 GMT -5
He's a high school senior this year, so given current NBA rules he'd have to go play college or in some other developmental league next year for sure. So the best case scenario is he goes pro for the 2024-25 season and LeBron is 39 on opening night. But that seems unlikely at this point unless a team decides it's worth taking a flyer for the sake of the story. Just looking now, Bronny seems to average around top-50 players in his class, so like he'll probably be a pretty good college player but not somebody that screams "one and done first round pick". If I were HDB, I would take this opportunity to suggest that, since Mario Andretti raced (and came in second) at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with his less talented son Michael, when he was in his mid-fifties, then this means that Lebron has at least a good fifteen years for his modestly skilled son to make the transition from college to NBA player, but I think that’s probably a bit unrealistic, since Internet says the oldest NBA player to still be playing was 45 at the time, and the only guy I’ve heard of who even came close to that was Vince Carter at 43. I had to look up Moses Malone but was surprised to find out he was only 40 when he retired. It seemed like he was older but that may have been because based on the name alone he sounded like he came out of the womb as a 54 year-old. Also he had a longer than usual career since he was a straight to the pros guy at at time when it was rare.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Oct 24, 2022 10:21:53 GMT -5
If I were HDB, I would take this opportunity to suggest that, since Mario Andretti raced (and came in second) at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with his less talented son Michael, when he was in his mid-fifties, then this means that Lebron has at least a good fifteen years for his modestly skilled son to make the transition from college to NBA player, but I think that’s probably a bit unrealistic, since Internet says the oldest NBA player to still be playing was 45 at the time, and the only guy I’ve heard of who even came close to that was Vince Carter at 43. I had to look up Moses Malone but was surprised to find out he was only 40 when he retired. It seemed like he was older but that may have been because based on the name alone he sounded like he came out of the womb as a 54 year-old. Also he had a longer than usual career since he was a straight to the pros guy at at time when it was rare. The real mind-bender for me is always Robert Parish being on the '97 Bulls bench at 44 years old. But almost all of the guys who played into those ages were clearly role players, if not just getting paid to be a good veteran presence in practice/on the bench, by the time they hit forty. The idea that they'd still be like the focal point of the team at this point in their careers is pretty unprecedented.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Oct 24, 2022 12:17:49 GMT -5
I had to look up Moses Malone but was surprised to find out he was only 40 when he retired. It seemed like he was older but that may have been because based on the name alone he sounded like he came out of the womb as a 54 year-old. Also he had a longer than usual career since he was a straight to the pros guy at at time when it was rare. The real mind-bender for me is always Robert Parish being on the '97 Bulls bench at 44 years old. But almost all of the guys who played into those ages were clearly role players, if not just getting paid to be a good veteran presence in practice/on the bench, by the time they hit forty. The idea that they'd still be like the focal point of the team at this point in their careers is pretty unprecedented. Bill Cartwright was another not nearly as old as they seemed 80's/early 90's guy. He was only 37 or 38 when he retired despite looking like someone's grouchy grandfather.
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Post by Jimmy James on Oct 24, 2022 12:51:46 GMT -5
He's a high school senior this year, so given current NBA rules he'd have to go play college or in some other developmental league next year for sure. So the best case scenario is he goes pro for the 2024-25 season and LeBron is 39 on opening night. But that seems unlikely at this point unless a team decides it's worth taking a flyer for the sake of the story. Just looking now, Bronny seems to average around top-50 players in his class, so like he'll probably be a pretty good college player but not somebody that screams "one and done first round pick". If I were HDB, I would take this opportunity to suggest that, since Mario Andretti raced (and came in second) at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with his less talented son Michael, when he was in his mid-fifties, then this means that Lebron has at least a good fifteen years for his modestly skilled son to make the transition from college to NBA player, but I think that’s probably a bit unrealistic, since Internet says the oldest NBA player to still be playing was 45 at the time, and the only guy I’ve heard of who even came close to that was Vince Carter at 43. His best bet is to simultaneously decide if people will still argue over whether he's a better basketball player than Michael Jordan, he can try and prove he's a definitively better baseball player than Michael Jordan. There's more precedent for players past the age of 45 there, not just old timers like Satchel Paige but more recent names like Jamie Moyer, Ichiro Suzuki, or Bartolo Colon. Follow the lead of the Kens Griffey and try to hit home runs in the same game as father and son.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Oct 24, 2022 14:34:20 GMT -5
You know, I can't even laugh or be mad at Tom Brady refusing to retire anymore. It's just depressing as hell that he can't think of a single thing he would rather be doing in his life, not even a hobby, and that he's not going to go out on top. He won't retire until he gets injured, and very badly. And for what? To not eat strawberries or spend time with his kids for the next four, five, six years? (The strawberry thing is facetious, but the kid thing isn't.) It's almost like a compulsion at this point. I mean to be fair there was no way to know for certain its time for him to hang it up until he was 6-7 weeks deep into a season proving it, and it'd be awkward to just retire mid-season (if there was any potential for a legitimate QB controversy in Tampa that'd be a somewhat dignified way out, but their backup is [checks notes] Blane Gabbert, so no). Also the NFC South is so atrocious they should at least stagger onto a 4th seed anyway. That said if avoiding awkwardness were the primary motivation for finishing out the string I don't think he'd be berating his OL so no tears for Tommy.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Oct 25, 2022 22:52:56 GMT -5
This is my absolute favorite type of inane sports stats bullshit.
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Post by monodrone on Oct 26, 2022 9:04:18 GMT -5
This is my absolute favorite type of inane sports stats bullshit. That's not even necessarily true though, is it? You can't just state that the two teams the Chiefs played scored about the same number of points so the offenses are the same quality as a fact because the 49ers are demonstrably worse than the Bills on offense this season. If Jimmy Garoppolo was as good as Josh Allen the 49ers maybe make it a closer game because he doesn't take 5 sacks or lose that fumble or other things that happened that I can't remember. Absolute junk stat and analysis.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jan 15, 2023 20:51:36 GMT -5
I am PUMPED for this lucky-ass Vikings team's inevitable meltdown loss in the first round of the playoffs. Called it
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Jan 16, 2023 15:12:48 GMT -5
I am PUMPED for this lucky-ass Vikings team's inevitable meltdown loss in the first round of the playoffs. Called it Honestly though it didn’t even look like the Vikings did anything especially choke-y. Except for the first drive Giants made Jefferson a nonfactor, and in the 4th quarter they pressured Cousins to overthrow. But that was just good game planning by Martindale.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jan 16, 2023 15:59:07 GMT -5
Honestly though it didn’t even look like the Vikings did anything especially choke-y. Except for the first drive Giants made Jefferson a nonfactor, and in the 4th quarter they pressured Cousins to overthrow. But that was just good game planning by Martindale. That's fair, I think it was just that literally every game they'd been in that was that close at the end they pulled out until the one that really counted. Really, it was more that they couldn't get stops and I assume they'll be in the market for a new DC now.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Feb 12, 2023 22:27:24 GMT -5
“And, on an extreeeeeeemely suspicious play, the Raiders Chiefs win!”
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