NFL Playoffs - Divisional Round
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As all these teams try to navigate their "windows" and put long-term Super Bowl chances together, year after year, I'm just so incredibly glad we got *18* years of it with Belichick and Brady (19 if we think the 2019 squad had a chance...which they kinda did, at least at the start), where the Pats were ALWAYS a dominant team and in the mix for the Super Bowl, and actually consistently went to the AFCCG and even the SB (9 times....unfathomable really).
After they squeaked by the Dolphins and their 3rd string quarterback last week. They remind me of the Letterjacket Titans than anything.
Definitely.
They can free up some cap pretty readily (eg, 10-20M if they restructure Allen’s deal), but they’re a year or two from a reset around Allen.
Their DL was shockingly bad today, they are probably moving on from both Poyer and Hyde, and they don’t have an obvious opportunity to upgrade on the Gabe Davis/Mackenzie/Shakir/Knox core behind Diggs.
I am now convinced that the NFL is piping in a closed loop audio of crowd noise. For every single playoff game I've watched so far (nearly all) there is a consistent, repeated high frequency (don't want to appear sexist, but female?) wail - and I mean top-of-the lungs wail lasting seemingly forever - at nearly every juncture of the game - doesn't matter team, offense or defense. For example, in tonight's Bill's HOME game, there is this same, repeated scream even when the Bengals seal the deal. Some Bill's HOME fans enjoying the end of their season? Or Cinncy fans just traveling well? It has become so disturbing that it distracts from the play-by-play (not that I am enamored by Tony Romo - but that's another story), and has motivated me to just mute the whole audio.
I don't think they have too much to feel bad about for the regular season. 13-3 and they had the 1 seed taken away through circumstances beyond their control. Of course, a solid regular season just makes today's loss all the worse. Losing by 3 scores at home when you're a 6 point favorite?
I don’t not understand the production trend of having a half dozen dudes standing on a set. Swaying around and not knowing where to look. Such bad TV.
Omg I am so out of the loop. I saw Gronk at the Fox desk and said "huh" before doing some research and realizing he's been doing this since October?! Guess I never watch these pregame shows.
Fake edit: Holy crap they can barely fit everyone in the shot for their picks.
Fake edit: Holy crap they can barely fit everyone in the shot for their picks.
No, they didn't. They only had the No. 1 seed "taken away" if they had beaten Cincinnati in that game ... and that wasn't a given
Correct. But it's fair to say that their CHANCE at the #1 seed was taken away.
Of course....so was Cincinnati's.
Seems like a giant waste of money. Is anyone turning it on or off if Gronk or Sean Peyton isn’t there?
And if the poster had said that, I wouldn't have answered. So ... what's your point?
No. But the league likes the networks to bring in big names for the cache, and the networks like to bring in the big names to tout to advertisers. It’s the rare pregame show where the talent matters: prime example being NBA on TNT and College GameDay.
Not if they had lost to the Raiders the next week and Cincy beat Baltimore. Now KC did NOT lose, but who knows what may have happened in a different scenario.
Next time ... respond to the poster you're correcting and we'll save some bandwidth
That understates it, because at that point, they controlled their own destiny w/regards to the 1 seed. They earned that by beating KC earlier in the year. They were in control of their own destiny, and then they weren't.
And as noted above, KC winning out meant Cincinnati wouldn't have had a chance at the 1 seed no matter what.
Or, you could relax and see that I'm not trying to argue and just let it go and similarly save bandwidth. Cuts both ways, my friend.
I'm plenty relaxed ... in my recliner, drinking iced tea, got golf on one screen, football on another
He wasn't trying to advance the ball. He wasn't rolling backwards in order to escape a tackler.
He's so good at what he does. Could probably fix his teeth though. He's definitely got the cash.
And if he'd made his way into the end zone on his own volition (even if only to escape the tackler), and he got tackled or downed in the end zone, it would have been a safety.
Vinovich looks significantly older than 2014. Reminder that it’s been 8 years since that run. Yikes.