Week 18: Last Ride Against the Gang(G)rene
- Thread starter Mystic Merlin
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Easy cheat card for Week 18 of your main objective is to have the highest pick in the draft:
**Most important!**
Pats loss vs Jets
**Next most important!**
Commanders win vs Cowboys
Cardinals win vs Seattle
**Critical for SOS (counts double)**
Falcons win over Saints
**Get some breathing room**
Giants win vs Eagles
**Helps with SOS in all scenarios**
Ravens over Steelers
Texans over Colts
**Can help or hurt depending on scenarios, so probably not worth paying attention to**
Bears vs Packers
Broncos vs Raiders
And summarized by game-set
Saturday:
Ravens over Steelers
Texans over Colts
Sun 1PM:
Jets over Pats
Falcons over Saints
Sun 4:25PM:
Giants/Commanders/Cardinals to WIN
**Most important!**
Pats loss vs Jets
**Next most important!**
Commanders win vs Cowboys
Cardinals win vs Seattle
**Critical for SOS (counts double)**
Falcons win over Saints
**Get some breathing room**
Giants win vs Eagles
**Helps with SOS in all scenarios**
Ravens over Steelers
Texans over Colts
**Can help or hurt depending on scenarios, so probably not worth paying attention to**
Bears vs Packers
Broncos vs Raiders
And summarized by game-set
Saturday:
Ravens over Steelers
Texans over Colts
Sun 1PM:
Jets over Pats
Falcons over Saints
Sun 4:25PM:
Giants/Commanders/Cardinals to WIN
Also, this bit from Dakota Randall:
1. It is impossible for Chargers or Titans to pass Patriots in SOS. New England is locked into a top-five pick. Don't even worry about sliding to 6 or 7.
2. It is impossible for Cardinals to win a tiebreaker over Patriots.
3. NE guaranteed second pick with loss to NYJ and:
Ravens beat Steelers
Texans beat Colts
Falcons beat Saints
Bears beat Packers
Broncos beat Raiders
* If the Saints win but the other results are same, Patriots and Commanders finish tied in SOS but NE gets second pick. HOWEVER, if just one of other four games goes the other way, Washington gets the pick. It'll be hard for Patriots to get second pick if Saints win.
* If the Falcons win, two -- but not more -- of the other four games can go the other way and Patriots still get second pick.
* None of the other Week 18 games matter for the Patriots/Commanders stuff.
4. There is a way for Patriots, Giants, Commanders to finish with same SOS and NY getting second pick, New England third. Patriots and Commanders both would need to win.
@ZackCoxNESN
put in the leg work to figure out that mess.
5. If Patriots and Commanders both win, and Giants lose, NE gets second pick at least in this scenario (but probably others):
Cardinals beat Seahawks
Ravens beat Steelers
Texans beat Colts
Falcons beat Saints
Bears beat Packers
Broncos beat Raiders
* Steelers win alone would change it to Giants getting higher pick
* Cardinals loss would take second pick off the table
1. It is impossible for Chargers or Titans to pass Patriots in SOS. New England is locked into a top-five pick. Don't even worry about sliding to 6 or 7.
2. It is impossible for Cardinals to win a tiebreaker over Patriots.
3. NE guaranteed second pick with loss to NYJ and:
Ravens beat Steelers
Texans beat Colts
Falcons beat Saints
Bears beat Packers
Broncos beat Raiders
* If the Saints win but the other results are same, Patriots and Commanders finish tied in SOS but NE gets second pick. HOWEVER, if just one of other four games goes the other way, Washington gets the pick. It'll be hard for Patriots to get second pick if Saints win.
* If the Falcons win, two -- but not more -- of the other four games can go the other way and Patriots still get second pick.
* None of the other Week 18 games matter for the Patriots/Commanders stuff.
4. There is a way for Patriots, Giants, Commanders to finish with same SOS and NY getting second pick, New England third. Patriots and Commanders both would need to win.
@ZackCoxNESN
put in the leg work to figure out that mess.
5. If Patriots and Commanders both win, and Giants lose, NE gets second pick at least in this scenario (but probably others):
Cardinals beat Seahawks
Ravens beat Steelers
Texans beat Colts
Falcons beat Saints
Bears beat Packers
Broncos beat Raiders
* Steelers win alone would change it to Giants getting higher pick
* Cardinals loss would take second pick off the table
I really think they should give Mac a chance to go out playing one more game. It's the right thing to do.
@MikeReiss
Bill Belichick, to @TheGregHillShow, after fielding multiple questions relating to the future and why he doesn't entertain them:
"Whatever success I have had, I've tried to go about my job the same way every week -- win, lose, good years, bad years, whatever they are.
"Each week, get ready to go for that week, do the best you can to help your team win, and after that game move on to the next one. And at the end of the season, that's the end of the season.
"But on a week-to-week basis, I don't want to spend time, or get caught up in what happened 5 years ago, or what's going to happen 2 years from now, and a bunch of other random stuff. Just working on the Jets.
"... I'm committed to the team that I'm coaching right now, the players that are here. They deserve my best every day and that's what I'm going to give them."
Bill Belichick, to @TheGregHillShow, after fielding multiple questions relating to the future and why he doesn't entertain them:
"Whatever success I have had, I've tried to go about my job the same way every week -- win, lose, good years, bad years, whatever they are.
"Each week, get ready to go for that week, do the best you can to help your team win, and after that game move on to the next one. And at the end of the season, that's the end of the season.
"But on a week-to-week basis, I don't want to spend time, or get caught up in what happened 5 years ago, or what's going to happen 2 years from now, and a bunch of other random stuff. Just working on the Jets.
"... I'm committed to the team that I'm coaching right now, the players that are here. They deserve my best every day and that's what I'm going to give them."
Bill-est quote ever. I love it.
Jolt the Jets, stay on for next year and give @jsinger121 heart palpitations.
Jolt the Jets, stay on for next year and give @jsinger121 heart palpitations.
I was kinda hoping the Bill intrigue would get Fox to broadcast it more widely, but per 506sports it's not going to be shown anywhere outside the northeast.
This is where I wish NFL (or Youtube or whoever) would offer single-game out-of-market purchases.
This is where I wish NFL (or Youtube or whoever) would offer single-game out-of-market purchases.
For the last couple of months I've walked the tightrope, rooting for the Pats to win but hoping they lose. Fuck that. This week I want a romp 'em stomp 'em leave-a-bloody-carcass-behind kind of win. Why?
1. Because this might be BB's swan song and I want that song to be bellowed.
2. End this season of our discontent on a high note to feed a little optimism for the next.
3. I developed peptic ulcers hoping they'd lose to the likes of KC and Miami and have run out of Tums.
4. Beating Buff, Pitt, the Doncos and the Jets was pretty sweet. I want more of that.
5. If BB does stick around, he'd probably fuck up the draft pick anyway.
6. If BB is swept out, the new guy will probably fuck up the draft pick anyway.
7. It's the Jets for crissakes.
There's more reasons. These are just the starters.
1. Because this might be BB's swan song and I want that song to be bellowed.
2. End this season of our discontent on a high note to feed a little optimism for the next.
3. I developed peptic ulcers hoping they'd lose to the likes of KC and Miami and have run out of Tums.
4. Beating Buff, Pitt, the Doncos and the Jets was pretty sweet. I want more of that.
5. If BB does stick around, he'd probably fuck up the draft pick anyway.
6. If BB is swept out, the new guy will probably fuck up the draft pick anyway.
7. It's the Jets for crissakes.
There's more reasons. These are just the starters.
Win or lose, if BB knows that it is his last game, I hope this is the entirety of his press conference
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXS1sJm7QEA&ab_channel=quotemovies
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXS1sJm7QEA&ab_channel=quotemovies
Brady’s last pass for the Patriots was a pick six…so fuck it, let’s give the Jets a 6-3 win in the snow as Bill’s final game for some balance.
I've been in a confidence points pool for years(pick every game, every week, with the line, apply confidence points to your picks, most total points wins the week, season, etc.). 100 is our top confidence point. The Patriots are my 100 point pick this week. If this really is his last ride, no way on earth BIll loses to the effing NYJ.
AccuWeather predicting wet snow, 2-4 inches for the day and snowing each hour of the game. Sounds like the weather in an Arizona game (2008) at Foxborough in which the Pats murdered the Cardinals. So, Matt Cassel.
Looks like snow is already falling and will keep falling. 70% chance at game time
What’s Mark Henderson doing these days?
What’s Mark Henderson doing these days?
It's not the draft position. It's the draft pick. (See C.J. Stroud vs. Bryce Young)
Destroy the Jets for the 16th time in a row.
Destroy the Jets for the 16th time in a row.
2018
Mayfield - 1
Darnold - 3
Allen - 7
Jackson - 32
2017
Trubisky - 2
Mahomes - 10
Watson - 12
Slater is on today's GameDay program. I can't attend today's game and was hoping there was a place to order one aside from EBay.
This draft is more like 2020. I guess you can try to find a Jalen Hurts in the 2nd round.
I was here for weeks leading up today, but, knowing this is likely it for Bill and Slater, I just can’t do it today. Rational? No, not really.
Reiss with more on Slater, including some thoughts from dad Jackie
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39252386/will-sunday-patriots-captain-matthew-slater-last-game
My rooting doesn’t affect the outcome. So I’m rooting for a win, like I always do.
If they lose there are positive consequences. So there’s solace in that.
But I’ll root for them to win. Because my rooting doesn’t affect the outcome.
If they lose there are positive consequences. So there’s solace in that.
But I’ll root for them to win. Because my rooting doesn’t affect the outcome.
Yikes. I'm not certain if I'm reading too much into this but dressing the guy who has been here for a few weeks and demoting your former starter to emergency QB on the last game of the year seems like an FU to the player.
View: https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1744035295845032365?s=20
View: https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1744035295845032365?s=20
I think everyone understands it, no problem. Only a dummy wouldn't. When people say "rooting for", they're just expressing what they want to happen, not what they're trying to will to happen.
He could be but it would be odd that if Mac was an issue that it wouldn't have leaked out by now.
Totally get this. It's where I'm at. But if you're actively rooting against them during the game it's different from only expressing what you want the outcome to be.
Maybe it truly is Bill’s last day and he fully hates Mac for destroying his legacy and during the half time show, he will pants Mac in the middle of the field while the crowd pelts him with tomato’s.
Maybe, or a reward for for the guy who came in and worked hard in. Meetings/practice
Occam’s razor: Rourke has busted his ass/looked good, perhaps better than Mac in meetings/practice, and he’s getting a bone.
Guys this is simple. Rourke was born in and played in Canada. Mac has never played in snow. Duh.