"More Diss" - America's favorite Dystopian pastime 2022-2023

Lions showed exponential growth throughout the season, like when Miami played them, they had a shit record, moved the ball very well, but couldn't defend for shit.

But they went on a hell of a run to end the year and the defense improved. Could be a preview of even better things to come

Was thinking: has any athlete ever damaged their public image/popularity more than Aaron Rodgers without really doing anything substantially terrible?

I'm thinking of Ray Rice, Vick, incidents like that. Rodgers just started acting like the world's biggest douche but it's not like he killed anyone.

Like you can tell even State Farm is phasing him out with Mahomes and the jazz bath guy

He's always been basically unlikeable. I've known a couple of his teammates and the best they can manage is to say nothing bad.

Rodgers did a lot of work to stage manage his persona, doing all those annoying Discount Double Check commercials that made him look like a corny goofball, and avoiding stepping in it in the press, so people kinda ignored the weirdness of his sudden estrangement from his family.

Lying about being immunized and becoming nu-Rogan, while his play on the field degraded just about eroded that goodwill and had people suspecting the family estrangement was due to his own pettiness.

he was so consistently great that it was kinda hard to talk any smack about him, and I think up until Covid he did a really good job of just keeping his mouth shut when it came to the media. but yeah there were a lot of signs there. when his brother wound up on The Bachelorette (and won!) there was this weird situation because it came out that he just straight up wouldn't talk to his family anymore but couldn't provide a good reason why. after Greg Jennings left for Minnesota he didn't hold back calling the guy an asshole. then there was that big expose after McCarthy got canned which made him seem like a total diva who held onto grudges forever. Rodgers would get asked about this stuff a lot and it was pretty clear by his cagey and defensive responses that he was almost certainly the guy to blame.

for me I kinda thought something was up in like...2012. back then he used to do that "championship belt" celebration that Fred-Ex used to do on the Eagles but then he suddenly stopped. apparently it was because someone from another team picked him off and did the belt to mock him and I guess that pissed him off so much that he stopped doing it altogether. to me that sorta cemented him as one of those guys who liked to talk shit but couldn't take it in return.

yeah his play was otherworldly, which had something to do with it. during his Super Bowl win, we temporarily changed the board description to "gay for Aaron Rodgers" lol

I think we’ve grown so used to more demonstratively weird, awkward, shitty NFL guys (many of them QBs) that Rodgers being quietly all three was easy to overlook.

yeah, so many NFL players are pieces of shit so it's almost like you have to be a standout among assholes to earn people's ire.

one thing with Rodgers is it actually did affect his play, for example last year's playoff game vs. the 49ers where Lewis fumbled and Rodgers basically threw to no one besides Davante Adams & Aaron Jones the rest of the game (while Lazard and Lewis were so wide open they were practically doing cartwheels). the SI article about him said he would do exactly this, which is funny cuz Rodgers basically denied the entire thing as a completely fabricated hit piece

Was thinking: has any athlete ever damaged their public image/popularity more than Aaron Rodgers without really doing anything substantially terrible?

maybe LeBron, who everyone seemed to be rooting for in Cleveland until he suddenly became a supervillain thanks to that dumb televised special where he announced he was going to Miami. granted that was just for basketball reasons and he redeemed himself quite nicely by ACTUALLY winning a title in Cleveland a while later. but yea losing those finals to the Mavs was a real "HAHAHA EAT SHIT" moment on par with what happened last night I imagine

Being a fan from him at UK, it was good to see the "other" Josh Allen make some big plays for the Jags against Tennessee. He is a defensive player that seems to have a knack for making the big play at key moments on defense. He was a beast at Kentucky especially his senior year.

just realizing that the bucs and cowboys are playing on monday night. feels weird to force them to play on short rest against a team coming off a bye.

i mean, i would like both teams to lose so i don't much care. but, if i were a fan, i'd be annoyed

Tua still out, Skylar Thompson to start in playoffs.

lol we're dead.

god that game has wild Tom Brady comeback written all over it

8-9 division winners probably should be penalized and the fact it is the Cowboys who they play on Monday, makes it fine for me.

Maybe ILNFL will finally get a Sad Dak icon to go next to it's Sad Romo.

https://www.nbcsports.com/sites/rsnunited/files/article/hero/Dak-Sad-USATSI-17517826.jpg

sheesh Giants Vikings seems like it's gonna be a real wild one. there's like 19 different ways that game can go.

god that game has wild Tom Brady comeback written all over it

It does, it's right here in the script.

Season was good this year but had more fun last year. Being a Rams fan that makes sense. Not going to watch all six games but these 49ers do intrege me this year, Bulls too. Don't want the Cowboys or the Chiefs in the Super Bowl.

I'm betting on a Chiefs/Niners Super Bowl.

Purdy lookin shaky

half of the teams in this round are on a backup QB, two on a third string

Niners very dumb half

Geno having a game

That was big, Seattle was right there

Welp

It seems like the 49ers finally realized who they are in the second half.

Being from Los Angeles, I'm rooting for the Charges above all else even tho I'm a Rams fan. Love watching Justin.

gonna be extremely disappointed when brock purdy's nickname turns out to not be 'pretty'

san di ego super chaargers

omg we're watching a coach getting fired in real time

Brandon Staley sucks, how could he lose this game?

i'm pretty sure he lost it because he sucks

oh my fucking god what happened

Chargers be chargin

I only watched the first half of chargers-jaguars: what the fuck happened?

not easy to lose a game in which you’re +5 in takeaways

Lol holy shit

When the Chargers went up 27-0, a bettor bet $1.4 million on them to win the game to net $11,200.

Jacksonville came back and won 31-30.@DKSportsbook has confirmed that this bet was indeed made. pic.twitter.com/TvwCNyEjyr

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) January 15, 2023

That is what they call a “bridge jumper”

I've heard some degenerate gambling stories but the risk/reward on that one is insane

But 99 out of 100 times, it appears like free money. But that's the type of shit that you do when you're in way too far

Lmao at Miami. Now our receivers can no longer catch

pic.twitter.com/tDuF3SSbJo

— Trevor Lawrence (@Trevorlawrencee) January 15, 2023

Holy shit Miami!

Amazing

OMG

Love to see it

skylar 12-for-34 for 129 yards and two picks and they're still in it