2016-17 NFL WEEK 16 “It’s not a lot of secrets. It’s just technical expertise and a lot of butt kicking. And smiling in the face of adversity."

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Thursday Night Football on Sunday

― Neanderthal, Sunday, December 25, 2016 6:19 PM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the chicken fried chicken of sports broadcasts

damn great run jusczyk

quite a finish

suck it ravens

steelers, pats, raiders, texans win their divisions, cheifs are one wild card and fins or broncos the other. broncos in if they win out. if they win today then last games will be the 2 wildcard contenders vs 2 #1 seed contenders.

wow p cool

I am the biggest Chiefs fan tonight.

texans point differential: -42

Savage era, it's a new day!

thinking about getting into the zip neck sweater w/ buttondown game like al and cris

with 142 passing yards, Drew Brees will reach 5,000 passing yards for the fifth time in his career.

Only 4 other QBs have done it and in their case, just once.

I realize this is a more passer friendly era than when Marino did it but still mega amazing - he'd never had more than 3,576 yards prior to joining the Saints.

underneath throws will be the name of this game

Kansas City basically ran it up Denver's ass there

Siemian has underthrown p much every pass

i am rooting for a huge game from KC defense

Denver v much dogshit at stopping the run so far

maybe hill can replicate that on a kick return (or two)

Drew Brees played for Marty Schottenheimer in San Diego, not exactly an air 'em out kinda coach.

oh I know - the New Orleans offense obv inflated his #s, but still amazing at his productivity. it's not like that last year in San Diego was considered disappointing by any means.

well that sucked

give it to Christian Okoye

did Denver have a rough flight or something

Looking back at it, it is amazing that the Chargers were as good as they were in 2006 with Rivers as a first year starter. Everything went totally south in the playoff game against NE and that was the end of that even though they went 14-2.

had dude just batted that ball into the turf, coulda changed everything that year

no defenses averaging less than 300 yards surrendered this year. huh.

per game obv

Denver getting nickle and dimed to death when they're not giving up 40 yard gains on vanilla plays

Kansas City doing its best to let Denver claw back into this one.

that was an....interesting fake.

like I get why you wouldn't wanna miss and give it to them at the 42 but like did you really think McManus was gonna outrun 4-5 motherfuckers

Hahahahahahahah you guys that play

I am dying

it was a treat. such a dagger. brutal finish to the season for denver

I cannot believe my Fins are playoff bound. Wow.

Also Denver getting Romo would be such an Elway move but even he ain't that dumb

i guess you get the steelers instead of the houston bye tho

Yea probably.

KC's wideouts are still really bad. Smith hit them a few times right in the numbers only to get dropped.

Pittsburgh seems to me the only club with a shot of having with NE.

Hanging...

We'll see. NE really hasn't been tested much this year. I'm not convinced they're super prepared for playoff-level football.

home field advantage obvs huge, agree pitt is the real threat

pittsburgh has looked like a totally different (not as good) team on the road

feel like the steelers are capable of scoring 30 against new england while giving up 50

IMO the real threats to New England are (unfortunately) in the NFC, including Atlanta- their offense is one of the best modern offenses of all-time, statistically speaking (according to this thingy I read today). but it's a matter of them getting there obv, and in one piece, cos their defense doesn't scare anybody so anybody missing on O could turn things (in fact, same article pointed out that there isn't an elite defense in the playoffs of the current entrants).

Kansas City seems to always enjoy relying on their tight ends year in and out to do all the lifting at receiver. the drops last night were ridiculous (though technically, Harris had the one in the end zone and he's a TE). I don't really see Kansas City pulling off what they did at Denver last night, cos Denver was unusually porous and allowed big gains on vanilla plays. plus Denver was still somewhat in the game at halftime despite their offense looking like dogshit. Kansas City looks a lot more like the teams that were getting into the playoffs in like, 2003, which isn't a good thing for them.

IMO they should let Carr play in a motorized scooter to make things fair.

KC defense + special teams are much more impressive than their offense

also re: being tested, New England did have the second weakest strength of schedule in the league (second only to my Dolphins, lolz), and it's strength of victory is the second weakest among the current playoff entrants (again, second to my Fins). Not that I put a huge amount of stock in that - you can only beat who you play, they've been dominant in those wins (unlike Miami), and it's not like they don't have 15 years of proof that they're always a threat in the playoffs.

but, like Miami, the only playoff team they've beat this year is Pittsburgh, as they lost to the only other one they faced (Seattle). still not seeing who would be the obvious team to take them out in the AFC, as pointed out above, Pittsburgh is inconsistent as hell and obv Oakland is a diff team without Carr (tho who knows!).

wld feel a lot better if gronk was still alive

maybe Aaron Hernandez can get a furlough

it's more "fuck you, you had ten men on the field when Ajayi won the game moments after you punted with less than a minute to go when a tie would have eliminated you" from the owner IMO

reasonable

yeah I guess if any coach deserves a grand "fuck you" gesture it's Rex

shdve had belichick make the call tho

sic semper rex

Rex Ryan - defensive coordinator for the Bears. Seems a very neoptism friendly McCaskey hire.

no surprise obviously but ouch @ the timing of this, what's the point of firing a coach with one game to go

apparently because rex wanted to play tyrod taylor in a meaningless game against his hated jets this week, and ownership didn't want to risk taylor getting hurt

ha his pettiness got him fired

his pettiness over getting fired got him fired

i guess cowboys are sitting their starters and they're starting mark sanchez instead of romo. they claim it's bc they don't want to risk injuring romo behind the 2nd team o-line but i wonder if teams will be shy about signing him for next year if they see him sit. like maybe he's still not healthy?

i really enjoy tampa's playoff scenario:

TB beats CAR at home
DET beats GB at home
WAS ties NYFG at home
SF beats SEA at home
DAL wins at PHI
TEN beats HOU at home
IND beats JAX at home

i wasn't expecting two AFC games to matter (due to TB vs GB strength of schedule). it's not even *that* far-fetched except for the tie and the niners beating seattle