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iirc broncos playoff hero tim tebow is available

xp lol

I've been boycotting NFL for a while now but I think I'm gonna have to tune in to that game. The Saints are starting Taysom Hill, who has never thrown a touchdown pass in the NFL.

I got em as 17.5 point underdogs. This may be the dumbest bet I’ve made this year but Saints may not even score 17

the jets had 25 offensive drives against the dolphins this year

they went 5-for-30 on third-down conversions and scored three points

Weren’t people talking about the Bucs as Super Bowl contenders like 2 weeks ago

Mahomes on pace for 1000 yards passing

Kendall Hinton 1/9 13

Yay Miami.

Unfortunately one of my asshole friends spoiled it (the Orlando City soccer playoff match was same time and I taped the Fins to watch after and told him not to spoil it. Fuckin dick)

Brownie! You're 8-3!

Brady's season high for INTs is only 14. He's at 11 right now

he doesn't look even as good as he was last year

can't believe the Bears were 5-1 at one point

Mitch Tittiess fucking sucks. I don't think I've seen a worse starter who wasn't on the Jets

taysom hill barely put up better numbers than a practice squad wide receiver

yeah but he's not the starter

hill is starting now right?

perhaps I should clarify - he's the worst QB I've ever seen a team willingly make their #1 starter

the whole thing is so odd, I felt like Jameis was a great dice roll for the Saints with Brees on his last legs, he has his problems but the high end raw talent is there, he's only 26. he has the arm to run a Brees offense and I thought maybe Payton would be able to help him tighten up decision making and interceptions.

They’re paying hill a ton of money so I’m sure they want to use him. Also they won both starts pretty handily

ravens-steelers postponed a third time

adam schefter thinks the NFL is doing a great job

so is there evidence that the Ravens were following the 'rules and protocols', lest the NFL be accused of being arbitrary re: the Broncos scenario

also why don't they move it to the 'optional week 18'

apparently the ravens followed the protocols properly? oddly, this hasn't resulted in revisiting them, as they clearly aren't working

at some point you'd think some level of pennsylvania government would tell the scurvy-ass ravens to stay out of their jurisdiction, but i guess pittsburgh cares more about pro football than santa clara county

even if we all die this season must continue and it has nothing to do with the fact that the Browns are 8-3* and everything to do with the fact that this country needs football to see us through these uncertain times

*it has everything to do with the fact that the Browns 8-3

i could go 8-3 too if i played the browns' schedule

well, maybe 7-4

you could take a long walk off a short pier!

NFL has been a clown show under Goodell, maybe if we ever get a real commissioner this league'll straighten out.

not that Tagliabue didn't do his fucked share of things

my Fins being 7-4 (and actually having to beat playoff contenders to do it) has raised my spirits a bit, but the league is going to have a shit ton of problems on their hands if they keep mishandling COVID

God forbid the season can't be pushed back!

The Super Bowl in March sounds pretty good (that's Baker Mayfield's favorite month, because it signals renewal).

Also, I thought the Dolphins were tanking this year!

that was last year. but I thought this year was another down year when we started 1-3!

can we ban the NFC East from sending a team to the playoffs

It's kinda neat that literally every game in that division has playoff implications.

Dalton's back!

my mother is a Giants fan and she has kinda stopped watching them a) cos they don't air the games here and she doesn't know how to watch pirate feeds, and b) they're 'terrible', but it's like....somehow they're in first place, so they could be one of teh first teams to have fans ignoring them due to how terrible they are despite them vying for an undeserved playoff spot

I think a lot of smart bettors were going big on the Giants when the odds were a lot longer

i'm going to assume that no team to start 0-5 or 1-7 has ever made the playoffs, let alone won a division

1992 Chargers started 0-4 and finished 11-5, but yeah I don't think anybody did it after starting 0-5!

steelers-ravens is kicking off at 3:40pm on wednesday, so as not to pre-empt the rockefeller christmas tree lighting.

Scheduling changes:

🏈Ravens-Steelers, Wednesday at 3:40 p.m. ET.

🏈Steelers-Washington, next Monday at 5 p.m. ET.

🏈Ravens-Cowboys next Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 8:05 p.m. ET.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 30, 2020

is anybody ready for some football?

bring. it.

around the clock football is here to stay

Mitch Tittiess fucking sucks. I don't think I've seen a worse starter who wasn't on the Jets

― frogbs, Sunday, November 29, 2020 9:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

it occurs to me that I might have forgotten about Carson Wentz

truly painful

This is the worst season I can remember. Every team seems legit bad. Even the Chiefs if not for Mahomes and Hill don't seem that impressive to me. Yet, the meta stories have been really interesting. I find myself enjoying the podcasts and talk shows more entertaining than the games. I half wonder if there is going to be some kind of mass player walk-out and the season will be canceled before the playoffs. Even if nothing like that happens, in most fans' minds there's going to be a huge asterisk next to every stat from 2020.

Also, I hope the Bears fire everybody.

someone was spreading rumors that the ravens players might simply refuse to play tomorrow, which would be v. interesting

idk I'm pretty impressed by the Chiefs, they've got the one offense where you just keep throwing your hands up going "can't do anything about that". I do get what you're saying though. every year there's one utterly unconvincing team that goes 11-5 and loses by 25 in the playoffs. this year there's like 6 of them. idk what to make of the 10-0 Steelers either, I don't see why they've been so dominating this year.

steelers have played an extremely weak schedule and came close to losing to several terrible teams

but i guess their defense is pretty good

yeah Chiefs are solid. their game against the Raiders proved that IMO.

I'm not sold on the Steelers being "undefeated" good. This isn't the best Tomlin Steelers team. but in a year where you have no preseason, if you're a squad with relative continuity at coaching and in your sexy positions, and you can emerge 4-0 after the first quarter of your season, you could then play about as well as an 11-5 team from then on out (good-to-great, not amazing) and technically still be undefeated.

they will eventually lose one though.

Jets, otoh, are definitely winless level bad

I'll stan for my Dolphins, though. Our last two playoff teams, one of them was purely due to a gimmick (the wildcat offense who protected the football well), and 2016, I can't even tell you how that team made the playoffs other than the sheer will of Ryan Tannehill and a few skill positions.

this year, it's the defense. they're ball hawks, they generate good pressure, they cover downfield well, and really it's just the linebackers who are the weak link (and even there, Van Noy and Van Ginkel are good, they just struggle with coverage across middle of the field).