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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).

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

That game left me with the opposite impression. The Raiders aren't good.

the Raiders aren't a contender but how you perform under duress says a lot about one's team.

I just feel like they shouldn't have been under duress in the first place. Did you see the Raiders yesterday?

The Steelers also seem like the same team they are every year, just that everybody else is less good than they have been.

Great teams occasionally trailing lesser teams on the road is a thing that happens, and AFC West matches are often competitive. Raiders have also beaten the Chiefs once this year and the Saints, they're just woefully inconsistent is all.

never know which carr youre going to get

ive been loving this season idk why

it's crazy that there's a game on now. so weird

ugly ass game too. looks like rg just pulled a hammy maybe

this is like the Andy Capp Cheddar Fries Bowl

love too play in the red zone

Ok so in that situation how long can the Steelers remain in the pile so the clock runs? If they’d taken a few seconds more to get up they wouldn’t have been able to run a play (which should’ve been an easy touchdown, they got the exact look they wanted)

how are the Steelers only beating the Ravens JV squad by only 5

and they have zero offensive touchdowns?

Their offense is cruising until they reach the 5 yard line

who the fuck is playing quarterback for the Ravens right now

Trayce McSorley?

Touchdown Trace

lol

have to all the way back to the scab season to find such wacky nfl starters as this year

that floating pass by roffles

lol

INBOX: Steve Kornacki, NBC News’ celebrated political correspondent, will join Football Night in America this Sunday at 7 p.m. ET on NBC to break down the evolving NFL playoff picture ahead of NBC Sports’ coverage of Broncos-Chiefs on Sunday Night Football.

— Bob Williams (@WilliamsBob75) December 3, 2020

I know this is not a novel observation but schefter is such a fucking shill

Can't fire the McCaskey family and that is and will continue to be why the Bears are so f'n weirdly run as a team. That history, they SHOULD be the Packers or the Steelers but they are not as sadly Papa's family just does not have the touch running the club.

at least they're not the lions

that's pretty wild!

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30454991/at-least-four-strains-covid-19-found-baltimore-ravens-facility