THE 2017 PLAYOFFS BANDWAGON GUIDE
WELCOME BACK TO THE 2017 PLAYOFFS, FRIENDS! The one time of year football is unquestionably good and fun and rarely sad and depressing. Mostly. January football is the best football, and we have to treasure it while we have it. And this aught to be a great weekend or two, because outside two of the usual suspects we got a lot of fun new faces!
Lets go through it team by team, because that’s just what you do in articles like this.
EAGLES
Obviously from a Giants fan standpoint fuck the Eagles forever amen but from a football fan standpoint this is a welcome addition and some much needed variety. Granted, what made this team good and fun tore their ACL a few weeks ago and they don’t look nearly as complete and imposing anymore, but that just evens the playing field. The Eagles looked like the best team in football most of the year and their #1 seed status is well deserved. If you like variety, it’s always positive to root for a team that has never pulled it off and if I wasn’t personally biased against this team winning anything, I could definitely root for them. In fact, if they end up in the bowl against the Patriots or Steelers, I just might, simply for the sake of seeing something different instead of the same ol’ shit for the same spoiled fans. Hopefully they flame out in the divisional and I’m not put to the test.
VIKINGS
My personal bandwagon pick, always had a soft spot for them and likely always will. I like those purple bumblers and want to see them finally do it. The Vikings should probably be the NFC favorite with Wentz out, but it just feels weird to put so much faith in Case Keenum. I want to, but I just can’t. But that defense with Harrison Smith and company is lights out and amazing to see and I’m very interested in seeing how they person against these other tough NFC teams. Mike Zimmer is a cool dude and this is a very like-able bunch now that Adrian “WHIPPED MY CHILD’S BALLS UNTIL THEY BLED” Peterson isn’t on the team.
RAMS
My other NFC preference. This is the most fun offense in the league to watch. I love how Sean McVay has used the headset timing to his advantage and feed Goff information at the line, changing how the offense works. I love how this team has turned around. I love everyone’s favorite grandpa, Wade Philips. Todd Gurley is cool, and the Rams sticking it to Jeff Fisher is hilarious. However, Stan Kroenke is a fucknut. This is one of those teams that feels like it could be a one year wonder because they haven’t been figured out yet like Chip Kelly’s Eagles or the first glimpse at something special on the rise, like that first year with Russel Wilson for the Seahawks.
PANTHERS
They’ve already been here recently but this team is still fun to watch and kind of flew under the radar this year. The Panthers played good ball this year but it was almost like nobody expected them to be here until they were, and now we are paying attention. We already know most of why this team is good, but they are still pretty new to all this so it should be fun. They also have probably the toughest game this weekend, playing the Saints.
SAINTS
Man, the Saints started 0-2 and everyone wrote them off instantly again. Then they go on an insane streak including possibly a game of the year against the Skins, and then wow, this team is really good. They jettisoned AP and immediately became a running powerhouse and defensive slugger, taking pressure off Drew Brees to do everything and making this team genuinely exciting and fun.
FALCONS
The NFC South really showed up to play this year didn’t they? Everyone ate a lot of Ws, except the Bucs. The Falcons are probably the only team in the NFC bracket that feels to me like a non-contender. I think every team has a solid chance of going to the bowl except Atlanta. This isn’t the juggernaut of offense last year’s team was, and while a hot streak could still take them places, they feel like the slightly weaker man out in all this. At least to me. When this team is on they can fight everyone, but when they are off they look worse than the others.
Really, as long as the Eagles don’t come out of the NFC, I have zero problem with any of these teams. Only two of these teams have ever won a SB, and the closest one was like 8 years ago with lots of downtime in-between. From a new faces standpoint, this is a great slate. The Packers and the Hawks are gone for the first time in ages and it feels so damn refreshing. Also of note, no Ravens! Thank goodness, I thought they were pretenders all year and was happy to see them get exposed by Andy Dalton in glorious fashion.
Now let’s talk about the less interesting conference, as always.
TITANS
Wow the Titans held on and actually made the playoffs! Good for them. They don’t stand a chance since they aren’t playing the Jaguars, but good for them. Would love to see Mariota go on a Flacco or Eli-esque out of nowhere streak and piss everyone in vegas off.
JAGUARS
Wow the Jaguars! Maybe Gus Bradley really was just that bad! One stud RB later and this team had an incredible defense and we didn’t really appreciate it for a long time. This is one of those defenses that is capable of stopping everyone and if they carry the team you shouldn’t be surprised. However, Blake Bortles is bad outside like 3 games this year and if anything holds this team back it’s going to be him. Or if they somehow end up playing the Titans in the AFCCG. That would own and give Jags fans the most PTSD you’ll ever see.
CHIEFS
This team started out looking like the best team in football and then fell so badly they actually lost to the 2017 New York Giants. I was convinced the Chargers were going to sweep in and take the division but the bolts stumbled and the Chiefs farted their way back into it. The game against the Titans this weekend will likely be the worst display of football for the rest of the year as two deeply flawed teams that lucked in sputter and warble around. Could be great, could be a 12-3 crapfest. Whoever wins will get obliterated in the divisional.
BILLS
HOLY HELL THEY ACTUALLY DID IT!
For once fortune favored them! They already love Andy Dalton more than they like Tyrod Taylor after the Bengals did the thing. You should 100% root for the Bills because 1. They need this
2. More Bills wins means more weeks of Bills fan antics. You thought they were nuts before, imagine them in playoff hype mode!
3. They would stick it to Doug Marrone, who skipped out on them in hilarious fashion
4. We may also have a slight, very slight, chance at a Music City Miracle re-match. Imagine the fun that would bring us. IMAGINE IT. I WANT THIS MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF.
STEELERS
It’s going to be Steelers/Pats in the AFCCG again and we all know it. Ugh.
PATRIOTS
Fuck off already for fucks sake. You’ve accomplished everything. Winning this game will only improve Brady and Belichick’s legacy by a mild percentage because they’ve already done it enough to pretty much convince everybody they are the best ever. Unlike last year, which had the very, very small positive of seeing Roger Goodell grit his teeth and hand over the trophy to the team he screwed, this year doesn’t have literally any reason to want a Patriots victory. We’ve seen it. 5 times. I don’t want to watch the same shit over and over again. It’s boring. I am so bored with this result that I would rather watch the Eagles win simply because it would be different. You did everything. Nothing can ever take away what you’ve accomplished. No team will ever reach this level of consistent dominance ever again. Go the fuck away. You did it. Let someone else have some fun. Make the AFC great again.
So personally if we get any result that isn’t Patriots, Steelers, or Eagles, I’ll probably enjoy this playoff season. The AFC will probably be interesting this week, boring next week as the Steelers and Pats easily roll over who ever comes to town (maybe the Jags can upset? Maybe?) setting up a boring ass-rematch in the AFCCG with a probably Patriots win again. The NFC will be incredibly interesting due to what feels like a much more even playing field. Hopefully though, we just get good football. That’s what matters.
WHO YA GOT WINNING THE 2017 PLAYOFFS?
Oh, dude. That Bortles-Marino reason for the Jags is so far below the belt you just hit my knees.
He kicked me in the shin with that one
IDK man. I feel like the Patriots win so much, people expect them to be at the AFCC. When or if they lose, people will claim the sky is falling. Anything is a sign of the end for them, it is so ridiculous. They start winning again and people go, “False alarm everyone, they are the Pats we always knew.”
I have this sneaking suspicion that things won’t play out the way we think it will. I want the Pats to win it, just so that they are hated more. I like playing the villain. Everyone needs a good villain. I also don’t believe the Pats, Brady, or Bill are the greatest.
Anyway, it lools like the NFC will take it this year.
Long live The Empire! Bwa-ha-ha!
Edit:
“I also don’t believe the Pats, Brady, or Bill are the greatest.”
Is suppose to read, “I also don’t think people believe the Pats, Brady, or Bill are the greatest.”
Hilarious though.
Anyone who doesn’t believe the Patriots dynasty is the greatest dynasty in NFL history is either a liar or an idiot. That’s a hill I’ll die on. I can see an argument of top three between Paul, Vince, and Bill, but Bill’s honestly better at what Vince did, so it comes down to that vs. Paul Browns unparalleled innovation to coaching as a science and a profession. The eras are too different, and the subjective values too vast, to provide a definitive be-all-end-all there, but I lean toward Bill. He has less low-hanging fruit than Brown did to pluck, but I suspect his innovation is as deep, just more subtle.
Brady as #1 all time is the one with the most wiggle room. Legitimate cases can be made for Graham, Unitas, Montana, and Brady. I really want to include Elway, but I have to leave that to a fan of a different team (though I’ll gladly make the case if anyone wants it). Of those, the era between Unitas and Graham is so far removed that we again get into that subjective distinctions. And while Montana and Brady are closer temporally, the NFL of the 1980s is so vastly different from the NFL of the 2000s/2010s that it’s extraordinarily difficult to make valid comparisons.
The sad part of it all is, even if the Patriots were to win the next 5 Super Bowls in a row, none of those arguments would change; all it does is confirm what’s already known about them, but any furtherance doesn’t actually increase their greatness. The cases against Brady or Bill at #1 have nothing to do with Super Bowl wins, but are innovation + level of dominance + era vs. execution + longevity of dominance + salary cap era + surrounding talent. Winning more doesn’t do a thing to alter those equations.
I don’t disagree with you. However, most of the conversations I have had with any fan of any other team, usually devolves into Spygate, Deflategate, Ravens-don’t-know-what-an-ineligible-reciever-is-gate, and gate-gate.
I don’t mind having those conversations, so long as we are being reasonable about discussing them. I find that this is rarely the case.
I hate my phone. I meant most fans.
I fully believe most people who use “spygate etc” as arguments against the Pats are just trying to find any way they can to not admit the truth they secretly know: The Pats are the best dynasty to ever exist in football. It’s just the truth at this point, admit it, and admit that the real reason we hate them is because they’ve turned winning boring and we want to see something fresh once in a while.
Regarding the equations, I wouldn’t say SB wins are the end-all when it comes to measuring the greatest dynasty. However, I would argue that winning goes to establishing dominance. If you win a SB, that means you won enough in the regular season to make it to the playoffs. It also means you beat the teams in the playoffs, which generally speaking, were better than the rest of the league (purposely ignoring that the wildcard sometimes allows lesser teams to sneak in). It would mean even more depending on how long it takes for another team to replicate or surpass the level of success the Pats have had, might also have a say in how great they were.
I’m just talking #of Super Bowl wins won’t change the question between Brown/Belichick or Graham/Montana/Brady. I actually believe that if you want in the conversation of Dynasty (or best QB, or best Coach), you need the Championships. At least a pair, but more definitely helps. I’m just talking for swinging the conversations between Brown/Lombari/Belichick or Graham/Montana/Brady.
To further elaborate: They all had enough championships to define them as all-time dynasties, but Lombardi died two~ years after his last Super Bowl win in Green Bay, and while Brown went on to have a long– even good– career after his early success, what he brought to the game (scouting colleges and other teams, film review of his own players as well as opponents, structured practice, the West Coast Offense that Bill Walsh learned but gets credit for, team-specific game plans, the list goes on for a long while), is what defines him as arguably the greatest coach of all times. Others– Lombardi and Belichick, and literally every coach since Brown– stood on his shoulders and some reached further, but that doesn’t necessarily make them taller. There is no head coach in NFL history who is within orders of magnitude of changing the NFL and its professionalism the way that Brown did. And while he had success in the 40s/50s, and a limited degree of success in the 70s with the Bengals, he hasn’t approached Belichick’s consistent level of success in the 2000s/2010s, and Brown reached his highest heights against vastly inferior competition to what even Lombardi faced, let alone Belichick. So when I say more wins for Belichick now won’t change that equation, that’s what I’m talking about: Brown completely dominated football for a few years, but other teams learned his methods, duplicated them, and sometimes improved on them a little at a time, but his legacy isn’t in his number of Championships, but in his lasting influence– his coaching tree is really more of a forest, and one that includes Walsh, Ewbank, Shula, Buddy Ryan, Coughlin, Dungy, Fisher, Payton, Tomlin, Shanahan, and Belichick himself– is second to nobody.
Belichick winning more Super Bowls doesn’t change the dynamic between him and Brown in any measurable way, but his repeated Super Bowls are 100% what put him in the conversation. I hope that’s better explained than what I had before.
Averien, I appreciate how thorough that was. I get what you’re saying.
Dave. I think people are bored of seeig them at SBs, but I bet it would be exciting, just to see them lose. I bet people loved watching them get whooped by the Falcons for three quarters. They might have been able to accept the impressiveness of that comeback, but it was really Roger that made that win palata for some fans. The Vikings, like the Giants, would love toppling the greatest NFL dynasty at home, preventing them from further etching themselves in the history books.
It might just be me, but I love bad guys. Darth Vader, Vegeta (Saiyin Saga), Joker, etc. Patriots may very well be hated for their success, but maybe they should embrace being viewed as a heel. Take a page from WWE.
Maybe I just find it compelling because I am fan. IDK.
I think the trouble is with the Patriots dynasty is that people just don’t like it enough. I think America really loves the Lombardi Packers. So does the league. Comparing Bill to Vince, is there any chance in anyone’s mind that they will rename the trophy to the Belichick trophy? After being sanctioned by the league so many times, I doubt there will ever be a Belichick award in the league. Comparing the quarterbacks, Brady can’t compete with Starr’s character or playoff passer rating. Nobody has a bad word to say about the WWII vet who has been with the same woman since high school. Brady rubs a lot of people the wrong way. You will never convince some people that the Pats can take the Packers’ crown simply because it isn’t just winning that makes people dislike them.
I think a lot of that would be different social media been around back then. Maybe not. I think people romanticize the past. I personally don’t like the “science” behind how Brady is Brady; there has to be better ways to branch off into the wellness/fitness industry (so much BS with the TB12 method). This is my biggeest gripe with him.
“Nobody has a bad word to say about the WWII vet who has been with the same woman since high school. Brady rubs a lot of people the wrong way.”
I don’t see why someone’s personal romantic relationship would have any say on their greatness in the sport. You also don’t have to like someone to recognize they’re great. Owen’s snub is for the HoF is bull. If I were him, and he gets inducted this year, I wouldn’t go (I personally don’t care about the HoF though. I just don’t get it). I don’t know Mayweather personally, and he rubs me the wrong way. He has also been accused of domestic violence. It doesn’t change the fact that he is still one of the greatest boxers.
Brady went from an actress to a super model; so what? I see some of these “analyst” get on TV and talk about how he has everything, higlight how unlikeable that is. I bet you most would jump into a relationship with a super model if they could. They make fun of the man for making less than her, as if Brady would starve if he tried living off of his own income. As if the man has to be ashamed of himself for having a beautiful wife who makes more than him. They cite this as why he takes less money. He makes millions. Maybe, just maybe, he can afford to make team friendly-ish deals, because he is a millionaire. Maybe.
Brady is human (I think). People can judge the man all they want. So long as he is not murdering, raping, or involved in any other criminal activity, who cares what he does on his own time. Brady could be Mormon, or believe that a construction latino worker named Jesus is the second coming of Christ, but bring that trophy home. People can dislike him, that’s fine. However, you don’t have to be baptized and given sainthood to be great.
I also don’t believe the crown belongs to the Packers (The Steelers, the Boys, 9ers, all have a stake in that crown.), so I wouldn’t be trying to convince anyone. It doesn’t matter anyway. Every team will have their own reign, and it will be special in their own way.
And I am not saying people are not allowed to dislike Brady, Bill, or the Patriots. I just don’t believe their dislike of them should matter when it comes to acknowledging their greatness.
So you want a Patriots blowout of the Falcons in the Super Bowl? And you thought we don’t listen to your prayers!
Steelers vs Vikings Super Bowl please
Either the Patriots, Eagles, or Steelers are going to win this superbowl.
🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁
Have you seen the Eagles with Nick Foles? They’re probably going to be one and done, unfortunately.
🙂
Eagles aren’t going anywhere without Wentz.
Foles is not Hostetler and this Eagles are not the 1990 Giants if that’s what you’re thinking. Had an encounter with that retard in the Yahoo Sports comments section.
Bingo. Eagles will win it all. Foles is like Hostetler and the Eagles are better than the 1990 Giants.
BOOK IT
Said by no one ever.
As a Steeler fan, I accept being the Boston Red Sox of the NFL; seen as the good guys only by virtue of opposing a greater evil
Nobody sees the Steelers as anything but inept thugs.
At least the Sox had a lovable guy in Big Papi.
Pittsburgh has Rapelesburger, Touchdown Eddie Brown’s kid, and a rapper worse than shaq with none of the charm.
I dunno, I’d like to put them in small island with their fans and Lebron fans and drop a nuke on them.
I see could see the Browns being the Sox. They had success in the league early, and went through a drought. Well… they are still in it. Although, the Browns shouldn’t be compared to any other team.
Pittsburg has won plenty. The Sox were loveable losers once. I know this may be blasphemy, being a Pats fan, but if we don’t make it, I would like the Bills to take it. I know they are a divisional rival, and a New York team, but I feel bad about the four falls. Plus, the Bills are not Yankee unlikeable.
If the Saints win, I think Brees walks.
Those weren’t the same Brown however. Where do you think the Ravens comes from?
Cleveland Browns retained the “legacy” of the franchise formerly owned by Art Modell. The NFL was smarter this time, unlike with Indianapolis, where we have hoosiers celebrating the Baltimore players who never played in Indy. Also, it is unlikely that Baltimore wanted the Browns history.
Yeah I remember the YT video comments section regarding Unitas, it was kind of hilarious and facepalm worthy at the same time. o be fair it was one guy that I know of but still…I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more people in Indianapolis who thinks that Unitas was a sports legend in Indiana.
Also note a bit of irony regarding Baltimore receiving what used to be the Browns.
Well, the Patriots did give us Garoppolo, so they’re not all bad.
You’re welcome. From a Pats fan, trust us, Jimmy G is a future HOF qb, guaranteed.
Never been so happy to see a new TDP, hope you and your family are coping and healing, we love you Dave.
– the Fans
I fully echo this sentiment. You are in our thoughts and prayers man.
this is either gonna be the most boring shitty offseason in years or its gonna be really exciting like if some rogue element comes into play (the pats get upset and the steelers dont win either)
Of the teams in the NFC, I’d say my Saints may have the easiest path. Playing any team a third time in one season always brings great risks however. That being said, if not the Saints, I’d pull for the Rams. They’ve been a fun team all season (much like the Wentz-led Eagles).
In the AFC, please please please let chaos reign. I’d love a Titans-Jaguars AFC Title game. Anything but Patriots-Steelers yet again. I really feel that despite “Da Bort”, the Jags are a team built to thrive in the playoffs. They also seem like the team that is still capable of riding the “Gus Bus” to the game.
I don’t really care who wins as long as it’s not Pittsburgh. I kinda want the Patriots to do it so I never have to hear a mouth-breathing, sister-banging Steelers fan say “SIX RINGS” again. Have you ever been to Pittsburgh? It’s like New Jersey got drunk and banged West Virginia, and that’s how Pittsburgh was born.
I was going to say Pittsburgh is like Philadelphia, but without the class. But I like your description better. Mind if I use it?
I doubt I could stop you if I wanted to.
If the Patriots win, you’ll have ANOTHER team’s fanbase should “SIX RINGS”, doubling your misery.
I’ve been waiting for this for a long time.
That’s cute
The Chiefs are going into the playoffs on a 4-game win streak. They have superstars at QB, WR, TE, and RB, and they’re defense has been great recently. They’ll mow over the Titans, and they’ll have a fighting chance in the divisional round. Whoever wins the Jags/Bills game will be obliterated next weekend, though.
*their
I like the part where you called a rookie with one start a superstar.
As long as the Chiefs don’t pull off what the Bills did 18 years ago by benching Doug Flutie for Rob Johnson, they’ll be fine lol
A nation still shakes their head at that decision…
And the homefield disadvantage continues.
Looking at this comment when the game is already over, this cracks me up. But being 100% honest, the Chiefs didn’t deserve to make the playoffs. Like Dave said, they practically crawled to the finish line and the AFCW title should’ve been taken by the chargers but the chargers just became the chargers again at the end of the season
Please god let Atlanta win.
The Cavs won, the Cubs won, please let us have a nice thing instead of a fresh new hell.
instead of a fresh new hell
well if el prez attending the college football championship to further snarl what was already going to be a disastrous traffic situation given the freezing rain predicted for atlanta’s sunday evening…
not terribly optimistic when it comes to atl sporting, but i suppose hope springs eternal
even if frozen solid
How about a gold medal for the U.S. Men’s Hockey team? I’d trade all the medals the U.S. would win for that one gold medal.
For this Olympiad I mean, I’m not that desperate.
I want the Eagles to make it to the SB. I want you to be put to the test Dave. *You will join us*
In all seriousness though I don’t think we are making the SB right now unless things really get pulled together from the paat few weeks but I can hope. If not then the Bills while I prepare for another year of 0 SB wins jokes.
“The Vikings should probably be the NFC favorite with Wentz out, but it just feels weird to put so much faith in Case Keenum. I want to, but I just can’t.”
This is pretty much what all Vikings fans are thinking right now. We’ve been burned before and it’s insane how superstitious everyone is here. No one even wants to talk about the possibility of…
Let me be the first to welcome you to the bandwagon. We’re happy to have you for as long as we can.
And by the way, things to come out of MN:
– The Mississippi River
– The Coen brothers
– The Mayo Clinic
– Target
– Post-it Notes and Scotch tape
– First Ave is where a lot of musicians got their start, including Prince!
– Bob Dylan
– Honeycrisp apples
– General Mills cereal
– SPAM
If we’re going by apple quality, there’s no excuse to root for anyone but the Bills. Upstate NY’s got your Cortlands, Empires, Macouns. The good stuff.
Ambrosias & Honeycrisps are the best ever, no contest. But fuck the Red Delicious, the Patriots of apples.
Crab FTW — the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the apple world
Hooooooold up, no Malt-O-Meal? Golden Puffs are better than anything from General Mills……
Yes!!!!!!! Golden Puffs are LIFE!!!!!!!! also MOA, our State Fair, the like six seasons: hell, fall, winter, freezing hell, spring, and summer
-The Mississippi is lame, I’m a Columbia man
-I’ll give you that
-okay I guess
-retailers are a dime a dozen and come and go
-I’ll give you that
-Never was a big Prince fan
-Bob Dylan even less so
-apples are a lame fruit and who cares enough to know the difference between types
-meh
-this is not a point in Minnesota’s favor
nuts to all of that, I’ll be at the 0-16 parade! in these awful weather conditions! yeehaw!
yeah, no. can’t stand most of the playoff teams, so go Purple People Eaters…
Good to see you back, Dave!
Hope you feeling better Dave! Nothing distracts like playoff football.
Also no way the Saints beat us 3 times this year.
Dude I get your whole thing against the Patriots as a non-pats fan, but you can’t deny that the last two superbowls with the pats were amazingly entertaining games, whereas the Broncos-Seattle game was settled from the beginning, and the Broncos-Panthers game was just meh. The Pats put on good football, aren’t afraid to take risks, and have a knack for game winning last minute drives. If the Pats get in it’ll be another entertaining Superbowl.
Also, to anyone who says the pats don’t deserve to be in the Superbowl anymore: All I can say is that your teams need to beat us for that to be true. As long as the pats are the best team in the NFL, then they deserve to be in the Superbowl, and if that weren’t the case then something would be seriously wrong with the NFL.
(P.S. Go Saints! for the NFC Championship)
One good game doesn’t make the ultimate result really any better. Honestly I didn’t find the game entertaining once the Falcons slowed down because the Patriots comeback felt inevitable, because they’ve done that stuff so many times that you knew it was going to happen.
I was far more entertained when the Pats were getting annihilated because that was actually NEW.
The Seahawks bowl was more entertaining since it was a close one and seemed to work hit-for-hit. But ultimately, it was just another Patriots win, on the back of another season when the Patriots were an easy favorite. They are never underdogs. I can only watch the same team succeed the same basic way so many times before even the good games get dull because you’re just expecting them to come out on top anyway.
All I can say is that your teams need to beat us
stopped reading
heard it before
just like i’ve seen the pats win before
yawn
Meh, Just own the Patriots hate. Dave hates the Packers too, but he makes good comics so he’s alright in my books. (Recognizing that Zygi Wilf is a scumbag helps too).
Although I want to see the city of Buffalo go nuts, I think it’s gonna be the Jags. I do feel like the Jags could maybe upset the pats or steelers, they have the type of D that gives Brady/Roeth problems. (Fast, lotsa sacks, takes away the middle.) That said, it’s gonna be Steelers/Pats. (Oh yeah, Titans and Chiifs are playing. They’re gonna somehow both lose that first game.) It would easy for me to say and the Pats will whip them AGAIN, but they should have won that last game, and have actually adjusted their approach away from Brady-catnip soft zone defense, so the Steelers have a chance.
In the NFC, that Vikings D is siiiick, and could take them all the way, where they will lose at home in an agonising fashion (probably to the pats). The other dangerous ones in the NFC are the rams and saints. I say it’ll be Rams/Vikes in the NFCG.
As long as the Rams don’t win, I’ll take anybody.
Patriots are not the greatest dynasty in history. They WERE a dynasty from 2001-2004. 2 SB wins ten years later is not the same dynasty even with Brady on all 5 teams.
If you judge dynasties on pure championship wins with mostly the same players then no I guess not. I’m not looking at it that way.
The Patriots have missed the playoffs twice since 2001. They haven’t won all the SBs, but they went to literally 7 of them in a 17 year span and came within a game of the SB another 4 times. They have gone to the AFCCG like 5 years in a row. There may have been turnover between most players, but this is an unprecedented level of sustained success that no other team has ever achieved. That to me is a dynasty more than 4-5 years of excellence with multiple SBs.
Welcome back Dave, hope you’re doing alright.
OMG we are here! The guy tackling us Bills fans for drinking the Kool Aid stays away for one more week!
We know that we are the longest of long shots this time, but we are just enjoying the ride without expectations. Plus, with all the tanking that we were supposed to be doing we have no major cogs about to hit free agency, a decent amount of cap and 5 picks in the first three rounds!
Die folding tables! Die! #BillsMafia
I said the bills were getting in at the beginning of the year. Also, for like the 15th straight year, it’s new England vs. The field. Otherwise, I’ve got LA v Jags (fuck you spanos and kronkie).
Glad you’re back buddy. Hope you have an awesome 2018!
Just as a note, Dave, the only time I have ever actively rooted for the Giants (instead of just wishing that their opponent didn’t do well based on playoff scenarios) was the 18-1 Pats. And, frankly, I still partially regret it today. So, if you’d rather root for The Meteor in a Pats-Eagles SB, I completely understand.
And yes, the idiots around here were already getting insufferable before the Seahawks loss, so I can’t imagine what they’ll be like if the Eagles actually finally won a SB.
Minnesota gave you the best halftime show ever (Prince) and literally everything 3M has ever invented >:{
And as I said above, you can’t forget SPAM!
Chaos Wagon. Burn it all.
Chargers should be in instead of Bills tbh. We blew em out and scored 55 points. I know it comes down to stats and stuff, but this really just sucks ass. Plus, the Cowboys are the 19th pick, while Chargers are 17th. Again, blew em out 28-6, but still. I honestly don’t know why I’m upset about this, especially with the pick. But seriously, your telling me a team lead by nothing but LeSean McCoy made it but a team led by Rivers and a solid D didn’t. Don’t worry, we’ll show everyone next year (That’s what I said last year, and the year before, and the year before, so don’t count on it).
To add to the against for the Falcons, wasting Tony Gonzalez’s last year of his career.
WOOOO!!!! GOOOOO STEELERS! 13-3 for lyfe!!!!!!!!!!
As someone who tunes out of football the moment the Giants become irrelevant (so, this entire season) I’d like to thank you for giving me some talking points so I can engage with the Sports Fans in my office/ have a few more precious weeks of not being that weird person who never talks to anyone.
(I lie, I went to last week’s Giants game. It was 15 degrees. But they won so… worth it?)
I have to admit, if the nightmare SB match up happens, I rather that the Pats wins than the Eagles. Really, fuck their fans.
Last weekend, my playoffs picks are 1-3.
Here’s hoping it gets better next week.
Bit wrong, the crap shoot was the QB mess known as Jacksonville-Buffalo. Don’t get me wrong, great defensive game, but dang, that QB play was bad.
As a Pats fan, yeah we’re almost done.
So this one aged well then Dave.