WELCOME TO THE DYNASTY: Year end pics wrap up
There we go, fellas. It’s over. Another football season in the books. I feel simultaneously very smart for saying the Chiefs would win a low-scoring game and obviously not that smart because that was how they won basically every game this year.
I guess defensive struggles are a blessing and a curse. The first half of that game, and much of the second half, was a slog. The 49ers could not string together a solid drive and only got points off a creative trick play. The Chiefs did even less. Both teams had to rely on godly kicker performances to score points. For most of the game it felt like the 49ers were just…inches away from making that one breakaway play that broke the game open. It never happened. Spags unit held firm and Chris Jones probably should have been the game MVP. Purdy did his best with his still limited experience and skillset but it was not enough. The Chiefs defense did not allow anything downfield and stuffed McCaffery as best they could. It’s telling that if the 49ers won, the MVP would have probably gone to Jauan Jennings, the 3rd or 4th option on the team who by virtue of being the least important threat, made the biggest impact. If anyone on earth picked him to throw the game’s first touchdown, they are now rich.
But the blessing of a defensive struggle is that the game stays close and gets ever more tense as the game gets closer and closer to ending. For as unwatchable as the first half was, the second half and overtime became thrilling because something had to break and nothing was. Thankfully this wasn’t a Rams/Patriots repeat (What I think was the most unwatchable SuperBowl of the past 20 years) and the defense here started to sway a little bit as both teams got tired. You know what really made this game? The Chaos that crept through to keep it interesting.
Chaos was strong with the Super Bowl this year. It started early with a McCaffery fumble to stump the promising opening drive. The Chiefs got a massive bomb deep to finally move the ball and then a fumble directly afterward. Mahomes was swamped in the pocket every play and threw a stupid pick. The kickers both made field goals from the Bellagio Fountain. I don’t think there is a god of chaos, I think the idea of a god of chaos goes against the very idea of chaos, but if there is, that god was rooting for the Chiefs.
In the third quarter off a kick the ghost of Kyle Williams would strike the 49ers once more and the ball just ricocheted off a player’s foot, making it live, and the Chiefs would pounce on the ball. They would immediately score their first TD of the game to take a brief lead directly afterward. The game’s dynamic felt immediately different. But, you’d be forgiven for not noticing at first. The Chiefs had finally reached the endzone after some special teams flukery gave them a good field. But chaos wasn’t done. The 49ers would answer the Chiefs touchdown with the best drive yet, going ahead on a Jauan Jennings score. Jennings was turning into the David Tyree of this game. I remember thinking after the touchdown that the most chaotic thing that could happen would be a shank. I was almost right. The Chiefs would block the extra point, keeping the lead at a measly 3 points instead of 4, and anyone who has watched football for a long time probably made a sharp air intake. In a game like this, that point was pivotal.
After that block the 49ers grip on the game felt like it fully switched. The 9ers, despite leading, felt like they were now the ones on the ropes, under pressure to execute. To prevent the inevitability of Patrick Mahomes. They could not. After the Chiefs tied it up with another long kick the 49ers once again drove the field and faced a deathly important 3rd down at the two-minute warning. A conversion would allow them to run out most of the clock and kick an easy field goal to win. To be stopped and kick immediately would give the league’s current leading bullshit artist a two-minute drill all to himself. The Chiefs ran a perfect blitz, Purdy’s pass dropped to the ground, and sure enough: Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce did their bullshit. Although they were stopped and forced to kick a short field goal to cause overtime rather than win right there. That was a key point to that blocked extra point: if the Chiefs are down by 4 there, this game ends on the next play.
A lot has already been made of Kyle Shanahan’s decision to receive first when they won the toss. I honestly don’t mind his decision at all. In fact the discussion about the decision is partly why I wanted these overtime rules established in the first place: to make it an actual decision instead of a coin flip. If the other team is guaranteed a possession, do you give your defense a rest after they just got gassed on a drive and also ensure that should both teams remain tied after two guaranteed possessions, that you’d get the ball first in sudden death? I think Shanahan’s call was just fine and he’s getting too much criticism because it didn’t work out in his favor.
The 49ers managed to get a field goal and then Dr Bullshit MD led another game-winning drive to seal the deal with 3 seconds left in the first overtime period. It was the 7th longest game in NFL history. It started slow and turned into something great. Hell, you could say the same for the Usher halftime show. It was boring to start. By the end it was great. It was…a good super bowl.
I can never pick against Patrick Mahomes ever again. He’s not the GOAT, not yet, but he’s easily the BPRN, Best Player Right Now.
As for pics this season? What was your favorite? On the year this time I did just barely worse than last year, winning one fewer game. There were also no ties this year. Sad.
I’ve never had a week as bad as my 3-10 week 7 this year. Woof. Other interesting tidbits: I did not have any individual team nemesis this season, but I did very poorly on every AFCN team except the Ravens, who I was just above average on. The Steelers, Bengals, and Browns spent the entire year winning when I expected them to lose and losing when I expected them to win. Infuriating. I never had a longer losing streak than 6 games with the Broncos. I naturally did my best work in the NFCE, getting all 4 teams very correct overall. Cowboys were actually my most accurate team outside the Panthers, who I never picked to win a single game. Why would you?
CHAOS AWARDS 2023- COMING ON FRIDAY, AND I WANT YOUR HELP!
There will be no comic Wednesday. We shall save comics for next week. This Friday will be the second annual CHAOS AWARDS!
This year was significantly less clear on chaos than last season was. Since it’s hard to remember everything that went on this year as I am but one man doing this for a hobby, I would like your nominations as well. Name all the nominees you feel appropriate for each category, add why if you can, and on Friday we can laugh at the winners.
MOST CHAOTIC TEAM – Who was the weirdest team this year? Why? What kind of nonsense did they do?
MOST CHAOTIC PLAYER – Who was all over the place performance wise? Who would get the ball in their hands and immediately cause a ruckus?
MOST CHAOTIC PLAY/MOMENT – What single play was the stupidest shit you saw? Playoff moments are acceptable here
MOST CHAOTIC FRONT OFFICE DECISION – What dumb trade, hiring, firing, or else was the weirdest or dumbest thing that a team did?
MOST CHAOTIC GAME – Pretty self-explanatory, can also be a playoff game
MOST CHAOTIC COACH – Which coach consistently blew your mind
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA – What shit happened in the media either about a player, or the NFL itself, to cause stupid discourse?
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM – This is the Panthers. You know it, I know it. But feel free to nominate other teams we can still talk about, just to shit on them too.
ANY OTHER CATEGORY YOU THINK DESERVES TO BE AN AWARD AND WHY. Should be broad enough to have multiple nominees for it too.
Any chance a comic will be made about Thuney being involved with two dynasties?
Alright, time to write an essay!
Most Chaotic Team: Unlike last year, there’s no clear-cut favorite like the Vikings were last year. I’ll go with the {Browns}, who pulled off some weird wins, had some head-scratching losses, and started like 70 different QBs. Also had a part in the Myles Garrett/TJ Watt discourse.
Most Chaotic Player: Last year, I was the only one to nominate the eventual winner, Justin Fields. I nominated him due to the discourse that he inspired and the fact that he made a 3-14 team worth watching every week. I’ll go with a similar pick on a different type of team: {Brock Purdy}. The discourse surrounding him was prevalent all throughout the season, and he inspired countless Twitter arguments and even a TDP comic.
Most Chaotic Play: The craziest play that popped into my head was the Jets’ Fail Mary, but that was just one individual play in the first half of a game that didn’t really have any impact in the grand scheme of things – the Jets missed the playoffs handily, while the Dolphins made it handily. Instead, I’ll go with {Aaron Rodgers tearing his Achilles}, which caused a massive ripple effect throughout the rest of the season and led to some hilarious moments with his attempted comeback and whatnot.
Most Chaotic FO Decision: This category stuck around after basically just being made to give Jeff Saturday an award last year. I’ll give it to {the Browns signing Joe Flacco} and having him lead them to the playoffs.
Most Chaotic Game: {Texans vs. Buccaneers, Week 9}. That game had it all – ridiculous offense, five lead changes in the fourth quarter, a backup RB kicking a go-ahead field goal. Afterwards we got a couple weeks of CJ Stroud MVP discourse. Unreal game that was one for the books.
Most Chaotic Coach: {Arthur Smith}. Anyone unlucky enough to draft a Falcons player in fantasy agrees with me. Him falling up into an OC gig with the Steelers was just icing on the cake. Speaking of Steelers OCs, Matt Canada was also fun chaos when the Steelers were like 7-3 getting outgained every game or something.
Most Chaotic Off-Field Drama: I mean, there was a ton of stupid stuff this year, but it has to go to {Kelce/Swift}, no? Once again, it just had a massive ripple effect on the entire rest of the season, from the psyop stuff, to the allegations of rigging, to those crazy Super Bowl prop bets.
Most Unwatchable Team: As you said, it’s the {Panthers}. Not only boring and horrible, but they even lured you in to watch them with the promise of a 1st overall pick at QB. The post-Kirk Vikings were pretty unwatchable, too.
HAIL CHIEFS! With that out of the way:
Most Chaotic Play of the Most Chaotic Game: Purdy’s throws a bomb that Aiyuk catches for a TD after it bounces off the defender’s facemask as Detroit blows a 17-point lead in the NFCCG
Oh, and I like the term ‘flukery’
Most Chaotic Injury given to the player who injury completely derailed a season.
Nominees:
Aaron Rodgers and his Achilles complete turns Jets hope into despair faster than you can say Testaverde. Couldn’t have a happened to a nicer… Uh, well, at least we can all agree we felt sad when it… um. Moving on..
Joe Burrow’s Calf hampers Bengals Super Bowl hopes and then his wrist makes their season go full zombie. Bonus points for the Bengals treading water and actually sticking around in the hunt, making the loss more painful.
Nick Chubb’s knee was painful to happen to a beloved player, but even more painful when Flacco get the team into the playoffs and having Chubb would’ve made a hell of a difference.
I nominate Kirk Cousins’ Achilles for this category. Vikings were okay before his injury and unwatchable dreck afterwards.
What about an injury that just kind of comes out of nowhere or under strange circumstances? Like Dre Greenlaw’s wild achilles tear running onto the field IN THE SUPERBOWL!! Hard to think of a more consequential, random injury born purely out of chaos.
Most Chaotic Team – Bias but I’m nominating my Vikings for a repeat, and I do not care I will argue my case. So many damn injuries but we still managed to: Start 0-3 on the stupidest shit of all time, and later 1-4. Then win 5 in a row with being the only NFC team to beat a FULLY HEALTHY Purdy (I’m serious this still stands), lose our MVP candidate QB AND the best WR in the NFL in the process, and I almost forget about Passtronout for a minute. 6-4 then pretty much hell for the rest of the year. Dobbs turns into the pASStronuat, we need Mullens to come in a lead a game-winning drive to win 3-0, then lose the last 4 with more bad QB play and heartbreaking L’s. Tack it all up and it’s 14 one-score games and I thought 2022 was gonna be the wildest year ever. Also I went to the Jaren Hall game and can confirm he sucks in real life too.
Most Chaotic Player – Kadarius Toney and it’s not even close. Bro just eventually got benched because of it.
Most Chaotic Play/Moment – There wasn’t any all-time horrible play like the lateral shit last year in Vegas but I’m throwing a dart here and saying the Jets return TD to win Week One. Love punt returns and the embarrassment of giving it up against the Jets is just hilarious on the Bills part.
Most Chaotic Front Office Decision – I would say the idea of keeping Matt Canada’s reign of terror for that long was impressive by the Steelers. And I know they never fire anybody midseason but the writing was on the wall last season and he shouldn’t have even been brought back.
Most Chaotic Game – Chargers Raiders Blowout. I like AP but running up the score felt a little too much but i hate Staley so I don’t feel bad for him. Just sad he wasted Austin Ekeler’s last years there.
Most Chaotic Coach – Authur Smith. I was a Bijan fantasy manager. End of discussion.
Most Chaotic Off-Field Drama – There has never been a single person more influential in changing the entire sports world in like 4 months than Swift, and this goes to literally everywhere. Obvious call.
Most Unwatchable Team – Skipping this.
Extra Category: Worst Playoff Loss. Now this can be a few teams (Looking at you Todd Monken), and the Lions make a CLOSE case but come on, classic Couchboys at the worst level we have seen yet. A SEVEN SEED? REALLY?
I felt bad for ya’ll during the Jaren Hall game, and I’m a Packers fan. That alone should be a really big red flag.
Most Chaotic FO Decision: I think the football gods punishing the Patriots for trying to pretend to be a good team probably qualifies. Firing the mad genius and keeping his useless cronys is probably the dumbest think I’ve ever seen a team do.
Most Chaotic Team: the Eagles going from being a 10-1 SB contender to getting blown out by the worst teams in the league was something. You lost to the NFCS..even the Cowboys can beat the NFCS.
MOST CHAOTIC TEAM: Not a clear cut winner this year, but my money’s on the EAGLES. This year was even wackier for them than your average super bowl hangover, with them winning close ones in a similar fashion to last year before the bottom just… fell out. They replaced their defensive coordinator with one of the least qualified people on the planet. Nick Sirianni lost the locker room with AJ Brown being the leading voice of revolt. They lost 5 of 6 with each loss being progressively more embarrassing (spanked by the niners, spanked by the cowboys, gave up a game winning drive to Drew Fucking Lock, lost to the woeful Cardinals in the Gannon revenge game with the 2 seed on the line, lost to the even more woeful Giants to crush all hopes at the 2 seed), before getting swept aside by Baker Mayfield’s Bucs in humiliating fashion in the playoffs. Collapse for the ages that even the most dedicated haters couldn’t have seen coming before the year.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAYER: Tempted to vote for Flacco or Josh Allen for their raw “Fuck it he’s down there somewhere” energy, but I gotta go with KADARIUS TONEY. That man being benched won the Chiefs a Super Bowl.
MOST CHAOTIC MOMENT: If Lamar scored a touchdown on a pass he caught from himself this would be obvious, but I’m go with the JETS HAIL MARY. The game meant nothing, but the play was so funny and so beautifully Jets that it can’t not be here.
MOST CHAOTIC FRONT OFFICE DECISION: MIKE VRABEL? Really? You’re firing THAT guy?
MOST CHAOTIC GAME: Okay this is cheating but the story here is in two parts: RAIDERS VS VIKINGS and RAIDERS VS CHARGERS. The first, the lowest scoring game since 2007, and they didn’t have the excuse of bad weather. Both teams were just AWFUL. The legend of the passtronaut exploded like the Challenger. 0-0 would have been hilarious, but what came next more than made up for it. The Chargers, without their starting QB but facing a Raiders team that just lost 3-0, got obliterated. Just total annihilation. Chargers players were basically giving up in the second quarter. The Raiders defense styled on them to run the score up even more. It was the one of the most fun football games I’ve ever watched. It was the perfect sendoff to the hack that was Brandon Staley and a slap in the face to the Spanos family that kept him around for way too long. These two games were pure chaotic poetry.
MOST CHAOTIC COACH: My heart wants to say Dan the Man, but my brain knows its ARTHUR SMITH. If the guy was intentionally trolling fantasy owners, he was a genius. If he wasn’t, he’s a moron. Either way, the 12:01 AM firing was much deserved.
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA: TAYLOR SWIFT AND THE PEOPLE SHITTING THEIR PANTS OVER HER PRESENCE. Easy.
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM: we already know. The PANTHERS suck and are boring and its looking like it’ll be that way for most if not all of Tepper’s reign.
FUNNIEST PLAYOFF LOSS: BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THE COWBOYS GOT DESTROYED AT HOME BY JORDAN LOVE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU DALLAS HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Chiefs capitalized on the turnovers and Niners did not. KC did just enough, especially on defense.
Shanahan does share a lot of blame. Those 3, 3 and outs to start the second half killed their momentum. Shanahan not running the ball enough in the 3rd quarter kept the team from first downs and potentially more points and winning.
Giving KC a shot when SF didn’t run the ball at the 2 minute warning, on 3rd and 4. CmC is getting you 4 yards on 2 downs and icing the game. Passing on that down made no sense regardless.
MOST CHAOTIC TEAM – Cleveland Browns. They started out mediocre, went through a carousel of QB changes starting with The Predator and finally landing on JOE FLACCO to lead them to the playoffs, and finished what should’ve been a lost year as the 5th seed, racking up some legit hardware at the NFL Honors
MOST CHAOTIC PLAYER – Josh Allen. Some say he should’ve been MVP, others say he’s a turnover machine. The truth is both: you never knew what would happen when the ball was in his hand, but it would probably be big.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAY/MOMENT – Bills fake punt against the Chiefs. The result was predictable, but the fact that it was even called is chaotic.
MOST CHAOTIC FRONT OFFICE DECISION – The Browns questionable decision to sign Joe Flacco, which looks genius in hindsight. Positive chaos for the win here.
MOST CHAOTIC GAME – Lions-49ers NFCCG is tempting here, but the Dolphins dropping 70 on Denver was ridiculous
MOST CHAOTIC COACH – Dan Cambell thrives off chaos and we all love him for it
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA – Taylor Swift I guess. Can’t think of anything else…maybe she was a plant this whole time because the NFL was having a slow news year (sarcasm)
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM – This is the Panthers. You know it, I know it. (Dis)honorable mention to whatever the hell the Falcons were doing while wasting the year away
New category concept: WASTED CHAOTIC STORYLINE – An award to honor a choatic storyline that ultimately doesn’t bear fruit. Idea stems from 2 possible storylines that don’t happen, centered around the Browns-Texans playoff game. First, the Browns play the Texans but The Predator is nowhere to be seen. You’d think if the NFL wanted to script this either he gets revenge on his old team, or the Texans curbstomp him directly for funsies. Second, if the Browns win that game with Flacco, their next game is a JOE FLACCO RETURN TO BALTIMORE. Talk about a wasted chaotic storyline! But alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Big reaosn why I don’t think the NFL is scripted is so many chaotic storylines get wasted, so this award would honor that.
As someone who actually watched the Panthers, they were both unwatchable and maddening watchable. Almost every play was a magnum opus of true ineptitude, pure beauty in how poor ownership, leadership, coaching, and give a shits all can become an unwatchable television product. This team was direct to CW with no commercial breaks because no one would advertise on it level good.
I don’t know if I’d call the Kelce-Swift stuff chaotic. Sure, it caused some stupid stuff to happen, but as soon as Swift was a feature it was seni-obvious what was going to happen.
Personally, I think Rodgers is the king of off-field drama until proven otherwise. Thanks to his injury he had waaaaay to much time on his hands to spread his garbage opinions on Pat’s show, called out the entire Jets org publicly, started a feud with Kimmel, and became even more insufferable than he was in Green Bay.
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM: Okay, so we all know it’s the Panthers, but hear me out, I think the Falcons have them beat. No one *expected* anything from the Panthers and rightfully so. The Falcons were at least theorized to have an interesting dynamic on offense, and through the first two games or so it seemed to be true as they leaned on their rushing attack. But after that, the name of the game seemed to become a keep-away from all of the true playmakers in favor of Desmond Ridder and Jonnu Smith, with predictable results. It was a very disappointing season, especially when the division was 100% winnable.
I agree. The only excitement the Panthers had was a new QB. Expectations were rock bottom. The Falcons thought they could win the division and should have with even inept play calling on offense.
Though I think the NFCS should all win this as a big group of sadness.
Yeah, don’t think you can get more chaotic than insinuating that a popular late night show host is a pedophile.
Fuck, meant to reply to Sexy Dave above re:Aaron Rodgers
Most chaotic play is definitely clear- can’t get dumber than a Lions collapse after the ball doinks off Vildor’s face.
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1751783759056453663
Most Chaotic Team: I’d go with the Dolphins. Dropped 70, but were held under 20 points several times. Pitched a shut-out, non defense, one week and gave up 56 another. Tua’s been called everything from an MVP to a bust.
Chaotic Player: Joe Burrow Why are they playing him? HE’S BACK! He’s out for the season.
Chaotic Play: Easily the lateral to Toney for a TD that didn’t count because KT lol.
Chaotic Front Office Decision: Trading for Aaron Rodgers, period.
Chaotic Game: Chiefs Raiders Christmas. Chiefs give up back to back defensive scores, Raiders’ Offense scores 6 points, and they win the game. Butker missed two FGs all year, one was in this game, a 36 yarder.
Chaotic Coach: Josh McDaniels, didn’t even need the whole year to earn the award.
Most Annoying Announcer: Tough matchup between Collingsworth, Romo and Aikman. Biased, but I’m going with Collingsworth cause he started the Jawaan Taylor witch hunt.
First time commentator here, and I’m only here to make sure the Colts get represented for their Week 13 game against the Titans. Because everyone needs to remember this dumb shit.
Most Chaotic Team: Jacksonville Jaguars. When you start 8-3 and then fail to make the playoffs because you lost five of six in the AFC South of all places, how do you look at yourself in the mirror in the morning?
Most Chaotic Player: Kadarius Toney. The amount of bullshit surrounding him this season, culminating in his benching (to the Chiefs benefit!) makes him an easy pick.
Most Chaotic Play/Moment: On December 3rd, I got to watch Amani Hooker intercept a Gardner Minshew screen-pass attempt on a two point conversion to make the fabled pick two. This has happened before, but it was the first time I’ve seen it. I’m not sure if this will win, but you need to remember it existed.
Most Chaotic Front Office Decision: The Saints not firing Dennis Allen. I mean, come on!
Most Chaotic Game: That Colts-Titans Week 13 game was fucking wild and you know it. Two blocked punts, one of which is returned for a TD and the other of which injures the Titans punter in what would become important later as Tannehill holds the ball and an easy field goal is instead shanked. Will Levis threw an interception and then punched the ball out to recover the fumble for the Titans. The aforementioned pick two. This game was insane and I loved it. This was also the only Colts game I watched this year due to other commitments, and I am SO glad I did.
Most Chaotic Coach: Fuck Josh McDaniels
Most Chaotic Off Field Drama: The Kelce-Swift relationship and all the dumb bullshit surrounding it.
Most Unwatchable Team: It’s the fucking Panthers and I can’t muster up the energy to nominate anyone else.
Most chaotic team: honestly the Broncos are a dark horse here (no pun intended)? Like they hired Sean Payton, immediately start off pretty bad including an absolutely embarrassing performance against the Dolphins (more on this later), but then suddenly they start rattling off winds to get into the playoff picture, only to lay an egg against the Patriots, Russ gets benched, season over. After what happened last year, it was a pretty interesting story and fun ride to watch. After all, the ride never ends. I’ve seen people say the Browns especially with how Flacco came in and let them to the playoffs after their sex pest QB went down for the season, but we all have to face the inevitability of him coming back next season and I don’t want to think about that, the Broncos are more interesting team going forward and I want to see that chaos more.
Most chaotic player: I did a whole write up on how CJ Stroud and Jordan Love could get it for not having much expectations but leading teams to playoff wins, but then I remembered Tommy Devito, and like it’s gotta be him. It HAS to be. Random rookie comes out of nowhere and leads the Giants too several wins, and so many memes. Like think of all the times you posted the “EH PAISAN YOU JUST GOT DEVITO’D” pic, we’re both Giants fans and that was by far the most I enjoyed any part of our season, he runs away with this.
Most chaotic play/moment: that Brandon Aiyuk catch off the defenders facemask single-handedly turned the tide of the NFC championship, I’m going with that. If the Ravens ended up winning the AFC championship, Lamar’s pass to himself might have also been over there… although if we’re sticking with the theme of dark horse pics, shout out to the ending of Bills/Broncos, Broncos are down one in field goal range, MISS THE FIELD GOAL as time expires, only for the Bills to be penalized for 12 players on the field, Broncos rekick and win.
Most chaotic front office decision- the Eagles randomly making Matt Patricia their defensive coordinator late in the season. Like that made zero sense and everyone knew it was a bad move, and you can arguythat is what led to the Eagles collapse. like when he was the Lions head coach he drove Darius Slay out of town and now he had to deal with him again, as a fan of a rival that’s hilarious and it really can’t be anything else- although honorable mention goes to the Texans for trading up for the third pick after selecting Stroud with the second pick, that was ballsy and it got them the defensive rookie of the year right after they picked the offensive rookie of the year. Not many people saw that coming.
Most chaotic game: I’ve seen a lot of people say Raiders Chargers but nothing is going to top Dolphins Broncos. 70 points. SEVENTY POINTS. THEY COULD HAVE BROKEN THE RECORD FOR MOST POINTS IN A GAME BUT THEY DIDN’T BECAUSE THEY WERE COWARDS, I MEAN CLASSY. And as I alluded to above, the fact that the Broncos somehow bounced back from this to have a somewhat respectable season makes it even more chaotic. Honorable mention goes to the Packers going into Jerryworld and whooping the Cowboys’ ass, first 7 seed to beat a 2 and it was glorious. Laughs were had across the league.
Most chaotic coach: I mean, balls to the wall, kneecap-biting Dan Campbell. Duh. People are saying Arthur Smith but like, really? He sucked, Campbell did what ever he wanted even if it cost him, and owned it. Love that man.
Most chaotic off-field drama: everyone’s saying Taylor Swift so it’s obviously gonna be her, but I need to remind you guys that early in the season Chandler Jones was saying some really unhinged shit, remember that? We should remember that. We should also remember the time David Tepper threw his drink on a Jaguars fan.
Most unwatchable team: Panthers were shit but at the very least they had a rookie QB who hopefully has upside. The Patriots on the other hand, Jesus Fuck did anyone expect them to be this AWFUL? Everyone’s talking about Mahomes being the new Brady and the Chiefs being the new dynasty, meanwhile the old dynasty is just rotting away in the corner as a shell of its former self that was pathetic to watch, Jones and Zappe were both garbage Belichick is gone, honestly it was really sad, like we were all rooting for the Pats’ downfall but not like this…
Most chaotic Draw Play moment: the time someone on Twitter asked you to draw Jalen Hurts as a slippery salmon in Vaseline because Mark Sanchez said that on a broadcast, and everyone pitched in $50 for you to actually do it lol
MOST CHAOTIC TEAM – Gotta be Buffalo. They finally fully aligned with their fanbase and started playing every game as though they were shitfaced drunk. Josh Allen turned the ball over 146 times and still got MVP votes. They lost to 3 of the worst teams in the league and still ended up favored in both of their playoff games.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAYER – Josh Allen is the obvious choice, but can we talk about how Baker Mayfield, out of nowhere, had his best season as a pro? He had some absolute clunkers along the way, and his season ended in the most Baker Mayfield way possible, but that performance against the Eagles was what everyone envisioned him doing when he came into the league as the top pick. The other runner-up? Josh Dobbs.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAY/MOMENT – This four-play sequence in week 17’s absolutely meaningless slop-fest between the Pats and Jets:
1st & 10: Bailey Zappe sacked by Will McDonald for 15 yards
2nd & 25: Bailey Zappe deep pass to Jalen Reagor INTERCEPTED by Ashtyn Davis; Ashtyn Davis fumbles (Mike Gesicki), recovered by Vederian Lowe
1st & 10: Ezekiel Elliott up the middle for 1 yards
2nd & 9: Bailey Zappe pass deflected and intercepted by Tony Adams
ahhh, the 2023 Patriots… what a shitshow
MOST CHAOTIC FRONT OFFICE DECISION – As with most seasons, anything the Raiders did. At least this time they actually made the right decision and gave Antonio Pierce the job for real.
MOST CHAOTIC GAME – Chiefs v. Bills in the divisional round. That sequence where the Bills ran an inexplicable, doomed fake punt with Damar Hamlin deep in their own end, and then got bailed out by the worst rule in football was just [chef’s kiss].
MOST CHAOTIC COACH – Dan Campbell would be the obvious choice, but WHAT THE FUCK WENT ON WITH NICK SIRIANNI THIS YEAR??? Seriously, can someone fill me in?
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA – Kind of a quiet year for that, but it’s a tie between Tyreek Hill’s house being burned down by a mischievous 6-year-old and Aaron Rodgers accusing Jimmy Kimmel of being a pedophile.
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM – Nah, it’s the Patriots. At least the Panthers gave people reason to tune in because they kept hoping Bryce would turn the corner (which he seemed to be approaching late in the year). The Patriots were utterly hopeless after those back-to-back Cowboys and Saints losses. Only reason I kept watching was to see how bad it would be.
ANY OTHER CATEGORY YOU THINK DESERVES TO BE AN AWARD AND WHY. Most chaotic injury. As in the injury that caused the most chaos to ensue, not necessarily the grisliest one. This year it was obviously Rodgers’ heel exploding on his 2nd dropback of the year.
*week 18’s absolutely meaningful slopfest. I hate the 17-game schedule so much.
*week 18’s absolutely meaningless slopfest
Most chaotic team: Texans how the hell did they go from second worst to 4th seed explain that
Bad chaos: Nick Chubb’s knee
Off field drama: black vs white pro bowl idea from Rashad mendanhal
Front office move: bill bellichek, Arron Rodgers trade, or Canada getting fired during the season.
Most chaotic player: Flacco or Warren both came out of nowhere and were on fire
Most chaotic play: watson’s instant pick six in week two
Most chaotic coach: maybe the raiders interim guy who became head coach doing so well
Most unwatchable team besides the panthers: Pittsburgh Steelers our offense was atrocious and in the short Trubisky run the defense just gave up our offense was only good for about five games and we sucked balls
Dammit I wanted the niners to win now we have another dynasty.
FUCK MY LIFE
I think you incorrectly said your longest streak was 6 games, it looks like you got 7 in a row with the Chargers, from Weeks 12-18
MOST CHAOTIC TEAM-Man, let me see. I’d have to say the Bengals. Everyone was expecting them to be good this year, but they fell apart with Burrow at the beginning of the season. Then he got injured. And Jake Browning was actually okay. They STILL didn’t make the playoffs and people thought the Bengals were going to make a Super Bowl run.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAYER-I will say Tyreek. He was amazing with the Dolphins this year. Whenever I turned a dolphins game on, I always saw hon make big plays. Also, he was the only one to do something in the Wild Card round.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAY/MOMENT-When MVS ran 10 yards backwards in the Super Bowl. You were gonna gain 3 yards, man. Why’d you do that?
MOST CHAOTIC FRONT OFFICE DECISION-Come on Jags. Fire your General Manager. Why did you not do it yet.
MOST CHAOTIC GAME-Raiders 63-pointer. Especially coming off a 3-0 loss AND on the road. Apparently they’re drafting a new QB, but I don’t think they should.
MOST CHAOTIC COACH-Dan Campbell. He really turned the Lions around. But he also made some questionable decisions *cough cough* NFCCG *cough cough*
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA-“Save us Tua.” “Save us Josh Allen.” “Save us Lamar.” “Save us Purdy.” Be quiet. No one saved you.
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM-Chargers. It’s them. You have a franchise QB and a decent roster. Why did you suck? At least you fired your head coach. But I felt sorry for Chargers fans this season.
ANY OTHER CATEGORY-Most chaotic storyline. I’m gonna say the Texans one. After 3-13-1, they went to 10-7. You think the Chiefs fans (like me) get special treatment? Not this season. Houston did.
Also, most unwatchable game goes to Vikings 3 Raiders 0. Most chaotic injury, I wanna say Aaron Rodgers, but everyone is saying that, so I’ll go with Joe Burrow.
MOST CHAOTIC TEAM – The Broncos. They were supposed to have this amazing defense, and all the questions were around, “Can Payton get Wilson and the offense back on track?” Both sides of the ball were a mess at the start of the year, but it was less Wilson problems than expected and more defense problems. Wilson had a few “moments”, but that got corrected faster than the defensive woes. They eventually looked respectable by the end of the year when it no longer mattered.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAYER – I want to nominate every backup who became a starter due to injury. This was “The Year of the Rise and Fall the Backup.” Just about every backup who had to go in as the starter due to injury went in and light things up for a few games, then flamed out in spectacular fashion. It’s better to burn out than fade away, I guess. Drew Lock may have been the only one safe from this phenomenon. He balled out as the starter for one game that seemed to signal the start of the Eagles’ power slide.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAY/MOMENT – Lions-49ers NFC Championship game: Brock Purdy’s deep pass bank-shot off the defender’s helmet that would have otherwise been short. It was the antithesis of the “David Tyree’s Helmet” play in the Super Bowl vs the Patriots.
MOST CHAOTIC FRONT OFFICE DECISION – David Tepper. He fires head coaches faster than he takes a piss. And then there’s the whole, “throwing beer on opposing fans,” incident.
– Honorable mention: Jim Irsay fueling a contract dispute with the best player on his roster while at the same time shoveling more money than the contract to save an orca during the off-season.
MOST CHAOTIC GAME – Denver-Miami, with Miami scoring 70 vs a bucket of fish.
MOST CHAOTIC COACH – Josh McDaniels. Granted, this feels like the culmination of years of chaotic decisions that leaves everyone wondering why he hasn’t learned and why teams keep giving him a job (Or even offering one. Sorry Colts).
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA – What shit happened in the media either about a player, or the NFL itself, to cause stupid discourse?
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM – The Panthers. The Patriots were bad, but not completely unwatchable.
MOST CHAOTIC TEAM – I don’t think any team was consistent this year! This whole season was a bunch of chaos of the first degree. Buffalo played like the Gatorade was spiked, the Lions were actually good just to have Dan Campbell shit the bed at the worst possible moment, the Eagles mutinied midseason, the Chiefs had to rely on their DEFENSE this year, the Vikings had one good game with the Passtronaut only to completely suck the rest of the season, and the Browns who also started a slew of QBs and had some staggering highs and lows. Tiebreak has to go to the Vikings since they are my team (sob).
MOST CHAOTIC PLAYER – Kadarius Toney full stop. When I saw he was benched, I immediately changed my SB pick from the Niners to the Chiefs. He’s that bad but he thinks he’s football Jesus.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAY/MOMENT – I have to go with Lamar catching his own pass and actually getting positive yardage out of it.
MOST CHAOTIC FRONT OFFICE DECISION – Why the heck was Vrabel fired? I still don’t get it.
MOST CHAOTIC GAME – The Dolphins / Broncos 70 point fiasco. I normally won’t watch blowouts, but this was like a train wreck in slow motion and I watched the whole game. My mom gave up halfway through and I kept yelling at her whenever they scored again. It was also fun to watch Brandon Perna lose his shit over it.
MOST CHAOTIC COACH – Ron Rivera was clueless the whole season and made a ton of dumb decisions both with his coaching staff and the on-field product. There was no more deserved firing.
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA – The media made such a big deal out of Kelce/Swift when it’s really nothing. But, as a woman, it’s nice to see other gals taking an interest in the NFL. Maybe I won’t be the only lady in my FF league next year!
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM – Panthers.
Hmm, now that I think about it, does the piss-poor officiating count as and on-field or off-field drama? I think that had more of an effect on the season, but I don’t know how to categorize it. I think I might nominate it for Zahara Reuben-Roy’s chaotic storyline category.
Ooh, fun, essay time?
MOST CHAOTIC TEAM – On the field, it has to be Cleveland, right? With all of the injuries they suffered at so many key positions, the fact that they still managed to find their way into the playoffs is insane. I’ll give an honorable mention to the Jets thanks in part to the amount of off-field drama they dealt with this season, but they’ll have their segment later.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAYER – This one’s kind of tough. First instinct says Joe Flacco given his statline and absurd success to close out the regular season with Cleveland. But then you have other viable candidates like the short stint of the Passtronaut and Tommy DiVito taking over the league for a couple of weeks. I’m going to stick with Joe, just because his run was hilarious and ended in the most chaotic way possible with him blowing the game back to back pick sixes in the Wild Card, but I won’t argue against the other two I mentioned.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAY/MOMENT – The final 7 minutes of Chiefs-Bills, AFC Divisional. No honorable mentions here. This entire sequence deserves a week of comics in and of itself. Buffalo running a make-a-wish fake punt to Demar Hamlin at their own 35 only to get stuffed by a unit that had 10 men on the field. Kansas City immediately handing them the ball back with everyone’s favorite rule; the fumble out the endzone touchback! Buffalo driving down the field, Allen making a great read and smoking the pass forcing the Bills to settle for a game-tying field goal that goes… wide right. The scriptwriters absolutely cooked with this game and I will die on the hill that this was the most chaotic sequence of the season.
MOST CHAOTIC FRONT OFFICE DECISION – Philadelphia brining in Matt Patricia in a last-ditch effort to save their struggling defense gave me a good laugh. Unsurprisingly, the move completely backfired and Philly collapsed. Russell Wilson’s benching and subsequent guaranteed release following this season is a very close second.
MOST CHAOTIC GAME – I would just say Chiefs-Bills AFC Divisional here but for the sake of talking different games, I’m gonna roll with the Raiders’ 63 point explosion on the Chargers. Some would naturally argue that Miami’s 70-burger on Denver is more deserving, but, at least at that point in the season, you can kind of see how a game like that would occur. Miami’s offense was on an absolute burner while Denver was off to an abysmal start with Sean Payton. Las Vegas, meanwhile, had an offense led by Aiden O’Connell and a defense that wasn’t very good either. How that team managed to drop a 60-burger on anyone–even the Easton Stick led Chargers–is beyond me.
MOST CHAOTIC COACH – At first I was just going to say Dan Campbell, because, I mean, come on now. But I feel like Sean Payton deserves a nod here. He started the season horribly with the nadir being a 50 point loss in Miami where his defense allowed 70 points. He then somehow turned things around by midseason, putting Denver in prime position to steal a playoff spot, only to collapse at the very end which culminated in the abrupt and rather unfortunate end of the Mr. Unliiiiiiimited era of Broncos Football due to a contract dispute. Now that I’m typing this out, maybe Denver could be the most chaotic team?
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA – Initially, I was going to nominate Aaron Rodgers for the most chaotic player due to his constant off the field drama, with the most recent bit being his bizarre back and forth with Jimmy Kimmel after good ole Q’Aaron not so subtly accused Kimmel of being a pedophile on national television. Since this award exists, however, he can just get his nomination here. If not that, then of course there’s the Zach Wilson/Robert Saleh drama where Zach allegedly refused to suit back up after being benched midseason, only to suit up anyway. I’m sure there’s a better breakdown of that story somewhere, but yeah, safe to say that the Jets win most chaotic off-field drama as a team.
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM – Can I make a case for the New England Patriots here? Not even a “I know the Panthers are worse but I want to nominate them”, but a genuine argument that the Pats were more unwatchable. Between watching Mac Jones’ confidence get obliterated to the point that he was no longer able to physically throw a football, to Bailey Zappe somehow fooling a small subset of fans into thinking he can be the future, I feel like they have a solid case here. Nearly all of their games were unwatchable defensive slogs that featured some of the most abysmal offense ever put on a football field, and the only times that they were remotely entertaining is whenever Mac Jones would throw one of the worst interceptions you’ve ever seen (so far), only for Bailey Zappe to follow it up with something just as bad. Maybe I’m biased here, I don’t know.
MOST CHAOTIC TEAM: Honestly, this is pretty close. Nominees from my perspective are the Bills for playing like they were drunk, the Lions for defying all expectations and for Dan Campbell coaching like he was in Madden, and the Jets for almost everything that happened the whole season. I think I have to give this one to the Jets, mostly because of Aaron Rodgers going from a savior to becoming another moment for Jets fans to enjoy the delightful snack known as bleach. Also, beating the Pats for the first time in 9 years is pretty chaotic.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAYER: This, unlike the last category, is not even close. Kadarius Toney, no questions asked.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAY/MOMENT: The Jets giving up a pick 6 on a Hail Mary is absolutely hilarious.
MOST CHAOTIC FRONT OFFICE DECISION: Why on earth was Mike Vrabel fired?
MOST CHAOTIC GAME: I think this one is between the Broncos allowing 70 and the Chargers allowing 63. Personally, I think the Chargers take the cake here, both for starting a man named Easton Stick, and because Brandon Staley got fired right after this.
MOST CHAOTIC COACH: Personal bias here, but I say Billy B for showing everyone that Brady really is the GOAT (even though us massholes knew that already)
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA: Kelce and Swift, but for reasons Dave has talked about already. (Fuck that one guy)
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM: I know the Panthers easily take first, but can I nominate the Patriots as second? From losing to the Jets for the first time in 9 years to every Pats fan holding their breath whenever Chad Ryland goes to kick the ball, it was just an atrocious season.
MOST CHAOTIC ROOKIE: Could go to a multitude of different people, but my bias says Chad Ryland, for reasons stated before.
MOST CHAOTIC INJURY: Aaron Rodgers, but in future season this could be a more competitive award.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAY – Dan Cambell going for it like 3 times in a row at Dallas.
MOST CHAOTIC FRONT OFFICE DECISION – Matt Patricia having a job.
MOST CHAOTIC GAME – 49ers-Lions. What an insane comeback. Lion-Chiefs get some props.
MOST CHAOTIC COACH – Sean Payton. Guy talks shit, gets 70 dropped on him. Starts winning, then loses and benches Russ. Tries to paint it as a performance issue and not financial.
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA – Mahomes having a melt down at the refs when his own player screwed up against Buffalo.
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM – Panthers. Falcons were painful too.
Chaos moment of the year – Aaron Rodgers going down on his first drive.
MOST CHAOTIC TEAM – The Eagles. Were they great. Were the Frauds? Absoloutely nobody could tell until the final few weeks.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAYER – Ground Control to Major Josh. The Passtronaut was single handedly the saviour of Minnesota, and the guys who tanked the Cardinals. The Duality of Dobbs
MOST CHAOTIC PLAY/MOMENT – Ineligible Receiver for a big man TD in the Lions/Cowboys game.
MOST CHAOTIC FRONT OFFICE DECISION – Well there was no Jeff Saturday but JOSH MCDANIELS WAS A HEADCOACH?????? Honestly, the Raiders deserved what happened after that decision
MOST CHAOTIC GAME – TWO. TWO Contenders here. The Dolphins obliterating the Broncos, scoring 70 points but not kicking a FG to set the record because “They’re not about that”, or the Raiders racking up 63 points on a Chargers side that should be relegated to the SEC.
MOST CHAOTIC COACH – DAN FUCKING CAMPBELL. THAT MAN IS A LEGAND AND I DONT KNOW WHY I HAD TO SAY THIS ALL IN CAPS BUT YEH, KNEEBITING!
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA – Aaron Rodgers. Oh he’s injured. But hes coming back and throwing balls on the sideline? But then he’s not playing and he’s on the practice squad after derailing what was left of the season. Yeh. AR is Chaos Personified these days.
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM – Its the Panthers. I dont need to justify this, though I should nod in the direction of the Patriots for at least making me think twice.
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MOST CHAOTIC COMMENTATOR : Who is that guy who is going to say something you dont understand, makes no sense, probably isnt relevant to the game, but will wear a smug, shit eating grin after he speaks.
MOST CHAOTIC TEAM – Jaguars. They went from a trendy Super Bowl pick that was the #1 seed in the AFC for a few brief hours after a 9-3 start before remembering they’re the Jaguars and losing 5 of their last 6 to miss the playoffs. There was also a Thirst Trap Trevor Tease almost every week playing will-he-won’t-he on the injury report.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAYER – Gardner Minshew. He would throw under 200 yards and still manage to win one week, then over 300 in a losing effort the next. He played well enough to give the Colts an improbable shot at winning the division, but inconsistently enough to blow that shot.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAY/MOMENT – Lamar scrambles, avoids multiple sacks, hurls it up to Zay Flowers who comes down with it just shy of the goal line, flexes on the defender, draws a penalty to move it back, almost redeems himself by diving into the endzone a few plays later, fumbles out the back of the endzone, punches the bench, and cuts his hand. Highest of highs to lowest of lows.
MOST CHAOTIC FRONT OFFICE DECISION – Jets take orders from Aaron Rodgers on who to sign in Free Agency before they even traded for him…
MOST CHAOTIC GAME – Tommy Touchdowns beats the Packers.
MOST CHAOTIC COACH – Dennis Allen. He couldn’t even get his players to run the plays he called.
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA – It all started with a football player trying to give a singer a friendship bracelet after her show, and what happened next turned the NFL world upside down, spawned conspiracy theories, and divided households all across the nation.
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM – Jets. With the Panthers, there was at least the curiosity each week about whether Young would start to look better. The Jets’ season was effectively over after a few minutes, dooming their fans to watch a whole season of futility with a QB they already knew wasn’t the answer.
BONUS: MOST CHAOTIC OWNER – Tepper. He allegedly forced the decision to mortgage the future and select Young, has gone through as many head coaches in 7 years as the Steelers have in 7 decades (Rivera, Fewell, Rhule, Wilks, Reich, Tabor, Canales vs going back to 1954 with Kieslin, Parker, Nixon, Austin, Noll, Cowher, and Tomlin), and got mad enough to throw a drink on Jaguars fans.
Wide Right Redux has to seal the deal for Buffalo as most chatotic team.
MOST CHAOTIC TEAM – Broncos got smoked 70-0, ripped off 5 wins in a row including against KC, got beaten by Bailey Zappe (lmao) and their season implodes.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAYER – Kadarius Toney lmaoooooooooo
MOST CHAOTIC PLAY/MOMENT – There were a lot of them but that Aiyuk TD off a Lions’ helmet was jawdroppingly chaotic.
MOST CHAOTIC FRONT OFFICE DECISION – Tepper dumping a beer on opposing fans was a heel turn when he was already a heel!
MOST CHAOTIC GAME – That second Titans-Colts game had everything!
MOST CHAOTIC COACH – Riverboat Dan Campbell baybee let’s gooooooo
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA – TSwift wasn’t really chaotic, that was expected. Aaron Rodgers going at Jimmy Kimmel was wild even for him.
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM – I’m sorry it’s not the Panthers, it was the Patriots. Panthers were at least funny to watch as Frank Reich did his best Curb Your Enthusiasm impression.
With the Pats most folks only saw the first Miami game, the Colts meltdown, and the Broncos meltdown the other way. The offense got WORSE with Patricia gone (lol Eagles) and the defense was fine after losing Judon(???) which meant every game was an absolute slog until a backbreaking turnover or sack.
MOST UNWATCHABLE GAME – Chargers 6 Patriots 0. Everyone remembers the Chargers getting smoked by the Raiders but this game was utter dreck, the Chargers were healthy, and it had potential playoff relevance at the time!
MOST CHAOTIC TRADE DEADLINE MOVE – Passtronaut to the Vikings looked genius for exactly 12 days.
MOST CHAOTIC ENDING – Whatever the hell happened at the end of Lions-Cowboys and the THREE TWO-POINT CONVERSION ATTEMPTS?! This gave the Cowboys the 2 seed, how different would things have been if we had Cowboys-Rams and Lions-Packers in the first round???
Just here to nominate Colts-Titans for most chaotic game
MOST CHAOTIC TEAM – Green Bay for me. They beat the Chiefs one week and next lose to a Tommy DeVito led Giants.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAYER – Can’t be anyone else but Kadarius Toney.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAY/MOMENT – SF taking the ball first in OT during the SB for dumbest moment.
MOST CHAOTIC FRONT OFFICE DECISION – David Tepper throwing a beer at an opposing team’s fans.
MOST CHAOTIC GAME – NFCCG. Detroit should’ve won.
MOST CHAOTIC COACH – Antonio Pierce
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA – Hate to jump on the bandwagon, but definitely the whole Swift/Kelce relationship. Other than that, definitely Rodgers/Kimmel.
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM – Gotta be Panthers. Can’t argue that.
Seriously, why does EVERYONE think SF taking the ball first is so dumb? I think the DISCOURSE ABOUT SF taking the ball first should be the most chaotic moment. “You wanted to try to score and give your D a breather?!?! YOU FOOOL!!!!”
I feel like people are just judging it in hindsight based on result. Wanting the ball first feels very defensible, you get to drive against a tired defense. If you score, you put pressure on the other team to at minimum match it against your now-rested defense. The game was far from an offensive battle and they’ve stopped Mahomes numerous times. If they do tie it, you get the ball first for sudden death.
There are plenty of valid reasons to receive first with the new rules. It just didn’t go well for the 49ers.
MOST CHAOTIC TEAM – Gotta go with the Browns. So many people rooting against them, then Flacco going in with a redemption arc.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAYER – Homer pick, but I’ve got to go with Devito. He wasn’t allow to throw a pass his first game, then lite it up, then got sat. Was chaotic and entertaining.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAY/MOMENT – Aaron Rodgers tearing his achilles. So crazy that it happened on his 4th play, IIRC, after he dominated the offseason news.
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA – I’ve got to agree with others and saw Swift/Kelce. It was too much of the news.
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM – 100% agree, Panthers.
BAD CHAOS – suggested nominees
-David Tepper throwing beer at a Jags fan while the Panthers lose 0–26
-Roger Goodell seeking another term as Commissioner
-Aaron Rodgers tearing his Achilles in his very first Jets game
-Sweeping officiating issues under the rug
COLLAPSE OF THE YEAR – suggested nominees
-Jacksonville Jaguars going from a noice division lead into turd mountain
-Detroit Lions blowing a 24–7 lead against the 49ers in the NFC Championship
-Philadelphia Eagles activating Fraud Mode
-Cardinals 21-point choke against the Giants/Bears 21-point choke against the Broncos
-Seahawks blow 6–3 record to miss the playoffs
You can suggest additional nominees by replying.
MOST CHAOTIC TEAM – Dolphins, going from clearly AFC favorites to choking away the division to a mediocre bills team.
MOST CHAOTIC PLAYER –
MOST CHAOTIC PLAY/MOMENT – Aaron rodgers injury
MOST CHAOTIC FRONT OFFICE DECISION – Chase Young being traded for the same fucking pick he would have netted as a comp pick.
MOST CHAOTIC GAME – idk man just pick a commies game
MOST CHAOTIC COACH – DAN MUFUCKING CAMBPELL
MOST CHAOTIC OFF-FIELD DRAMA – Instead of going the easy route, I’m going to say JASON kelce taking his shirt off once becoming a whole *thing* is the winner.
MOST UNWATCHABLE TEAM – THE NEW YORK GIANTS. The panthers are actually fun to watch because it’s interesting watching a #1 pick flame out so bad like that. the giants are just boring as hell
STUPIDEST ON FIELD DISCOURSE – Niners obviously were correct to take the ball first but people are dumb.
I too thought the Niners were correct to take the ball first in OT, but then again I’m a Chiefs fan.
Giving the Chiefs the second drive made their decision-making easy — if they weren’t in mandatory ‘4-downs’ mode, they may have punted on 4th-and-1 on their own 34 yard line.
“Should we go for it?” “Well, if we don’t, we lose, so yeah”