The NFL Thread - Root for your favorite team (or laugh at the Browns, whichever's easier)

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Who are you rooting for in Super Bowl 60?

  • New England Patriots

    Votes: 11 22.0%

  • Seattle Seahawks

    Votes: 25 50.0%

  • Team State Farm

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • The Meteor

    Votes: 13 26.0%
  • Total voters
    50
  • Poll closed .
Smar Mijou said:
Also, the NFL should really go back to a 16 game season, although the extra revenue it generates would never allow it. IDK if it's the long slog of the season and all the injuries, or the fact that it was Christmas, but it was apparent that nobody wanted to be there in any of the games last night. The Lions/Vikings was especially horrible. 6 turnovers by Goff, and the vikings were held to a net 3 yards and somehow won 23-10. The NFL really needs to consider schedule balancing for upcoming seasons at the very least. Some teams get a bye in week 5 then have a 13 week slog, and some are much better spaced our with byes in week 8-12.
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The NFL bye system is fucking weird, 16 or 17 games. I thought it was just 4 off per week for 8 weeks, but this season they had them at Week 5 and all the way up to Week 14. To be frank though, with how many players are out, and the fact that most of these teams were basically eliminated already by now, of course Christmas games were gonna be bad. Last year all three games would have had big playoff stakes but almost everyone who was good in '24 has been dogshit in '25. Netflix must absolutely hate these games, this is as bad as Amazon got during TNF 2022 if not worse. Bet the ratings on this are 20-30% down from last year.

Once the 18 game season comes around, whenever that is, they'll have two bye weeks and the scheduling can maybe be improved a bit more. I actually like the scheduling system of the NFL, it makes rivalries work and keeps the anticipation up, even in years lie this one where there's been so much random BS happening. Now if only the NFL would stop being greedy and let us be able to watch all the games without selling off to seven different subscriptions just for all the extra little trinket games outside of Sundays... :optimistic:
 
Leaf Wage Slave Jr said:
Time is clearly a flat circle, because at this point I’m legitimately wondering how many of the Chiefs flaws are masked by Mahomes.
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To be fair Andy reid had similar success with Donovan McNabb who I don't think was covering any flaws. I can confidently say he's better than Sean Payton
 
Smar Mijou said:
it was apparent that nobody wanted to be there in any of the games last night.
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It's the risk of scheduling a few games and hoping those teams are still good. Literally none of the games meant anything. I didn't even bother to watch any. Sorry the Lions, Vikes, Chiefs, Cowboys, and Commies were all eliminated or basically eliminated already. Packers were the only winners.
 
Leaf Wage Slave Jr said:
Time is clearly a flat circle, because at this point I’m legitimately wondering how many of the Chiefs flaws are masked by Mahomes.

Or the Bills with Allen - no seriously how many games have they won solely off Josh Allen locking in?
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Maybe you can argue some of the Chiefs flaws were masked by Mahomes the last few years, I'd personally say they were the beneficiaries of extreme luck and Spags had an amazing defense that got cannabalized after the Super Bowl before the most recent one. But Reid & GM John Dorsey had already built a consistently winning team that was beating the shit out of the AFC West with Alex Smith a solid two years before they even started Mahomes. If anything, they got overconfident after his explosive start and had to spend another 3 years rebuilding to have the second run at Super Bowls.

Allen? Completely carrying that team. McDermott would've (imo probably should've) been fired after the time they got knocked out by the Bengals and proved it wasn't necessarily the Chiefs who were their playoff curse.
 
Anorexic Robot said:
To be fair Andy reid had similar success with Donovan McNabb who I don't think was covering any flaws. I can confidently say he's better than Sean Payton
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A lot of Reid’s magic is getting his quarterbacks to play as the best possible version of themselves. But, that can still leave the QB having to cover for other flaws on the team. McNabb was covering for a woeful WR corp for a lot of his prime.
 
jray4559 said:
The NFL bye system is fucking weird, 16 or 17 games. I thought it was just 4 off per week for 8 weeks, but this season they had them at Week 5 and all the way up to Week 14. To be frank though, with how many players are out, and the fact that most of these teams were basically eliminated already by now, of course Christmas games were gonna be bad. Last year all three games would have had big playoff stakes but almost everyone who was good in '24 has been dogshit in '25. Netflix must absolutely hate these games, this is as bad as Amazon got during TNF 2022 if not worse. Bet the ratings on this are 20-30% down from last year.
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I watched the Lions/Vikings game until halftime, and then dinner was ready. Didn't really care to go back to it after I ate, and we ended up watching A Charlie Brown Christmas instead. Considering winning this game was the only way for the Lions to keep their playoff hopes alive, it was genuinely depressing watching them play like it was already over.
 
Denver has played an incredibly middling schedule and beaten most of those teams by a single score. They've a long way to go to shake the fraud moniker.
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VorpalAnvil- said:
Denver has played an incredibly middling schedule and beaten most of those teams by a single score. They've a long way to go to shake the fraud moniker.
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I'm still rooting, a little bit, for them to keep the fraud going through the AFC's playoffs, until they meet the Seahawks in the Super Bowl.
And we repeat 2013.
It's already looking like the real Super Bowl this year will likely be the NFC championship (probably between two NFC West teams, again, like in 2013)
 
Absolutego said:
I'm still rooting, a little bit, for them to keep the fraud going through the AFC's playoffs, until they meet the Seahawks in the Super Bowl.
And we repeat 2013.
It's already looking like the real Super Bowl this year will likely be the NFC championship (probably between two NFC West teams, again, like in 2013)
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I hate to inform you that the 49ers will be playing 5 more home games this season.
 
>Raiders shut down Maxx Crosby with two fucking games left
>Wait until yesterday to inform him and announce it
>Crosby walks out of the facility as soon as he hears about it

It's a nontroversy, but it's reassuring to know that, even as the world feels upside down, the Raiders remain an incompetent franchise
 
Squanto Airi said:
It's a nontroversy, but it's reassuring to know that, even as the world feels upside down, the Raiders remain an incompetent franchise
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The Raiders are so far away from decent, they need to trade him and he loves the Raiders for some fucked up battered wife reason. This might be a rare competent move by the Raiders' front office.
 
1Tonka_Truck said:
The Raiders are so far away from decent, they need to trade him and he loves the Raiders for some fucked up battered wife reason. This might be a rare competent move by the Raiders' front office.
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It is weird how despite the pass rush being considered the most important defensive aspect in the game, the top pass rushers in the league all tend to play for the shittiest most dysfunctional teams in the league. Crosby on the Raiders, Myles Garrett on the Browns, TJ Watt for the Steelers. Bosa on the hit or miss 49ers who still haven't won a ring since '94. The Lions have been good since they acquired Aidan Hutchinson but they took a bit of a slide back this year. The Packers might be able to do something with Parsons but they still have to prove it by doing it.
 
I think pass rush loses value the more the QB is protected from tough hits by rules. A sack kills a play still but the QB has much less of a physical toll to pay so it doesn’t impact the rest of their game as much. Pass rushers used to be pounding QBs with hard hits after they release the ball a lot more too.
 
Way to step up when I needed you chargers, I guess I should know better than to expect you guys to perform under pressure. I guess we will just have to make sure to win out for the south then.
 
jray4559 said:
Now if only the NFL would stop being greedy and let us be able to watch all the games without selling off to seven different subscriptions just for all the extra little trinket games outside of Sundays... :optimistic:
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I pirate streams when i don't even have to, just as a middle finger to Goodell and co.
 
Anorexic Robot said:
Way to step up when I needed you chargers, I guess I should know better than to expect you guys to perform under pressure. I guess we will just have to make sure to win out for the south then.
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We have struggled against the Texans for years now.
 
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