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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 .
Franz Joseph said:
I want the Patriots to win just to see Barry McCockiner seethe about it.
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Vrabel is willing to cut his dick off for a Super Bowl win. Well, I am willing to suffer a smug Barry McCockiner if it gets my team a Super Bowl.
I am a saint, I know.

They brought back the greatest Seahawk in team history to award Jodi the Halas trophy (does anyone else think it's kind of lame that the conference championship trophies are generic footballs, identical aside from which logo gets engraved in it? But they're named separately. Wasted opportunity). ALSO:
Strahan: "Coming into the season, you were an afterthought to the Rams, to the 49ers, how does it feel to go through both of those teams to reach the Super Bowl"
MacDonald: "We did not care."
LEGEND
 
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Kermit the Frog said:
Seahawks are much more well-rounded and don't have any glaring weaknesses. It's entirely possible Darnold has a meltdown,
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Well...this is their glaring weakness actually. They were #2 in the league for turnovers during the regular season. Darnold has the butterfingers.

But if the Rams couldn't force fumbles I doubt the Patriots will be able to. Plus honestly I think the Seahawks could just keep it on the ground and win anyway, their defense is just that good.
 
Preferred Penne said:
Shedeur Sanders has somehow been named to the Pro Bowl as a replacement.
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This makes me MATI. Lowest completion percentage for qualified passers, more interceptions than touchdowns, the 2nd lowest passer rating, 3rd lowest on target percentage, 5th lowest Air Yards per pass attmept, all while benefiting from the most YAC per completion. What a joke.
 
Nogg said:
This makes me MATI. Lowest completion percentage for qualified passers, more interceptions than touchdowns, the 2nd lowest passer rating, 3rd lowest on target percentage, 5th lowest Air Yards per pass attmept, all while benefiting from the most YAC per completion. What a joke.
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bruh u yt so u mad bruh
 
Franz Joseph said:
I want the Patriots to win just to see Barry McCockiner seethe about it.
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His current cope is that Drake Maye is just Trent Dilfer 2.0. Which isn't remotely true considering I watched Trent Dilfer play and Maye is far better than he ever was.

Absolutego said:
does anyone else think it's kind of lame that the conference championship trophies are generic footballs, identical aside from which logo gets engraved in it? But they're named separately. Wasted opportunity
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Because they did used to be different. But then Roger Goodell decided to make them generic along with the Super Bowl logo because he's the most horrible corporate suit to ever exist and wanted to suck any sort of unique out of the NFL and turn into into the most soulless product imaginable.

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You can tell from just this picture when the soul of the NFL was sucked out to maximize profit.

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Some thoughts from championship weekend.

TAKE THE FUCKING POINTS. I'm so sick of head coaches refusing to kick field goals because the analytics always say to go for it. It's the classic difference between intelligence and wisdom. Statistically, converting 4th downs improves your chances of winning, no shit. Wisdom says you always go up 2 scores in a playoff game at home with a backup QB, a top defense, and a blizzard coming in. I see less defensive coaches making these retarded decisions, probably why both head coaches in the superbowl are defensive coaches.

Special teams is actually important. If the rams had a competent Special teams unit, they could be going to the superbowl instead of the seahawks. It always annoys me when GMs or coaches ignore Special teams and cut players or get cheap to save a few bucks. As we've seen, it can mean the difference from going to the superbowl and getting the 1 seed and going home early. Shaheed has been a difference maker for the seahawks and probably won't get the proper recognition, but was critical for this run.

It also annoys me because teams should be looking for every advantage they can to win. Weather, special teams, home field, etc. Ignoring Special teams because it isn't sexy is retarded. I don't care how smart or well manicured the head coaches haircut is, ignoring special teams can be the difference between champions and runner-ups.
 
Dildo_SHwaggins said:
Special teams is actually important. If the rams had a competent Special teams unit, they could be going to the superbowl instead of the seahawks. It always annoys me when GMs or coaches ignore Special teams and cut players or get cheap to save a few bucks. As we've seen, it can mean the difference from going to the superbowl and getting the 1 seed and going home early. Shaheed has been a difference maker for the seahawks and probably won't get the proper recognition, but was critical for this run.
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If the Rams had a competent special teams unit they might have been the 1-seed instead of the Seahawks as well. If I remember correctly, our last game against the Rams not only had Shaheed clowning on them with a kickoff return TD, but also another ball lost by the Rams kick returner which turned into Seattle points. Their special teams unit pissed away every advantage their offense and defense might have given them in the two games they lost to us.
 
Mind Goblins said:
If the Rams had a competent special teams unit they might have been the 1-seed instead of the Seahawks as well. If I remember correctly, our last game against the Rams not only had Shaheed clowning on them with a kickoff return TD, but also another ball lost by the Rams kick returner which turned into Seattle points. Their special teams unit pissed away every advantage their offense and defense might have given them in the two games they lost to us.
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Their special teams performance was so bad in the week 16 matchup against us that McVay fired his special teams coordinator in a fit after the game, and they continued to be dogged with special teams problems for the rest of the season, especially in the playoffs. In fact, while I'm reasonably sure it's happened in NFL history before, it's really, really rare for a team to even make the playoffs having just fired a coordinator that season, let alone less than a month before them.
 
Absolutego said:
Their special teams performance was so bad in the week 16 matchup against us that McVay fired his special teams coordinator in a fit after the game, and they continued to be dogged with special teams problems for the rest of the season, especially in the playoffs. In fact, while I'm reasonably sure it's happened in NFL history before, it's really, really rare for a team to even make the playoffs having just fired a coordinator that season, let alone less than a month before them.
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The 2012 Ravens fired their offensive coordinator right before the playoffs. This is the only other time I can think of, especially at a more public coaching position.
 
VasonJoorhees said:
Vikings look like a bunch of clowns right now for the Darnold thing, one of the worst contract blunders in some time
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It's not like they'd be in our place had he stayed. Flores is a good coach, but he's been a blitz merchant in general and especially this past season because his roster is so thin. KOC's offense imploded regardless of who was under center, though Nine did him Nein favors.
If there's an upside to the Vikings moving on from Darnold, it's that his success outside of Minnesota might ramp up media pressure to fire Kwesi, but they would've already done that if they were going to do it this offseason.
 
Absolutego said:
It's not like they'd be in our place had he stayed. Flores is a good coach, but he's been a blitz merchant in general and especially this past season because his roster is so thin. KOC's offense imploded regardless of who was under center, though Nine did him Nein favors.
If there's an upside to the Vikings moving on from Darnold, it's that his success outside of Minnesota might ramp up media pressure to fire Kwesi, but they would've already done that if they were going to do it this offseason.
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You say that, and that would make sense in a world where NFL teams are run by sane people, but we've seen very much the opposite over the last couple years. I don't know enough about the Vikings' behind-the-scenes stuff to know how "overturn the apple cart crazy" their owners and GM are, but given everything that's happened recently I wouldn't be shocked if some team decides that it's time to move on from a coach or two just as all the halfway competent coaches get snapped up.

Honestly, that sounds like a Jets thing to do.
 
Dildo_SHwaggins said:
Special teams is actually important. If the rams had a competent Special teams unit, they could be going to the superbowl instead of the seahawks. It always annoys me when GMs or coaches ignore Special teams and cut players or get cheap to save a few bucks. As we've seen, it can mean the difference from going to the superbowl and getting the 1 seed and going home early. Shaheed has been a difference maker for the seahawks and probably won't get the proper recognition, but was critical for this run.
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Something something that one Jon Bois video that detailed how the 2010 Chargers had both the #1 offense and #1 defense but their special teams unit was so unbelievably terrible that they went 9-7 and missed the playoffs entirely.

For some reason this seems to be one of those lessons that never really sinks in with management, especially when at least once a year some team gets bounced from the playoffs solely due to a special teams fuckup of some kind.
 
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