America's favorite Dystopian pastime - NFL 2021-22

imagining going back in time 10 years and telling myself that Rodgers won't go to another Super Bowl and in fact winds up becoming one of the biggest NFL villains due to his belief in pseudoscience, while both the Brewers and the Bucks will have extremely likeable MVPs, one of whom delivers a title through one of the greatest Finals performances in professional sports history. gotta love sports

god, Baker really is holding this team back

meanwhile,a t the other end....christ, what a throw and catch

god, Baker really is holding this team back

baker “big yikes” mayfield

I’m so mad right now. That was an incredibly bullshit no-call.

Yeah incredibly shitty for Cleveland’s season to end

here's the int

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lost an overtime game in Minnesota thanks to some truly bizarre officiating

Yes definitely the only reason you lost 🙄

well yeah no loss is ~only~ due to reffing but when they start going galaxy brain on the game's biggest inflection points and miss a very blatant push off on the winning score in overtime I think you got an argument

obviously they totally botched the end of the Browns game in our favor, so whatever, it happens

in other news this is not a particularly inspiring first half from the WFT

apparently if Miami wins tomorrow, we are now in the 7th playoff seed.

the odds are still only 25% cos holding onto it will be tough with Tennessee and NE in back to back weeks (the latter is at home).

but just insane considering the 1-7 start. we do also have the weakest strength of schedule and strength of victory which helped, but we also lost games to bottom feeders during that 7 game losing streak.

elsewhere in the league, my thoughts are...

there are only three teams I think anybody is fucking afraid of, and I think that's Green Bay, Tampa Bay ,and now the Chiefs have re-entered that discussion.

there are other "very good" teams but they tend to have red flags. begrudging, I feel like TB is in a good position to repeat, but I feel like the AFC's result is going to be random af because the Chiefs don't feel like they're gonna be a neo-Patriots and restart dynasty discussions.

my wish, let's have a Green Bay-Titans Super Bowl and give the Titans a win. a) because they're one of the few franchises that don't have one and b) I want to give shit to all my fellow Fins fans who shit on Tannehill when he wins a ring.

chances of this match up happening, 1,347,383,383,284,283: 1

Tampa is really beat up at this point. Losing Godwin for the season is kind of a big deal as he was kinda the Wes Welker/Troy Brown glue guy that Brady used a ton in their offense. They also lost a starting DB for the season and their D-line is knicked up.

Green Bay plays teams pretty close they are not totally dominating, so they could get beat and you never know who might get hurt the last couple games of the year, but they look to be a big step head of the rest of the NFC.

I think the AFC is a bit more open. KC seems to have it's mojo back, but I could see someone oddball upsetting their way into the Superbowl.

Yeah GB is doing that thing again where they dominate all game and force the announcers to spend half their time talking about how great Rodgers is but then once the 4th rolls around they go 3-and-out a few times in a row and suddenly this team they should’ve put away long ago is one play away from winning it. They tend to win those games anyway but that shit bites them hard in the playoffs. Also Mason Crosby really feels like a potential Chekhov’s gun here, if they need him for a game winning FG I will probably have a heart attack

lol welcome to the NFL Ian Book

stop burning Books, you fascist

lol

what’s the over/under on saints offensive yardage tonight

7

their o-line isn't really doing Book any favors rn

Barnes and Noble's corporate lawyers currently looking into the legality of paying dolphins below minimum wage to sack books

Miami rushed 3 lineman on the third down play and two of them still got through and hurried Book

Dolphins really giving us the Cliffs Notes ladies and gentlemen, kevin eubanks and the tonight show band

Saints are 0/8 on 3rd downs for -14 yards

oh my god they rolled out Book on 4th and 1 and he just panicked and threw it out of bounds

He's not done bad considering he's been under siege all night

hard to believe this Saints team beat the Packers by 35 in Week 1

Fins now the first team in NFL history to have a seven-game winning streak and a seven-game losing streak in the same season. can't even calculate how rare something like that would be but it seems like the kind of thing that would happen like once every 800 NFL seasons

combined record of of the teams they've beaten during this win streak (counting the jets twice): 36-69

well they got Tennessee and New England next, best of luck Fins

yeah but it's important to note our seven game losing streak included minnows like Jacksonville and Atlanta. definitely have had one of the weaker schedules in the league, but something definitely changed with the team as well, cos they literally couldn't beat anybody prior.

bring on the Titans.

lmao greatest Packer QB of all time

I will never log off pic.twitter.com/b8kdUym8hk

— Trevor Sikkema (@TampaBayTre) December 28, 2021

Colts/Raiders game got a bit more interesting as Wentz is out with covid and Longhorn rookie Sam Ehlinger is going to start (so far).

If Taylor is ok, I'd just give him the ball 50 times. Raiders are giving up 115 a game (kinda late middling).

Steelers are giving up 142 yards on the ground a game...yikes and with Big Ben kinda sucking and no running game how the heck are they a .500 club? Looked it up and their punter is next to last on the table in yards too and the Steelers usually have kinda crap kickers too.

And some Pittsburgh fans want to get rid of Tomlin? That is some wizardary to both suck at throwing the ball, running the ball and stopping the run, punting and at least win half yer games. Just saying...

Cousins now out with Covid too, right before a prime time game vs. the Packers which is essentially a playoff game for them. Lmao. Kinda hard to laugh at these guys given that a ton of vaccinated dudes are getting it too but still, funniest possible timing

Dear God

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-covid-19-tracker-players-list-week-17/17xzodcji35bn1e2w5gnho3r3d

loooool

Antonio Brown just took off his uniform and left the game. This is real. pic.twitter.com/wrp2xvgVhE

— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) January 2, 2022

dude ain’t right

Cannot believe there’s still another week to go

Like what is the point of the Giants even playing anymore. This is like last week of softball league shit

LOLLL if only

This sideline report is incredible. Stadium security thought there was a shirtless fan on the field and intended to tackle him before they realized it was Antonio Brown

— Lindsay Jones (@bylindsayhjones) January 2, 2022

some true brady goat shit there even tho vs the jets

The fact that they won the game makes the AB thing even funnier

Yeahhh these are the Cowboys I remember

Lmao perfect Cowboys/McCarthy loss. That was a fumble but he couldn’t challenge it.

thought Brady's post game remarks on Brown were very good

At least now I will stop hearing about how “the Vikings playoff hopes are on the line!”

incredible leadership from kirk cousins

another nationally televised prime time nailbiter

thought Brady's post game remarks on Brown were very good

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Actually yeah. I mean he seems to know that something's up with him and a lot of NFL Twitter is speculating that the hit Burfict put on him (the one that got him suspended for the entire season) might've fucked him up for good. I remember reading something a couple years ago about how he was never the same after that.