COVID Bowl Round 1 - 2022 Wild Card Thread

Cincy so far controlling the Raiders!

lotta cocky Patriots fans talking about how this matchup is a blessing in disguise, as it's again a cold weather match in Buffalo, and they'll clearly win like last time.

55 mph winds last time. it's 8 mph wind right now there. you can throw in that.

Lotta officiating in this game!

31 years

Glad that bogus roughing the passer call at the end didn’t affect the outcome. Congrats, kitties.

Really looked like the stars were aligning for the Raiders but not taking the tie and letting fucking Ben Roethlisberger into the playoffs is just too much negative karma to overcome

Derek Carr's inability to get the ball snapped prior to time expiring had a lot to do with their plight, why they had one timeout.

GO BILLS

(it makes me nervous when the commentators pick us to win)

one of my best friends from high school is picking the Patsies which just about guarantees a Bills win

(he picked Raiders for the first one)

big day for zubaz imo

I own Zubaz guys

they make excellent maternity pants

Mac is having to try to carry this all by himself.
Would be nice if the rest of the Pats' offense would show up to play.

bills are out here making plays tell you what

billllls

Motor!

Ouch, that had to hurt

Bills and Bungles gonna win playoff games in the same day? The apocalypse is nigh.

Mostly I’m just happy for Joe Pera

I picked the Over on this (43). That missed XP might fuck me

Nevermind :)

this is the most satisfying game…I’ve ever seen? also sort of feel like I’m making it up in my head.

I hate the Bills for obv reasons but there are three AFC teams wetting themselves at this moment

I wore my zubaz tonight and they worked

these kind of playoff games usually aren't fun but this one is awesome

thank you very much

Probably the most aerial offense in the playoffs

guuuuuyyyyyyyyys

Mitch Trubisky kneeling out the clock in the playoffs...never thought I'd see the day

SO HAPPY YOU GUYS

well that was a paddlin'

it does make one wonder how in the fuck the bills lost (9-6!) to jacksonville

dude the Bills have played like ass so many times this season. Our offensive line seems to have figured something out in the last three weeks.

Bills seem like they might be better than people think - all 11 of their wins were by double digits and all but one of their losses was by 7 or less. They have the best point differential in the league.

they are really talented on both sides of the ball, but the offense self destructed a bunch of times this season. Defense has been legit all year.

they kinda remind me of the Packers when they won it all in 2010, they feel untrustworthy but all the metrics really seem to like them. Pats had the 3rd best point differential, beating them by a zillion is no small deal

yeah guess it was just their day

Josh Allen says he was trying to throw the ball away on the first TD throw to Dawson Knox. He got up and started walking back to the huddle after the play with no idea what happened. Said he couldn’t figure out why people were celebrating and had to keep asking about the play.

— Alaina Getzenberg (@agetzenberg) January 16, 2022

Bills imo

never having played, I always wondered what it was like to be a QB, like, if you get hit or brought down as you throw, how soon do you know *exactly* what happened? obviously the crowd clues you in as to whether you scored/got a big gain as there are levels, but I always felt like I'd start jumping up and down and celebrating a TD and my WR buddies would come over and be like "slow your roll, we only got to the goal line".

Holy shit has this really never been done

The Buffalo Bills just had the NFL’s first ever perfect offensive game.

No punts. No picks. No fumbles lost. No field goals. All touchdowns on every single drive until the kneel downs.

And they did it against a top five defense.

— Brett Kollmann (@BrettKollmann) January 16, 2022

:D

Eagles trying to make history in the exact opposite way right now

Eagles playing with pants fulla shit rn

yeah, this is…unfun

I wish Tom Brady would quit this tiresome charade of trolling me by continuing to play football. And look younger than he did 10 years ago…

feel like we may wait a good while before a 7 seed beats a 2 seed

there are only so many good teams each season

Don’t forget we also get the Steelers tonight

i have not

Go Rams

Haven't actively followed pro ball for a few years now, though I kinda wish I'd watched last week's games. We're 50% of the way to the Burrow/Stafford super bowl I'd tune in for, though, so go Rams.

no discredit to cincy, kc gave me a real playing w their food vibe that game… from not getting pts at the end of the first half to mahomes holding the ball soo loong several times idk im sure the coverage was good but he needed to not try to make the perfect play and just let his best playmakers make a play… the coaching is def to blame as well

Yeah Chiefs final play of the 1st half was some galaxy brain Mike McCarthy shit

Burrow was not throwing a pick come on

you're probably right but he sure looked wild and wobbly towards the end of regulation

Stephen A is on one right now

See what I’m saying, @danorlovsky7. This dude Stafford is very difficult to trust man. Why in the hell would he throw that pass. This is what I’m talking about man. He’d better not lose to know damn Porn Star Jimmy!

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) January 31, 2022

you're probably right but he sure looked wild and wobbly towards the end of regulation

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, January 30, 2022 6:05 PM (sixteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Burrow is a vibes QB and vibes QBs don’t throw picks in that situation

So happy for Cincinnati. I have no real horse in this second race, but SF have my thanks for keeping Green Bay out of this, so let’s go Niners.

Deebo god damn

Sheesh Stafford had two TDs dropped and had to settle for a missed FG

Yeah this game is driving me crazy

Picking up the flag is the right call

Oh shit no Deebo

He’s back already

49ers really do have the Rams number

You just know taking that time out is going to be costly

At least I can breathe again

Rams are going to wish they had those time outs

Why challenge, it's fourth down?

Called that one and now no time outs

Way too conservative

Here we go

appears to be awfully difficult to catch the ball today

Kupp

Jimmy G legacy drive incoming

i dont like how shanahan respects the troops thats against the spirit of san francisco

my Bengal fan friend got so drunk that he tripped over a glass table, fell backwards, and gashed his nose

can't judge i guess

Jimmy G legacy drive incoming

― frogbs, Sunday, January 30, 2022 9:33 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

welp

oh well, no 1981/1988 rematch.

Happy Happy Joy Joy

lol Niners going out in a blaze of stupid

can't really quibble with either team winning. though obv I'll pull for the team that's never won over the Rams, but that Rams team that won was like 22 years ago

that was one of the weirdest looking game-ending plays I've ever seen

so after 50+ years of it never happening, two consecutive Super Bowls played on one of the team's home fields.

Life makes no sense

😀

Happy for Matty Stafford. Will he get a ring? Who knows. But he deserves to play in the Super Bowl at least once before he's done.

yeah after years of futility on the Lions I'm happy to see him have a go.

Bengals must have the worst offensive line to ever play in a Super Bowl

The full list of teams to make the Super Bowl with regular-season DVOA below 10% from highest to lowest:

2012 Ravens
1996 Pats
2000 Giants
1993 Bills
2001 Pats
2011 Giants
1987 Skins
2007 Giants
2021 Bengals
2003 Panthers
2008 Cardinals

— Aaron Schatz 🏈 (@FO_ASchatz) January 30, 2022

kinda wanted Handsome Jimmy to bungle his way into the Super Bowl but this is good too. Stafford deserves a chance and this team sold out so much to compete now, I like when that's rewarded

anyway Bengals O-line vs. Von Miller and Aaron Donald is gonna be fun

We did it! Wait I mean they did it

— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) January 31, 2022

On the bright side, we have delayed the deification of Mahomes for a bit.

oh god Jimmy G is just Sanchez 2.0

The B.J. Hill interception pic.twitter.com/2ZVcSnJ1YT

— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) January 31, 2022

hahaha that's who he looks like! xxp

chiefs turned into the warriors so quickly, everyone is tired of how incredible they are

incredible is good and it's fun to watch. but that doesn't mean non- affiliated fans don't appreciate it when another team rises up and beats the incredible team. that's great fun for the non-affiliated fans, too.

Bengals are the first team to draft a QB at No.1 and be in the Super Bowl 2 years later

whoa

Oh wow, Brian Flores suing the NFL and NY Giants, alleging racism in hiring. Includes private texts from Bill Belichick https://t.co/4FVAlelLQU

— Alex Weprin (@alexweprin) February 1, 2022