NFL divisional weekend thread

[Webster]

In retrospect, it’s amazing how many gimme points the Rams left on the field. By all rights, that game should have been a 25-30 point blowout.

 

[heyabbott]

And just like that Aaron Rodgers is reduced to being the Gym Jordan of the NFL. Crazy man yelling at the nonwhite kids for living in his gated community

 

[goalmouth]

In college we went the length of the field in less than a minute on two pass interference penalties and kicked a FG to beat Ole Miss. The offending DB on both flags was the late Venus Meaux.

 

[heyabbott]

No Bills fan will look for another team.

But no Bills fan can avoid feeling snakebit, either.

This wasn’t a snake bit game. The looks and comments of the Bills players after game were not of sone bad luck team over estimating their own worth and yet again finding someway to lose. You live in Buffalo not Dallas. I actually never a saw a team immediately deal with a loss, an amazing loss in an epic game, with such intelligent repose. Like it was an honor to lose this game to that team.

and let’s also be absolutely clear about what we saw yesterday, 4 teams win. No one walked away with an undeserved victory. The winning team didn’t back into anything, they weren’t lucky, they didn’t benefit from fluke calls or opponents cracking under pressure. The winners won each game. And the losers played with heart and skill and were all best by better teams in the field on the day of the game. Mahomes didn’t need to prove anything to anyone, he just played up to his abilities and we saw an affirmation of greatness.

Allen too didn’t need to prove anything to anyone, but has now planted his image on the face of the game beyond potential or hype.

Stafford has now acquitted himself and reversed all prior opinions. Sure he may throw a stupid ball in the future but the next person who questions his ability to win and win under pressure and not be the beneficiary of the work of others will show themselves to be the party lacking perception and acumen of football intelligence.

Jimmy G. Just win baby. Ya know who’s watching from the couch next week? 28 NFL starting QBs, Head Coaches, GMs and Owners. You may not be 4th beat QB in football, but once again plenty of better players are home watching you. There’s got to be a skill there.

 

[Azrael]

'Gutting' sounds pretty bad.

Bills receiver Gabriel Davis erupts to keep Bills in game before gutting loss

 

[maumann]

They entrailed at the end, apparently.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

They entrailed at the end, apparently.

Can I like and unlike a post simultaneously?

 

[sgreenwell]

Did I miss Stafford's mistakes?

Sorry to you and others that replied to me - For some reason, I thought he played worse / tentative down the stretch. Looking at the game log, hard to say that, since RBs and WRs were too busy fumbling. It wasn't a Rodgers situation, where he had a TD then went 0-for-the-game.

 

[Cosmo]

If anything, the Rams' playcalling when they had the ball up 14 and Tampa still had three timeouts was dumbfounding. I get playing it safe there and trying to force the Bucs to use timeouts, but if you throw for one first down and they use two timeouts, the game is essentially over. Way, way too tentative in that spot.

 

[Webster]

If anything, the Rams' playcalling when they had the ball up 14 and Tampa still had three timeouts was dumbfounding. I get playing it safe there and trying to force the Bucs to use timeouts, but if you throw for one first down and they use two timeouts, the game is essentially over. Way, way too tentative in that spot.

I agree, especially how the run wasn’t working at all. I thought that given that fact, and that Tampa was going to be aggressive, that Rams would have been best suited by short passes.

 

[JC]

I have found @micropolitan guy

 

[da man]

and let’s also be absolutely clear about what we saw yesterday, 4 teams win. No one walked away with an undeserved victory. The winning team didn’t back into anything, they weren’t lucky, they didn’t benefit from fluke calls or opponents cracking under pressure. The winners won each game. And the losers played with heart and skill and were all best by better teams in the field on the day of the game. Mahomes didn’t need to prove anything to anyone, he just played up to his abilities and we saw an affirmation of greatness.

Except the Packers.

 

[heyabbott]

This iteration of the NFL playoffs certainly has a tinge of Karma. If not a celestial **** you, an existential ‘lol’.
Rodgers, Raiders, Jeruah and da boyz, rapethisburger, Coach hoodie, all one and done.

And Brady having lost his composure is a measure some comfort.

 

[Batman]

Stefon Diggs went all Mike Curtis on a fan.

 

[outofplace]

This wasn’t a snake bit game. The looks and comments of the Bills players after game were not of sone bad luck team over estimating their own worth and yet again finding someway to lose. You live in Buffalo not Dallas. I actually never a saw a team immediately deal with a loss, an amazing loss in an epic game, with such intelligent repose. Like it was an honor to lose this game to that team.

and let’s also be absolutely clear about what we saw yesterday, 4 teams win. No one walked away with an undeserved victory. The winning team didn’t back into anything, they weren’t lucky, they didn’t benefit from fluke calls or opponents cracking under pressure. The winners won each game. And the losers played with heart and skill and were all best by better teams in the field on the day of the game. Mahomes didn’t need to prove anything to anyone, he just played up to his abilities and we saw an affirmation of greatness.

Allen too didn’t need to prove anything to anyone, but has now planted his image on the face of the game beyond potential or hype.

Stafford has now acquitted himself and reversed all prior opinions. Sure he may throw a stupid ball in the future but the next person who questions his ability to win and win under pressure and not be the beneficiary of the work of others will show themselves to be the party lacking perception and acumen of football intelligence.

Jimmy G. Just win baby. Ya know who’s watching from the couch next week? 28 NFL starting QBs, Head Coaches, GMs and Owners. You may not be 4th beat QB in football, but once again plenty of better players are home watching you. There’s got to be a skill there.

I guess there is a skill in ending up on a team that overcomes his mistakes.

You don't think any teams cracked under pressure? The Bucs and Bills both had massive breakdowns on field goal drives in the final seconds. Tampa made a terrible decision in going with an all-out blitz, then made it worse when not everybody got the call. The Bills went too far the other way, backing off enough to give the Chiefs huge chunks of yardage. Those extreme approaches were significant mistakes.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

How about Aaron Rodgers force his way to Tampa after Tom retires?

 

[Starman]

Stefon Diggs went all Mike Curtis on a fan.

These ****ers need to be rendered insensate, not cajoled off the field as they wave their arms and pump their fists at the crowd. Put their ****ing lights out. Players should get a $100,000 bonus for immobilizing any intruders on the playing field to the point they must be carried off on a stretcher.

 

[HanSenSE]

How about Aaron Rodgers force his way to Tampa after Tom retires?

DeSantis will greet his unvaxed ass at the airport.

 

[HanSenSE]

Has this been posted yet?

 

[heyabbott]

These ****ers need to be rendered insensate, not cajoled off the field as they wave their arms and pump their fists at the crowd. Put their ****ing lights out. Players should get a $100,000 bonus for immobilizing any intruders on the playing field to the point they must be carried off on a stretcher.

I love street justice. If cops could exercise that kind of blunt force crime would be waaay down.