NFL Week 16 -- Football overload

[Gutter]

I would argue--and I'd probably find agreement with Bears fans … that it's even more depressing that the no. 4 Packers passer is Jay Cutler. BY A LOT. A Bears QB is probably gonna need six seasons to surpass Cutler

FTFY

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Carolina is no longer a guaranteed win.

Indeed, Bucs should have lost to them six ways to, err, Sunday the last time they played.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

This play by the Lions was brilliant, from the idea for it to the linemen yelling "FUMBLE! FUMBLE! FUMBLE!" while Goff and Gibbs are carrying out their fakes.



And then there's this — it might have been inspired by an actual broken play against the Bears from last season.

I have a hot-ish taek here, but Dan Campbell's act is starting to wear a little thin. WHY are you wasting a fun call like this up two scores in the third on a dogass team like the Bears? Wait for a moment when it matters, like week 18 against the Vikings with the division/home field on the line. Toss this on to the fire with the throwing in the fourth quarter of the 52-6 rout of the Jags last month (I know, I know they're all pros and if you don't like it. stop them...still, that was a bit much).

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

It was 27-14 early in the third quarter. Hardly time to pack it in and play ball control. Up 44-14 and yeah, dickhead move. But for a team that had given up 99 points in the previous three games and only beat the Bears by three in their game last month...keep scoring.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

It was 27-14 early in the third quarter. Hardly time to pack it in and play ball control. Up 44-14 and yeah, dickhead move. But for a team that had given up 99 points in the previous three games and only beat the Bears by three in their game last month...keep scoring.

Certainly not the time to take the air out of the ball, but pulling the last trick out of the playbook against a dogass team?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I have a hot-ish taek here, but Dan Campbell's act is starting to wear a little thin. WHY are you wasting a fun call like this up two scores in the third on a dogass team like the Bears? Wait for a moment when it matters, like week 18 against the Vikings with the division/home field on the line.

You do those things against ****ty teams because you want the good teams — like the Vikings — to think that you might do that or something similar against them, as well. You won’t, of course, because they’re good enough to make the adjustment.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

Certainly not the time to take the air out of the ball, but pulling the last trick out of the playbook against a dogass team?

Keep scoring. WTF does it matter what play call gets you in the end zone?

 

[tapintoamerica]

Looks like this is gonna be the first shutout of the NFL season. There were eight last year. There has never been a year without at least one. But this might be the longest the league has ever gone without one in a season.

 

[MileHigh]

Pretty hard to get shut out in the NFL, much less 34-0.

Broncos have been shut out once since 1992 and that was in 2017.

 

[MileHigh]

And I stand corrected. Happened 46 previous times, which seems pretty high.

 

[tapintoamerica]

If the Packers win one of their final two regular-season games (at Vikings, home with Bears), the NFC North will become the first division with three members at ≥ 12 wins in a season since the reformation of 2002 (eight divisions of four teams each).

 

[MileHigh]

If the Packers win one of their final two regular-season games (at Vikings, home with Bears), the NFC North will become the first division with three members at ≥ 12 wins in a season since the reformation of 2002 (eight divisions of four teams each).

And someone is going to Inglewood and won't be happy about it.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

And someone is going to Inglewood and won't be happy about it.

They won't be as mad as the team that's gonna go 13-4 or 14-3 and visit the 10-7 Bucs or Falcons.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

And someone is going to Inglewood and won't be happy about it.

Why not? If the Packers go it'll damm near be a home game with much better weather.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

The 3 and 4 seeds in the NFC might be pretty significant underdogs in the opening round of the playoffs.

 

[dixiehack]

The 3 and 4 seeds in the NFC might be pretty significant underdogs in the opening round of the playoffs.

Sounds vaguely familiar thinks this tourist from the college football threads.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

Sounds vaguely familiar thinks this tourist from the college football threads.

NFC North -- it just means more.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

All that being said the Rams will be a tough out in the playoffs and the Bucs are inconsistent, but when they are mixing up things on offense, they are very tough to beat.

I have far less optimism for the Falcons.

 

[DanOregon]

And someone is going to Inglewood and won't be happy about it.

Yeah, the Rams.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

As a Packers fan, I would much rather face Tampa or Atlanta than the Rams. I think the Rams are going to be a tough out.