NFL Playoffs: Wildcard Round

[minnesotacubsfan]

Josh Allen lost that game

[Bertz]

[Derwood]

This air horn that New England blows every 2 seconds is really annoying

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

[OleMissCub]

https://twitter.com/extremelysquid/status/1213680767869554688?s=21

[raw]

Tom Brady is done. There was a point where me as a football fan was watching that game last night, and the feeling that "the great Tom Brady will find a way to pull this out" went out of my body. I don't know the exact moment that happened, but this was Peyton Manning's last season in Denver, but without the defense carrying him. I think the last several weeks (maybe all season IDK), Brady has just looked slow. Slow processing, slower release, slower to react to pressure, less velocity on the actual football. He finished with an 88 QB rating. That's below the league average and in the territory of guys like Jacoby Brissett (who the Colts have stated is probably not the guy), rookies Daniel Jones and Kyler Murray, Jared Goff (the current cautionary tale for paying big money to non-elite QBs), and Philip Rivers who is also a FA and his current team likely doesn't want him back.

 

Feel bad for the GOAT that it has to end on a pick-6. But if any team signs him this offseason, it's not because of his ability anymore. It's because they think he has some kind of magic that will rub off on the entire team and will them to the Superbowl. 42 year old QBs don't have a resurgence once the regression has already started. He went from best QB in the league level in 2017, to good in 2018, to below average 2019. There's no reversing that trend. If Brady does an honest assessment of himself, he'll see that he doesn't need more help. He needs to hang them up.

[NOLA]

You may well be right on Brady, but I might have said the same thing about Brees a few years ago. It’s amazing what a good O line and defense will do for an aging QB. Part of the greatness of Brady was that he’s largely been surrounded by mediocre talent yet he still had NE right there, year after year. Gronkowski was a part time player the last few years. Brady can’t carry a team with middle of the pack talent anymore. You put him on the Bears or Broncos and he might have another run.

[Derwood]

Interesting question: how willing is Belichick to coach this team through a post-Brady rebuild/transition period?

[NOLA]

Interesting question: how willing is Belichick to coach this team through a post-Brady rebuild/transition period?

Belichick seems like a guy who wants to prove he’s the reason for NE’s success more so than Brady.

[Derwood]

Interesting question: how willing is Belichick to coach this team through a post-Brady rebuild/transition period?

Belichick seems like a guy who wants to prove he’s the reason for NE’s success more so than Brady.

 

Maybe, especially since his pre-Brady coaching profile is not particularly impressive.

 

That said, his legacy will forever be tied to Brady, and he runs the risk of proving that he CAN'T do it without Brady

[PackLandVA]

Cowboys - Josh McDaniels

 

That's my guess.

[raw]

You may well be right on Brady, but I might have said the same thing about Brees a few years ago. It’s amazing what a good O line and defense will do for an aging QB. Part of the greatness of Brady was that he’s largely been surrounded by mediocre talent yet he still had NE right there, year after year. Gronkowski was a part time player the last few years. Brady can’t carry a team with middle of the pack talent anymore. You put him on the Bears or Broncos and he might have another run.

 

Brees had 2 seasons since 2011 under a 100 QB rating. The last was a 97 in 2014 (the other was the season Payton was suspended, and still a 96). Still well above average for that season and above any other season in NFL history. He hasn't anything close to a season as bad as Brady's 2019, since San Diego.

[OleMissCub]

Saints aren’t winning this. Cook is off the chain today.

[OleMissCub]

All I end up noticing when watching football is how dangerous and unnecessary those helmets are

 

I'm loooving how this postseason isn't dominated by QB play

 

Not sure how that wasn’t helmet to helmet on that Kamara play.

[d_money]

Saints are toast. Vikings are bringing it today.

[gflore34]

Lattimore giving up on the long completion to Thelen was so Bear. Wasn't he one of the dickheads making fun of Cohen?

[PackLandVA]

Saints are toast. Vikings are bringing it today.

 

Not so fast, grasshopper. Vikes are notorious chokers.

[minnesotacubsfan]

You put him on the Bears ... and he might have another run.

 

 

Id be willing to give that a chance, but can Tom Beady run an RPO?

[minnesotacubsfan]

Interesting question: how willing is Belichick to coach this team through a post-Brady rebuild/transition period?

Belichick seems like a guy who wants to prove he’s the reason for NE’s success more so than Brady.

 

 

 

No, Bellichek plays coy but he isn’t stupid.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Saints are toast. Vikings are bringing it today.

 

Not so fast, grasshopper. Vikes are notorious chokers.

 

 

Not in the WC or Div games, its always in the Conf Championship grasshopper

[minnesotacubsfan]

He was down

[Soul]

I don’t know why the Vikings keep trying to run it outside. That hasn’t worked for awhile now.

[d_money]

Saints are toast. Vikings are bringing it today.

 

Not so fast, grasshopper. Vikes are notorious chokers.

 

 

Not in the WC or Div games, its always in the Conf Championship grasshopper

Never in doubt

[gflore34]

I know there's some Saints fans here but, couldn't happen to a bigger bunch of dickheads in Payton, Lattimore.

[OleMissCub]

Wonder how many other 13+ win teams A) had to play in a wild card game and B) lost it.