Soul

I don’t get the FG call, and I don’t get the slide down before the two minute warning either.

What the hell is he doing?

That sequence was insanely improbable. First, the defensive hold was obvious. 2nd, Rodgers doesn’t throw picks. 3rd, how is the defense not putting everyone back to cover the Hail Mary?

I don’t get it. He chose to play it and run it out.

Someone much smarter than me will write an article breaking down the "Belichick System" myth. This year showed us that Belichick - Brady = meh while meh team + Brady = contender I would say it shows us that going from Jameis throwing 30 picks to a competent QB turns you into a contender. Plus didn’t the Pats have a few key opt outs on defense this year also? Bray and Belichick are both great. If Brady stayed but Belichick retired, NE probably misses the playoffs also this year. I’ll give Belichick another year. But it was not good. Especially how they ended the year. I’ve got to believe he’s a good coach, I just don’t know if he could rebuild a perennial contender at this stage in his career unless he wins the QB lottery again. We’ll see. You know he’s motivated to show he can win without Brady.

Pick up Brady, POOF instant SB contention.

I thought the same.

KC will likely be in the AFC title game 3rd year in a row. NFC had more "new" teams in the playoffs this year. Sent from my SM-A115AZ using Tapatalk Perhaps he means the younger AFC QBs in the final 8 (Mahomes, Mayfield, Jackson, Allen) vs the old guys and the crappy guy in the NFC (Rodgers, Brees, Brady, Goff)? It’s all about the quarterback in the NFL anyway. Yeah, I think you nailed why it feels that way to me. I was just thinking how it is striking to see the Bills and Browns knocking on the door when a handful of years ago they were laughingstock franchises. Heck, it wasn’t so long ago that KC was just mediocre. Mahomes is still “new” to me. KC as a perennial contender still feels new. This is probably the last year for that though. I wasn’t commenting on AFC vs NFC. It wouldn’t bother me to never see Ben sniff another title game. A non-playoff Pats team is like the clouds parting giving way to sunshine, as far as I’m concerned. So this is much more fun to me than it’s been in a very long time.

The AFC is pretty cool this year. New blood.

It feels like the Packers have basically one game plan on offense. Run their shorter stuff early, wait for the D to have to come up to stop it, then unleash the deeper throws later. It almost always works too. As a football fan of a team out of the playoffs, and setting aside my genetic hatred of the Packers, the best SB is clearly GB/KC.

Why? I always have a ton of horsefeathers at home I need to do and Saturday noonish is typically when I want to do it.

You aren't telling them where they can and can't go to school. If Bama doesn't have room, they can still attend the school they just won't be able to play football. They probably won't because they want to play football. Just like if a normal high school student doesn't get into the med program of their choice, they can still attend that school if they get accepted into a different program, they just can't study medicine. They probably won't because they want to study medicine. But regardless schools have enrollment limits just like football programs have scholarship limits. That said, I dont think the idea will work for a few other reasons. You better start paying the players appropriately if you want to do this [expletive]. (You should pay them anyways.) People have to choose one school over another for a myriad of reasons and not all of them are merit. Athletes and non-athletes alike. And if you make other programs more attractive they aren’t going to feel slighted because they can’t get into the couple programs that have a chance. I don’t think it’s as ridiculous an idea as apparently some do. Pay the athletes, I’ve got no problem with that. Ultimately the most ridiculous thing is watching Bama, Clemson, and OSU play on a different level and destroy everything in their path towards an inevitable showdown. B1G even changed their rules mid-stream just to get their one team in the playoffs. It was dumb. Everyone knows that.

You make some good points. Why not limit the number of top prospects a school can get, or put stronger limits on them? That’s basically what the NFL does through the cap.

There’s less than a handful of stacked programs and everyone else fights for scraps. The CFB playoff is a snore, not because the playoff needs to be expanded but because it’s like eating the same thing for dinner every night.

Starting and backup kickers. That ought to make for some fun times.

I heard that, how and why is that? I didn’t catch all of it but I heard some coaches aren’t there (COVID?) and that injuries had made it necessary to play a newly-signed OL or two. Brief scan of articles - they’ve been dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak. If I was a Browns fan I’d definitely be calling in sick tomorrow.

Apparently the Browns are doing this with an OL and coaches that don’t necessarily know each other.

Saints have a history of getting the Bears to be stupid.

Are you not entertained?

What is this 1956?!?

“ I love the kicking, because it seems so difficult to me.” OK, switching back to CBS...

WHEW

I watched Nick for a few plays. It's a hot mess I just wanted to see the TD slime machine a couple times.

Wait a minute. What? I’m tuning to Nick.

Coming in, I would have expected the Saints to have more than 7 points late in the 1st half.