NFL 2018
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@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2018:
Adam Gase is set to get a new job. Fuck me there is some serious incompetence at GM and ownership level. Funny how certain coaches and players can keep getting work and yet a winning QB like CK can't merit a spot. It is definitely not what you know it's who you know that counts
I don't think Gase is that bad of a hire. The Dolphins are a mess of an organisation and he didn't do too badly there considering he had pretty much nothing to work with at QB. Now he has Darnold.
But they're the Jets. At least he'll be used to working in a dumpster fire
Ownership issues aside he'll have Darnold and Adams, $100 million cap space, decent draft capital including #3 and only one poor contract (Johnson). It's a good spot to drop into.
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I enjoyed the games today.
Mahomes and the Chiefs are just fun to watch. Happy for Chiefs fans to get a home win and get to host the AFC title game next week. Their much maligned defense looked good playing with a lead too.
Always good to see the Cowboys lose. Goff didnt look nearly as good as Mahomes but was able to hold his nerve with the Rams running game on fire. Cowboys hyped running game meanwhile was shut down.
Both games were decided at the line of scrimmage. Still important in the playoffs even with the modern day rules.
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Seems to be revenge of the top seeds this week. I wonder if everyone forgot just how good the Chiefs and Rams were, given all the buzz was around the Cowboys and Colts coming in. And now the Pats trounce the Chargers, was 38-7 at one point.
Eagles are looking to buck the trend - picked of Brees on the first possession of the game and now score from a Nick Foles long ball. This game could be a beauty.
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Yeah next week is going to be great, regardless of who wins out of Saints/Eagles.
At this stage it's looking like the Eagles, who are dominating. The Saints seem desperate to air it out on offense, which is ridiculous considering they have Kamara and Ingram in the team.
Eagles are just working their way down again and the Saints don't look like they are able to stop them.
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@barbarian said in NFL 2018:
Saints get up by six. Quite a turnaround from the first quarter - Brees stepped up on multiple occasions and the Saints D kept the Eagles scoreless in the second half.
Rams vs Saints and Chiefs vs Pats next week, with all four results well in play.
Top four teams this year in the championship games. All of them capable of winning the big dance. Feels like the first time in a while we haven't had a plucky underdog putting together a great post season run.
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@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2018:
I'm very happy to see Patriots on the road. Arrowhead is going to be rocking. I think I saw somewhere that Patriots have not won a road playoff game in over a decade.
Have they had a road play off game in the last decade?
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@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2018:
I'm very happy to see Patriots on the road. Arrowhead is going to be rocking. I think I saw somewhere that Patriots have not won a road playoff game in over a decade.
Have they had a road play off game in the last decade?
Not when you are gifted your division
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@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2018:
I'm very happy to see Patriots on the road. Arrowhead is going to be rocking. I think I saw somewhere that Patriots have not won a road playoff game in over a decade.
Have they had a road play off game in the last decade?
They've lost their last 3 away playoff games. All 3 were AFC Championship Games. All 3 to Peyton Manning too. '06 AFC Title game @ Indy, '13 AFC Title game @ Denver, 16 AFC Title game @ Denver.
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@mariner4life said in NFL 2018:
@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2018:
I'm very happy to see Patriots on the road. Arrowhead is going to be rocking. I think I saw somewhere that Patriots have not won a road playoff game in over a decade.
Have they had a road play off game in the last decade?
Not when you are gifted your division
In the 3 year gap since the Patriots didn't make the AFC Championship game, the Jets made 2 of those games.
And then there was the year Brady got injured.People could argue that the Colts should've been gifted their division.
Broncos would've been gifted their division if they had a good QB.A lot of teams go through cycles, but it's weird that the Patriots make it this far consistently, even with weakish teams. They beat up a Chargers team that is loaded with Pro-Bowlers. I'm still amazed the Patriots won.
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I'd love to see a Pats vs Saints Superbowl. In that case my leave request stays in and I go to a function. If the Pats lose this week it gets cancelled. The Patriots have been my team for as long as I can remember, while I have tremendous respect for the city and people of New Orleans and what they've been through since Katrina. New Orleans is just this beautifully turgid, almost larger than life mash-up of cultures soaked for a couple of hundred years in amazing music, food and booze and I loved the joint.
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@mariner4life said in NFL 2018:
@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2018:
I'm very happy to see Patriots on the road. Arrowhead is going to be rocking. I think I saw somewhere that Patriots have not won a road playoff game in over a decade.
Have they had a road play off game in the last decade?
Not when you are gifted your division
In the 3 year gap since the Patriots didn't make the AFC Championship game, the Jets made 2 of those games.
And then there was the year Brady got injured.People could argue that the Colts should've been gifted their division.
Broncos would've been gifted their division if they had a good QB.A lot of teams go through cycles, but it's weird that the Patriots make it this far consistently, even with weakish teams. They beat up a Chargers team that is loaded with Pro-Bowlers. I'm still amazed the Patriots won.
Wait what? The Broncos would have been gifted their division with a decent QB despite being in a division with the Chiefs (who have a QB who everyone assumes will be the league MVP) and the Chargers who you say yourself are loaded with Pro-Bowlers?
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@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2018:
@mariner4life said in NFL 2018:
@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2018:
I'm very happy to see Patriots on the road. Arrowhead is going to be rocking. I think I saw somewhere that Patriots have not won a road playoff game in over a decade.
Have they had a road play off game in the last decade?
Not when you are gifted your division
In the 3 year gap since the Patriots didn't make the AFC Championship game, the Jets made 2 of those games.
And then there was the year Brady got injured.People could argue that the Colts should've been gifted their division.
Broncos would've been gifted their division if they had a good QB.A lot of teams go through cycles, but it's weird that the Patriots make it this far consistently, even with weakish teams. They beat up a Chargers team that is loaded with Pro-Bowlers. I'm still amazed the Patriots won.
Wait what? The Broncos would have been gifted their division with a decent QB despite being in a division with the Chiefs (who have a QB who everyone assumes will be the league MVP) and the Chargers who you say yourself are loaded with Pro-Bowlers?
My comment was in response to the Pats gifted their division in the last decade.
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Crimson Tide QB Hurts transferring to Oklahoma
Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts will transfer to Oklahoma for his senior season.
After staying the season in Alabama and going about his work as reserve QB in dignified silence, Jalen Hurts is off to Oklahoma
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Holy cow, watched the first half of the NO v LA NFC title game before leaving for work and NO looked ready to run off with it. LA roared back, but need to score at least a FG to tie starting from their own 20 with 1.40 remaining. Wasn't that the margin of victory in the last game during the regular season?
