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I bought a "Factory of Sadness" shirt earlier this year just for the hell of it. I'm gonna wear that proudly until the Super Bowl is over. 

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On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said:
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5 minutes ago, McCarthy said:

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Is it bad that when the notification came up on my phone all I did was laugh heartily?

 

Hiw are they doing this?

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1 hour ago, oldschoolvikings said:

Just read a crazy stat about the Vikings at home.  In the 8 games they've played at US Bank Stadium, the Vikings have given up only 9 touchdowns, and one of those was a punt return.  Of those 8 offensive drives that ending in touchdown, half began in Viking territory, only 4 were traditional, full field drives. Only Tampa Bay, of all teams, scored more than one TD.

 

If they can keep playing at home (which would include the Super Bowl, of course), I think they might have a shot.

 

Vikings have been surprisingly great this year and I have zero problem jumping on their bandwagon.

 

The NFC has far outclassed the AFC this year (and last too). As much as I'm scared of another Pats SB win, I think this year will be harder than last. At least any team that gets a 28-3 lead on NE knows to not let it up.

1 hour ago, ShutUpLutz! said:

and the drunken doodoobags jumping off the tops of SUV's/vans/RV's onto tables because, oh yeah, they are drunken drug abusing doodoobags

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It's OK to fire good coaches when you feel that despite their talents, they're just not going to get the team over the hump, and a new voice is needed.

 

Why are they so afraid of letting Marvin Lewis go?  He's like the non-Mormon Andy Reid, except Andy Reid at least made it to a SB.

 

I never understood all the outrage when he couldn't get a job back in the day - everyone was like "this is the year Marvin Lewis should get a HC job", as if he was a known SB winning commodity that nobody wanted because black - in fact, wasn't the Rooney Rule enacted partially because of him?  Well guess what - black or white, it's 100 years later, and the team still hasn't accomplished anything worth talking about.  7 postseason appearances in 15 years isn't incredible (sorry Bills fans), and if you're boasting about a guy's "coaching tree", then... well, WHY ARE YOU EVEN MENTIONING THAT IN A PRESS RELEASE?

 

Sorry Bengals fans.  I just don't get how a front office thinks they can sell this to a fan base - oh, wait - yeah, I've experienced it here.

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The Ravens may have been eliminated from the playoffs by the Browns being so terrible. If the Browns went 8-8 (but still lost to the Ravens twice, obviously), the Ravens would have been in over the Bills.

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1 hour ago, BringBackTheVet said:

It's OK to fire good coaches when you feel that despite their talents, they're just not going to get the team over the hump, and a new voice is needed.

 

 

This is exactly what's happened. They're probably a better team than 7-9 with fresh eyes and a new voice. A new guy probably gives them cooler heads going into a game against the Steelers. Lewis has almost never been good in those games. 

 

1 hour ago, BringBackTheVet said:

 

Why are they so afraid of letting Marvin Lewis go?  He's like the non-Mormon Andy Reid, except Andy Reid at least made it to a SB.

 

I never understood all the outrage when he couldn't get a job back in the day - everyone was like "this is the year Marvin Lewis should get a HC job", as if he was a known SB winning commodity that nobody wanted because black - in fact, wasn't the Rooney Rule enacted partially because of him?  Well guess what - black or white, it's 100 years later, and the team still hasn't accomplished anything worth talking about.  7 postseason appearances in 15 years isn't incredible (sorry Bills fans), and if you're boasting about a guy's "coaching tree", then... well, WHY ARE YOU EVEN MENTIONING THAT IN A PRESS RELEASE?

 

Here's why they're afraid of letting him go: 7 playoff appearances in 15 years is incredible when you consider the team only had 7 in their previous 35 years and Lewis spent the first two seasons fixing the most broken culture in football. We were the Browns of the league at the time. Arguably worse because there was no scouting department to speak of. That's why Mike Brown is afraid to let him go. He's A. cheap AF, B. scared of change, C. doesn't care about winning the Super Bowl. D content with this level of mediocrity because it's better than they were when he first took over the team from dad and E. lazy and doesn't want to do a coaching search. I'd be more than okay with Lewis' playoff appearance track record if they'd gone deep in any of those postseasons, but he could never get past the wildcard round. 

 

As bad as it sounds I think a lot of us are just kind of waiting for him to kick the bucket. Things may be just as bad with his kids in charge or it could be a Chicago Blackhawks situation. 

 

I don't get why they're mentioning his coaching tree in a press release when the guy they should've hired 3 years ago has the Vikings in the second round and one of the other ones is 1-31 with the Browns. I actually know the guy who runs the Bengals social media account and I'm not envious of him today. That tweet is getting ratio'ed to all hell. 

 

 

1 hour ago, BringBackTheVet said:

Sorry Bengals fans.  I just don't get how a front office thinks they can sell this to a fan base - oh, wait - yeah, I've experienced it here.

I don't think they can sell this any longer. People seem pretty pissed off. I know one person who's already cancelled his season tickets and my only recourse is to not go to the games until a change is made because it feels like Mike Brown is actively trolling this fanbase. If he was trying to demonstrate complete disdain for his customers he wouldn't be doing anything differently than he's already doing. I can't even think of another example of a professional head coach in any sport who toiled in mediocrity without ever really winning anything with one team for this long. Lindy Ruff was with the Sabres for forever, but at least he made it to a finals. Andy Reid got the Eagles to a Super Bowl and the NFCCG 5 times, as much as you complain about him, I'd take that stretch right about now. 

 

2 minutes ago, DEAD! said:

So, I guess we can count on the Steelers winning the AFC Central the next two seasons.

AFC North, but...probably. The Ravens have a QB problem all of a sudden, the Browns are the Browns, and the Bengals are the Bengals. 

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11 hours ago, McCarthy said:

 

 

"Do you understand it is actually statistically harder to be this consistently bad than it is for them to occasionally accidentally be good?"

 

The Factory of Sadness video is six years old and things are decidedly worse now than when it came out. I've taken to rooting for the Browns. Their fans are nice people and I know what they're going through. I'd kill a Steelers fan for the Steelers to have one miserable 2-14, 3-13 season like the Browns have had so many of. It's their turn to suck. 

 

The guy who made this is also the genius creator of this masterpiece:

 

 

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29 minutes ago, McCarthy said:

 

 

AFC North, but...probably. The Ravens have a QB problem all of a sudden, the Browns are the Browns, and the Bengals are the Bengals. 

Wow. What year am I living in? :lol:

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Between the incomprehensible ineptitude coming out of Cleveland and this, it may not be that far a stretch to think that the Steelers might have some racket going on in the AFC North. This sounds like an offer too good to refuse, if you catch my drift @McCarthy @BengalsJunkie...

 

 

I'm only half-serious.

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I find it funny when people complain that NE play in a "weak division", when now every team (including The Bills) have made the playoffs at least once in the past 5-10 years. Including the freaking Jets making 2 consecutive  AFC Championship games.

 

The AFC North is literally just Baltimore & Pittsburgh. 

 

 

 

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37 minutes ago, ozzyman314 said:

I find it funny when people complain that NE play in a "weak division", when now every team (including The Bills) have made the playoffs at least once in the past 5-10 years. Including the freaking Jets making 2 consecutive  AFC Championship games.

 

The AFC North is literally just Baltimore & Pittsburgh. 

 

 

 

The AFC East is a weak division. It's not the Patriots' fault, but it doesn't make it untrue. 

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1 hour ago, Red Wolf said:

The AFC East is a weak division. It's not the Patriots' fault, but it doesn't make it untrue. 

* The AFC East had more wins than four other divisions this year, and was only one win behind two other divisions.

 

The fact that the Patriots have won the Super Bowl nearly 1/3 of the time with Brady as a starter in a league with 31/32 teams should prove that the Patriots are pretty good against the rest of the league, too.

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6 hours ago, ozzyman314 said:

I find it funny when people complain that NE play in a "weak division", when now every team (including The Bills) have made the playoffs at least once in the past 5-10 years. Including the freaking Jets making 2 consecutive  AFC Championship games.

 

The AFC North is literally just Baltimore & Pittsburgh. 

 

 

That's total fallacy and an outdated perception of the Ravens. Their last 5 seasons have not been great. In fact, in the 5 years since the Ravens Super Bowl win the Bengals have won the division twice, the Steelers three times, and the Ravens and Browns zero. Playoff appearances in that same time frame (since that's your argument for the AFC East not being bad): Steelers 3, Bengals 3, Ravens 1, Browns 0. AFC East last five years: Patriots 5, Bills 1, Dolphins 1, Jets 0. They have as many playoff appearances as the Bills and Dolphins! 

 

Here's more: In the last 5 years the Ravens are 40-40. The Bengals are 46-32-2. In that time the Bengals are 7-3 against the Ravens. The only difference between the Ravens and Bengals this season was the Ravens were fortunate enough to play Brett Hundley and Tom Savage while the Bengals had to play Aaron Rodgers and Deshaun Watson. 

 

If anything the AFC North is just Pittsburgh. In recent history Baltimore is no better than Cincinnati. And none of that changes the fact that the Patriots absolutely do play in a weak division. The other 3 teams accidentally going 9-7 every once in a blue moon does not change that. 

 

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