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The collapse is complete.

The Chargers Suicide Warning is now at five helmets. Collapse is imminent.

The Chargers Suicide Warning has been upgraded to four helmets.

I'm happy someone besides @IceCap and me remembers it.

A Chargers Suicide Warning is now in effect.

Chargers Suicide Watch is in effect. This is just a watch meaning conditions are favorable for a Chargers collapse.

Apparently.

If you think it's strange now just wait until you're my age.

Al Michaels is back on NBC. This game is already 37% better.

OK, there was one person, but my point remains.

Looks like we're going to find out. In Purdy's defense, teams miss on QBs all the time. The kid may, in fact, be every bit as good as he's looked. If we're judging him on "ducks that should have been picks", I think we may be setting the bar a tad too high for a 7th round draft pick. Is he the reason the Niners are winning? Not entirely, but he's a certainly a big part of why they're not losing. This may say more about "Bonky G" (Love that name. Well done.) and Lance than it does anything else, but in my opinion, Purdy is the best QB the Niners have and it's not particularly close...as of right now, anyway.

Agreed. Anyone who says they picked this team to go to the playoffs back in the preseason is either lying or is the most delusional Seahawks fan in existence. Did anyone think Geno Smith was capable of what he did this season? Again, for anyone who says yes, see my previous comment about the playoffs. This team came out of nowhere and made the playoffs in a season when everyone was expecting them to win maybe 6 games. And now they have the #5 pick in the draft. The future is bright in Seattle.

Fair enough.

That sound you hear above you is the joke flying over your head...twice now. Let me explain it to you like you're...well...a Michigan fan. You said Michigan wants to make Harbaugh the "highest* coach of the Big Ten." I said "So that's why his clock management was so bad against TCU." Meaning his clock management against TCU was bad because he was so high. That was the joke. Get it now? All that being said, the last time you beat us twice in a row, I was still in my late 30's and half the people on these here boards weren't even born. You can talk to me when you have one of these and you're not coming off a playoff loss to a double digit underdog. *Yes, we all knew you meant highest paid coach. Leaving out paid was what made it funny.

You said it yourself...

So that's why his clock management was so bad against TCU.

Duly noted and seconded.

None of that makes Baker Mayfield a good NFL quarterback. I watched the guy up close for four years. He shows just enough promise to make you think there's a chance he might be good, but he's not good and he's proven that he's not good with three different teams now. I don't know what else to tell you.

Yes. I never said Mayfield was the problem, but feel free to infer that I think he was part of the bigger problem.

Yeah, I don't care. I never said Mayfield was the issue with the Panthers. What I said was the Panthers were a better team without him. I'm fine with having a discussion with you (pedantic as you can be) but you need to stop making up and then claiming I said it.

I never claimed Darnold outplayed Mayfield. This is what I actually said. "My guess is Josh Allen and the Bills offense are much more capable of overcoming a four point deficit than a Panthers offense being led by Sam Darnold or the Mayfield Experience is." Which part of that tripped you up? The first year without Mayfield was better than the year the Panthers or Rams had with him.

Actually, the Panthers were a better team after Mayfield was cut. Funny how that worked out. I'm a Browns fan. I'm well-versed in the Mayfield Experience. He looks great for a week and then he looks like the worst QB in the NFL for the next three. Ask those same Rams that you referenced about that.

Wild Card round: Seattle vs. San Francisco Los Angeles vs. Jacksonville Miami vs. Buffalo New York vs. Minnesota Baltimore vs. Cincinnati Dallas vs. Tampa Bay

Before the game, my better half asked me who I thought would win tonight. I told her I'd love to see TCU get the upset, but Georgia was probably going to hang 70 them. I thought I was exaggerating.