DG_ThenNowForever

2 hours ago, infrared41 said:

 

The Bills are winning the division and making the AFC title game. I don't know what happens after that.

 

Feel free to ridicule me when that take blows up in my face.

I would love this outcome. If they win the division, it's all right there for them. This would be their best shot since....last year. But without a player who died on the field.

4 minutes ago, BottomlessPitt said:

 

I think they win in Miami next week and take the division. 

It's definitely possible.  But Buffalo hasn't been consistent at all this season. It's hard to have faith in them.

The Bills may get to 10 wins but miss the playoffs because they didn't win the division, all while being +100 for the season.

It takes a special kind of skill to choke like that.

Something interesting: Buffalo's last 1 pm EST start was home against Miami in week 4.

That's 11 straight weeks of late games, Thursday games, international games, Sunday nights, Monday nights, late games, etc.

I remember years and years of 1 pm starts for an entire season with maybe a West coast or pity ESPN game thrown in.

Bills in a must-win game at home....give up an opening kickoff TD to the Pats.

Of course. Happy New Year!

Y'all aren't joking. This barstool coverage is really bad. I don't know what other content Barstool puts out, but they're just rapid-firing bad joke after bad joke.

It reminds me a lot of the Dennis Miller experiment.

EDIT:  even the commercials are rotten.

18 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

We’ve seen guys opt out of big games before, but I think this year is probably the breaking point for opt outs. Mentality seems that if I’m not playing for a National Championship, why would I bother risking injury in ANY other meaningless game to make this school that isn’t paying me even more money? I can’t say I disagree with that. I’m starting to get the feeling that the bowl committee leaving out FSU was the final straw for a lot of these guys, and I’m pretty sure it’s gonna ruin the bowl game setup. 

The NIL and transfer portal have put a ton more power in the players' hands that didn't exist before.

If labor exercising their power means an entire system of exhibition games that don't provide any additional incentives needs to go, then that entire system of exhibition games needs to go.

Start giving participation bonuses for these bowl games that are scaled to the level of impact for key players, and then you might have something.

1 minute ago, Sykotyk said:

No. Tonight is not their night.

Man, you have to feel bad for those guys.

Detroit is up 13 early in the third at Boston.

Is tonight their night?

2 hours ago, BBTV said:

Just call it "QBoTY".

 

Speaking of who won't win QBoTY, Russell Wilson has been benched.

 

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39192081/broncos-bench-russell-wilson-week-17-game-sources-say

Russell Wilson and DeShaun Watson are taking turns covering each other for who has the worst contact in the league. That's nice of them.

2 minutes ago, BBTV said:

 

If every team had a nominee, CMC should be (and should always have been) SF's guy over Purdy.  Purdy is kinda like a solid-but-not-flashy point guard on a team with star forwards, shooting guard, and center.  Not like a Magic Johnson point guard.

Andre Miller was a great point guard. Mike Conley too.

6 minutes ago, Rockstar Matt said:

Dak has one less win than Purdy (QB wins are a horrible way to evaluate a QB), and their stats are similar in every way (except Dak has more TD’s and less INT’s).

 

Purdy: 68.8cmp%, 4050 yards, 29 TD’s (31 total), 9.7 Y/A, 11 INTS (13 total TO’s), 71.7 QBR and 112.2 qb rating.

 

*Dak: 68.4cmp%, 3892 yards, 30 TD’s (32 total), 7.5 Y/A, 7 INTS (8 total TO’s), 71.5 QBR and 104.2 QB rating. 
 

I just wanted to push back against the notion that Purdy is just vastly outplaying Dak. Also if Purdy is considered to have the better weapons, shouldn’t Dak’s numbers have more value because he’s doing it with less talent around him yet essentially has the same stats (if not better) than Purdy?

 

If the MVP has to go to the QB on the best team, then it has to be Lamar, if it’s the QB who’s played the best throughout the whole season then it’s Josh Allen or Dak. In reality we’re ignoring who should be the true MVP front runners just because the MVP has become a QB only award: Myles Garrett and Tyreek Hill

 

*- need to point out that Dak’s total volume stats would be better if he hadn’t sat the entire 4th quarter or the majority of the 4th in 7 games this season. 

Good post.

And I agree: it should be Tyreek Hill. He's the most disruptive player on the field.

Trent Dilfer kind of messed up QB analysis for everyone. He won that Super Bowl with an all-time defense, and then became the poster boy for "good enough quarterback."

Brock Purdy is playing with an all-time defense and all-time offensive weapons, but he's also making plays and scoring touchdowns.

Dak plays with a great defense and great offense, but he doesn't have the wins or numbers of Brock. Ditto DeShaun Watson. And all of the bums on the Jets.

Purdy is in the best possible situation but he's also delivering. I think he's the MVP. Him or Lamar.

It's all set up nicely for Baltimore to squash Miami and the Bills to steal the division.

Justin Fields might actually be the guy in Chicago after all. He's been looking good the last few weeks.

Tyreek Hill should probably be the MVP.

13 hours ago, Kramerica Industries said:

It's completely the right decision of any top rated prospect on a non-playoff team to opt out of the bowl game. Ever since Jaylon Smith got hurt in the Fiesta Bowl as a top-5 lock, this has become the standard practice. Can't blame any players for protecting their future over meaningless bowl games.

 

The obvious downside is that bowl games that used to mean something have now become mostly obliterated between opt outs and players hitting the transfer portal between the last reg season game and the bowl game...bowl week used to be a marquee event, now it feels like a huge waste of time, which is a shame.

Remember those ESPN "Most wonderful time of the year" ads, where they celebrated all of the second-tier bowl games?

Really feels like that's a long bygone era.

Oh cool, the Bills are doing it again.

It's been however many years in LA now for the Chargers, but it's really crazy to hear the crowd roar when the away team scores.

Suarez officially to Inter Miami is really going to put the Miami in MLS next year.

It'll break my heart when Nico Lodeiro signs there too, but I get it.

Seems like spending a billion dollars on two players isn't so great for baseball. I don't know.

That Russell Wilson trade keeps on paying off for the Seahawks.

8 minutes ago, B-Rich said:

Jayden Daniels becomes the first active, current winner of the Heisman Trophy to forgo/ opt out of/ decline to play in his team's bowl game.

 

Jayden Daniels has decided whether he will play in LSU's bowl game against Wisconsin.

 

Take that as you will. I myself decline to comment.

I don't. Give it to Penix.

9 minutes ago, BBTV said:

 

I don't think any fan would say "golly shucks, well we clearly can't win, but at least we have 10 hollow wins."

I would gladly accept that. Especially during Buffalo's 20-year abyss.

2 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

 

The 1989 49ers won the Super Bowl by 45 points.

 

 

You're right. That seemed off; I just pasted and posted.

Maybe it was the 91 49ers? They were +154 and 3rd in the NFC West that year at 10-6.

Turns out it was the 89 49ers at exactly +100: https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/best-point-differential-by-an-nfl-team-who-missed-the-playoffs-in-a-season#:~:text=Best Point Differential By An NFL Team Who,playoff season%2C with a 100-point differential in 1989.