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Week 11 results: Week 11 winner(s): 11 people...I don't think I've ever seen a week where the spread between worst record and best record was this narrow. Anyway, @Sport, @tigerslionspistonshabs, @logo-maker, @TrueYankee26, @Alex Houston, @JayMac, @PERRIN, @JayHawk786, @AHcreative, @infrared41, and @MJWalker45, you all share top spot for the week. Week 12 schedule: Green Bay vs. Detroit Washington vs. Dallas San Francisco vs. Seattle Miami vs. NY Jets Tampa Bay vs. Indianapolis New England vs. NY Giants Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati Carolina vs. Tennessee Jacksonville vs. Houston New Orleans vs. Atlanta LA Rams vs. Arizona Cleveland vs. Denver Buffalo vs. Philadelphia Kansas City vs. Las Vegas Baltimore vs. LA Chargers Chicago vs. Minnesota

I agree with the second sentence...I'm pretty sure the rules of a safety are the opposite of a touchdown, right? If you're the ball carrier and any part of the ball is still inside the plane of the endzone, it's a safety; the entire ball needs to be outside the endzone. Browns ended up scoring a touchdown on the ensuing drive set up by the good field position...I dunno, maybe it was a strategic gamble. I don't see the DTR-Browns doing the safety/touchdown double dip.

Cincinnati vs. Baltimore Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Las Vegas vs. Miami Chicago vs. Detroit Tennessee vs. Jacksonville LA Chargers vs. Green Bay Arizona vs. Houston Dallas vs. Carolina NY Giants vs. Washington Tampa Bay vs. San Francisco NY Jets vs. Buffalo Seattle vs. LA Rams Minnesota vs. Denver Philadelphia vs. Kansas City

I'm pretty sure someone got banned and when they came back, their account name was something like "[banned name]2.0"...and even then they didn't get banned until they quite literally said in a thread something about having previously gotten banned from this website. Speaking of which, that must've been when the guy here was still DarkJourney...that's a name on this site I haven't seen in a really long time.

Week 10 results: Week 10 winner: @AHcreative the only double digit winner this week Week 11 schedule: Cincinnati vs. Baltimore Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland Las Vegas vs. Miami Chicago vs. Detroit Tennessee vs. Jacksonville LA Chargers vs. Green Bay Arizona vs. Houston Dallas vs. Carolina NY Giants vs. Washington Tampa Bay vs. San Francisco NY Jets vs. Buffalo Seattle vs. LA Rams Minnesota vs. Denver Philadelphia vs. Kansas City

2nd picture is from Rams vs. Eagles in Week 1 of the 2001 season, so I can see why you might have first-hand memories of seeing those uniforms in broad daylight.

I know Reddit isn't really your bag, but it might warm your cold heart just a little bit that there was a Julie DiCaro Deadspin...umm, writing...posted on /r/NFL during the week after the Bears/Chargers game - it talked about Cris Collinsworth and some stuff about Bagent, I gathered that much; you couldn't pay me enough money to read a DiCaro article - and the comments were absolutely ridiculing the premise of the article, the sanctimonious tone, and the fact that it was a Julie DiCaro article being posted when anybody vaguely familiar with her knows she's a terrible and exceptionally dishonest writer. Reddit might be full of virtue signalers but even DiCaro is a bridge too far for many of them.

Carolina vs. Chicago Indianapolis vs. New England Cleveland vs. Baltimore Green Bay vs. Pittsburgh San Francisco vs. Jacksonville New Orleans vs. Minnesota Houston vs. Cincinnati Tennessee vs. Tampa Bay Detroit vs. LA Chargers Atlanta vs. Arizona NY Giants vs. Dallas Washington vs. Seattle NY Jets vs. Las Vegas Denver vs. Buffalo

More of a technicality, but Sean Payton was traded by the Saints to the Broncos. For that matter (and to a small degree of compensation) Bruce Arians was traded by the Cardinals to the Bucs. There might be others as well. Those were inactive head coaches who were still under contract vs. an active head coach moving from one team to another like Gruden did, but I figured this was worth noting. In 2020, the AFC East and West were lined up, and the Chiefs that year were scheduled for away games at Buffalo and Miami, and home games vs. New England and New York. In 2021 and in 2022, they were lined up to face each other as placement opponents; both of them finished in 1st place in the East and West in 2020 and 2021 which lined them up to face each other in the following seasons. In 2018, the Chiefs placement games were away vs. AFCE (vs. New England) and home vs. AFCS (vs. Jacksonville), so this meant those designations flipped in 2021 and they were home vs. AFCE (vs. Buffalo) and away vs. AFCS (vs. Tennessee). Then, in 2019, their placement games were away vs. AFCE (vs. New England) and home vs. AFCN (vs. Baltimore), and again these designations flipped in 2022. So you can see that the Chiefs hardly got any favors when they had to play away games against New England* in 2018 (11-5) and 2019 (12-4) and then Buffalo in 2020 (14-2). Why the system allows where some teams can end up playing the same opponent in the same stadium three years in a row because of designated alignment, I have no idea, I know this isn't completely consistent across the board, but there's absolutely nothing conspiritorial about it. Chiefs play the Eagles at home...the Chiefs played the Eagles in 2021, they finished first in their division last year, the "17th game" is against a same-place team from the nonconference division opponent you faced two years earlier, and odd years are when the AFC team gets the home game. Combine those factors, you get Chiefs hosting the Eagles. Again, this could've worked out any number of different ways. The NFL scheduling matrix has been pretty consistent since 2002. There was one adjustment that was made somewhere in the late 2000s to limit east coast teams making western trips after the Jets complained about making four different west coast trips in 2008, which is why you had situations like the Seahawks playing the Steelers at home in 2003, then playing at Pittsburgh in both 2007 and 2011 before the Steelers returned to Seattle in 2015, but other than that you can predict 14/17 opponents any team will have in a given season years in advance, and then the remaining three are entirely placement-dictated. Not trying to rain on parades at all, but, like, I could also talk about the Chiefs just this past Sunday, playing a team with the same record as they do in the AFC, fighting for the #1 seed with them, and that was a scheduled home game that ended up getting played thousands of miles away from Kansas City. They didn't get to have their home field advantage that the schedule would've given them otherwise. They won the game anyway, but that sure wasn't something that was rigged in their favor by any means. *In fact, just to jump back to this point to conclude this post - the Chiefs played at New England in the 2017 season opener as well. They played at New England three straight seasons during a span when they won their division every year (they had also won their division in 2016 prior to this). I realize we didn't know what Mahomes was gonna be and what level that would take the Chiefs to until the 2018 schedule was already established, but, again, if they played a given AFC East team on the road three straight seasons (2017-'19), it can't be a surprise they might also soon face a given AFC East team at home three straight seasons as well (2021-'23) if the factors happened to line up to do so (both teams finishing in the same place in their division every year during that stretch).

Week 9 results: Week 9 winner: @waltere winning every game except one. Week 10 schedule: Carolina vs. Chicago Indianapolis vs. New England Cleveland vs. Baltimore Green Bay vs. Pittsburgh San Francisco vs. Jacksonville New Orleans vs. Minnesota Houston vs. Cincinnati Tennessee vs. Tampa Bay Detroit vs. LA Chargers Atlanta vs. Arizona NY Giants vs. Dallas Washington vs. Seattle NY Jets vs. Las Vegas Denver vs. Buffalo Yes, we get the Bears and Jets in primetime in the same week.

I'd be curious to know the source of the Fox comments you speak of, but either way ESPN's gradual decrease in baseball coverage is the bigger issue anyway for the sport. When they basically would give zero on-air promotion to the wild card round games that they had on their networks - a round of the playoffs that only exists really because they wanted to shoehorn their way back into having some form of playoff baseball on their networks. And then they get it and do absolutely nothing to promote it. There's part of me that can understand why highlights shows like Baseball Tonight don't exist anymore, but at the same time there are at least two big problems that have been created by that. 1) While you can watch your own team's highlights on demand on YouTube at almost any given time (as opposed to having to wait for them to come up on a television show), odds are people aren't going out of their way to watch the highlights of other teams games as well, whereas this was something you would do pretty much out of necessity when watching SC or Baseball Tonight (or any other sport's highlights show) in the past. This allowed you to get exposure, directly or indirectly, with the rest of the league, know the marquee players, be familiar with their performances, and all that stuff. As for the other thing, 2) is that these shows don't exist anymore but look at what's replaced them...First Take and a bunch of other hot take debate shows. I mean, besides the fact that most of us aren't at home and/or watching TV during the times of the day these shows are on...if you can argue that highlights shows have been made redundant by the on-demand availability of highlights for us offered by YouTube and other places today, I feel like I can just as easily argue that sports talk debate shows have the same kind of redundancy. There are plenty of podcasts and such out there that can offer more unique and detailed views into whatever team or sport you want to listen to than the extremely general nature of NFL and NBA talk on whatever sports talk shows still exist today...although I say that fully aware that the show Skip Bayless does these days might very well be a very poor imitation of a Dallas Cowboys podcast half the time. The coverage of the MLB playoffs has already shifted years ago to the point now where almost every game except World Series games end up on cable instead of over-the-air. I remember in 2017 when Game 7(!) of the ALCS was on FS1 while the college football game on Fox was a Kansas-TCU game. That really happened. And that ALCS involved the Yankees! This is a battle MLB should've fought harder years ago and didn't; the television contract where Fox began shifting LCS games onto FS1 began in 2014, the first full baseball season where FS1 existed. They willingly signed up for that. They've helped dig their own grave. I can't really feel too sorry for the state they find themselves in today. Speaking now for myself, I still like baseball as a sport, I've actually found a bit of renewed energy from going on /r/nyyankees and ridiculing the Yankees for the clown show organization they've become in recent years - I have no interest in discussing that here, you guys have no interest in reading it, and I'm pretty sure it's been years since I talked about the Yankees on this website - but my overall interest has dipped a lot in recent years, pretty much since the illegitimate COVID season and all the stupid on-the-fly rules changes they used (especially the ghost runner rule which has stuck around and is now permanently part of the game; that thing is worse than hockey shootouts and I've made no secret how much I hate hockey shootouts), and I'm also probably now to the point where I'm not sure I'll ever recover the level of interest I used to have. I'm different now than when I was 16 years old, it's just the way things go.

I'm sure I'm late to the party, but I see the Flyers have returned to the double logo center ice look, which suits them and their logo so much better. Most teams make make more sense with single, large logos at center ice, but teams whose logos are more horizontal than vertical are more suited for the double logo look. Habs need to be the next to make this switch back.

I only review after the SNF or MNF games. Any change of picks is fine up until kickoff. I have blind trust people aren't manipulating things with after-the-fact changing of picks...this isn't high school Calculus, there's no benefit from cheating, it would make success feel hollow. Tennessee vs. Pittsburgh Miami vs. Kansas City Minnesota vs. Atlanta Chicago vs. New Orleans LA Rams vs. Green Bay Washington vs. New England Seattle vs. Baltimore Tampa Bay vs. Houston Arizona vs. Cleveland Indianapolis vs. Carolina NY Giants vs. Las Vegas Dallas vs. Philadelphia Buffalo vs. Cincinnati LA Chargers vs. NY Jets

Week 8 results: Week 8 winner(s): @RyanMcD29, @logo-maker, and @Rockstar Matt at 13-3. Week 9 schedule: Tennessee vs. Pittsburgh Miami vs. Kansas City Minnesota vs. Atlanta Chicago vs. New Orleans LA Rams vs. Green Bay Washington vs. New England Seattle vs. Baltimore Tampa Bay vs. Houston Arizona vs. Cleveland Indianapolis vs. Carolina NY Giants vs. Las Vegas Dallas vs. Philadelphia Buffalo vs. Cincinnati LA Chargers vs. NY Jets

Tampa Bay vs. Buffalo NY Jets vs. NY Giants Jacksonville vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia vs. Washington LA Rams vs. Dallas Minnesota vs. Green Bay Atlanta vs. Tennessee New England vs. Miami New Orleans vs. Indianapolis Houston vs. Carolina Cleveland vs. Seattle Cincinnati vs. San Francisco Kansas City vs. Denver Baltimore vs. Arizona Chicago vs. LA Chargers Las Vegas vs. Detroit

Week 7 results: Week 7 winner(s): @Sport and @Seadragon76 with 8 wins in an otherwise-rough week all around. Week 8 schedule: Tampa Bay vs. Buffalo NY Jets vs. NY Giants Jacksonville vs. Pittsburgh Philadelphia vs. Wahsington LA Rams vs. Dallas Minnesota vs. Green Bay Atlanta vs. Tennessee New England vs. Miami New Orleans vs. Indianapolis Houston vs. Carolina Cleveland vs. Seattle Cincinnati vs. San Francisco Kansas City vs. Denver Baltimore vs. Arizona Chicago vs. LA Chargers Las Vegas vs. Detroit You went 6-7. You made me double check, you definitely went 6-7. With the records this week, that's basically breaking even.

I'm tallying up the scores and...same man, same. 5-8 this week, which drops me to 56-50 on the season...I already kinda mentally gave up a week or two ago but this is just getting embarrassing for me at this point.

I don't have the numbers in front of me right now, but the Bucs have definitely been wearing white pants more often in the 2.0 version of these uniforms than they did in the 1.0 version. In the past, white pants rarely showed up outside September, whereas they're worn often these days.

Patriots are wearing silver pants! :censored:, is it too much to ask that they look like this more than once a year? The Patriots actually look like the Patriots today and not whatever-the-:censored: they've been wearing since 2020.

Jacksonville vs. New Orleans Tampa Bay vs. Atlanta Las Vegas vs. Chicago Cleveland vs. Indianapolis Washington vs. NY Giants Detroit vs. Baltimore Buffalo vs. New England Arizona vs. Seattle Pittsburgh vs. LA Rams LA Chargers vs. Kansas City Green Bay vs. Denver Miami vs. Philadelphia San Francisco vs. Minnesota Just realized I had Tampa listed as the road team against the Falcons...not sure what I was looking at.

The Phillies are one of those teams where they have a colored jersey but they wear it very rarely...catches me off-guard to see them wear it in an NLCS game. To wit - according to Uniformlineup, they only wore those jerseys 18 times during the regular season (if I counted correctly), which amounts to an average of three games per month.

I'm firmly on board for a Phillies-Rangers World Series at this point because, even though there's zero history between those teams in MLB, the rivalry between the fanbases thanks to the NFL would be absolutely chaotic and toxic and I'm here for that.

Week 6 results: Week 6 winner(s): @~Bear and @Walter Sobchak Week 7 schedule: Jacksonville vs. New Orleans Tampa Bay vs. Atlanta Las Vegas vs. Chicago Cleveland vs. Indianapolis Washington vs. NY Giants Detroit vs. Baltimore Buffalo vs. New England Arizona vs. Seattle Pittsburgh vs. LA Rams LA Chargers vs. Kansas City Green Bay vs. Denver Miami vs. Philadelphia San Francisco vs. Minnesota

The late afternoon sun makes the creamsicles look even better