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  1. The year that got away for the Bengals. Injuries to the QB and key receivers and still went 8-3 outside of the division and only lost one game all season to a team who missed the playoffs. The story is they missed the playoffs because they went 1-5 in their division, who all made the playoffs. 9-8, winning season, and still finished in last place. That's almost impossible.
  2. The Lightning are so frustrating. With that name they should be the Chargers of hockey, but instead they're Maple Leafs 2 with a new black alternate every few years that does nothing to move me in any direction.
  3. I've been offered free tickets by two different people this week. I declined. Weather's supposed to be less than great and I don't need to see preseason football. I'll watch it at home and root A first for me is this is the first time I've worried about the Browns. I think they're gonna smoke whatever AFC South lamb they get to play in the first round and it wouldn't surprise me if they're playing the Ravens for the AFC in three weeks, which is a sentence that makes me want to ralph. That's a team without a glaring hole and will be a tough out.
  4. As much as I really hate Michigan, I am glad Alabama lost. They shouldn't have been in the playoff to begin with.
  5. Steelers Texans Bucs Saints Pats Bengals Jags Vikings Eagles Cowboys Seahawks 49ers Bears Chiefs Raiders Bills
  6. Had one bad week and fell from second to sixth. Brutal. Browns Cowboys Texans Bears Ravens Bucs Bills Eagles Jaguars Raiders Rams 49ers Steelers Chiefs Broncos Packers
  7. Rams Bengals Bills Commanders Lions Browns Packers Seahawks Colts Jaguars Cowboys Bears Broncos Chiefs Eagles 49ers
  8. Could not disagree more and think that would be a terrible mistake. You can't improve upon a perfect sports logo. Especially when the replacement logo would be tasked with the difficult rubric of representing the silly and abstract concept of "Texans" while also adding in the extra degree of difficulty in trying to distance itself from and outshine the original (perfect) logo. That's a near impossible target to hit and a rubric that even the original logo didn't have to contend with. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
  9. The problem this solves for is teams like the Lions and Vikings playing each other twice in the last 3 weeks and the Bengals having to start their season with the Browns and Ravens. Also this makes the schedule more balanced for teams in your own division because you play common opponents around the same time rather than months apart. And yes if I was King of Football the availability dates would be sorted out, easily. Edit: Also, the Chargers would play their home games in San Diego.
  10. I was putting around in the ESPN playoff machine last night and I discovered that the Lions and Vikings haven't played each other yet so their next game will be the first against one another and then they turn around two weeks later and play their second game. That should never happen! You know what else shouldn't happen? Playing divisional opponents week 1. I've said this before, but if I was King of Football* (and I should be!) the schedule would break down like this and I'll use the Bengals as an example because I have their schedule off the top of my head: Weeks 1-4: Play your cross conference opponents in the division you're scheduled against that year. For the Bengals that's the NFC West. They're the least important games for tiebreakers and whatnot so this gives teams time to get their feet under them before they get to the games that matter the most. Weeks 5-8: Play the first game against your divisional opponents and bye week #1**. Two divisions get their bye in Week 5, two in 6, two in 7, and two in 8, but every team in the division gets their bye week in the same week. Keeps things tidy for scheduling and keeps things fair for teams in the same division. Weeks 9-11: Play the opponents who finished in the same slot in their division as you did in yours. Using the Bengals, the Vikings, Chiefs, and Bills were those opponents. Weeks 12-16: Play the in-conference out of division opponents and bye week #2. AFC South for the Bengals this year. Weeks 17-19: Finish with the second game against your three divisional opponents when the stakes are highest. *Also if I was King of Football the Pittsburgh Steelers would be fined 100 million dollars annually and every one of their fans would have to do 1,000 hours of community service every year for the rest of their lives as punishment for the countless atrocities they've committed over the last 50 years. And every one of their games would begin with them trailing 7-0. I think that's very benevolent considering that I, as King, could just end the entire franchise with the wave of my hand. **Week 1 starts a week earlier so we can add a 19th week so every team gets two bye weeks.
  11. Right. Both teams were actually trying to win and the tie still almost happened naturally rather than in some weird gentleman's agreement. But I do believe in all the craziness at the end of OT that the Raiders had had enough and were about to make the safe play that guarantees their playoff spot and run the clock out, but Staley, like a bozo, gave them more time to consider their options.
  12. It would've given Ben Roethlisberger an off-screen death, which is what he deserved, but getting his head kicked in in his last game was good too. I wanted the tie for that reason, but mostly because it was such an unlikely outcome and the whole prisoner's dilemma thing was discussed all week that it would've been a fun historical curio. Whenever they do playoff scenario discussions there's always the scenario like "Team X will make it if Team A wins unless Teams B and C tie" and in the back of everyone's minds we always go "psh they're not gonna tie", but in this case it came so close to happening! It would've been cool for a game to end with both teams celebrating.
  13. What's your favorite Brandon Staley moment? Blowing a 27-0 lead to the Jaguars in the playoffs is good, but it lacks that one dumb guy pretending to be a smart guy move that became his signature. Mine's when the Raiders seemed content to run out the clock for the tie and they both would've made the playoffs, but Staley called a timeout so the Raiders said "Alright fine" and then got 15 yards on a draw and won on a field goal.
  14. When I was a mediocre high school hockey player in the mid 2000's the Easton Synergy with the Sakic curve was the coolest stick you could have.
  15. Note the time stamp on this tweet. The Blue Jackets ended up winning this game in overtime. I hate this team.
  16. I don't think the Predators have ever looked good, but the EDGE uniforms were in the bottom three of EDGE disasters and may have been the worst. YUCK I wouldn't be sad if the logo and yellow jerseys got a full makeover.
  17. I am so delighted by the entire Tommy Devito cinematic universe. Tone, dis guy's a friggin gabagool! The Cincinnati version of this would be if a dude from the west side who went to Elder, no, La Salle named like Brayden Niehaus and whose parents own four Gold Star franchises somehow fell ass backwards into quarterbacking the Bengals.
  18. LOL weeks like that are why gambling is for suckers. Raiders Bengals Colts Lions Saints Browns Falcons Packers Dolphins Chiefs Texans 49ers Rams Cowboys Ravens Eagles
  19. LOL Josh Allen is all of us. He does not give a fuCCCCCC. The funniest part of this is they're all furious over for a correctly called penalty. HE'S OFFSIDES! IT'S NOT EVEN A JUDGMENT CALL! That's as objective a penalty as they can get.
  20. The Chiefs are throwing a royal diaper fit in KC and it’s honestly embarrassing. For them. This isn’t even a judgment call like, idk, a hold or a DPI or a late hit that helped them win the AFC Championship game and Super Bowl a year ago. Your guy practically lined up in Lawrence, Patrick. It’s so easy to be onside! It’s not not a penalty just because something cool happened after the flag was thrown.
  21. Hold your horses. Theres a multiplier on that and a whole complicated equation if they win multiples in a very short stretch. Boston fans, for example, aren’t allowed to complain about any sport until 2055 and that’s only if they don’t win another in that time. I’ll have to crunch some numbers and get back to you on when you’re allowed to :censored: about the Giants.
  22. As I was saying. They're not good. I never thought they'd lose home games to both the Cards and Pats, but maybe everything going their way all the time is regressing to the mean?
  23. It was an awful choke. They officially became a Cincinnati sports team on Saturday night.
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