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The team that benefitted most from the Texans hiring David Culley was the Ravens.

My absolute favorite Capitals jersey. I am a sucker for the blue-black-bronze era Caps.

I feel like road pinstripes (and, for some reason for me, these specific Twins uniforms) just scream late-90's/early-00's baseball aesthetic, and I absolutely love it. I would love to see more road pinstripes.

The worst part is our game against them yesterday was remarkably well-refereed, to the point where I don't think I complained about the refs a single time the whole game. You know the NFL is gonna have to make up for Ed's little boy Shawn Hochuli making it tougher for the Steelers to get in in the first place.

Fair. And I do think that my generation, having grown up with the Ravens, has definitely eased that sting. It just kind of shocked me because you almost never hear about the Colts leaving anymore with the general NFL fanbase or in internet discussions, especially from someone outside of Baltimore.

Just want to throw out props for being one of the first times I’ve ever seen people outside of Baltimore acknowledge the fact that Baltimore had their team ripped away from them too. Everyone seems to conveniently forget that point. On another note, I haven’t been this glad to see a Ravens season end since the one where Flacco tore his ACL and we ended up with a top 10 pick (2015? I think?). There has been very little joy in watching this team the last month and a half. Lost 6 straight to close out the year and 5 of those were by 3 points or less. Ridiculously bad close game execution. No Lamar for the last month. It’ll be nice to watch NFL football without having to worry too much about who’s winning, although the Steelers getting in really throws a damper on that. They seem like a slam dunk one-and-done but if anyone can pull an undeserved, referee-assisted playoff win out of their you-know-where, it’s the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Expecting better QC out of a Dan Snyder-owned team, talk about an evergreen joke.

Slightly Worse Matthew Stafford is about the perfect description for Carr. Good-to-great QB that can absolutely uncork a deep ball TD when he wants to and put the team on his back if need be, but as you said, cursed with trying to drag a mediocre organization kicking and screaming to relevance. On the flip side, because he's had such a crappy team and organization around him for so long, it's covered some of his legitimate flaws because everyone just assumes that anything that goes wrong with the Lions/Raiders is never Stafford/Carr's fault (which, to be fair, is usually correct).

I would be incredulous if this happens. Sure Harbaugh has his flaws but he is unquestionably an elite coach and the Ravens have about 50 more issues they need to address before Harbaugh if they want to bounce back next year.

Lost by 1 in Pittsburgh. Lost by 2 in Cleveland. Lost by 1 to the Pack. Had the worst defensive performance in franchise history while also playing QB3 who was signed off the street in Cincy. Lost by 1 to the Rams. Two of those losses came on failed 2-PT conversions that could’ve easily been successful. Most of our early season wins felt fraudulent. Not sure if I’ve ever been more ready for a football season to be over.

These both get POTD nominations from me for the Spongebob references.

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I'm happy for y'all, I really am. You guys have suffered a lot over the last decade-plus so to have some actual exciting young talent must be really exciting. Besides, if anyone is gonna win the division, I'd rather see you fools win it than the Browns or, god forbid, those-who-shall-not-be-named. I'm just completely checked out of this football season. It's really hard to get invested when half of the team is sitting on the sideline and every single game we have another cornerback or offensive linemen going down with an injury. The 2021 Ravens were a house of cards from Week-frickin-1 and the only thing staving that off was Lamar Jackson playing like an MVP again. Once the Dolphins decided to just blitz him with everything they had and Greg Roman refused to adjust, then he got hurt, the season was in the toilet. Then add in throwing away the Pittsburgh game and losing in heartwrenching fashion to the Brownies and the Pack and I'm just kind of done. As long as the Patriots/Steelers/Chiefs don't win it all I'm not too pressed.

Yeah I meant the second one. I do find the Chiefs more tolerable than the Patriots but only slightly if I’m being honest. The amount of media attention/adulation/constant praise/hyperbole that Mahomes and Kelce and Hill and their offense gets (no matter how much of it is deserved; spoiler alert: much of it is) is just exhausting. Tyrann Mathieu comes off as arrogant. Tyreek Hill is a bad person. I for the most part don’t have a bone to pick with their fans, they suffered enough so they deserve to see some success. And Arrowhead has always been loud no matter what the team’s record has been, so they deserve props for that. The fact that they were Lamar’s main kryptonite the last 3 years didn’t help either. But even despite how much I loathed the Brady-era Patriots, I strangely couldn’t help myself from being happy when the Bucs and Brady won last year because of how much the Chiefs needed that slice of humble pie. They essentially did what they wanted to the entire league for the better part of 3 seasons and I think they started listening to their own hype a bit too much. Watching Brady and the Bucs defense completely dismantle them was something I enjoyed far more than I thought I would.

Has everyone conveniently forgotten that the Chiefs are on like a 7 game winning streak? If they keep this up they'll ravage through the AFC and probably beat the Patriots in the AFC Championship game to do it because there is no joy in life and there most certainly isn't any joy in football.

I don't really want to talk about the game today. I'm frankly kind of done with this season. I'm not even mad or salty, I promise. I'm just tired.

The Premier League granted a similar exemption to Ronaldo to let him wear 7. They both get (and deserve, frankly) special treatment after the amount of legendary football they’ve played for us over the years.

I've never heard an athlete make a comment before that was so reminiscent of a basement-dwelling Redditor when someone talks trash about their team. Him saying that is the absolute embodiment of immaturity. The worst part is is that the dude is a WR1.5 at absolute best (and that's while playing opposite a legit WR1 (Diontae Johnson) in an offense that usually has to throw close to 50 times a game because their O-line is nonexistent), so it's not like he's the best player in the league to be able to back it up. I'll never hate another Steelers player like I hated Hines Ward, but Claypool is doing a nice job carrying the torch for the Steelers' WR room.

Yeah but you did miss Chase Claypool acting like a complete knucklehead and doing the whole “move the chains” celebration that dudes do, except he spent 5-10 seconds doing that when the Steelers had no timeouts and desperately needed to spike the ball. Steelers players acting immature/cocky and costing their team in the long run, name a better duo.

Absolutely. It’s been a combination of good coaching, high-end talent bailing us out of awful situations (that we largely put ourselves in), and pure luck. It was bound to run out at some point. With Humphrey now confirmed out for the season, if we manage to sneak into the playoffs we are the biggest one and done lock you can have. Sometimes injuries ruin your season, it sucks but that’s football. At least I get to enjoy Lamar Jackson being my quarterback (although even that hasn’t been very fun the last few games).

Yeah my family and I were lambasting the call initially by Harbaugh but after cooling down a little bit I completely understand why. The defense allowed 17 points in the 4th quarter. They were gassed and almost certainly would've given up a TD on the first Steelers possession. Marlon Humphrey also got injured so we had no corners. You won't find many bigger Lamar fans than me, but he cost us that game. Took six sacks and by my memory almost every single one of them were a result of him holding the ball too long. And that INT was inexcusable. That honestly is what cost us the game, it's at least a three-point swing in a game we lost by one. Tough scenes. The offense has not looked good since Miami. Roman and Lamar need to find a way to beat the blitz or it's curtains for this offense in 2021. A combination of Lamar getting the ball out quicker and Roman scheming up quick passes to the middle of the field (or at least letting Lamar hot route/audible at the LOS) will be a huge help. When Pittsburgh wins, America loses.

I miss the days when the TurdBurger was the worst jersey in NHL history.

That Preds jersey is laughably bad

Baker and Lamar trying their darndest to give the game away to other

This game confirms two things: the Rams are overrated, and the Packers are the best team in the NFC.