2022 NFL regular season through Super Bowl LVII

[DoctorWhom]

28 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

 

Lovie Deserved better. 

Yeah that Texans team was obviously tanking, and he played them out of the #1 pick, but he still had the team playing far better than they should have. 

 

Lions are definitely going to make the NFC North interesting these coming years. Much like the AFC East, With the Packers on the down turn (like the Patriots) that division could become a lot more competitive soon. Lions & Bears have everything the need to become a real threat, provided they play their cards right. 

[infrared41]

5 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

I also feel bad for all of you when we get the inevitable Seahawks vs Bucs NFC Championship game. 

 

Are you kidding? That would be both awesome and hilarious.

[infrared41]

3 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Super Bowl is going to be Bengals/49ers and it's going to break my heart.

 

We've been owed a 49ers - Bills Super Bowl since 1990. Time to make it finally happen.

[DoctorWhom]

I want to see Buffalo in the Super Bowl, but after that BS "compromise" that only benefitted KC, they'll probably end up in the Super Bowl again.   

 

I'll just say it here as far as that situation. 

KC lost to Buffalo & Cincinnati

Buffalo should have been the #1  seed with Home Field (Better division record than Bengals)

Bengals should have #2

And KC #3

 

It still pisses me of that Buffalo & to a lesser extinct Cincy, got screwed out of home field because of such a horrible thing. 

 

[Rockstar Matt]

Just like I pointed out last year, point differential can be a useful tool to determine the quality of a team, but it has its limitations. Last year, I predicted that one of these 6 teams would win the Super Bowl: Buffalo, New England, Kansas City, Dallas, Tampa Bay and the Los Angeles Rams (and of course, saying that 6 of the 14 teams remaining will win the Super Bowl isn't all that impressive at all; it's literally almost half the playoff teams). Of the top 3 in each conference in PD last season, only the Chiefs and Rams made it to Championship Weekend with the Rams being the eventual champion, thus continuing the streak. 

 

This year we've had one of the craziest point differential vs. record differences we've ever seen. Of course this is referring to this year's Minnesota Vikings who are the first 13+ win team to ever finish the year with a negative point differential. Tampa Bay somehow finished last in their division in PD, but still won the division. The NFC as a whole is rather top heavy in PD. Only 4 of the playoff teams in the conference finished with a positive PD and the Seahawks are 4th with +6. The 49ers, Eagles and Cowboys all had a positive PD in the 100's. 

 

The AFC only had 2 teams who crossed the triple digit threshold in positive PD, but 6 of their playoff teams had a positive PD with Miami being the lone playoff team with a negative PD. Led by the Bills, Chiefs and Bengals. Interestingly, in both conferences, the 1 seeds finished 2nd in conference PD and the 2 seeds finished 1st in conference PD. 

 

So it's not exactly going out on a limb by saying that if an AFC team wins the Super Bowl, it'll be either Buffalo, Kansas City or Cincinnati and if a NFC team wins the Super Bowl it'll be San Francisco, Philadelphia or Dallas. What a prediction, saying that one of the 6 best teams in the league will end up lifting the Lombardi. 

 

Here's my playoff predictions (more for me to come back and see how wrong I was):

 

Wild-Card Weekend

San Francisco 34, Seattle 20

New York 24, Minnesota 23

Dallas 23, Tampa Bay 20

 

Buffalo 35, Miami 13

Cincinnati 27, Baltimore 23

Los Angeles 30, Jacksonville 27

 

Divisional Round

Philadelphia 26, New York 23

San Francisco 23, Dallas 20

 

Buffalo 27, Cincinnati 21

Kansas City 31, Los Angeles 27

 

Conference Championships

San Francisco 30, Philadelphia 13

Buffalo 41, Kansas City 37

 

Super Bowl LVII

Buffalo 27, San Francisco 20

[Sport]

Packers, Steelers, and Patriots miss the playoffs. It's a good year. 

[ManillaToad]

8 hours ago, DoctorWhom said:

I want to see Buffalo in the Super Bowl, but after that BS "compromise" that only benefitted KC, they'll probably end up in the Super Bowl again.   

 

I'll just say it here as far as that situation. 

KC lost to Buffalo & Cincinnati

Buffalo should have been the #1  seed with Home Field (Better division record than Bengals)

Bengals should have #2

And KC #3

 

It still pisses me of that Buffalo & to a lesser extinct Cincy, got screwed out of home field because of such a horrible thing. 

 

 

So in essence you would have awarded both BUF and CIN a win for a game they didn't play, and then also seed the Bengals above the Chiefs despite KC finishing with more wins than Cincinnati could have even if they had beaten Buffalo?

[MJWalker45]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/browns-pull-bernie-kosar-from-pregame-radio-show-reportedly-for-19-k-bet-he-made-232427751.html

Bernie Kosar made news for placing the first sports bet in Ohio, on the Browns/Steelers game. Then he got the pink slip on Sunday. 

[FiddySicks]

55 minutes ago, Sport said:

Packers, Steelers, and Patriots miss the playoffs. It's a good year. 

Taken out by the Dolphins and Lions, of all teams. Mid-to-bads doing gods work right there. 

[OnWis97]

I'm kinda surprised to see so many people happy about the Packers. I always think of them as the second-favorite team of all non-NFC North fanbases. Is Aaron finally wearing people down?

[DCarp1231]

54 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/browns-pull-bernie-kosar-from-pregame-radio-show-reportedly-for-19-k-bet-he-made-232427751.html

Bernie Kosar made news for placing the first sports bet in Ohio, on the Browns/Steelers game. Then he got the pink slip on Sunday. 

I’m not saying Kosar isn’t an idiot, but at the same time, for a league that embraces betting and gambling, they sure do cause a fuss when it involves their own people being the ones who bet.

[MJWalker45]

4 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

I’m not saying Kosar isn’t an idiot, but at the same time, for a league that embraces betting and gambling, they sure do cause a fuss when it involves their own people being the ones who bet.

And I think if he had done this with the Cavaliers instead, no one bats an eye. It was pretty dumb of him to do, but I think the idea he has enough insider info to get a winning result, which he didn't use apparently, is just silly. At any rate, it's probably written somewhere in his contract. 

[Sport]

1 hour ago, FiddySicks said:

Taken out by the Dolphins and Lions, of all teams. Mid-to-bads doing gods work right there. 

 

Mike Tomlin and the Steelers have some voodoo thing going on. After losing to the Bengals to go 3-7 they needed all of the Browns, Jets, Dolphins, Titans, and Patriots to fall apart while winning every game themselves and it basically came down to a field goal in the last Dolphins game. Things outside of their control seem to go right so often for them. It's truly maddening. 

 

Thankfully the Bengals have managed to beat them and semi-often take division titles away from them. The Browns, though, haven't finished ahead of the Steelers in the standings since 1989. That would be my Joker origin story if I was a Browns fan. 

 

1 hour ago, OnWis97 said:

I'm kinda surprised to see so many people happy about the Packers. I always think of them as the second-favorite team of all non-NFC North fanbases. Is Aaron finally wearing people down?

 

Not even a Rodgers thing. The Packers are the Steelers of the NFC and I'm sick of their bulls***. 

[DCarp1231]

27 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

And I think if he had done this with the Cavaliers instead, no one bats an eye. It was pretty dumb of him to do, but I think the idea he has enough insider info to get a winning result, which he didn't use apparently, is just silly. At any rate, it's probably written somewhere in his contract. 

Miles Austin, now WR Coach of the Jets, was suspended indefinitely a few weeks ago for gambling on non-NFL games. With that said, it appears any and all sports gambling is prohibited. Regardless of sport.

[FiddySicks]

55 minutes ago, OnWis97 said:

I'm kinda surprised to see so many people happy about the Packers. I always think of them as the second-favorite team of all non-NFC North fanbases. Is Aaron finally wearing people down?

You’ve never been out west, then. They’re probably hated on more than the Cowboys. They’re basically the NFL’s version of the St. Louis Cardinals. Even moreso than the Steelers imo. 

[Ridleylash]

 

[DG_ThenNowForever]

Kliff came off among the very worst on the HBO Hard Knocks show, though I don't think anyone will ever beat Hue Jackson.

 

Has anyone ever benefitted as much from Hard Knocks as Dan Campbell?

[Sport]

2 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Kliff came off among the very worst on the HBO Hard Knocks show, though I don't think anyone will ever beat Hue Jackson.

 

Has anyone ever benefitted as much from Hard Knocks as Dan Campbell?

 

Head coaches? I can't think of one. That Browns oline coach tho.

 

 

 

[Indigo]

Has anyone checked on @Sec19Row53?  I want to send my condolences.

[throwuascenario]

12 hours ago, DoctorWhom said:

I want to see Buffalo in the Super Bowl, but after that BS "compromise" that only benefitted KC, they'll probably end up in the Super Bowl again.   

 

I'll just say it here as far as that situation. 

KC lost to Buffalo & Cincinnati

Buffalo should have been the #1  seed with Home Field (Better division record than Bengals)

Bengals should have #2

And KC #3

 

It still pisses me of that Buffalo & to a lesser extinct Cincy, got screwed out of home field because of such a horrible thing. 

 

 

What they did would've actually been pretty close to fair if they also added in that a Bengals-Bills playoff game would be neutral site or coin flip as well. The Bills had an extra home game over Cincinnati and were losing to them.