2025 NFL Season Thread

[low]

10-2. Anyone buying Denver yet?

[monkeyman576]

They manage to win but by the skin of their teeth.

[Cobra Mgr]

An article on yahoo!sports said there is no "best in the NFL" this year and I am in agreement. We will not look at the end of the Super Bowl and say the winner was the best all along. We will say they were the team that managed to avoid a bad game in the last 3 or 4 of the season.

[Ragnar]

Go to the 5 minute mark in this video. Watch Mahomes head slam against the ground. This has totally gone unnoticed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIGrhXb61iY

[Ragnar]

Originally Posted by low

10-2. Anyone buying Denver yet?

No. They're a few plays away from 6-6. They remind me of the Vikings a few years back when they won 13 games and got bounced by the Giants.

[Cobra Mgr]

Did the Playoff Machine on ESPN.com. So I got...........

Seeds Denver (14-3) & LA Rams (13-4)

1st round
#7 LAC (10-7) vs #2 NEngland (14-3)
#6 KC (11-6) vs # 3 Jax (11-6)
#5 Buff (12-5) vs # 4 Pitt (9-8)

#7 GB (11-5-1) vs #2 Chicago (12-5)
#6 SF (12-5) vs # 3 Philly (11-6)
#5 Sea (13-4) vs # 4 TB (10-7)

FWIW, I usually select the home team if it is close to even. Especially when it is a divisional matchup.....so what shocked me with the above was 1, KC making it still, 2 Det & Indy don't. Of course, I'm far from Nostradamus. So none of the above is by any means fact. So next I went back to look at the schedules......Detroit has an improving Dallas team & road games vs the Rams & Bears, Chicago being the finale. They have no margin for errors since the currently sit outside the playoff picture as we speak......Indy's is brutal. Road games vs Jax, Seattle & Houston surround home games vs SF & Jax 2-3 vs that run would be respectable, but might keep them out if somebody else gets hot.......KC's sched isn't easy. But the good news is that the hard ones (Denver, Chargers & Houston) are @ Arrowhead while the easier ones (Vegas & Tennessee) are on the road. If they can protect homefield twice, 10-7 might get them in over Indy because of an OT win a couple Sundays ago.......

.....So basically, with so many good but inconsistent teams out there, the playoffs start this week. This isn't an exaggeration. They can't pursue preparation as if they have an margin for error. A loss, or the wrong loss can be the diff between a playoff berth or checking draft lists........

......If Cincy can upset the Bills in Buffalo, they will be in the thick of it. What would follow are 3 home games vs Baltimore, Cleveland & Arizona & one road trip to Miami. A 5-0 finish might be just enough to win the terrible AFC North........

.....Speaking of Miami, they have a chance to put a monkey wrench into a lot of postseason plans. They have the Bucs, Bengals, Steelers & New England after the play the Jets Sunday. They have won 4 of their last 5. & if they win their next 5, 10-7 might sneak them in. Even so, they can affect the race in the AFC North, NFC South, & the Patriots push for home advantage in the AFC.........

......What is Jason Sehorn up to?.............

......Wouldn't it be interesting if the Packers & Cowboys tied for the last spot, after tying each other back in September?........

........Will the winner of the AFC North have a +.500 record?.......

......This has got to be the final season for Mike Tomlin. For the 2nd week in a row, a Steeler defender has basically said they knew what was coming and still couldn't stop it. That's coaching. I don't care how you spin it.......

[Ragnar]

Giants punter and kicker.

At around the 11 second mark the punter tries to tickle Jones instead of push him out of bounds.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VvwKhOu5FhY

Similar to Garo trying to tickle Bass on this play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-pxMm_UdY4

Then we have the Giants kicker do something I have never seen before at any level.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A4H1TP8fOvM

[Ragnar]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

......Wouldn't it be interesting if the Packers & Cowboys tied for the last spot, after tying each other back in September?........

........Will the winner of the AFC North have a +.500 record?.......

......This has got to be the final season for Mike Tomlin. For the 2nd week in a row, a Steeler defender has basically said they knew what was coming and still couldn't stop it. That's coaching. I don't care how you spin it.......

If the Cowboys and Packers tie, I would guess the edge would go to the Packers. But I don't know where they are on common games. But the Packers have a 3 game lead in conf. record.

A lot rides on this game in Detroit for both teams. A lot also depends on just how bad this Eagles melt down is. Dallas has a better chance at winning the division than getting a wildcard. Even if they lose to Detroit.

Tomlin has a job for life.

[Amazin69]

Annie Agar, Week 13

"Minnesota, when I said your offense couldn't possibly be any worse, that was not a challenge!"

"The Panthers are a good team! (beat) I think. You are harder to understand than Xavier Legette."

[Ragnar]

With the remaining games I don't see Denver getting the #1 seed. I think it's going to be the Patriots.

[Ragnar]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

Annie Agar, Week 13

"Minnesota, when I said your offense couldn't possibly be any worse, that was not a challenge!"

"The Panthers are a good team! (beat) I think. You are harder to understand than Xavier Legette."

"Jacksonville you are in first place. In the draft? In the division!"

"You had Lamar throw 7 times in a row and he was terrible. He did not look that bad. He looked so bad I thought it was an AFC championship game."

[Ragnar]

Every once in a while we'll see a player not know what the choices are after winning a coin toss. In the OT game between Washington and Denver, we see it again. I'm not even sure the ref knew. If you win the toss, you don't get to choose both.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QBjI6Yrksv8

[Cobra Mgr]

If I was a Bungles fan, I'd ask for my $ back. Even if I didn't spend any.

[dsvitak]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

If I was a Bungles fan, I'd ask for my $ back. Even if I didn't spend any.

Burrow is playing like his brother has cash on the Bills.

[Cobra Mgr]

Lamar running the 2:00 O like he should be in concussion protocol

[Ragnar]

The refs show yet again that they don't know what a catch is.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hRgCDXs9Ngg

[Cobra Mgr]

Is Jalen Hurts the 1st player ever to throw an INT for a TO & fumble for a TO on the same play?

[low]

Anyone else enjoying all the losing in KC lately? Just me?

[Cobra Mgr]

Does the fact the Colts are working out Phillip Rivers not underscore the desperate lack of QB's in the NFL for you? I again call for the end of the reliance on college football & encourage the creation of a minor league........

.......Last night MNF game was to sloppiness as Sean Combs is to baby oil. They turned it over so much, it looked like they were playing in a hurricane during an earthquake.........

......Speaking of hurricane during an earthquake, I think the book of Revelation says that is supposed to happen once the Panthers reach 1st place........

..........I can't trust Seattle. Not a team w/the 2nd most turnovers in the NFL.........

........The Bengals play like they have some decision maker who always bets the over..........

........Brace yourself. About to give the Jets credit for a decision.........That Sauce Gardner trade looks like a coup now. Colts 2026 & 27 picks. Gardner lost for the season. And that pick gets earlier now that Daniel Jones is out. Jones Achillies' messes up this season & next........

......Didn't know Robert Newhouse had died over a decade ago. All I remember were oak stumps disguised as thighs..........


.......So speaking of FB's, what is Mike Alstott up to?.............

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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

Is Jalen Hurts the 1st player ever to throw an INT for a TO & fumble for a TO on the same play?

Yes, he was.......

.......This week on the Playoff Machine I got.........

Seeds Denver (15-2) & San Fran (13-4)

1st round
#7 LAC (9-8) vs #2 NEngland (15-2)
#6 Buff (12-5) vs # 3 Hou (12-5)
#5 Jax (12-5) vs # 4 Pitt (10-7)

#7 GB (11-5-1) vs #2 Chicago (12-5)
#6 Sea (13-4) vs # 3 Philly (11-6)
#5 LA Rams (13-4) vs # 4 TB (9-8)

So what stands out for me is 1. the diff now that the Colts are obviously done for, 2. I'm finally convinced KC & Balt isn't going to turn it around. 3.increased respect for what the Texans are doing, 4. 3 way tie for 1st in the NFC West & the top seed.......

......No matter how much they win, the Broncos do not look like a 2 loss team to me.........

.....I can't predict that Ravens v. Bengals game. Two teams who have been beaten by themselves more than by their opponents. This won't be a battle of who wants it more, but who wants it least.........

[CONN CHRIS]

Dorsett and Newhouse in the backfield - man, those were the days.