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NFL Fans Lost Their Minds Over a Duck on the Field
Talk about a good luck charm.

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My preference is the Broncos beating KC in Denver to clinch the last seed in the AFC. KC should be resting everyone, and they wont be putting any special sauce on display for opponents to analyze. A Broncos win will knock the Bengals and Dolphins out of the picture and bring the Broncos to Buffalo for the 1st round of the playoffs

Pats play the Bills on Sunday. Bills can gain nothing. Allen will start and do a few handoffs just to keep his consecutive game streak alive. Pats can lock up the #1 pick with a loss. Neither team wants to win this game.
 
Yes, but the Giants and the Raiders came roaring back to tank their positions in the draft. Good thing for the Patriots and the Jets that they tried their least. You gotta be consistent.
I’m with you. The Browns keep scoring fewer points each week. They are primed for being on the wrong end of a shutout on Sunday. Gotta lock up the number three spot behind NE and NYJ.
 
A few thoughts about this:
Three of the four AFC North teams are still in the hunt - Bengals for a spot, Steelers and Ravens for the division title - so this Saturday schedule is a tidy way to wrap all of that up.

Looking at Sunday, it’s all about the NFC playoff spots - Bucs, Falcons and Packers fighting for position and the Lions versus Vikings being the game of the week.

The Broncos and Dolphins are outside looking in along with the Bengals, with Cincinnati being the best of that group. The Dolphins are sorry and deserve to go home for the winter.

Thankfully, there is only one week left of watching the Browns stagger through a miserable season of underachievement and poor decision-making. More about that in a future thread.

For those of you rooting for playoff-eligible teams, here’s to an exciting finish. For the rest of us, it’s only four months until the draft…
Willie
I feel sorry for you. The Browns looked sooo good last year. I was telling everyone "watch out for the Browns this year". Boy was I wrong. What happened ?
BTW - Ive always had a soft spot in my heart for the Browns. Going back to the days of Municipal Stadium and the Dawg Pound

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Thankfully, there is only one week left of watching the Browns stagger through a miserable season of underachievement and poor decision-making. More about that in a future thread.
I feel your pain, bro. It’s an even bigger disappointment of a season for you because the Browns were very good last year. :(
 
I love Mad Dan ------------

This week's Monday Night Football game between the Detroit Lions and the San Francisco 49ers won't have playoff implications for either team, whose post-season fates have already been determined. The Lions, still No. 1 in the NFC North, are already guaranteed their spot in the post-season, while the 6-9 49ers have been officially eliminated. That fact isn't stopping Lions' coach Dan Campbell from promising to bring everything his team has to the field on game day. "I’ll make this easy for everybody that way all the critics can jump out and start attacking, but that way you don’t have to debate them anymore," Campbell told the press earlier this week.

"We’re bringing everything we got to this game and we are playing, I don’t care what it looks like and where it’s at and who’s this, who’s that. We’re going out to play and win this game, out on the West Coast. So there you go."
 
I love Mad Dan ------------

This week's Monday Night Football game between the Detroit Lions and the San Francisco 49ers won't have playoff implications for either team, whose post-season fates have already been determined. The Lions, still No. 1 in the NFC North, are already guaranteed their spot in the post-season, while the 6-9 49ers have been officially eliminated. That fact isn't stopping Lions' coach Dan Campbell from promising to bring everything his team has to the field on game day. "I’ll make this easy for everybody that way all the critics can jump out and start attacking, but that way you don’t have to debate them anymore," Campbell told the press earlier this week.

"We’re bringing everything we got to this game and we are playing, I don’t care what it looks like and where it’s at and who’s this, who’s that. We’re going out to play and win this game, out on the West Coast. So there you go."

Right now the Vikings at 14-2 are the #1 seed pending what happens tonight. I would not want to be in the City of San Fransisco should the Niners find a way to win because Mad Dan will be so hot that Haight-Ashbury will burn to the ground.
 
Willie
I feel sorry for you. The Browns looked sooo good last year. I was telling everyone "watch out for the Browns this year". Boy was I wrong. What happened ?
BTW - Ive always had a soft spot in my heart for the Browns. Going back to the days of Municipal Stadium and the Dawg Pound

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This year, the Browns were victims of their own history of bad decisions as well as untimely injuries:

Eight draft choices traded for Watson, including three first-round picks

Lack of draft attention in previous years to building depth for safety, linebacker, offensive line and running back

Four of the five starting offensive linemen either entered the season on IR or ended up on IR during the season

Nick Chubb coming back from terrible knee injury and then suffers a broken foot

Backup QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson is not a NFL-caliber player

Poor recent free-agent signings
Juan Thornhill - next play he makes will be his first one
Jameis Winston - he is who we thought he was
D’Onta Foreman - goal-line fumbles and injuries
Dustin Hopkins - has missed 12 field goals this year

Since 1999
Ten head coaches
Three playoff appearances
39 starting quarterbacks
Record of 1-31 from 2016-17
28 first-rounders chosen since returning

Six have been high-level players (Joe Thomas, Alex Mack, Joe Haden, Myles Garrett, Baker Mayfield, Denzel Ward)

Three have been average to above-average (William Green, Jabril Peppers, David Njoku)

17 have been average to below- average (including Braylon Edwards and Kellen Winslow III)

Two have been trainwrecks (Justin Gilbert, Johnny Manziel).

Also, cannot tell you how many receivers have been selected in rounds two, three and four that have been washouts

Add in these things from 2024
Firing former offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt and hiring Ken Dorsey, which has been a terrible decision

No running game due to injuries and the scheme emphasizing pass game

Jim Schwartz’ defense has been very inconsistent, especially in giving up big plays

Special teams is one of the worst units in the league, aside from star punter Cory Bojorquez

Rank near the top of the league in missed tackles and penalties

Owner continues to demonstrate his incompetence, lack of transparency and knowing tolerance for misogyny and bending/breaking the law

I guess that’s about it. I could keep going, but you get the picture.

I loved the old stadium, as we call it here. Spent 14 years there as a season-ticket holder. Saw countless Indians games and great concerts there over the years (Stones, Who, Pink Floyd, 1979 World Series of Rock and more).
 
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