2022-2023 NFL Thread

[draynay]

I wish the Bills defense could play one game this season the way the Bengals are today. The Bills in general are a soft team that might as well play in LA.

LA doesn't want teams that can't win.

[NotBigzo]

NFL better start working on those refunds.

Bring on those Kansas City Karens.

[Kyanion]

Do I get anything in my mailbox is Burrow hangs 40?

This aged well, again.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

I wish the Bills defense could play one game this season the way the Bengals are today. The Bills in general are a soft team that might as well play in LA. The Dolphins almost beat them and they are getting dismantled today.

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They did last year. At best this team will be like the packers for the next decade. Get in the playoffs with Rogers (Allen) then shit the bed. If they dont spend every draft pick on offensive starters this year, they are doing it wrong. Of course the stuck in the 90s mindset coaching staff will draft a bunch of dbs who get torched and d linemen who cant get to the qb.

Josh Allen's career was nurtured by this staff, but will ultimately be wasted by it. They are not going to progress beyond the divisional round ever again.

Great QB, Great Coach, Consistently Trash D. Yep, that is the 2012-2022 Packers to a tee.

[xskarma]

lmao Bengals HC Zac Taylor trolling the NFL league office and owners decisions saying that he really felt for the people who had been making all these contingency plans for Neutral Sites etc only for the Bengals to ruin everything. Again.

I'm 100% sure the Bengals as a team were pissed off about all this and used it as motivation.

[dwightyo39]

Allen will probably retire early like Luck. He got paid. No sense wasting his health and youth once he plays out his contract.

[NotBigzo]

lmao Bengals HC Zac Taylor trolling the NFL league office and owners decisions saying that he really felt for the people who had been making all these contingency plans for Neutral Sites etc only for the Bengals to ruin everything. Again.

I'm 100% sure the Bengals as a team were pissed off about all this and used it as motivation.

They absoutely were.

Burrow even said in an interview that the NFL should start working to refund those tickets.

Bengals were absoutely slighted in this Damar Hamlin thing. Ironically the spark it gave them was the best thing that ever happend to them.

[dwightyo39]

I feel like Taylor or Reid would win a superbowl with Allen. Likewise McDermott would get bounced out of the playoffs with Mahomes or Burrow

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

Allen will probably retire early like Luck. He got paid. No sense wasting his health and youth once he plays out his contract.

Depends. Some guys aren't about the money, they're about the HoF and the GOAT conversation. For that, Allen isn't retiring until he has a ring or he can't throw anymore.

[babalou1]

Dak gonna Dak...


Better 3 than 6

[Deus Mortis]

Both defenses looking good.

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And blocked.

[Kyanion]

And blocked.

Blocked or the kick was looking so fucking terrible it was going to be a miss anyways.

[eschatological]

I respect Sean McDermott's ability to turn around the Bills franchise. Of course getting the Josh Allen draft right was huge. I just don't see them ever getting past the Chiefs or Bengals in the playoffs with this coaching staff. Last year was their best shot and they got 13 seconds. This year they can't even play remotely competitive vs a 100th string Bengals o line. Embarrassing garbage. They will forever be the Chargers while the Colts/Patriots (Chiefs/Bengals) play in Superbowls.

Just got back from the game. I endorse this. Playcalling was atrocious. Relying on Gabe Davis to be a true #2 was a FO mistake, all while letting Isaiah Hodgins walk and being an immediate impact for DANIEL JONES. Team looked disinterested.

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NFL better start working on those refunds.

Bring on those Kansas City Karens.

I hate this bullshit. Better not let the Chiefs know the Bengals were selling Jags at Cincy tickets up until yesterday. Come on man. You don't sell championship game tickets only the week of, the Bengals just made it some nonsense bulletin board material.

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Great QB, Great Coach, Consistently Trash D. Yep, that is the 2012-2022 Packers to a tee.

Except the coach isn't great. He's a good leader of men, but on the field he blows, consistently. We had 0 timeouts with like 10 minutes left in the 4th, and that's far down on the list of the egregious shit he's done, the top obviously being :13 seconds, for which he let a special teams coach quietly resign to take the blame. Well, I guess the analogy is still good, though, since McCarthy was also a bad coach.

[Northern Goblin]

Welp, looks like I'm cheering the NFC this season.

[eschatological]

I feel very meh about the playoffs. If Tua isn't playing, we should probably beat the Dolphins, but we'll struggle and make it look hard, and then I think we probably get bodied hard by the Bengals in the divisionals. Even if we squeak out the win because of home field, then we go to a neutral site for KC (unless the unthinkable happens and Jags/Chargers win against KC).

Our best case scenario is somehow Ravens beating Bengals, Jags beating Chargers, and we get the Jags at home and maybe the Ravens continue an improbable run by beating KC.

Even then, a Lamar-led Ravens is nothing to scoff at.

Our defense has been decimated by injury, even before our backup safety had a literal heart attack on the field, and our offense has been lackluster. Pats offense outscored our offense last week, the difference were two kickoff returns for TDs. And I don't think we really even sat on a lead.

So basically you won, but not by enough, classic pats fan. Keep in mind without those two returns the Bills would have had two more possessions. If Josh Allen stops throwing horrible interceptions the bills are the obvious favorites and the best team in the NFL by a pretty wide margin, even with a banged-up defense.

Difference between criticizing and acting like they’re not the best or second best team in the league, injuries and all. I wouldn’t put money on anyone beating them except kc, and maaaaybe niners if they get that far.

(Speaking of niners holy shit you should see how much hate they have for shanahan. It’s unbelievable.)

Gee, looks like I actually know my own team. We played sloppy as shit, just as we have all season, and we barely scrapped out a win. We'll probably be steamrolled next week unless this jolts us into, yanno, not beating ourselves. First time we've won in the postseason after losing the turnover differential. I almost died of a stroke in this game, but at least there were like 60k people around me to potentially save my life.

Oh, and half the team is guys who've been on our practice squad or who we let walk who I was screaming we shoulda kept: Jon Feliciano on OLine, Isaiah Hodgins (WHO WAS ON THE PRACTICE SQUAD WHILE WE DRESSED JAKE KUMEROW FOR SPECIAL TEAMS REASONS), Matt Breida, Nick McCloud.

Geez, looks like I know what I'm talking about when it comes to my team. Got steamrolled, just as I predicted.

[xskarma]

Except the coach isn't great. He's a good leader of men, but on the field he blows, consistently.

And yet, literally EVERYONE was touting him for this aspect with the Hamlin injury and aftermath. That it was McDermott who lead the way, basically for both teams.

It's HARD being an NFL coach, and you can at least say that you have a coach that got quite a few things right in his approach and mentality.


Casue what are you going to do? Fire him? That would feel like a Jim Caldwell situation, where the Lions gave up on him despite him bringing them back to respectability, cause he wasn't "good enough in the playoffs", and then proceeded to suck for multiple years and have to do a complete roster retool from the ground up, including coaching staffs, to get on the right track again.

McDermott will lead in his way and it;s up to the organization to properly support him, and that includes his offensive and defensive assistants and front office.

[Kyanion]

That didn't look good for Pollard.

Also, 4th down no faith in kicker offense is go.

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Geez, looks like I know what I'm talking about when it comes to my team. Got steamrolled, just as I predicted.

Even if they won this game and then lost the next one you'd have the same take. You hate your team, we get it. Some fans cannot enjoy their team no matter how well they do or don't do. My team was not good this season but I enjoyed watching them play for the most part.

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Great pass from Dak.... Right to the 49ers player who couldn't catch it but the player behind him could.

[NotBigzo]

Just got back from the game. I endorse this. Playcalling was atrocious. Relying on Gabe Davis to be a true #2 was a FO mistake, all while letting Isaiah Hodgins walk and being an immediate impact for DANIEL JONES. Team looked disinterested.

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I hate this bullshit. Better not let the Chiefs know the Bengals were selling Jags at Cincy tickets up until yesterday. Come on man. You don't sell championship game tickets only the week of, the Bengals just made it some nonsense bulletin board material.

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Except the coach isn't great. He's a good leader of men, but on the field he blows, consistently. We had 0 timeouts with like 10 minutes left in the 4th, and that's far down on the list of the egregious shit he's done, the top obviously being :13 seconds, for which he let a special teams coach quietly resign to take the blame. Well, I guess the analogy is still good, though, since McCarthy was also a bad coach.

The Bengals didn't go out of their way to tell the public about how much they made in ticket sales.

[eschatological]

And yet, literally EVERYONE was touting him for this aspect with the Hamlin injury and aftermath. That it was McDermott who lead the way, basically for both teams.

That makes him a good man, and a good leader. It doesn't make him a good coach. You know I hate this "culture" bullshit, and I think it got exposed during :13 seconds when they closed ranks and had no accountability. They didn't fire the DC or anyone on the defensive staff, they let a ST coach resign even though McD inferred he made the call on the kick out of the endzone. The culture stuff got exposed again, today, for a different reason: when you build your team on emotions, and vibes, if small things go wrong, they snowball from molehills into mountains, and you come out flat in perhaps the most important game of the year. The team was mentally unstable - and probably had reason to be. One home game moved because of a snow storm, another snow storm which killed 47 people, a white supremacist shooting in the offseason that you made a big part of your team identity in (rightfully) fighting against racism, a teammate almost dying on the field, having that teammate come back today to be some sort of hype-machine while everyone talks about destinies and narratives - they crumbled under the pressure of it. Just like they did last year, and the year before. Maybe you can say that this year was a lot and any team would crumble....

...but give me cool and collected, hyper focused, any day of the week. Leave this clapping during big plays (which we all rightfully mock Jason Garrett for) for some other team.

Andy Reid was fired from the Eagles after taking them to multiple NFC championships. Probably the right move, he was gonna wind down his career until he stumbled onto Mahomes. Doug Pedersen got fired for one bad season after winning the Super Bowl. This loss was waaaaaaaaay worse than :13 seconds, imo.

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Even if they won this game and then lost the next one you'd have the same take. You hate your team, we get it. Some fans cannot enjoy their team no matter how well they do or don't do. My team was not good this season but I enjoyed watching them play for the most part.

ROFLMAO my family has been season ticket holders for the team I supposedly hate for our 35th year this year. Besides the COVID year, I haven't missed a home game since I moved back to Buffalo in 2015, iirc. I love the Bills - but that's not a blind faith which means I reject any criticism of them.

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The Bengals didn't go out of their way to tell the public about how much they made in ticket sales.

When did we do this? I'm on Bills twitter all the time and didn't notice this at all. It's fucking nonsense.

[NotBigzo]

That makes him a good man, and a good leader. It doesn't make him a good coach. You know I hate this "culture" bullshit, and I think it got exposed during :13 seconds when they closed ranks and had no accountability. They didn't fire the DC or anyone on the defensive staff, they let a ST coach resign even though McD inferred he made the call on the kick out of the endzone. The culture stuff got exposed again, today, for a different reason: when you build your team on emotions, and vibes, if small things go wrong, they snowball from molehills into mountains, and you come out flat in perhaps the most important game of the year. The team was mentally unstable - and probably had reason to be. One home game moved because of a snow storm, another snow storm which killed 47 people, a white supremacist shooting in the offseason that you made a big part of your team identity in (rightfully) fighting against racism, a teammate almost dying on the field, having that teammate come back today to be some sort of hype-machine while everyone talks about destinies and narratives - they crumbled under the pressure of it. Just like they did last year, and the year before. Maybe you can say that this year was a lot and any team would crumble....

...but give me cool and collected, hyper focused, any day of the week. Leave this clapping during big plays (which we all rightfully mock Jason Garrett for) for some other team.

Andy Reid was fired from the Eagles after taking them to multiple NFC championships. Probably the right move, he was gonna wind down his career until he stumbled onto Mahomes. Doug Pedersen got fired for one bad season after winning the Super Bowl. This loss was waaaaaaaaay worse than :13 seconds, imo.

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ROFLMAO my family has been season ticket holders for the team I supposedly hate for our 35th year this year. Besides the COVID year, I haven't missed a home game since I moved back to Buffalo in 2015, iirc. I love the Bills - but that's not a blind faith which means I reject any criticism of them.

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When did we do this? I'm on Bills twitter all the time and didn't notice this at all. It's fucking nonsense.

Simmer down Bertha. The Bills didn't. The NFL did, hence why I said the NFL better work on the refunds.

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