COVID Bowl Round 1 - 2022 Wild Card Thread

Cincy so far controlling the Raiders!

lotta cocky Patriots fans talking about how this matchup is a blessing in disguise, as it's again a cold weather match in Buffalo, and they'll clearly win like last time.

55 mph winds last time. it's 8 mph wind right now there. you can throw in that.

Lotta officiating in this game!

31 years

Glad that bogus roughing the passer call at the end didn’t affect the outcome. Congrats, kitties.

Really looked like the stars were aligning for the Raiders but not taking the tie and letting fucking Ben Roethlisberger into the playoffs is just too much negative karma to overcome

Derek Carr's inability to get the ball snapped prior to time expiring had a lot to do with their plight, why they had one timeout.

GO BILLS

(it makes me nervous when the commentators pick us to win)

one of my best friends from high school is picking the Patsies which just about guarantees a Bills win

(he picked Raiders for the first one)

big day for zubaz imo

I own Zubaz guys

they make excellent maternity pants

Mac is having to try to carry this all by himself.
Would be nice if the rest of the Pats' offense would show up to play.

bills are out here making plays tell you what

billllls

Motor!

Ouch, that had to hurt

Bills and Bungles gonna win playoff games in the same day? The apocalypse is nigh.

Mostly I’m just happy for Joe Pera

I picked the Over on this (43). That missed XP might fuck me

Nevermind :)

this is the most satisfying game…I’ve ever seen? also sort of feel like I’m making it up in my head.

I hate the Bills for obv reasons but there are three AFC teams wetting themselves at this moment

I wore my zubaz tonight and they worked

these kind of playoff games usually aren't fun but this one is awesome

thank you very much

Probably the most aerial offense in the playoffs

guuuuuyyyyyyyyys

Mitch Trubisky kneeling out the clock in the playoffs...never thought I'd see the day

SO HAPPY YOU GUYS

well that was a paddlin'

it does make one wonder how in the fuck the bills lost (9-6!) to jacksonville

dude the Bills have played like ass so many times this season. Our offensive line seems to have figured something out in the last three weeks.

Bills seem like they might be better than people think - all 11 of their wins were by double digits and all but one of their losses was by 7 or less. They have the best point differential in the league.

they are really talented on both sides of the ball, but the offense self destructed a bunch of times this season. Defense has been legit all year.

they kinda remind me of the Packers when they won it all in 2010, they feel untrustworthy but all the metrics really seem to like them. Pats had the 3rd best point differential, beating them by a zillion is no small deal

yeah guess it was just their day

Josh Allen says he was trying to throw the ball away on the first TD throw to Dawson Knox. He got up and started walking back to the huddle after the play with no idea what happened. Said he couldn’t figure out why people were celebrating and had to keep asking about the play.

— Alaina Getzenberg (@agetzenberg) January 16, 2022

Bills imo

never having played, I always wondered what it was like to be a QB, like, if you get hit or brought down as you throw, how soon do you know *exactly* what happened? obviously the crowd clues you in as to whether you scored/got a big gain as there are levels, but I always felt like I'd start jumping up and down and celebrating a TD and my WR buddies would come over and be like "slow your roll, we only got to the goal line".

Holy shit has this really never been done

The Buffalo Bills just had the NFL’s first ever perfect offensive game.

No punts. No picks. No fumbles lost. No field goals. All touchdowns on every single drive until the kneel downs.

And they did it against a top five defense.

— Brett Kollmann (@BrettKollmann) January 16, 2022

:D

Eagles trying to make history in the exact opposite way right now

Eagles playing with pants fulla shit rn

yeah, this is…unfun

I wish Tom Brady would quit this tiresome charade of trolling me by continuing to play football. And look younger than he did 10 years ago…

feel like we may wait a good while before a 7 seed beats a 2 seed

there are only so many good teams each season

Don’t forget we also get the Steelers tonight

i have not

Damn Mufasa just died

— Jimmy Garoppolo (@JimmyG_10) January 21, 2013

lol Hulu recommended I watch this on Nickelodeon and it is surprisingly entertaining. they are talking about the benefits of eating broccoli now

Now they’re talking about which players believe in aliens

Dallas calling a perfect fake punt play, then forgetting to pull the punt team off and rushing the offense back resulting in a delay of game is peak McCarthy

Ok very curious what the 4th down boy thinks of this one

lmao what was that

https://c.tenor.com/6q96laezBbAAAAAC/dallas-cowboys-jimmy-johnson.gif

Looooooolllll!!! What the actual fuck?

Honestly I have always been curious how they would handle something like that. I wonder if there’s a rule for that anywhere

One thing I love about the NFL is how it allows so many bizarre, never-before-seen things to happen and there’s this running theme of them happening during the playoffs. Half the time against the Cowboys. Between this and Burrow throwing a TD after the whistle we’ve got 2 already

is this the worst offense ever to appear in a playoff game

first-half offensive yards: KC 302, PIT 44
yards per play: KC 7.6, PIT 1.6
passing yards: KC 231, PIT 13

KC -13 seems like such an obvious pick in retrospect, they've clearly packed it in

thank you to the Raiders for making this happen

thank you to the colts!

record for most passing TDs in a playoff game is 6. Mahomes currently has 6 with 14 minutes left to play

mahomes is fortunate in his choice of opposing team

they've spent the entire 4th quarter eulogizing Big Ben, it's making me nauseous

what a happy moment, to never have to watch ben roethlisberger play football again

even if he wasn't a rapist and (by all accounts) a deeply unpleasant person I can still say he was maybe the most boring HOF QB I've ever seen play, despite some fucking crazy statlines from time to time. the only nice thing I'll say is I do not wish upon him the crippling pain that he is likely to experience for the rest of his life. though if some network gives him an on-air job like they did Brees that may change

he's not bright/interesting enough to be a commentator, and there are way too many other people as or better qualified who aren't rapists

fwiw this is really good, for those who can read it

https://defector.com/what-ill-remember-about-ben-roethlisberger

fart off forever big ben, smell ya never

Cowboy fans crying about the end of the game not acknowledging how stupid it was to run the f'n ball at that point anyway.

DALLAS COWBOYS clap clap OVER RATED
DALLAS COWBOYS clap clap OVER RATED
DALLAS COWBOYS clap clap OVER RATED
DALLAS COWBOYS clap clap OVER RATED

McCarthy in not knowing hte rules shockah

fucking QB draw, and why didn't he just go down a second or two earlier, can he not throw the ball an extra five yards?

like any Cowboy woulda caught the mary.

actually don't think the QB draw was that bad a play - they probably figured one shot from 20 yards out was better than two from 40. of course that is contingent on not running the clock out. apparently they probably could've gotten it off had Dak handed the ball to the ref instead of his center but idk how aware of that he was gonna be in the moment

would've been an insane loss for SF had the Cowboys pulled it off somehow. Cowboys-esque, even

thing is though, he could have slid a second or two sooner, he had cleared the first down by a lot. he got greedy cos the middle of the field was open but like, give yourself up sooner.

the clock ran out because they didnt have enough time to make that play which imho makes it bad

even if he went down earlier its still cutting it way too close

which is why teams throw to the sidelines in these situations, its a known quantity

well yeah, I still don't think they should have run it

but, y'know, Cowboys

I mean, there's also the factor of running one play with one second left from thirty yards out means that basically the 49ers can rush two people and drop back 9, which is very very low on the probability scale for conversion (of course it's happened, rather thrillingly, but people tend to remember those miracle plays rather than the unsuccessful counterparts, which happen 100 times as frequently).

your odds aren't insanely greater with two plays within ten seconds, but the defense at least has to protect the sideline routes and can't wholly commit to keeping you out of the end zone.

the Cowboys' last play was crazy but not as relevant to the outcome as their 14 penalties

^^^ this.

they've spent the entire 4th quarter eulogizing Big Ben, it's making me nauseous

Yeah the whole "Requiem for a Heavyweight" vibe would almost make a more cynical me think that the Raiders/Chargers ending was prearranged, just to get Ben into the playoffs one last time for this express purpose.

well ties are extremely rare - there's almost never more than one in a given NFL season - which is what almost made Chargers-Raiders so awesome. people suspected there may be some collusion, especially if it went into OT, but instead it involved a fucking insane comeback in which Herbert converted like half the 4th-and-longs of the entire NFL season, plus two scores in overtime. and even still the Raiders ruined it for everyone

worst part of it had to be that Big Ben "word cloud" they stuck up there in the 4th quarter. I can think of a couple words they missed!!

it's funny how it was talked about like an elephant in the room, "omg, will they COLLUDE to tie!", when in European football, teams have done that in tournament play quite often.

there was one infamous match I don't remember where one team realized they would do better to lose the match and started trying to score on their own goal, and the other team started defending to stop them.

and yes people should probably stop talking about what Dallas should have done on the final drive, they had 32 seconds and no timeouts & needed a touchdown, that is an insanely tall order for even the best NFL offense. the fact that they got so close is a minor miracle though the 49ers kinda let it happen knowing all they had to do was defend the end zone. they made a zillion other mistakes which affected their WP% more & it sucks because I really wanted to see McCarthy's return to Green Bay. and if I'm being real honest I'm actually starting to feel a little bad for Cowboys fans.

xp well it's a bit different in a sport where offensive and defensive units are completely separate and teams generally score more than once per game

tbh I'm just a fan of sports drama and if the Raiders had knelt it down despite being in FG range it would've been really funny to see Steelers fans go berserk. would've easily been one of the all-time funniest outcomes in any NFL game.

i will never feel sorry for Cowboys fans, laughing at them is always hilarious

Keep in mind the Niners had lost Bosa and their starting middle line backer during the game. I think those 2 minute drills often work as the d-linemen are often just gassed and and often just don't have the pursuit play after play at the end of the game.

The daring call was the Niners going all out blitz (again I think go big or go home as they were down two of their best) to get the ball back on the drive before.

Cowboys and the Raiders both could have won their games but their usual dumb play brought them down.

I think Dalals would have had at least 2 shots at the end zone where they were located. Nature of pass interference, I think that is a decent set of odd myself.

Dalols

curious what the odds are of 2 shots from 40 vs. one shot from 20. I figured Dak would give you as good a chance from that far out as anyone not named Rodgers, Brady, or Mahomes, but idk how good he is from that deep.

McCarthy woulda had him throw a 5 yard pass and hope to lateral his way in

which tbh, is a legit thing that sometimes works but

I should probably add Josh Allen and Joe Burrow to that list

Never feel bad for Cowboys fans - the worst on earth.

Here we go, only game where I'm emotionally involved

Bee, I'd figure you for a NINERS fan (or at least Giants)...

Got to figure St. Louis would hope they both lose tonight. Too soon? Haven't seen that pointed out, but it is kinda funny.

is this the worst offense ever to appear in a playoff game

a challenger appears

Used to be 49ers fan but two things happened. 49ers are no longer in San Francisco and I moved back to Los Angeles. We got a team back in my home town and was easy to become a Rams fan.

I know Arizona looked like sitting ducks coming into the playoffs but -1 net yard on 4 drives yikes

The first 40 years of my life, that play was a catch, fumble, first down, but now we need 10 minutes of reviews to figure this all out.

lol no kidding

that said, challenging was the right move

love too survive the ground

jesus christ Kyler

extremely good move to challenge

Outstanding

That was a crazy play, bouncing all over the place

Cards can't catch a break

lmao

This is shaping up to be an underappreciated troll job pic.twitter.com/aGx0Gt15cl

— James Holzhauer (@James_Holzhauer) January 18, 2022

ohh fuck that did not look good

Kliff K is gonna go from belle of the ball to the hot seat quick

that team was completely unprepared to play football

i was a bit shocked, I expected a competitive match even though I fully expected the Rams to win.

kliff is not good. all my az friends been calling for his head for two+ seasons now. kyler also looked really scared/timid, that didnt help at all.

kliff is a charlatan lol, hired in the middle of the mcvay feeding frenzy. dude managed to have an under .500 record at texas tech with patrick frickin mahomes as his qb.

this is a long established pattern for him

Another Kliff Kingsbury regular season in the books!

Let’s update how he’s ended every season as head coach

'14: lost 4 of 5
'15: lost 4 of 6
'16: lost 6 of 8
'17: lost 6 of 8
'18: lost 5 of 5
'19: lost 7 of 9
'20: lost 6 of 9 (1 win by Hail Mary)
‘21: lost 4 of 5

— Matt Mitchell (@olboyunclemitch) January 10, 2022

Nick Bosa cleared concussion protocol. I guess you can't do that test where you ask the guy with the brain injury who the current president is anymore

Burrow has 236 passing yards and the Bengals have only scored 9 points

about 50 of them came on a meaningless end of half play

Bengals looking like way more of a #1 seed

that said down 10 halfway through the 3rd is exactly where the Titans shine

whoa that seemed to clearly hit the ground, surprised they didn't reverse it. guess the rule of cool wins out

that was one of the best throws i've seen in a while

If Tenn hadn't gone for two in the first half, they'd be winning rn

wouldn't have had to throw that either

so much crazy shit has happened in this game despite there not being a lot of scoring

brutal turn of events here

Happy for Cincy

They have a great kicker, all four of those would’ve been good from 60

Jimmy G is putting on an absolute Delhomme Game-level performance and yet somehow the Niners are only down a touchdown at the half.

Who could’ve foreseen our special teams fucking us

Well here we go

what a delightful result (sorry frog)

crazy to lose on two blocks like that

Yeah I don’t know if there’s a more painful way to lose

that has to be rodgers last game in a GB uniform

if it hadn't been for rogers, I'd only have a tepid interest in the niners winning, but rogers' antics in the past year made that outcome awfully sweet.

Fuck Aaron Rogers

Listen I really wanted the Packers to win but I acknowledge the schadenfraude here and I encourage y’all to revel in it

too bad your team had an idiot fascist sympathizer at QB, frogbs. must suck for you to have to include him in your loyalty to your team

I can’t stand him, but “fascist sympathizer” is a bit rich.

That blocked punt was ridic. Without that, SF is going home. Jimmy G mostly sucked

He’s not a fascist sympathizer he’s just an average Joe Rogan fan

But yeah it’s been weird to cheer for them all season

Man Twitter is being very mean to us right now lmao

pretty sure if we actually were to ask most NFL players about their views and have them returned to us on a paper questionnaire, we'd be horrified by at least 35% of the responses, if not a lot more.

not to diminish the douchiness of A-Rodg, but this isn't exactly a forward thinking sport.

lord though, if San Fran wants to advance any further, Jimmy G is gotta do more than this turd of a performance.

reaches the NFC Championship without having thrown a single TD pass in the playoffs

jimmy win baby

guessing tomorrow will be the boring day where the home teams win

Rams fan here but regardless they should beat the Bucks this year

packers ranked 32nd in the nfl in special teams, per dvoa. they somehow performed even worse than that.

i mean the special teams were horrible but the fact that Throw Rogan couldn't put up more points that that is pretty damning, it shouldn't have been close enough for that to be possible

Yeah hard to point too many fingers specifically when you score 3 points in the final 58 minutes of the game

Funny how so much of the off-season drama revolved around Rodgers wanting more of a say in personnel decisions which led to them bringing back Cobb, who he basically didn’t look for at all

can you imagine if the 49ers had a QB? they would be terrifying

Someone on Twitter pointed out that since passing up Rodgers for Alex Smith they’ve gone 4-0 in the playoffs vs. GB while also going to more Super Bowls

i generally resent being exposed to celebrity opinion and deed but at least with arog it was kind of funny how he blew his perfect reputation to go on podcasts for dummies and talk about his research

Lol @ Throw Rogan

I also saw “Breitbart Starr” last night

the antivaxx shit is one thing, I know plenty of people who are incredibly weird galaxy brains on the subject and you could almost argue they’re victims of misinformation or whatever. But then using his latest interview to go full Hannity and start talking about election fraud and the “fake White House”? Whining about being “silenced” all the time? Fuck him.

ron infowarski
hydroxychloroquincy carter
qb giuliani
rush lambeau
vinnie testapositive

...tough one to watch back. Rodgers will be sick with himself when he sees it on the film. Ugh. pic.twitter.com/caI79hZIbV

— Ben Fennell (@BenFennell_NFL) January 23, 2022

I’ve always defended Rodgers when it comes to the Packers playoff failures but this is pretty bad. He’s got 3 options down the field - MVS open for a touchdown, Lazard wide open for like a 30+ yard gain, but he winds up going to Adams who is double covered. Given the situation if he makes a different decision the Packers almost certainly win. Frustrating because Rodgers rarely fucks this up; this is like rookie QB shit. Special teams deserve a lot of blame too but this loss is mostly on him.

I've seen such good stuff. QBAnon, #shotenfreude, Bon Iver-mectin.

When the ⁦@packers⁩ lose to the ⁦@49ers⁩ tomorrow night, we will be giving away all you can eat fries topped with Wisconsin’s finest cheddar, to all bar patrons who would like to celebrate. ⁦Aaron Rodgers hasn’t won a super bowl since Obama’s first term pic.twitter.com/D0WxOeCDfn

— The Wieners Circle (@TheWienerCircle) January 22, 2022

The blocked field goal attempt used to be such a frequent and exciting feature of watching NFL in the ‘70s/‘80s. I’m not totally sure why it seems so hard to do nowadays. Was thrilled that SF accomplished one and threw in a blocked punt as well. For that matter I loved that GB got all those sacks - that also felt like a throwback to the days when defense was fun.

Well this game is getting mighty weird

So who counted out Touchdown Tom

HOW IS THIS HAPPENING

Stunning

I watch five minutes of football a year, and that was my five minutes--I was rooting for Brady, but what a finish.

I was kind of rooting for Brady too just because it would’ve been so fucking funny but Cooper Kupp would not be denied

Cannot imagine the emotions Rams fans would’ve been going through the last 20 minutes

lets go bills

If this game goes the way I expect it to this may be one of the most nuts divisional rounds ever

Mahomes is unfair

rams/bucs was insane

https://sports.yahoo.com/bears-legend-dick-butkus-goes-after-aaron-rodgers-immediately-after-getting-verified-on-twitter-171822194.html

jesus christ that Bills drive took no time.

Allen hurdling that guy then doing a spin move was some Madden shit

my mother said WHO IS THAT, thinking it was a running back, and I said "It's Allen!"

sick bomb

pretty cool

Both these QBs are unfair

Like how many yards has Mahomes gotten after first being contacted 7 yards behind the line of scrimmage

Allen bulldozes two Chiefs

he already had the first down too

he sent one of them to the tent!

Holy shit what a drive

holy shit man

damn

wild

Josh Allen is like some mythical beast

Wonder how much the Chiefs trust their kicker right now

oh my fucking god

A minute might be too much time

might be the best football game i have seen

WHAT THE FUCK JOSH

im dead rip

Can’t even say it’s over at this point

what a game

i've only been watching for like 20 minutes this is insane

same. and I'm already used up, I can't take OT.

13 seconds too much time for Mahomes??

Nooooooo way

just wild

what is going on here

they should just boot the bengals and let both these teams advance

this weekend has just been fantastic wow

but don't take it from me

Some of the best NFL football I've ever seen! 🤯

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) January 24, 2022

THIS IS ABSURD pic.twitter.com/OVNQvvB8Vv

— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) January 24, 2022

Bills kicker should've kicked it short, would've put it down to 7-8 seconds and made that tying FG nearly impossible

welp

that was crazy!

only possible way to end this game was to keep one of the QBs from being allowed to come out

xp i thought that too but was tyreke returning ? they coulda been worried he could break 1

What a goddamn fucking game

WELP

what a heart wrenching loss for the Bills. idk if I'd ever get over that

I love you Josh Allen

Sob!

Just…. wow!

sorry horseshoe i was rooting for em

so many interesting story lines possible.

RAMS - make it again with yet another quarterback?

Bengals - first SB since the Boomer/Ickey years?

Chiefs - ok, this one's been done

49ers - Garropolo redemption arc?

I was just walking home and I decided to get a smashburger on the back patio of this place I'd never tried and I ended up participating in some kind of cultural moment I think?

chiefs - will andy reid's sons kill anyone

I'm sorry horseshoe I was rooting for the Bills and brought Vikings energy to them

really sucks that Allen is going home and a QB as mediocre as Jimmy G. is still going

So much for defense, fuck off NFL

really didn't look like the Chiefs were gonna be contenders for so long this year, but boy they fixed that fast

thank you lagoon and matt

what a heart wrenching loss for the Bills. idk if I'd ever get over that

― frogbs, Sunday, January 23, 2022 10:01 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

loooool small potatoes compared to what Bills fans have seen.

Josefa at 9:21 23 Jan 22

So much for defense, fuck off NFL

this is a very odd reaction to this weekend!

the bills are the only nfl team i care about :( :( :(

all four games this weekend were great, but Bills/Chiefs was one for the ages

god damn

Andy Reid on Patrick Mahomes' chances with 13 seconds left: "When it's grim, be the grim reaper."

— Sam McDowell (@SamMcDowell11) January 24, 2022

yo lol

Best weekend of football I’ve ever witnessed

xpost he then followed that with

"Grim Reapah burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb"

Patrick Mahomes threw for 188 yards after the two-minute warning.

The #Bears only threw for more than 188 yards in 8 games this season. And it took them until Week 9 to do it for the first time.

(h/t my wife for making me look this up)

— Adam Hoge (@AdamHoge) January 24, 2022

It's a lot easier to rack up big passing yardage when your receivers run for most of them after making the reception.

nailed it, as ever

This, this was good. Very very very good.

Maybe I should just break up with NFL for now, I think I can do it. I have no rooting interests. Yeah, maybe.

Mahomes was unbelievable but I thought this was a head scratcher by BUF defense 👇🏻
(Volume up) pic.twitter.com/dBZHlQgOsd

— Daniel Jeremiah (@MoveTheSticks) January 24, 2022

if you're wondering "how did Kelce get so open?" on that final throw in regulation, here it is. Bills playing prevent defense despite Chiefs having all their timeouts. idk what they were thinking

also watching some footage of the Packers offense from Saturday and indeed it appears that Rodgers played a pretty bad game after the first drive. St. Brown and Deguara were fairly open on a bunch of plays (not wide open, but open enough where Rodgers should easily have been able to hit them) but instead he keeps trying to force it to Adams or dump it to Jones. obviously hitting Adams is what sank the 49ers during the regular season matchup and doubling him seems to be the main adjustment they made after that first drive. insane that Rodgers doesn't seem to figure this out at all.

It's a lot easier to rack up big passing yardage when your receivers run for most of them after making the reception.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, January 23, 2022 10:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i'm trying to understand this - so yards after catch is cheating somehow?

a big part of being a good QB is being able to find players and space and hit them in stride (the biggest factor in YAC)

here's the top 10 teams for yards after catch:

Rank Team Yards after Catch
1 Kansas City Chiefs 2700
2 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2623
3 Green Bay Packers 2485
4 Cincinnati Bengals 2423
5 Las Vegas Raiders 2357
6 Los Angeles Chargers 2350
7 Arizona Cardinals 2307
8 San Francisco 49ers 2264
9 Dallas Cowboys 2207
10 Los Angeles Rams 2145

here's the top 10 passers:

Tom Brady
5316

Justin Herbert
5014

Matthew Stafford
4886

Patrick Mahomes
4839

Derek Carr
4804

Joe Burrow
4611

Dak Prescott
4449

Josh Allen
4407

Kirk Cousins
4221

Aaron Rodgers
4115

so, it's correlating (josh allen excepting - bills yac is #20) that the best QBs have the most YAC, presumably because of accuracy/timing/etc (could be speed but for example tyreek hill is not high up on the YAC list and he's generally considered maybe the fastest person in the NFL)

over the course of a full season, sure. I think the point he was trying to make is that there is a lot of variance when you add in YAC. I just thought the stat was funny considering that, y'know, the Bears could've had Mahomes

yards after catch is cheating somehow?

I was more trying to respond that a weird made-up stat like 'passing yardage gained per minute of clock time' is not a reliable measure of quarterback skill, compared to, well, any QB stat that's widely used and recognized. It's striking, but it's not a good measure of anything. What's more telling are the number of points scored by KC in that amount of time.

Did @tkelce orchestrate the 13-second drive? 👀

(via @nflfilms, @insidethenfl) pic.twitter.com/fBXQXBSgSF

— NFL (@NFL) January 25, 2022

DO IT KELCE ..... uh-huh

incredible

holy shit, what a legend

Jesus Christ shut the fuck up

Aaron Rodgers says people were rooting against the Packers solely because of his vaccination status. pic.twitter.com/oXsRTZk2Co

— The Sporting News (@sportingnews) January 25, 2022

i . . . cannot actually argue with that

it me

rogers seems spot on. take the hint, aaron.

He really looks like shit these days

Jimmy Garoppolo on the other hand looks fantastic

placing the ball so your receiver can avoid getting hit and gain yards after the catch is indeed a skill, idk what that was upthread

Yeah dude looks and generally plays like an actor playing the lead role in a football movie

what is it about wisconsin that turns its quarterbacks into these grizzled wrung out beasts

i . . . cannot actually argue with that

― mookieproof, Tuesday, January 25, 2022 8:25 PM (fifty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

well yeah there's some truth to it but it still comes off like "oh you just don't like Trump because of the mean tweets..."

something in the Wrangler indigo dye

what's really striking to me about all this is remembering when Rodgers came into the league; here was this guy who was supposed to be the first overall pick, and instead he just kept sliding and sliding until he finally got picked by the Packers, who made him sit for 3 years behind a guy who didn't really seem interested in training him for the starting role. there was this sense that he'd gotten screwed and he was asked about it in interviews all the time. and he actually handled them really well, basically saying "look, I'm going to be the starter, nobody on this planet is going to feel sorry for me so I won't feel sorry for myself". dude would not entertain any of the drama. I know that was a while ago but going from that to "Help! I'm being cancelled! Nobody likes me because they can't handle my opinions!!!" is pretty nuts. I can only imagine the shit that's gone on behind the scenes.

seems like he's been drama for a long time, throwing stuff on the sideline, pissed at his teammates and coaches for letting HIM down. this is not a reveal.

nah in fact there's a good argument to be made for Mercedes Lewis' fumble losing GB the game because it guaranteed that Rodgers was never gonna throw to him again. I remember a few years back some receiver running the wrong route leading to an ugly looking pick and Rodgers like, wouldn't throw it to him again until 5 weeks later. I think it was Valdez-Scantling actually. Who by the way was also open on like 20 different pass plays

funny thing is Favre was the exact opposite, if a player fumbled he would pretty much always throw it back to him right away the next series

His family fumbled the pronunciation of its own name

I'm sure Favre is a trump goon but I at least get him, he's just a dumb hick with a drinking problem, Rodger's whole "I'm the only one who sees through the Matrix" schtick is more annoying to me

Yeah he absolutely had that “one of us” factor among rural Wisconsinites which endeared him to Packer fans more than Rodgers ever could. There was so much Favre shit everywhere you went. When he retired (lol) the overall
mood was as if someone died. Somehow I don’t think Rodgers is gonna be missed that much, despite being way better

Lmao

Pittsburgh Honors Ben Roethlisberger With Commemorative Statue In Women’s Bathroom https://t.co/ciNMKGpRYo pic.twitter.com/5b7UA30z66

— The Onion (@TheOnion) January 27, 2022

Joe Burrow making the Super Bowl would be really cool

Yea I want Bengs-49ers

Bengals would probably be the worst team to make an SB in years though. Offense is legit, o line is terrible, defense shaky

Chiefs with back to back holds in the end zone, no call

This Bengals offensive line is criminally awful

Bengals must’ve figured something out at halftime

That end of play by the Chiefs looming pretty large now. Wonder if McCarthy is sitting at home like “yeah nothing you can do about that”

Holy fuck how did Burrow avoid that

Incredible game

Still can’t see the Bungles making it to the Super Bowl but uhh this might be Mahomes last possession

Wonder if they should let them score

WOW

Missed FG here c'mon

andy reid really andy reid’d that clock management there

Man if they had not recovered that fumble

Well GG Bengals

Should have been

And now it was

These playoffs have been total pandemonium

Good

holy shit

congrats to the Bengals, what a great story

That was amazing

salute afc champions cincinnati bengals

happy for the bengals and the people of cinci!

Wonder how many people took a nap when it looked like the Chiefs were gonna win 52-10

Besides Andy Reid

me, apparently

go Bengals, what a great story

Report from Kansas City on local news

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

Hell of a game and KC winning the toss again but losing anyway feels like some kind of justice

Bengals so much resemble one of those fun & long suffering teams that usually loses in the Wild Card round due to the obvious holes in their lineup but welp here we are. Hope they got one more in em

Love the Bengals finding the rushing game just when they need it to get to FG range without risking the pick

Burrow was not throwing a pick come on

Go Rams

Haven't actively followed pro ball for a few years now, though I kinda wish I'd watched last week's games. We're 50% of the way to the Burrow/Stafford super bowl I'd tune in for, though, so go Rams.

no discredit to cincy, kc gave me a real playing w their food vibe that game… from not getting pts at the end of the first half to mahomes holding the ball soo loong several times idk im sure the coverage was good but he needed to not try to make the perfect play and just let his best playmakers make a play… the coaching is def to blame as well

Yeah Chiefs final play of the 1st half was some galaxy brain Mike McCarthy shit

Burrow was not throwing a pick come on

you're probably right but he sure looked wild and wobbly towards the end of regulation

Stephen A is on one right now

See what I’m saying, @danorlovsky7. This dude Stafford is very difficult to trust man. Why in the hell would he throw that pass. This is what I’m talking about man. He’d better not lose to know damn Porn Star Jimmy!

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) January 31, 2022

you're probably right but he sure looked wild and wobbly towards the end of regulation

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, January 30, 2022 6:05 PM (sixteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Burrow is a vibes QB and vibes QBs don’t throw picks in that situation

So happy for Cincinnati. I have no real horse in this second race, but SF have my thanks for keeping Green Bay out of this, so let’s go Niners.

Deebo god damn

Sheesh Stafford had two TDs dropped and had to settle for a missed FG

Yeah this game is driving me crazy

Picking up the flag is the right call

Oh shit no Deebo

He’s back already

49ers really do have the Rams number

You just know taking that time out is going to be costly

At least I can breathe again

Rams are going to wish they had those time outs

Why challenge, it's fourth down?

Called that one and now no time outs

Way too conservative

Here we go

appears to be awfully difficult to catch the ball today

Kupp

Jimmy G legacy drive incoming

i dont like how shanahan respects the troops thats against the spirit of san francisco

my Bengal fan friend got so drunk that he tripped over a glass table, fell backwards, and gashed his nose

can't judge i guess

Jimmy G legacy drive incoming

― frogbs, Sunday, January 30, 2022 9:33 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

welp

oh well, no 1981/1988 rematch.

Happy Happy Joy Joy

lol Niners going out in a blaze of stupid

can't really quibble with either team winning. though obv I'll pull for the team that's never won over the Rams, but that Rams team that won was like 22 years ago

that was one of the weirdest looking game-ending plays I've ever seen

so after 50+ years of it never happening, two consecutive Super Bowls played on one of the team's home fields.

Life makes no sense

😀

Happy for Matty Stafford. Will he get a ring? Who knows. But he deserves to play in the Super Bowl at least once before he's done.

yeah after years of futility on the Lions I'm happy to see him have a go.

Bengals must have the worst offensive line to ever play in a Super Bowl

The full list of teams to make the Super Bowl with regular-season DVOA below 10% from highest to lowest:

2012 Ravens
1996 Pats
2000 Giants
1993 Bills
2001 Pats
2011 Giants
1987 Skins
2007 Giants
2021 Bengals
2003 Panthers
2008 Cardinals

— Aaron Schatz 🏈 (@FO_ASchatz) January 30, 2022

kinda wanted Handsome Jimmy to bungle his way into the Super Bowl but this is good too. Stafford deserves a chance and this team sold out so much to compete now, I like when that's rewarded

anyway Bengals O-line vs. Von Miller and Aaron Donald is gonna be fun

We did it! Wait I mean they did it

— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) January 31, 2022

On the bright side, we have delayed the deification of Mahomes for a bit.

oh god Jimmy G is just Sanchez 2.0

The B.J. Hill interception pic.twitter.com/2ZVcSnJ1YT

— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) January 31, 2022

hahaha that's who he looks like! xxp

chiefs turned into the warriors so quickly, everyone is tired of how incredible they are

incredible is good and it's fun to watch. but that doesn't mean non- affiliated fans don't appreciate it when another team rises up and beats the incredible team. that's great fun for the non-affiliated fans, too.

Bengals are the first team to draft a QB at No.1 and be in the Super Bowl 2 years later

whoa

Oh wow, Brian Flores suing the NFL and NY Giants, alleging racism in hiring. Includes private texts from Bill Belichick https://t.co/4FVAlelLQU

— Alex Weprin (@alexweprin) February 1, 2022