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NFL 2022/2023

This may be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen watching football. Andy Dalton throws a pick-6, and as the ball is being returned, he starts to walk off in disgust while in the background, the guy who intercepted does his best Peter Pan imitation with a flying leap into the end zone. I can’t stop watching.81493398-A29F-4A09-A509-2F8DCEC4D298.gif
 
Let's check the predictions.
  • Browns and Ravens fans throw themselves into the respective bodies of water they border after both of their teams drive them to madness in worst game ever played in the NFL (NOT SO CORRECT. In fact, no one even died.)
  • Tampa over Carolina. Final score, spread, over/under, everything but punts. ( o_O , the one time I don't go over the edge with a prediction like my absurd Jets prediction below!)
  • Jets prove they are the real deal and go 4-2* for the season (* wins over Browns don't count). (CORRECT)
  • Colts improve record to 4-3-2-1... somehow. (CORRECT!)
  • Miami fans don VR helmets and watch a specially prepared version of Steelers game against Dolphins with Tua starting as QB and winning. Helps them feel better as Dolphins lose at home to Steelers. (The experiment went so well, they broadcasted that version of the game. CORRECT)
  • 4 former black coaches get ready to be inundated with phone calls as teams pretend to be interested in hiring them as replacements for their shortly to be fired head coaches. (CORRECT)

What a week! The NFL sucks this year. No really! At first it was mistaken as parity, but The Jets are 5-2, so the NFL must really suck! 22 teams have records of 4-3 to 2-5. That sounds like parity, but really, that is just sucking. The Giants, Cowboys, and Vikings have no more than 2 losses, but their teams suck. So the only conclusion we can draw is the NFL sucks and the Super Bowl will be lucky not to suck. Even the commercials will likely suck! The AFC Championship Game or whatever the heck it is when Buffalo and Kansas City play each other is the only game that is worth waiting for now.

We are officially half way through this season... well 3/4's if you are a Patriots fan... so what predictions were made earlier that were right? Well, the people at CBS saw this shitty season coming a mile away. The only surprise to them was the Packers sucking.
CBS article said:
We can't emphasize enough how bad this season will be. And we're not talking Cleveland Browns season after season of disappointment bad. It is vulgar, but really the only way to say how this season is going to go is "complete and utter shit". And not the stuff that you can flush down and doesn't stink too bad. We mean the high volatiles and floaty stuff!

You've got the Bill and Chiefs... that's it. The rest of the best are poor. And the rest of the others are awful. Sure, everyone will finish 9-8 or 8-9 this year and beat on each other, but it'll be boring as fuck. We mean passing 9 for 16 and 122 yards... every game! Less than 10 first downs winning games. Games where it seems like defense is winning it, but it isn't. So find something else... not NASCAR, that is even worse in their parity "stock" cars that rough up their drivers. But something... anything other than NFL football.... and NASCAR.

Wow! Such foresight! So get your news from them.

Oh... that new guy in New England didn't go undefeated for his entire career, so clearly he was a bust and will never amount to anything.

Predictions for next week?
  • Ravens and Bucs throw for a combined 87 yards. Half of stadium falls into a coma.
  • Lions lose
  • Battle of the states this weekend.
    • PA - Steelers beat Eagles after scandal breaks out and 2 points are found in a lock box on the Eagles sideline.
    • OH - Cincinnati loses to the Browns in the most Browns way possible.
    • CA - San Fran and Rams play to a draw.
    • NC - Panthers lose to Falcons... Atlanta is in North Carolina right? Or was it South Carolina.
    • NY/NE - It ain't one state, but they are both "NEW". Patriots relive the 1985 Super Bowl run days and defeat the NY Jets!
      • Super fun fact. I just learned that the New England Patriots were the only team to score against the Bears in the 1985 playoffs! Moral victory!!!
  • Colts record improves to 5-4-3-2-1.
  • Oh fuck me! Browns and Bengals on Monday Night?! What, Patriots v Bears wasn't bad enough.
    • Yup... it's a shitty NFL season.
 
The Saints and Cardinals accidentally scored all of the remaining touchdowns that were allocated to Thursday games. We can now go back to watching 9-6 contests.

Matt Ryan has finally been benched. Calling him "toast" was an insult to toast.

Ravens fans did throw ourselves into the bay. The bay threw us back.
 
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Denver Broncos have set aside all the funds previously allocated for signing bonuses so they can buy more snakes, to bolster their claim that they are simply "snakebitten".
 
Let's check the predictions.
  • Browns and Ravens fans throw themselves into the respective bodies of water they border after both of their teams drive them to madness in worst game ever played in the NFL (NOT SO CORRECT. In fact, no one even died.)
  • Tampa over Carolina. Final score, spread, over/under, everything but punts. ( o_O , the one time I don't go over the edge with a prediction like my absurd Jets prediction below!)
  • Jets prove they are the real deal and go 4-2* for the season (* wins over Browns don't count). (CORRECT)
  • Colts improve record to 4-3-2-1... somehow. (CORRECT!)
  • Miami fans don VR helmets and watch a specially prepared version of Steelers game against Dolphins with Tua starting as QB and winning. Helps them feel better as Dolphins lose at home to Steelers. (The experiment went so well, they broadcasted that version of the game. CORRECT)
  • 4 former black coaches get ready to be inundated with phone calls as teams pretend to be interested in hiring them as replacements for their shortly to be fired head coaches. (CORRECT)

What a week! The NFL sucks this year. No really! At first it was mistaken as parity, but The Jets are 5-2, so the NFL must really suck! 22 teams have records of 4-3 to 2-5. That sounds like parity, but really, that is just sucking. The Giants, Cowboys, and Vikings have no more than 2 losses, but their teams suck. So the only conclusion we can draw is the NFL sucks and the Super Bowl will be lucky not to suck. Even the commercials will likely suck! The AFC Championship Game or whatever the heck it is when Buffalo and Kansas City play each other is the only game that is worth waiting for now.

We are officially half way through this season... well 3/4's if you are a Patriots fan... so what predictions were made earlier that were right? Well, the people at CBS saw this shitty season coming a mile away. The only surprise to them was the Packers sucking.
CBS article said:
We can't emphasize enough how bad this season will be. And we're not talking Cleveland Browns season after season of disappointment bad. It is vulgar, but really the only way to say how this season is going to go is "complete and utter shit". And not the stuff that you can flush down and doesn't stink too bad. We mean the high volatiles and floaty stuff!

You've got the Bill and Chiefs... that's it. The rest of the best are poor. And the rest of the others are awful. Sure, everyone will finish 9-8 or 8-9 this year and beat on each other, but it'll be boring as fuck. We mean passing 9 for 16 and 122 yards... every game! Less than 10 first downs winning games. Games where it seems like defense is winning it, but it isn't. So find something else... not NASCAR, that is even worse in their parity "stock" cars that rough up their drivers. But something... anything other than NFL football.... and NASCAR.

Wow! Such foresight! So get your news from them.

Oh... that new guy in New England didn't go undefeated for his entire career, so clearly he was a bust and will never amount to anything.

Predictions for next week?
  • Ravens and Bucs throw for a combined 87 yards. Half of stadium falls into a coma.
  • Lions lose
  • Battle of the states this weekend.
    • PA - Steelers beat Eagles after scandal breaks out and 2 points are found in a lock box on the Eagles sideline.
    • OH - Cincinnati loses to the Browns in the most Browns way possible.
    • CA - San Fran and Rams play to a draw.
    • NC - Panthers lose to Falcons... Atlanta is in North Carolina right? Or was it South Carolina.
    • NY/NE - It ain't one state, but they are both "NEW". Patriots relive the 1985 Super Bowl run days and defeat the NY Jets!
      • Super fun fact. I just learned that the New England Patriots were the only team to score against the Bears in the 1985 playoffs! Moral victory!!!
  • Colts record improves to 5-4-3-2-1.
  • Oh fuck me! Browns and Bengals on Monday Night?! What, Patriots v Bears wasn't bad enough.
    • Yup... it's a shitty NFL season.
Amigo! All that analysis above on the NFL and nothing on Seattle! What's going on here!?? Tell me you disagree, but Seattle has been the shocking story of the year. I thought that they'd be the worst team in football this year. But they nailed the draft. And they turned around a bust at QB: Gino. Gino Smith will be the comeback player of the year this year by far.
 
First off, Seattle lost to the Yankees, so I have no idea what you are talking about. ;)

Seattle is like walking with an egg on a small spoon, you were nervous at first, but things seem to be going great, and you are halfway there and a twitch goes off in your head... you start getting a little nervous... and shaky and... aw crap... the egg fell off and it breaks open on the ground. Also, the NFL sucks this year, which is why most teams look halfway decent.

Let's do an experiment. Think of Seattle, Las Vegas, NY Jets, and Green Bay. Yeah... looking pretty sharp, playoff bound even.
Now, think of Seattle, Buffalo, and Kansas City. Yup... sorry bout that. The come down must have been a bit hard.
 
That Dalton pick 6 is unbelievably cinematic.

 
Apparently Russel Wilson went to sleep in Seattle, and woke up in London.
 
Wow!



But after an unsportsmanlike call after the play, they missed the 48 yard PAT. :banghead: :LOL:
 
My Raiders got shut out 24-0. Jesus.

I can't wait to get rid of our would-be Joel Osteen AKA Derek Carr. If there is a god, this guy is proof that it truly doesn't give the slightest fuck about his followers. Just as importantly, ridding the team of QB Jesus would rid our fanbase of all the weirdos that follow him like a cult figure. It's the weirdest damn thing I've ever seen in sports.
 
My Raiders got shut out 24-0. Jesus.

I can't wait to get rid of our would-be Joel Osteen AKA Derek Carr. If there is a god, this guy is proof that it truly doesn't give the slightest fuck about his followers. Just as importantly, ridding the team of QB Jesus would rid our fanbase of all the weirdos that follow him like a cult figure. It's the weirdest damn thing I've ever seen in sports.

I've seen Raiders fans. Weird is normal. If you consider that subset to be weird, they must really be out there.
 
In other news, NFL ref Jerome Boger, he of the "you touched the QB, that's roughing" calls, assessed a penalty to the Seattle Mariners who, last I checked, are a baseball team:

 
What did I say last week?
  • Ravens and Bucs throw for a combined 87 yards. Half of stadium falls into a coma. (Something like that. CORRECT!)
  • Lions lose (Well... duh. CORRECT!)
  • Battle of the states this weekend.
    • PA - Steelers beat Eagles after scandal breaks out and 2 points are found in a lock box on the Eagles sideline. (That was supposed to be 12 points. The Eagles hid it better than I expected. MOSTLY CORRECT!)
    • OH - Cincinnati loses to the Browns in the most Browns way possible. (That was a Browns level loss. CORRECT!)
    • CA - San Fran and Rams play to a draw. (It was on the west coast and those scores are late to come in. PRESUMABLY CORRECT!)
    • NC - Panthers lose to Falcons... Atlanta is in North Carolina right? Or was it South Carolina. (Man, did the Panthers ever find a way to lose that. Appreciate the help guys, CORRECT!)
    • NY/NE - It ain't one state, but they are both "NEW". Patriots relive the 1985 Super Bowl run days and defeat the NY Jets! (Time for some Super Bowl shuffle... if that wasn't cheesy and stupid... and done by the Bears. CORRECT!)
      • Super fun fact. I just learned that the New England Patriots were the only team to score against the Bears in the 1985 playoffs! Moral victory!!!
  • Colts record improves to 5-4-3-2-1. (Okay, enough with this gag.)
  • Oh fuck me! Browns and Bengals on Monday Night?! What, Patriots v Bears wasn't bad enough. (Well, the Bengals didn't live up to that one... CORRECT!... wait, was that even a prediction?)
    • Yup... it's a shitty NFL season.

On that last point, no seriously! Everyone saw my endless correct predictions and are now jumping on the bandwagon that the NFL sucks this year.

article said:
The Bengals aren't any better than the rest of the mediocre teams chasing the Bills, Eagles, Chiefs and maybe the Cowboys. They looked miserable on Monday night in a 32-13 loss to a Cleveland Browns team that was 2-5 coming in without any decent wins.
There you have it. I mean, barely, but my point remains. I mean, the NFL sucks so badly this year, it is pooling into College Football, where there are two teams (Georgia and Tennessee) worth more than a pile of manure, and not even a big one. Yeah, fuck off Big Ten, you suck and you know it. Even Alabama sucks. I mean how much worse can football get.

article said:
Oh gawd no!

Predictions for Week whatever the fuck it is?

  • Eagles bankrupt Las Vegas after beating Texans by 42 points. Spread is -13... are you for real?! I mean I have a hard time justifying this prediction as being anything but clearly obvious.
    • Bonus: Lax Vegas Raiders (after having moved from Las Vegas back to LA due to all corporate leaders flinging themselves from the casinos onto the pavement below because of the bankrupting awful spread in the Eagles game and were having their flesh torn off by Gila monsters... and their rotting corpses making Vegas smell worse than usual... presumably), lose to Jacksonville, proving that Belichick makes everyone look better.
  • Chiefs (5-2) show NFL that 5-2 can be a misleading metric after dismantling the Titans (also 5-2).
  • Toxic fumes in the air from all the fires in NW USA have mutated Seattle into a breed of super humans. Seattle still lose to those red bird things.
  • Pittsburgh starts their inevitable comeback this week with the bye.
See you next week.
 
Pete Carrol does seem to have a talent for motivating less than marquis talent to work together and win.

I live about 6 blocks from the stadium. I hear the air cannon when Seattle scores before I see it on TV.

As Yogi said, it aint over till its over.

From his interviews I like Geno Smith, seems like a regular guy. Wilson always came across as a self absorbed prima donna.

The more games in the playoffs the better the sports books and NFL TV revenues do. It gives more fans some excitement.

Since the wild card system was instituted by the NFL in 1970, only seven wild card teams have won the Vince Lombardi Trophy: the Oakland Raiders (1981), Denver Broncos (1998), Baltimore Ravens (2001), Pittsburgh Steelers (2006), New York Giants (2008), Green Bay Packers (2011) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2020).Jan 18, 2022
 
If only my state made it easy to bet on sports, this would be a great season. I’m on an absurd run, carried over from last year.
 
I don't gamble on sports. Too much unknown. But that line on the Eagles v Texans game... is tempting.
 
I was hoping to do one of the promos (e.g. Draftkings: place a $5 bet; if you win, they give you a $200 bankroll, with conditions attached). But they’re not licensed in my state. So I just pick to see if my six decades of watching football give me an edge.

The Washington Post has a couple guys who do “analysis” every week. They’re awful; I’ve started heckling them about their lousy recommendations.
 
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