SageAgainstTheMachine

Ever since I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

I couldn’t tell you how it figures into the NFL’s decision making but it’s a practical roadblock in my opinion. Types of games like Titans/Texans and Browns/Saints today will become even more the norm.

Coincidentally a +1 point differential is what the Dolphins have for the season. Ours is +157. The teams aren’t close, although of course they can beat us “any given Sunday”.

I'm always curious about what people mean by a complete game. A game with no mistakes? Well that happens once in a blue moon. Cincy is tough but not some historic juggernaut. Maybe we'll turn the ball over to them and then they'll cough it up right back. You just need more points at the end of 60 minutes.

Well you don't cough up the ball 18 times and win MVP most of the time. Whether or not it's fair that's a disqualifier. But for my money we're a 12-3 team with Josh and something like a 7-8 team without him so I don't really care about the awards.

I don’t agree with this characterization. The three close losses to the Jets, Dolphins and Vikings are completely balanced by the tight wins against the Lions, Ravens and Chiefs. The way small sample variance goes we could be anywhere between 9-6 and 15-0, so 12-3 represents the team’s accomplishments well.

Ultimately the division was a laugher. The other three teams have been hemorrhaging losses.

If they possess the ball long enough to run 50 plays.

Stop it, he wants to win.

No Milano?

First, thank you. Second, no. I think it's perfectly fine to have a winter sport where winter weather plays a big part. It's a great thing. But when you start hearing things like a pressure system similar to a category 3 hurricane? I think we need to be better about just shutting things down and doing them on a less dangerous day.

Is it better as time marches on to have more respect or less respect for hazardous travel conditions? Speaking as someone with a loved one who's died from it, your assertion that people used to be tougher and better means less than nothing to me.

There's also just a complete lack of respect for what a disaster snow conditions can be. I'm growing frustrated about these stories about holiday travel that don't explicitly say "Just don't go anywhere or you may die."

Man, the Colts are having one of the weirdest saddest seasons ever.

Do you think this is a gotcha?

It's crazy to me that they think they're going to play this game on schedule.

Give me a break.

This thread isn't really about either thing.

Man, we have really run the weather gauntlet this year, including the displacement in Detroit.

McCorkle is now permanently part of the field in Las Vegas.

That stiff arm. Mac Jones is the first white man ever sent to the Sunken Place.

I can imagine it but I think that’s as far as it will go.

I think a lot of people are overrating the Chargers. They just don't play up to their potential and I think they have a bottom-5 HC.

Yeah the metric for success used to be playing at least one game in December without being mathematically eliminated.

Even though a lot can happen it seems to me that the Ravens are pretty safe, and if the Titans blow their division they won't be in the wildcard hunt so it essentially comes down to these four teams. Personally I just want Pats fans to be miserable at every turn. Also picking the Dolphins because they're the scariest playoff matchup and it would be hilarious for the media who picked them to win the SB a couple weeks ago.