What a Tuel

In an alternate universe Tyrod Taylor would've blown out the Bengals who gave up 3 turnovers and a short field on a punt. Or at least would've drove down the field for the game winning touchdown instead of throwing the vaunted "INT" with 3 minutes left in the game. But yeah, all Peterman's fault we are where we are. An awful Bengals team turns over the ball nearly just as much and we get 16 points total. Chargers got what 54?

Well that's easy to say. Reality is nonsense like this affects the team. We saw it a few years back when the Bills players started bickering with fans. It can get to them, and maybe they are soft for letting it get to them, but the reality is that they shouldn't have to combat this type of nonsense from fans. Especially with a crucial game coming up. Tolbert doesn't call the plays.

I say good. Anytime anyone gives an ounce of benefit of the doubt, and hype, we falter. No media until we get this done.

Sammy Watkins is so bad they only have a third of their team covering him.

Between this and people cheering for Tyrod's last game, you have to wonder if they even have the will to make the playoffs this last game. DB move fans. I want us to move on from Tyrod as much as the rest of you, but right now he gives us the best chance to break this god damn streak. So show some damn pride and energize our players not drain them with stupid petitions to have them cut.

What is a big leap ahead for you? You don't think a franchise QB would take be a 2 game swing? I'll take 11-5 (or 10-6) every year while we build those things through future drafts.

What motivation does one owner have to repeatedly cheat, and influence the league office in such a manner that they are beginning to irritate other owners into pushing Goodell into taking action when they cheat? To be the best Owner. Too bad it'll forever be tainted. I'd agree with this. At the beginning of the clip Tyrod is asking him what he thinks and he is like "oh I can't uuuhhh it was a heck of a throw though" or something. They are just trying to get info and the official is just saying something so he isn't a jerk not responding.

This team has had all of those simultaneously and no success. Why not try to get a successful QB? I mean its the one thing we haven't been successful at in 17 years.

Link? Edit: NM found it.

Revisionist history. The Chargers were not appearing to be a playoff team at 3-6 when we played them. They have since went 5-1 going into Week 17. Its an unlikely turn of events for them.

Just confirmed. Signed with the Pats. Guess they are looking past the divisional round to the Steelers vs Patriots conference game. I so hope whoever plays them upsets them. So tired of them.

I would think they'd have to give a player, any player or something in return with the wink wink. But I don't see why the NFL would stop them. The NFL shouldn't be expecting any team to fold or quit even in week 17 let alone enforcing that they do.

They should do a Dodgeball type panel with Chuck Norris.

Not saying anything leads officials to be less careful about botching the next one. Or Kraft a little more cautious about exerting control over the league office maybe. Either way silence does nothing. What is the 4th and 1 rule? Lay it out for me.

This can't be understated. So many times we get a 6 yard pass that could've been 15 yard gains if they didn't have to adjust to Tyrod's inaccuracy. They adjust and immediately either fall or get tackled. Or worse we lose a game because a wide open WR (Zay Jones) isn't hit in the numbers for a go ahead TD. Amazing adjustment to even almost come up with that ball.

Whose idea was it to have one guy be the guy to do this in so many situations? I mean even if he isn't playing favorites, if his name keeps coming up there will surely be skepticism that he lacks bias.

That's a cool site, but know we get in if we win and the Bengals win regardless of Jags/Titans game. Jags win would just bump us up to 5th seed from the 6th. We also get in if we win and just the Ravens win, and Titans/Chargers lose.

How do we only have a 13% chance? If we win and Ravens lose which does seem unlikely, we are in. Almost sounds like a 50/50 thing to This is why odds are so dumb. Chargers need to win and have Titans lose. 41% chance. (Their only shot to get in.) Plus even need a twist on depending on a specific combo of Ravens and Bills winning and losing. Bills need to win and have Titans and Chargers lose OR have the Ravens lose to the Bengals and we get in. 13% chance. Seems rather silly odds when we are all playing division games, the Bengals and Raiders are only 2 games behind their respective opponents, and the Jaguars are 2 games ahead of their opponent.

Yet again the result isn't the point. The point is that Tyrod deserved to be benched based on his performance. Yes, Peterman did worse than expected, but that does not change the fact that Tyrod deserved to be benched.

Again, why didn't Tyrod use that magic against the Panthers, Bengals, Jets, Saints, Patriots 2x? Again it was Peterman's first start and 2 unlucky picks made a rookie in his first game lose confidence. Tyrod stepping up in any of those games (specifically the Bengals/Panthers) would make this entire thing a non issue and he probably wouldn't have gotten benched. He deserved to be benched, get over it.

Its fuzzy, so I looked at it briefly then gave up. I saw a TD on a short field gifted from our defense but otherwise the standard punt, punt, punt.

The Bengals game we didn't at all deserve to lose. Everything went our way that game. We deserved to win but could not capitalize. One could argue that means we deserve to lose, but we were clearly the better team. I guess Tyrod was saving his skills for the Chargers game he never got to play.

Jags would be tough, but I don't think they match up well with us. I think we would have Bortles number. Just looked at it and the Chargers are actually the team that couldn't make it if we did. So no worries on them. It would either be Baltimore or Tennessee in there if the Bills make it. We go through New England after the Jags in the majority of scenarios so that is where it ends. However if we did somehow pull off a win, we could end up facing the Titans or Ravens in the AFC Champ game. Of course this is all hypothetical. Gotta win sunday and get just a little bit of help.

We could beat the Jaguars, Chiefs, and (Ravens, Titans, Chargers) based on whoever else makes it. We got beat up by the Chargers in that game, but I think we hit the reset button on it and actually compete in a rematch. Patriots and Steelers would be challenging for obvious reasons.

...Context would mean taking into consideration the entirety of the season into "context". You are taking the season out of context when you put it all down to this Week 17 game. For every Panthers and Bengals loss for us, there is a Baltimore loss to the Bears or Titans. For every Panthers and Bengals loss for us, there is a Tennessee loss to Raiders or Dolphins For every Panthers and Bengals loss for us, there is a Los Angeles loss to Broncos or Dolphins