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Minority hire……ding ding ding. The 3rd round pick was worth more than be livhrk…….

The defensive holding penalty stopped the c Clock with under 5 min to go. this is a rule change needed. a team could strategize when trying to come back and preserve time outs by doing penalties like in this situation. The team could choose, take the penalty and stop clock or let clock run. Since 1st was made without the penalty.

Chester, you’re nothing but a cheater Use your hands to squeeze your soft balls, oh yeah i said cheater, nothing but a cheater usr your staff to spy on teams, oh yeah i said, “ bye bye, what a day,a year, a live it is” You know, well you know, you had it coming to you Now, celebrate is all I can do

Weekly voting will create new biases. early voting will be on reputation and not following early games too closely like with an upstart team going 3-$ or 4-2 than 1-5 and thrn this team ne comes this seasons new playoff team. Since thry voted early ignoring thst teams star pkayer, thr voting differential can’t make up the deficit over the rest of the season. A vote at the end of the year this players wins easily. I think voters are one voter out of each teams press pool then the rest are national level reporters.

Goff and Mayfield are in the playoffs. the Bears started 0-4. only 3 games were true loses. Early gb, at kc, at chargers. they went 7-7 after first 3 games In 3 of those loses loses ( in 7-7 stretch) they had 9+ pt 4th quarter leads tied in 4th with another. Other 3 were one score down in the 4th confidence is a dangerous thing in the nfl. They held onto one of those 3 blown 4th quarter games then they are going into the packers game tied at 8-8 and likely a winner gets the WC spot game.

Cicada hatches every 17 years

And cicadas hatch every 17 years….

It’s just a few weeks……

Previously posted….

bigger issue with streaks in division play playing twice a year. In modern nfl you tend to play teams in congpverrnce once every 3/5 years and 6/8 years on the road. Teams roster tend to change over significantly over 6/8 years.

I am surprised… you had QB issues. The team also had a 5-7 one score game record. I also get they are a crossroads with Henry likely not returning and Tannehill probably not back.

Yep you run into schedule problems with… Combine— push it later you get into March madness and nfl loses tv ratings on event. Indy is a regular host of something. UFA open date— this would need to move because of time to e v a l. If you moved drsft to before free sgrncy would totally change drsft strategy. Now free agency affects who you turn focus on drafting. NFL draft needs to move to later— then you run into college graduation ceremony conflicts. if they altered the playoffs where say 1-7 got in playoffs and 8-9 had a play in/WC round they could structure controlled interviewing where 28 teams are open for interviewing. The two games on Thursday and Friday. Weekend is open for interviewing those 4 teams. Playoff planning starts on Tuesday. For most teams it’s a week off before playoffs start. The 2 more games on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night and Monday night moves their too. if it happened this season sunday night last regular season game mon-Friday coach interviews for 28 teams Thursday and Friday JAX vs CIN, SEA vs NO. friday-sun coach interview continue for thurs snd fri game staffs. Monday decisions are due. Wednesday-Sunday quarterfinal round games

I agree with the premise of holding coach hiring till after conference championship game with thst off week for interviews and hiring. the issue is setting up a staff in time for the combine and free agency. they could move UFA opening date to April 1 and draft to weekend before Memorial Day ( but this would interfere with college graduation ceremonies) and draft combine move to third weekrnd in March , same weekend as March madness begins). NFL ratings would loose to this.

I agree…this would be a very unique situation with Chicago having #1 pick and Harbaugh on the market. Eberflus does not deserve to be fired.

In other news….the world is round…….

Many of the Bills fans you see are not travelers but locals to that area of the country who are connected to buffalo.

Bellichrck ….I don’t view him as GOAT. he rode a QB. He also hasn’t had success off his coaching tree. since he hasn’t succeeded post brady with QB. I expect them to draft a QB in the draft.

Another interesting stat continues… Steelers and Rams both went 5-1 in division and made the playoffs. Since 33 teams this is > 95% chance of playoffs if 5-2 in division. the % could be higher if they didn’t start with final week division games and have div winners rest starters and lose and end up not being 5-1. only about 5 teams went 5-1 and missed playoffs since this division format started.

Its interesting to see one score games and good and bad seasons explained. over the past few seasons Vikings have bern known for many one score games. 2023 was no different going 6-8. That's 14 out of 17 games. That's not factoring in their QB rotation. Tennessee also had a bunch of one score games going 5-7. Denver 8-9 this year, had a bad season last year in one score games. This season, as with most teams, thry were near 500 going 5-4. Buffalo went 6-6. All loses were 1 score . Baltimore also had all loses in one score losses going 4-4. Dan Francisco went 1-3. Only Cincy game was a 2 score loss. They also had the fewest. Dallas went 3-2 in theirs. Pittsburgh on the other hand went 9-2 , Philadelphia went 8-4. This could signal a drop off next year. Houston went 7-3., Cleveland 6-2. on the flip side…Charges went 3-8, Saints 3-6.

I looked at one weather forecast system …thats where my sources was. others might have difference but 7 days out still is unreliable

I think Fields is decent enough/ above replacement that if he changes teams he might have better success. in my season prediction thread I had bears as a WC team. They had I think 3 two score 4 th quarter leads they lost ( lions, browns, another team) and a4th quarter tie ( saints). They win one of those games, yeasterdays bears-packers coukd have been a winner gets WC game

Potential playoff rematches next year….. eagles-rams- packers all play each other coeboys-lions-bucs-49ers pkay each other packer-49ers, lions-rams, eagles-bucs in AFC bills-ravens-Texans-chiefs play each other fins-browns chiefs play Steelers and browns fins-Texans Super Bowl bills-lions fins-packers bills/fins-49ers/Rams cowboys/eagles-Browns/ravens/steelers cowboys-texans ravens-Bucs lions/packers-texans bucs-chiefs 49ers-chiefs

Look what it’s rates are on April 7 th and 8th….$765+ taxes

Interesting to see what happens in the QB market. Chicago and Arizona trade Fields and Murray respectively? Who is a QB away that might trade for them? Giants, Pats, Falcons, Broncos? who drafts a QB high in round 1 ? Bears, Pats, Commanders, Cardinals, Giants?

1 Carolina ( traded to Chicago ) 2 Washington 3 New England 4 Arizona 5 LA chargers 6 NY Giants 7 Tennessee 8 Atlanta 9 Chicago 10 NY Jets 11 Minnesota 12-13 Denver/Las Vegas ( coin flip) 14 New Orleans 15 Indianapolis 16 Seattle 17 Jacksonville 18 Cincinnati teams are sorted by worse record/ worse strength of schedule/ coin flip 19-24 Wild card losers 25-28 Division losers 29-30 Conference losers 31 Super Bowl loser 32 Super Bowl winner the above teams grouped have same record. Those picks orders rotate by draft New Orleans pick high in thst group will drop to the bottom in that group in round 2. to be determined ( traded pick) Cleveland pick —> Houston Houston pick —> Arizona