The Ravens are likely to lose to the Browns. Come on, Droford, you know how this works by now. I CAN'T TAKE THIS STRESS

I think I've given up on Football.

NUMBER ONE IN THE NFC SOUTH, BITCHES

yay Bills for staying alive and giving me a shred of hope before they inevitably crush my dreams yet again.

Johnny Football will be sack fodder for Elvis Dumervil to break the nfl sack record. He needs 4.5 to tie facing thad lewis next week. I smell 5 sacks in the last two games.

Also this is my feeling on how the playoffs will shake out. Ravens win the Division, Chiefs get a wildcard and the winner of Steelers/Bengals is in, loser is out.

Rooting for pittsburgh, sets up a winable wild card game at home vs KC and with Pittsburghs help vs Indy another shot at Peyton Manning in the cold.

Shit lost my consolation match by a point to the Thumpers. He had a guy score 40 points oddly.

I won in the loser bracket without even checking my roster the whole week.

Good job. You are the king of the ant hill.

And your MMA Forum has 3 active users

All guests. They don't count. Probably you on 3 browsers.

lol Droford

Being in a fight for the NFC South division title is worse than being... say... the Oakland Raiders in some ways. At least everyone just kinda forgets the Raiders exist. The NFC South teams have a huge spotlight on how shitty they are every week.

Sometimes I wish the Dolphins were in the NFC South.

Sucks we're in the AFC East, against 3 northern teams, and usually have to play them in December up there.

Indy needs out of the AFC South too. There's way more American real estate below them than above.

That's the Sanchez effect

Season is nearly over, so I think it's fair to ask at this juncture:

Is this the best crop of rookie WRs ever?

Odell Beckham ("Jr")
Mike Evans
Kelvin Benjamin
Sammy Watkins
Jordan Matthews
Brandin Cooks
John Brown

probably missing a couple names as well

But an incredibly great group of young receivers.

Jarvis Landry and yeah I'm trying to think of the others, but defiantely one of the best, if not the best since like 1996 or 97

<font color=goldenrod>In March the owners will be voting to expand the playoffs from 12 teams to 14 as well as changing playoff seedings. The proposed seedings would be: 1 seed gets a bye, 2 and 3 seeds are division winners with the next highest record/tiebreakers, and the fourth division winner will be guaranteed a playoff spot but seeds 4-7 will be based on record/tiebreakers. So for example, this year the NFC South winner would be the 7th seed and have to play the #2 seed on the road in Wild Card weekend.

The thinking seems to be that it's extremely rare for a wild card team to have a better record than the 3 seed, but the 5 seed has had a better record than the 4 seed pretty frequently. And of course years like 2010 and this year where both wild cards are better than the 4 seed.

I dunno. I'm a believer that if you win your division, you should not only make the playoffs but get a home playoff game. If the wild card team can't go on the road and beat an inferior opponent, they don't deserve to advance. Although it's fun to joke about it's never really bothered me that a bad division can produce a bad playoff team. In 2010 my 10-6 Giants stayed home while the 7-9 Seahawks got in. That's just the breaks.

Would be happy with 14 playoff teams though. It's still less than half the league, makes the 1 seed that much more important, and would make that first weekend of the playoffs extra fun.</font>

They should expand to 24 teams

Finish last in a division and no playoff
Win division get a bye
Week 1 3 seeds @ 2 seeds
Week 2 division championships
Week 3 conference semis
Week 4 conference championships
Week 5 super bowl

Only one extra week

Adding extra games to the end of a season? NFLPA would love you

49ers released Ray McDonald with the reason due to him being in legal trouble again. Also is likely facing a suspension due to the new NFL conduct rules.

Jay Cutler gets the hook, Jimmy Clausen's music hits

Terrible idea

Have two play in games for the two Wild card spots. It's not possible to have a fair conference way to do things when so much of your season is played in your division. To be fair conference record should be the thing that lines up your teams in the seeding not overall record. They'll never do that.

have 4 instead of 2

wc 1 vs. wc 4
wc 2 vs. wc 3

The two winners are the real wild card current teams and are put in to face the 2 divisional seeds 3 and 4.

It gives the divisional winners a bye and the top seeds two weeks off. It also punishes teams for being non-divisional winners making the divisional races more important.

There has to be some sort of cure. Right?

Lol had no idea Jimmy Clausen was still in the NFL.

Read this like 4 times and it didn't actually sink in til just now.

Everything is falling into place right now for the Lions. Either they will get a 2nd seed in the playoffs, or suffer a debilitating stomach-punch somewhere and make me hate football even more

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Breaking: North Korean terrorists take credit for the Bears laying down allowing the Lions to steal a playoff spot. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Clausen?src=hash">#Clausen</a></p>&mdash; Cousin Sal (@TheCousinSal) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheCousinSal/status/545366029266714624">December 17, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Cousin Sal the best

Allen Robinson (pre-injury), Marqise Lee, and Allen Hurns. ;)

Jaguars scoreboards are ridiculously huge

http://www.news4jax.com/image/view/-...scoreboard.jpg

http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/im...759&h=506&q=75

not their scores though.

True. The one bright spot of the Jags' season this year has to be their promising group of young receivers. If only they had an O-line that could keep Bortles upright, and anything resembling a running game.

Forgot last night's game was even on. I forget who I even took in my pool due to total apathy.

<font color=goldenrod>I didn't watch a single second of last night's game. Thursday Night Football sucks.</font>

c'mon # 1 draft pick, Titans

I thought owenbrown was a Chiefs fan for some reason, no idea why :o

passed 3:00 EST, wish Simmons posted his picks columns earlier... damn west coast (best coast)

Kinda looks like an American Indian. Might have some blood in him. But no he's a Titans fan 4 life.

Yeah, they really need an O-Line badly. As for the run game, Denard is pretty good, but Gerhart isn't. So we'll see what 2015 brings.

Mariota or Winston? Who is the next Titans QB?

<font color=goldenrod>Mariota is going #1. I can't see any other scenario. Winston is probably going in the top 5 at worst just because it's a shit QB class but there are major off-field risks there. So naturally Winston will be a Jet.</font>