NFL 2021: The playoffs thread

garion333 wrote:

Whelp, guess I don't need to watch this game.

New England's defense doesn't feel the need to play the game.

garion333 wrote:

Whelp, guess I don't need to watch this game.

Now you definitely don't.

Yikes. I thought Bill would make this competitive.

I'm sure the only people who think the game's still up in the air are Falcons fans.

Rat Boy wrote:

I'm sure the only people who think the game's still up in the air are Falcons fans.

If only New England hadn't blocked that extra point, they'd be at the right score to start the comeback.

Rat Boy wrote:

I'm sure the only people who think the game's still up in the air are Falcons fans.

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garion333 wrote:

Whelp, guess I don't need to watch this game.

Dildo alert!

TACKLE ELIGIBLE TD

*Legion* wrote:

TACKLE ELIGIBLE TD

One of those you-haven't-stopped-anything-all-night-now-stop-this-suckers kind of plays. Woof.

47-17 final score and it wasn't even as close as that.

What do you wanna bet that Brian Daboll suddenly gets even more interview calls this week?

Well, shockingly, you cannot win a playoff game when your secondary includes JoeJuan Williams, Myles Bryant, D'Angelo Ross, and Davante Bausby, and one of your starting safeties wearing a cast. The Patriots' small chances of staying in the game went away quickly with that Bolden drop and that amazing pick by Micah Hyde.

Still a very good year for the Patriots in perspective. Their playoff drought lasted a whopping one year. They have a QB they can invest in and they can very much address their roster needs. I still think BB has a lot to think about what a rollercoaster the defensive performance of the team was, especially towards the end of the season.

Every single Buffalo offensive drive ended with a touchdown, with the lone exception being the final possession of the game consisting of three Trubisky kneeldowns.

In the Jags 62-7 retiring Marino game, as well as Buffalo's 51-3 rout of the Raiders in the 1991 AFC Championship, there was defensive scoring involved, and short offensive drives from turnovers.

In the 55-10 Niners Super Bowl win over the Broncos, it was all offensive points for the Niners, but they still punted 4 times. And again, some short fields after turnovers. One of their possessions started on the Denver 1 after a fumble recovery.

The two turnovers the Bills got started them on their own 20 and 42. Much less free field position than those other games.

This might be the most dominating offensive performance in post-merger postseason history. The only thing that kept the score from reaching the heights of those other ballgames is the New England offense's ability to control some clock and reduce the total number of Bills possessions.

Pink Stripes wrote:

Dildo alert!

From the story about it on PFT:

It started in 2016. The first one had Brady’s name written on it. In 2018, a fan was arrested for throwing one at a Patriots-Bills game. He actually spent the night in jail for his violation of the penal code.
*Legion* wrote:

Every single Buffalo offensive drive ended with a touchdown, with the lone exception being the final possession of the game consisting of three Trubisky kneeldowns. ...

This might be the most dominating offensive performance in history.

FTFY.

Apparently the Bills are the only team ever to go an entire game without punting, kicking a FG or turning the ball over.

I think that was 20 years of frustration against the Patriots boiling over into an epic beatdown.

Hey, remember when the Pats broke the Bills by running all over them and only throwing like 3 passes. Guess...

Nobody circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills!

Enix wrote:

Apparently the Bills are the only team ever to go an entire game without punting, kicking a FG or turning the ball over.

They're also the only team in NFL history to play an entire game against Urban Meyer without scoring a single TD.

Same team, same year. WTF.

Let Brady be great on his own. Even Troy called out that bullsh*t penalty. I get that this is the NFL poster child but come on man.

[whisper]What if I told you that was the second Roughing the Passer penalty for Brady the entire season, and the Bucs were hurt more by penalties than most teams in the league . . . [/whisper]

TheGameguru wrote:

Let Brady be great on his own. Even Troy called out that bullsh*t penalty. I get that this is the NFL poster child but come on man.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

[whisper]What if I told you that was the second Roughing the Passer penalty for Brady the entire season, and the Bucs were hurt more by penalties than most teams in the league . . . [/whisper]

Reminder that Guru is a Philly fan. You might be better off not posting the rest of the game.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

[whisper]What if I told you that was the second Roughing the Passer penalty for Brady the entire season, and the Bucs were hurt more by penalties than most teams in the league . . . [/whisper]

So you mean the league front-loaded all their penalty calls against the Bucs in regular season games that Tampa could win anyway, so that having the calls all go Brady's way in the postseason is just regression to the mean. I see how the conspiracy works...

This is reminding me of the first Bucs/Eagles game; Hurts looks rattled and is going into scramble mode rather than going through any progressions, and just threw a WR screen to the right side where the defense was pretty clearly heavily loaded rather than taking a one-on-one to the other side. He's been really iffy on anything more than 6-7 yards past the line of scrimmage, and the running game's been basically a negative.

Of course, if Bucs offensive linemen keep breaking every five minutes, it's very much looking like a Pyrrhic victory anyways.

Prederick wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Whelp, guess I don't need to watch this game.

This game is going to re-open the "is Jalen Hurts really the guy" discussions for a whole offseason.

Go sit down already Brady.

WE WANT GABBA

We don't want to see a Brady no more
Blaine is a QB that I could go for
GABBERT GABBERT HEY
GABBERT GABBERT HEY

While we're at it, put in Minshew, Philly.

Just a reminder, last month Minshew asked his head coach what it would take for him to win the starting job, and Sirianni told him it's "not going to happen".

This is literally the perfect time for Minshew to be in; in his career he's 95/163 for 1004 yards, 6 TDs, 2 INTs. When behind? 447/694 for 4965 yards, 35 TD, 10 INT. He's done a really great job padding his statline against soft defenses who don't really care if he completes passes as long as clock is being burned. Down 31-0 is absolutely the perfect time for him to come in and put up some solid numbers so a team can overpay him to be starter next year.

Is it fair to start asking if expanding the playoffs was such a good idea for the watchability of the sport?