NFL 2021: The Super Bowl thread

There goes Burrow.

John Wolford vs Brandon Allen, could not be more epic.

Irish Spring was almost my favorite ad.

And then the mayo ad takes the top spot in the final stretch.

The Rams run game is awful

Dang.

Bah

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That porous offensive line finally caught up to them.

Maybe Aaron Donald retires?

Great effort but that O Line didn’t stand a chance

Well sh*t. Niners would have won.

At least Collinsworth has been in attendance for all 3 Bengals super bowl losses

Hrdina wrote:

Bah

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To repeat a joke I and many others have made, congratulations to the Rams fans. Both of them.

Eh, I was mildly entertained.

Now the Cardinals have the time-tested blueprint to win it all next year at home. Trade away Kyler Murray and anyone else your draft picks can get and you'll be hoisting the Lombardi Trophy thanks to your new quarterback... Qaaron Rodgers!

Enix wrote:

Eh, I was mildly entertained.

It was not that good of a game but I watched all of it.

Wake me up when *Legion* has his QB pre-draft thing up.

What terribly perfect team to win the SB for the NFL. The LA relocated team + players. Barf

Not gonna lie, 50 Cent looked like 65 And Older Cent.

Cooper Kupp looks and sounds like one of the cow herders on that 1883 show.

That mystery defensive holding call seemed like an appropriate makeup call for the missed OPI that gave the Bengals the go ahead TD in the third.

What, two pages of posts on the game, and at least half of those were about commercials and halftime show? Says something about how uninteresting the game was. Next day, and already can't remember much about it.

I remember OBJ got stupid shoes, looked great for 10 minutes, and get hurt. So a microcosm of his career.

Nice to see Stafford get the win but was also pulling for Cincy to finally win it. It was an entertaining game though it will be an intereting off season for the Rams in particular!

With the SB over, on to the draft!! It's a deep class this year but not so much for QB apparently.

The Rams won the SB.. does that mean that GM's over-value their picks and trading for players to win a SB makes sense on occasion? Do you waste the prime of your core players by only building through the draft? Curious if other teams look at this as a way to maximize their window of opportunity.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

What, two pages of posts on the game, and at least half of those were about commercials and halftime show? Says something about how uninteresting the game was. Next day, and already can't remember much about it.

Here's really about the only thing you need to know about the game:

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That said, I was kinda surprised this morning (no, I didn't stick around for the post-game) to learn that Cooper Kupp was the game's MVP. He wouldn't have been my choice, but it's better than Stafford.

Meanwhile, my heart goes out to those poor naive Bengals fans who think they'll be back in the Super Bowl a year from now. They'll be lucky to have a winning record next season because history.

Speaking of next season, ESPN dropped its first 2022 power rankings: Chiefs, Bills, Rams, Packers and Bengals.

In case you're wondering how these picks might fare, here are ESPN's picks in August for this season: Chiefs, Bucs, Bills, Packers and Rams seem about right, but you have to scroll all the way to 28th to find the Bengals. Ooof.

That suggest that most of these picks aren't so much wrong as lacking in imagination, much like the Bengals did in the second half of last night's game.

I'm fine with Kupp getting MVP, as the usual "game with no clear MVP so give it to the winning QB" thing didn't happen for once. I'd personally have given it to Aaron Donald for what that defensive line did to the Bengals in the second half.

Kupp or Donald were the choices. Even with obj out, Kupp couldn't be stopped.