NFL 2022: The Week 13 thread

Calling it now: Bills-Vikings in a Super Bowl that no team can win.

My brother and at least half a dozen other Ravens fans I know have been saying the same thing:

1) Pay Roquan
2) Trade LJ for 3 ones
3) Fire Roman
4) Trade Harbaughs with Michigan

If anyone needs a QB who's not very good at the job, Baker Mayfield will be available sometime this afternoon.

Love the fact that Steve Wilks is still cleaning house in Charlotte. Not thrilled that Carolina is now down to two QBs not worth a damn (vs three who aren't worth a damn so maybe they're better i dunno).

PS: To anyone who thinks Baker-to-SF is going to happen, keep in mind that CMC is a big Darnold-stan and one of the reasons (and maybe the entire reason) the Panthers held a sham of a QB competition in the preseason.

Also, too, the Niners already have one ex-Panther on their roster: Jacob Eason, who played for the Panthers in Week 6 vs the Rams after PJ Walker got hurt.

John Lynch: Tell me about Baker?

CMC: No, just no.

JL: Is he better than Brock Lessner Oswiller you got a Purdy mouth?

CMC: Maybe a little... f*ck.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

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CMC: Maybe a little...

No, no, no. Unless Purdy can't remember his phone password or how to tie his shoes, I'd stick with him.

Baker has been really, really, really bad in Carolina. I was a big fan of the Baker trade because he seemed like a competent QB, kind of a high-end Jake Delhomme, and a big upgrade over all the other QBs on the roster. But Mayfield wasn't even a low-end Jacob Eason. He was just ... bad. The damnedest thing, too.

Mayfield is a combination of bad an unlikable, which is very much not a good combination. The fact the 49ers are going to almost undoubtedly roll with Brock "Mr. Irrelevant" Purdy instead of #1 overall pick Mayfield says a lot.

Besides, Mayfield's a former first-round pick who's playing like crap, so it seems pretty inevitable he's going to be putting on that Colts jersey pretty soon.

Enix wrote:

Unless Purdy can't remember his phone password or how to tie his shoes, I'd stick with him.

It might seem like he can't after facing a defense that's had a week to figure him out. I don't think the Niners do anything crazy until after the next game.

Shanahan wants a QB that will execute his offense. Baker rolling into town with zero knowledge of the playbook doesn't move the needle.

That said, I wouldn't totally discount the idea of the team putting a claim on him to be QB2 behind Purdy. They're still nearly a lock for the playoffs, and need to add somebody to that QB room besides Josh Johnson.

Rather just roll with Deebo as QB than let asshole Baker near the team.

Until proven otherwise, I'm just going to assume Brock Purdy, who was born just a few months before Tom Brady was drafted, is the next Brady.

Brady. Purdy. Brady. Purdy. It checks out.

Which will make next Sunday's game against the Buccaneers a passing of the torch, from an overlooked 6th round QB turned all-time great to the overlooked 7th round QB on his way to becoming the next all-time great.

I was told last night during a Deep Rack Galactic game with a friend who lives in Iowa that he really believes Brock Purdy is going to be a great NFL QB because he was good at Iowa State. You know, Iowa State University, that traditional hotbed of explosive NFL talent.

Sorry, the state of Iowa only gets one great underdog QB story, and Kurt Warner took it years ago.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I was told last night during a Deep Rack Galactic game with a friend who lives in Iowa that he really believes Brock Purdy is going to be a great NFL QB because he was good at Iowa State. You know, Iowa State University, that traditional hotbed of explosive NFL talent.

Sorry, the state of Iowa only gets one great underdog QB story, and Kurt Warner took it years ago.

Is this friend the *Legion* of Iowa?

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I was told last night during a Deep Rack Galactic game with a friend who lives in Iowa that he really believes Brock Purdy is going to be a great NFL QB because he was good at Iowa State. You know, Iowa State University, that traditional hotbed of explosive NFL talent.

Sorry, the state of Iowa only gets one great underdog QB story, and Kurt Warner took it years ago.

Unless something happens to Touchdown Trevor and BEATHARD (who played at Iowa!) finally gets his shot at a redemption tour, that is.

Rat Boy wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I was told last night during a Deep Rack Galactic game with a friend who lives in Iowa that he really believes Brock Purdy is going to be a great NFL QB because he was good at Iowa State. You know, Iowa State University, that traditional hotbed of explosive NFL talent.

Sorry, the state of Iowa only gets one great underdog QB story, and Kurt Warner took it years ago.

Is this friend the *Legion* of Iowa?

I do have Deep Rock Galactic in my Steam account.

Purdy and Breece Hall gonna put Iowa State on the map. The mighty... (*checks notes*)... Cyclones!

You can't convince me that Ames, Iowa isn't anything more than the one Burger King right off the highway that I've stopped at every time I've gone through Iowa.

As someone who lived in Iowa for 15 years, my description of Ames is "Imagine Iowa City, except everything smells like pig sh*t."

Including the Burger King!

Ko Kieft just caught his sixth catch of the year. I had to check if he even had that many in college.Turns out, he had 12 but if you only look at his first four years, he only had 5.

Football jokes are going all over Dana Whites head on the Manningcast. Lots of awkward moments, especially when Eli asked him if he thought they should punt on 3rd and long

This might be my favorite Brady season.

Brady looks like he'd rather be on that slapping contest than on this football game.

These last couple comments didn't age well.

*Legion* wrote:

These last couple comments didn't age well. :lol:

You know who did age well, though?

I don't expect much this year, but, you know, as a fan, I got to watch three years of this, and, goddamn it, these are games that have never happened for Bucs fans. Where the hell was that for the first 55 minutes or so?

The bars for miracles must be getting pretty low if that's considered a miracle. And I say that as a Catholic who lapsed back in 1994.

Blew dat.

I guess Panthers fans now have something over the Falcons and Saints.

jowner wrote:

Blew dat.

I guess Panthers fans now have something over the Falcons and Saints.

The fatal and obvious flaw in Carolina's (probably futile) quest for the NFC South title was depending on the Saints to do something other than suck.

Enix wrote:
jowner wrote:

Blew dat.

I guess Panthers fans now have something over the Falcons and Saints.

The fatal and obvious flaw in Carolina's (probably futile) quest for the NFC South title was depending on the Saints to do something other than suck.

If it's between sucking and getting a better draft pick vs winning a division with one of the worst records. I'm choosing the draft pick.

Brady has 2 13 point 4th quarter come backs. Falcons everyone remembers. The game yesterday is pretty forgettable unless you know a Saints fan.

So, uh, there's apparently a chance that Jimmy Garoppolo's foot injury isn't as bad as initially believed:

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jowner wrote:

If it's between sucking and getting a better draft pick vs winning a division with one of the worst records. I'm choosing the draft pick.

Of course, if you're the Saints, not only are you not winning the division, but your draft pick belongs to the Eagles anyways.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
jowner wrote:

If it's between sucking and getting a better draft pick vs winning a division with one of the worst records. I'm choosing the draft pick.

Of course, if you're the Saints, not only are you not winning the division, but your draft pick belongs to the Eagles anyways.

3 of the teams currently holding top 5 draft pick slots (Broncos, Rams, Saints) don't have their own 1st round picks.

Rams will accept that fate because they sold their soul for one championship season.

Broncos at least will get to pick in round 1 thanks to having the 49ers pick (by way of Miami via the Bradley Chubb trade). I mean it will be pick 32, but still technically round 1.

Saints, well, I hope Trevor "Penalties and Injuries" Penning has been worth it. Goes to show you why you don't draft players from Northern Iowa and instead load up on mighty Iowa State Cyclones.