NFL 2022: The Week 18 thread

The #Panthers requested an interview with #Giants OC Mike Kafka for their head coaching job, per source.

No, no, he... uh... sucks. He's terrible, awful, and he stinks. Like literally. Leave him in New York, you don't want him.

*Legion* wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

At this point I think the most likely scenario is that Lamar has no playoffs as Anthony Brown plays in a bloodbath in Cincy and Lamar gets dealt to Miami or Seattle for a crapton of picks.

I saw rumors that the Jets want to pursue Lamar.

Yeah. It is clear they needed to do this Roquan deal so they could franchise Lamar and have the leverage. It doesn't indicate either way whether he is going to stay or go, but my take is there is no way we can afford Lamar if he asks for a fully guaranteed 250.

Prederick wrote:
The #Panthers requested an interview with #Giants OC Mike Kafka for their head coaching job, per source.

No, no, he... uh... sucks. He's terrible, awful, and he stinks. Like literally. Leave him in New York, you don't want him.

You're probably safe. Carolina has requested to interview about 4-5 other OCs (all the usual suspects) plus Frank Reich plus Wilks plus Caldwell and maybe Harbaugh, too.

Besides, the last time the Panthers outbid the Giants for something, they ended up with a sloppy smock-wearing (air quotes) program-building dipsh!t who's now been sentenced to hard time in Nebraska. Best not to do it again lest history repeat itself.

Scott Turner is newly available. You can have him back Enix.

McVay has granted permission to his assistant coaches to pursue other jobs.

He gone.

Prederick wrote:
The #Panthers requested an interview with #Giants OC Mike Kafka for their head coaching job, per source.

No, no, he... uh... sucks. He's terrible, awful, and he stinks. Like literally. Leave him in New York, you don't want him.

It's alright Prederick, there's plenty of available OCs for the Giants to bring in...

Spoiler:

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McVay has granted permission to his assistant coaches to pursue other jobs.

He gone.

Awesome. Maybe this will convince Aaron Donald to retire as well.

A consideration Jane Coaston made today that I think is true:

If Josh Allen had gone to the Jets we'd never have heard about him again.

*Legion* wrote:

It's alright Prederick, there's plenty of available OCs for the Giants to bring in...

Spoiler:

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That's for the Tedford slander, isn't it?

Minase wrote:

Awesome. Maybe this will convince Aaron Donald to retire as well.

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Prederick wrote:

That's for the Tedford slander, isn't it?

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Lions fans retain a sense of humor despite a level of despair that make the complaints of Jags fans seem like mere whining.

On Reddit, they're slandering OC Ben Johnson so other teams don't, ah, make the same mistake they did.

I find it entertaining that the team most famous for Vontaze Burfict's mind shattering hit on Antonio Brown is now whining about Roquan Smith's little chest bump.

It sounds increasingly unlikely that Lamar will play in the wildcard game vs. the Bengals.

And even if he does play, it doesn't seem very likely that he'll be able to do many Lamar things.

Tua is officially out for the wildcard game against the Bills.

Not a good start for AFC wildcard QBs.

*Legion* wrote:

Tua is officially out for the wildcard game against the Bills.

Not a good start for AFC wildcard QBs.

Yes, but it is probably is for the best--there was a time I thought I saw a guy die on a football field this year, and it wasn't Damar Hamlin.

Extended playoffs starting to feel like an extended week of the regular season.

I'd say this might lower TV ratings but considering the recent stats that were shared apparently people don't care.

We keep watching so the NFL keeps giving us more. I guess for the Sunday slate I can passively pay attention early and shut down early.

Giants upset sandwiched between meh.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Yes, but it is probably is for the best--there was a time I thought I saw a guy die on a football field this year, and it wasn't Damar Hamlin.

It's really an open question as to whether or not Tua is going to have a career going forward.

Three head injuries in one season. The doctor who discovered CTE has urged Tua to retire.

He probably won't, but seems to me like the Dolphins need to begin making QB plans that at least prepare for the possibility Tua isn't there. Because if he doesn't step down on his own accord, further injury could take the decision out of his hands.

jowner wrote:

Extended playoffs starting to feel like an extended week of the regular season.

I hate the 7th seed. I want to go back to 3 divisions per conference and 3 wildcards. This playoffs we'd be without Tampa and I believe Miami in that scenario (Jags drop from lowest division leader to a tie for lowest wildcard with Miami and Pittsburgh, and I think win the tiebreaker via conference win %).

49ers assistant GM Adam Peters continues to reject GM job interview offers.

Considering that John Lynch came awful close to taking the Amazon money last offseason, I imagine everyone in the building knows that Lynch's time on the team is probably closing in on its end. He took a big pay cut to become an NFL GM, and he's only turned down larger gobs of money since to stay as one. Can't expect him to reject those paydays forever.

Peters will be made GM the instant Lynch leaves. He's in the same spot Eric DeCosta was before Ozzie left the Ravens.

jowner wrote:

Extended playoffs starting to feel like an extended week of the regular season.

I'd say this might lower TV ratings but considering the recent stats that were shared apparently people don't care.

The piece that stood out to me is that, while yes, viewership is down, the average age of watchers was forty-seven. And if you remove the TNF Amazon Prime watchers, the average age of a viewer is fifty-four!

This league gonna collapse. Eventually, but still. You can't support that long-term.

Oof. The Jets and OC Mike LaFleur are "mutually parting ways".

Have to imagine he's gonna end up joining his brother in Green Bay.

Top_Shelf wrote:

This league gonna collapse. Eventually, but still. You can't support that long-term.

If the NFL collapses, then TV as we know it will no longer exist. Folks still watch the hell out of the NFL.

This graphic is a few years old, but it suggests that the NFL, as gray as it is, still has a young audience relative to baseball, golf and college football and basketball.

That makes me wonder whether sports fandom (measured by eyeballs on screens) is like voting (something you do more of as you get older) or like the daily newspaper (whose subscribers populate the obits page). Also, too, the fact that streamers pull the average age down significantly suggests that the NFL has plenty of young-ish fans. They're just not watching games over the air or on cable.