NFL 2016: Playoffs: Super Bowl LI

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Super Bowl LI
Sunday, February 5
New England Patriots vs Atlanta Falcons, 6:30 PM EST

Will the Dirty Birds finally bring it home?

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Or do we have to see this sh*t again?

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Some light reading for preparation:

Football Outsiders: Super Bowl LI Preview

Pro Football Focus: Ultimate Visual Preview for Super Bowl LI

Bill Barnwell's Super Bowl LI preview: Why I'm predicting a rout

The Ultimate Super Bowl LI Prop Bets Page

I don't particularly want the Patriots to win, but I really, really want the Falcons to lose. Badly.

I really want to see "this sh*t" again.

Go Falcons! Anyone but the Patriots again!

The heart wants the Falcons, but the brain is expecting "this sh*t again."

Go Browns! Oh wait...

Obligatory Clueless Gamer Superbowl Segment featuring Tom Brady and Dwight Freeney playing For Honor (Gronk and Lynch both make an appearance):

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Go Browns! Oh wait...

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This year is different for Browns fans. I mean, they've got two first round picks, and . . . uh, I guess that's not so new. Wait, they can draft a rookie QB, which . . . you know, never mind . . .

Ooh! They don't have draft pick #22 this year!

Spoiler:

Yet.

The Tonight Show puppies picked the Falcons last night. Not sure what their record the last few years is but go birds.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Ooh! They don't have draft pick #22 this year!

Spoiler:

Yet.

Miami has pick #22, and given that they traded away this year's 3rd and 4th rounders in last year's draft, they'd probably like a trade-down scenario to pick back up some picks.

*Legion* wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Ooh! They don't have draft pick #22 this year!

Spoiler:

Yet.

Miami has pick #22, and given that they traded away this year's 3rd and 4th rounders in last year's draft, they'd probably like a trade-down scenario to pick back up some picks.

Doesn't almost everybody with a competent front office like a trade-down scenario? I mean, Tampa picks at #19 this year (OMG NOT TOP TEN WE'RE ACTUALLY MEDIOCRE THESE DAYS BABY), and of neither Corey Davis or O.J. Howard is around, I'm begging for a trade-down.

Being that neither Corey Davis or O.J. Howard is going to be around at pick #19 . . .

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Doesn't almost everybody with a competent front office like a trade-down scenario?

I think fans do a bit more so than front offices. Which I will confess to indulging in. Trent Baalke collected draft picks like few other GMs. But outside of collecting those top-of-the-draft pick bounties, I don't know that trading down is as desired as outsiders tend to treat them. I think as you make your way down the board, trading down/up is more about moving to a position to take a player you're specifically targeting at a pick that would match their draft value, and less about just raw pick collecting.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
*Legion* wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Ooh! They don't have draft pick #22 this year!

Spoiler:

Yet.

Miami has pick #22, and given that they traded away this year's 3rd and 4th rounders in last year's draft, they'd probably like a trade-down scenario to pick back up some picks.

Doesn't almost everybody with a competent front office like a trade-down scenario? I mean, Tampa picks at #19 this year (OMG NOT TOP TEN WE'RE ACTUALLY MEDIOCRE THESE DAYS BABY), and of neither Corey Davis or O.J. Howard is around, I'm begging for a trade-down.

Being that neither Corey Davis or O.J. Howard is going to be around at pick #19 . . .

Maybe you could get a kicker in the first round to replace the one you drafted last year.

I'm nearly convinced at this point the Pats would trade down from the #1 pick if they ever got it just to avoid having to pay them a big contract.

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I'm hoping that the Falcons don't win and that the Pats lose. How's that for a rooting interest?

I'm figuring one team will be three TDs ahead in the fourth so I can go to bed early. By the 4Q they've rerun all the movie trailers and TV show promos five times already so there's no reason to stay up.

Not that I needed more reasons to loath the Patriots. But with them being Trumps team as well as finding out that Tom f*ckface Brady skipped the White House trip under Obama makes me not only wish for a Patriot loss but perhaps some sort of butt fumble type play that will haunt Brady forever.

I'm struggling to see how the Falcons can win outside of their offense being lights out. They'll have to score 30+ to win, no doubt.

Or someone on the Patriots' OL gets injured and Mr. Brady gets laid out a bunch.

I think the first quarter is critical - if the Falcons can get a couple of scores and a couple of stops, they have a chance. If the Patsies grind grind grind through the first quarter, then I don't see how the Falcons pull it off. Unless something bizarre happens, like a butt-fumble-six or something.

TheGameguru wrote:

Not that I needed more reasons to loath the Patriots. But with them being Trumps team as well as finding out that Tom f*ckface Brady skipped the White House trip under Obama makes me not only wish for a Patriot loss but perhaps some sort of butt fumble type play that will haunt Brady forever.

Well if we're basing it on politics New England voted Clinton and Georgia voted Trump. ;).

Huh, Kurt Warner and Terrell Davis got into the HoF. Cool.

Full class: LaDainian Tomlinson, Morten Andersen, Jason Taylor, Kenny Easley, Jerry Jones, Terrell Davis, Kurt Warner

JeremyK wrote:
TheGameguru wrote:

Not that I needed more reasons to loath the Patriots. But with them being Trumps team as well as finding out that Tom f*ckface Brady skipped the White House trip under Obama makes me not only wish for a Patriot loss but perhaps some sort of butt fumble type play that will haunt Brady forever.

Well if we're basing it on politics New England voted Clinton and Georgia voted Trump. ;).

That would assume everyone who voted one way or another is a football fan.. I mean the NFL is popular but lets not get ridiculous.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...

NOW this is political.. what a joke.

garion333 wrote:

Huh, Kurt Warner and Terrell Davis got into the HoF. Cool.

Full class: LaDainian Tomlinson, Morten Andersen, Jason Taylor, Kenny Easley, Jerry Jones, Terrell Davis, Kurt Warner

LdT? No brainer.

Fine with Jason Taylor, Kenny Easley, and even Jerry Jones; basically, if an owner gets in (and I don't see why they actually should), why not that plastic-faced douchenozzle.

Terrell Davis I was ambivalent on; very high peak, very short career.

Kurt Warner I though should have gone first ballot; two astoundingly high peaks, one of the best playoff QBs ever, went to the single best college on the entire damn planet.

Also, Morten Anderson? OH COME THE HELL ON NOW.

Seriously, they should just create a wing of people who just wouldn't go away so accumulated enough stats to crawl their way to the top of a leaderboard. Morten, Jerome Bettis, and Art Monk can hang out.

Woo! Four Seahawks in now!

Two short-career players went in, and neither of them was as good as the one that didn't.

There exists no argument in which Terrell Davis is a Hall of Famer and Tony Boselli is not.

Kenny Easley is in the same boat, he only played for 7 years. But he's a Senior Committee selection, so there's no issue there.

if an owner gets in (and I don't see why they actually should), why not that plastic-faced douchenozzle.

That's the sort of thing the "contributor" slot is for, and why it's separate from the player slots. I have no problem with that selection.

Also, Morten Anderson? OH COME THE HELL ON NOW.

He's sitting in Tony Boselli's f*cking seat.

Also, I'll just say this...

Morten Andersen
Seasons played: 25
Career FG%: 79.7%
Career FG% from 50+: 47.6%
Seasons ranked in top 5 in FG%: 5
Seasons ranked #1 in FG%: 1

Nick Lowery
Seasons played: 18
Career FG%: 80.0%
Career FG% from 50+: 44.8%
Seasons ranked in top 5 in FG%: 9
Seasons ranked #1 in FG%: 3

Lowery was, year-to-year, the more reliable kicker, ranking in the top 5 in FG% for 50% of his seasons, versus Andersen doing it for only 20% of his seasons. And he's not that terribly far behind Andersen in 50+ kicking, which is Andersen's calling card.

Oh, and if that's not enough, I forgot one other stat:

Spoiler:

Number of seasons playing home games inside a dome:
Morten Andersen: 22
Nick Lowery: 0

I'm of a mind they pushed TD, Warner and Mort through to get them out of the way. Sounds like Boselli got close but not in just yet. Is next year looking good for him?

Fwiw, Mort did attempt 84 FGs over 50 yds, while Lowery attempted half during his career.

Alex Mack has a fractured fibula. Hopefully for Atlanta this isn't a bad omen a la Eugene Robinson's little legal kerfuffle the night before Super Bowl XXXIII.

How can someone that can morph into a puddle break a bone?

iaintgotnopants wrote:

How can someone that can morph into a puddle break a bone?

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WE ARE 90s NICKELODEON SOULMATES! HUG ME BROTHA!

You know, it would be nice if my team didn't play in a division where two of the other QBs are the last two NFL MVPs and the other guy is a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

Also, painkiller or no, Alex Mack with a leg injury is blood in the water and the Patriots are going to spend the first quarter or so just trying to make him move as much as possible and try to get that leg hurting more. Can you say "repeated A-gap blitzes"?

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