Board 8 > NFL Discussion Topic - Week 8

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This has to be a lock, right?



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If you're betting on it, it's no longer a lock

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The three QBs with the most passing yards this year have one win each

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I feel like the Falcons are going to win, but there's just no justifying picking a team that's blown 3 games this season they've had at least a 98.6% chance of winning.

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I don't think I've ever not made the playoffs in the pick'em leagues here and I'm stuck at the bottom of the standings, so with the year I'm having the Falcons are absolutely going to win.

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Leonhart4 posted...

The three QBs with the most passing yards this year have one win each

It's a bit of a different picture if you go by yards per game instead of total yards, but that's mostly because Wilson up there for that one.

Dak would probably be leading the league in yards if he didn't get hurt too!

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davidponte posted...

I don't think I've ever not made the playoffs in the pick'em leagues here and I'm stuck at the bottom of the standings, so with the year I'm having the Falcons are absolutely going to win.

I have not missed myself, but last year I was 3 games behind 12th entering week 17 and managed to effectively steal a spot out of nowhere. All it takes is one super week.

I bet my season.. On the Jets.

Patriots will be down two more pieces for their week 9 game.. The Jets almost seem like an actually viable pick next week.

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I have made the standard league just once in my 12 or so years (with a very unfortunate elimination) while in Other league, I have made it three times, winning it all twice and losing in the semis the third because of a gaffe.
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Trevor Lawrence's latest move to potentially stay away from the Jets is testing positive for covid.

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if they can make an extra point this game is about over

uh oh falcons

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Honestly, it depends if the Panthers can get a completion over 5 yards. I've only paid loose attention but most of their throws that complete seem to be down the middle for 3 yards~

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davidponte posted...

with the year I'm having the Falcons are absolutely going to win.

Hmm

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I leave this game with the certainty that Atlanta is the much better team and that I've totally overhyped Carolina this season.

Good to know~

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vintage falcons. lose enough games to get out of playoff contention and then win games to blow their draft position

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Too bad they already fired Quinn or he'd be well on his way to saving his job again

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Leonhart4 posted...

The three QBs with the most passing yards this year have one win each

well yeah when you're losing you pass more!

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and yet the league's leading passer isn't usually from the worst team!

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The worst teams tend to have some of the worst quarterbacks

This year's kind of an anomaly in that known good QBs like Matt Ryan/Deshaun Watson (and even Dak before his injury) aren't winning football games despite generally playing well enough to put up gaudy numbers

Crescent-Moon posted...

I leave this game with the certainty that Atlanta is the much better team and that I've totally overhyped Carolina this season.

Good to know~

Falcons could (and probably should) be 5-3 right now. They are a decent team roster wise. They've just made crazy mistake after mistake

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davidponte posted...

Trevor Lawrence's latest move to potentially stay away from the Jets is testing positive for covid.

least surprising development ever, speaking as someone whose family lives in south carolina. covid's having a damn party all over that state.

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Yeah, the Falcons are a better team than their record indicates. They've just had unbelievably bad luck.

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I feel like if they had one of those losses, it could maybe be attributed to bad luck

when you lose three of them it becomes complete incompetence

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I mean, yes, they've done some dumb things like not falling on that onside kick, so I'm not saying they aren't complicit in their own demise, but some of those comebacks are still highly improbable even when you do stupid stuff.

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KommunistKoala posted...

I feel like if they had one of those losses, it could maybe be attributed to bad luck

when you lose three of them it becomes complete incompetence

Of course its incompetence. I'm just saying don't be surprised when they beat decent teams because the talent is there

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This is both one of my favorite clips and an accurate summation of the Falcons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Q-oCvbEtU

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I just want the Packers imminent rampage over the Vikings is swift and comically offensive. 50 points, 60 points. Don't care. The season is a waste, and just want to see how everything burns going forward.

1-5 already, season ending injuries, etc...good god. This could be a rough end season to beat them all.

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I bet packers vikes ends up being close, honestly. it just depends on if cousins can keep it together.

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I mean, the most Vikings thing ever would be losing to the Falcons, usurping their suck and the Jets to draft Lawrence somehow.

$30-40 mil cap tied to Cousins, whether they keep or ditch him, whether he succeeds or fails. GAH!

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Yeah, the Vikings are stuck with Cousins, whether they like it or not.

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Yes but consider the following:

Vikings somehow get the #1 overall, trade down and get the #2 overall and whatever other pieces from the Jets

Vikings/Packers will be close. The two worst teams on the Vikings' schedule are the two who blew them out. They lost to both Tennessee and Seattle by 1.

They'll lose this game close too~

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packers blew them out too to be fair, that score is purely the effect of garbage time

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I am oddly worried that the Bengals will make us look bad tomorrow

Not necessarily beat us but just hang tough and give us fits

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No Gilmore or Edelman for the Pats. Full tank mode is being achieved.

My years of Toronto sports fandom which for a long time felt like an eternal tank has prepared me for this.

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KommunistKoala posted...

packers blew them out too to be fair, that score is purely the effect of garbage time

Well, that, but not purely so. The Packers' defense not being good contributes a decent amount.

davidponte posted...

No Gilmore or Edelman for the Pats. Full tank mode is being achieved.

My years of Toronto sports fandom which for a long time felt like an eternal tank has prepared me for this.

This is our opportunity to LOCK the Jets next week!

...Just kidding

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My heart wants the Jets to win but my brain is telling me no

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Bell's ultimate revenge is actually for the Chiefs to lose this game because he knows it'll be more damaging to the Jets to win!

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I'd win $100 if the Jets win so kinda hoping they do!

davidponte posted...

My heart wants the Jets to win but my brain is telling me no

Jets win, Gase fired for actually winning a game. Woody Johnson evil master plan to ruin Trevor Lawrence fails

I agree though, the Jets will see the Patriots are in shambles, no show to the game, and get crushed by their remains.

Also, the Giants kicker apparently got suspended.

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Jets/Chiefs is already over. That didn't take long.

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Great start from Tua, getting strip sacked on his first dropback.

Fitzpatrick would never. Except when he would.

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davidponte posted...

Great start from Tua, getting strip sacked on his first dropback.

Fitzpatrick would never. Except when he would.

Hey it didn't end with a dislocated hip, so that's an improvement

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Dalvin Cook killing it. If he wasn't injury prone...holy crap this team would actually win more...maybe.

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This is what I was worried about

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Dantzler is fucked up....

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I dropped Stafford and picked up Tannehill so his early poor performance is on me. I'm all of a sudden free falling after starting 4-0.

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unfortunately I definitely live in the worst timeline and the most interesting game I get is the mediocre Rams versus the assassination of ryan fitzpatrick by the coward Dolphins

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I am choosing to watch Pats/Bills which is probably worse.

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