NFL 2018-2019, We'll all miss Ed Hochuli's guns

[Sartris]

13-23 for 153 yards and two picks means all the other girls at the ball are pretty ugly

The feel good is the direct deposit hitting his bank account

[ANS Kamas P81]

They can't pay you enough to do a job you hate, but they can pay you a hell of a lot to do a job you like but aren't any good at!

[Sartris]

I have zero issue with dudes collecting checks for jobs where they are totally replaceable. Most of my lifetime earnings rely on that model

[Kit deSummersville]

13-23 for 153 yards and two picks means all the other girls at the ball are pretty ugly

The feel good is the direct deposit hitting his bank account

With that O line and receivers? The one pick was bad but the last was a desperation heave. Plus he’s been with the team all of three weeks, after not playing for years I think is a pretty good showing.

[Sartris]

20 teams in the league have bad lines and mediocre skill position players so that’s the line you’re going to get from him pretty much everywhere. Good on him for not being Peter Man bad and it’s a nice story but in this machine he’s pretty big standard

[Kit deSummersville]

20 teams in the league have bad lines and mediocre skill position players so that’s the line you’re going to get from him pretty much everywhere. Good on him for not being Peter Man bad and it’s a nice story but in this machine he’s pretty big standard

20 teams are not starting a pair of third string guards. The ****** made plenty of poor decisions in making that team but their O-line injuries go far beyond what is normal in the NFL.

[Sartris]

Yeah bad times. He’s not much better on the Titans or Dolphins or any other 7-9 or 8-8 team. Miraculously serviceable and suitably cheap is the epitaph on this phase of his career

[monbvol]

I'll be honest I think Seattle only won because they felt ashamed about losing to San Fransisco last week.  They just looked more interested in winning and KC still was within a shout of pulling it off.

Over all a really great game to have watched.

[ANS Kamas P81]

There were a couple penalties on the Chiefs that turned 3rd and long failures from the Seahawks into 1st and 10; KC could have used those turnovers. At least one of those ended up in a Seattle TD right afterward, so...  Still some great effort and some incredible passing on both sides.

I imagine they're going to take next week easy, with the playoff berth cinched, and maximize the rest and prep they get.  Prevent last-game injuries from taking out their majors, at least.

[Tai Dai Cultist]

If I hadn't already given up on the Iggles' season...

It still requires a win AND a Vikings loss next week to not be over, but I gotta admit I gave up too soon.

[Sartris]

The eagles making it in is actually the more likely outcome. Chicago wants to win because beating the vikes in combination with a rams loss means a bye. The latter is unlikely but it should keep the bears honest at least.

[ANS Kamas P81]

ohhh the Broncos are going to reconsider their punt pins after that one.

[JadeHellbringer]

ohhh the Broncos are going to reconsider their punt pins coaching staff after that one.

FTFY. Ready to launch Vance Joseph into the sun at this point.

[Sartris]

FTFY. Ready to launch Vance Joseph into the sun at this point.

"I wanted points there" rivals any nonsense gruden has let loose this season

[JadeHellbringer]

"I wanted points there" rivals any nonsense gruden has let loose this season

It's on the edge of being unintelligible. I keep thinking he meant to say something in another language and it just happened to coincidentally sound like he was being a ****** moron in English. Nothing else makes sense, because no one in an NFL head coaching position would actually be that gobsmackingly stupid.

But, they're gonna have a great week of practice, as he keeps telling us... here's hoping they don't even let him in the locker room after they lose to the Chargers on Sunday and just fire him on the sideline as the 4th quarter ends.

[Sharpnel]

It's on the edge of being unintelligible. I keep thinking he meant to say something in another language and it just happened to coincidentally sound like he was being a ****** moron in English. Nothing else makes sense, because no one in an NFL head coaching position would actually be that gobsmackingly stupid.

But, they're gonna have a great week of practice, as he keeps telling us... here's hoping they don't even let him in the locker room after they lose to the Chargers on Sunday and just fire him on the sideline as the 4th quarter ends.

BroncosFans: So say we all.

[Scotty]

Hell, I'll allow the Broncos gladly that tender mercy if he somehow manages to Rube Goldberg his way into getting Bob Sutton fired.

For ******'s sake the Chiefs offense has scored 26+ in every game this season and the defense is horrific enough that if the offense has "only" scored four TDs that it feels like we're losing the game already.

[ANS Kamas P81]

So who wants to bet Kiko Alonso's going to be shopping for a new team next season.

[rebs]

The packers were more determined to tank than the Lions.  Who needs pick no. 5 anyway? 8th is more strategically placed, the Lions get to sit back and watch their hopes slip a bit further away before the season begins yet again.

[monbvol]

All I know is I watched Barkley's leap live.

Seattle hosting Arizona, man did Seattle put on a real Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde.  One series they looked like they were completely manhandeled and later they would just dominate Arizona.

[CrossfirePilot]

Just realized that I never sat down and watched a Vikings game all season.  Sure I watched a few snaps here or there but never decided to watch a day of it. Opting instead to take my boys to the park or do some yard work or flight training.  I feel I have lost nothing by making that choice.

[Scotty]

The Chiefs have the 1st seed, and will host the lowest seed out of the Wildcard round (which, with the Chiefs' luck, will be the Chargers or Ravens, because both of those games were smooth sailing).

Also now concrete: the Chiefs will play at New England again next season, because apparently you don't get to play home-and-home with New England, it's 3:1.

[ANS Kamas P81]

Meanwhile, Jets and Buccaneers both fired their head coaches.  Three way tie for second-to-last, between the Jets, Raiders, and 49ers; I expect there'll be more news coming out of them sooner.  And of course, coming in rock bottom, the 3-13 Arizona Cardinals...ouch.

Glad I'm in Nebraska now.  Go Chiefs!

[Kit deSummersville]

Oh, I'll give this a shot

AFC East: New England
AFC South: Jacksonville
AFC West: San Diego
AFC North: Baltimore
Wild Cards: Kansas City, Tennessee

NFC East: Dallas
NFC South: Atlanta
NFC West: Los Angeles
NFC North: Minnesota
Wild Cards: Philly, New Orleans

Well, I got half of the division champions correct and had two others as wild cards. I think everyone over estimated Jacksonville to some extent but I was way too optimistic with the Falcons.

[monbvol]

With the hall of fame game completed time to resurrect this thread with some predictions.

AFC:

East: Even if Darth Bill has decided to burn it all down I don't see anyone other than New England claiming this division.

South: Titans look the most solid but this one I'm prepared to be wrong on.

West: Kansas City.  Only Oakland looks like they could challenge.

North: Steelers.

Wild cards: Oakland, Cincinnati

NFC:

East: Dallas.  I expect Philly to fall off hard, the Giants are dysfunctional, and Washington is not only dysfunctional but I wonder if there is something in their water.

South: Tampa Bay.  Cam will whine too hard for Carolina to focus and everyone else looks to be questionable at best.

West: Pains me to say this but San Fransisco.  I don't think Seattle's improved their O-line enough and as much as I maintain Sherman has been succeeding more by reputation than ability for a while now that reputation is working for someone else now.  Arizona is in rebuild mode and the Rams will certainly make it a good show this year but I expect them to fall just short.

North: Green Bay mostly because someone has to.

Wildcards: Rams, Vikings

Super Bowl: Steelers over the 49ers in what should be an overall good but ultimately dissappointing game.

Well I'm still convinced Bellicheck is playing a subtle game of "I want Brady gone but Kraft won't let me" but the AFC East is going to remain a gimmie for the Patriots until someone cracks their code.

AFC South I knew was going to be very difficult for me to predict but I'll admit I didn't see either the Colts or Texans being this good.

I knew KC was going to be good but dang did I whiff on Oakland.

The AFC North was the Steelers to lose this year.  So of course they did.

Okay NFC East was easy to see coming for the most part.  I'm not sure what makes Foles work so much better for the Eagles than Wentz but I could see Dallas coming even before the Cooper trade.

NFC South I just plain whiffed on.

NFC West I really though the distractions of LA would have kept the Rams more of a mess than they turned out to be and losing Jimmy G so early certainly curtailed San Fransisco's hopes and exposed a lot of other holes they still need to fill.

NFC North I can pretty squarely put my being wrong on the Mack trade.

[JadeHellbringer]

I'm in. All predictions subject to edit due to training camp injuries and such.

AFC East: New England (Why do we even bother guessing...)
AFC South: Jacksonville Rose sure came off that one fast.
AFC West: Kansas City Pretty easy call, though the Chargers made that VERY interesting.
AFC North: Baltimore This one was a toss-up when I called it.
Wild Cards: Pittsburgh, Oakland Aaaaand this is why I don't go to casinos.

NFC East: Philadelphia I expected better. I also expected Dallas to suck.
NFC South: New Orleans Easier path than expected- what happened to their division?
NFC West: Los Angeles Seattle looked good, but this was an easy call.
NFC North: Minnesota When I picked this, no one saw the Bears be that good. No one. Don't even try saying otherwise.
Wild Cards: Atlanta, Green Bay Again, not going anywhere near a casino.

AFC Champ: New England
NFC Champ: Los Angeles

Super Bowl Champ: Los Angeles

NEVER underestimate a Wade Phillips defense with a good offense backing it up. He won a Super Bowl with the shambling corpse of Peyton Manning on the offensive side a couple of years ago, imagine what that suddenly-scary Rams offense could do with his roaring defense backing it up?

(Side note, Denver homer predicts 5-11 with that idiot Vance Joseph fired as head coach around Thanksgiving.)

They were one win better than I thought, and a month and a half late firing that idiot. Pity Elway isn't going with him.

[Sartris]

any week graced by an andrew luck press conference is a week made better. so glad they're in the playoffs

[ThePW]

Only thing I gave two flying.... somethings about...

Whom does Dorsey have in mind for HC for CLE for the 2019 season?

Where is Williams going to coach?

Are we gonna kick some crap next season with the good players we got now?

[ANS Kamas P81]

Oh god I did not want to see that ankle injury...

[Sharpnel]

What ankle injury?