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[Hueristic]

Seriously hungover but watching your guys match-ups.

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[morvillz7z]

Maddogs are the first team to reach the championship game/s, Temptations are holding a strong lead with only a few minutes remaining and will almost certainly be the second team to reach the finals.

Moon Coiners and The Interwebz wheelz have to, unfortunately, meet for 3rd-4th place match, after dominating throughout the regular season they both came short in the semis.

Taco and Psychotics will square off for the bragging rights to be the 5th best team in the league, i repeat Psychotics will not finish last...  

Cows and Mars Elon Muks have to determine who will finish last.

^ not final but 99% probability...

Who watched the Jaguars and Jets game? A 100-yard kickoff return touchdown, a 300-pound OL touchdown following a Lawrence fumble, and a 50-yard rushing touchdown by Zack Wilson. Lol, i'm not making this up, it has to be the strangest first-half action i've ever seen... NFL Redzone updates, i did not watch the entire thing, i'm not crazy.  

[Hueristic]

, i repeat Psychotics will not finish last...  

Edit: HOLY shit Cowgirls putting up monster numbers!

Southpark coming back to kick my ass!

[wheelz1200]

Maddogs are the first team to reach the championship game/s, Temptations are holding a strong lead with only a few minutes remaining and will almost certainly be the second team to reach the finals.

Moon Coiners and The Interwebz wheelz have to, unfortunately, meet for 3rd-4th place match, after dominating throughout the regular season they both came short in the semis.

Taco and Psychotics will square off for the bragging rights to be the 5th best team in the league, i repeat Psychotics will not finish last...  

Cows and Mars Elon Muks have to determine who will finish last.

^ not final but 99% probability...

Who watched the Jaguars and Jets game? A 100-yard kickoff return touchdown, a 300-pound OL touchdown following a Lawrence fumble, and a 50-yard rushing touchdown by Zack Wilson. Lol, i'm not making this up, it has to be the strangest first-half action i've ever seen... NFL Redzone updates, i did not watch the entire thing, i'm not crazy.  

Yeah my team was brutal over the last 2 weeks.  Worst 2 weeks of the year in points for me.  That's how the ff cookie crumbles!  Good luck to the finalists, moon corners it's all for bragging rights now!  Lol

[suchmoon]

Yeah my team was brutal over the last 2 weeks.  Worst 2 weeks of the year in points for me.  That's how the ff cookie crumbles!  Good luck to the finalists, moon corners it's all for bragging rights now!  Lol

Oh it's on. I will fight to the end to make sure I don't lose this match by more than 100 points.

[wheelz1200]

Yeah my team was brutal over the last 2 weeks.  Worst 2 weeks of the year in points for me.  That's how the ff cookie crumbles!  Good luck to the finalists, moon corners it's all for bragging rights now!  Lol

Oh it's on. I will fight to the end to make sure I don't lose this match by more than 100 points.

I'd have to score 100 points for you to lose by 100 😅.  I was in another league with some folks here this year and the same thing.  Team completely fltlined.  Had tyreke hill and he gets 20 something yards recieing.  And Robinson from Jax went out injured after 10 yards.  Roll in dalvin Cook getting sidelined and poof year over. 

Next 2 weeks ima rip it up though!!

[suchmoon]

I'd have to score 100 points for you to lose by 100 😅.  I was in another league with some folks here this year and the same thing.  Team completely fltlined.  Had tyreke hill and he gets 20 something yards recieing.  And Robinson from Jax went out injured after 10 yards.  Roll in dalvin Cook getting sidelined and poof year over. 

Next 2 weeks ima rip it up though!!

You still have Taylor who surely has a couple of 5xTD games left in him, and Colts will be fighting for the division title so no rest for him.

I think I'll keep my team without changes (unless there are injuries or other outs) across both games. Fiddling with the roster didn't really work out for me, should have trusted my best players and not moved them around because of a strong opponent or any such nonsense.

[DireWolfM14]

Who watched the Jaguars and Jets game? A 100-yard kickoff return touchdown, a 300-pound OL touchdown following a Lawrence fumble, and a 50-yard rushing touchdown by Zack Wilson. Lol, i'm not making this up, it has to be the strangest first-half action i've ever seen... NFL Redzone updates, i did not watch the entire thing, i'm not crazy.  

No coverage of that game in my local market, and I forgot to tune into RedZone.  I'll try to make time to watch the YouTube highlights sometime today.  I'm on PTO all week, but I've already spent most of the morning replying to work emails.  I like pretending I'm that valuable of an employee. 

Yeah my team was brutal over the last 2 weeks.  Worst 2 weeks of the year in points for me.  That's how the ff cookie crumbles!  Good luck to the finalists, moon corners it's all for bragging rights now!  Lol

It ain't over 'till the phat lady sings.  I still have the Saints' D/ST, and they could go -17 if they allow 6 TDs, 500 yards, and fumble a couple of punts.  It could happen.

Anyway, I'm not sure if reaching the final means I'm winning or if I'm just being sacrificed to realm of utter embarrassment.  But I'm not bitter, if by some miracle I win this thing beers are on me.

[South Park]

Edit: HOLY shit Cowgirls putting up monster numbers!

Southpark coming back to kick my ass!

Unfortunately for me it did not happen, the Cowboys benched their starters so that was the end of me, still congratulations, you had a lot of issues with injuries during the season and still you were able to avoid last place, so that is a testament of your skill in this game.

Also unless something crazy happens with the NO Defense then we will see the Maddogs vs the Temptations for the championship, I think the Temptations have a slight advantage as KC could rest their starters on the last week of the season forcing the Maddogs to change their lineup.

[suchmoon]

Anyway, I'm not sure if reaching the final means I'm winning or if I'm just being sacrificed to realm of utter embarrassment.  But I'm not bitter, if by some miracle I win this thing beers are on me.

It's a fine line between being the winner or the first loser.

[Hueristic]

... still congratulations, you had a lot of issues with injuries during the season and still you were able to avoid last place, so that is a testament of your skill in this game....

Thanks for the compliment man, means alot!

Also unless something crazy happens with the NO Defense then we will see the Maddogs vs the Temptations for the championship, I think the Temptations have a slight advantage as KC could rest their starters on the last week of the season forcing the Maddogs to change their lineup.

Direwolf could have just removed the D and not played one.

[bbc.reporter]

, i repeat Psychotics will not finish last...  

Edit: HOLY shit Cowgirls putting up monster numbers!

Southpark coming back to kick my ass!

I shake my head how it is possible that I could be last.

Also, Yahoo Sports’ storyline for the Cowboys going into the post season.



The scariest playoff team in the NFL? It’s the Cowboys and their terrifying defense

Unlike past iterations of Dallas defenses that too often folded under the weight of injuries or the spotlight of expectations, something happened in Lawrence’s absence. The Cowboys were forced to be creative and young in spots. And suddenly it got a whole lot better. To the point that when Lawrence returned in December, Dallas went about dispatching three middle NFC teams (including the Washington Football Team twice) in a fashion that turned expectations upside down.

Source https://sports.yahoo.com/the-scariest-playoff-team-in-the-nfl-its-the-dallas-cowboys-and-their-terrifying-defense-070442013.html



I am not quite certain where they based this article, however, if based on passing defense, the Cowboys are 20th this season. It is only in their last 3 games that they are doing very good. However, this is because their last 3 games were against the Redskins, the Giants and another game vs. the Redskins.

[DireWolfM14]

I shake my head how it is possible that I could be last.

That would be quite ironic.  Just three weeks ago you were still in the running for the playoffs.  There's a good chance that both the league champion and the league's worst finishing team will have finished the regular season with the same record.

Also, Yahoo Sports’ storyline for the Cowboys going into the post season.

The scariest playoff team in the NFL? It’s the Cowboys and their terrifying defense

Unlike past iterations of Dallas defenses that too often folded under the weight of injuries or the spotlight of expectations, something happened in Lawrence’s absence. The Cowboys were forced to be creative and young in spots. And suddenly it got a whole lot better. To the point that when Lawrence returned in December, Dallas went about dispatching three middle NFC teams (including the Washington Football Team twice) in a fashion that turned expectations upside down.

Source https://sports.yahoo.com/the-scariest-playoff-team-in-the-nfl-its-the-dallas-cowboys-and-their-terrifying-defense-070442013.html

I am not quite certain where they based this article, however, if based on passing defense, the Cowboys are 20th this season. It is only in their last 3 games that they are doing very good. However, this is because their last 3 games were against the Redskins, the Giants and another game vs. the Redskins.

This type of bullshit starts saturating the air-waves every year around this time (it's actually a week late this year.)   It's just writers filling up space in their shitty rag with some random argument based on such-and-such player returning, or such-and-such player out for the remainder of the season...  Most of the time these guys are guessing wrong, and in two weeks' time no will remember.

[South Park]

I shake my head how it is possible that I could be last.

I would not worry that much, I will do my best obviously but you won the two matches we had during the regular season.


And in other news it seems the NFL is reducing the time asymptomatic players will have isolate themselves from 10 days to 5 days, this is really important as there were many unvaccinated players that under the current rule had to miss 2 games and now if they remain asymptomatic they could lose just one game or even miss no action on the field at all.


https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-reducing-covid-quarantine-time-for-10-days-to-5-including-unvaccinated-players-221827807.html

[Hueristic]

I shake my head how it is possible that I could be last.

Covid has increased the chance factor to a ludicrous point.

this is the reason I took last year off.

I thought it would be behind us by now.

I blame Covid Cam!

Taco and Psychotics will square off for the bragging rights to be the 5th best team in the league,

Should be fun, nice job grabbing Wilson I was going to snatch him up if Mitchell was going to miss another week.

[bbc.reporter]

I shake my head how it is possible that I could be last.

I would not worry that much, I will do my best obviously but you won the two matches we had during the regular season.


And in other news it seems the NFL is reducing the time asymptomatic players will have isolate themselves from 10 days to 5 days, this is really important as there were many unvaccinated players that under the current rule had to miss 2 games and now if they remain asymptomatic they could lose just one game or even miss no action on the field at all.


https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-reducing-covid-quarantine-time-for-10-days-to-5-including-unvaccinated-players-221827807.html

I am curious if there are any records of vaccinated players being infected with the coronavirus and spreading them among those players similar to Covid Cam or Aaron Rodgers who do not want to be vaccinated? The vaccines might not be working.

[ChiBitCTy]

LOL yeah this is making very little sense right now that the Vikings of all teams have held stafford to just a few yards and 3 interceptions, just crazy. In other news, watching this Buffalo vs New England game ? I know it’s not over but I believe my intuition was right that Buffalo is the better team. I guess even if they win it’s still tied up one game a piece, guess we shall see how the playoffs turn out!

Yeah Bills are doing well but I'm watching Texans beating Chargers, the most overrated NFL team.

 In my opinion the Patriots are the most overrated team in the NFL.  I'm not saying they are bad or anything, but they just aren't great (IMO) and the teams they had been beating on this winning streak mostly were sub-par.  The main difference in my opinion with the chargers is that they have a star QB.  Their coach is certainly not as good as NE's nor is their defense, but their offense is pretty potent when healthy.  Though they are on the bubble for making the playoffs so we'll see if that even happens.

I am curious if there are any records of vaccinated players being infected with the coronavirus and spreading them among those players similar to Covid Cam or Aaron Rodgers who do not want to be vaccinated? The vaccines might not be working.

Negative, that is all private information.  HIPPA laws do not allow for that kind of stuff being made public.  & the Vaccines are working, the science is out there, but it of course can't promise it will prevent you from getting covid, just like flu shots have never guaranteed you wont get the flu, but it is for the most part either preventing covid or making it much less harmful if you do get it. 

[DireWolfM14]

Yeah Bills are doing well but I'm watching Texans beating Chargers, the most overrated NFL team.

In my opinion the Patriots are the most overrated team in the NFL.

The Cardinals are getting my vote, for many of the same reasons you gave for your vote.  I still think the Cards have a pretty solid defense, but not championship-without-an-offense level good.  The Patriots defense, on the other hand, might actually be that good.

The Vegas odds makers seem to be snorting the Belichick koolaid in powdered form:



   

I mean, who on earth thinks the Patriots are going to score 19 points, let alone out-score anyone by 19 points?  I predict they'll win this game, but they might do it by scoring nothing more than a safety.

I haven't been a very active gambler this year, but this week of hanging out in my pajamas has made me a bit stir-crazy.  Bellow are my "Safe Bets" for this week's multi (total odds 12.97.)

Cincinnati Bengals @ Kansas City Chiefs   
Kansas City Chiefs (-3.5)   1.77
   
Tennessee Titans @ Miami Dolphins   
Tennessee Titans (-1.5)   1.61
   
Washington Football Team @ Philadelphia Eagles   
Philadelphia Eagles (ML)   1.56
   
Pittsburgh Steelers @ Cleveland Browns   
Cleveland Browns (ML)   1.56
   
Green Bay Packers @ Minnesota Vikings   
Green Bay Packers (-4.5)   1.70

[morvillz7z]

The Vegas odds makers seem to be snorting the Belichick koolaid in powdered form:

I mean, who on earth thinks the Patriots are going to score 19 points, let alone out-score anyone by 19 points?  I predict they'll win this game, but they might do it by scoring nothing more than a safety.

Jaguars are well short-handed for this game, with 27 players on the covid/reserve list as of today.: Jaguars Have 27 Players On COVID List Ahead Of Game Vs. Patriots.

James Robinson tore his achilles last week, they've no coach, Lawrence has like one passing touchdown in their last eight games, and the Pats/Belichick are coming angry off two straight losses, so yeah,  -16.5 seems like a gift. 30-7 Patriots and you got NE D/ST.

[wheelz1200]

The Vegas odds makers seem to be snorting the Belichick koolaid in powdered form:

I mean, who on earth thinks the Patriots are going to score 19 points, let alone out-score anyone by 19 points?  I predict they'll win this game, but they might do it by scoring nothing more than a safety.

Jaguars are well short-handed for this game, with 27 players on the covid/reserve list as of today.: Jaguars Have 27 Players On COVID List Ahead Of Game Vs. Patriots.

James Robinson tore his achilles last week, they've no coach, Lawrence has like one passing touchdown in their last eight games, and the Pats/Belichick are coming angry off two straight losses, so yeah,  -16.5 seems like a gift. 30-7 Patriots and you got NE D/ST.

Yep I think you nailed that one.  I can see the Pats absolutely walking over the jags on this one.  I'm taking the Pats-16.5 all day in this game.  The Pats defense alone might score that much lol.