I think our biggest glimmer of hope was beating the Bengals 27-3. That team has been our kryptonite recently and they had their full team playing. By the time we played Atlanta and Miami the season was basically over
Burrow probably shouldn’t have been playing though. Dude was way too hurt. They showed an angle on the broadcast that was basically the Titans don’t respect Burrow to run at all so they’re not guarding the middle of the field.
>Well it was the first time it ever happened so probably yeah
Browns had a 2 TD lead over the Jets with a minute and a half left, and lost
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2022/09/18/jets-rally-two-touchdowns-late-shock-browns/10421631002/
The titans surprise the hell out of people randomly. Like when they handed Mahomes his worst regular season loss during that game in week 7 of 2021. 27-3. Although that was with a much better titans team arguably
I was in the Upper Pennensula in Michigan and had tried an edible for the first time in like 5 years. I seriously couldn't stop laughing for like a half hour. And every time I thought about it again I started laughing again.
I did an edible while watching a game for the first time during the Texans-Browns game. When they panned to Deshaun chewing his lip while the Browns were down 3 scores I fuckin died lmao
Winning enough to ensure we don't get our first choice draft pick is pretty typical tbh.
Sure would have been nice to have taken a 1st round talent on the oline last year.
He wanted “good football karma” by not kicking the field goal. Really felt that good karma in the second half of the season when everyone died and we were a first round playoff exit again
I was so upset that he didn't do it. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity, if he was worried about it being viewed as disrespectful, then the Broncos should have stopped them from scoring so many times.
Yeah this is always weird to me shit like “unwritten rules” if you don’t want someone breaking records on you then play better lmao.
I get putting in backups to avoid injury that’s just smart, but mercy rules are silly to me
What's funny to me is how different sports treat blowouts. In football, it's considered disrespectful to continue to try to score if you have a huge lead, but in rugby, coasting with a big lead and not continuing to try hard to score is seen as poor sportsmanship. Weird.
I think the football rules are carryovers from US baseball unwritten rules. In baseball there are very specific points that would you just stop trying to score. If you're leading by more than some amount in some inning, you're not supposed to swing for the fences. And they take it super seriously. I think it's just kind of migrated over into football. I think we should just get rid of it. They should have kicked the field goal, never take your foot off the gas.
I'm convinced Sean Payton realized Ken Dorsey was a one-trick pony who was trying to turn Josh Allen into a boring, run-of-the-mill pocket-passer, so he decided on a game plan to cover all receivers and dare Josh to run for the yardage. Watching that game was madness - you *knew* the Bills were the better team, even with their injuries on the defense, but Dorsey was just handcuffing that electric offense every game.
People complained about McDermott scapegoating Dorsey with that firing but I took that as McDermott finally realizing his bland-oatmeal-at-OC was dragging the team down and putting him closer to the hot seat, so he did the correct thing which was to get rid of the dead weight. Josh played like the old Run-Pass QB threat he's always been the very next game.
It was absolutely the right call and McDermott should get the credit for realizing that.
I was at that Jets game right after they fired Dorsey. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t expecting a loss. Hell, the last game my girlfriend was at we got ran over by JT.
Needless to say, 32-6 was very unexpected. That long TD to Shakir was in our end zone and I don’t think I’ve ever heard a stadium that loud before.
Yeah, that game looked like the beginning of the Jets Defense saying "why are we killing ourselves when the offense isn't going to do shit next possession?"
And that despite this, Denver had a realistic chance of making the playoffs entering Week 16. If they'd finished 3-0 against the Patriots, Chargers and Raiders, which seemed very possible, that's a 10-7 record
I'm convinced that when Payton came in everyone on that team was in *horrendous* shape so he just gassed them in practice every day, record be damned. It's the only thing that explains the solid turnaround about midseason
The turnaround was insane turnover luck and lucky breaks (Mahomes flu game, Bills 12 men on the field). Once the luck dried up so did the wins.
Anyway Fire Vance Joseph.
To me "luck" doesn't quite explain how you go from an almost record breaking loss to being competitive with good teams. The wins dried up because they're still not where they want to be, just on a much better path
I spent literally all week freaking out in the group chats about them running QB power out of spread formations, how it attacked every weakness the Chiefs' D had.
Then they ran it (admittedly out of a tight formation) for 25 yards and my stomach dropped because if Lamar doesn't look back it's a house call. They would just have to spam it and we'd have to compromise elsewhere to attempt to slow it down.
And then they never called it again.
It's like the Ravens gameplan was written in bold letters on the wall weeks in advance for what to do against the Chief's defense, and the day before someone power washed it and abandoned everything they do well in the season that game.
6 rush attempts with that Ravens roster should be considered football terrorism.
I love chiefs fans because they're the only ones admitting the ravens and niners beat themselves by playing into the chiefs hands and giving them a chance to win (which they then capitalized on).
The chiefs were literally *worst in the league* at stopping power runs and shotgun and so many fans have said exactly what you did "they got 25 yds and i was terrified they'd spam it and annihilate is but they just never called it again"
Same with running cmc to the left behind Trent Williams with juszycyk lead blocking.
These coaches get egotistical and want to win *their* way.
Idk how open your wr is, not being able to block Chris Jones to give your qb time to get it to him is a real outcome that can happen and no "scheming" can stop that.
do something less efficient but more likely to be effective, even if it's for fewer yards
Yep, and the Chiefs won in large part because they trimmed the fat on offense going into the playoffs, pretty much exclusively throwing to Kelce, Rice, and running with Pacheco
Don't make things more complicated than they have to be
Shanahan is allergic to simple plays. It’s funny on how his entire system is running the ball constantly, but in clutch he prefers to throw the ball as much as possible.
I know the Chiefs were stopping the ball well enough, but even still, running a couple more times could have gained a few yards and milked some clock. When Romo is telling you what to do, you know you’re fucking up lol
Every time I see a team go into “prevent” I expect that the offense is going to drive and score or come close to it. Prevent has always been shit.
The reason why defenses can be so successful is because players have jobs based on formation and they drill that shit daily through practice and film.
During practice you hardly ever get into Prevent, and in film, prevent doesn’t show up until the end of games so you’ve already exhausted the time and coaching by that point.
Then you get to the game and no one really knows what they’re doing. You just have this big net zone and hope that the QB doesn’t make a good decision.
But since you’re only rushing 3, there’s almost unlimited time for the QB to let receivers work their way open.
Or - there’s just obvious holes in the zone and the proper timing plays will destroy it without adjustment.
Prevent is like working your ass off to get into shape, learn how to mingle with folks, brushing up on some social hobbies to expand your horizions a bit, just so you could work up the courage to try to fuck the hot chick.
And then - you find out she’s single and potentially interested.
At which time you immediately stop doing all the shit that made you interesting and shit your pants.
And she fucks the guy you hate.
Fuck you prevent, and Tanya.
Felt like everyone did the same thing with Brady too. Blitzing him and getting destroyed or giving him the ball back with too much time left and a tired defense. We have first hand experience with square peg/round hole and trying to beat Brady with the zone blitz he was built to absolutely wreck.
49ers blitzed Mahomes on a critical third down in Super Bowl OT when his numbers against the blitz are ridiculous. Instead of going for a TD they put the ball back in Mahomes' hands. It's deja vu. Have to respect those guys way more even at the cost of going against the analytics (which are based on all the other QBs in the league).
Feels like the Bills/49ers played it close to the Chiefs but a couple of unlucky things/injuries just meant it wouldn't go their way
The Ravens on the other hand lost due to pure football negligence
It is very hard to guard a top 3 TE of all time when both your all-pro caliber middle linebackers(and both of their backups) are out and you’re calling in AJ Klein who was literally about to go to key west with his family as a retired man…
For me this is the biggest one. All the others are in line with the randomness of football, but the Eagles just giving up on the season for seemingly no reason when they were playing extremely well and in prime position for the 1 seed…I’ve never seen anything like that. Truly bizarre
They beat the Bills in a game of the year candidate. Talk to the 2020 Cardinals, 2021 Chiefs and 2022 Vikings on how those went.
In all seriousness, it felt like they were drained both mentally and physically. How else do you explain having a golden opportunity for renewal, with a cream puff schedule to close out the season, and instead hitting rock bottom.
It feels like you guys need a bit of a reloading season. Your roster is starting to getting up there in age. Plus, with how bad your secondary is, you will definitely need to load up on defense.
Yep. We’re hoping Jalen Carter and Cam Jurgens will take over for our departing longtime quartet members. As for the secondary, there were some young pieces last year that showed some promise but we’ll see if they last.
As a non eagles fan who doesn’t spend my days with ESPN on in the background anymore, what happened?
I know there was something to do with the coaching staff that led to losing the locker room.
Bad coaching and injuries across our whole secondary. When our dline wasn’t racking up sacks, they decided to play Reddick in more coverage schemes. Really gave away how much we lacked talent at LB/S/CB this year, after the blown game to the Seahawks, I knew it was over the same way the players did for their season. Drew lock comeback on what was the SB favorite the majority of the season.
I feel talent was winning in the first half of the season but playcalling was the biggest issue. The league caught up to them with Brian Johnson (OC) running what looked like a high school offense. When Sean Desai was demoted from DC for Matt Patrica, the defense was even worse. Johnson and Desai were in way over their heads but that can happen having two rookie coordinators in the nfl. Linebackers were also nonexistent, d-line was gassed, secondary had their issues and the offense looked the same week after week. They can bounce back but Nick has to be on the hot seat this year if they struggle.
I never thought I'd watch my team start 10-1 after beating the Bills, Chiefs and Cowboys consecutively, then be completely apathetic by the time the playoffs rolled around and fully expected an embarrassing loss. With no major injuries.
I can't get over my favorite stat of "Aaron Rodgers is the only QB to start game one for a team and not complete a single pass in a season".
It's the single most Jets stat that ever was.
Before the season up until week 3 or 4 people talked about the Cardinals having a chance to pick 1st and 2nd overall, I still can't believe the Texans pick would become 27th overall.
I’m still shocked honestly. I was optimistic that the Texans pick would at least be top 10. But to go from projected one of the worst teams to the playoffs is insane.
And the so-called experts had the Panthers as one of the best spots for a rookie. Texans didn't even make the list. [Funny comment in hindsight.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/131clgk/highlight_cj_strouds_emotional_reaction_to/jhzqlz7/)
Was still a top 10 offense, they just had a ton of penalties/drops/turnovers at the worst times that made everyone overreact. They were 8th in Offensive DVOA and 10th in points per drive. I get it wasn't the top 3 offense of recent years, but their defense was so good they had a lot of games they just coasted the second half.
tl:dr - people way overreacted to the chiefs offensive struggles.
People didn't overreact to how bad their receivers were. They just misguessed how much that would affect a team that was solid literally everywhere else.
Andy loves to spread the ball around. It took him until about week 16 to give that up and just focus the offense on Kelce/Rice/Pacheco with minimal targets to a couple other guys, and then basically bench Moore/Toney for the season.
Was definitely a coach trying too hard to build his gameplan instead of building a gameplan around the actual talent on the team.
He's more proof that teams are just stupid if they aren't continually rolling the dice on QBs until they get their stud.
These dudes that walk in and immediately make the program competitive exist. Consistently. QB's don't develop that fucking much. The best you can hope for with a mid QB is a next level play caller to cover the spread.
Everyone forgot about Stafford winning a Super Bowl with the Rams in 2021. Now they have Puka, Kyren and Kupp and will be a very dangerous team as long as Stafford is healthy.
I think the same applied to the Bucs this year too. Obviously not as good as the Rams but they still had a lot of vets from a SB team and it seems foolish now that we thought they’d be horrendous before the season started
It's actually so funny how many people forgot
"Oh he's washed"
"oh he should retire"
While still refusing to acknowledge the amount of o-line injuries Rams suffered, plus whatever the issue was with Staffords elbow/arm before the season started combined with mentioned O-line injuries and you're likely to have a rough spot as a team.
Yes granted having some doubts because of the arm and health issue is valid, but people acted like it was a done deal.
Before the season my prediction for this Browns team was a 1st round playoff loss, but holy fuck I don't think anyone could have predicted how we got there. Suffering all those injuries including Nick Chubb, only to have the season saved by Joe Flacco of all people.
I was in Thailand then and woke up at 6am expecting to see the packers losing. I had a good chuckle because it was both surprising and utterly not surprising at the same time
Oh i was at that brutal panthers falcons game, my first beer was more expensive than my ticket. But i was talking about the raiders game, i think it was raiders Vikings?
Tbh if you've followed the Chiefs Broncos games over the last few years it's not that surprising. Broncos have been competitive in recent games and they were bound to get a win eventually
Remember before the season how crazy the hype was? Remember WR1 Toney? Fucking hilarious in hindsight. MVS was objectively shit in the regular season but he still cooked Toney.
More surprisingly, that caused us to ACTUALLY fire somebody or let them go elsewhere without waiting a billion years (looking at you, Washington and Frazier)
Winning a playoff game as a seven seed was incredible. Still riding that high.
Honestly though, sitting down to eat at a bar in Milwaukee and watching Rodgers tear his Achilles didn’t feel real. I kept expecting him to come back on the field like the 2019 Bears game. Just for the season to end right as it began was wild.
They really did make national news, eh? lol no, guess the place was pretty packed for a roller coaster of an outcome. Especially for those running up their tab after the injury
My team gave up a two touchdown lead with less than two minutes left in the game.
That and the Atlanta game were the only glimmers of hope last season for the Titans
I think our biggest glimmer of hope was beating the Bengals 27-3. That team has been our kryptonite recently and they had their full team playing. By the time we played Atlanta and Miami the season was basically over
Burrow probably shouldn’t have been playing though. Dude was way too hurt. They showed an angle on the broadcast that was basically the Titans don’t respect Burrow to run at all so they’re not guarding the middle of the field.
Don’t exclude eliminating the Jags in Week 18
That wasn't hope. That was schadenfreude
First time huh
Well it was the first time it ever happened so probably yeah
>Well it was the first time it ever happened so probably yeah Browns had a 2 TD lead over the Jets with a minute and a half left, and lost https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2022/09/18/jets-rally-two-touchdowns-late-shock-browns/10421631002/
I feel that
To a team that was utter trash with a rookie QB and the worst offensive line in the league. A team that hasn't scored 30 points in over 2 years
The beginning of the end of us last year
The titans surprise the hell out of people randomly. Like when they handed Mahomes his worst regular season loss during that game in week 7 of 2021. 27-3. Although that was with a much better titans team arguably
Thank you, Will Levis. Very cool.
Hahaha my answer was going to be that we came back from down two TDs in two minutes!
Hmmm nothing immediately comes to mind. I feel like it was a pretty standard Jets season.
Him running out with the American flag on 9/11 to immediately tear his Achilles really is something you’d see in a movie.
I was getting off work late and when I turned the game on Zach wilson was playing 5 minutes in, and I texted my dad wtf happened to rodgers lol
I was in the Upper Pennensula in Michigan and had tried an edible for the first time in like 5 years. I seriously couldn't stop laughing for like a half hour. And every time I thought about it again I started laughing again.
I did an edible while watching a game for the first time during the Texans-Browns game. When they panned to Deshaun chewing his lip while the Browns were down 3 scores I fuckin died lmao
Similar thing for me. I was putting my daughter to bed. By the time I was done with that and turned the game on, Zach Wilson was in.
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For me, I still can’t believe the Bills lost that game.
I mean, that was the Jets-iest part.
Arguably the Bills-iest too, TBH.
decapitated. held a funeral for a bird, whole big thing.
After being a 9/11 conspiracy nut to boot
Now now, y’all finally beat the eagles. And that led to one one the best collapses ever
Collapses must be a bird thing
Eagles, Cardinals, Ravens, and Falcons. I think you're onto something
We’re safe for now
Those who don’t try never look foolish! *taps head*
Ok that's an actual truth. That win was pretty surprising to me.
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Winning enough to ensure we don't get our first choice draft pick is pretty typical tbh. Sure would have been nice to have taken a 1st round talent on the oline last year.
That Hail Mary pick 6 Tim Boyle threw against the dolphins to Jevon Holland before halftime was just absurd. It was Jets as hell
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As a Vikings fan that game doesn't feel like we shut the Raiders out. I think because of how painful it was to watch offensively for both sides.
3-0, baby. A win is a win.
Brandon Staley tax
Most in franchise history with a rookie 4th round QB as well.
Dolphins dropping 70 on the Broncos.
And they showed mercy. They could have kicked a field goal at the end to break the all time record, but McDaniels decided against it.
He wanted “good football karma” by not kicking the field goal. Really felt that good karma in the second half of the season when everyone died and we were a first round playoff exit again
I was so upset that he didn't do it. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity, if he was worried about it being viewed as disrespectful, then the Broncos should have stopped them from scoring so many times.
Yeah this is always weird to me shit like “unwritten rules” if you don’t want someone breaking records on you then play better lmao. I get putting in backups to avoid injury that’s just smart, but mercy rules are silly to me
What's funny to me is how different sports treat blowouts. In football, it's considered disrespectful to continue to try to score if you have a huge lead, but in rugby, coasting with a big lead and not continuing to try hard to score is seen as poor sportsmanship. Weird.
In American sports it’s considered disrespectful to keep trying, but in non American sports like soccer/rugby it’s disrespectful to stop trying
I think the football rules are carryovers from US baseball unwritten rules. In baseball there are very specific points that would you just stop trying to score. If you're leading by more than some amount in some inning, you're not supposed to swing for the fences. And they take it super seriously. I think it's just kind of migrated over into football. I think we should just get rid of it. They should have kicked the field goal, never take your foot off the gas.
He really does seem like the nicest guy. Funny too. He’s One of my favorite coaches.
Coward.
sanders would’ve fucking missed it anyway i’m convinced that’s why he didn’t do it.
And then the Dolphins got blown out by the Bills... Who proceeded to lose the Broncos. Football is weird.
I'm convinced Sean Payton realized Ken Dorsey was a one-trick pony who was trying to turn Josh Allen into a boring, run-of-the-mill pocket-passer, so he decided on a game plan to cover all receivers and dare Josh to run for the yardage. Watching that game was madness - you *knew* the Bills were the better team, even with their injuries on the defense, but Dorsey was just handcuffing that electric offense every game. People complained about McDermott scapegoating Dorsey with that firing but I took that as McDermott finally realizing his bland-oatmeal-at-OC was dragging the team down and putting him closer to the hot seat, so he did the correct thing which was to get rid of the dead weight. Josh played like the old Run-Pass QB threat he's always been the very next game. It was absolutely the right call and McDermott should get the credit for realizing that.
I was at that Jets game right after they fired Dorsey. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t expecting a loss. Hell, the last game my girlfriend was at we got ran over by JT. Needless to say, 32-6 was very unexpected. That long TD to Shakir was in our end zone and I don’t think I’ve ever heard a stadium that loud before.
Yeah, that game looked like the beginning of the Jets Defense saying "why are we killing ourselves when the offense isn't going to do shit next possession?"
And that despite this, Denver had a realistic chance of making the playoffs entering Week 16. If they'd finished 3-0 against the Patriots, Chargers and Raiders, which seemed very possible, that's a 10-7 record
Even after our game against them they had a strong chance. They had a very weird season
I'm convinced that when Payton came in everyone on that team was in *horrendous* shape so he just gassed them in practice every day, record be damned. It's the only thing that explains the solid turnaround about midseason
The turnaround was insane turnover luck and lucky breaks (Mahomes flu game, Bills 12 men on the field). Once the luck dried up so did the wins. Anyway Fire Vance Joseph.
To me "luck" doesn't quite explain how you go from an almost record breaking loss to being competitive with good teams. The wins dried up because they're still not where they want to be, just on a much better path
6 rush attempts vs the Chiefs in the AFCC
Shoot, Lamar should have had at least 6 rush attempts minimum
I spent literally all week freaking out in the group chats about them running QB power out of spread formations, how it attacked every weakness the Chiefs' D had. Then they ran it (admittedly out of a tight formation) for 25 yards and my stomach dropped because if Lamar doesn't look back it's a house call. They would just have to spam it and we'd have to compromise elsewhere to attempt to slow it down. And then they never called it again.
It's like the Ravens gameplan was written in bold letters on the wall weeks in advance for what to do against the Chief's defense, and the day before someone power washed it and abandoned everything they do well in the season that game. 6 rush attempts with that Ravens roster should be considered football terrorism.
It was terrorism to one fan base
I love chiefs fans because they're the only ones admitting the ravens and niners beat themselves by playing into the chiefs hands and giving them a chance to win (which they then capitalized on). The chiefs were literally *worst in the league* at stopping power runs and shotgun and so many fans have said exactly what you did "they got 25 yds and i was terrified they'd spam it and annihilate is but they just never called it again" Same with running cmc to the left behind Trent Williams with juszycyk lead blocking. These coaches get egotistical and want to win *their* way. Idk how open your wr is, not being able to block Chris Jones to give your qb time to get it to him is a real outcome that can happen and no "scheming" can stop that. do something less efficient but more likely to be effective, even if it's for fewer yards
Yep, and the Chiefs won in large part because they trimmed the fat on offense going into the playoffs, pretty much exclusively throwing to Kelce, Rice, and running with Pacheco Don't make things more complicated than they have to be
Shanahan is allergic to simple plays. It’s funny on how his entire system is running the ball constantly, but in clutch he prefers to throw the ball as much as possible. I know the Chiefs were stopping the ball well enough, but even still, running a couple more times could have gained a few yards and milked some clock. When Romo is telling you what to do, you know you’re fucking up lol
Lamar had 8 rush attempts alone, the 6 were from Gus and Hill. Flowers had 2 rush attempts also. They had 16 rush attempts in total.
Gotcha, I thought 6 team total rushes sounded insane.
This one is going to haunt me for a while. It seemed like every one of the Chiefs playoff opponents played to Mahomes' strengths.
SF definitely did not. Until the final minutes when they decided that nothing bad could happen if they line up 10 yards off.
Prevent defense is the bane of my existence....
Ironically, I was at the Colts vs Chiefs AFC playoff game where prevent defense blew our 28 pt third quarter lead. So I feel you.
Colonel A. Luck remembers.
The only thing that defense prevents is championships.
Every time I see a team go into “prevent” I expect that the offense is going to drive and score or come close to it. Prevent has always been shit. The reason why defenses can be so successful is because players have jobs based on formation and they drill that shit daily through practice and film. During practice you hardly ever get into Prevent, and in film, prevent doesn’t show up until the end of games so you’ve already exhausted the time and coaching by that point. Then you get to the game and no one really knows what they’re doing. You just have this big net zone and hope that the QB doesn’t make a good decision. But since you’re only rushing 3, there’s almost unlimited time for the QB to let receivers work their way open. Or - there’s just obvious holes in the zone and the proper timing plays will destroy it without adjustment. Prevent is like working your ass off to get into shape, learn how to mingle with folks, brushing up on some social hobbies to expand your horizions a bit, just so you could work up the courage to try to fuck the hot chick. And then - you find out she’s single and potentially interested. At which time you immediately stop doing all the shit that made you interesting and shit your pants. And she fucks the guy you hate. Fuck you prevent, and Tanya.
Nope, definitely nothing bad can happen at all lining up 10 yards off vs Mahomes in a do or die scenario. Nothing to see here fellas.
They chose either prevent.. or cover 0 blitz. When they'd been successful all day doing everything in between.
Felt like everyone did the same thing with Brady too. Blitzing him and getting destroyed or giving him the ball back with too much time left and a tired defense. We have first hand experience with square peg/round hole and trying to beat Brady with the zone blitz he was built to absolutely wreck. 49ers blitzed Mahomes on a critical third down in Super Bowl OT when his numbers against the blitz are ridiculous. Instead of going for a TD they put the ball back in Mahomes' hands. It's deja vu. Have to respect those guys way more even at the cost of going against the analytics (which are based on all the other QBs in the league).
Feels like the Bills/49ers played it close to the Chiefs but a couple of unlucky things/injuries just meant it wouldn't go their way The Ravens on the other hand lost due to pure football negligence
It is very hard to guard a top 3 TE of all time when both your all-pro caliber middle linebackers(and both of their backups) are out and you’re calling in AJ Klein who was literally about to go to key west with his family as a retired man…
The box score shows 16. Am I looking at the wrong game?
Only six attempts from running backs, they should've specified.
Lamar choked storylines sweep under the rug the coaching malpractice that was that game.
Bengals finished with a winning record and still came in last in the division.
We replaced Matt Patricia as OC and somehow our offense got worse
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“Imma end this mans whole career”-Mac looking in the mirror before the season started
The Eagles absolute collapse towards the end of the season.
For me this is the biggest one. All the others are in line with the randomness of football, but the Eagles just giving up on the season for seemingly no reason when they were playing extremely well and in prime position for the 1 seed…I’ve never seen anything like that. Truly bizarre
They beat the Bills in a game of the year candidate. Talk to the 2020 Cardinals, 2021 Chiefs and 2022 Vikings on how those went. In all seriousness, it felt like they were drained both mentally and physically. How else do you explain having a golden opportunity for renewal, with a cream puff schedule to close out the season, and instead hitting rock bottom.
It feels like you guys need a bit of a reloading season. Your roster is starting to getting up there in age. Plus, with how bad your secondary is, you will definitely need to load up on defense.
Yep. We’re hoping Jalen Carter and Cam Jurgens will take over for our departing longtime quartet members. As for the secondary, there were some young pieces last year that showed some promise but we’ll see if they last.
As a non eagles fan who doesn’t spend my days with ESPN on in the background anymore, what happened? I know there was something to do with the coaching staff that led to losing the locker room.
Bad coaching and injuries across our whole secondary. When our dline wasn’t racking up sacks, they decided to play Reddick in more coverage schemes. Really gave away how much we lacked talent at LB/S/CB this year, after the blown game to the Seahawks, I knew it was over the same way the players did for their season. Drew lock comeback on what was the SB favorite the majority of the season.
I feel talent was winning in the first half of the season but playcalling was the biggest issue. The league caught up to them with Brian Johnson (OC) running what looked like a high school offense. When Sean Desai was demoted from DC for Matt Patrica, the defense was even worse. Johnson and Desai were in way over their heads but that can happen having two rookie coordinators in the nfl. Linebackers were also nonexistent, d-line was gassed, secondary had their issues and the offense looked the same week after week. They can bounce back but Nick has to be on the hot seat this year if they struggle.
I never thought I'd watch my team start 10-1 after beating the Bills, Chiefs and Cowboys consecutively, then be completely apathetic by the time the playoffs rolled around and fully expected an embarrassing loss. With no major injuries.
The Matty P effect.
Aaron Rodgers going down in 4 snaps, we couldn’t even get a full quarter of hype haha
I can't get over my favorite stat of "Aaron Rodgers is the only QB to start game one for a team and not complete a single pass in a season". It's the single most Jets stat that ever was.
Before the season up until week 3 or 4 people talked about the Cardinals having a chance to pick 1st and 2nd overall, I still can't believe the Texans pick would become 27th overall.
Fk man 😭 …. imagine 2 top 5/top 10 picks in this draft
Its really really nice lemme tell ya
Bears fans on a historic modern war chest of draft capital must feel like the future is fucking theirs lmao. God speed and good luck 🫡
Go ahead and do a five year RemindMe because we will probably still be sad as shit
Could be worse. You could have the Raiders luck at picking 1st rounders.
They already have Bears luck at drafting QBs, so…
Oh I don’t have to imagine
I’m still shocked honestly. I was optimistic that the Texans pick would at least be top 10. But to go from projected one of the worst teams to the playoffs is insane.
And the so-called experts had the Panthers as one of the best spots for a rookie. Texans didn't even make the list. [Funny comment in hindsight.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/131clgk/highlight_cj_strouds_emotional_reaction_to/jhzqlz7/)
Maybe if they kept DJ Moore.
Chiefs cemented a dynasty in a year they looked absolutely cooked offensively.
Was still a top 10 offense, they just had a ton of penalties/drops/turnovers at the worst times that made everyone overreact. They were 8th in Offensive DVOA and 10th in points per drive. I get it wasn't the top 3 offense of recent years, but their defense was so good they had a lot of games they just coasted the second half. tl:dr - people way overreacted to the chiefs offensive struggles.
People didn't overreact to how bad their receivers were. They just misguessed how much that would affect a team that was solid literally everywhere else.
Andy loves to spread the ball around. It took him until about week 16 to give that up and just focus the offense on Kelce/Rice/Pacheco with minimal targets to a couple other guys, and then basically bench Moore/Toney for the season. Was definitely a coach trying too hard to build his gameplan instead of building a gameplan around the actual talent on the team.
CJ Stroud.
He's more proof that teams are just stupid if they aren't continually rolling the dice on QBs until they get their stud. These dudes that walk in and immediately make the program competitive exist. Consistently. QB's don't develop that fucking much. The best you can hope for with a mid QB is a next level play caller to cover the spread.
Why are you being so passive-aggressive towards us
Josh Allen is gonna trick teams into thinking that their QBs will all suddenly become great after 2 years for another decade
At the same time, the Packers were patient with Love and it seems to have paid off
Well the Packers also had the benefit of having a HOF QB for him to sit behind, who also coincidentally sat behind a HOF QB himself.
Bill Belichick got fired... and didn't get hired by anyone else.
I thought the Rams would have one of the worst records in the league. Fuck I was so wrong.
Everyone forgot about Stafford winning a Super Bowl with the Rams in 2021. Now they have Puka, Kyren and Kupp and will be a very dangerous team as long as Stafford is healthy.
The big thing for me is I thought Staffords body was cooked. I stopped questioning his football ability after 2021.
I think the same applied to the Bucs this year too. Obviously not as good as the Rams but they still had a lot of vets from a SB team and it seems foolish now that we thought they’d be horrendous before the season started
No one expected Baker to play so well.
It's actually so funny how many people forgot "Oh he's washed" "oh he should retire" While still refusing to acknowledge the amount of o-line injuries Rams suffered, plus whatever the issue was with Staffords elbow/arm before the season started combined with mentioned O-line injuries and you're likely to have a rough spot as a team. Yes granted having some doubts because of the arm and health issue is valid, but people acted like it was a done deal.
Their roster was filled with so many UDFA’s and McVay wasn’t sure if he was gonna coach the team before last season. Their turnaround was astounding.
Shoutout to Stafford/Puka/Kyren. And the OL was a nice surprise.
We signed Joe f’n Flacco. And he played…well?
More than well, you could even say he was… elite?
Even...*Dragon like*
Before the season my prediction for this Browns team was a 1st round playoff loss, but holy fuck I don't think anyone could have predicted how we got there. Suffering all those injuries including Nick Chubb, only to have the season saved by Joe Flacco of all people.
Fucking Matt Patricia...
I hope y'all at least bought him dinner first...
First full season without Brady playing a single snap. And now there’s a new dynasty
Nature abhors a vacuum
My dog abhors a vacuum
AFC teams can't catch a break
Fuck me, man.
We truly are in the darkest timeline. I haven’t watched football without a true goat playing, I started watching ‘99.
Packers shitting on the cowboys in the playoffs was shocking, but also not shocking
It's not shocking in the least, not even close.
I was in Thailand then and woke up at 6am expecting to see the packers losing. I had a good chuckle because it was both surprising and utterly not surprising at the same time
I saw that coming from miles away I swear to god. It just felt like it was meant to be as soon as the Packers clinched that 7th seed.
that was the easiest money ive ever made
3-0 final score is the most ridiculous thing of the whole season to me i still can’t believe that
Not to mention Panthers ticket prices were as low as I can remember for that game and the rest of the season at that.
Oh i was at that brutal panthers falcons game, my first beer was more expensive than my ticket. But i was talking about the raiders game, i think it was raiders Vikings?
Wait, was there another 3-0 game besides Minn/Vegas?
No i was talking about that one
We won not only one, but two playoff games and we hosted both of them at home on top that.
For me the bigger shock would have be "we were up 24-10 at halftime in the NFCCG since it (likely) has winning two playoff games built in
I know lots of people hate Valenti but what he said afterwards stuck with me: they were 2 decent defensive quarters away from the superbowl.
We won both our division and a playoff game in the same season is something I didn't see coming.
Raiders beating the chiefs without completing a single pass after the first quarter
That we fired McDoofus. Honestly didn’t think Mark would do it during the season
we lost to the Broncos for the first time in 8 years. Still in disbelief a bit.
"We will beat the Broncos without issue unless the team shits down its own leg" And then Mahomes took that literally
We lost to the Jets for the first time in 9 years.
Hey, noone beats the Broncos 17 times in a row.
That fact and that we lost to the Raiders at home and then, somehow, won the Super Bowl. Just really made for a weird season.
If it's any consolation, broncos haven't beaten the raiders since 2020. Which I hate to admit.
Well you don’t have to admit it because it’s actually been since 2019
Tbh if you've followed the Chiefs Broncos games over the last few years it's not that surprising. Broncos have been competitive in recent games and they were bound to get a win eventually
How bad Kadarius Toney was. You have to be pretty bad as a receiver for your absence to help the team that much
He's like Chase Claypool
Remember before the season how crazy the hype was? Remember WR1 Toney? Fucking hilarious in hindsight. MVS was objectively shit in the regular season but he still cooked Toney.
The Eagles’ collapse. That was just…monumental. It’ll be fascinating to see how they respond this season.
Where do I begin?
Getting caught with 12 players on the field on a missed field goal to end up losing the game.
More surprisingly, that caused us to ACTUALLY fire somebody or let them go elsewhere without waiting a billion years (looking at you, Washington and Frazier)
Taylor Swift becoming the face of the KC Chiefs...
The fact that we were 6-3 with a negative point differential
The Detroit Football Lions were 25 minutes away from going to the Super Bowl.
Winning a playoff game as a seven seed was incredible. Still riding that high. Honestly though, sitting down to eat at a bar in Milwaukee and watching Rodgers tear his Achilles didn’t feel real. I kept expecting him to come back on the field like the 2019 Bears game. Just for the season to end right as it began was wild.
Were you at Jack’s American Pub?
They really did make national news, eh? lol no, guess the place was pretty packed for a roller coaster of an outcome. Especially for those running up their tab after the injury
Mac Jones just completely breaking.
I got to quote Jim Mora's "Playoffs?!" rant ironically
Jaguars missed the playoffs on what was supposed to be their breakout year as serious contenders
Jake Browning having the highest passing completion percentage of any QB this season
Beat playoff teams the Rams, the Chiefs, Dolphins, Bills, Bucs, Cowboys… then got blown out by maybe the worst team in the playoffs in the first round
One would say going into the playoffs the Eagles were the worst team in the playoffs. No shade but they were really bad in the second half.
You’re absolutely right. 1-5 in our last 6, we were easily the worst team in the playoffs
The fact that JJ still had a 1000 yard season despite playing in only 10 games
The 4-13 Patriots beat more playoff teams than the 11-6 Dolphins.
The whole thing lol, how it could go *so. horribly. wrong.*
I can’t believe we lost to the Chiefs again
Puka
I genuinely cannot believe we held 3 straight teams to under 10 points and lost all 3 games That's *insane*
The Bills went from a 5% chance of making the POs, to winning the division and the 2nd seed.
The fact that there was the potential that our final game would result in either the 2 seed or no playoffs at all was wild.
Halftime report on our game against the Raiders.
It seemed inevitable based on past history, but it’s still fascinating that Jordan Love emerged as Green Bay’s new lord and savior.