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NFL 2016-2017

Vote for which teams you think will be in the Super Bowl. Pick 2.

  • Patriots

    Votes: 6 75.0%
  • Steelers

    Votes: 2 25.0%
  • Packers

    Votes: 4 50.0%
  • Falcons

    Votes: 4 50.0%

  • Total voters
    8
  • Poll closed .
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Marcus Mariota and Derek Carr out with broken fibulas.
It hurts Tennessee because they're on the playoff bubble.
Oakland is all in, but now they have to get through the playoffs with Matt McGloin....wait, who?
 
I actually feel bad for the Raiders. Such a promising season...

As for my Rams, well this season cannot end soon enough. Unbelievably bad.
 
Crushing turn of events for the Raiders. I had been expecting an injury of some kind to Carr during the season and hoped I'd seen it come and go with the finger problem, but a fractured leg...too sad.

Well, we might still be able to win the division and get a bye, but our defense is going to have to play a much larger role for that to happen. Even with one of the best edge rushers and best overall defenders in the league, we still don't get enough sacks and the defense usually gives up at least one big play per game. But, they have been playing better lately . We got Mario Edwards back to help the defensive front, and we should get Carl Joseph back soon. With the talent on this defense, they are capable of being nearly as good as Denver,,,on paper at least.

As for the playoffs, we could get a win, but not seeing two, and certainly not three. Glad DC's injury is not to a knee or Achilles, or shoulder.
 
Mariota going down was soul-crushing, and the ultimate Charlie Brown moment for what was a better-than-expected Titans season. A chance for the playoffs, this late in the season?? But they were already lost by falling apart against Jacksonville, of all teams... aftet beating Denver and Kansas City in consecutive weeks.

Good news - Mariota's a stud and overall the team is in a good place talentwise. Bad news - Mike Mularkey is still Mike Mularkey. But you can't fire a guy for turning what fans expected to be a 5-11 type season into .500 at worst, can you?
 
Dak looked good tonight. But... Why am I thinking it's not a good idea for him to say, "Right now, I feel like I could take the whole NFL on myself"?
 
The Ryan brothers are officially unemployed. Probably best if it stays that way.

They've been playing on the Ryan name for long enough. Hell, even Buddy was only a sub .500 head coach, just like Rex.
 
Yeah, but one thing Rex got right was backing Tyrod Taylor, who's now being benched for EJ goddamn Manuel.
 
Man, that's just insane. They're calling it a "business decision" but that's a horrible way to treat the one really good thing about the Bills season.

But then, they've never given Taylor the credit or security he deserves.
 
Yeah, but one thing Rex got right was backing Tyrod Taylor, who's now being benched for EJ goddamn Manuel.

Taylor's being benched because if he gets hurt on Sunday, the Bills are on the hook to pay him $27.5 million next year.
 
Since the Marv Levy era, the Bills haven't gotten one damn thing right.

As a Bears fan, I can understand the frustration with a third rate organization.
 
We got discovery, y'all.
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Okay, so, the buzz around the league in advance of Black Monday:

- The Bears are reported to be keeping John Fox, although rumors persist that Vic Fangio may be on his way out.
- Trent Baalke and Chip Kelly may be fired as early as today. Reportedly, Baalke's getting axed for talking Jed York out of hiring Adam Gase following Harbs getting run out of town. (Ironically, the last team to fire its head coach in two consecutive years was ... the 49ers.)
- The Bills' job is Anthony Lynn's if he wants it. He's expected to hire Gus Bradley as an assistant head coach if the interim tag is removed.
- Todd Bowles is safe in New York but Chan Gailey is likely toast.
- Marvin Lewis will return for another season with the Bengals, but it appears to be a "playoffs or you're gone" situation as next year is the final year of his contract and he will not be receiving an extension.
- After initial reports that both Ryan Grigson and Chuck Pagano were safe in Indianapolis, Jim Irsay is apparently on another pill bender and the entire coaching staff is in jeopardy.
- Gary Kubiak is expected to step down from the Broncos due to health issues. Vance Joseph, who was the runner-up for the job two years ago, is expected to be targeted by the team.
- New Orleans continues to explore the possibility of trading Sean Payton; Doug Marrone is rumored to be their top choice if Payton gets shipped out of town.
- John Harbaugh is safe in Baltimore although Steve Bisciotti is losing patience. Rumors have the team sacking Marty Mornhinweg and hiring Greg Roman as their offensive coordinator.
 
The Bears might as well keep Fox. They're gonna suck no matter who they would hire thanks to ownership stuck in the 1950's.
 
Yeah, the organization is definitely dysfunctional. I'm reminded of a few years ago, after Emery was canned and the team was searching for a new GM. Chris Ballard, the team's previous director of scouting (who had been there through both the Angelo and Emery eras) who became director of pro personnel in Kansas City, was widely seen as the frontrunner, and George McCaskey liked him. And then in his final interview, which was with Ted Phillips, Ballard basically told Phillips that he sucked shit at running a football team, and if he were hired, he was going to go straight to McCaskey and demand that Phillips be restricted to running the business side of things, while he (Ballard) have control over the on-field product. Phillips went to McCaskey and said that Ballard would be a negative presence, and that's how the team wound up with Ryan Pace.

But, man, John Fox is the guy you hire to take a veteran team over the hump. The Bears still have so many holes, especially on offense (once again, even if Cutler were healthy, he'd have another year of having no one to throw to), and if some permutation of Loggains and Fangio departs, then Fox is going to have the same issue hiring new coordinators that Lovie Smith did near the end of his run -- no one wants to go to work for a head coach who's a dead man walking.
 
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