Posted on 12/01/2019 1:21:08 PM PST by C19fan
That’s a stunning change from the 1980s when the NFC East was regularly the most dominant division in the league. The 1986 Redskins were 0-3 against the Giants and were probably the second-best team in the entire NFL that season.
I have come to that conclusion watching the mediocre offensive playing of my Patriots. Still they have lost only one game, thanks to their defensive effort.
They can afford now to lose a few games as long as they are healthy for the playoffs and Belichick can squeeze an extra effort out of them. - Tom
And they STILL make the playoffs if the win out!
NFC East against Non NFC East opponents:
Cowboys 2-6
Giants 1-8
Redskins 3-6
Eagles 4-6
That’s a combined record of 10-26!
Yawn, don’t give a dems rear about fagball.
Interesting to see the transformation of Ryan Tannehill into a real QB after Vrabel rescued him from being Gase-ified in Miami (poor Sam Darnold - Gase can turn him into the type of QB Tannehill was with the Dolphins).
Sam Darnold did something insane...with a few minutes left in Q4 on 4TH DOWN — with his receivers sort-of covered — Darnold threw the ball out of bounds, allowing Cinci to take over on downs and run out the clock! Why didn’t he throw it up and give his guys at least a chance? Was he more concerned about keeping his INT stats down? Made no sense at all.
MEANWHILE...check out Ryan Tannehill in Nashville WITHOUT ADAM GASE ruining him. He’s on fire and the Titans are #1.
Maybe he has an INT clause in his contract?
Congratulations to the Bengals! Just goes to show, any given Sunday... Even the Redskins won today.
They went from the only winless team to the only one-win team. They still have the Number 1 pick.
Betting that trifecta would have won you a small fortune.
Who can figure the Jets? They have beaten Dallas and last week dominated Oakland. Darnold really seemed to be coming on. And now this? I guess still a few problems to be addressed.
For that matter, who can figure the NFL?!
NFL? Who cares?
I mean you can't pay a guy like Le'Veon enough for all the greatness that he brings to the field every game .... except those games when he's out with another injury or suspended again for smoking dope.
I was a Steelers fan. Was watching a game on TV a few years ago (long before the kneelers drove the last stake in) when it hit me: this was no longer fun. Between the 5 minutes of commercials for every minute of actual action, the numerous penalties seemingly called at whim when the same thing happened on every other play, and the grandstanding happening after every play by some guy that just did his job, I suddenly realized that I was no longer enjoying the game. So I stopped watching and even stopped following - don't know what the Steelers' record is, didn't even realize that Roethlisberger was hurt until the incident with the backup made the news. My Sundays have been freed up for more interesting pursuits. Not going back.
The NFL started downhill when it started listening to the media. It stepped on the gas to go downhill faster when it started listening to media, SJWs and lefties complain about every little thing.
In many ways the NFL is like the Democrat Party: ostensibly in charge but really at the mercy of malcontent media types.
Yep. They turned into reality TV. Not sure it isn’t scripted.
“My Sundays have been freed up for more interesting pursuits. Not going back.”
Yep. The gun club we belong to has skeet, trap, and clays with local HS kids as pullers on Sundays. Way more fun.
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