Posted on 12/16/2014 1:00:27 PM PST by Bender2
Week 16
Thursday, Dec. 18
Tennessee Titans vs. Jacksonville Jaguars, 8:25 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 20
San Diego Chargers vs. San Francisco 49ers, TBD
Philadelphia Eagles vs. Washington Redskins, TBD
Sunday, Dec. 21
Cleveland Browns vs. Carolina Panthers, 1 p.m.
Detroit Lions vs. Chicago Bears, 1 p.m.
Baltimore Ravens vs. Houston Texans, 1 p.m.
Minnesota Vikings vs. Miami Dolphins, 1 p.m.
Atlanta Falcons vs. New Orleans Saints, 1 p.m.
New England Patriots vs. New York Jets, 1 p.m.
Kansas City Chiefs vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, 1 p.m
Green Bay Packers vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 1 p.m.
New York Giants vs. St. Louis Rams, 4:05
Indianapolis Colts vs. Dallas Cowboys, 4:25 p.m.
Buffalo Bills vs. Oakland Raiders, 4:25 p.m.
Seattle Seahawks vs. Arizona Cardinals, 8:30 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 22
Denver Broncos vs. Cincinnati Bengals, 8:30 p.m.
(Excerpt) Read more at espn.go.com ...
yea, it is 1 in 200,000 ... which is better than 1 in a million. Even the browns get laid more than dumb and dumber.
http://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/2pisnw/nfl_every_clinching_scenario_for_week_16_and_17/
I still have the best grid/chart for tiebreakers on the ENTIRE INTERNET. that is indicative of the dumbing down of America ...
A. nobody can really do a chart for whatever reason
B. Nobody wants to read a chart.
nobody reads the 20-page elimination scenarios on reddit ... but it is a labor of love to do tiebreaker volunteer work.
Tiebreaker comprehension is an acquired taste.
that reddit is full of crap.
his week 16 and 17 clinching & elimination scenarios are wrong. Playoffstatus.com is wrong on some, too. stick with ESPN or CBS and they only do one week at a time.
You know, you just can’t beat a NFL Bender thread. Good football talk, and scantily clad women. It doesn’t get any better than that.
What will happen then? Well, for one, the Bears will need to find a trade partner. As I mentioned when I wrote about the possible 2015 quarterback trade market last week, Cutlers deal is structured in such a way that precludes him from being released. His 2015 base salary of $15.5 million is already guaranteed, so if the Bears cut him by this March, they would pay $19.5 million in cap penalties, sinking their 2015 team in the process. If they dont cut him before then, $10 million of his 2016 base salary will become guaranteed, leaving the Bears stuck even further into the future with Cutler as their quarterback.
If the Bears trade Cutler, the base salaries go to the new team. If they traded Cutler by March, the Bears would be responsible for only $4 million in dead money left because they restructured his deal this offseason. A possible trade partner might try to create cap space and force the Bears to eat more of the deal by insisting they turn part of Cutlers guaranteed base salary into a signing bonus before making the swap, a move that would leave the Bears not the opposition on the hook for that amount of the deal.
If the Bears converted $8.5 million of Cutlers 2015 base salary into a signing bonus, they would pay the actual cash up front and technically spread the bonus across the length of the deal, only for the deal to accelerate onto their cap next season if Cutler were traded elsewhere. That would leave the Bears on the hook for $11 million next season. The acquiring team, meanwhile, would see its cap obligation fall from $15.5 million to $7 million. That sort of move might net the Bears a better draft pick as part of a trade.
Good info; thanks for sharing.
It’ll be interesting to see what CHI actually does here. I still maintain the entire structure, from office down to the 53 man roster, is going to get chopped.
Maybe Lovie Smith can return to CHI?
There’s goni g to be a lot of “top to bottom” turnover in the NFL. CHI, SF, NYJ, ATL, OAK. Possibly MIA, NYG, TAM & TEN (Whisenhunt’s ok, but the GM?) too.
One name I hear is Cardinals DC Todd Bowles.
Todd Bowles. One of Coach BRRUUUCCCCEEE’S boys.
More special teams coaches should be considered (like John Harbaugh) for head coaching jobs.
CALCULATION ERROR
1 Chance in 140,000
Off-topic, but that’s about the odds of the same team playing 2 triple-OT games in a row. And yet it just happened.
Hopefully the Mavs will take advantage tonight when they play them.
Gadzooks, cat... You should read my Field Hockey... Thread!
Yeah, cat, Bendy and I met on a field hockey pitch... He helped me get my Basic Grip down pat.
Now tell them how Bendy change me from a field hockey midfielder to a... tight end--
That’s a lacrosse team! Not field hockey.....
Now, now, rummy, get a grip... Don't you know?
One man's lacrosse... is another man's hockey.
la what? All you need to know that there is more surface area around the equipment than fabric around their bodies.
Did you know that Jim Brown was an All-America Lacrosse player in college?
Especially Cowboys fans rooting for the Redskins, what’s the world coming to.
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