AmishBengalFan

Sorry for the distraction, but I'm going to talk about playoff football now. The league kinda screwed Buffalo over with the scheduling, as they had scheduled the 2-7 game as the final AFC wildcard game this weekend..... and it's been made even worse by having that game postponed to Monday. As it stands now, the Bills will have two fewer days' rest than whomever their opponent ends up being - which we now know will be the Chefs. I'm assuming Buffalo wins tomorrow, but even if they lose to Pittsburgh the Stealers will be in the same position having two days fewer to prepare for Baltimore than vice-versa. At least the league's NFC schedule makes sense.... 2-7 is first, then 3-6, leaving 4-5 for Monday. By doing it that way, the 2nd round pairings resolve game-by-game.... if you have the 2-7 game last, then NONE of the pairings are settled until that game is played. As far as Divisional scheduling, as fucked-up as the NFL is I cannot see them forcing any of the Monday teams to play their next playoff game on Saturday. It seems stupidly obvious that the Monday winners will play on Sunday. And with exactly one west coast game next weekend (the Niners), but not knowing if they're playing on Saturday or Sunday, I'll bet that the NFC games will be the 2nd game on both days - to cover their butts. If those assumptions hold - and we're talking about the NFL so there are no guarantees here - the Divisional Round probably looks like this: AFC games on Saturday 430 and Sunday 300 - PIT/BUF winner plays on Sunday, so HOU plays on Saturday - If 2-BUF wins: Saturday= 4-HOU at 1-BAL, Sunday = 3-KCC at 2-BUF - If 7-PIT wins: Saturday = 4-HOU at 3-KCC, Sunday = 7-PIT at 1-BAL NFC games on Saturday 800 and Sunday 630 - PHI/TBB winner plays on Sunday - If 7-GBP wins: Saturday = 7-GBP at 1-SFF, Sunday = PHI/TBB at 3-DET /or/ 6-LAR at PHI/TBB - If 2-DAL and 3-DET win: Saturday = 3-DET at 2-DAL, Sunday = PHI/TBB at 1-SFF - If 2-DAL and 6-LAR win: Saturday = 6-LAR at 1-SFF, Sunday = PHI/TBB at 2-DAL There's no way to avoid screwing this week's Monday winners - the NFC winner plays a team with at least one extra day of rest. The AFC winner, if it's BUF, plays a team with two extra days of rest. If it's PIT, they play BAL who has had two weeks' rest, but that was going to happen to the 7 seed regardless. At least this schedule maximizes the time off for the Monday winners, as they play on Sunday after a short 6-day week. There's no way to give them more rest without pushing the Divisional Games into Monday as well, which solves nothing and only postpones the "pay back" by a week into the Conference Championships. Since the AFC pairings can't be settled until BUF/PIT play, BAL has to accept that they don't know when their game will be (Sat or Sun) until they know if they're playing HOU or PIT. It's a clusterfuck. The league could've fixed this by scheduling the AFC games in the same order as the NFC games, reserving the 4/5 game for last. And while they cannot control the weather and a declared state of emergency in WNY could not have been predicted, by having the AFC 2/7 game last, they opened the door to this sort of upheaval. If this were the 4/5 game, we'd already have the games scheduled and the pairings set, needing only to know who the 4/5 winner is to take the predetermined slot. Dumb fucks.

The GOAT speaks: +1

Bleh. I went 1-1 today.

Coming into tonight, for his career he was 6-13 in games under 70 degrees 0-6 in games under 45 degrees. Tonight was under 45 by a little bit.

I disagree. WFT = Washington Football Team. That was the name of team, the Washington Football Team. That was the name they used when they decided to stop calling themselves "Redskins" but hadn't yet come up with the new "Commanders" name. CFT = Cleveland's Football Team. It's possessive. It's not the name of the team, it refers to the team that is currently playing in Cleveland. I began calling them that a few years ago to make a distinction between the team that is currently calling themselves "Browns" and the original Cleveland Browns. The original team was was founded in the 1940's by Paul Brown, which was owned by Art Modell for much of its' history, and which was driven out of Cleveland following the 1995 season and which moved to Baltimore. The Current Browns team was later founded in 1999 by Al Lerner and has played football for 25 years. They are two distinct entities. CFT = Cleveland's Football Team. Their CURRENT team, the one that hasn't (yet) left town.

CFT = Cleveland's Football Team

True.

Does a coach that many thought was favored to win COTY recover from a 30+ point playoff beat-down?

Do they have to stop after four quarters or could they let Houston keep beating the snot out of them for five or maybe six?

The Cleveland, The.

Hey, it's deja vu all over again. Is that a pick-twelve now?

And there's the anticipated pick-six that Flackluster throws at least once per game. Toxins 31-14 Clones

Having apparently given up on pushing for an investigation into Burrow's injury costing him money on a parlay he had "allegedly" placed on the Bengals, NBC trotted-out disgraced insider Mike Florio at halftime of the Clones-Toxins game, who reported that Mike Tomlin is considering retirement. Consider the source when deciding the veracity of this rumor.

Yikes! Think of the grief we would take it that was PayCor instead of Narrowhead!

Updated schedule: Saturday: 430 CFT at HOU (NBC, Peacock) 800 MIA at KCC (Peacock) Sunday: 430 GBP at DAL (Fox) 800 LAR at DET (NBC, Peacock) Monday: 430 PIT at BUF (CBS) 800 PHI at TBB (ESPN, ABC)

Bills game postponed, now scheduled for 4:30pm ET Monday http://tinyurl.com/PGH-fans-are-still-pussies

NY Gov has declared a State of Emergency in WNY: http://tinyurl.com/Hey-its-snowing

That link will be broken since the site automatically inserted "Stealers" in it. I've used TinyURL to create an alternate link to that article: http://tinyurl.com/Pgh-fans-are-pussies

That wasn't by design. Usually the bottom row has 6 teams. But as I like BUF and DET significantly more than the other 4 I decided to give them their own row, giving me all those extra tiles. But, yeah, I saw that too when I was done.

The could've had one^h^h^h TWO of these if the Clevelanders hadn't driven Art and his team out of town in 1995.

Here's my annual Pyramid of Hate. The higher the team, the greater the hate. Saturday: 4/HOU >>> 5/CFT 3/KCC << 6/MIA Sunday: 2/BUF >>>>> 7/PIT 2/DAL << 7/GBP 3/DET >>> 6/LAR Monday: 4/TBB = 5/PHI

These guys are available and the Bears are sticking with Matt Eberflus