NFL 2025
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Am i right in thinking that the Steelers Ravens is a "win and in" game loser goes home?
weird day really. Panthers got in despite the refs attempts to turf them out. The Eagles chose violence by resting players, losing, and getting the niners. Actually either way it isn't bad as the Niners and Packers are banged up. Bears lost but like they care, they are playing football next week.
Denver fucking sucked today, but the Chargers forfeited so get the #1 seed. The AFC is wide open. Actually, good luck picking your Superbowl participants this year.
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Falcons fired their coach and GM just now.
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@mariner4life said in NFL 2025:
Am i right in thinking that the Steelers Ravens is a "win and in" game loser goes home?
Yeah - it must be...
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Steelers win, another winning record, another play offs, and Tomlin keeps his job for another year. This team is teh worst type of treadmill. Every year they make the play offs, get curb stomped in the Wildcard game, but never bottom out enough to build an actual contender.
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So what have we got
Eagles v Niners
Rams v Panthers
Beers v PackersPatriots v Chargers
Steelers v Texans
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Eagles v Niners and Bears v Packers should both be great games. Rams should stomp the Panthers but it's a playoff so will probably be closer than it should.
AFC could be all road winners. Bills and Texans will win pretty comfortably. Chargers should too, but they are terrible come playoff time so I think they'll be up and looking dominant through 3 quarters and then find some insane way to lose in the 4th.
I think the 6 best teams in the league are in the NFC this year (Seahawks, Rams, Niners, Eagles, Bears, Packers). So I think an AFC team will win as whatever team they face will be exhausted. Bills to finally win one.
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Steelers Ravens was insanity.
Two missed kicks at the end! Crazy - cost the Ravens their season. That and the lack of a pass rush. Jesus what a loss. Jackson's penultimate play throw was as good as you'll see to Likely. Wonderful play - huge pass.
Henry is crazy - another 100 yard game, but he's going home.
These playoffs will be epic
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I totally agree about the divisional games.
Dont have a prob with div winners getting to the play-offs no matter what.
But giving a losing team a home game as well is a bit much.
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@mohikamo I think divisions play whole other divisions. So if you come up against a strong division, everyone has a lower w/l. A weak division and everyone stuffs their stats.
So I think I'm OK with winning divisions and hosting. So be it - just win!
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Haha
You said just win!
But the Panthers lost more than they won!
So fuck them.
Now they'll probably beat the rams.You are right about the division schedule.
The match scheduling formula is very complicated.
I think it takes 4 or 5 seasons before they have played everybody else in the league.
But they play their division rivals twice every year, so those games are extra intense.
Quite a good system in the circumstances.I follow the AFC East
I think they played the NFC South and the AFC North this year.The performance of the Patriots in the play-offs will be interesting.
Their schedule worked out to be the weakest in the entire league.
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The scheduling formula is:
Rest of division x2
One other division in your conference on a rotating basis (eg AFC East goes North, West, South)
One division in the other conference, on a rotating basis
The teams with the same finishing position as you in the remaining 2 divisions in your conference. (Eg if you finish 3rd in AFC East and have AFC South as your rotational division, you'll get the 3rd place teams in AFC North and West).
The same place finisher from one division in the NFC on a rotational basis. (This is the recently added 17th game)So you're guaranteed to have played every other team in the league after 4 years. But for teams in your own conference you'll see them at least every 3 and often more regularly.
There's also a small scheduling advantage to teams with worse records the previous season, but that doesn't always work out because the NFL is so dynamic, with teams that were rubbish one year being good the next.
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So Black Monday came calling for the coaches of the Raiders, the Browns, teh Cardinals and the Falcons. Oh and the Titans? or did that already happen?
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@mariner4life Titans coach got sacked a few months ago.
