The Official 2020 NFL Season Discussion Thread

Goff threw four interceptions and no touchdowns. I think that's probably the sexiest thing about last night for me.

Thank you Bears for pulling through for me and getting me an extra pick, yet the perfect week eludes me still.

It also probably ended Gronkowski's career as a safety. Though if it was a deep ball instead of a lateral play, I'm thinking he would have been a good match-up.

 

Because Belichick was using his Hail Mary defensive lineup, expecting the Dolphins to call a deep pass play with a hobbled Tannehill. If the normal defense was fielded instead, the Patriots would have almost assuredly won the game.

If you're the Dolphins, and you see this - you see a four man rush and Gronkowski in, of course you're going to throw it short. This loss was on the coaching.

 

A Spider 2 Y Banana, you could say.

 

Orange is the new Brown?

 

So, here's something interesting: the Redskins are 0-4 since hosting a Native American "blessing ceremony".

The following day, they lost 23-21 to the Texans and Alex Smith suffered a terrible leg injury.
The next game, they lost 31-23 to the Cowboys.
The week after that, a 28-13 loss to the Eagles, with Colt McCoy suffering a leg injury as well.
Then, a 40-16 blowout loss to the Giants.

That's an 0-4 run, including three straight losses to divisional opponents and the loss of both their starting and backup quarterbacks. Before the ceremony, Washington was 6-3 and almost certainly playoff bound. Now, they're in free fall, needing a lot of dominoes to fall their way to make the post season.

It's looking more and more like what they thought was a blessing was really a curse.

 

You can't. You really can't. I'm not regretting picking my team to win one bit. They made Mahomes' life particularly hard last Sunday, giving him his worst game of the season. Jackson keeps getting better and better, and the fact that he was able to keep up with the best team in the league in their own stadium is nothing short of incredible. I'm loving how in a league that's started prioritizing these high-octane passing offenses, the Ravens are being cheeky bastards about it and purposefully going against the meta, as @teline puts it. It's given us a unique identity and for the first time, in perhaps ever, we've actually got an offense that's exciting to watch. We used to be infamously known as the boring team, but I don't think that's quite as true anymore.

The future is looking bright.

One of my routines when it comes to football, besides staying up-to-date on the news, is watching Brandon Perna and UrinatingTree on YouTube. Besides possessing a decent grasp of the sport and the current state of the league, they provide a more humorous, witty spin on the situation that's rather quite engaging to watch in a neatly packaged 15-minute video. They tend to use strong language to hammer a point down, so if that's not your cup of tea, they probably won't be your cup of tea as well. Here's Perna with his pre-game show for Week 14:

And here's UrinatingTree with his post-game recap for Week 14: