2025-2026 NFL Season Thread

[Waboman]

Originally Posted by Batman1980

How happy are you that Dallas and Green Bay will be watching the Super Bowl, again?

"Everything is proceeding as I have forseen" 720p HD - YouTube

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Waboman

"Everything is proceeding as I have forseen" 720p HD - YouTube

Brady and the Patriots are the Evil Empire, you know who wins in the end in Star Wars right? It's not Palpatine and his troops.

[Omegaice]

Originally Posted by Tony208

Actuals

Falcons 44
Packers 21

Patriots 36
Steelers 17

Close enough

Good job...here have a beer! [emoji481]

[Tony208]

Falcons have more weapons, Patriots have better defense.

My gut says Patriots big game experience comes through.

Patriots 34
Falcons 27

[Waboman]

Originally Posted by Batman1980

Brady and the Patriots are the Evil Empire, you know who wins in the end in Star Wars right? It's not Palpatine and his troops.

Kak and Zeke are Jar Jar and Wicket. Just a couple of bumbling characters who will be watching the empire from a Mos Eisley sports bar.

[BLMN]

Originally Posted by Batman1980

Brady and the Patriots are the Evil Empire, you know who wins in the end in Star Wars right? It's not Palpatine and his troops.

This is the empire strikes back, at goodell. I want to see him delivering the trophy to Brady, oh please let it happen.

[Tony208]

Zeke does look like an ewok.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Tony208

Falcons have more weapons, Patriots have better defense.

My gut says Patriots big game experience comes through.

Patriots 34
Falcons 27

Tom Brady completed 32-of-42 passes for 384 yards and three touchdowns and rushed four times for a loss of one yard Sunday in the Patriots' AFC Championship Game win over the Steelers.
Coming off a sluggish game against Houston in the Divisional Round, Brady was near-perfect Sunday in a convincing win over the Steelers. New England came out gunning, peppering the Pittsburgh secondary with short passes. That opened up things downfield for Chris Hogan, who led the way with a career-high 180 yards on nine catches. Brady delivered a spot-on flea-flicker to Hogan, who took it 34 yards for the score. He also dished out a 10-yard touchdown strike to Julian Edelman late in the third quarter, which essentially put the game out of reach. Brady is throwing the deep ball as well as he ever has and simply doesn’t make mistakes when he has time to throw. A win over the Falcons in Super Bowl XLI would cement Brady’s status as the greatest quarterback of all-time.

Source - http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/1163/tom-brady

[Tony208]

Tom Brady always owns the Steelers, this game was never in doubt.

Originally Posted by @Jeffphowe

Tom Brady's last interception against the Steelers was 4,167 days ago.

[Tony208]

Chris Hogan had exact same stat line as Julio Jones.
9 for 180 and 2 TDs.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Tony208

Chris Hogan had exact same stat line as Julio Jones.
9 for 180 and 2 TDs.

That's just wrong, still think we would've actually given the Falcons a much better game than the no-show Pack did today.

[Waboman]

[Waboman]

Originally Posted by Batman1980

That's just wrong, still think we would've actually given the Falcons a much better game than the no-show Pack did today.

No you wouldn't.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Waboman

[Show spoiler]

[sycro]

Originally Posted by Tony208

Falcons have more weapons, Patriots have better defense.

My gut says Patriots big game experience comes through.

Patriots 34
Falcons 27

Better defense, but not as good as their stats suggest. This was the first game they faced a real QB. And they gave up 314 yards to Big Ben. If they'd had a running back, things may have been different.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by sycro

Better defense, but not as good as their stats suggest. This was the first game they faced a real QB. And they gave up 314 yards to Big Ben. If they'd had a running back, things may have been different.

Martavis Bryant on the other side of AB and things may have been different. I thought DeAngelo Williams was supposed to be good, I guess not good enough.

[Tony208]

#1 scoring defense has beat #1 offense in super bowl 5 out of 6.

[kidkash]

Originally Posted by sycro

Better defense, but not as good as their stats suggest. This was the first game they faced a real QB. And they gave up 314 yards to Big Ben. If they'd had a running back, things may have been different.

How much of that was garbage time?

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by kidkash

How much of that was garbage time?

Ben Roethlisberger completed 31-of-47 passes for 314 yards with one touchdown and one interception Sunday in the Steelers' AFC Championship Game loss to the Patriots.
Roethlisberger matched Tom Brady punch for punch in the first half, completing 16-of-22 passes for 136 yards before the break. New England pulled away in the second half however and Roethlisberger couldn’t do much to stop the bleeding. Roethlisberger didn’t have much success throwing deep, often settling for check-downs to Jesse James and slants over the middle to Eli Rogers. His fourth-quarter interception was nowhere close to his intended target. Roethlisberger redeemed himself by throwing a 30-yard touchdown pass to Cobi Hamilton on the following drive, but it was too little too late. It didn’t end the way he would have liked, but Roethlisberger was still pretty darn good this year, even with a relatively thin receiving corps. It would be a huge boost to Roethlisberger and the entire passing game if suspended wideout Martavis Bryant returns to start opposite Antonio Brown next season.

Source - http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/...roethlisberger

[kidkash]

Originally Posted by Batman1980

Source - http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/...roethlisberger

80 yards was when there was 6 mins in the game left.

And if we play that game throw Gronk in and Brady got 500 yards passing.