Board 8 > NFL Discussion Topic - Week 15

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Reg posted...

Cowboys need to win out and one of CAR or ATL to lose twice to make playoffs, right?

They also need the Lions to lose a game.

The Lions' chances of Lioning if all they need to do is win and get in are pretty high though
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Either way, Seattle/Dallas next week is essentially an elimination game.
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you say that but watch both teams end up not making it =D
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oh that's highly possible (maybe even probable) but the loser is absolutely out
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New Orleans losing twice also works

Basically any team in the south except the Bucs
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And the chances of an NFC South team losing twice could wind up being pretty high since Atlanta closes out the season with New Orleans and Carolina.
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How about the Rams fucking obliterating Seattle in Fake Noise Stadium today though?
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counterbalanced the Seahawks beating the Rams in No Noise Stadium
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ExThaNemesis posted...

How about the Rams fucking obliterating Seattle in Fake Noise Stadium today though?

No that's atlanta
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So I need 30 points from Devonta Freeman tonight which is unlikely but has a small chance of happening

Plus points
Tampa Run D is bad
High scoring league (Half PPR, bonus for every 5 rushes, bonus for 40 and 50+ yard TD)
Other Atlanta RBs are unhealthy?

Negative points
30 points is a lot (100 yards, 2 TDs or something similar)
Freeman hasn't scored 30 points in a game all year

That Big Ben non TD and subsequent INT hurt me bad. That was like a 8-10 point swing

I've officially lost one of my semi-finals, but my other one is looking okay. My opponent needs 50 points from Freeman, Sanu, and Deion Jones (DEF player).
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got to the finals

Antonio is done in the regular season

god damnit. save me gurley
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Isn't Sanu out this week?

I think he got benched for behavior and is going to get his ass kicked off his team for being late to yet another meeting. Dumbass
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Oh and the index card thing was done before by someone else in 2013 in a much more forgettable game

The NFL calls it "very unusual" but it is NOT against NFL rules
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I haven't heard anything about Sanu being out for the game, and I'm pretty sure my fantasy football league would inform me of this since he's on my team.
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Ok so uh that was probably racist of me

Mohamed Wilkerson, not Mohamed Sanu.

Not all Mohameds are bad obv
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Thomas davis for his hit on Adams: 2 games
Gronk for his hit on White: 1 game

LolNFL

Edit: I should be clear here, I am in favor of the 2 game susp in a vacuum. Harsher punishment for unnecessary stuff like this is good imo. But I would rather them be consistent. There's now no question that Gronk's suspension was a sham because of the game yesterday and they wanted him back for it. It's just a joke.
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It'll get appealed down to 1, but yeah, it's dumb.
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Davis is also a repeat offender, he has similar hits in this very season, let alone every other year

but it will get appealed down to 1 game either way
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Oh come on Freeman, just hold the ball. Between that and the Big Ben non-TD I'm minus 14 points down (currently down by 21 with only Freeman to play)

I've barely been paying attention to this game but apparently Atlanta's only up 3 in the 4th and even more Bucs are getting hurt

The NFC gets blown wide open if Tampa wins here because Atlanta won't beat the Saints on the road (They shouldn't have beaten them at home to begin with)
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The Falcons are bad about letting teams hang around
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LeonhartFour posted...

The Falcons are bad

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I don't actually think they're bad. I think they get way too conservative when they're ahead in the second half though. Quinn is content to just try to shorten the game, let his defense hold, and get the heck outta there.
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Well that's game

Atlanta has all the makings the Giants/Dolphins/Lions did last year of being a team that gets into the playoffs and gets massacred because it really isn't a playoff caliber team.
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Praise Raptor Freeman! Needed 30.4 points, that run puts him at 32.3 in my league to put me into the finals

Was getting very worried that fumble in the endzone was gonna cost me

And of course this is the one play Atlanta lets Tampa's decimated defense get a sack all game

Tampa will probably get a couple of first downs and then Atlanta will get bailed out by something
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That last play was BS.

Atlanta defender clearly held the receiver down for 3-4 seconds without a flag, then the refs blew spotting the ball and wasted another 3-4 seconds

Tampa got screwed out of at least one play before that missed FG.
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Anyone else see the new rating system Yahoo has for fantasy sports? They previously had your all-time record listed on your "My Team" page, but now they put you into one of five levels based on your ranking among all other players, with a dynamic rating that changes week to week. I'm not sure how late I am to this but I'm certain it wasn't there at the beginning of the season.

Pretty interesting.
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ShatteredElysium posted...

Praise Raptor Freeman! Needed 30.4 points, that run puts him at 32.3 in my league to put me into the finals

Was getting very worried that fumble in the endzone was gonna cost me

In my league, a guy needed 6 points to make the finals. damn!
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Emeraldegg posted...

Thomas davis for his hit on Adams: 2 games
Gronk for his hit on White: 1 game

LolNFL

Edit: I should be clear here, I am in favor of the 2 game susp in a vacuum. Harsher punishment for unnecessary stuff like this is good imo. But I would rather them be consistent. There's now no question that Gronk's suspension was a sham because of the game yesterday and they wanted him back for it. It's just a joke.

If you feel the same way about Juju's suspension, fine. I will say the league is actively trying to remove a certain play from the game and that's why they go for headlines with the two game suspensions but in reality those are 1 game suspensions.
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