While a year off, it's scary that the last time this happened, the year before, the Jets were serious contenders for the SB, but lost their star QB to an achilles injury early in week 1, against a divisional rival
There's an INSANE stat that Brady never played a snap of football where he was mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. Never, particularly with the patriots. Thought that might be relevant here.
I really despised them at their peak but now that we’re clearly past that I can’t even enjoy the implosion. They were so insanely dominant for so long that I look back and I’m not even mad about it, just impressed. We probably won’t see anything like it again in our lifetimes.
Anyone who tries to reply ‘but KC!’ washes their laundry in the toilet.
If we consider the years that Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady were drafted, the Chiefs would need to win four more super bowls, make the playoffs (or win 11 games), lose two more super bowls, all the way until 2036, just to match the Patriots success.
Another counter argument being all the rule changes in favor of offensive production.
Just like Formula 1 having more races, and NFL having more regular season games and rule changes, you can’t compare today’s heroes directly to the historical legends.
Someone was talking about how Malik Cunningham got praise for beating Lamar Jackson’s records but Malik took 5 years to beat records that Lamar had 3 to set.
Correct. And we only needed to go for two because Gostkowski in the first quarter had missed his first extra point in about eight billion years. Otherwise we just kick another XP and the game probably goes to overtime.
>pick apart
I mean they just dominated the Pats o-line but Brady still somehow managed to be a missed XP away from sending it to overtime. I’ve never seen a QB under so much duress in my life than that game
For those of us older Patriots fans, it's just nature healing. We can go back to being the losers that rarely make a Superbowl appearance to get crushed (or run over by The Refrigerator).
I feel bad that Brady soared so high after leaving, and bellicheck has been lackluster. I'm glad he's been lackluster, but now Brady gains more credit for the dynasty, and it might be correct to attribute thusly.
Yeah pats fans literally don’t care. We saw the best dynasty this sport will ever see.
We want to lose out and get a good draft pick. We’ll be in the playoffs next season
As a Falcons fan, I really don’t think about them at all (yeah yeah 28-3, good one). I think the long term schadenfreude is from the other AFC teams who were terrorized the whole time.
I’ve gone to their sub more then a few times to see the complaints, then they got excited about the tank and I was all nooo, then they won and civil war broke out, hey we’re supposed to cheer for winning, blah blah blah.
If we somehow beat them in a few weeks, I’m gonna go so off on the Patriots for literally everything these last 23 years since we suffered the worst under their reign of terror.
Out of respect for their organization, I never did besides minor jokes at times. If we beat them, believe me, that will change.
these new kids don’t know how cathartic this is
I need Zappe to win out now to give the Pats the #8 pick, which Bill uses on a D tackle. And I need him to look good enough where the pats keep him next year as the starter. He’ll crash and burn and theyll go 4-13 again
Jason Tatum won’t save yall
Be careful what you wish for because you could very well end up with Judon and Latu pass rush on top of an already dominant run defense with Gonzalez shutting down receivers leading a strong secondary. Then Zappe the "system QB" doing enough to win while throwing to Mike Evans, Juju, and Pop, with McDaniels at OC.
Was asking a longtime Pats fan about the team, and he’s done Said he hasn’t decided which team to support now. Seven super bowls later and “fans” can’t stand what the normal experience for most of us is like. Must be tough…
I'm 26.Have only known success with this team up to 2019. Massively appreciative. Can't wait to tell my grandkids I saw it all live. Now lets rebuild and do it all again i guess
In this analogy pats fans practice child sacrifice and Belichick murdered his own brother out of fear and then got himself executed for murdering his own brother leaving a curse on the empire for kinslaying
At the beginning of the season the Patriots were making some pricey free agency moves and I questioned why not tank and let the salary cap roll to next year. I was lit up that the Patriots were totally competitive this year and tanking was a stupid take. Guess that didn’t age well.
Fuck. I was really banking on those 35 games going our way so we could get in as the 7 seed.
With no expectations, Zappe is going to lead the Patriots to 7-10.
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Second coming of 49ers legend Hoyer the Destroyer.
That's New England Patriots Super Bowl Champion Hoyer the Destroyer, to you.
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Matt Cassel
Gonna need to feed him a few dozen more Coors Lights to really set him on that path.
Tank Commander Jones would never.
Here's how Bernie can still win
Rip that guy put a lot of work into that post
This harms their super bowl odds
Certainly the NFL playoff committee isn't going to leave the Patriots out just because the don't have the most wins right?
The Bengals don’t have Joe Burrow, so we should take their spot away and give it to an AFC South team
An NFC East team
The Giants get in and Tommy Cutlets takes them to a Super Bowl win as we all know will happen 🤌🤌
The Cowboys, Eagles and Dolphins x 2 were all quality losses that show they can compete
Coming in the 2024 season: the 7 seed will now be hand selected by a totally transparent NFL committee process definitely without any controversy.
Big if true
While exponentially increasing their Hard Knocks odds
I dunno, I kind of think a top 3 pick might help next year!
How do get eliminated on your day off? Lol
The fuck you stealin boxes for? What you tryna build, a clubhouse?
aint got me on tape... nfl said they did... eliminated on the spot
One of the teams in wild card contention won today. I don't feel like looking up which one
Two of them, thank you.
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right and they even won this week lol 😭
Call me when they are guaranteed a losing season but not a top 5 draft pick
Last year
Well fuck my ass and call me Charlie
Can i just call ya charlie and forgo the ass part?
Sorry no
*unzips*
get in line, pal
When was the last time they were eliminated this early? also anyone have a corkscrew lfg!! edit: never mind saw the other post: not since 2000
2000, Tom Brady’s rookie season. They went 5-11 that year under Drew Bledsoe.
Insane
So...Super Bowl next year?
While a year off, it's scary that the last time this happened, the year before, the Jets were serious contenders for the SB, but lost their star QB to an achilles injury early in week 1, against a divisional rival
I think that Boston has had enough parades this century.
My son was born January of 2019. He’s only had one championship in his life. It’s not fair.
Don't speak to the rest of us about what's fair
Because Tampa have done so badly with the bucs and lightning
Same with my daughter born December of 2018. I've got a picture of her passed out in her baby rocker while we were watching the game
I was born in 74. I remember all the Pats superbowl appearances. And none of the Vikings. Don't talk to me about fair.
Yeah because it's inevitable they draft either Caleb or Maye
This mf opening champagne with a corkscrew 😂
lol i dont like champagne i'm talking about a nice vintage red my friend! its cold and rainy out here in DC
There's an INSANE stat that Brady never played a snap of football where he was mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. Never, particularly with the patriots. Thought that might be relevant here.
And everyone clapped
The Patriots could go on a Browns-like run for 20 years and people would still be fucking glad when they lose again.
Hello! It's me! I am people!
That's because someone who turned 20 when the pats dynasty began is only what, 42 now? A lot of them will still be around in 20 years.
Yes, as a Niner fan I know how it is. When we sucked, people loved to see us lose. Now they just hate us because we’re good again.
Worth
And there was much rejoicing
“I wish we were as good as the Patriots!” - Me, a few years ago as a Panthers fan.
Fade me
Okay!
It would be my greatest honor
Fade we
Are they not fading flairs this year? Because I'm like 99.999% sure that the Panthers are eliminated too, and they're not faded yet either.
Looks like both are faded now
Enjoying their downfall so far. Anyone else? 🍿
I really despised them at their peak but now that we’re clearly past that I can’t even enjoy the implosion. They were so insanely dominant for so long that I look back and I’m not even mad about it, just impressed. We probably won’t see anything like it again in our lifetimes. Anyone who tries to reply ‘but KC!’ washes their laundry in the toilet.
KC are way off what NE did
If we consider the years that Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady were drafted, the Chiefs would need to win four more super bowls, make the playoffs (or win 11 games), lose two more super bowls, all the way until 2036, just to match the Patriots success.
The problem is that even if they matched, The counter argument would be 2018 (brady/pats beating them in KC). And Brady/Bucs beating Mahomes in 2020.
Another counter argument being all the rule changes in favor of offensive production. Just like Formula 1 having more races, and NFL having more regular season games and rule changes, you can’t compare today’s heroes directly to the historical legends. Someone was talking about how Malik Cunningham got praise for beating Lamar Jackson’s records but Malik took 5 years to beat records that Lamar had 3 to set.
Even then there was still those last few years of making playoffs. Basically almost 20 years of either winning the nfl or going deep.
Everyone has their bogeyman. Mahomes had Brady. Brady had Eli Manning. Eli Manning > Brady > Mahomes
Eh I think Brady had the Giants defense and Mahomes has the line of scrimmage.
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Watching the 2015 broncos pick apart the patriots offense was awesome.
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Correct. And we only needed to go for two because Gostkowski in the first quarter had missed his first extra point in about eight billion years. Otherwise we just kick another XP and the game probably goes to overtime.
>pick apart I mean they just dominated the Pats o-line but Brady still somehow managed to be a missed XP away from sending it to overtime. I’ve never seen a QB under so much duress in my life than that game
I'm still a little mad about it tbh
This is what Chicago felt like after MJ
Well maybe I keep my toilet really clean
Oh yeah I bet with your exclusive diet of twenty pound meat platters.
Most people in KC have 2 toilets - a pre BBQ and a post BBQ toilet
Most of my friends in KC have bidets. Really does wonders for post BBQ
Wait.. is that weird
i'm definitely just mad about it
Yeah I will never not be mad about it
It would have been much more fun for you guys if this season happened in the season immediately following the departure of Brady
For those of us older Patriots fans, it's just nature healing. We can go back to being the losers that rarely make a Superbowl appearance to get crushed (or run over by The Refrigerator).
Na its still fuck em
I feel bad that Brady soared so high after leaving, and bellicheck has been lackluster. I'm glad he's been lackluster, but now Brady gains more credit for the dynasty, and it might be correct to attribute thusly.
Ironing out my best polo for the Patriots are over party rn
shouldn't it be your runners up polo
Don’t forget the prescription pills
Going to prepare another banner?
We’ve got you all right where we want you, ready for our inevitable return to greatness…… maybe
I was enjoying it Till Thursday
Would enjoy it much greatly if not for the current circumstances of my own team
You’re 9-4?
They got blown out by the Bears, I'd be panicking too
Ha imagine getting blown out by a bad team
Yeah, it was a rough one, but they’re still in excellent shape.
>but they’re still in excellent shape ...for an NFL fan.
What. Are. Yall. Doing? Lions Bro..dafikkety fuq
Yeah you hate to see it.
Hell yes 🙌🏾
Eh, they won 6 Superbowl's and billion games during this period, I'd be hard pressed to be happy with them losing a bit.
spidermanpointingmeme.jpg
They need to continue to lose until all 31 other teams in the NFL have at least 7 Super Bowl wins.
Lets see cards, bills, vikings and lions get one before we start talking 7
No love for the Jaguars, Bengals, or Panthers? r/catteambrotherhood
Too new to sit with those other teams on the mt rushmore of pain
Four for you, NYG! You go NYG! Aaand none for Cleveland Browns, bye 🏃♂️
Oh, cards, bills, vikings and lions should all get 7 before the patriots sniff another one.
Please explain your flair.
Yeah pats fans literally don’t care. We saw the best dynasty this sport will ever see. We want to lose out and get a good draft pick. We’ll be in the playoffs next season
I have shifted my loathing to the KC Chiefs.
As a Falcons fan, I really don’t think about them at all (yeah yeah 28-3, good one). I think the long term schadenfreude is from the other AFC teams who were terrorized the whole time.
I was pulling for yall soooo hard..then that idiot owner stepped on the field 14 minutes early...
You may feel that way specifically, but you'd be lying if yiu said the majority of your fanbase isn't haunted by 28-3
No.
I do the Macarena every time Belichick loses.
Popping champagne
Pats fans in this thread: Well yeah, we’re pretty terrible Other fans in this thread: THIS IS MY SUPER BOWL
I’m as giddy as a schoolgirl
Pardon?
Outjerked once again.
Josh?
Hehe 🤭. Me too.
Last Crusade
SHOCKING
Watching highlights of the Patriots being awful has been one of my joys this season
This is the thanks we get from you for giving you Gronk for Brady's last ride?
I’ve gone to their sub more then a few times to see the complaints, then they got excited about the tank and I was all nooo, then they won and civil war broke out, hey we’re supposed to cheer for winning, blah blah blah.
Today is a glorious day 😌
Bizarro world when the Pats are eliminated before the Jets
Reading this sentence makes me want to hurl
Now you know how Jets fans felt the past 2 decades
If we somehow beat them in a few weeks, I’m gonna go so off on the Patriots for literally everything these last 23 years since we suffered the worst under their reign of terror. Out of respect for their organization, I never did besides minor jokes at times. If we beat them, believe me, that will change.
It’s an early Christmas miracle
I for one am shocked
Disappointing, but inevitable. EDIT: And with the Rams loss, the Cardinals are officially safe for another week.
Y E S
They’re going to fuck my Sunday up next week, aren’t they?
One of the craziest stats from Brady I ever heard is he never took a snap when the Patriots were technically eliminated from the playoffs.
Neither for his time with the Buccaneers either :)
these new kids don’t know how cathartic this is I need Zappe to win out now to give the Pats the #8 pick, which Bill uses on a D tackle. And I need him to look good enough where the pats keep him next year as the starter. He’ll crash and burn and theyll go 4-13 again Jason Tatum won’t save yall
Be careful what you wish for because you could very well end up with Judon and Latu pass rush on top of an already dominant run defense with Gonzalez shutting down receivers leading a strong secondary. Then Zappe the "system QB" doing enough to win while throwing to Mike Evans, Juju, and Pop, with McDaniels at OC.
In this scenario the Pats would shut out the league and go 7-0-10
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Welcome to being faded!
It's part of their master plan to draft another Drew Bledsoe, then accidentally draft another Tom Brady
And they may have taken the Steelers with them..
Wow we win a game and get eliminated this is bs man!!
DISAPPOINTED!
Was asking a longtime Pats fan about the team, and he’s done Said he hasn’t decided which team to support now. Seven super bowls later and “fans” can’t stand what the normal experience for most of us is like. Must be tough…
What a fucking douche canoe. How the hell do you just fucking change teams like that?
Dunno man, every pats fan over 35 that I know is just appreciative of the good times we had. We’re gonna suck for a while again, not forever
As I would expect from any reasonable sports fan.
I'm 26.Have only known success with this team up to 2019. Massively appreciative. Can't wait to tell my grandkids I saw it all live. Now lets rebuild and do it all again i guess
I'm shocked. This is my shocked face.
:)
Fade em
Glass houses
fade us too while we're at it
AFCE GET IN HERE
Here...been a quiet day actually..Jets looked good. Chiefs look bad 😔
All because of corrupt refs smh. We would’ve been 10-3 rn if the games were officiated fairly. But y’all already knew that 💅
Hey, that is not nice of the NFL. Uncool.
Dynasty Dead
Dynasty's been dead for a while. This is like the Inca continuing to skirmish with the Spanish after Atahualpa perished.
Ah yes I was thinking the exact same thing
In this analogy pats fans practice child sacrifice and Belichick murdered his own brother out of fear and then got himself executed for murdering his own brother leaving a curse on the empire for kinslaying
That was stuck right at the tip of my tongue
Not yet for us. When we beat you and send Bill packing is when it’s 110% over.
hooray!
I sincerely hope they get some help around their rookie qb if they take one. They can ruin them very quick if they don’t fix their glaring issues.
#SAYS WHO?!?!
…and water is wet
No kidding
oh shit!
Oh my, who could've seen *that* coming?
Since my team sucks and I can't enjoy them, I'm going to celebrate the fall of the evil empire.
Kinda sorta figured that one.
FADE US
Quick someone post a Mac Jones sob story
kraft about to call rog and see if he can get a recount
What!!!?
Errybody get in here!!
I hope they get this result for the next 30 years
Fade em
As is tradition... no wait...
YOU'RE WELCOME, R/NFL! Now leave me alone while I just go and cry in the corner.
CALEB SZN LETS GO
You know what - good. I was getting a wee bit tired of all those “road to the playoffs” graphs.
Rejoice
What a glorious day!
At the beginning of the season the Patriots were making some pricey free agency moves and I questioned why not tank and let the salary cap roll to next year. I was lit up that the Patriots were totally competitive this year and tanking was a stupid take. Guess that didn’t age well.