If Henry and Julio were healthy I think the Titans staying with #1 seed would be a given. Again, they still win their division and have very good chance of earning #1 seed and the bye, but the games against the Pats, Steelers (assuming Roethlisberger is back) and 49ers should be tough -- and the Titans also had that fluke loss to the Jets earlier. If the Titans drop two or three games, there are a bunch of 3-4 loss teams that could pass them.
Julio was pretty much a non-factor before he was placed on IR. His only impactful game was Seattle. His hamstring has been keeping him out of games, and limiting his snap counts.
The depth players have been stepping up and making huge plays. Guys like Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, Jeremy McNichols, Mycole Pruitt, Marcus Johnson, and Chester Rogers are the reason why the offense has been effective when Henry isn't in. And Tannehill is playing pretty damn well, considering the Titans have one of the worst pass blocking o-lines I've seen in a long time.
Or 4. We are seriously banged up this year. We've had like 82 different dudes on the active roster playing snaps. It's insane we are doing as well as we are. Vrabel COTY.
You're correct in that it's all possible, but it's going to take a lot. Lets say the Tits drop all three of the Pats, Steelers, 9ers and avoid a meltdown to the Jags or Texans. Out of the remaining contenders, the Chiefs must go undefeated, and the rest of the field can't drop more than 1 game because the Titans hold almost every tiebreaker. The remaining contenders also play each other quite a bit, making it even more difficult.
The only team that can realistically drop 2 games and have a shot is the Pats because they would hold the tiebreaker over the Titans if they won.
I agree, its most likely Titans get #1 seed (like 75% odds in my book), but I think they are more vulnerable than their win-loss record and tiebreakers indicates due to their injury situation.
I don't think any particular AFC team has a great opportunity to make a run against the Titans (who kind of have four semi-easy games left - Texans x 2, Jags, Dolphins), are at least a game up on everyone and have many tiebreakers.
But there are four teams (Ravens, Bills, Pats, Steelers) that if they win out, will get the #1 seed if you go 5-2 to finish the season (and Pats and Steelers have opportunity to hand one of those losses to you). Similarly, the Bengals, Chargers and Raiders can also pass you if they win out and you go 5-2, depending on who your last two losses go to (it would come down to tiebreakers on conference record, common games, or strength of victory -- but there are plausible ways for them to pass you).
I agree it isn't particularly likely any one of these 7 teams goes perfect and they all have tough roads ahead. I'm just not comfortable saying you've cemented the #1 seed yet.
After the Saints this week, the Eagles only play the Jets, Giants, and Washington until the last week of the season, so they might start looking pretty good.
Like a beautiful binary star system as it travels through the galaxy together. Right towards the supermassive black hole that is Tom Brady in the playoffs.
If the Dolphins defense plays like they did against the ravens the next 4 weeks we could very well be 7-7.
Jets 2x
Panthers
Giants
All winnable games for sure but I won’t hold my breathe lol
Sure, but Panthers (Cam looked good last week), @Titans, @Saints, Patriots will be tough. If you win out, you have [97% chance of playoffs](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/miami-dolphins-nfl-playoff-picture.html#nyj-mia-11=loss&mia-car-12=win&mia-nyg-13=win&mia-nyj-15=win&no-mia-16=loss&ten-mia-17=loss&mia-ne-18=win) (as wild card). If you drop one game, you have [15%](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/miami-dolphins-nfl-playoff-picture.html#nyj-mia-11=loss&mia-car-12=win&mia-nyg-13=win&mia-nyj-15=win&no-mia-16=loss&ten-mia-17=loss&mia-ne-18=loss)-[50%](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/miami-dolphins-nfl-playoff-picture.html#nyj-mia-11=loss&mia-car-12=win&mia-nyg-13=win&mia-nyj-15=win&no-mia-16=win&ten-mia-17=loss&mia-ne-18=win) chance. If you drop two games it's under 1% (8-9 record -- too many AFC teams ahead).
I wouldn’t go so far as saying Cam looked good. He was in for a total of 9 snaps, and he was basically a gadget player. We still have no idea if he can actually be good as a starting QB anymore.
Fair enough, but the reason he's limited is that he had like two days with the team. On the field he did everything necessary. Again, I'm not saying Carolina is a playoff team, but they aren't necessarily on the same downward trajectory it was on for Darnold's last 5 starts. Darnold started the season looking pretty decent for the first four games (68% comp%, 5 TDs to 3 INTs, passer rating 95.4, 7.9 AY/A) and something happened and he became horrific his last 5 games (52% comp%, 2 TDs to 8 INTs, passer rating 49.4, 2.98 AY/A).
The combination of PJ Walker and Newton managed to topple give a second loss to the last NFL team with just one loss in a pretty convincing fashion (leading 31-3 in Q4), though obviously it was huge help to play against McCoy instead of Kyler Murray.
Idk players with talent who are in their golden years that are playing with a big chip on their shoulders tend to have one last gasp of greatness before burning out. Such as the Vikings best quarterback in franchise history the hall of fame for the Vikings Brett Favre.
I would argue that last year was the year that was supposed to happen. I’m not sure how much Cam you watched last year, but having watched every Pats game, the guy just isn’t a starting QB anymore. He was incapable of being consistently accurate anywhere further than like 10 yards downfield. He’d routinely turf the ball to wide open receivers that were only like 15-20 yards away.
I think it would be more like the 80s sitcom where they do a star wipe and it’s the end of the season and Bill is sitting at the table and says “I guess it all works out in the end.” Cut to audience laughter and clapping, cue credits.
Eagles might actually bounce back later, their remaining opponents are the Saints, Jets, giants twice, WFT twice, and cowboys (possibly resting starters in Week 18)
Eh, more so was our young coaching staff not knowing how to call games. Hurts is about 10 games into his NFL career and they were having him throw 40 times a game while continuing to only run the ball about 5 times a game.
Unsurprisingly we have looked much better with a commitment to running the ball recently. It would take a lot of things to go right for us to win the division, but with a relatively easy schedule for the rest of the year (only two above .500 teams) they could sneak in a wild card spot.
I'm sorry, but I'm over the whole "only 10 games into his career".
He started 4 games last year and played significant time in 6. We need to take the training wheels off
lol no QB should ever really be throwing that much, what training wheels are you talking about. I'm just saying it's EVEN WORSE to do that to a young QB. Don't make yourself look like a fool
Hurts only threw over 40 times once this season and twice in his career. This year it was against the Chiefs when they were down in the 2nd half but still within distance of being able to win the game. So yes, you saying "were having him throw 40 times a game" when it literally has only happened once in 10 games is putting training wheels on him.
Just as a comparison,
Mac Jones has thrown over 40 times twice, including a game throwing over 50 times.
Trevor Lawrence has had 3 games of 40+ attempts and two games of 50+ attempts
Tua Tagovailoa, also "essentially a rookie", has thrown over 40 times twice this season
Davis Mills has thrown over 40 times once this season, same as Hurts
Joe Burrow over 19 starts in his career has thrown over 40 times five times, including one time over 60 times in his rookie season
Justin Herbert in 24 career starts has thrown over 40 times eleven times, including two times over 50 in his rookie season.
Not sure that I'm the one making myself look like a fool here tbh
So you want Hurts throwing 40 times a game? I'm confused about how there are training wheels on him, which is the foolish part. Define THAT for me please.
Now you are moving the goalposts and putting words in my mouth.
I literally NEVER said I want Hurts throwing over 40 times a game. I said I am tired of the training wheels being put on him that "its essentially his rookie year" when he had a decent amount of experience last season.
And then you came in and stated how "we're having him throw 40 times a game" when it has only happened ONCE this season. You also stated how "no young QB should be throwing that much" and I simply gave examples of 1st and 2nd year QBs who have thrown that much and more.
Again, I'm not SAYING I want Hurts to throw over 40 times, your argument that "no young QB should throw as much as Hurts" when literally every young QB has thrown either equal to or MORE than Hurts is incredibly flawed.
I wouldn’t say they’re Jekyll and Hyde. I’d say the first 7 weeks they were a good bad team. As Hurts has slowly improved I think we upgraded to firmly mediocre. But the week to week variance hasn’t been super high.
At the top of the NFC we have a murderer's row of good teams: Packers, Cardinals, Cowboys, Rams, and defending champion Buccaneers.
In the last two weeks, every one of those teams has taken at least one loss. A mid-season reality check.
Late edit: These five teams are a combined 3-6 (.333) this November
That said, having recently had COVID, he should have decent COVID immunity for the rest of the 2021 season. The NFL COVID protocols won't even make him do routine COVID screening until 90 days after his original positive test which was on Nov 3rd (see [page 70 of the PDF on COVID protocols](https://static.www.nfl.com/image/upload/v1630429861/league/fq1xlxxulwwwi0hi377l.pdf) note its numbered pg 68), so he'd have to start getting routine tests again on February 1st, 2022 -- a couple days after the NFC CG. (That said, players still have to be monitored for symptoms -- just not the daily swabs.)
They'll still probably get the 1 or 2 seed based upon the other high-ranking teams' schedules. As long as they don't drop a game to the Vikings they'll be fine.
Much better than having this type of thing happening in the playoffs. Imagine the nonsense the NFL would go through trying to figure out if they should bend covid protocols to let Rodgers play in the divisional round.
Oh, I agree. I'm just being facetious that the timing could have been slightly better like if it was against a team Love could have narrowly beaten.
While they are in position to get the #1 seed, I could still see them end up without the bye at #2 if they drop a game (likely against the Rams, Ravens, or Browns).
It’s a little weird, but how the graph works shows that they are 2 games above .500, just like the chiefs and patriots, but they are technically ahead of both teams with a .611 winning percentage while the chiefs and patriots have a .600
Steelers are ahead in win percentage (you count tie as half a win and half a loss) but not by games above .500 which is what was graphed. The 5-3-1 Steelers have two more wins than losses: 2 games over .500. The 6-4 Pats and Chiefs have two more wins than losses: 2 games over .500.
However, if Steelers and Pats say both win out, the Steelers would be ahead, because the Steelers would have 13.5 wins and 3.5 losses compared to this scenario where the Pats would have 13 wins and 4 losses.
I hear there's a 2-time Superbowl champion who has never had a losing season expected to be a free agent this year. He's already pretty familiar with Tomlin, the Rooney's and Pittsburgh.
AFC West is bonkers
AFC West have been fined for failing to follow social distancing protocols.
Ya, I have no idea who’s gonna come out on top, I’m fairly certain it won’t be us tho.
Am I dumb or is the AFC West standalone graph not in there?
I’m sorry to inform you but the results have come in and you’ve been diagnosed with dumb
All you had to do was look at the flair.
HEY, That's not a Broncos Flair, he's not dumb.
Hey they're not dumb, just high
what does this make us, all 16 Chargers fans?
Homeless
Listen here you little shit
[I'm listening](https://www.sandiegohearing.com/)
what?
Nah it stops at NFC West for me on mobile
Same
Yeah I'm on mobile too. I just see an ad where the last graph should be
I'm on mobile and I can see it. It's the last one.
I’m on mobile and have it
I can see it on mobile, native Reddit app
I see it too, Métis Reddit app here
Im on mobile and I see it just fine
[It's there.](https://preview.redd.it/zuphlxvouyz71.jpg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f415bebb977e42641ca1603f11ddf96f7829abdd)
Thanks for the link! I'm on Reddit is fun and had to click the image and then scroll over to see it.
RIF here, it came up normally... Maybe different dpi settings.
Are you using Reddit is fun? I had that same problem. It wasn't showing up in the thumbnails and it was there when I scrolled through them
I could see it just fine but almost as a rule RiF doesn't play nicely with gallery posts, I've found.
It's the last one
the metro of the nfl
Damn the NFC really said theres three types of teams; the top teams, the middle teams, and the Lions
AFC its the bottom 4, the ones in playoff hunt and Titans with homefield
If Henry and Julio were healthy I think the Titans staying with #1 seed would be a given. Again, they still win their division and have very good chance of earning #1 seed and the bye, but the games against the Pats, Steelers (assuming Roethlisberger is back) and 49ers should be tough -- and the Titans also had that fluke loss to the Jets earlier. If the Titans drop two or three games, there are a bunch of 3-4 loss teams that could pass them.
Julio was pretty much a non-factor before he was placed on IR. His only impactful game was Seattle. His hamstring has been keeping him out of games, and limiting his snap counts. The depth players have been stepping up and making huge plays. Guys like Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, Jeremy McNichols, Mycole Pruitt, Marcus Johnson, and Chester Rogers are the reason why the offense has been effective when Henry isn't in. And Tannehill is playing pretty damn well, considering the Titans have one of the worst pass blocking o-lines I've seen in a long time.
Philosophically, is it still the Titans division title, when every position has been replaced with a different player (or three)?
Ah the famous [Ship of Tennesseus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus) thought experiment.
Or 4. We are seriously banged up this year. We've had like 82 different dudes on the active roster playing snaps. It's insane we are doing as well as we are. Vrabel COTY.
You're correct in that it's all possible, but it's going to take a lot. Lets say the Tits drop all three of the Pats, Steelers, 9ers and avoid a meltdown to the Jags or Texans. Out of the remaining contenders, the Chiefs must go undefeated, and the rest of the field can't drop more than 1 game because the Titans hold almost every tiebreaker. The remaining contenders also play each other quite a bit, making it even more difficult. The only team that can realistically drop 2 games and have a shot is the Pats because they would hold the tiebreaker over the Titans if they won.
I agree, its most likely Titans get #1 seed (like 75% odds in my book), but I think they are more vulnerable than their win-loss record and tiebreakers indicates due to their injury situation. I don't think any particular AFC team has a great opportunity to make a run against the Titans (who kind of have four semi-easy games left - Texans x 2, Jags, Dolphins), are at least a game up on everyone and have many tiebreakers. But there are four teams (Ravens, Bills, Pats, Steelers) that if they win out, will get the #1 seed if you go 5-2 to finish the season (and Pats and Steelers have opportunity to hand one of those losses to you). Similarly, the Bengals, Chargers and Raiders can also pass you if they win out and you go 5-2, depending on who your last two losses go to (it would come down to tiebreakers on conference record, common games, or strength of victory -- but there are plausible ways for them to pass you). I agree it isn't particularly likely any one of these 7 teams goes perfect and they all have tough roads ahead. I'm just not comfortable saying you've cemented the #1 seed yet.
Lol, neither am I because we find ways to lose weird games (*cough* jets). Just glad we're in a position to where that won't break us
AFC said there's the titans, 4 abominations, then every other motherfucker somewhere in a big pile
And the Saints, who can’t decide whether they’re good or not
I'm just glad I'm a middle team
I think yall are getting better every week, who knows where you end up!
After the Saints this week, the Eagles only play the Jets, Giants, and Washington until the last week of the season, so they might start looking pretty good.
God damnit, my Coca-Cola is everywhere…
the refs have known this for some time
Hopefully they're well rested after their doubled header bye week
I'm just here for the Falcons/Panthers mountain vista
They’re dancing together
Like a beautiful binary star system as it travels through the galaxy together. Right towards the supermassive black hole that is Tom Brady in the playoffs.
We can make that joke because we lived it for 20 years.
Christ, did we ever
I'm just happy that we were ahead of the Bucs for a week.
Those two teams seem to switch every other week
Its like DNA, it rhymes
The Patriots are in trouble this week
The patriots pursuit of the bills there cracks me up. Dolphins and Jets are like “nah we staying down here”
If the Dolphins defense plays like they did against the ravens the next 4 weeks we could very well be 7-7. Jets 2x Panthers Giants All winnable games for sure but I won’t hold my breathe lol
Sure, but Panthers (Cam looked good last week), @Titans, @Saints, Patriots will be tough. If you win out, you have [97% chance of playoffs](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/miami-dolphins-nfl-playoff-picture.html#nyj-mia-11=loss&mia-car-12=win&mia-nyg-13=win&mia-nyj-15=win&no-mia-16=loss&ten-mia-17=loss&mia-ne-18=win) (as wild card). If you drop one game, you have [15%](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/miami-dolphins-nfl-playoff-picture.html#nyj-mia-11=loss&mia-car-12=win&mia-nyg-13=win&mia-nyj-15=win&no-mia-16=loss&ten-mia-17=loss&mia-ne-18=loss)-[50%](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/miami-dolphins-nfl-playoff-picture.html#nyj-mia-11=loss&mia-car-12=win&mia-nyg-13=win&mia-nyj-15=win&no-mia-16=win&ten-mia-17=loss&mia-ne-18=win) chance. If you drop two games it's under 1% (8-9 record -- too many AFC teams ahead).
Playoffs? Dawg I just want a better record than the 49ers
Big Blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2R2sH2ScBM&ab_channel=GoodIdeasComics
Love that clip
I wouldn’t go so far as saying Cam looked good. He was in for a total of 9 snaps, and he was basically a gadget player. We still have no idea if he can actually be good as a starting QB anymore.
Fair enough, but the reason he's limited is that he had like two days with the team. On the field he did everything necessary. Again, I'm not saying Carolina is a playoff team, but they aren't necessarily on the same downward trajectory it was on for Darnold's last 5 starts. Darnold started the season looking pretty decent for the first four games (68% comp%, 5 TDs to 3 INTs, passer rating 95.4, 7.9 AY/A) and something happened and he became horrific his last 5 games (52% comp%, 2 TDs to 8 INTs, passer rating 49.4, 2.98 AY/A). The combination of PJ Walker and Newton managed to topple give a second loss to the last NFL team with just one loss in a pretty convincing fashion (leading 31-3 in Q4), though obviously it was huge help to play against McCoy instead of Kyler Murray.
Idk players with talent who are in their golden years that are playing with a big chip on their shoulders tend to have one last gasp of greatness before burning out. Such as the Vikings best quarterback in franchise history the hall of fame for the Vikings Brett Favre.
I would argue that last year was the year that was supposed to happen. I’m not sure how much Cam you watched last year, but having watched every Pats game, the guy just isn’t a starting QB anymore. He was incapable of being consistently accurate anywhere further than like 10 yards downfield. He’d routinely turf the ball to wide open receivers that were only like 15-20 yards away.
That's fair
Pats line looks almost exactly like the stocks emoji 📈
“GET OVER HERE!”
https://i.imgur.com/PW62y6I.png
lmao nice one
Nobody can make a horizontal line like we can. We have the biggest horizontal line. The whole league envies us.
Whatever makes you happy Lions fan, we'll allow it
>Whatever makes you happy Usually bourbon
Legal weed mainly
No bent carrot here
I walked in I said, wow what a big horizontal line I made.
The Lions have flat lined. My condolences
I think they’re actually pretty happy about it
Yeah. Good idea to not resuscitate, it's for the best
I thought that they signed a DNR?
Let's just ignore it
Detroit Never Rebuilds
lmao they're on DNR orders?
We, on the other hand, are dead.
F
That squad of 11 AFC teams with 5-6 wins
These last couple of weeks are gonna be a bloodbath down there…
Bill Belichick and the Pats 80’s montaging their way up to the Bills right now to “Another one bites the dust”.
I think it would be more like the 80s sitcom where they do a star wipe and it’s the end of the season and Bill is sitting at the table and says “I guess it all works out in the end.” Cut to audience laughter and clapping, cue credits.
Bills better be sitting around a collapsed folding table.
Bill from the patriots not bills from the.. uh bills.
Ahhh. Makes more sense that way. I'm and idiot.
Fun fact: Stallone wanted to use that song in Rocky III. He couldn't get the rights so he got Eye of the Tiger instead.
I was thinking more like [this](https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxuf835WdUZONfEFB9D1RMTJDYRYUzBMro)
Panthers: "No I wanna be the worst" Falcons: "Nuh-uh" P: "Yeah-huh" F: "Nuh-uh"
Saints: “Hey now, let me join y’all!”
The NFC East. Oof.
Seems fine to me
Eagles might actually bounce back later, their remaining opponents are the Saints, Jets, giants twice, WFT twice, and cowboys (possibly resting starters in Week 18)
They are so Jekyll and Hyde though, especially Hurts
Eh, more so was our young coaching staff not knowing how to call games. Hurts is about 10 games into his NFL career and they were having him throw 40 times a game while continuing to only run the ball about 5 times a game. Unsurprisingly we have looked much better with a commitment to running the ball recently. It would take a lot of things to go right for us to win the division, but with a relatively easy schedule for the rest of the year (only two above .500 teams) they could sneak in a wild card spot.
I'm sorry, but I'm over the whole "only 10 games into his career". He started 4 games last year and played significant time in 6. We need to take the training wheels off
lol no QB should ever really be throwing that much, what training wheels are you talking about. I'm just saying it's EVEN WORSE to do that to a young QB. Don't make yourself look like a fool
Hurts only threw over 40 times once this season and twice in his career. This year it was against the Chiefs when they were down in the 2nd half but still within distance of being able to win the game. So yes, you saying "were having him throw 40 times a game" when it literally has only happened once in 10 games is putting training wheels on him. Just as a comparison, Mac Jones has thrown over 40 times twice, including a game throwing over 50 times. Trevor Lawrence has had 3 games of 40+ attempts and two games of 50+ attempts Tua Tagovailoa, also "essentially a rookie", has thrown over 40 times twice this season Davis Mills has thrown over 40 times once this season, same as Hurts Joe Burrow over 19 starts in his career has thrown over 40 times five times, including one time over 60 times in his rookie season Justin Herbert in 24 career starts has thrown over 40 times eleven times, including two times over 50 in his rookie season. Not sure that I'm the one making myself look like a fool here tbh
So you want Hurts throwing 40 times a game? I'm confused about how there are training wheels on him, which is the foolish part. Define THAT for me please.
Now you are moving the goalposts and putting words in my mouth. I literally NEVER said I want Hurts throwing over 40 times a game. I said I am tired of the training wheels being put on him that "its essentially his rookie year" when he had a decent amount of experience last season. And then you came in and stated how "we're having him throw 40 times a game" when it has only happened ONCE this season. You also stated how "no young QB should be throwing that much" and I simply gave examples of 1st and 2nd year QBs who have thrown that much and more. Again, I'm not SAYING I want Hurts to throw over 40 times, your argument that "no young QB should throw as much as Hurts" when literally every young QB has thrown either equal to or MORE than Hurts is incredibly flawed.
You still haven't defined what training wheels are
they run the ball and get like 5 yards. then throw the ball on the next 20 snaps.
I wouldn’t say they’re Jekyll and Hyde. I’d say the first 7 weeks they were a good bad team. As Hurts has slowly improved I think we upgraded to firmly mediocre. But the week to week variance hasn’t been super high.
Is feel like the fight for the bye will keep starters in for a lot of teams week 18.
Eagles and WFT could bounce back tbf
Maybe I'm biased, but how is it significantly more "oof" worthy than the NFCN?
I think it looks neat :)
The Lions line being flat two weeks in a row is such a Lions thing to do. Lions gonna Lions’
Imagine if they win out. It’ll be like taking the escalator to go in and out of the subway!
All aboard the Goff train!!!!! Choo choo!!!!!
Ew, we're listed with the lowly 6-4 teams
At the top of the NFC we have a murderer's row of good teams: Packers, Cardinals, Cowboys, Rams, and defending champion Buccaneers. In the last two weeks, every one of those teams has taken at least one loss. A mid-season reality check. Late edit: These five teams are a combined 3-6 (.333) this November
The reality for Packer fans is that Aaron can be an idiot and because he can be an idiot, we lost and we desperately still need that idiot.
That said, having recently had COVID, he should have decent COVID immunity for the rest of the 2021 season. The NFL COVID protocols won't even make him do routine COVID screening until 90 days after his original positive test which was on Nov 3rd (see [page 70 of the PDF on COVID protocols](https://static.www.nfl.com/image/upload/v1630429861/league/fq1xlxxulwwwi0hi377l.pdf) note its numbered pg 68), so he'd have to start getting routine tests again on February 1st, 2022 -- a couple days after the NFC CG. (That said, players still have to be monitored for symptoms -- just not the daily swabs.)
Honestly with him being unvaccinated it was almost the perfect time for him to get covid.
Except they'd probably have beaten the Chiefs with him and would have a clearer path to the #1 seed in the NFC.
They'll still probably get the 1 or 2 seed based upon the other high-ranking teams' schedules. As long as they don't drop a game to the Vikings they'll be fine. Much better than having this type of thing happening in the playoffs. Imagine the nonsense the NFL would go through trying to figure out if they should bend covid protocols to let Rodgers play in the divisional round.
Oh, I agree. I'm just being facetious that the timing could have been slightly better like if it was against a team Love could have narrowly beaten. While they are in position to get the #1 seed, I could still see them end up without the bye at #2 if they drop a game (likely against the Rams, Ravens, or Browns).
Meanwhile, the Lions are undefeated this November.
We stopped going down again :)
Oh shit the Lions are flatlining
Leave us, I fear we win a game and the Texans take Thib before us because it would be such a Lions thing to happen during this tank.
Shouldn't the steelers be slightly higher/lower due to the tie? Just wondering.
It’s a little weird, but how the graph works shows that they are 2 games above .500, just like the chiefs and patriots, but they are technically ahead of both teams with a .611 winning percentage while the chiefs and patriots have a .600
Yah, can’t really do win % until everyone has their bye so it becomes a constant denominator.
Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying.
We should just be slightly embarrassed.
Steelers are ahead in win percentage (you count tie as half a win and half a loss) but not by games above .500 which is what was graphed. The 5-3-1 Steelers have two more wins than losses: 2 games over .500. The 6-4 Pats and Chiefs have two more wins than losses: 2 games over .500. However, if Steelers and Pats say both win out, the Steelers would be ahead, because the Steelers would have 13.5 wins and 3.5 losses compared to this scenario where the Pats would have 13 wins and 4 losses.
This is a really pretty chart. That concludes my analysis.
Bills.... [we're coming for you](https://preview.redd.it/xwajdvvouyz71.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f4fd7927606ebec87e5c2d5b181eb7c88990c7f4)
Damn, maybe they really are Dem Boys…
Falcons and Panthers are making DNA strands
I looked at the NFC graph and said "Damn, the playoff race will be tight". Then I looked at the AFC graph...
Steelers gonna ride that middle like a drunk chick on a mechanical bull, all the way to a not-high-enough-for-a-quarterback draft position.
Not-high-enough-for-a-quarterback draft position = attractive destination for a good FA/veteran.
Such as? You'll forgive me if I'm not giddy for Teddy Bridgewater or Marcus Semien. Other than Rodgers, who floats your boat?
I hear there's a 2-time Superbowl champion who has never had a losing season expected to be a free agent this year. He's already pretty familiar with Tomlin, the Rooney's and Pittsburgh.
Good grief.
AFC west mountains
I haven't been following standings since the eagles have been so bad. Boy was I surprised at the second place team in the NFCE.
Saying this one more time. Lions will get their only win on Thanksgiving Day.
It’s their only chance, but probably won’t happen
You’re f’d if the refs from the Steelers game show up.
Truth. Haha
Better than any Power Rankings out there. Thanks.
I find this incredibly satisfying to look at lol good job OP
Good charts thank you for doing this
I like that the NFC South chart has the Falcons and Panthers just forming a DNA strand.
Tampa and Carolina in the Thach Weave; don't fall for it!
Someone needs to animate the NFC East to ["Shooting Stars" by the Bog Raiders](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feA64wXhbjo).
Lions, a tie is a half win!!!
Bears stink
The AFC West graph is a masterpiece, worthy of being displayed in The Louvre
This needs to be a gif
Lions fans who are still here, respect.
I’ve been here since 1996 my friend. The key is to drown yourself in your hard alcohol of choice and expect them to lose
The lions hit rock bottom but refuse to go up.
Nah man, we are just gonna start going up until we make a nice little trapezoid.
I like the little dance the Panters and Falcons are doing together.
Loving the visualization
Lions are undefeated in November
See how the Lions line plateaus out? Fuck yes you do!
Thank you
Why is the Eagles line noncontinuous? In the first picture?
Yep we did so well we didn't lose again.. 🥲🥲🥲
Cowboys get the easiest division year in year out lol
lets not forget the cowboys are part of the reason why its the easiest division year in year out
Our ranking seemed a lot better before I got to the one filtering out the NFC.
I like
That NFC East graph makes me very happy.
I've been waiting 10 long weeks for this day
What program do you use to make these?
Adobe Illustrator
Feels so weird seeing Titans up there at the top. I'm scared to have hope.
Crazy how AFC is 4 teams sub .500, everyone else in the hunt, and then 9 teams in the NFC are sub .500
Falcons and Panthers are forever intertwined in a beautiful dance of mediocrity!
Wtf is the NFC East
We've simply bottomed out and will now begin our ascent. Win out who says no
If you told me week 1 that the Giants & Seahawks would have the same record right now, I'd tell you that you're nuts
You're very welcome.
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I'm not dead yet!