2017-18 NFL Season (Eagles Are This Year's Champions)

Who are you rooting for in the Super Bowl?

  • New England Patriots

    Votes: 1 33.3%

  • Philadelphia Eagles

    Votes: 2 66.7%
  • Total voters
    3
SonicMario

SonicMario

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Are you ready for some football?!

Yep it's that time again, it's Football Season. And a new season of dramatic games for all 32 teams in the league begins.

As a Lions fan, I'm not sure what to expect from them this year. I could see the potential to improve on last year. Maybe even get a Playoff Win. But I also wouldn't be surprised if they regressed at least a little bit. They have quite a bit of a tough schedule (At least on paper) in the first half of the Season.

Though let me start on that opening game last night. While it is just Week 1 and the Patriots could easily work on any current issues, they hardly looked like a contender at all last night. I do think they'll bounce back and in fact think they'll probably have a great game against the Saints next week. But if they don't, that may be significant reason to place some doubt on a Patriots team that many before the season thought were a shoe-in to return to the Super Bowl. Whether it's due to a Super Bowl Hangover, Brady's age starting to catch up to him, Edelman's injury, the Madden curse, etc. the Patriots didn't look like the Patriots for most of last night.
 
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My hopes for my Raiders are the highest they have been in 14 years. Let's see how Week 1 plays out.
 
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Interesting start to the season thus far. Lions looked a lot better then I was expecting. Though the Cardinals offense are on the aging side of things. But still to be only down 1 point after the insane amount of events that would of definitely cost them the game against better teams (Like a punt returner who foolishly decided to try to run the ball from the endzone instead of just taking a knee).

And the Giants looked vulnerable in their loss to the Cowboys. So maybe there's a chance the Lions go up 2-0 next week if they can keep up the effort they had in the 2nd half of the Cardinals game.
 
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Man, I fully expected the Lions to lose to the Falcons. But did it really have to happen in a controversial fashion like it did?

I suppose I could take a positive is that they played close with the NFC Champs. But the difference between 2-1 and the moral victory of that and 3-0 and a stunning upset that would of surprised the football world was literally on a inconclusive call and a dumb rule that even if down didn't allow the Lions to mount at least one more play to try to win the game.

I don't feel quite as bad as similar robbed games like the Hail Mary two years ago or the Playoff game in Dallas 3 years ago. But it sucks to have yet another game seemingly decided by the refs for the Lions :/
 
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Playoffs are almost here. Lions still technically have a chance to make it. But I don't have the expectations for it.

That Patriots-Steelers game on Sunday night had a pretty crazy ending. Steelers got Calvin Johnson rule'd. The rule makes it hard to know sometimes when a catch is a catch but it was technically the right call.

Also the Packers won't be in the playoffs this year due to the Falcons win yesterday. So... yay.
 
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Northern Verve said:
Playoffs are almost here. Lions still technically have a chance to make it. But I don't have the expectations for it.

That Patriots-Steelers game on Sunday night had a pretty crazy ending. Steelers got Calvin Johnson rule'd. The rule makes it hard to know sometimes when a catch is a catch but it was technically the right call.

Also the Packers won't be in the playoffs this year due to the Falcons win yesterday. So... yay.
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GO FALCONS!!! They have a shot at making it into the Super Bowl again this year and getting back the title
 
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Lions out of playoff contention. But ever since the Thanksgiving game this year I knew they weren't contenders this year. Even if they had made it, they likely wouldn't have been able to get a win. It was the Vikings year in the NFC North, the NFC South for the exception of the Bucs were all good teams this year. And both the Falcons and the Seahawks (One of those 2 teams will get the final spot in the NFC side of the playoffs) I feel have a better chance to at least make a game competitive then the Lions do.

But there are a few things that also make me happy.

1. Already mentioned before, but the Packers aren't in the Playoffs
2. The Cowboys won't be in the playoff thanks to the loss to the Seahawks
3. The Lions may finally not be the only franchise to go 0-16 since the last game the Browns is on the road against a pretty good Steelers team. Which might still be playing for a first round bye and/or #1 Seed in Week 17. I wasn't even following the Lions much back when they had that infamous year. But it'd still be nice to not be the only franchise with that kind of black mark on history
4. I don't have a huge grudge against any of the teams left in the playoffs. I can be totally neutral and just hope for some good games on every Playoff game this year.
 
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Draggadonyoshi said:
Northern Verve said:
Playoffs are almost here. Lions still technically have a chance to make it. But I don't have the expectations for it.

That Patriots-Steelers game on Sunday night had a pretty crazy ending. Steelers got Calvin Johnson rule'd. The rule makes it hard to know sometimes when a catch is a catch but it was technically the right call.

Also the Packers won't be in the playoffs this year due to the Falcons win yesterday. So... yay.
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GO FALCONS!!! They have a shot at making it into the Super Bowl again this year and getting back the title
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Excuse me while I go vomit.
 
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Rip Broncos, we'll do better next year

In the meantime hang in there Seahawks
 
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GalacticPetey said:
Draggadonyoshi said:
Northern Verve said:
Playoffs are almost here. Lions still technically have a chance to make it. But I don't have the expectations for it.

That Patriots-Steelers game on Sunday night had a pretty crazy ending. Steelers got Calvin Johnson rule'd. The rule makes it hard to know sometimes when a catch is a catch but it was technically the right call.

Also the Packers won't be in the playoffs this year due to the Falcons win yesterday. So... yay.
Click to expand...
GO FALCONS!!! They have a shot at making it into the Super Bowl again this year and getting back the title
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Excuse me while I go vomit.
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I take it you're a patriots fan?
 
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Draggadonyoshi said:
GalacticPetey said:
Draggadonyoshi said:
Northern Verve said:
Playoffs are almost here. Lions still technically have a chance to make it. But I don't have the expectations for it.

That Patriots-Steelers game on Sunday night had a pretty crazy ending. Steelers got Calvin Johnson rule'd. The rule makes it hard to kn