I would've said fucked but I'm trying to curb the cursing in my titles. Anyways, the CFP committee fucked over Florida State because they wanted a SEC school in their shitty little "playoff". I always had a problem with how they decide a champion in the FBS even all the way back to the BCS days. In every other level of football from the NFL, high school, FCS, D2, D3, NAIA, international, arena, women's, etc football, a playoff with teams that had the best record decided the championship. But oh no, that's not how they do things at the FBS level.
They have 40+ pointless ass bowl games and a group of chucklefucks decide who are the "best teams" in their basic bitch "playoff". There are 3 Power 5 schools that finished a perfect 13-0 (Group of 5 school Liberty was also 13-0 but I will get to them later) along with 2 conference winners that finished 12-1. Instead of Washington, Michigan and Florida State getting in and taking your pick between Texas and Alabama, both UT and Bama get selected while FSU is relegated to the Orange Bowl to play Georgia. Their reason for that is FSU is without their star QB Jordan Travis so a healthy Bama would provide a better matchup. Let's just ignore that without him, THEY FINISHED THE FUCKING SEASON UNDEFEATED!!!
ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit went on The Pat McAfee Show rationalizing that they wanted the best matchups for the championship. TCU got curb stomped by Georgia last year so they holding that against FSU. Personally, I find that disrespectful to compare the teams considering TCU blew their load last year only to finish 5-7 this year. Hell, their QB Max Duggan is on the Chargers practice squad! But hey, if Deion Sanders was coaching them, they would be selected.
And don't get me started on how this fucks over smaller teams that have a good season like a James Madison or a Liberty or a UCF who have ZERO chance of playing for a national championship. If the Group of 5 schools won't even be considered for the "playoffs", then what is even the point of having them in the FBS? Either split up the FBS or include the smaller schools that do go undefeated in the playoffs. If a South Alabama gets blown out by a Oregon, so be it, at least they tried. THANK GOD this bullshit isn't in the NFL. Every year would be Chiefs, Bills, Chargers/Rams, Giants/Jets and/or Cowboys in the playoffs while the Packers gets left out.
That's why I created the FBS Top 25 and FBS Playoffs where EVERY conference winner gets in the playoffs plus 14 other teams based purely on records with the Football Power Index as the tiebreaker. None of that East coast bias bullshit. None of that SEC dick riding. No committee fucktards deciding who is the champion based on TV ratings instead of on field performance. Because you know goddamn well when they expand to 12 teams, they will pull the same bullshit as they always had where they care more about marketability of schools instead of record.
THE GAMES
New England Patriots 3
Pittsburgh Steelers 27
We're 1 step closer to Bill Belichick coaching the Panthers. I can't wait!
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 13
Atlanta Falcons 30
Root for the Falcons so someone will have a winning record out of this trash division.
Los Angeles Rams 20
Baltimore Ravens 28
The Rams signed longtime Packers K Mason Crosby to their practice squad since Lucas Havrisik has been underperforming lately. Judging by the missed PAT, Mason will start next time.
Detroit Lions 24
Chicago Bears 28
As I look at the Bears rankings, they have a great running game, and their defense is fine. It's just their passing game that's terrible. Like damn, Justin Fields is behind Zach Wilson in passing yards with 1,587! So, it looks like Da Bears will rely on their running game to gash the Lions.
Indianapolis Colts 23
Cincinnati Bengals 38
Jake Browning did good on MNF against the Jags as he went 32/37 for 354 yards and a TD. The win keeps them alive in the playoff picture but they will need the teams ahead of them to shit the bed for them to pull a Alabama and jump ahead of them. A win over the Colts helps with that.
Jacksonville Jaguars 13
Cleveland Browns 6
Jaguar fans were ready to curse God as their star QB Trevor Lawrence suffered a high ankle sprain from having his right leg stepped on by his OL Walker Little causing Trevor to fall back awkwardly on it late in the 4th quarter. He felt confident enough to walk back to the locker room without a cart, but I don't see him playing this game. If C.J. Beathard does start, he won't have WR Christian Kirk to throw to as he sustained a core muscle injury plus Little and 4 defensive players were injured as well. Good thing the Browns are banged up too with a backup QB.
Carolina Panthers 13
New Orleans Saints 3
The Panthers are the first team to be eliminated from playoff contention. Rather as well take the Saints down with them. Hell, they can ruin 4 additional teams' day too to close out the season.
Houston Texans 10
New York Jets 6
What did I say? Tim Boyle was so terrible in his 2 starts, the Jets fired him. Only to sign Brett Rypien who got fired by the Rams after a terrible start for them as well. If I was a content farmer my list of serviceable QBs would be on Woody Johnson's desk right now. But since they want randos to start for them instead of guys who had success in other leagues, here's some more:
- Tim DeMorat - Free Agent
- Ian Book - 3rd in passing yards and TDs in FVB Sports 2020-21 FBS Playoffs
- Jacob Eason - Cut from Giants practice squad
- Cole McDonald - Houston Roughnecks
- Nate Stanley - Free Agent
- James Morgan - Pittsburgh Maulers
- Clayton Thorson - Commercial real estate broker
- Josh Rosen - Free Agent
- Danny Etling - Free Agent
- Colin Kaepernick - Wild Card Football video game cover athlete
Minnesota Vikings 24
Las Vegas Raiders 20
While in Vegas, Roger Goodell said that football will be a global sport in 5 to 10 years. Maybe it's because I'm one of the few football fans who actually pays attention to foreign leagues but it kinda already is. Sure, the talent in other countries isn't at the point where NFL scouts sign foreign players directly from their native land like in baseball, basketball, soccer and hockey but there are plenty of leagues in multiple countries including those that have been around for decades like the CFL, ONEFA, GFL, AFL and X-League. Of course, he's not worried about that, he's focused on playing NFL games in more countries like Brazil and Spain where they get to a point where every team plays an international game. That's the main reason why they're playing a 17-game season. Now if only the players demand a extra bye week to accommodate that.
Seattle Seahawks 26
San Francisco 49ers 38
They're just disrespecting Brock Purdy. He needs to win Super Bowls quick to shut them up.
Buffalo Bills 28
Kansas City Swifties 27
Despite the domestic violence allegations, Bills LB Von Miller will play. Lately the Ginger Hammer has been trying to shed the Judge, Jury, Executioner gimmick since people didn't like how Rog had absolute power. Now the NFL will wait for the police to finish their investigations.
Denver Broncos 33
Los Angeles Chargers 19
We're one step closer to Brandon Staley going back to being a defensive coordinator.
Philadelphia Eagles 13
Dallas Cowboys 17
NBC made it known that they won't televise the USXFL merger in March due to it conflicting with other programing at that time. So that would leave ESPN and FOX as their broadcast partners so far. For a league that's not that far away to begin, they sure are stingy on details of it. For instance, news broke that the league would only keep 4 teams from each side but that may not be completely accurate. Whenever this XUSFL starts, I will give my full thoughts about it.
Tennessee Titans 14
Miami Dolphins 37
The Titans fired their special teams coordinator Craig Aukerman after a disastrous showing against the Colts where one punt got blocked and returned for a TD and another attempt resulted in their P Ryan Stonehouse being out for the rest of the year with a knee injury. In lighter news, Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa leads Pro Bowl voting with 59,680, just like last year!
Green Bay Packers 3
New York Giants 14
For real though, THANK GOD the NFL doesn't have a committee to decide their champion.
LAST WEEK: 8-5
OVERALL: 104-88
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