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Fight like hell, get no less than like 6 lucky breaks, and end up losing because your coaches decide to put a safety on an island against Kupp.

This is from a few years ago, so not sure if it is different now https://www.covers.com/forum/nfl-betting-21/how-many-times-has-an-nfl-team-beat-the-same-team-twice-in-one-season-on-the-road-103410001 "Since 1990, there have been sixteen times when a team was swept in the regular season and then met that opponent a third time in the playoffs. The team that swept the regular season went 11-5 (8-7-1 ATS) in the postseason"

Haven't been in the same division as the 49ers for like decades, but I still hate them from the early years.

I think Smitty had him as the best WR in the draft that year too.

I would say it was just an unbelievably stupid call for the Bucs D, but if they overplay Kupp, then OBJ is the one making a similar play.

After all that, the Bucs lost because they didn't quadruple team the best WR in the league. Wow.

Anyone for a blocked kick lol

I'll be damned. Stafford did it.

If the Rams aren't careful, they are going to lose in regulation. Take a knee, play for OT. I'm terrified if they throw a single pass here it's getting pick six'd

Thats's going to be a first down after replay

Turnovers, coming up short on a field goal that wasn't all that long. Letting a WR get deep on you. Everything.

There are some games that you watch and think, naw, if this was a movie script you would be laughed out of the pitch meeting. I can't believe what we are seeing here. It's not scripted, it's too unrealistic to be scripted.

No matter what, the NFC Championship game is going to have an amazing storyline. Bucs- Jimmy G versus Brady Rams- Versus the team that they let make the playoffs by not finishing the job in the last week of the season.

You know what, I'm okay with that too lol. These two teams missing on a QB and sucking for a while is long overdue.

They should absolutely have a package or two for him. I think they are trying to protect him because they know the team is his for next year and the 10 following and he's super raw right now.

The 7 year part is a running joke from the Jay Z quote a few weeks ago. And if Matt is right and the team figures it out in year 3, then awesome.

There were some quotes from Rhule before the year where he goes over watching film and Phil Snow saying that Sam looked like Matt Stafford. Believe it was on the Rich Eisen show. Snow definitely liked Sam and I think Rhule trusts Snow more than any other person on the planet.

Ok, purely hypothetical here. Before last season, Panthers hire another coach. You think we roll in to last season with Teddy as QB, and this year with Sam? I don't. I think Rhule has played a significant role in putting together the roster. I think if it was mostly Marty Hurney making the decisions, he would have sold the farm for Herbert last year.

Do you think Matt Rhule is capable of finding that franchise QB? Do you think Matt would have taken a chance on Delhomme or Cam? I think its more likely that he would have traded picks for like Ryan Leaf or drafted Blake Bortles.

I think the makeup of the team is critical. Taking Burrow may have been a no-brainer. But go back to the draft this year, the no-brainer was to take a tackle. They took a risk to go with a star their QB wanted and it paid off. I don't know that that team makes the playoffs if they draft a tackle instead. I just want the team to win. It's incredibly frustrating knowing that the process for this team is to maybe, possibly be good somewhere around 2025. Any period of time where I have to be jealous of Bengals fans isn't going to be a good time.

Fair point as well. I was looking mainly at how those teams performed in the last year of the prior coach. That team in 2001 lost like 15 in a row and the year before Rivera came in, the team was awful too.

Fair point.

Nothing that happened 30 years ago plays any role in this. This regime turned it around in 3 years. I'm not going to mock Zac Taylor because the Bengals sucked when he was in grade school. He turned them around in 3 years.

Yes, absolutely we do. Zac Taylor has been there for three seasons. First season, they were terrible. Second season, they made progress. Year three, AFC Championship game. It doesn't take 7 years to rebuild. It is actually comical for any coach to think that it does. 7 years is a huge period of time when the average NFL career comes in somewhere around 2.5 years. A 7 year rebuild is essentially saying that you need nearly 3 full passes on your roster to get it right.

It doesn't take a decade for a rebuild, we've seen it here before. In less time than it takes to get through high school, we went from the worst team in the league to staring down Tom Brady in the Super Bowl. Fast forward a few years and we went from the number 1 pick to a season with only 2 losses and it should have been 1 loss. Matt Rhule inherited a team far better than John Fox did, far better than Ron Rivera did, and they made immediate strides. Rhule is just a bad coach and a worse evaluator of talent. That is all this is.