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Old 08-22-2018, 09:13 PM   #481
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Who to cheer for? Start with who you hate:

Cowboys - pick Eagles or Redskins
Patriots - pick Dolphins or Jets
Packers - pick Bears or Vikings
Broncos - pick Raiders or Chargers
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Old 08-22-2018, 09:23 PM   #482
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They're going to be lucky to win 6 games this year.
They won six games last season with one of the hardest schedules in the NFL and maybe the 2nd worst coaching staff after the Browns. This season they have an upgraded coaching staff and a top 5 easiest schedule and you think they will be worse? They should win 8 games at least as the Chiefs will take a step back with Mahomes and the Broncos should be bad again. Chargers will be the team standing in the way of the Raiders and the AFC West.

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Old 08-22-2018, 09:53 PM   #483
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This is the Bills' year, I can feel it.
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Old 08-22-2018, 09:57 PM   #484
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Also...the Jets owners have stated that they will pay any fines players receive for protest during the anthem.

That moral position is pretty endearing (at least to me)
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Old 08-22-2018, 10:04 PM   #485
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Also don't listen to this. The Browns are basically the NFL's version of the Oilers, except somehow worse.
Visually they look great!
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Old 08-22-2018, 10:07 PM   #486
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This is the Bills' year, I can feel it.
Haha are you a Bills fans? according to this https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...event=wildcard

there is a 20% chance the Bills get a wildcard spot.

Screw it. I'm sticking with the Bills. Maybe they surprise everyone this year.

Go Bills Go!
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Old 08-22-2018, 10:11 PM   #487
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Haha are you a Bills fans? according to this https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...event=wildcard

there is a 20% chance the Bills get a wildcard spot.

Screw it. I'm sticking with the Bills. Maybe they surprise everyone this year.

Go Bills Go!
They surprised everyone last year. Lightning not likely striking two years in a row.
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Old 08-22-2018, 10:52 PM   #488
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They won six games last season with one of the hardest schedules in the NFL and maybe the 2nd worst coaching staff after the Browns. This season they have an upgraded coaching staff and a top 5 easiest schedule and you think they will be worse? They should win 8 games at least as the Chiefs will take a step back with Mahomes and the Broncos should be bad again. Chargers will be the team standing in the way of the Raiders and the AFC West.
I'm absolutely willing to put money on them winning less than 8.
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Pick the Bucs and set your expectations really low.
Nothing beats a pirate ship inside a frickin stadium, a real cannonball firing pirate ship!
Also, how can you not cheer for Winston? The guy stuck stolen crab legs down his pants at FSU.
Lastly, they are the least racist/MAGA team in the league.
I honestly can't tell if this is supposed to be green text. Like I'm 90% sure, but I wouldn't put it past a Bucs fan to post something like this.
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The easy choice would be the Titans. Young up and coming team and no more of that smash mouth football.
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The easy choice would be the Titans. Young up and coming team and no more of that smash mouth football.
Haha! Titans are basically why I stopped watching NFL. How that season played out turned me off the Bills too. Flutie brings them to the playoffs and then they go with the glassman Rob Johnson to start the Wildcard game.

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I'm absolutely willing to put money on them winning less than 8.
Now you are changing the goal posts as you said they would win less than 6. But I'm game if you are. I will let you take a good look at their schedule first before committing though to be fair and pick 9 for sure losses. I don't think people realize how much of a train wreck it was last season and they still won 6 games with a difficult schedule. The defense went from bottom five to top 10 in the final six weeks after KNJ (2nd worst DC in the history of the organization) was fired and Todd Downing the OC that JDR hired had never been an coordinator at any level and he's out of the league. They still won 6 games with a paper napkin offensive playbook and a difficult schedule. Now they have legit coordinators and a soft schedule. I realize there are a lot of skeptics of Gruden but he's surrounded himself with experience coordinators and while I doubt they are a Super Bowl contender this season or maybe even a playoff team they should be able to win 8 games on that schedule especially seeing the AFC West is a bit of a mess right now. Also the best travel schedule they have had in a long time so plenty of factors pointing to an increase in the win column over last season.

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I honestly can't tell if this is supposed to be green text. Like I'm 90% sure, but I wouldn't put it past a Bucs fan to post something like this.
Been a Bucs fan since 91, since the days of the orange uniforms, smiling pirate Pete, and the Big Sombrero.

Its easy being a Bucs fan, they epitomize mediocrity, my expectations of them are very low.
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Been a Bucs fan since 91, since the days of the orange uniforms, smiling pirate Pete, and the Big Sombrero.

Its easy being a Bucs fan, they epitomize mediocrity, my expectations of them are very low.
Yeah, it was the Jameis and MAGA comments that through me off. I can think of 3 very good reasons not to cheer for the guy and from what I've read, the local fans are basically full blown Florida trash.
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The Bears are the obvious choice.

If you hate quarterbacks, high scores or winning n general cheer for the Bears. At least you can tell your friends how awesome they were 35 years ago.
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Haha! Titans are basically why I stopped watching NFL. How that season played out turned me off the Bills too. Flutie brings them to the playoffs and then they go with the glassman Rob Johnson to start the Wildcard game.



That's hilarious. This was basically the reason i became a Titans fan. I was a Bills fan back then too and then we lost that game and I said i hope the Titans win the SB so I could say at least we lost to the champs. Obviously that didn't turn out, but I watched them and started liking them. McNair, George, Wychek, Mason. Then i believe that was the offseason the Bills lost Reed, Smith and Thomas. So I said eff it I'll become a Titans fan and haven't looked back since.
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The Bears are the obvious choice.

If you hate quarterbacks, high scores or winning n general cheer for the Bears. At least you can tell your friends how awesome they were 35 years ago.

They gonna be more exciting to watch this year if what I'm hearing from the fantasy community is correct. I got Anthony Miller and Trey Burton on my fantasy team this year. Excited about Miller, hearing lots of good things about him.
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Yeah, it was the Jameis and MAGA comments that through me off. I can think of 3 very good reasons not to cheer for the guy and from what I've read, the local fans are basically full blown Florida trash.
Yeah, that was sarcasm, should have been green text.
Winston is hopefully getting canned this year, and the local fans....well it is is Florida.

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Yeah, that was sarcasm, should have been green text.
Winston is hopefully getting canned this year, and the local fans....well it is is Florida.
I still think they should trade for Bridgewater and let Jameis go. Seems like a no-brainer to me but then this is the same front office that spent a second round pick on a kicker, so what do I know?
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The Bears are the obvious choice.

If you hate quarterbacks, high scores or winning n general cheer for the Bears. At least you can tell your friends how awesome they were 35 years ago.
There should be a shift in the next five years as Brady, Rogers, Big Ben, Rivers, Brees, etc retire none of those teams presently have replacements and it's doubtful any of those organizations ever find replacements that are at their level meaning most if not all of those teams could be in for tough times. Belichick has shown he can win short term without Brady but I'm not so sure he can long term as Brady covers a lot of warts on those teams.
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