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"The Bengals are the first team to reach the Super Bowl with odds longer than 100-1 since the 1999 St. Louis Rams (150-1), according to SportsOddsHistory.com."
200-1 at the start of the season.
Isn't it great to watch a team that almost every week has 'experts' saying they are likely to lose yet keep winning. Even last week you would be pressed to find a pundit giving them a win. Plenty of platitudes for effort but not a lot of confidence.
I think they must be feeding off this and have a motivation to prove people wrong.
Keep it up.*On Oct. 28, a bettor at Caesars Sportsbook in Michigan placed a $13,440 bet on the Bengals to win the Super Bowl at 35-1. According to the sportsbook, the same customer also put $13,000 on Cincinnati to claim the AFC crown at 16-1 and won $208,000 when the visiting Bengals rallied to beat the Kansas City Chiefs in Sunday's AFC Championship Game.
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BetMGM offered odds on the exact Super Bowl matchup in the preseason. A Bengals-Rams Super Bowl was listed at 500-1.*
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Josh McDaniels is the new head coach of the Raiders.
Will be interesting to see if he has learnt anything from his time in Denver a decade or so ago.
Patriots assistant coaches don't have the best record as head coaches but he's saying all the right things. Tough division but a solid team the Raiders have.
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@kiwimurph said in NFL Season 2020/21/22:
Josh McDaniels is the new head coach of the Raiders.
Will be interesting to see if he has learnt anything from his time in Denver a decade or so ago.
Patriots assistant coaches don't have the best record as head coaches but he's saying all the right things. Tough division but a solid team the Raiders have.
Will he make it to the start of the season? He bailed on the Colts a couple of years back and I"m kind of surprised the Raiders were willing to give him a shot. Mind you the Colts are probably pretty happy with how that worked out for them.
I wonder if there's anything in his contract if he makes a last minute decision to bail again. Although I don't know why I'm surprised; the NFL has repeatedly shown that they don't care about character if they think they will get a competitive advantage.
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After a season where Flores probably exceeded expectations, or at least didn't do nearly as poorly as a bunch of coaches, he got the sack much to the surprise of many pundits.
Flores sues NFL, teams, alleges racism in hiring
Among Brian Flores' allegations: Dolphins owner Stephen Ross offered him $100K for every loss in 2019 to help with draft position and the Giants conducted a "sham" in-person interview with him to comply with the Rooney Rule after deciding on Brian Daboll.
I guess he has decided it's time to go nuclear. I guess it will slam the door on coaching in the NFL in the future
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@cyclops said in NFL Season 2020/21/22:
@kiwimurph said in NFL Season 2020/21/22:
Josh McDaniels is the new head coach of the Raiders.
Will be interesting to see if he has learnt anything from his time in Denver a decade or so ago.
Patriots assistant coaches don't have the best record as head coaches but he's saying all the right things. Tough division but a solid team the Raiders have.
Will he make it to the start of the season? He bailed on the Colts a couple of years back and I"m kind of surprised the Raiders were willing to give him a shot. Mind you the Colts are probably pretty happy with how that worked out for them.
I wonder if there's anything in his contract if he makes a last minute decision to bail again. Although I don't know why I'm surprised; the NFL has repeatedly shown that they don't care about character if they think they will get a competitive advantage.
Once upon a time Bill Belichick bailed on the New York Jets job to take the Patriots job.
In a league that is searching for offensive playcallers to be their head coaches, McDaniels was always going to get another shot (look at the 4 head coaches in the two Championship Games last weekend).
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Wow, not a single mention yet of - let alone a thread dedicated to - the undisputed GOAT Tom Brady. As an aside before I continue, I think in NFL the quarterback GOAT argument needs to be separated from the rest of the NFL GOAT because the position is so specialised, so important and so prominent and visible that it's almost unfair to expect the GOAT linebacker to be mentioned in the same conversations as Brady, Montana etc. It's a bit like where RL is going with the halves, and in AFL the increasing prominence of midfielders. But I digress.
So after the false start on Sunday morning (NZT) which I first became aware of on Fox Sports Radio with the host refering to it as 'Tom Brady Day', he's now officially pulled the pin overnight via Twitter. As a Pats and Brady fan I'm sad to see him go, but many won't be as he (and the Pats, certainly when he was there) were kind of in that 'I support Baltimore/Seattle/Dallas/etc and anyone playing Brady and the Pats' position. But I have one stand out memory and that's the SB comeback vs Atlanta. One of the greatest comebacks I've ever seen in any sport, and all the sweeter for all the grief and vitriol I was getting from mates via social media throughout the first three quarters!
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@shark said in NFL Season 2020/21/22:
Wow, not a single mention yet of - let alone a thread dedicated to - the undisputed GOAT Tom Brady. As an aside before I continue, I think in NFL the quarterback GOAT argument needs to be separated from the rest of the NFL GOAT because the position is so specialised, so important and so prominent and visible that it's almost unfair to expect the GOAT linebacker to be mentioned in the same conversations as Brady, Montana etc. It's a bit like where RL is going with the halves, and in AFL the increasing prominence of midfielders. But I digress.
So after the false start on Sunday morning (NZT) which I first became aware of on Fox Sports Radio with the host refering to it as 'Tom Brady Day', he's now officially pulled the pin overnight via Twitter. As a Pats and Brady fan I'm sad to see him go, but many won't be as he (and the Pats, certainly when he was there) were kind of in that 'I support Baltimore/Seattle/Dallas/etc and anyone playing Brady and the Pats' position. But I have one stand out memory and that's the SB comeback vs Atlanta. One of the greatest comebacks I've ever seen in any sport, and all the sweeter for all the grief and vitriol I was getting from mates via social media throughout the first three quarters!
we did that all a couple of days back man
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@shark said in NFL Season 2020/21/22:
As a Pats and Brady fan
of fucking course you are
jesus satire writes itself
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@kiwimurph said in NFL Season 2020/21/22:
What's crazy is that, whilst QBs can fall off a cliff suddenly, it feels like 44 year old Brady still left productive seasons on the table - he wasn't hanging on (i.e. Roethlisberger)
Nothing about Brady's career makes sense. He's that much fucking better than everyone else, including not getting hurt, it's not funny.
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@kiwimurph said in NFL Season 2020/21/22:
Washington new team name to be announced tomorrow.
By all accounts it's going to be the Washington Commanders.
sounds like a team from Any Given Sunday
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Also, Brian Flores is fucked
The league has proven over and over again you can do absolutely anything, and keep your place in the league
Absolutely everything except show the owners to be a bunch of old white racist motherfuckers.
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@mariner4life said in NFL Season 2020/21/22:
@shark said in NFL Season 2020/21/22:
As a Pats and Brady fan
of fucking course you are
jesus satire writes itself
Because of the amazing Phoenix Suns and Melbourne Demons dynasties I've also followed for the last 20-30 years?
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@shark said in NFL Season 2020/21/22:
@mariner4life said in NFL Season 2020/21/22:
@shark said in NFL Season 2020/21/22:
As a Pats and Brady fan
of fucking course you are
jesus satire writes itself
Because of the amazing Phoenix Suns and Melbourne Demons dynasties I've also followed for the last 20-30 years?
yes, them too.
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Reading more about Brady today, it's nothing i didn't already know, but sometimes just reading it blows your mind
The man has two HoF careers. It's ridiculous. You can split his career in half and put him in twice. Just sustained barely-believable success.
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@mariner4life said in NFL Season 2020/21/22:
Also, Brian Flores is fucked
The league has proven over and over again you can do absolutely anything, and keep your place in the league
Absolutely everything except show the owners to be a bunch of old white racist motherfuckers.
He can pull up a chair in the same hole as Colin Kaepernick
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@mariner4life I forgot the Rangers. Of the Texas variety. Blerk
