2025 NFL Season Thread: Can Uncle Rico save the Broncos or will they be Nixed?
2025 NFL Season Thread: Can Uncle Rico save the Broncos or will they be Nixed?
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2025 NFL Season Thread: Can Uncle Rico save the Broncos or will they be Nixed?

Greetings friends.

Those of you who know me know me as a Niners fan full of fantastical levels of vitriol and rage. I hav

04 September 2025 at 03:48 AM
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Father Time catches up to us all


King Henry is cooked


by ligastar m

Father Time catches up to us all King Henry is cooked

definition of 'avoided' in this stat? does it include broken tackles it..is it 'total missed tackles generated' or are we only talking about side steps, hand offs?


1) Rams
2) Broncos

Everybody else.


by g-bebe m

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE POWER RANKINGS - WEEK ELEVEN

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE POWER RANKINGS - WEEK TWELVE

1. Rams (9-2)
2. Eagles (8-3)

3. Lions (7-4)
4. Bills (7-4)
5. Broncos (9-2)
6. Chiefs (6-5)
7. Seahawks (8-3)
8. Pats (10-2)
9. Colts (8-3)
10. Packers (7-3-1)
11. Ravens (6-5)

12. Niners (8-4)
13. Chargers (7-4)
14. Bucs (6-5)
15. Bears (8-3)
16. Texans (6-5)
17. Jaguars (7-4)
18. Cowboys (5-5-1)

19. Steelers (6-5)
20. Panthers (6-6)
21. Vikings (4-7)
22. Falcons (4-7)
23. Cardinals (3-8)
24. Dolphins (4-7)
25. Bengals (3-8)

26. Browns (3-8)
27. Commanders (3-8)
28. Giants (2-10)
29. Jets (2-9)
30. Raiders (2-9)
31. Saints (2-9)
32. Titans (1-10)


are the Bears an actual threat to win the NFCN ?


g-bebe, this may be the first time ever but

I agree completely with your entire ranking. Well done old sport!


Eagles still too high. Offense sucks. Blew a 21-0 lead to the 18th ranked Cowboys.


by All-inMcLovin m

are the Bears an actual threat to win the NFCN ?

They'll be lucky to make the playoffs.


They'll beat the Browns and they'd probably get in with just one other win, they probably won't be favoured in any of their other games though. Easy enough to just win one of the remaining five and they're currently faves to make it, but it would be funny if they lost out due to their week one loss to McCarthy's only good quarter of football


by All-inMcLovin m

g-bebe, this may be the first time ever but

I agree completely with your entire ranking. Well done old sport!

Bless you, thank you.


by newguyhere m

Eagles still too high. Offense sucks. Blew a 21-0 lead to the 18th ranked Cowboys.

Bills lost to 24th Dolphins. 😮


The Athletic's Power Rankings - Week 13 - *top 12 only*

1 - LAR

2 - DEN

3 - PHI

4 - NE

5 - SEA

6 - IND

7 - GB

8 - DET

9 - BUF

10 - KC

11 - SF

12 - CHI


by g-bebe m

Bills lost to 24th Dolphins. 😮

Ahem...20th ranked Dolphins.


by ligastar m

The Athletic's Power Rankings - Week 13 - *top 12 only*

2 - DEN

Mongo so hard right now.

fwiw, I would also put DEN ahead of PHI. Neither offense inspires much confidence, but gotta give the defensive edge to DEN.


DVOA has them both extremely close. Top 15 offenses with Top 10 defenses.


I have a feeling Lions are going to beat the Packers on Thanksgiving like a drum.

With Gibbs having an amazing game.


You know they haven't forgotten about week 1. Time to bite off some kneecaps!


by g-bebe m

DVOA has them both extremely close. Top 15 offenses with Top 10 defenses.

First, id like to say i agree with mclovin, your rankings are pretty good this week. But,

Top 10? Like how top 10? I know DVOA is viewed as God around here but this year there's a big difference between 8th and 2nd defensively. There's only maybe three defenses I can say could be looked at as on the same level as Denver. Houston, LAR, and Seattle. But imo, with Surtain healthy Denver is probably best itl.

Id take Phillys offense over them especially without Dobbins but theyve really been uninspiring and Siriani sucks donkey dick


by VincentVega m

First, id like to say i agree with mclovin, your rankings are pretty good this week. But,Top 10? Like how top 10? I know DVOA is viewed as God around here but this year there's a big difference between 8th and 2nd defensively. There's only maybe three defenses I can say could be looked at as on the same level as Denver. Houston, LAR, and Seattle. But imo, with Surtain healthy

I still like DVOA but it's not pure gospel for me anymore. I think it gushes a bit too hard over blowout wins against bad teams. As always context matters.

Your assessment is spot on. DVOA has the two teams 0.1% off each other in total. Denver's defense (5, behind CLE along with the teams you mentioned) is better than Philly's (8) as much as Philly's offense (10) is better than Denver's (15). They're very evenly matched.


Bills signing Brandin Cooks.

Josh finally gets the WR8 he's been searching for.


by g-bebe m

Bills signing Brandin Cooks.

Josh finally gets the WR8 he's been searching for.

You know you are washed when the Saints waive you and Sean Payton decides not to pick you up.

Sadly for the Bills he is now their second best receiver.


New Thread name ideas w/ thanksgiving games in mind?


any professional tick removal experts out there?
no matter the tweezer or forceps technique
mang, i dig and dig yet parts of broken bonus analytics still remain deeply embedded under my skin

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by g-bebe m

I still like DVOA but it's not pure gospel for me anymore. I think it gushes a bit too hard over blowout wins against bad teams. As always context matters.Your assessment is spot on. DVOA has the two teams 0.1% off each other in total. Denver's defense (5, behind CLE along with the teams you mentioned) is better than Philly's (8) as much as Philly's offense (10) is better t

Ah ok, ive never looked at DVOA, all of my understanding of it comes from you guys. I forgot about Cleveland. Id say

1a. Denver
1b. Houston
2. Cleveland
3. Rams
4. Seattle.

But there all very good, especially top 3. This has been a strange year for offenses imo


Tier 1:

1. Rams. Clearly the best team, 1 game left on their schedule they might lose, #1 seed is a lock

Tier 2:

2. Pats
3. Eagles
4. Lions
5. Boncos

I feel like the lions should probably be 2 but given how brutal their path is gonna be in the playoffs that’s probably a waste

Tier 3:

6. Bills
7. Packers
8. Seapoops
9. Colts

Darnold sucks and I can’t in good conscience give the bills a higher slot regardless of how hypermegaelite Jawsh is

Tier 4:

10. Bears
11. Chefs
12. Texans
13. Niners
14. Jags
15. Chargers

Texans offense is so god damned awful, Bork is pure trash and the Niners are depleted

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