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The Random Thought Thread

rossihunter2 said:
In terms of the playoffs ive looked at some playoff probability places and our playoff chances seem to amount to around 14% which isnt great
add into that the fact that if we lose to the bengals after the bye we are likely at least 2 games behind in the wildcard race and you have to think our season would be over at that point even if not mathematically
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What are our chances if we beat CIN and OAK?
 
Grim said:
What are our chances if we beat CIN and OAK?
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probably not much better than they are already

given the record of the chargers, there's really only 1 open wildcard spot in the AFC unless disaster strikes one of the top 5 teams (including whoever wins the AFC North but probably the steelers lets be real)

if we beat the bengals and they lose to the steelers that brings us back into the race but at that point we likely find ourselves in a race vs the Bengals and the whole of the AFC South for the wildcard but the strength of schedule in the AFC South is remarkably less daunting than our own - we would be reliant on them taking each other out of the wildcard race

a win at oakland means literally nothing in the grand scheme of things

the only reason we have a hope is because outside of whoever the top 5 AFC teams are, the rest of the conference is a mess

i wont lie - i would not be surprised if the teams currently projected into the playoffs in both conferences are the same at the end of week 17

Chiefs, Pats, Texans, Steelers, Chargers, Bengals
Rams, Saints, Bears, Redskins, Panthers, Vikings

my only doubts would be the redskins (purely because they have so many injuries) maybe the eagles could sneak the division and the bengals because their strength of schedule is pretty tough too

all in all im saying i dont really have any idea but at this point i only see one way to get into the playoffs and im not convinced we really stand a shot at making it
 
rossihunter2 said:
probably not much better than they are already

given the record of the chargers, there's really only 1 open wildcard spot in the AFC unless disaster strikes one of the top 5 teams (including whoever wins the AFC North but probably the steelers lets be real)

if we beat the bengals and they lose to the steelers that brings us back into the race but at that point we likely find ourselves in a race vs the Bengals and the whole of the AFC South for the wildcard but the strength of schedule in the AFC South is remarkably less daunting than our own - we would be reliant on them taking each other out of the wildcard race

a win at oakland means literally nothing in the grand scheme of things

the only reason we have a hope is because outside of whoever the top 5 AFC teams are, the rest of the conference is a mess

i wont lie - i would not be surprised if the teams currently projected into the playoffs in both conferences are the same at the end of week 17

Chiefs, Pats, Texans, Steelers, Chargers, Bengals
Rams, Saints, Bears, Redskins, Panthers, Vikings

my only doubts would be the redskins (purely because they have so many injuries) maybe the eagles could sneak the division and the bengals because their strength of schedule is pretty tough too

all in all im saying i dont really have any idea but at this point i only see one way to get into the playoffs and im not convinced we really stand a shot at making it
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If we go 5-2 I honestly think we do make the playoffs. Everyone has us losing to Atlanta but I just don’t see that happening if we are playing decent. They aren’t a good team. I think it’s way more real we lose to the bengals. We could beat the chargers if we play at our best. If we play like we did in the second half last year who knows. We aren’t out of it yet with how brutal some of cincys games our. Only thing that might be scary is if the Steelers rest their starters
 
purplepittabread88 said:
If we go 5-2 I honestly think we do make the playoffs. Everyone has us losing to Atlanta but I just don’t see that happening if we are playing decent. They aren’t a good team. I think it’s way more real we lose to the bengals. We could beat the chargers if we play at our best. If we play like we did in the second half last year who knows. We aren’t out of it yet with how brutal some of cincys games our. Only thing that might be scary is if the Steelers rest their starters
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I’m hoping Flacco gets angry from all the hate and goes on a tear and kills it. That’s what I’m hoping for at this point. I like Joe angry
 
Grim said:
I’m hoping Flacco gets angry from all the hate and goes on a tear and kills it. That’s what I’m hoping for at this point. I like Joe angry
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Joe’s Going to play angry 1 drive.. realize he got 100mil in the bank.. then go back to sucking again. Rinse and repeat
 
DeVito52 said:
I think we should move the franchise to LA. There’s not enough teams down there I don’t think
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"LA Ravens". Sure. Call Kronke. Let's rent out the stadium and fire the medical staff and have the internet doctors run this team's medical department. Dr. House is real right?
Also, we should run the team. Us fans.
 
Grim said:
FL, NY, TX or CA. Take your pick. CA really doesn't have enough though. We should just move all the teams to LA and then we can go from there.
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Canada needs a football team! Let's do it!

In fact, the Ravens should be the forefront for a full on U.S invasion.

Just put Flacco in a Canadian soldier's uniform and he's so inaccurate that he'd kill all the Canadians instead! OUR HERO
 
Lost_In_Translation said:
Canada needs a football team! Let's do it!

In fact, the Ravens should be the forefront for a full on U.S invasion.

Just put Flacco in a Canadian soldier's uniform and he's so inaccurate that he'd kill all the Canadians instead! OUR HERO
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This does explain why we skulldragged Buffalo
 
purplepittabread88 said:
If we go 5-2 I honestly think we do make the playoffs. Everyone has us losing to Atlanta but I just don’t see that happening if we are playing decent. They aren’t a good team. I think it’s way more real we lose to the bengals. We could beat the chargers if we play at our best. If we play like we did in the second half last year who knows. We aren’t out of it yet with how brutal some of cincys games our. Only thing that might be scary is if the Steelers rest their starters
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Atlanta is much better at home and it won’t be an easy win, if it’s a win at all.
 
My plan is to do the next article tomorrow and have it out tomorrow night or Saturday some time.

There's no football Sunday and my work is closed Monday, so this weekend will be busy.
 
29BmoreBird22 said:
My plan is to do the next article tomorrow and have it out tomorrow night or Saturday some time.

There's no football Sunday and my work is closed Monday, so this weekend will be busy.
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Good work on the first piece. Was going to read through it again before I posted in the thread.


Currently trying to work on something about the drafts since 13 and the truth is I'm feeling real lazy about how detailed I want to be about it.
 
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