Official Week 5 Thread

[Judge Jude]

Andrew Siciliano
@AndrewSiciliano
NFC East is the first @NFL
division in which every team has a losing record through Week 5 since....

2013 NFC East

You have to go back to 1968 to find another such case.
11:13 AM · Oct 12, 2020

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(that would be the Century Division, featuring "archrivals" Browns, Saints, Cardinals, Steelers. wtf. Browns rallied to 10-4 and Cardinals to 9-4-1, with Saints going 4-9-1 and Steelers 2-11-1. a year later, the Giants got bounced into the Century, while the Saints moved to the Capital - which was the forerunner to the NFC East with Dallas, Washington, and Philadelphia. in 1970, the modern divisions were born after the merger with the AFL.)

[Long John]

If they were smart, they would shut down the NFL for 2 weeks, quarantine everybody and push the whole season back two weeks. You might have some non-traditional Thanksgiving matchups, but at least you'll get to play them. If we knew more about how this thing is spread, we could protect players and staff better, but - ooh.

[Ken]

If they were smart, they would shut down the NFL for 2 weeks, quarantine everybody and push the whole season back two weeks. You might have some non-traditional Thanksgiving matchups, but at least you'll get to play them. If we knew more about how this thing is spread, we could protect players and staff better, but - ooh.

Do you think the players and coaches are all willing to quarantine though? You need 100% commitment for that to really work. And you'd really need it for the rest of the year to sustain. I agree that it's the right approach but I don't see either side giving in and doing it. Hope I'm wrong.

[Judge Jude]

see Post 19 to take into account how shocked I am that the Chargers blew a 20-3 lead and lost to the Saints, 30-27 in OT

long before the end came, professional sports bettor Jeopardy James:

James Holzhauer
@James_Holzhauer
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1h
I’d sooner trust Hillary Clinton with a lead than Anthony Lynn

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this season

Ron Flatter
@ronflatter
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1h
Chargers:
17-6 lead vs. Mahomes
24-7 lead vs. Brady
20-3 lead vs. Brees
All losses

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and before you say, "well, 3 Hall of Famers, so..." - those dudes don't have that many double-digit point comebacks in their careers.

partly because they rarely trail by that much, but moreso that a team that can gain an advantage like this doesn't tend to piss it away

[madducks]

Now this is a stiff arm: