that’s the sort of move you make when you know you’re in the “dynasty” conversation and you wake up at 5am every day and drink coffee and turn on sportscentre and watch them jerk off to tom brady because you’re treating this like a Job where you think about your Career and Legacy vs going out there and heaving the pigskin and stringing plays together

that’s the sort of move you make when you’re far too overconfident. they talk about us on ESPN! i have a button down and an office, we can’t possibly lose, making this smart, calculated decision!

we could’ve had 2 rings in 3 years but nooo.

these sort of over-cautious moves are always made by people who spend their day staring at a spreadsheet and think that a record is just math, clean precise numbers. no, we don’t have any stats to measure if players playing for a perfect season play that much harder, that’s just noise and hype, that’s obviously extraneous to the Xs and Os, so we can just ignore that.

obviously we have no way of knowing, if we were going for 19-0, would baskett hold onto the football at the bottom of the pile, would peyton see porter jumping the route…so good thing we played it safe and have plausible deniability.

love being 15-0 and getting booed off the field at home over the holidays. good shit right there.

  • CommonerChaosBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Totally random, but I always blamed the Pro Bowl switch for that 2009 Super Bowl loss.

    That was the first year the NFL switched the Pro Bowl from the week after the SB, to the week before. And for that first year, players from the SB winning team still had to appear in Hawaii for media and stuff. (which isn’t the case anymore, that was the ONLY year).

    We had players in the Pro Bowl (Peyton, the most obvious) so I felt like that was a distraction for them. If you give Peyton extra time to prepare for the Saints instead of doing pointless Pro Bowl media, I think we beat the Saints.

    In all likelihood, it probably had negligible effects on the outcome (as the Saints had players in Hawaii too), but I ALWAYS think about how things could have been different without this.