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OT: NFL thread

Remember after week 4 when everyone said the Vikings were unstoppable? Or after week 12 when everyone assumed that the Lions were going to clinch the division?

Yeah, about that....

Rodgers said they'd run the table and they ran the table. That's what clutch performers do. They win big games.

Despite the best efforts of fancy stats geeks trying to deny its existence, clutch is a real thing. Aaron Rodgers this season threw something like 40 touchdowns and only 7 interceptions. Know how many picks he threw in the Red Zone?

ZERO.

Why? Because #clutch, that's why.

Anyone can put up numbers but it's not only about how many it's about when. Clutch matters. It's the reason why a guy like Roberto Luongo can rack up Hall of Fame stats yet still have no Stanley Cup rings. You have to be clutch to win those and he's not.
 
He only has one ring and is .500 in post season and to you rings are all that matters.

As you would say, beating Minnesots, Chicago and Detroit to win a division is meaningless.
 
Nothing will change in San Francisco as long as Jed York runs that shitshow.

Firing Jim Harbaugh after one below-average season was so dumb.
 
Yeah, he was pushed out and I don't think it bothered Harbough one bit with the gig he got in Michigan.
 
Some of these teams change coaches way too often. Basically permanently rebuilding the entire football program, ensuring they are at least two years away from being two years away.

Gotta love the Steelers approach: choose very wisely and keep them working until they retire. Knoll coached from 69-91. Cohwer 92-06. Tomlin 07-??.

All delivered at least one Superbowl.
 
Tomlin only has one playoff win since 2010 but yeah, they stick with him as they did with Knoll when he was brutal in the 80s.

Jones is following that style with Garrett. I wanted him gone after three straight 8-8 seasons but he has two division titles in three years now. It is better than the carousel we had before.

Same with Canadiens, right or wrong, Long Mike is first coach to start a fifth year with us since Bowman. We had a carousel for far too long.
 
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CH1 said:
Some of these teams change coaches way too often. Basically permanently rebuilding the entire football program, ensuring they are at least two years away from being two years away.

Gotta love the Steelers approach: choose very wisely and keep them working until they retire. Knoll coached from 69-91. Cohwer 92-06. Tomlin 07-??.

All delivered at least one Superbowl.
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As a lifelong Browns fan, I completely agree. The Browns have had PLENTY of problems since coming back in 1999, but one of their biggest problems is that they hire so many head coaches and then fire them after 2 years. I don't know how they expect a team who's been consistently bad in the draft to perform at their peak ability when they're learning a new system every other season. Despite the 1-15 season this year, I hope they start turning it around come this year's draft, give Hue Jackson more than one more year and let him establish some continuity while they rebuild for a few years. The Browns haven't been consistently good since I was a little kid, I think the majority of us can wait a few more years so long as they start showing some improvement. And unless they go 0-16 next season, that shouldn't be too hard to do.
 
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