For either of the two MNF games they have for December 11th, today was the last day for the NFL to make a decision to flex either of them out - especially with GB/NYG, with talks of HOU/NYJ potentially taking their place.

But 7:20 came and went, and no official call was made. Therefore, expect MetLife stands to be blue instead of green by then.

Once more...the primetime schedule remains untouched...

Carolina had a 1-15 season in 2001. They also went 2-14 in 2010

But somehow it feels worse than even those years.

Even those seasons, George Seifert and John Fox at least were allowed to coach out the season.

It’s hard to think that CAR somehow feels like the days of Weinke and Matt Moore were better.

Like Carolina has had bad seasons but this feels almost apathetic

I was just wondering what would happen.

I've seen some people confused as to why the Eagles need the Rams to lose in order to clinch a playoff spot in week 13. It all comes down to unfathomably unlikely tiebreakers that would make it seem like God hates Philadelphia, but mathematically I find it interesting. This is gonna get complicated with shenanigans after shenanigans so strap in.

So to start, here is how the Eagles do clinch (In some instances, I'm going to use > and < signs to signify who beats who). For the sake of simplicity, I won't worry about ties. The Eagles can clinch week 13 with:

• PHI win, LAR loss
• PHI win, GB loss, DET loss

So if the Eagles and Rams win, there are three ways week 13 could go where the Eagles don't clinch:

1. GB win, DET win
2. GB win, DET loss
3. GB loss, DET win

In each of these 3, there is essentially only one or two tiebreaker storms where the Eagles don't make it in. Here's what would need to happen the rest of the way for the Eagles to miss with a week 13 win:

On a macro scale, with PHI going 11-6, three other non-division winners would need to go 11-6 and PHI would need to lose the 4-way tiebreaker. We'll get to more specifics later, but in this scenario were PHI not to win the division, there are 6 other teams that can mathematically contend with them for a wild card spot: DET, GB, MIN, SEA, SF, LAR. (ATL or NO could finish 11-6, but if either of them do they automatically win the division, making it impossible for either to be an 11-6 wild card.)

Between DET/GB/MIN, one of them must win the NFC North. Also, GB and MIN cannot both finish 11-6 due to their matchup in Wk. 17.

Between SEA/SF/LAR, one of them must win the NFC West. It is possible for any 2 or all 3 to finish 11-6.

Thus the potential four teams fighting for three wild card spots in this scenario are PHI, [NFC North], [NFC West], [NFC West], so the short answer as to why the Eagles would need the Rams to lose to clinch, it's because that guarantees that there can only be 2 other 11-6 teams to compete for the three wild card spots.

Now you might be wondering how the Rams could possibly matter if the Eagles beat them already, and the answer is that 3-way and 4-way tiebreakers get messy, and there are a few where the Eagles could get screwed. In order for PHI to lose the big tiebreaker, the 7 seed must win a 2-way tiebreaker against PHI. SEA, DET, and GB are the only three in this scenario that could possibly do that, because of conference record GB in the wild card would let PHI in because they hold the tiebreaker over LAR, and with LAR > SEA in the division (H2H), the seeding would go GB > PHI > LAR > SEA by the tiebreaker rules. Thus DET must finish 11-6 as a wild card team for the Eagles to miss. With DET in the picture, LAR > DET by conference win percentage. It gets hectic and confusing so I'm just going to give the scenarios as to how it's possible cause the logic is a mess.

Here is how the Eagles could possibly beat SF and miss the playoffs.

With LAR win over CLE, GB win over KC, DET win over NO, PHI win over SF

• PHI loses out
• DAL finishes 11-6 or better
• LAR wins out
• GB or MIN wins out
• DET goes 1-2 against remaining division opponents
• DET < DEN
• DET > DAL
• 1 team from SEA/SF finishes 11-6, the other finishes 11-6 or better.

Example with Vikings winning out

Example with Packers winning out

With LAR win over CLE, GB loss to KC, DET win over NO, PHI win over SF

• PHI loses out
• DAL finishes 11-6 or better
• LAR wins out
• MIN wins out
• DET > CHI
• DET < DEN
• DET > DAL
• 1 team from SEA/SF finishes 11-6, the other finishes 11-6 or better.

Example

With LAR win over CLE, GB win over KC, DET loss to NO, PHI win over SF

• PHI loses out
• DAL finishes 11-6 or better
• LAR wins out
• GB wins out
• DET splits games with MIN
• DET > DEN
• DET > DAL
• DET < CHI
• 1 team from SEA/SF finishes 11-6, the other finishes 11-6 or better.
• DET wins Strength of Victory tiebreaker over PHI.

The Eagles with all this in the 3rd scenario would still have a >90% chance to make the playoffs based on Strength of Victory.

Example

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For those wondering why a DET loss to NO would guarantee the Eagles in the playoffs if GB also loses, it's because a loss to NO would make it so that DET cannot have a better conference win percentage than PHI without also winning the division.

The Eagles have basically clinched, and with a win next week have assuredly clinched but for a needle in a haystack chance to miss. But this is why the Eagles need either a Rams loss or a Packers loss and Lions loss.

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Trivia concept not new, but presentation here is friendlier.

This round is old school 80s-90s

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Player A (1993 to 2000)

Player B (1986 to 1998)

I was messing around with some adjusted passer ratings a few weeks ago and a lot of the responses wanted Rushing contributions to be included. So I came up with a new method to do so, combining the adjusted Passer Rating (Passer Rating without Drops, Spikes, Throwaways) with Rushing production. That produced what I call QB CPR.

^(Full disclosure: I am a 49ers fan, but I did not do this to overhype Purdy. He was not atop this list when I started (Cousins, Goff, & Stroud were 1, 2, & 3, respectively. Ignore my flair and you will still see differences like Goff, Wilson, and Mahomes vs their traditional rankings.))

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CPR

Adjusted Rating for Combined Passing & Rushing

GUIDE:

• CPR = Adjusted Passer Rating + Rushing Production
  • Adjusted Passer Rating = Passer Rating after eliminating Drops, Throwaways, & Spikes
  • Combined with Rushing Yds, TDs, & Fumbles Lost
• C-Yd = Combined Yards (Rushing + Passing)
• C-TD = Combined TDs (Rushing + Passing)
• C-TO = Combined Turnovers (Rushing + Passing)
• C-YPA = Combined Yards Per Attempt (Rushing + Passing)
• C-TD% = Combined TD% Per Attempt (Rushing + Passing)
• C-TO% = Combined Turnover% Per Attempt (Rushing + Passing)

CPR2

While doing all this I was looking for another metric to account for players that were doing the majority of the work. That is to say, not benefiting strictly of YAC. So I came up with another metric for this. CPR2 takes the original CPR metric and strips the YAC.

• As an example, it is much harder to earn a perfect rating this way.
  • Keenan Allen is 1/1 for a 49 yd TD. Under both standard and my CPR Rating that would be a 158.3 Rating. However, with CPR2 that becomes a 142.2 Rating. In this rating, perfect means perfect. K.Allen would have had to throw 1/1 for 49 Air Yards on a TD.
• Three players have been added to the list this week, having met the minimum requirements.
  • Kyler Murray, Tommy DeVito, Dorian Thompson-Robinson

Adjusted Rating for Combined Passing & Rushing, further adjusted away from YAC

Guide:

• CPR2 = Takes CPR and adjusts it toward the % of a player's total yards are not from YAC.
  • This is designed to give a more accurate picture of what a QB is doing (as both a runner & passer) separate from the receiver.
• AYPC = Air Yards Per Completion
• YAC/Cmp = Yards After Catch, per Completion
• CRAY = % of Combined Yards from Rushing and Air Yards
• CYAC = % of Combined Yards from Yards after the Catch

Stats vs Context

• A stat like Passer Rating is just a stat. It doesn't give context. You still have to take the stat and apply context to it.
• CPR is just a stat. You still have to apply context to it. But hopefully, this gives a more accurate piece of the picture than basic passer rating.

Common Q&A:

• Does CPR2 favor QBs who have a very strong arm and launch a lot of deep balls?.
  • No. Arm Strength is a routine criticism of Purdy. But he can functionally throw an accurate deep ball without the greatest arm strength.
• Does CPR2 favor QBs who launch a lot of deep balls?
  • Not necessarily. R.Tannehill leads the NFL in Intended Air Yards per attempt. Watson is 2nd, J.Love is 4th. But none of them rank that highly overall.
• Does CPR2 hurt QBs who get a lot of YAC?
  • No. When you look at Stroud you can see he leads the NFL in Air Yards per completion. But he is also 7th in YAC/Cmp. Purdy is 2nd & 1st. Tua is 10th and 3rd. It is possible to get both Air Yards and YAC.
• Why punish checkdowns?
  • the design is not to "punish" anyone. CPR2, specifically, is designed to credit those that are doing more outside of YAC, specifically including on the ground, which is the original criticism I was addressing.
• Why strip away YAC:?
  • Stripping YAC shows more of the individual contribution, especially with the legs. Which is why you see good runners like Hurts and Lamar take a leap. Their traditional passer rating, invented before the age of mobile QBs, doesn't properly give them credit for this overall play.

Because if they QB carouseled the whole season and Rodgers came back, Rodgers may have played 65% of the snaps if they were split between 3 others and Rodgers? Idk if this post is allowed but I’m curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNelWj9xFdM&amp;pp=ygUWamVycnkgcmljZSAxOTk3IGluanVyeQ%3D%3D

Aaron Rodgers is going through something similar to this. Suffered a devastating Achilles injury that would take several months to heal and is gonna beat every single odds and try to come back very late into the season.

Rice tore his ACL in week 1 and returned in Week 16 and managed to catch a TD pass but broke the patella in the same knee and missed the rest of the season/playoffs as a result.

Are there any examples of moments where the officials get excited or show some reaction to a big play or something? Every time they’re shown on the broadcast they have the most apathetic look on their faces. There’s gotta be some moments where they break the facade.

https://youtu.be/jXagffhiyTI?si=kVE86bsTRfi2lWZB