Post your boldest predictions for the upcoming NFL season.

Is Jacksonville at 0-16 bold?

posted by friendfromlowry

Is Jacksonville at 0-16 bold?

An 0fer is always bold.

The Bengals will win more games than the Browns.

The NFC East has the worst record a division has ever had.

Rams finish with a winning record and miss the playoffs again.

 Vegas makes the playoffs.

Brady benched by mid season.

The Giants win the NFC East

The Steelers finish in last.

A high profile QB will miss 1-2 games as he pops positive for COVID. 

Dallas will make the Super Bowl. Then get blown out by the Chiefs. 

The New York Jets will have a winning record.

Jags win 5 games

One of the old and future HOF QB’s has a surprisingly great year.

One of the perceived top 10 QB’s gets benched after 8 games

Bills make AFC Championship game.

Dalvin Cook MVP

Bills getting a lot of playoff buzz this season. I'll say they don't make the playoffs.

Browns get their first Super Bowl win. 

😎

posted by BRF

Browns get their first Super Bowl win. 

😎

Browns have a winning record

posted by BRF

Browns get their first Super Bowl win. 

😎

What were you drinking last night?

NFL ratings will suffer despite Covid

Tom Brady looks like what Matt Cassel looked like when not playing for NE.

posted by sportchampps

NFL ratings will suffer despite Covid

I was shocked how much ratings fell for the opener.  Despite waiting anxiously for the season for months, I had 0 interest in the game and thought the bits I watched were boring.  Granted, I don't watch many games outside of the Steelers any more.

IMO, they've made it too tough to play defense in the NFL and it's hurting the product.

posted by gut

I was shocked how much ratings fell for the opener.  Despite waiting anxiously for the season for months, I had 0 interest in the game and thought the bits I watched were boring.  Granted, I don't watch many games outside of the Steelers any more.

IMO, they've made it too tough to play defense in the NFL and it's hurting the product.

Agreed about defense there’s nothing more frustrating the seeing a great hit flagged for 15 yards. I understand changes had to be made but it is a little less en

posted by gut

Tom Brady looks like what Matt Cassel looked like when not playing for NE.

Now that he’s not in NE I don’t care how well he does. He was autodrafted as my QB this year, so I hope he balls.

posted by justincredible

Now that he’s not in NE I don’t care how well he does. He was autodrafted as my QB this year, so I hope he balls.

He might....has always used the “chip” well

posted by gut

I was shocked how much ratings fell for the opener.  Despite waiting anxiously for the season for months, I had 0 interest in the game and thought the bits I watched were boring.  Granted, I don't watch many games outside of the Steelers any more.

IMO, they've made it too tough to play defense in the NFL and it's hurting the product.

How much were they down by? I keep seeing more and more “you’ve lost a life long fan!” rants on Twitter and I always chalked them up as tools. But maybe there’s a lot of them and they’re sticking with it? 

As for Thursday’s game, I just don’t have any interest in watching beat downs. I’d rather watch a close game between two shitty teams than the Chiefs up 31-7 in the 4th quarter. 

posted by friendfromlowry

How much were they down by?

12-13%.  To be fair, not sure KC and HOU are the biggest draws.  Last year's opener was GB vs. Chicago, so apples to oranges.  But I expected a sports-starved country to watch anything.

It also went up against the NBAs biggest draw in the playoffs and the NHL playoffs. Plus every team in MLB (vs half the league eliminated) and the US Open tennis. 

A 20.3 rating vs 22.1 or whatever last year is 12% drop, but it’s also a massive, massive number (and before the OOH viewers factor in). It’s still higher than 1-2 of the openers going back 10 years.

posted by friendfromlowry

Is Jacksonville at 0-16 bold?

Jacksonville 1-0