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I don't think so. Several have been to the SB with two different teams, but didn't win with one of the teams. Coaches like Andy Reid.

Green Bay's SB wins were stretched out over multiple decades -- Bart Starr's two wins in the 1960s, Brett Favre's one win in the 1990s, and Aaron Rodgers's one win in the 2010s. Pittsburgh the same way -- Terry Bradshaw in the 1970s and then Roethlisberger in the 2000s. Similar with the other franchises. It would be almost impossible to string those QBs together into one SB career the way Brady did.

Yesterday I was like, Chad Henne's still in the league?? And now he might be playing in the AFC title game. Romo's an ass, but he might be right. Although Mahomes is sure to want to try to play.

I think Cincinnati would have won the Damar Hamlin game, too. Emotion and home field and snow are overrated when your team is just better than the other team.

The NFC East did its part, but for one Iggles loss. It was those other sucky divisions. NFC North never even put in an appearance against TB12. It sounds goofy, as I'm a Giants fan through and through, but I've liked Cincinnati as my AFC team since they drafted Mike Reid from Penn State in 1970. What can I say; I was a kid. I root for them against everyone but the Giants, and fortunately, they only play every four years. Would like to see Cincy v. SF III, finally with a Cincy win. But really, for me, it's Anybody But Dall-ass. Shades of the Jim Kelly era. The Buffalo crowd has been a complete non-factor today. I've heard more 'Who dey' than any sustained Buffalo noise.

Probably they hate him less than they don't exactly trust him. It's still unclear if he's the next Tom Brady, or the next Matt Cassel. The line and the spread mean nothing to me. I want the Giants, Bengals, 49ers to win, and don't really care about Jacksonville and KC. Whether it's by one point or a hundred.

I subscribe through my Amazon account, but that means having to navigate it through the incredibly crappy Amazon interface. I was in there yesterday trying to see if anything was new, and discovered they weren't marking as read episodes I've already seen. If they're not at least going to track where I left off, there's no reason for me not to drop it from Amazon and consider the free-standing version. OTOH, since I found almost nothing I wanted to watch, maybe just drop it altogether.

Not as long as there's money to be made. What should be overhauled is the automatic minimum seeding of 4 for winning a division. No way should Jacksonville but especially Tampa have been a fourth seed. Fine, get a spot for winning the division even with a dismal record, but seed 1 - 7 completely based on record and if necessary, tie-breakers.

I'm old enough to remember the Miracle at the Meadowlands. And when the top seeded Giants were unceremoniously ousted by the Iggles in the 2008 playoffs. I never, ever take those guys for granted. But how many internet geniuses picked the Giants not only to make the playoffs, but to get past the first round against a 13 - 4 team? As I posted upthread, both NFL.com and ESPN.com preseason rankings placed the G-men 28th out of 32. The old saying is, that's why they play the game. The other old saying is, any given team can beat any other given team on any given Sunday (or Saturday or Monday or Thursday, these days).

I’ve been a Giants fan longer than most of you have been alive, but I never say “we.” I own a fading NYG SB XLVI T-shirt and a NYG lanyard that lives in my front door deadbolt, and that’s it. I don’t own the team, work for the team, play for the team, or contribute to it in any way other than sending my fractured karma into the universe, so I don’t feel like “we” is appropriate. I imagine those gullible marks loyal shareholders in Green Bay who “own” the Packers but have no voting rights, no management say, no guaranteed seats, no discount on tickets, and no share in earnings, but have an expensive piece of paper to hang on their walls say “we,” though. As always, YMMV.

I guess there's only so much plastic surgery time off to be with your family can do.

I agree completely. If you think someone's too old, outplay him in training camp and earn his spot. Don't kvetch about someone being too old; prove it.

How often do the kids get a say when their parents break up? It's just sad, though, and this transcends any thoughts about Tom Brady himself, that someone would give up their spouse and their kids over a job, especially when that someone clearly does not need either the money or the recognition. It's almost pathological.

So is he going to be competing with Aaron Rodgers at the Old Guy Auction for Desperate Franchises? Was it really worth blowing up the marriage and family, Tom? Assuming you mean the epic choke job by Atlanta. They've all taken to doing that. As if we're too stupid to know who lines up on what side of the ball and when. I'm only surprised they haven't yet put the games on delay so they can show us previews before the bump.

And sadly, being playoffs, not an option. I'll choke on it but I'm Team Brady tonight. It's a cold day in hell but not cold enough to want Dall-ass to win.

They started doing that crap during NHL games and some imbecile thought it would be a good idea to bother NFL coaches in the middle of the game. That playoff season was lovely. Beating Tony Romo and then Brett Favre and then Tom Brady. What more could a loyal Giants fan want?

You would be correct. And of course a 4 - 1 record in the big game.

When they decided that Thursday was a good night to play NFL football, week in and week out, and then eliminated the bye after the European games, they threw all the "rest" considerations out the window. I admit to being old enough to remember when the idea of Monday Night Football was considered outrageous because the teams would lose a day of rest.

If Brian Daboll isn't on the short list for Coach of the Year, there's no justice in the world.

Because it can't be said enough -- both ESPN and NFL.com placed the Giants at #28 in their preseason power rankings...and the Rams in the top three. Heh heh. As someone was wont to say, that's why they play the games.

IIRC, Mike Tirico made the move over from ESPN on the explicit promise that NBC was going to give him primary duty on SNF, and then they reneged on that until Al went over to Amazon. Kinda like how Jay Leno said he was leaving and then pushed out Conan. And yeah, what they did to Pam Oliver stunk. Although I thought she said when they did it, it would be her last season, and here she is, still going strong. One of the few sideline reporters I don't hit the mute button for.

I don't think Miami's got enough horses in the stable to pull this out, but at least they haven't stunk up the joint and are making it interesting. Imagine if Tua or even Teddy Bridgewater had been healthy enough to play.

Jim Nantz is 63. Yeah, I kinda was. Skip Bayless and Colin Cowherd and Stephen A. are in an abyss all their own.

I wasn't aware anyone had a good opinion of Skip Bayless.

Agree. It should be all one or all other. And not constantly being rewritten because some team or another is all butt-hurt about the outcome of a given game. Sit down and figure out what an equitable OT should look like, and set that across the board. Otherwise you'll have a debacle like the one-and-done reviewable DPI after the Saints' whine heard round the world. So what else is new? I think he's the most overrated guy on television. And I just loved him saying something about how, if the Jags missed scoring on third down, they'd go for it on fourth down, and Tony Dungy just dryly interjecting, "Obviously." He makes a lot of mistakes, which his boothmate ends up either fixing or covering on a regular basis. Time to hang it up.