I will agree, the Steelers are a lock for the division right now. Not because they're good, but because Baltimore and Cincy lost their all world QB's and Cleveland is Cleveland.
-Mike
-Mike
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NFL 2025-2026
- Thread starter mrpackerguy
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We’re really lucky this year to see nearly all the serious contenders in the NFC play each other during the regular season. The Lions will be at Philly in a couple weeks. I don’t know who’s a serious contender in the NFC West, but Tampa has to play all of them, after already losing to Philly and Detroit. The Eagles have already played the Rams, and the Lions play them in December. Disappointingly, the 49ers don’t play Philly or Detroit.
In theory, Green Bay should be a contender too, but I increasingly see Jordan Love as a more athletic Kirk Cousins. He looks great running the offense, but he doesn’t have that extra gear that kicks in when things get tough. I look at the tie a couple weeks ago, for example, and think Aaron Rodgers would have won that game. Brett Favre might have won or lost, but he’d have done it spectacularly. Either way, they’d have made something happen. Jordan Love just kept following the script until he ran out of time.
On a side note, I normally hate when teams wear uniforms with more black than their actual team colors, but the Lions pulled it off. The way the silver popped out on the blue helmets, it always looked like they were wearing Lions colors, even from far away.
In theory, Green Bay should be a contender too, but I increasingly see Jordan Love as a more athletic Kirk Cousins. He looks great running the offense, but he doesn’t have that extra gear that kicks in when things get tough. I look at the tie a couple weeks ago, for example, and think Aaron Rodgers would have won that game. Brett Favre might have won or lost, but he’d have done it spectacularly. Either way, they’d have made something happen. Jordan Love just kept following the script until he ran out of time.
On a side note, I normally hate when teams wear uniforms with more black than their actual team colors, but the Lions pulled it off. The way the silver popped out on the blue helmets, it always looked like they were wearing Lions colors, even from far away.
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So far everyone in the west is 5-2. Except the Cardinals, which seems like a perennial thing these days. I don't know who is real and who is a pretender in the west. It looks like some kind of parity that means the teams will devour each other before the end of the season.
^^^It all depends on who stays healthy. With C-Mac, the 9ers offense always has a chance. Without Warner, it’s tough on D.
Stafford is old and has a history of being a turnover machine, but McVay may be the best all around coach in the game. Seattle looks more like a spoiler than a contender. I’m not sure who the 49ers are going to be in a week or a month.
For now, it seems like Detroit and Philly are better than all of them, and Philly isn’t really even playing all that well.
Of the 5-2 teams in the west, here are the point differentials:
L.A. +58
Detroit +54
SF +7
Philly +5
Tampa -1
For all their swagger, that doesn’t bode particularly well for Philly or TB.
L.A. +58
Detroit +54
SF +7
Philly +5
Tampa -1
For all their swagger, that doesn’t bode particularly well for Philly or TB.
As long as they stay healthy enough, I suspect the NFC is Detroit’s to lose.
Tell me again how the Steelkers are a lock for the AFC North. 
The highest paid Keystone Cop defense was on full display last night.
The highest paid Keystone Cop defense was on full display last night.
Last night's game in a nutshell - atrocious refs calls, horrible Steelers boneheaded penalties, throwback uniforms should be burned and never ever worn again.
Ditto those Steeler uniforms... it hurt my eyes to watch them. The contrast, visually, with the crisp, all-white road uni for the Packers was striking.
They managed to dredge up something worse than the bumblebee unis. That took some effort that should have been applied to putting a competent team on the field.Last night's game in a nutshell - atrocious refs calls, horrible Steelers boneheaded penalties, throwback uniforms should be burned and never ever worn again.
I think they would have won it all last year were it not for injuries, so yeah.
Rodgers reminds me of an endstage Marino at this point. He’s more mobile, but the facial expressions and the perpetual outrage at anything that goes wrong take me right there.
Love looked poised and patient. And that kid Kraft can flat out play. I can’t remember the last time I saw a tight end run away from a defensive backfield like that. When he wasn’t running over them. Wow.
Love looked poised and patient. And that kid Kraft can flat out play. I can’t remember the last time I saw a tight end run away from a defensive backfield like that. When he wasn’t running over them. Wow.
I felt like the only question this season was how much/long it would take to adapt to new offensive and defensive coordinators in the same year. The answer was 1 game. By week 2 they were back to last year’s form.
Football is somewhat unique, in the sports world, in the importance of attitude. Nobody in the NFL has more of a winning attitude than Detroit, and Dan Campbell is the guy most responsible for that. As they proved last year, attitude and fundamentals are the biggest difference between good and bad teams.
The team I did not see coming this year is the Colts. Daniel Jones is making the most of his opportunity, and Jonathan Taylor looks like the old Jonathan Taylor I remember. That said, they do have one of the easier schedules in the league, so we'll have to see if they can sustain it.
Did you see the Patriots coming?
No, and I haven't seen them this season yet, either. And they have an even weaker schedule than the Colts. I guess we'll have to watch the games to find out if they are for real!
Agreed on Rodgers.
Last week the lineman Jones fell on him on accident while celebrating a TD. Rodgers jumped up and was totally ticked at the guy and chewing him out. I get it, having a large man fall on you is not fun, but he's your teammate and you just got a TD. How about a little happiness.
The few drives I watched last night, Rodgers clearly doesn't want to be a Steeler and doesn't even look like he wants to play. I blame this on the Steelers, not Rodgers. Everyone knows Rodgers is a diva. Rodgers spent months dragging the free agent process out, and there stood the Steelers like a little puppy dog just begging for attention from Rodgers. I'm wondering which washed up QB they'll drag out of the mire next season. Maybe Jeff George?
-Mike
Rodgers just needs to stick tripping and podcast interviews. Time for him to go.
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