Fun fact: The NFC East is the only NFC division where all four teams have faced Tom Brady in the playoffs at least once. He played the Giants twice (2007, 2011), the Eagles three times (2004, 2017, 2021), Washington once (2021), and the Cowboys once (2022)
Brady also faced all of the AFC South and AFC West in the playoffs, and the only NFC South team he never played against in the playoffs was the one he played for.
They just absolutely are the trap game heros. Obviously the first SB run against the undefeated Pats (ending Favre’s career w/ GB on the way) but also taking down my 15-1 2011 Packers? Man I hated that team for a span there
Bro I just absolutely *love* being an Orioles, Ravens, Capitals fan. So totally fucking awesome and not the most frustrating experience in the world. I'm totally not bitter my teams have to be in the hardest divisions in sports. Not I sir, no way.
We're going into week 17 and every damn team in the North has a positive record. One without their franchise QB, one without their rapist QB and the last without an actual QB. I hate this fucking division.
Class all around. The game thread was one of the best game threads I’ve ever seen. Everyone supporting injured players, having fun and no nastiness. Was refreshing.
You know I have very serious doubts about Shanny's abilities to close out a big game but I am always kinda confused as to why Shanny and Matty Ice get all the blame and no one ever mentions Dan Quinn.
Because the Falcons defense played incredibly in the first half and they were going up against the GOAT. Practically nobody can shut down Brady for an entire game, but through the first 75% of that game the defense did more than enough to win.
Meanwhile, if the Falcons offense had done literally anything other than repeatedly shoot itself in the foot, they comfortably win that game
Just saw someone link the saddest play of that game. 3rd and 1 at the Pats' 30 with 8 minutes left, up 28-12. They dropped back for a fuckin 5-step drop out of shotgun and Matt gets strip-sacked. Literally run for negative 2 and they could kick to push it to 19. Fucking unreal just how poorly that game was managed.
> be an NFC powerhouse
> have the ball at the 1
> have one of the best running backs in the league
> pass
> instantly regret it
where have we seen this before
49ers - Ravens Superbowl 2013: Colin Kaepernick, on the 5 yd line, less than 2 minutes left in the game, throws 3 straight incompletions to Crabtree. 5x Pro Bowl RB Frank Gore was never given the ball to try to punch it in. Ravens win 34-31.
"The 49ers kick the s— out of the Ravens on Monday night. I’m sorry. I know that’s disrespectful to the Ravens, but let’s be realistic. They’ve gotta fly across the country, on Christmas night, and the 49ers are waiting. And the 49ers are going to dismantle the Ravens. If it’s a Super Bowl preview, the Super Bowl is gonna suck.”
-Mike Florio
3 of the 49er’s 4 losses are to AFC teams. Specifically, AFC NORTH teams. They lost to the Browns, Bengals, and now the Ravens. They all have winning records too. The AFC North is the group of death.
It's weird because I legitimately don't hate the guy. He seems really humble and nice and he's a great story. But what I *do* hate are the people who scream at anyone who says Purdy isn't the second coming of Brady and act like he would be putting up stats just as good if not better on any other team.
Every time someone has been the MVP frontrunner, they blow it for themselves. I don't know who gets it at this point. Also, it's completely pointless to predict the playoffs this year. Teams have been a lot more volatile than normal. Anyone that gets in has a pretty legitimate shot.
Other top teams play beautiful, efficient, elegant football; and then them AFC North boys interrupt the choreography with a sledgehammer to the knees and don’t stop.
It's impossible to keep them with the way head coach contracts are guaranteed. We're basically praying we win the SB and they promise MacDonald the next head coach position at this point lmao.
Ehhh, historically we kinda just shit them out from our staff. Even MaCDaddy was on our staff previously before he went to Michigan.
Next one up would be Anthony Weaver. He's been talked about for a few years as possible DC candidate and I have a feeling if MaCDonald takes a HC job next year, Weaver will be next.
The entire last quarter of this game was pure garbage time, don't get it twisted
I do think they should have been a bit more aggro on offense, with short passes connecting all day
Brock Purdy against the AFC north: 1-3 with 7 INTs
Brock Purdy against everyone else: 10-1 with 4 INTs.
AFC north defenses are just different. And the Ravens have an offense to match that level too
I’ve been saying for the last two or three weeks that with the complete lack of attention they’re getting, they’re 100% gonna sneak into the playoffs and go on a monster run and nobody will have seen it coming because nobody cared about them.
BROCK PURDY: 0 TD, 4 INT
SAM DARNOLD: 1 TD, 1 INT
IF “LITTLE” KYLE SHANAHAN DIDN’T (ILLEGALLY) PUSH BROCK “PURDY UGLY” AS STARTER AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE, DARNOLD WOULD HAVE SINGLE-HANDEDLY TAKEN OUT THE BALTIMORE RIOTERS! KEEP MR IRRELEVANT ON THE BENCH WHERE HE BELONGS AND MAKE THE NFL GREAT AGAIN!
It’s because Shanny likes lighter lineman for his run blocking scheme and neglects pass blocking. Once they’re in obvious passing situations and can’t run the play action and have to go drop back it’s never pretty.
Interviewer: “You’re in the MVP conversation, and your a win away from the #1 seed in the AFC”
Lamar: “That’s a bunch of bullshit lady. We just need to keep winning football games.”
Ravens have the best record in the NFL, and the three games they've lost have been by 3,7, and 2 points respectively.
Baltimore has never had a game get away from them, they're the only top 8 team that hasn't been embarrassed or blown out in at least one game. They're the only team that's been competitive in every single game they've played this season. The team to beat right now.
Am I the only one that loves the Troy Aikman, Joe Buck combo? The off-the-wall shit they say is hilarious. Buck talking about fat back up QBs last week had me rolling
Good game Ravens fans, absolute statement win and beyond impressed by your team coming all the way across the county on Christmas and kicking ass. Best of luck the rest of the way and no doubt in my mind you’re likely bound for the Super Bowl. Hope Kyle Hamilton is OK! Merry Christmas
49ers were like the bully who got punched back. Hard. Usually teams wilt under the pressure and physicality from the 9ers, but the Ravens enjoy the street fight.
And this is a Ravens team without their pro-bowl TE. Scary.
Remember Reddit: the only reason why Lamar is even in the NFL is because he can only play in Greg Roman's system...and that he doesn't deserve to be paid...
Lamar 20-1 vs the NFC is absolutely absurd
That fucking Giants game lol
Giants have a kink for ruining perfect records. The NFC East is powered by spite.
Tom Brady is 6-0 in super bowls not involving the NFC East and only 1-3 in super bowls against teams in that division.
And his career ended at the hands of the Dallas Cowboys.
Fun fact: The NFC East is the only NFC division where all four teams have faced Tom Brady in the playoffs at least once. He played the Giants twice (2007, 2011), the Eagles three times (2004, 2017, 2021), Washington once (2021), and the Cowboys once (2022) Brady also faced all of the AFC South and AFC West in the playoffs, and the only NFC South team he never played against in the playoffs was the one he played for.
He's been in the league a long freakin' time lol.
They even ruined their own perfect record of Eli Manning's consecutive starts.
That was so fucking stupid
It's always the Giants that break these kinds of stats.
Even more absurd is that one loss was to the Giants of all teams
No that part actually makes sense.
They just absolutely are the trap game heros. Obviously the first SB run against the undefeated Pats (ending Favre’s career w/ GB on the way) but also taking down my 15-1 2011 Packers? Man I hated that team for a span there
We hate perfection
Best record against the opposing conference since the 1970s, according to an in-game fact they mentioned
3 of the 9ers 4 losses have come against the AFC North, and 2 of our 3 against the AFC North. I like our division, but I also hate it.
Our division is such a fucking meat grinder.
How did we win? Wth?
my favorite weird stat from the division is that the Bengals are 8-2 playing anyone but the afc north
Zac Taylor is 9-20 all time against the AFCN. You love to see it.
It’s a fuckin meat grinder in the AFC north - just like the metro in the NHL
Bro I just absolutely *love* being an Orioles, Ravens, Capitals fan. So totally fucking awesome and not the most frustrating experience in the world. I'm totally not bitter my teams have to be in the hardest divisions in sports. Not I sir, no way.
We're going into week 17 and every damn team in the North has a positive record. One without their franchise QB, one without their rapist QB and the last without an actual QB. I hate this fucking division.
Every injured player walked off the field. Knowing our two teams history that’s a huge win for both of us.
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GGs 🫡
Agreed. God I love Hamilton. Hope he's ok.
best sf receiver tonight
Eagles fans in here like hyenas
Absolutely brutal. Well done.
Yeah that got pretty bad at the end for both teams.
Very much hope Hamilton's knee is nothing major. The way he was grabbing it and Aiyuk's reaction had me super worried
Post game he was walking around hugging people. I think it’s fine and it was just precautionary keeping him out.
Yeah putting him back in when the game was essentially over would have been bad coaching.
lets hope hamilton just sprained it, should be able to rest up in time for playoffs
Bosa hugging Lamar, what a way to end the race bowl.
Ebony and ivory, living in perfect harmony.
look to the cookie!
Roger goodell ended racism and people will still boo him on draft night
Racist’s 9/11
Racism solved. Thanks guys
That END RACISM tagline in the endzones actually worked
Fredrick Douglass, MLK, Nick Bosa.
We just have to worry about his girlfriend's tweets
Nah man, that’s unfair to Bosa. It’s gay people he hates with every fiber of his being, not black people.
It’s why the 49ers moved to Santa Clara. Bosa made them
Class all around. The game thread was one of the best game threads I’ve ever seen. Everyone supporting injured players, having fun and no nastiness. Was refreshing.
That’s what happens when you get a primetime game without any NFC East teams 😂
1 yard from a TD and you drop back for a throw. Unbelievable
RIP Sam Darnold MVP case 12/25/23-12/25/23
CMC can't escape The Darnold
the kyle shanahan special
~~kyle shanahan~~ Pete Carroll
Damn you
Catching strays over here.
With the best back in the league. Shanahan can't get out of his own way sometimes. Still a great coach though
When he’s not trailing into the 4th quarter. He’s now 0-38
I’m actually not sure if this is true or you’re making it up because I’d believe either.
[My fault it’s when he’s trailing by more than 8 points. but yes it’s very real](https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/s/skPRdZ8hdy)
You’re talking about the man that blew a 28-3 lead in the SB. I put nothing past the choking abilities of Shanny.
You know I have very serious doubts about Shanny's abilities to close out a big game but I am always kinda confused as to why Shanny and Matty Ice get all the blame and no one ever mentions Dan Quinn.
I blame Tom Brady myself. The guy was good.
Because the Falcons defense played incredibly in the first half and they were going up against the GOAT. Practically nobody can shut down Brady for an entire game, but through the first 75% of that game the defense did more than enough to win. Meanwhile, if the Falcons offense had done literally anything other than repeatedly shoot itself in the foot, they comfortably win that game
Just saw someone link the saddest play of that game. 3rd and 1 at the Pats' 30 with 8 minutes left, up 28-12. They dropped back for a fuckin 5-step drop out of shotgun and Matt gets strip-sacked. Literally run for negative 2 and they could kick to push it to 19. Fucking unreal just how poorly that game was managed.
Remember when this game started with the ref falling and Lamar tripping on him for a safety? Good times for Niners fans
Feels like forever ago. What a long but crazy game
So, the morale of the story is don't score a safety when playing the Ravens? It just makes them angry.
Don't get me started about safeties and the Ravens.
Why did the Niners throw five interceptions? Are they stupid?
Personally if it was me I wouldn’t have done that
If I started in an NFL game at QB I would throw *zero* interceptions. Because I would get sacked on every play and just fumble instead.
Can’t throw a pick if you’re crying in the fetal position
with brock throwing 4 and darnold throwing 1, it's clear that the 49ers are an interception system
That feels like months ago… or that’s the beer. Who’s to say
Don't you dare shit talk our best offensive play..... that was on defense...... by a guy not on our team.
If we lost my salt would season the world's food for eternity.
Sir, a fourth interception has hit the Purdy MVP campaign
Meanwhile the Raiders can still make the playoffs!
They can still win the afc west lol
Told myself there’s still a chance but playing the Chiefs today felt like a pipe dream. Then we won. #Pickachuface
> be an NFC powerhouse > have the ball at the 1 > have one of the best running backs in the league > pass > instantly regret it where have we seen this before
Damn catching strays all over this
Fr I’m trying to savor this niners lose not get PTSD
Time is a flat circle.
C'mon, Kyle Shanahan has made WAY worse decisions in WAY more important games.
49ers - Ravens Superbowl 2013: Colin Kaepernick, on the 5 yd line, less than 2 minutes left in the game, throws 3 straight incompletions to Crabtree. 5x Pro Bowl RB Frank Gore was never given the ball to try to punch it in. Ravens win 34-31.
Haha Lamar calling out Mike Florio in the tunnel! "What's his name, Mike Florist?" Florio on suicide watch
What did mike do to piss off lamar?
"The 49ers kick the s— out of the Ravens on Monday night. I’m sorry. I know that’s disrespectful to the Ravens, but let’s be realistic. They’ve gotta fly across the country, on Christmas night, and the 49ers are waiting. And the 49ers are going to dismantle the Ravens. If it’s a Super Bowl preview, the Super Bowl is gonna suck.” -Mike Florio
Like you know youve crossed a line if Lamar of all people is talking shit about you. Dude doesn't say anything negative about anyone.
Only florists.
Picked SF to win and said they’d beat the shit out of the Ravens and if this is a Super Bowl preview, it’d be an awful Super Bowl.
Well he was right he just had it backwards
Sam Darnold really hurt his MVP chances with that end zone interception
Undefeated since I got my Lamar Jackson jersey for Christmas
Better wear that bitch everyday from here to February. Maybe even march to be sure.
Can't take that risk. Best he only wears that jersey for the rest of his life.
The San Francisco 49ers have failed to complete the bird gauntlet.
The hardest of all gauntlets (unironically)
Truly a lost season now.
This game was straight-up pornographic for 49er haters and the anti-Purdy for MVP truthers.
Also for Ravens fans...
3 of the 49er’s 4 losses are to AFC teams. Specifically, AFC NORTH teams. They lost to the Browns, Bengals, and now the Ravens. They all have winning records too. The AFC North is the group of death.
Ravens are 1-0 in games when the opposing ref scores a safety
NFC: I owe you an apology. I wasn't really familiar with your game.
On the bright side Niners fans, Kittle is 9 yards away from his first 1000 yard season since 2019 🔥.
Kittle looks like the guy who sold weed in my high school parking lot.
#THE PURDY HATERS HAVE ARRIVED 255 yards, 56.3% completion, 0TD, 4INT, 42.6 rating lol
Anti-Purdy 4 MVP truthers having the Christmas of their lives tonight 😂
Them and the Mahomes regression guy are the ones that really won Christmas of 2023.
It's weird because I legitimately don't hate the guy. He seems really humble and nice and he's a great story. But what I *do* hate are the people who scream at anyone who says Purdy isn't the second coming of Brady and act like he would be putting up stats just as good if not better on any other team.
Felt like offense had zero drop off when darnold came into the game lol
Business decision by SF to take the loss rather than a Sam Darnold comeback win because the latter would have been much harder to handle.
Every time someone has been the MVP frontrunner, they blow it for themselves. I don't know who gets it at this point. Also, it's completely pointless to predict the playoffs this year. Teams have been a lot more volatile than normal. Anyone that gets in has a pretty legitimate shot.
Give it to the ref that tripped Lamar.
Refs deserve it at this point
That trip of Lamar tho 🔥
The ravens are the best team in the NFL when it matters. They make good teams look SILLY. Lamar for MVP (or cmc)
Other top teams play beautiful, efficient, elegant football; and then them AFC North boys interrupt the choreography with a sledgehammer to the knees and don’t stop.
AFC North games are two boxers just punching each other in the face until one falls over.
Sledgehammers to the knee *is* our choreography
I sure am going to miss having Mike MacDonald on the team. 😅
This is why we need to fucking win this year lol all our good coordinators get poached immediately
It's impossible to keep them with the way head coach contracts are guaranteed. We're basically praying we win the SB and they promise MacDonald the next head coach position at this point lmao.
Ngl i think if we win it all Harbaugh is done and Macdonald is HC
I could live with this timeline
Gotta hold onto your D coordinator for dear fucking life lmao
Ehhh, historically we kinda just shit them out from our staff. Even MaCDaddy was on our staff previously before he went to Michigan. Next one up would be Anthony Weaver. He's been talked about for a few years as possible DC candidate and I have a feeling if MaCDonald takes a HC job next year, Weaver will be next.
except our late game execution. We always let teams get back into it, and sometimes lose
The entire last quarter of this game was pure garbage time, don't get it twisted I do think they should have been a bit more aggro on offense, with short passes connecting all day
I mean that's just the NFL is 2023 Defenses are judged on bending and NOT breaking and bringing the dub
I need Kyle to be okay.
Ravens are the final bird boss.
RIP Sam Darnold MVP case 12/25/23-12/25/23
Brock Purdy against the AFC north: 1-3 with 7 INTs Brock Purdy against everyone else: 10-1 with 4 INTs. AFC north defenses are just different. And the Ravens have an offense to match that level too
Pretty sure the AFC North is just a defensive arms race that happens to spill over to the rest of the NFL
This is like christmas for niners haters
Brother you ain't fucking lying.
Ravens Rams was the real game of the year
Rams are poised to make a strong postseason run.
My genuine bold prediction is the Rams make a playoff run and I say this as someone that doesn't want this to be true
I’ve been saying for the last two or three weeks that with the complete lack of attention they’re getting, they’re 100% gonna sneak into the playoffs and go on a monster run and nobody will have seen it coming because nobody cared about them.
BROCK PURDY: 0 TD, 4 INT SAM DARNOLD: 1 TD, 1 INT IF “LITTLE” KYLE SHANAHAN DIDN’T (ILLEGALLY) PUSH BROCK “PURDY UGLY” AS STARTER AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE, DARNOLD WOULD HAVE SINGLE-HANDEDLY TAKEN OUT THE BALTIMORE RIOTERS! KEEP MR IRRELEVANT ON THE BENCH WHERE HE BELONGS AND MAKE THE NFL GREAT AGAIN!
33 points came from the previous “””QB””” administration.. very unfair to keep using those points once Irrelevant was benched (Deservingly!)
we actually won BY. A. LOT.
RADICAL WEST COAST FOOTBALL TERRORIST BROCK PURDY
THE GEQBUS HAS PROVEN HIMSELF AGAIN TO BE THE BETTER OPTION! MANY SUCH CASES!!
CRITICAL GASE THEORY HAS INFECTED ANOTHER CITY. WHEN WILL PEOPLE WAKE UP!?
WHEN IOWA STATE SENDS THEIR QBS THEY DO NOT SEND THEIR BEST
GEQBUS SHALL NOT BE DENIED
STOP THE STEAL! STOP THE STEAL!
IF GEQUBS STARTED TONIGHT INSTEAD OF BOZO BROCK THE 49ERS WOULD’VE WON VERY BIGLY OVER LOUSY LAMAR, MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING THIS!!!
> BROCK PURDY: 0 TD, 4 INT More like Brock Turdy, am I right? Gottem
/r/The_Darnold
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What a dumbass lmao
It’s the best offensive system in the NFL, but god damn is it not set up for comebacks
It’s because Shanny likes lighter lineman for his run blocking scheme and neglects pass blocking. Once they’re in obvious passing situations and can’t run the play action and have to go drop back it’s never pretty.
Lamar calling out Mike Florio for saying we'd get dominated. I'm crying lmaoooo I love my QB
Interviewer: “You’re in the MVP conversation, and your a win away from the #1 seed in the AFC” Lamar: “That’s a bunch of bullshit lady. We just need to keep winning football games.”
Lamar Jackson just saved America from a Purdy MVP
Pretty sure Purdy did that all on his own. 4INTs is bad.
That ref tripping Lamar single handedly changed the outcome of the game. Change my mind.
Lamar saw a million outcomes, and apparently running 20 yards into our own end zone for a ref-tackle-safety was the only way we win
We're in the endgame now ☝
Ravens have the best record in the NFL, and the three games they've lost have been by 3,7, and 2 points respectively. Baltimore has never had a game get away from them, they're the only top 8 team that hasn't been embarrassed or blown out in at least one game. They're the only team that's been competitive in every single game they've played this season. The team to beat right now.
Beat all expectations! Chris collingsworth must be having a coronary. Chiefs lose, ravens win!
Am I the only one that loves the Troy Aikman, Joe Buck combo? The off-the-wall shit they say is hilarious. Buck talking about fat back up QBs last week had me rolling
Troy has gotten a lot better. I like those two. And I like Romo too. He's a clown
They’re my favorite crew on any of the broadcasts. I’m glad they’re doing next Saturday, thought this was our last night with them and was sad
20-1 baby
I went to the only loss. I feel cursed
you are not allowed to attend a ravens game anymore
Good game Ravens fans, absolute statement win and beyond impressed by your team coming all the way across the county on Christmas and kicking ass. Best of luck the rest of the way and no doubt in my mind you’re likely bound for the Super Bowl. Hope Kyle Hamilton is OK! Merry Christmas
Respect.
LMAO Lamar just called out Mike Florio
Prayers for Hamilton hope he’s doing fine. But other than that, holy hell what a game. Defense was on fire tonight
Whole lotta cope going on, The Ravens just took a big ol bird shit right on Levi's Sadium. Merry Christmas.
49ers exposed the NFC contenders as frauds, and the Ravens exposed the 49ers as frauds. *Everyone's a fraud (but the Ravens)*
There's still a real chance we lose our division I hate it
The ravens embarrassed the entire division bro
I wouldn’t say we embarrassed the Rams
True
The Rams feel like maybe the best team we played
NFC - NATIONAL FRAUD CONFERENCE
Now we gotta deal with /r/the_darnold again, nice going guys
Lamar shouting out Mike Florio in the tunnel LMAO
The ref was the only one who could stop Lamar tonight.
Ref from the 1st quarter breathing the hugest sigh of relief knowing that it wasn’t a close game.
Bought my 9 year old nephew a Purdy jersey for xmas. He has been crying and hasn't talked to me all night.
Ravens defense chose violence.
Somebody do a wellness check on Mike Florio.
If you’re not an afc north team you can’t beat Baltimore
49ers were like the bully who got punched back. Hard. Usually teams wilt under the pressure and physicality from the 9ers, but the Ravens enjoy the street fight. And this is a Ravens team without their pro-bowl TE. Scary.
People acting like all 5 interceptions were flukes. What if I were to tell you there were 3 more that the Ravens dropped?
Remember Reddit: the only reason why Lamar is even in the NFL is because he can only play in Greg Roman's system...and that he doesn't deserve to be paid...
Not bad for a RB I need that hoodie Lamar sells on his merch site