CARTOON PICKS WEEK 17: And We Bid Adieu To The Losers
THE SEASON IS OVER, THE PLAYOFFS ARE SET, LET US LAMENT THE LOSERS
BENGALS – Joey Burrow gave you hope. That hope ended in a catastrophic knee injury because nobody could protect him. This was never going to be a good season, and the one bright spot may have permanently damaged his career. The Bengals are a disaster and should probably clean house and spend next year with a real coach instead of some guy who got Sean McVay’s coffee once. I have little hope they will accomplish this.
DOLPHINS – What a fizzle at the end there. From a fun, Fitzmagric-driven start, the Dolphins turned into one of the season’s big feel good stories. Brian Flores had a team that should have been another year from competing…already competing! Then the cracks started to show. Tua, despite the wins, looked like a rookie most of the time. The future is bright for this squad, but their limitations showed at the end. Firing Chan Gailey should be the big forward move.
JETS – Low expectations and they couldn’t even meet those. Gase was a dead man walking from week 1 and lasted the whole year. Darnold might be salvageable and after winning two worthless games they probably have to at least give it one more season of trying. The most exciting thing about this team is finding out who the next crew is.
PATRIOTS – By most teams standards, a wasted year. By Patriots standards a disaster. Covid opt-outs weakened a strong defense, and the offense is a complete mess. Cam was a nice signing that just didn’t end up working out. McDaniels is bad, Cam is broken, Stidham is bad. This team needs an offensive overhaul. This team is now a regular team, and I couldn’t be happier about it.
JAGUARS – They won the first game of the year and never won again. By all accounts a complete disaster. But this team needed that. Jettison Marrone and build something fresh with Football Thor.
TEXANS – They got rid of their best weapon for peanuts and it only got worse. Absolutely horrendous season and they can’t even look forward to the draft now, as the Dolphins own their #3 overall pick. This team is wasting one of the best QBs in the entire league and makes me sad to think about. They will be pulling out of the BoB hole for years. I hope the next staff hiring prove fruitful.
RAIDERS – The Raiders gave us some great wins and genuinely looked like competitors for a while. Then they turned into the same mediocre slop they’ve been every other year under Jon Gruden. Is Derek Carr good enough? We still don’t know. The team clearly has potential but still makes stupid mistakes to lose games. I constantly messed up the Raiders picks this year because not even the Raiders could figure out if they were good or not at any given moment.
CHARGERS – In perhaps the most Chargers season of all, an incredible QB season was absolutely wasted by terrible decisions and truly baffling game management. Justin Herbert is the clear rookie of the year and it shouldn’t even be close. If you looked at just Herbert, this team should have been a playoff contender. Instead they never got close because the Chargers greatest opponent remains the Chargers themselves. If they ever find out how to beat the Chargers, this team is going to rule. Lynn probably did enough to warrant getting let go after this but whatever happens, there is a lot of hope to be had down in LA.
BRONCOS – There was a fair amount of Drew Lock hype after he played reasonably well towards the end of last season. Maybe Elway finally found his QB? Well, doesn’t seem like it. The most notable thing the Broncos did all year was lose Von Miller to a torn ACL. This was a season to completely forget in Denver, and I’m not entirely sure I haven’t already forgotten it.
FALCONS – Another year, more choking on a scale not seen my mortal men. At least now the team can move forward in a new direction instead of continuing to try and recapture the magic that gave them…the most incredible choke of all time. Ryan is now on the backside of his career and they still have Calvin Ridley and Julio. This is a team that needs to fix it quickly before everything falls apart even further.
PANTHERS – A team completely in rebuild with a new coach and system in place. This year could easily be forgotten as a holdover test run in the future plans of the Panthers. In that respect, I think it was pretty good. This team, despite being clearly outmatched in most contests, was never an easy out all year. Matt Rhule seems like a great coach to me. They have a way to go, and Teddy isn’t the guy, but this team might be a monster in a couple seasons provided they put the right talent in place.
VIKINGS – Pretty much a disaster. The Vikings have been playoff contenders under Zimmer and this year took a huge boot to the ass of Minnesota. Cousins wasn’t bad, but he could still be Cousins at the worst moments. Dalvin Cook rules. They found a perfectly adequate replacement for Diggs. But the defense took a surprising tumble into garbage and needs a big fix if we are going to get back to the good old days of upsetting New Orleans in the playoffs.
LIONS – Basically a nightmare year. Matt Patricia was finally fired after doing immense damage to this franchise. The perpetually underappreciated Stafford is being rumored to leave, which would put this team in an even bigger hole. Things look bad for Detroit, and I don’t see things getting better anytime soon.
CARDINALS – This was my super secret pick for major contender and they ended this season leaving me in a state of confusion. I fully expected this to be the Kyler breakout year, especially early on when the 49ers collectively died. It…didn’t happen. A fairly strong start turned into a wet fart of an ending. Now the Cardinals have one of the more uncertain futures. They should still be on the upswing and maybe a few more pieces will fall into place. At the very least, they gave us arguably the play of the year, with the Hail Murray.
49ERS – Here’s a fun stat. Kyle Shanahan, in 4 years as head coach, only has one winning season. You could blame injuries for at least two of these down years and the fact that they went to a Super Bowl in the one winning year certainly helps that argument, but that’s still an interesting stat. No team could reasonably survive so many stars going down so this year was effectively just a sad waste of time that adds to the super bowl hangover stat. The real question is Jimmy. Do they upgrade or stick with him?
EAGLES – A disaster of a year for sure. Wentz had his worst year as a starter and may not even be an Eagle come next year. Half the team got hurt. Doug Pederson looks more and more like a mediocre coach who got lucky. But Hurts showed some promise and the team generally looked a wee bit more cohesive at the end, so the rumors about everyone hating Wentz might be true. The team may move on from Carson but is not expected to make any other drastic changes. The NFCE is collectively garbage, so next year might be fine with a healthy squad and some new pieces.
COWBOYS – The season ended when Dak went down. If Dak stays in, the Cowboys probably polish off a solid 9-10 win season on the strength of that offensive weaponry alone. Instead, they got stuck in Ben DiNucci hell for a few weeks and made a late playoff push with Dalton far too late, and bumbled away their one chance against the Giants. Now the Dak question once more looms large over the Cowboys offseason. They’d be smart to sign him.
GIANTS – You tried. It isn’t your fault Doug Pederson is a hack who decided that his 3rd string QB was worth evaluating in a close game that happened to hold your fate in his hands. But if you had won like, one more game, it wouldn’t have been a concern. There are reasons to be happy about the season, and reasons to be frustrated. The offense took a big step back. The defense took a big step forward. Everyone on the bubble likely did enough to justify one more season. Gettleman had a better year than before. Jones was bad, but he started to improve when he got safer with the ball. Judge seems good enough for now. Fire Evan Engram into the sun.
PICS!
PLAYOFF PICS!
So yes, playoff pics are going to happen. Even more excitingly, every game gets a picture…guaranteed. I will make a bet for both teams. If you have no stake in the game, root for the picture you’d rather see. As always, I’ll gladly take recommendations for each scenario. So let’s see what we have going on for Wild Card Weekend, now featuring the #2 seed!
#7 COLTS @ #2 BILLS
The Colts are a good team. If this wasn’t the matchup they might even have a good chance of advancing. The Bills have spent the latter half of the season building a frightening amount of momentum and just casually went out and dropped a 50 burger on a good Dolphins team trying to reach the playoffs in a game the Bills didn’t even need to win. I would be scared of the Bills right now. Very scared.
If the Bills win, I will draw Josh Allen as a Bills Mafia Don
If the Colts win, I will draw a Colts card table smashing a Buffalo
#6 RAMS @ #3 SEAHAWKS
The Rams could have probably owned the #3 seed and reversed this scenario if they hadn’t fucked around and found out against the Jets. The Seahawks are a fickle beast, capable of looking like complete, absolute ass for a half and then pull out nonsense from their butt to win games. The Rams are hurt, Goff has a bad thumb, and the Hawks are on an upswing. It’s probably a Seattle win.
If the Rams win, I will draw Aaron Donald as the T-rex from the end of Jurassic Park, when it roars and the banner floats down
If the Seahawks win, I will draw Chef Russ delivering an outstanding stuffed Ram on a silver platter
#5 BUCS @ #4 TEAM
If you are a fan of any team that is not the Buccaneers, you are required by chaos law to root for them to get owned this weekend by one of the worst division winners of all time. If you don’t want to see Brady and his super team eat shit against this garbage, you and I can’t be friends.
If the Bucs win, I will draw Tom Brady throwing out the trash
If the TEAM wins, I will draw Alex Smith as the devil, laughing manically as Brady burns in a pit of flame
#5 RAVENS @ #4 TITANS
I’m torn between thinking the Ravens or the Bills are the scariest team in the league right now. I genuinely wouldn’t be shocked if that ends up being the AFCCG. Post-Poop Lamar is on his MVP roll and unlike last season, the Titans do not have a defense. The Titans offense is one of the most fun to watch in the league and I’m genuinely sad we won’t get to watch them beat up a different team. I just think the Ravens are a buzzsaw right now and probably eager for revenge after last year.
If the Titans win, I will draw Derrick Henry crushing Lamar with a toilet
If the Ravens win, I will draw Post-Poop super saiyan Lamar Jackson
#7 BEARS @ #2 SAINTS
How the fuck did the Bears sneak in? This is probably the biggest blowout of the weekend. It would be hilarious if this ends up being this year’s embarrassing Saints playoff loss.
If the Saints win, I will draw Old Man Brees in a pimped out golf cart
If the Bears win, I will draw Mitch Trubisky as a large bear
#6 BROWNS @ #3 STEELERS
Kind of lame that we are just getting a rematch of week 17. The Browns had difficulties with the Steelers backups. It’s honestly a shame they finally get their first playoff game in almost two decades and they have to face a team that routinely has their number and dances on their grave. I hope they pull this one out, I really really do.
If the Browns win, I will draw the Brownie dancing on the grave of the Steelers
If the Steelers win, I will draw Big Ben eating lunch on a steel beam high in the sky as the Brownie falls off
I will post my annual playoff bandwagon guide later this week with a closer analysis on Chaos rankings
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Not so much a fizzle for Miami as a backfire. I think we may have been counting on a few too many things external to this game, needed just one to come off, got caught out when none of them happened, and then the heads dropped.
Losing Fitz to the ‘rona was the omen. Cincy were never going to win, a bunch of no-marks in the J-Town shop window didn’t even look like they were auditioning, and then Pittsburgh benched Ben and put Mason in.
Still – at least Gase got the hoof.
That’s not a good thing. I wish Gase would continue wrecking the Jets for another decade but obviously that can’t happen. I just hope that if they take the Bills OC, he’ll be one of those great coordinators who can’t make it as HC
Same.
And at least Gase isn’t a women beater/domestic abuser
As a Falcon fan all I can root for is a big trade for the number one pick but since that won’t happen I will root for The Football Team because Alex Smith is the man
Alex smith deserves nice things, but I also enjoy rooting for Brady, because I think it’s funny how upset people get about him
Very curious to see your thoughts on Pederson throwing the game.
As a Giants fan it was infuriating and it robbed us of a 6-10 division winner
as a football fan it was eh, and kind of hilarious
yeah, I really like Alex smith, but I also really wanted a 6-10 team to make the playoffs
Dammit, Dave. You crowned Hurts after one game and this is the karmic justice. An offseason of Wentzers pointing and laughing at us.
Also, after 2 hours vomiting in the toilet for spending a night on this earth as an Iggles fan, I can honestly say I’m happy for WTF. Well, no, not quite. I wish D. Snyder nothing but misery. However, I’m ECSTATIC for Alex Smith, and the idea that somewhere Dwayne HasBeenkins is sobbing into a stripper’s shoulder after the cold realization that they are a MUCH better team without him.
Not sure how you can blame Hurts for Doug Pederson putting in Nate Sudafed for no reason when the game was very much still in reach, largely because Hurts scored two TDs
Like Hurts was bad at passing but good at running and the game was very winnable until they pulled him for a complete scrub
Well, Pederson did have a reason for putting in Nate Sudfeld. He wanted to see him play, probably to see whether he can be a backup to Hurts next year. It seems that no, he can’t, but that’s beside the point. Pederson now knows something else he needs for next season, assuming he keeps his job. I’m sure locking up that 6th pick didn’t hurt, either
I don’t blame Hurts, he certainly wasn’t doing anything in the passing game, but his 2 scores on the ground helped offset it some. I mostly just wanted to make a joke that your comic a few weeks ago is the reason Pederson hosed us. In hindsight, it’s not nearly as funny a punchline as whispering “NFC East!” would be. XD
I assume David Tyree and Bernard Pollard will be there with Devil Alex Smith, pointing and laughing as well.
Maybe Eli and Mario Manningham. And Foles.
I’d say my favorite part of this year is the fact that, of course, in the weirdest season of all time, there was a 3 week stretch where very long playoff streaks were broken.
Week 15 – The longest active playoff streak was snapped with New England being eliminated for the first time since 2008.
Week 16 – The NFC’s longest active playoff drought was snapped with Tampa Bay clinching a playoff berth for the first time since 2007.
Week 17 – The NFL’s longest active playoff drought was snapped with Cleveland clinching a playoff berth for the first time since 2002.
And this revelation gave me my funniest/most interesting Super Bowl matchup: Browns vs Bucs. Not only because it would be a battle of former playoff drought kings, but also because it would be a battle of the last two offseason champions. The Overhyped Bowl, if you will. I highly doubt either team goes very far (Pittsburgh is probably going to smoke Cleveland and Tompa can’t abuse porous defenses anymore), but I’d personally love to see it happen.
Wow now I can say with absolute certainty that the Cleveland Browns will not make this matchup a reality. Go Tom Brady, I guess.
Looks like I was absolutely wrong on both counts. Browns-Bucs Super Bowl still in play. Blessed.
I love Alex Smith but I’m going to be rooting for Brady to go as far as he can in the playoffs without winning it all. Anything that makes Bellichick look worse without Brady actually winning a seventh ring, the thought of that makes me physically nauseous
Can I ask why you feel that way? Just curious.
I’m just tired of Pats fans crowning Bellichick the GOAT coach and I will root for anything that weakens that position. Short of Brady winning another one, that is
Can safely say that I haven’t met anyone with that viewpoint. I figured that was the case but it’s still kind of surprising. Usually it’s the opposite, y’know? People don’t like Brady Cultists crowning Tom Brady the GOAT QB and want him to fail outside of Belichick’s wing without New England remaining uber dominant. Not that I’m complaining either way haha. I get why.
I think neutral fans are required to root for the Bills and/or Browns
sheyit, imma patsfan (see name), and i’m rooting for the bills
Titans are a good Neutral team to stan for, especially if you like rushing
It says a lot about your talent that I look forward to reading this comic every week despite the fact that you needlessly and illogically trash my team every week. Of all the fan bases who shouldn’t be spending so much time on hating the Patriots, you’d think it’d be the Giants, who bested the twice, including the time that mattered most. I hope someday the comic can exist without the constant hatred. I can only imagine the awesome heights it could reach then!
We’re all here for the Brady/Patriots hate. 😀
i love it, personally. haaaaaaaate… haaaaate.
Your team was the best in the league for two decades and had the audacity to not even be fun to watch during that time, you can take some jokes
I can take some jokes, for sure. Just wish they weren’t ALL the time, and sometimes with such intensity. But I’ve never quite gotten this “not fun to watch” thing. Sure they’re not the Mahomes Chiefs, but they had Randy Moss, and the version that set the WR TD record. They had Corey Dillon running people over in the 03-04 seasons. They had 2 of the best slot receivers ever in Edelman and Welker, guys who managed to get open and catch everything thrown their way for years despite being scrawny white guys. They won games with WRs throwing long TD passes. They ran Mike Vrabel, and great but non-famous LB, out to play tight end so many times he showed up on the cover of the NFL record book. He had 10 catches in his career, all for touchdowns. First defensive player since Refrigerator Perry to score on offense in a Super Bowl. They had Ty Law, Asante Samuel, Darrell Revis, and Stephone Gilmore on defense picking off every pass in site & garnering huge accolades for it (at least during their time on other teams). They had a game winning INT at the 1 yard line to win a Super Bowl. They had the largest comeback in Super Bowl history, and the only overtime game. Maybe it wasn’t exciting every moment of those 20 years, but that’s a lot of fun, highlights stuff!
you’d think it’d be the Giants, who bested them twice
so close to the point you probably heard it whoosh by and mistook it for nonexistent applause for your trash opinion
so the giants won twice, other teams won here and there, but which team consistently won or played for the championship or, hell, made the playoffs at all
not sure why you dont get that shit talking comes with consistently winning, you could take the hate like the badge of honor it inherently implies instead of getting so fucking butthurt because someone on the internet said something mean about the multimillionaire professional football players youve literally never met once in person
“A fairly strong start turned into a wet fart of an ending.”
Sounds like pretty much every Kliff Kingsbury-coached team.
At least the Browns got the Sunday night game… gotta extend our one week in the playoffs as long as possible.
THEY FUCKING DID IT! I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!
In Kyler’s defense, he spent most of that 2nd half of the season playing with a shoulder and more recently a knee injury. He was doing very well before he got hurt I believe.
Justin Jefferson: Has 1400 receiving yards, a record for an NFL rookie, in a year with no preseason
Dave: “Adequate”
“Adequate replacement for Diggs”, which was a tall order as Diggs was even better. Context matters. Jefferson had an incredible year
Hurts was 8 for 34 on the ground, by no means a bad rushing game but not anything special. And his passing game looks like Wentz combined with Kaep’s last season with a sprinkle of late-career Eli thrown in.
Obviously WFT legend Nate Sudfeld is NOT better by any means and they should not have played him, but let’s stop acting like Hurts even deserves a starting job next year, much less all the hype the anti-Wentz crowd showered him with.
I dunno, if Wentz’s failures are mostly on the rest of the team (as the Wentzers say), then the same argument can be made for Hurts and judging him worthy of starting after these 4 games is unfair. I don’t think he’s good or starter quality but if he’s potentially the future you gotta keep him in and see what he can do
Lol dude, don’t know why you expected the Eagles to try when their game doesn’t matter to them. Just admit the giants suck and move on. We won’t be relevant in the East for ages now with Prescott and Hurts on DAL and PHI and the ‘skins taking Chase Young. Gettleman and Mara have failed the giants. I’m moving on from them
Lol dude I didn’t expect the Eagles to try, but I can sure as hell be bummed out that they didn’t.
Also lol if this weird and unconventional year was too much for you but most of the past decade wasn’t
The Browns gotta win. They just gotta.
Good news Past Me. THEY DID!
Wheres the comic for the Raiders beating the Broncos?
If the Bears win, it should be Mitch and Mack as the Blues Brothers singing on a Mardi Gras float.
Benching Hurts for the 6th pick. Why not? Possibly Devonta Smith from Bama. I wouldn’t have done any other way. And anyway, it’s a bit better a team in the playoffs with a 7-9 record than a 6-10 record. At least, WFT beat the Steelers.
Brady would’ve looked not better than Newton. No wideouts, no TEs. He left cause he already knew that last year (and actually he sucked last year) and he chose a team full of talented WRs. Why stay for nothing in New England when you have a chance to win it all again and piss off everybody?
I blame Belichick for his last drafts. He really sucked. For the rest, he is the GOAT. A controversial GOAT, but still the GOAT. I don’t mind the haters. I would hate the Pats if it wasn’t my team.
Brady probably would have looked better than Cam did this season, which isn’t saying much because, even as someone that really supported and wanted Cam to succeed, it was extremely difficult for me to legitimately argue that he wasn’t the worst starting QB in the league this season without bringing up rushing TDs and some random advanced stats that still rank him in the bottom 5 passers overall. Brady was downright atrocious for his standards in 2019, but when you really break down the numbers and look at what he did, he was quite literally just an average passer last year. Not great, not terrible. 2020 would have just been a repeat of that, maybe slightly better because the OL managed to stay consistently healthy this year and he would have an actual rushing attack. Probably a 10-6 or 11-5 finish with all the questions being “What’s wrong with Tom Brady?” when the reality is what you said, the roster is just really poorly managed and the guy has very little, if any help out there.
>Brady probably would have looked better than Cam did this season
Brady doesn’t have a habit of coughing up the ball at inopportune times or literally throwing games away. Those two points alone suggest you’re right. Still, I was ready to get on the Cam train when I learned he was the new QB because I was really curious what Bill could do with a guy of his skill set. Turns out the answer was not a whole hell of a lot. Oh well. After two decades of success I think I can handle a bad year.
Look, I understand all the “supporting cast” arguments, and I don’t disagree, but if you look at it from a stats perspective Brady is somewhere in the 3-7 range as far as top QBs. he had a few clunkers (particularly against the saints), but he was statistically very good all season
Oh, by no means am I saying that Brady is bad this year. He pretty much proved that he is still undoubtedly a top 5 passer in the NFL even at age 43. 4600 yards and 40 TDs is an MVP statline most years, and the fact that Brady is still playing extremely well is incredible given his age and everything going on this past year.
What I was saying is that he looked average in 2019 because of his extremely lackluster supporting cast, and had he stayed for this season, it likely would have been more of the same. He’s clearly still capable of being top 5–and he proved that this season, but he’s not capable of carrying an abysmal WR corps like he used to, and would look far worse as a result. Honestly it just goes to show how bad Brady’s situation was in 2019 that he went from average at best to top 5 again in an offseason. He literally aged backwards.
I’d be more okay with what happened this year if not for the fact that for the first time in my lifetime, things aren’t actually looking up for us anytime soon, let alone next season. Tom Brady ain’t walking through them doors again and suddenly the abysmal roster management we’ve been dealing with for a few years now is biting us in the ass. We don’t have our ultra high quality deodorant to cover up our massive stench anymore, and if we can’t find a suitable replacement anytime soon, we’re going to reek badly for good minute.
This offseason is going to be very important for Belichick. The Pats need a whole lotta fixing, and if can’t make any steps in the right direction, it’ll say a lot about just how large a role Tom Brady played in keeping us afloat.
Don’t forget the fact that we lost half the defense to COVID vacations on day one. Assuming this shit is done by September (yeah, big if at this point) we’ll be in much better shape than we were this season. And if we can find a serviceable QB that would be a bonus. I’m crossing my fingers for Stafford, actually. I think he’d be a good fit for the kind of offense the Pats run. (Better than Cam, anyway.)
See that’s just it; the defense wasn’t even the problem this year. They weren’t great, and clearly regressed from last year, but they were able to keep us in games all season. I don’t know what their ranking is off the top of my head, but last I checked they were top 10 in scoring defense, which isn’t a great stat for measuring defense, I know, but paints some of the picture I’m trying to get at.
The Patriots’ issue is offense. Passing offense specifically. They have to fix those issues if they want to stand any chance of returning to form. Losing Tom Brady ended up being shotgun wound, and more often than not, our losses this season boiled down to the offense not being able to do anything other than spam Damien Harris and occasionally run Cam. They have to be able to throw the football if they want to win games moving forward.
The offense took two big hits when Edelman and Burkhead went down. If they can manage to come back next season at or near their usual level of play that would count for a lot. But yes, the obvious hole is at QB.
Guess on Chaos Rankings
MOST CHAOTIC
BROWNS
FOOTBALL TEAM
BEARS
COLTS
BUCCANEERS
RAMS
BILLS
SEAHAWKS
TITANS
RAVENS
SAINTS
STEELERS
PACKERS
CHIEFS
LEAST CHAOTIC
I didn’t even realize that the bears made the playoffs until just now.
“I will draw Mitch Trubisky as a large bear…”
—you mean with chest hair, leather gear, nipple rings and all that? 😀
If the Steelers win you should have the same image of the Browns win this but have it vandalized by the Big Ben to “Everything is hurt”.
Eagles throwing the final game was probably for the better for the Giants, why?
Notice how each time the Giants makes it to the Superb Owl, their win record seem to go down?
1986: 14-2
1990: 13-3
2000: 12-4
2007: 10-6
2011: 9-7
There’s still window of opportunities for 3 more titles. Imagine if they pull off a threepeat with records of 8-8, 7-9, and 6-10. Now that would be the worst dynasty ever!
Also expect the victims to be the Pats somehow.
Remember that time you called out the cowboys to have to rely on the giants to win a game? Well this is basically the same thing except with the giants and eagles. The funniest playoff scenario possible that I can think of is if the wft beats bucs and then beats saints in the next game, making it to the NFCCG while humiliating Sean Peyton and Tom Brady. Then WFT gets mauled by Aaron Rodgers and the Alex smith hype dies down. Also since I’m a new fan who hasn’t really seen Brady, and I’m a cowboys fan, (laugh all you want) divisional laws kind of trump chaos law. Suggestion for any team beating wft: have a notable player from the winning team secretly take the w from wut and re-arrange the remaining ft to tf.
Btw when I say any team beating wft I mean cartoon pic
“This team is now a regular team, and I couldn’t be happier about it.”
Don’t poke the bear that has the most cap space over the next two seasons.
Ok, so there was some hyperbole in saying “needlessly and illogically” trash my team. I absolutely understand that as the consistent winners, people are gonna hate, just like I do with the Yankees or others do with Duke or Alabama or whoever. But I don’t work them into every single conversation about baseball. That’s my only “complaint”, such that it was one. Seems like Dave goes out of his way to include ways to bash them some comics. I certainly don’t care that someone “said something mean about the multimillionaire professional football players” – I couldn’t care less about their feelings, but like most fans of anything, I don’t love hatred directed at the thing I love. C’mon, man, that’s just normal, and miles away from “butthurt”. I know some people like when their thing is hated, but I’m more from the side of wishing everybody liked that thing that brought me joy, y’know?
In baseball, I’m a fan of the Diamondbacks because a buddy worked for them for a decade. So I hate the Yankees because they always win, but my antipathy towards them decreased a bit after “my” team took them down in 2001. I would’ve thought Giants fans felt the same way, because they ultimately have the upper hand over the team everyone hates.
The issue here is that he doesn’t really go out of his way to trash your team. The only time he ‘trashes’ the Patriots is when he’s making game picks (where he’s literally talking about every team in some capacity) or making comics about them (something he’s gone out of his way to avoid doing for the last couple of years now). When they come up, he drops his thoughts on them which are usually negative because he legitimately doesn’t like them as a franchise, and he’s fully entitled to do so.
I’m sure being a Giants fan might make some people feel more indifferent, but let’s be real here, it’s been a decade since they beat New England in a Super Bowl. Since then, the Patriots basically shitran the NFL, winning 3 more Super Bowls and 4 more AFC Championships. They were the epitome of stability and they made the sport seem boring at times because of how consistently dominant they were. If you’re someone that enjoys chaos like Dave, or really just different things happening in general, the Brady-led Patriots are your worst enemy.
With all that being said, it should go without saying that being really good for a really long time subjects you to slander whenever possible. Why do you think the league would always collectively come together to trash New England after a playoff loss? People rarely, if ever, had an opportunity to dunk on them, so this season was a breath of fresh air and everyone is taking every moment to rub it in. Not sure what you were expecting here lol.