What teams will play in the next Superbowl?

[goeduck]

Lions got cheated big time on that Tackle eligible penalty. The ref screwed up and announced the wrong player nullifying the 2 point.
Eagles have picked the wrong time to play like they are right now.
KC played better than I thought they would against the Bengals.
Bengals offensive line fell apart at the end of the game against KC.

 

[Cycledude]

Packers

 

[Hay Dude]

I do think Jordan Love is pretty good!

 

[Hay Dude]

Lions got cheated big time on that Tackle eligible penalty. The ref screwed up and announced the wrong player nullifying the 2 point.
Eagles have picked the wrong time to play like they are right now.
KC played better than I thought they would against the Bengals.
Bengals offensive line fell apart at the end of the game against KC.

I don’t know if the Eagles are playing bad more than actually just struggling with having a terrible defense.

 

[Torvy]

I do think Jordan Love is pretty good!

That goes to the culture of the team. It is amazing to me that teams will maintain that culture across GM and HC changes. Who are the Bears every year? Essentially, a run-first offense and a LB focused defense. Good QBs go there to die. GB is a QB first, draft and develop team. When they manage to have a good RB and/or a good D they do well. Maybe part of their patience is that they don't have an owner, per se.
The Bills have usually been defense-run game first. Their most successful seasons came when they had a QB to pair with it.

 

[Tinhack]

Feels like the Kardiac Kids and the Bernie Kosar years.

I lived in Ohio during that period. Always seem to be a heartbreak. I quit following the Browns when they moved to Baltimore in the middle of the night.

Edit: Just as well. That was the same year I moved back to Texas--1995.

 

[Hay Dude]

That goes to the culture of the team. It is amazing to me that teams will maintain that culture across GM and HC changes. Who are the Bears every year? Essentially, a run-first offense and a LB focused defense. Good QBs go there to die. GB is a QB first, draft and develop team. When they manage to have a good RB and/or a good D they do well. Maybe part of their patience is that they don't have an owner, per se.
The Bills have usually been defense-run game first. Their most successful seasons came when they had a QB to pair with it.

Look at the Philadelphia Eagles from 2015-2017 and 2020-2022
In both of those short periods of time, they went from bad, losing records to winning a Superbowl and losing a close game Superbowl.

It is team culture, but also the owner & recruiting is a huge

 

[tallyho8]

In pre-season, I predicted the Saints would win the NFC South but they wound up tied with Bucs and even tied in the first tie-breaker but lost in the 2nd tiebreaker because they lost one more game against Conference teams and that game was against Green Bay when they were leading 17-0 in the 3rd quarter when their quarterback was injured and put out the game causing them to lose 17-18. Many times it only takes one point to make or break a season and the Saints scored more points than all but 2 teams in the NFC. I wish that high points had been the second tie-breaker.

When the Saints made their last touchdown over the Dirty Birds Sunday, the Falcons Coach cursed out the Saints coach for running up the score by beating them by 31 points but we had no complaints from the Patriots earlier in the season when they beat them by 34-0. Any coach that behaves like that in a game doesn't deserve to be a coach.

 

[Sigarms]

When the Saints made their last touchdown over the Dirty Birds Sunday, the Falcons Coach cursed out the Saints coach for running up the score by beating them by 31 points but we had no complaints from the Patriots earlier in the season when they beat them by 34-0. Any coach that behaves like that in a game doesn't deserve to be a coach.

And here I thought the Eagles were the "Dirty Birds" LOL

I fairness to the saints coach, the last play was not his choice and by all accounts from what I've read, it was the team and Jamie Winston that allowed the play to be run as the coaches instructions were to take a knee.

Funny, now it's kind of a internet war on behalf of Jamie Winston, defending his actions. Anyway you cut it, IMO the QB leads the team, and for Winston to do that tells me what I assumed about him anyway.

You can defend the saints anyway you want, but there is a difference between kicking a field a field goal with over 5 minutes left in the game making it 34-0 vs running a play when you're up by over 20 points and can run the clock out to end the game.

Saints players back Winston amid TD criticism

Saints players defended Jameis Winston and the decision to run a play out of victory formation against the Falcons.

www.espn.com

All that said, Author Blanc never impressed me as a owner (not that he has to) per his hiring of Bobby Petrino, and he got what he deserved by hiring him.

 

[Sigarms]