What I Think I Think After Last Week's NFL Games

 > No one needs the 7th seed

Six games of football, #2 seeds not getting byes, and the winner of the MNF game getting shafted on rest just means that the top seed are at even more advantage. If you want close playoff games, having more overmatched .500 level teams in them is not the way to go -- and since a playoff game is the only one that is ever on, you really get to wallow in Bad Game.

> The Raiders and Chargers should have thrown their Week 18 game

Vegas would have been rested for Cincy, which might have made the difference in a very close game. The Chargers could not have been worse to watch than the Steelers, who trotted out a noodle-armed middle-aged (alleged) rapist and tried to make it seem like a Lifetime Achievement Award when he could no longer play.

> Noob QBs will be killed

Especially now that we're back to pre-pandemic crowds and real noise in stadiums.

> The officiating is still trash

Too many instances to count. May your loved ones hold you with much more care and intent, when you are dying and possibly infectious, than what Jason Kelce was called for during one of the few should have been good moments for the Eagles.

> When the game goes bad, it goes really bad

Between what happened to New England and Pittsburgh, I barely feel bad for being an Eagles fan. For people who remember the Super Bowl in the '80s and '90s, it's a throwback, and like most throwbacks... should be thrown back.

> Dallas is too dumb to have good players

I just feel bad for people like CeeDee Lamb and Micah Parsons, who work for an organization that can't keep the big TV out of play, can't build the stadium to not stare directly into the sun, and keep the special teams unit on the field after a successful fake punt in the hopes that the other team will panic and call a timeout. Resulting in a delay of game on, well, them. Rake-stepping stupid.

Oh, and we're not even talking about calling a QB draw in the middle of the field with no timeouts at the end of the game. That made me laugh harder than anything likely ever will.

> I will root for the AFC Team in the Super Bowl

Aaron Rodgers is on Team Virus, Tom Brady is Satan's Favorite Player, Jimmy G is a game manager who nearly gave away the game, and Matthew Stafford probably has way too much Lion Stank on him to win a second playoff game.

Meanwhile in the AFC, you get Fun Video Game guys like Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen, or feel-good comeback stories like Ryan Tannehill and Joe Burrows. Not to mention less obnoxious fan bases, because they aren't in big media markets.

> The NFC Team will win the Super Bowl

See previous entry...