SenatorJones

It will be exciting to see him and the Bengals play against the Saints in 2022.

No. Bountygate and grudges from the Goodell contingent will permanently keep Payton out. Unless he stays around a very VERY long time and becomes an absurdly all-time winning percentage coach.

(Before you downvote me, I'm not saying that I THINK he shouldn't be in because of Bountygate - just that we've all seen how the antangonism between Payton and the NFL, has worked out over the years. Needless to say, they don't get along.)

Cowher and Jimmy Johnson are not really valid comparisons asHOF coaches. They both got in for their TV work. One from each network, the same day, inducted live on TV on their shows. Don't kid yourself that it was based on their coaching records alone. This was a bone to the networks.

Doesn't somebody always mention the black helmets in these conversations? Nobody's mentioned the black helmets in quite a while, so I will.

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And the state. 870am is a flamethrower, people all over the southeast US listening to that fool think we're all like that.

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I actually think it's a formula, and the executives at WWL deliberately pick people for their sports airstaff who sound like bumpkins and trash, to project that image that we are all like that. They seem to be deliberately dumbing down the broadcasts, to the lowest common denominator. It's depressing for those few people who like a bit of intelligent commentary. Bobby in particular, never tells me anything that I don't know already, except for when he reads the day's stats, immediately after the game before I've read them. Everything else he contributes is pretty useless.

He hurt his finger swiping on one of those blue Microsoft tablets last night -- season ending injury, happens all the time.

I guess it wound up not really mattering, but in terms of changing the momentum and flow of the game, it was huge, it gave the 49ers a lift, and I didn't like it at the time. Seemed desperate. The rest of the day felt panicked and jittery, even when we were ahead for a while. I know Payton is big into analytics, but I didn't understand it at all.

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Could you get over his wardrobe.

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HARD NO

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Even if you gave the refs the benefit of the doubt for most of the game, and I’m not sure how one doesn’t see bias after Kamara got road out of bounds just before the end of the game.

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I nearly lost it when that happened. Kamara was OFF the white paint and PAST the orange number doohickeys, in the green part of the sidelines....the Panthers guy was still riding him down. That's ridiculous.

Realistically yes anybody can win in the playoffs any given day and all that, BUT:

Watching them play the same exact team as us, one week later, our game was over by the 3rd quarter and their game against the Cards was dangerously close -- the Niners could have imploded there at the end, or the Cardinals could have made one final surge, but they didn't.

The Niners made just enough plays to put the game away against the Cards, on really the last drive, whereas we were subbing our 2nd string QB for a big huge chunk of garbage time in the 4th quarter and we literally BROKE the Cardinals' will before the 4th quarter had even started. I think the Saints are a better team but put it this way -- the Niners/Saints game, I won't be TOO upset if the Saints lose that one, because we may end up facing them again, at the end of the year, and it's usually thought to be harder to beat a team the second time or twice in the same year.

We were mystified by that call. It just turned the whole 4th quarter into a joke and a big rowdy party. My take on it was, sometimes you just reach a point in the game where you break the other team's back, and the rest of the game they just lay there crumpled on the turf....their will was broken at that point. It ended the game sooner but if they'd punted there, the game would have been a game for a couple more series. But not by much.

It's the grass. Remember the Bears themselves missed a fairly easy kick to win the game in the Wild Card round last year.