Burdened with Glorious Purpose: 2023 Buffalo Bills Preview and Tuesday Open Thread

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - August 22, 2023August 22, 2023

2022 PREDICTION: 9-8 2022 REALITY: 13-3! (No record for Cincy game, on account of Damar Hamlin temporarily dying) From last year's Preview: There is nothing more depressing to a Bills fan than an expectation of success. We can't cope with it, because of our near-religious faith in The Narrative. The Narrative has taught us

The 2023 Los Angeles Rams, Or the Aftermath of F Them Picks

Darkest Timeline Zack Morris - August 22, 2023August 22, 2023

As many of you know, I am not a fan of the Los Angeles Rams. As a franchise that left my city, burning bridges and goodwill on the way out, Stan Kroenke and his hairpiece, Kevin Demoff, Roger Goodell, and the rest of the liars and crooks that ignored the

MRSA MRSA MAAAAAN: 2023 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Season Preview (and Open Thread)

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - August 15, 2023August 15, 2023

2022 PREDICTION: Optimistic 2022 REALITY: Bad, but good enough for the NFC South title Coming off a 13-4 season and a close loss to the eventual champion Rams, Tampa had reason to feel good about their chances. Tom Brady returned from 40 days in the desert of spending time with his beautiful

2023 Cincinnati Bengals Preview: Quarantined from the Promised Land

Team Previews

Redshirt - August 15, 2023August 9, 2023

Then the Lord said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.” - Deuteronomy 34:4 I hear you

Can’t We Just Hit “Simulate Season”?: 2023 Carolina Panthers Season Preview

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - August 14, 2023August 14, 2023

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2022 PREDICTION: Bad 2022 REALITY: Worse (but not bad enough) The Carolina Panthers. They have been in the league for nearly 30 years, and yet they have never shaken that Expansion Franchise stink despite playing in two Super Bowls- which I attribute to their insistence on teal-adjacent colors. They exist solely to

Can I Get an Amen!?!: 2022 Buffalo Bills Preview and Tuesday Open Thread

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - September 6, 2022September 6, 2022

2021 PREDICTION: 13-4, AFC Champions 2021 REALITY: 11-6, Divisional Round loss in an instant classic It is dark times for the Buffalo Bills faithful. It's not just Eric from Lackawanna putting his injury settlement on the line picking them to go to the Super Bowl. It's everyone. The Bills are currently 7:2

Your “Oh, crap, did the season start already?” 2021 Chicago Bears Preview / Bye Week Update

DFOing Good

BrettFavresColonoscopy - November 17, 2021November 16, 2021

Scene: Interior Halas Hall. The entire Bears brain trust [sic] sits around a mahogany table talking about the current roster, coaching staff, and other personnel. SO HOW DO WE THINK THE TEAM IS LOOKING THIS YEAR? Better than my face? Look, I'll bet my job that we can be competitive, even while

They’ve Got Us Surrounded, The Poor B*stards: 2021 Buffalo Bills Preview and Tuesday Open Thread

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - September 7, 2021

[Author's Note: Yes, this is the Tuesday Evening Open Thread. Jack shit is going on tonight, and as of now the biggest NFL news is Tyrod Taylor being named the Texans starter. Given that Jack Easterby has replaced the Texans medical staff with three faith healers and a televangelist, I

The DFO EURO 2020 (IN 2021!) Preview: Croatia!

yeah right - May 27, 2021June 4, 2021

We're on the verge of the greatest international sports summer ever! We have: Copa América Euro 2020 CONCACAF Gold Cup Tokyo Olympic Games And it all starts on June 11, 2021 with the European Soccer (Football) championships aka Euro 2020! Yes, it is 2021 but they decided to keep the name, ok? From

The DFO Euro 2020 (In 2021!) Preview: Portugal

yeah right - May 19, 2021June 4, 2021

We're on the verge of the greatest international sports summer ever! We have: Copa América Euro 2020 Concacaf Gold Cup Tokyo Olympic Games And it all starts on June 11, 2021 with the European Soccer (Football) championships aka Euro 2020! Yes, it is 2021 but they decided to keep the name, ok? From now until the tourney

#DisBelieveland: 2020 Cleveland Browns Bye Week Update

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - November 5, 2020

Quick: without looking at their record, are the Cleveland Browns a good team or a bad team? Got an answer? You're wrong. Whichever way you answered, you're wrong. Cleveland is a Limited Heisenberg Uncertainty Team: at any given time, you can know where they are, but you can't know where they are going.

Progression not perfection – the 2020 Chicago Bears Preview

DFOing Good

Brocky - September 12, 2020September 12, 2020

The scene, a brightly lit room, the kind you might find at a medical facility, or that nice place your unreliable cousin got sent on that "vacation" last year Unidentified voice: Hello everyone, welcome to another session. Today I'd like to welcome a new assembly. Before we begin continuing last week,