2026 NFL Postseason

[Mr.TaterSalad]

**** this, the rich just get richer and the poor just get poorer. Being a Detroit Lions fan feels like signing up for a lifetime of emotional torture. I say that as someone who, like all of us here, still shows up every season hoping the season will go different and we'll finally make a Super Bowl.

What makes it even harder is watching how easy other fanbases seem to have it, especially in New England. While we all relive another Lions failed season, Patriots fans are casually talking about their next Super Bowl appearance like it is a normal part of life. They complain about minor setbacks that would feel like miracles here in Detroit. I would trade decades of misery for even one stretch of sustained success like they have had. For just one ****ing Super Bowl apperance. Forgetc winning, just get us all one shot in the big game.

And now here we are again, watching the Patriots cruise their way to another Super Bowl, seemingly handed the smoothest path imaginable. They had a historically easy regular season schedule and a cupcake playoff path. Everything falls their ****ing way and they get breaks we could only dream of as Lions fans. After a few short years of rebuilding they're right back in the Super Bowl. Just unreal to see how good some fanbases have it and how bad it gets for us sometimes. 

Edited 19 hours ago by Mr.TaterSalad

[Jason_R]

We’re on to hockey season. 

[sagnam]

1 hour ago, lordstanley said:

That was a bad game. Felt more like two 7-6 teams going at it in week 14, not a conference championship game. 

Two good teams beating the crap out of each other.

[lordstanley]

Two massive mistakes in the 3rd quarter. Rams returner stumbles and muffs a punt, Seahawks get the ball inside the 15, score a TD on the next play. A few series later, the Rams are down 11 and stopped at midfield for a 4th and 12 but a bonehead taunting penalty gives them a 1st down. Stafford throws a TD on next play. About to be 31-27. 

[Jason_R]

Riq Woolen just gets penalized for taunting on a play that would have required LA to punt but instead gave up an automatic first down. Then Stafford beat Woolen on a TD pass to Nacua. Life happens fast. 

[buddha]

take.  the.  points.

[Mr.TaterSalad]

McVay is a moron. A blown timeout and then a playcall to throw it INBOUNDS when you have 10 seconds left and no timeouts.

[Mr.TaterSalad]

26 minutes ago, buddha said:

take.  the.  points.

McVay pulled a Dan Campbell there. That was dumb not to take the FG there. 

[lordstanley]

3 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

**** this, the rich just get richer and the poor just get poorer. Being a Detroit Lions fan feels like signing up for a lifetime of emotional torture. I say that as someone who, like all of us here, still shows up every season hoping the season will go different and we'll finally make a Super Bowl.

What makes it even harder is watching how easy other fanbases seem to have it, especially in New England. 

I’m not a Lions fan by choice, I was born into it. Moved to Vancouver 33 years ago. Some seasons up to 10% of Seahawks season ticket holders are Canadian. A couple of guys with whom I went to high school and who settled out here - one in Vancovuer, one in Seattle - made the jump from the Lions to the Seahawks. I thought of it but couldn’t take the leap. Today the Seahawks made their 4th Super Bowl, having won one already and likely will be solid favorites in this one. 

[MichiganCardinal]

I’m not sure I will watch Seahawks/Patriots. I guess I want the Patriots to lose. But I don’t like either team and don’t want either team to win.

Blah.

[Jason_R]

27 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

I’m not sure I will watch Seahawks/Patriots. I guess I want the Patriots to lose. But I don’t like either team and don’t want either team to win.

Blah.

This Super Bowl is about as bad as it gets. 

[buddha]

i havent watched a super bowl since the lions lost to the niners in the nfc championship game.

my friend is a pats fan.  he's rich and has a nice house so i might go watch if he has a super bowl party.  but i couldnt care less.

[4hzglory]

1 hour ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

McVay pulled a Dan Campbell there. That was dumb not to take the FG there. 

I get why they went for it, but can see either way.  

I think he was dumb not to go for 2 on the last TD.  They don’t get it, you still need a touchdown to win, but if they got it, a FG would have tied it.

[Sports_Freak]

Time to give this guy some respect...<ducks>

 

[Sports_Freak]

9 hours ago, Jason_R said:

We’re on to hockey season. 

Players start reporting to spring training in 10 days/2 weeks.

[Mr.TaterSalad]

4 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Time to give this guy some respect...<ducks>

 

I mean, in his debut game in the league he blew out Matt Patricia and essentially exposed him as a fraud and a terrible coach right from game one. So he did us a Lions fans all a favor there.

[Sports_Freak]

9 hours ago, 4hzglory said:

I get why they went for it, but can see either way.  

I think he was dumb not to go for 2 on the last TD.  They don’t get it, you still need a touchdown to win, but if they got it, a FG would have tied it.

I agree. I was wondering the same thing. Make the 2 point conversion and they're within 3 points. Miss it and they're down 5 points. The same as being down 4 points after kicking an extra point, a TD is needed. McVay has been making strategy and time management mistakes for a few years. And the results prove that.

[Jason_R]

1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said:

I agree. I was wondering the same thing. Make the 2 point conversion and they're within 3 points. Miss it and they're down 5 points. The same as being down 4 points after kicking an extra point, a TD is needed. McVay has been making strategy and time management mistakes for a few years. And the results prove that.

Yeah they shoulda gone for two. 

Stepping back, I guess I’ll vote for the Pats to win. Vrabel was the coach I wanted for Detroit when they hired that lard Patricia and I’m reminded now that I was right. 

[Sports_Freak]

11 hours ago, MichiganCardinal said:

I’m not sure I will watch Seahawks/Patriots. I guess I want the Patriots to lose. But I don’t like either team and don’t want either team to win.

Blah.

And we have 2 full weeks of the media talking about nothing but "the big game." 😒😒

[RatkoVarda]

Neither of these teams is great. Mahomes is at home. Would have been a great year to get in the playoffs and see what happens. Oh well. Life is unfair; sports are unfair. Cannot abide another Pats title.