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Kind of a weird question, but out of curiosity, are there any teams that looked like they could've gone on a miraculous run that you bought into, but that let you down in the end?

Me personally, I didn't expect them to win it all, but I kinda got that vibe out of Cincinnati in 2021.

Thanks Ken ... in a nutshell, any word on why Lester Hayes was dropped, or just different member, subjectivity? My guess is different makeup of the committee. They have not met in person yet, so it is tough to say unless the voters mention why they voted the way they did in the cutdown votes. Do so...

Looked up Ernie Adams, apparently he had a long career as an assistant and used a camera that monitored opponent sidelines as part of the footage they collected. It's possible that he was doing things like that in the early-90's when he was with Belichick in Cleveland. Art Modell said that he would...

As for the Pats, is it unfair to say that they would've been one of the better teams in the league for a long time, and maybe won a title or two if the league didn't favor them as consistently as they have? If the league didn't favor them, and would have wanted to find justice, they would have take...

In 2017, the Eagles came close to starting their own dynasty. They won that year (would have been changing of the guard), and if Jeffery doesn't drop that pass in NO in the 18 Div. Round, they may have won that game (they would have played the Rams, and they would have been one game away from havin...

One thing that seems to be missing in this conversation is that the Packers of the 60s, The Steelers of the 70s, The 49ers of the 1980s and the Cowboys of the 1990s all hit bottom before they started their dynasties. The Patriots were an exception unless you go all the way back to 1990. In that sen...

Out of curiosity, are the 2025 Cardinals looking like a quintessential "unlucky team", or a team that will lose a ton of close games and underperform its stats by record?

They just had their fifth straight loss by one possession.

Which of those team's success was more shocking? 49ers NE to that point had made 2 SB’s and 2001 was only a few years removed from their decent 1994-1999 run SF OTOH was basically bottom of the barrel at the end of the 70s and were further from their heyday of the early 70s I could see that. Moreov...

Millen started right away, so there is that. He was a bigger player, a run stuffer (he'd often get replaced on passing downs) and had all the leadership qualities Reynolds didn't start right away; he won the job in 1973, but part of that, not all, was Bob Stein getting dinged in camp. There were ye...

With Matt Millen actually a Canton nominee this year, I then revive this thread by asking why not Hack as well? I am a 'small Hall' kind of a guy like just about everyone in here is, as I was inspired to be by this very forum. Millen with just one Pro Bowl and Reynolds with an extra one over him. B...