1982 NFL season - expectations as well as retrospect

[CSKreager]

Nice! Maybe you should do the week-by-week, 7Dn! However, I'd pick quite a few differently, but what do I know? It'd still be cool seeing yours and others'.

I would not mind.

The others I would have went the other way on? I'm thinking the Killer B's actually get the best of Dickey at Lambeau, but it would have been a close game. Shula & Co would have that extra day to prepare as well.

Well, the Pack did have a weak defense, but is Miami going to play on offense the way they did in Week 1 against the Jets? Also, Arnsparger is a defensive genius, but the Dolphins didn't have a great secondary.

Rams by two TDs at the Vet?? They'd be winners again the next year, but a second-straight bad season here. And though I see the Eagles losing a bunch of close games in a full '82 as well (picking up where they left off in '81, can Vermeil fight on through the burnout for an entire season? I'm sure he'd make it to the end) they keep things optimistic for at least another week in what would actually be they winning by two TDs here instead. Sid was back again helping Jaws and the offense.

I don't know. I think that Vermeil will fall apart during the season. He is probably a ticking time bomb. Also, Bert Jones and the Rams can get it going that week.

That depends on how much does LA's 17 point blown lead and then getting dominated by DET carry over to the Vet?

[74_75_78_79_]

I was 11 in 1982. I am a Packers fan and it always made me mad when I was younger that the Packers' lone playoff season of the 80s has been discounted as a strike fluke of sorts.

I get it now that I'm older, but of the Packers teams from 1981-85 that largely went 8-8, I think the 1982 team was still the best.

The 1981 team had a fifth-place schedule and an offense that hadn't quite hit overdrive.
The 1983 team had an offense that was awesome at times, but the defense was atrocious.
The 1984 team had a much-better defense, but age was catching up to Lynn Dickey and the team started terrible and finished strong.
The 1985 team was a repeat of 1984, but with serious QB issues as Dickey benched himself at one point replaced with dreck like an old Jim Zorn and second-year Randy Wright.

The 1982 team had peak James Lofton, good Lynn Dickey, still solid (if declining) John Jefferson, underrated Paul Coffman and a solid running back combo in Eddie Lee Ivery and (also underrated) Gerry Ellis, a good two-way threat.

The defense ranked 11th in the NFL - yes, taken with a grain of salt given the sample size - with a solid linebacking corps and a secondary that hadn't melted down yet like it would in '83 (perhaps in direct correlation to whether Maurice Harvey was playing or not). Ezra Johnson was still a pass-rushing threat and they got a one-year wonder season out of Casey Merrill.

They also had X-factor Gary Lewis, kick blocker extraordinaire.

The 1982 Packers were much like their early 80s counterparts. Won some games they shouldn't have, lost (or tied against a putrid Colts team) some they shouldn't have. Then again, it was a totally bizarre schedule. Packers only played one regular season game at Lambeau and three in Milwaukee. There were also three road games to finish.

The games they didn't play were:
Miami - probably a loss. Miami's defense would have given them trouble home or away.
Philly at Milwaukee - Maybe a win. That was when Philly declined, but in the normal run of the schedule, maybe the Eagles pull themselves out?
Chicago home and away - Probably a split, but that game was unpredictable at the time. Plenty of weird results at both places until the Bears finally began a run of season sweeps in 1985.
Tampa Bay home and away - Another split. Bucs were still decent.
at Minnesota - Probably a loss.

Those results would have put the Packers at 8-7-1. No idea where that would put the Packers against the rest of the division. Someone probably sneaks the NFC Central at 9-7. Season for Green Bay might have hinged on whether it could sweep the Bears (decent chance) or the Bucs (not as much). Then again, pro-football-reference rates the Packers better via their SRS rating than all but the Dolphins of the teams they didn't play.

Maybe it's best they did have their 5-3-1, a resounding playoff home win, and a relatively honorable loss to the Cowboys.

My take on the '82 Packers being treated as a true playoff team, Starr's best as a HC, is right here within this old introductory post of mine...(a much-belated apology for not initially thanking you for the compliment on it, Babcock)...

https://profootballresearchers.com/foru ... 9f0df8937a

Starr only making the playoffs as a HC during the '82 campaign (as also the case with the very HC he beat in that 1st Rd playoff, 41-16) is not a good look. But I treat them as a playoff team just the same just as I do the '82 Cards though at a lesser level. Tightening that attitude was, indeed, the Pack squashing that Hanifan team and then giving the Cowboys a good game at Big D.

Looking at their original '82 schedule, I actually got them finishing 11-5 (that could possibly change a tad if I actually ever do an "every game/every week" thing based on the 'groove'/momentum of the entire exercise thus possibly altering things)! I got GB losing in Wk#3 to Miami (as myself, and you TMT, have already opined) but I think the Packers split with everyone in the division except for Chicago who, IMO, I think they sweep. They start 5-1, fall to 7-5 after another loss at Shea to the Jets, but then win-out. Yes, they got swept by Detroit IRL (and that first game, a rout/a Silver Rush Masterpiece - and at Lambeau, mind you) , but that second loss was in the finale. Yes, Pack still did have something to play for, an even-better playoff seeding, but the Lions obviously needed it so much more; in a normal 16-game season as originally scheduled, a split takes place between both IMO.

And, no, I'm not going to get 'cute' and say they still TIE at Baltimore, lol! No, the simple "as-normal" scenario here butterflies that away.

But your possible 8-7-1 take, TMT, may be the case. Again, sweeping the Bears (and not tying against the Colts) would be key. Sure-enough that division race would have been real tough as the surrounding seasons. There was no 'battle of the Bays' at all in '82. I think TB would have been the key obstacle in the Pack winning that division. But Minny is likely right in the thick of it as well into December. Maybe Detroit too, but (I could be wrong) something tells me they have a slight set-back. Looking at their original schedule I, sadly, have them finish...7-9 (be a shame if that would have gotten Clark fired being no playoffs at all). And with a little more respectability, perhaps the Bears in Ditka's HC debut may have still been in range or at least play plenty of spoiler to make the entire NFC Central even more a logjam!

Looking at the Bucs' original slate, I got them finishing at 10-6. Because they likely would need that finale, they yet again sweep the Lions in '82. They split with everyone else (hey, Ditka needs at least one "sign of the future" upset win) along with winning both their MNF games against San Fran and (as they did IRL) Miami! Give me a minute while I - may as well - do the Vikings & Bears to round things out...

NFC Central
Green Bay 11-5
Tampa Bay 10-6
Detroit 7-9
Minnesota 6-10
Chicago 6-10

Ouch! I thought I'd have Minny finishing, maybe, 9-7. No, it's both they and Chi finish at 6-10 as well as splitting with each other. Vikings 4-4 in their division with their two other wins against Saints & Colts. What do I know? Maybe I'm being too harsh on them, but who else should I have them beat outside their division with me already thinking Dallas beats them in Wk#3? Not the Dolphins or Jets. Maybe flip my thinking that they lose at Candlestick in Wk#9? Or actually upset Mia or NYJ (or, simply, sweep Chicago; or - as you, 7Dn, opine - beat Dallas as they actually did)?

Bears split with everyone in their division except for GB. They also split with...the Cards (remember, they should have played each other twice due to both finishing 5th-place the year before; it would have been the first double between the two in 30 years). I have them beating the Pats as they did IRL Respectability-wise, still picking up where Armstrong left off whilst - more importantly - showing hints of winning to come in a full season as they did in that 9-game sample-size, I think.

Maybe I am too harsh (and, again, perhaps this changes with me doing "every game"/"every week" all the way to the end), but here IS the thing - IRL, both Minny & Chi, according to the small sample-size offered, were the only two teams in the division to finish minus in PD along with also being a negative in Y/P. Detroit also were a negative in yardage but at least finished a positive PD. Both Bays? Despite TB finishing with the #13 offense and #3 defense to Green Bay's respective #12 & #8, and finishing a positive in Y/P, the Bucs IRL '82 were a minus-20 in PD! That 32-17 loss at Shea the obvious culprit.

As for the Packers...they were a positive all-across-the-board! But with that #3 defense, and having swept them the year before, that final John McKay winner would have sure given the Pack a serious dogfight to the finish!

Yes, the '82 Packers, to me, are the strongest 'dark ages' GB installment other than, of course, 1972. Better than any other Starr HC'd team, better than that 'Majik' wonder seven years later. And, IMO, also better than any of Holmgren/Favre's first three teams who each finished at 9-7.

And I also think that, despite not making it to the CCG or winning a playoff game, the '82 Bucs were McKay's best squad thus the franchise's best until Dungy.

[Citizen]

The Packers had their chances to sneak by Dallas. Stenerud missed a PAT that would have made it 23-20 Dallas early in the 4th quarter, and they ended up chasing that point the rest of the game. In the 3rd, Green Bay had also reached the Dallas 15 and 16, but had to settle for field goals both times.

[CSKreager]

David Woodley would never have made a SB with the 16 game schedule.

82 Miami was basically a defense without an offense and that was with 7 games wiped out.

Miami needing back-to-back 5 INT games against more talented Charger/Jet teams says a lot About how they lived and died by the Killer B’s

[74_75_78_79_]

It'd be pretty cool to see what others have to say about it. Especially, with - what I have a feeling - may involve 7Den having my Steelers winning One For the Thumb vs Gibbs & Co in Super Bowl XVII!

But when I do partake in this passion-project, it'll be me simply going to What-If-Sports and having each Week #3 game through the end decide for me. Yes, upsets will take place, including playoff games (I will not play any game over again), but isn't that what happens in reality anyway? Whether its me, wrongly, predicting that my Steelers don't win some games they would have won or not advance in the playoffs to teams that, maybe, I shouldn't feel that way about (not wanting to be accused of being biased) or actually predicting, say, Steelers beating Jets at Shea (because NYJ still didn't beat them yet) or even they...beating Washington in SBXVII, I'm simply going to let the stats dictate my suspense for me.


No, I'm not going to do a week-by-week, posting each one. It'll simply be me doing the whole season and playoffs/SBXVII, and just post a season/playoffs summary afterwards.

Okay, just ONE week, via What-If-Sports, then nothing at all until the end of the season...

Thursday Night
KANSAS CITY 13 (2-1) vs Atlanta 7 (1-2)

Sunday
Buffalo 33 (3-0) at HOUSTON 7 (0-3)
Dallas 27 (2-1) at MINNESOTA 17 (1-2)
LA Rams 17 (1-2) at PHILADELPHIA 13 (1-2)
GREEN BAY 24 (3-0) vs Miami 16 (2-1)
PITTSBURGH 24 (3-0) vs NY Giants 10 (0-3)
NY Jets 15 (2-1) at BALTIMORE 0 (0-3)
WASHINGTON (3-0) 21 vs St. Louis 13 (1-2)
Tampa Bay 15 (1-2) vs DETROIT 9 (2-1)
NEW ORLEANS 21 (2-1) vs Denver 12 (1-2)
Seattle 24 (1-2) at NEW ENGLAND (1-2)
Chicago 30 (1-2) at SAN FRANCISCO 22 (0-3)
LA Raiders 27 (3-0) at SAN DIEGO (1-2)

Monday Night
Cincinnati 17 (2-1) at CLEVELAND 13 (1-2)

AFC
East: Buffalo (3-0), Miami (2-1), NY Jets (2-1), New England (1-2), Baltimore (0-3)
Central: Pittsburgh (3-0), Cincinnati (2-1), Cleveland (1-2), Houston (0-3)
West: LA Raiders (3-0), Kansas City (2-1), San Diego (1-2), Denver (1-2), Seattle (1-2)

NFC
East: Washington (3-0), Dallas (2-1), Philadelphia (1-2), St, Louis (1-2), NY Giants (0-3)
Central: Green Bay (3-0), Detroit (2-1). Tampa Bay (1-2), Chicago (1-2), Minnesota (1-2)
West: New Orleans (2-1), Atlanta (1-2), LA Rams (1-2), San Francisco (0-3)

NICE WORK, 7Den, with that Steelers pick! And the RAMS one as well (Vermeil in for an even BIGGER toughie, I guess)! You picked KC too. REAL good job all around!

Week #4...
Baltimore (0-3) at Detroit (2-1)
Cleveland (1-2) at Washington (3-0)
Houston (0-3) at NY Jets (2-1)
Kansas City (2-1) at Seattle (1-2)
LA Rams (1-2) at St. Louis (1-2)
Miami (2-1) at Cincinnati (2-1)
Minnesota (1-2) at Chicago (1-2)
New England (1-2) at Buffalo (3-0)
New Orleans (2-1) at LA Raiders (3-0)
NY Giants (0-3) at Dallas (2-1)
Philadelphia (1-2) at Green Bay (3-0), in Milwaukee
Pittsburgh (3-0) at Denver (1-2)
San Diego (1-2) at Atlanta (1-2)

MNF
San Francisco (0-3) at Tampa Bay (1-2)

Interesting! By the way - and sorry that I didn't mention this earlier - thanks IVAN URENA! When searching for the Original 1982 NFL schedule (which, as I said, I had in '82 in 6th grade; my Dad gave it to me from a beer distributor), YOURS was, pretty much, the first that I saw! Schedule came out in April of that year yet Raiders are still labeled at 'Oakland'. Thanks-in-advance to anyone who can tell once it became "official", they being in the City of Angels, the upcoming campaign!

I guess that Bum's Saints against the Raiders will be Game of the Week! Or maybe the 'almost'-Freezer Bowl match of the previous year, ("By the time we got to") Wood-Strock at Riverfront!

And Forty Niners...they better NOT go 0-4!! Or WILL they?? Ouch!!

Chargers/Falcons can be neat!

All I know is that this isn't easy. Each week on What-If-Sports takes a while. Slow, but solid, site! It'll take a bit, but worth it in the end. I can't promise when it'll end. Just having fun with it. I'll try to get it done as soon as I can.

And even if the Steelers actually win it for the Thumb...it doesn't mean it would have happened anyway! But, man, did that '82 season have to be the way it turned out??

EDIT - My mistake, Houston was 1-1 before the strike. They beat Seattle in Wk#2. Apologies in-advance for any others.

Also, there is one thing that I DO NOT like about otherwise respected by myself What-If-Sports...some of these games (1982, mind you) apply...the two-point-conversion (successful or failed)! You'd think they'd only apply that '94-and-beyond. But no real biggie. In such a case, as long as it doesn't seem to make a difference between the winner and loser, I'll leave the final score exactly as is. Otherwise, I guess I'll do a replay in that case.

BIG example (already)...it's Week #5, 1-3 Falcons at 2-2 Rams. Yes, 7Den, Rams not only beat the Cards at Busch after beating the Eagles as you said, but they beat them 21-0! Pretty nice comeback, but if were only...'94-AND-BEYOND! Falcons were up, 35-17 going into the 4th Q. Rams came all the way back! With just over two minutes to go, Vince threw a 1-yard TD pass to MIke Barber and then Guman made a 2-pt conversion! But Atl won it in OT anyway so I applied the final, 38-35, score as it was.

I know, I'm breaking what I initially said in that I wouldn't say anything until the very end. It's like a novelist not being able to HELP but to tell others what he or she has written so far. I feel like Dean Stockwell's character in 'Quantum Leap' telling Bakula in (mind you) a 1990 episode that he just (paraphrasing it) came back from 1996. He was watching the Super Bowl. The Steelers were down by just 3 late in the game and it was starting to get good. Excuse the...diarrhea, but Bills and Washington are still unbeaten at 5-0! Raiders just lost at home to Cleveland to drop to 4-1. Dallas, yes, lost against Wash and because the Giants upset them the week before, they are now - yes - 2-3!!

One more game in Week #5...Eagles at Steelers on ABC Monday Night Football! Philly, 2-2 btw, gave the Pack their first loss of the season last week at Milwaukee. And I'll tell you...I never was too optimistic about THIS game either! Birds reek of a team that may finish 7-9, losing a lot of close games, but still WIN some overachieving biggies (like they IRL at Dallas late that year; and may very well do again). Okay, time to 'click' this one...I'm worried (thinking of they losing to Vermeil & Co three years ago which dropped them to 4-1 as would be the case NOW as well).

I'm sorry, 7Den. You guys lost, 31-10, at Shea just now to drop you guys to 1-4. Not looking good. But...you guys got the 1-4 Oilers in Houston next week so maybe you start a run! Good luck! Maybe you'll be all right!

The Jets, however, despite losing to them (IRL), 45-28, on opening day, are now AHEAD of Miami for the Dolphins lost at home to Detroit earlier today in a battle-of-3-1s! Yes, Jets are 4-1! San Fran finally wins their first game at Bum's Saints! Yes, 1-4, but just ONE game behind everyone else who are ALL tied at 2-3! They host RAMS next week in a dandy!

Go Steelers tonight! Make it 5-0! I'm worried.

Okay, time for Pepto. Stop the diarrhea! Because sure-enough I'll jump straight to Week #6 right after this! It's almost like binging a great show that you can't help but to keep telling your friends and coworkers about though they haven't seen it yet!


Damn...despite Franco being named the game's 'MVP', Steelers lost in OT, 23-20 (worries confirmed, damn). Eagles are 3-2! Maybe this, UN-burns-out Vermeil for a bit as he and his Troops prepare for a visit by...DALLAS!

Steelers? Off to...RFK!! Yes, I'm scared of a coming losing streak now. And Gibbs & Co, at home, will have that extra day to prepare against that MNF OT-loser.

MNF? 5-0 BILLS at 4-1 JETS!!

Yes, on this here 18th anniversary of a certain Greatest TV Series of All-Time airing its Finale on 6/10/07, I feel as if I'm watching that very Series for the first time and can't stop watching the next episode! Yes, this What-If-Sports-assisted '82-Hypo has me - SO safe to say - BUCKLED-in (like I'm in 6th grade again)!! Come on, Steelers! BOUNCE back! Stop Riggo, Ham & Lambert!

[74_75_78_79_]

So here it is...

AFC
East: NY Jets (3) 11-5, Buffalo 9-7, New England 7-9, Miami 7-9, Baltimore 2-14
Central: Pittsburgh (2) 12-4, Cincinnati 9-7, Cleveland 6-10, Houston 5-11
West: LA Raiders (1) 13-3, San Diego (4) 11-5, Kansas City (5) 10-6, Denver 6-10, Seattle 5-11
NFC
East: Dallas (2) 13-3, Washington (4) 12-4, St. Louis 7-9, NY Giants 7-9, Philadelphia 5-11
Central: Green Bay (1) 14-2, Tampa Bay (5) 9-7, Chicago 8-8, Detroit 7-9, Minnesota 4-12
West: Atlanta (3) 9-7, LA Rams 7-9, San Francisco 5-11, New Orleans 4-12

Yes, I added all wins and losses of every team and it comes out equal. I did check it two times but if a mistake was made anyway, my apologies.

So for Wild Card Sunday, we got Tampa Bay at Washington in the NFC. If Washington wins, they're off to Green Bay as Dallas hosts Atlanta. If Bucs pull the upset, then they're off to Dallas with Falcons going to Lambeau instead. In the AFC, we got Levy's Chiefs in the playoffs! They travel to Jack Murphy for a rubber-band match! Yes, Chargers won the rematch (at home) in Week #6, and by a final score of 19-13 as opposed to KC's IRL Wk#2 win of 19-12. The winner of this match plays at Pittsburgh the following week with Jets at Raiders already locked up!

Buffalo, sadly, fell from 6-0 (beating NYJ on MNF) all the way down to no post-season at all. Their final game, MNF at Miami, was a must-win. They were in control of their own destiny. A win would have given them the tie-breaker over KC who they beat in the real-time opener. But the Dolphins played spoiler. And what a disappointment the IRL AFC champ was in this full-season scenario. They actually rallied to 7-9 after sinking as low as 3-7!

In the NFC, Tampa Bay was at 8-7 going into their finale vs Detroit with the Lions themselves at 7-8 along with NYG, Chicago, and the Rams! Imagine if all five of those teams finish 8-8! Combing over each of them to see who'd get the tie-breaker for the last Wild Card spot may have been mind-numbing! I felt sad for Detroit little by little fading as the season wore on. They started 4-1. But if Tampa Bay winning (and/or NYG/Chi/Rams all losing) meant saving the headaches, then so be it.

BTW, the Cardinals swept NYG and as for NE/Mia? Both were 5-3 in their division, both were .500 in-conference (NE 7-7, Mia 6-6). Because the Pats beat the Dolphins by more than the Dolphins beat them in their split, I placed NE over them. But, perhaps, that may have not even been the next tie-breaker to go to. But considering no playoff-implications in this scenario, I thought I leave it. No snowplow, I guess, for Wk#14 at Foxborough! Miami won that one, 30-23 (NE over Mia at the Orange Bowl, 23-13, in Wk#6)!

Getting this done as fast as I did, as I already said, was like not being able to stop binging a TV series. Some teams it was like you were waiting for them to finally lose yet they kept on winning and winning! Raiders (they still swept SD) and Green Bay were the best examples having both started at 10-1! IRL '82 marked the tenth anniversary of Mia/Wash in SBVII and look who squared off in SBXVII. Well could this very scenario be these two playing on the 15th anniversary of SBII??

Green Bay would lose at Shea in Wk#12 as they did in the '81 finale while it took the Raiders until Wk#14 at 7-6 Chiefs to lose their second game. But they still didn't have top-seed wrapped up going into the finale. The 12-3 Steelers winning their finale at home vs NE coupled with a Raiders' loss at home to Denver, and the 'Burgh gets home-field due to better conference record at 11-1 to 9-3. But not to be, Both AFC top-dogs lost.

Steelers ended up finishing 6-0 in their division which meant, yes, they swept Cincy! But after that very Wk#7 win at Riverfront, which brought them back ahead, it seemed from there that the Bengals and the rest of the division kept their distance from the 'Burgh. Cincy just wasn't who I thought they'd be though rallying some-what in the end to 9-7. They allowed Cleveland to get ahead of them for a bit (Browns 6-5 going into Thanksgiving at Dallas before losing the rest of their games). Speaking of Thanksgiving...yes, the Giants still won at Pontiac, but no to LT scoring a TD!

Just like that, after losing to Philly and then at Redskins to drop them to 4-2, the Steelers got right back up and were 7-2 and three games ahead of everyone! But the rallying Jets (who started out 4-4, three games behind Buffalo) sure knocked them down a peg at Three Rivers, 23-6, in Wk#10! Bradshaw had a real bad game. But the Steelers bounced back yet again and wouldn't lose again until the aforementioned finale. They'd end up passing Buffalo in the second half of the season but were always in the Raiders' shadow for the entirety.

Dallas? They started 2-3. First they lose to the 0-3 Giants at home and then, the following week, to the unbeaten Redskins also at home. They then won their last eleven games!! It was kind of weird in that Washington started 6-0, those last two wins being the one at Dallas and then the following week against Pittsburgh, but then they lose back-to-back to...the 1-5 Oilers on the road, and then at home to 1-6 San Fran who, yes indeed, did mightily struggle in this scenario. That set the table for Big D to eventually surpass them. They caught up to them on Wk#11, and then two weeks later in a battle of 9-3s, they win 44-24 at RFK and never looked back!

Green Bay? They winning their division? Yes! But...14-2?? All-alone best record in the entire league?? This obviously is an inflation! They have yet to play Dallas or Washington. They DID lose at Shea to the Jets for that second loss of the year. This leaves them with zero wins against double-digit-win teams. Bills, Falcons, and twice over Tampa Bay (all 9-7 finishers) are their best wins so far. Let's see how they do from here.

Yes, there were those who you kept waiting for them to finally turn-it-on but week-after-week it simply never came to fruition. I already mentioned Miami, but you got the Saints, Vikings (4-12, yeah really weird), and last but definitely not least...the defending-World Champs themselves!

Bill Walsh IRL was insecure over an understandable ("understandable", considering the weirdness of any abbreviated strike-shortened season) 3-6 finish. Just imagine how he would feel after a FULL no-strike nothing-'weird' season of losing? I'm sure his coaching friends would have talked him out of quitting just the same.

Dick Vermeil obviously suffers greater burnout in this 5-11 scenario. Didn't look bad at first, handing Green Bay in Milwaukee their first loss of the season followed by doing the same to the Steelers, also on the road, on MNF. They were now 3-2 but, sadly, it was the best it'd get.

What a weak division the NFC West was! The 2-7 IRL Rams kept it respectable in this scenario. They were right there with Atlanta for a bit with NO & SF, sadly, out of the picture fast enough and never in the convo again.

Sure-enough you replay this many more times, most of these losers wouldn't be as bad, or maybe not bad at all, in most of those replays. But doing this just once, and with no replay of any game, was the way I planned to do it. Yes, quite a project. Not an easy-breezy one.

But I think it can be done even better. It's just a matter of who'd actually put such serious TIME and SWEAT into it! What I mean is I strictly played all the games. When if I would have saved each game along with keeping track of all the stats? And I mean ALL of the stats! All the team defense and team offense ones, special teams, all the individual player stats (Marcus Allen, anyone), I mean all of it. Again, who would be able to do all that?

Whoever would, then that person is atop of Everest while I'm at the bottom of Death Valley, lol. But it was fun. Looking forward to the playoffs (though, quite frankly, I'm feeling SD-eliminating-the-'Burgh as IRL). Something tells me that Dallas will win-it-all (beat Wash in the NFCCG) with the Jets/Raiders-winner representing the AFC. But we'll see. Anyway, I'll play the playoffs soon enough and then post the results.

PS - if you'd like for me to post all 16 weeks of final scores, and standings after each week, just holler.

[7DnBrnc53]

Something tells me that Dallas will win-it-all (beat Wash in the NFCCG) with the Jets/Raiders-winner representing the AFC. But we'll see. Anyway, I'll play the playoffs soon enough and then post the results.

I like Dallas over Jets then. I still think the Raiders are a year away.

If Landry gets that third ring, maybe he walks away in a few years. If he does, the trajectory of the franchise changes. Bum Bright doesn't have to sell the team to Jerry Jones so he can fire Landry, and maybe it is in a better place today.

[ChrisBabcock]

Very interesting! It looks like you replayed the whole season rather than just the missing games. Which explains why the Packers have less losses in this scenario than in real life. 14-2??? Wow!

[74_75_78_79_]

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[7DnBrnc53]

Here's something I just figured out: Since NO was 4-12 along with Minnesota, GB would have had the #2 or #3 pick in this draft (depending on who won the strength of schedule tie-breaker). They had NO's pick because they traded DL Bruce Clark to NO in 1982.