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2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 15
Welcome to the 2025 NFL Season Weekly Discussion Thread! 🏈
Share your thoughts on Week 15 — wins, losses, fantasy fumbles, predictions, or anything else football-related.
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That was the best game I've seen from Nix so far. He showed flashes all year, but has looked much better since the KC game. Now it feels like this team could actually be dangerous, and is not some fraudulent playoff contender that gets smoked in the first or second round. Apologies to Packers fans out there for the loss of two great players.
The rest of the day was solid yet again. Old Man Rivers came back from the dead and gave every middle aged fat guy a new lease on life, which was important to me as a middle aged guy who is getting increasingly fat. The Chargers beat the Chiefs, which makes the Mahomes-era Chiefs 0-3 in games that I've rooted for them. The rest of the time they have about an 80% win rate, the fuckers. Commanders-Giants was very entertaining, and the Bills erased a 21-0 deficit on the road, in the snow. I love this time of year. Oh, and I definitely did NOT send a text at 1:36 EST that said Maye & the Pats were clearly the best team in the NFL.
For the first time in a long time, every game in the late window was entertaining. They should make the Cardinals and Raiders play at 1pm every week. Also, I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but I loved having every game in the late window start at the same time.
Agree on Nix. Just slinging. As a Pats fan, I'm wondering if maybe I'll get lucky and the Broncos will somehow crumble. Feels unlikely this year, though. When Nix plants and slings? Wow.
Yeah, it looks like Denver will keep the tiebreaker against the Pats if they both go 14-3, but Denver still has three tough games ahead of them. The Jags are peaking at the right time and have destroyed the rest of the AFC West, the Chargers are a tough matchup, and I doubt the Chiefs will roll over at home on a Thursday night Christmas game. Maybe this is the ghost of 2008 talking, but I'm still more worried about them winning the division than the #1 seed.
Oddly enough, it looks like the Jags have the second best odds to win the top seed. I'm not sure how that works. I guess people think the Ravens have a good shot next week, or that the Dolphins will pull off one of their classic spoiler games.
I feel this way about the Patriots! When they were tied, I thought the Broncos were close, but that the Pats would land the #1 seed without too much trouble. Now, I think we'll probably end up #2. Buuuuut, the ghost of the last two years has me thinking we'll crumble and lose the next three.
Sometimes we just have to name our fears!
Sad panthers fan noises
This was a really weird game. People are nitpicking everything that the coaches did (kinda rightfully so) but nobody seems to want to admit that their coaches just schemed up the game better than us. We have the talent, they had the scheme and the scheme won in the end.
I hate that we got swept by the Saints, but it's done now. Now we have to beat the Bucs twice and I don't know if we can do that. It's been a hell of a season anyways, so lets go see how we can finish strong!
Patriots lose!
Yeah, we played well for the first 21 points. But then things fell apart. I didn't really think the officiating was all that bad. When I ventured into the subreddit a day later, hoo-boy, everyone was upset. But yeah, we should've prevailed of our own accord, ya know? We have the tie breaker against the Bills still, I think. And overall, losing a game might not be the worst thing in the world. Help the team remain composed and hungry. I'm still really hopeful about the prospects.
Chiefs losing Mahomes, Green Bay losing Parsons. The football gods are cruel. I think it will be very interesting to see if Mahomes can follow the Brady 2009 model or not. I feel like I saw Mahomes start to lose his accuracy a bit this year, but maybe I'm friggin wrong and biased. It will be interesting to see if he can recover and lead in the future.
Similarly, it's time for Tua to retire. He just doesn't have it anymore. Seeing him try to run outside of the pocket is a) terrifying b) depressing. He's been so incredibly conditioned to not take a big hit any more that he is finally protecting himself. But it somehow now means he has to play conservative and can't go for it. Pair that with his inaccuracy and it's just rough. Aikman was very rough on him last night.