Overreactions & Reality Checks for PML
Arod
The NFC west is wide open as it’s ever been
Reality or Overreaction: Reality
Don’t look now but your Season 2 Super Bowl champs are sitting in 3rd place and losers of 2 straight. With back to back loses to the (at the time lifeless) Falcons and the contending Bears, the Rams don’t look like a sure thing anymore to take their 4th division title. Based on the rest of the season schedule, you would have to think the Seahawks have the inside track to take the NFC west with their remaining schedule playing at a .377 win percentage. Is it possible two, or maybe even three teams make the playoffs? Sure, I could buy into that. But the erratic 49ers need to cut the turnovers down because they will not win a game again throwing 6 interceptions as they did in their week 8 victory over Arizona. My final prediction
Seahawks: 13-4 (Win division)
Rams: 11-6 (Wildcard)
49ers: 8-9 (Miss playoffs)
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The Super Bowl pool has been trimmed to 4 users (Opinionated)
Reality or Overreaction: Reality
Call it a hot take, but I’ve narrowed down my Super Bowl pool to 4 teams. First I will start with the AFC. Book it now, they will be represented by either the Raiders or Ravens. Both users are insanely locked in this season and look at times unstoppable. The Raiders are an impressive 8-0, and it isn’t even close when you look at their 202 point differential this season. No other team in the league even comes within 100! They will contend with the Ravens for representing the AFC this season. I will go on the record and say that the Ravens are the hardest team to play against in the league. The team is so dangerous roster-wise and they can beat you in so many different ways. When it comes to the NFC, I’ve narrowed the field down to the Bears and Cowboys. A little tougher to pick, most notably omitting the Rams, Seahawks, and Giants, but these two teams look the part halfway through the season. The Cowboys, sitting at 7-1 (should be 8-0) are getting it done similarly to the Raiders by ground and pound and playing mighty out defense. Both users have taken a similar approach in limiting the passing and scheming the offense on the ground. The Bears have had success over some of the NFCs top dogs including the Packers, Rams, Bucs, and the defending Super Bowl champion Giants. The common denominator between the 4 teams- they all rank in the top 5 in points allowed. Just to have a little fun here… My final prediction for the Super Bowl. Bears over the Raiders.
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GREENY
QB running has taken over the cycle
Reality or Overreaction: Reality
Anyone that’s been here a cycle or two if not more has probably seen the shift that’s happen. It was definitely not a pml thing to have your qb run 6-10 times a game consistently but it’s here this cycle. The nfl has evolved a bit with this and so have we. Some reasons are better athletes at qb but also Some of the qb runs are a bit op. Specifically on designated runs qbs seem to have better carry ratings then rbs. 7 qbs are averaging 6.5+ carries per game and the top three have over 180 carries combined and 14 touchdowns yet only two fumbles. Some will call it cheese, some will call it gameplanning, others will tell you to man up and stop it. With the risk reward on these runs, it’s safe to say qb runs will be around for a while no matter what you call them.
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The Texans are frauds
Reality or Overreaction: Reality
The man has accused PML of colluding against him getting Kyler Murray…then when his a** finally gets Kyler Murray he is leading the league in INTs. Main man drama man got smacked in the fast by adversity and absolutely ran from it. We have not seen this man in chat at all.
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Matigy
Dk and the rams are washed
Reality or Overreaction: Reality
At .500 thru 8 games played and multiple upset Ls some people seem shocked to see some of these games they are losing but in reality it’s not that shocking. 20 INTS thru 8 games imo shows DK is not locked in as much as he needs to be for this pass heavy scheme he runs. And defensively they are different too. Last year they were the #1 defense basically unanimously but so far have been a middle of the pack D. Last szn they were blessed with a ton of INTS avg 2.7 a game along with 9 FFs but so far this year they have forced 11 INTs and 0 FFs thru 8 games. They have not been as fortunate and are in a down year. And overall they just don’t have the same talent that made that 6-1 defense so dominant since the loss of Bobby Wagner who really hid a lot of flaws in that run D
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PML Parity is real
Reality or Overreaction: Reality
Its season 4 and teams are as complete as ever, and the excuses are done with and so far we have seen quite a few upsets. A lot of the teams that have found themselves in the bottom half of the standings have built really nice teams which has helped them be able to start being more consistent. So far teams 9 thru 22 in the standings are a game within .500 and there’s 6 teams with 2 wins or less and 5 teams with 2 losses or less. 3 former playoff teams are 3-5 which will be interesting to see how their szns turn out. Overall I think most people have figured out how this madden works and have teams with guys they want so might be one of the more fun szns.
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spdot
Bears have a top 5 M Factor home field advantage
Reality or Overreaction: Reality
The home field advantage for the Bears is that the away team’s kicking meter moves faster on the accuracy part. Ironic since Cody Parkey missed that kick at home. It caused the Rams to miss 2 field goals this week, as well as the game tying field goal in Chicago last year. Most home field advantages I feel don’t do much, but something that has a direct impact on scoring plays is very nice to have.
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Ant has the craziest games in the league
Reality
I don’t know if ant plays the game on arcade mode but all of his games are crazy it feels like, especially when he plays Dlloyd. He has played 8 games and only one has been a blowout. He has the most yards allowed but puts up a lot on his side as well. The receivers he has are primed to make big plays, and with the way the games go he could be a dangerous coach late in the season and potentially even in the playoffs.
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TBruh
The Rams are fine
Overreaction
Dk, just like everybody at some point in the cycle gets fatigued with the game and even though they might load up and do the same stuff , the execution is as poor as ever. He’s going through a slump where he’s losing to teams he’s not supposed to along with the fact that he has 3 losses less than halfway through the season which is a first. He’s lucky that the Seahawks started slow and the Niners have slowed down as well so there’s still a shot at the division. When that fatigue hits it last for about half if not the entire season so we’ll see if he can string some games together to stay in the hunt. Note that last cycle Dk left because of work but it could’ve been partly because he had a bit of fatigue. Dk is one of the top players in the league so it’s not possible but let’s just say i’ve caught the fatigue in a bad way myself.
Neither of the Super Bowl participants will reach the championship game this year
Reality
I know this is a hot take but this is what happens when you’re playing madden in May. Cook and mike are 2 of the best coaches we have in this league and have both had major success this season but they both have experienced a serious hangover to the point where I could go out on a limb and say one of them miss the playoffs, with me leaning towards Mike missing at the moment. Cook fell behind 0-3 so jefre has pretty much ran away with the division and on the other side Jc could choke but i believe in him taking the crown this season. The cycle won’t be any sort of failure if they don’t make the super bowl again but missing the playoffs is another..
