A chaotic week....

Baltimore is basically done. Yeah they have a small prayer but let's face it....it's over. I liked seeing the announcers point out what I've been saying for two years now...the Ravens don't know how to properly use Henry.

After their final touchdown....scored by Henry...he never enters the game again.

Honestly...they deserve to lose.

Henry needs to go somewhere else and the Ravens need to consider moving on from both Harbaugh and Lamar.

Patriots clinch a playoff spot .. although that's no surprise. We knew they were getting in...just didn't know which position.

Jags slaughtered the Broncos...in Denver. That was huge. Patriots still have a shot at the #1 seed. So do the Jags.

Texans barely beat a garbage Raiders team. Not a very good sign headed into the playoffs.

Pittsburgh hanging by a thread. The final plays of that game and the refs were terrible. Something needs to be done about the refs. It almost felt rigged.

Bills barely beat the Browns.

Chargers whipped a now neutered Cowboys.

Colts have to win tonight just for a prayer.

Chiefs are down to their 3rd string QB.

AFC is wide open. It almost makes you feel sorry for a few of the teams who had a chance but are now out of contention.

A lot of action in the NFC yesterday...mainly thanks to the Lions loss and the Packers loss as well.

5 playoff slots now locked up....

Seahawks
Bears
Eagles
Rams
49ers

They're just fighting for position.

Bears need home field advantage.

Panthers beat the Bucs.... putting the Panthers in the driver's seat for that weak division.

The final wild card slot is going to either the Packers, Lions, or whoever loses the South (Bucs or Panthers).

Everyone else is out.

Would you have thought in a million years that the Redskins would not only miss the playoffs but would be getting a high draft pick?

Damn...I hope my Pink Floyd fandom never reaches that point. I listen to them a lot. Makes me wonder if I should take a break.

Waters talents mainly reside in composing all those songs/albums using his natural instincts when it came to those albums.

The more ego entered the equation, everything else starts going into decline.

You're right about Pink Floyd being more about the whole than individual members. Together it's perfect....once it starts veering into solo projects, there's something missing from all of them.

Couple times this year I've listened to Radio Kaos. It's a very average album....I do really like Radio Waves....

While listening, you instantly think about how much this could've been improved had it been a Pink Floyd project instead.

What pulls you into Axl/GNR and why you hold them in such high regard even though it's probably not warranted is likely the same reason I do....

All the hope/promise and wasted potential of 21st century GNR.

In the early chapters of the saga, the band members were referring to the songs as earth shattering epics. When I think earth shattering epics...I think Pink Floyd.

Various people who heard the material described it as The Wall mixed by Trent Reznor.

Who wouldn't pine for such songs?

As we now painfully know, each peak behind the curtain in the form of leaks show that such songs were not coming....the earth shattering epics mixed by Reznor would always be a mirage faintly hanging on in the distance.

To the hardcore fan who experienced the saga, there's always that hope that the next leak/song release will reveal that earth shattering epic we've all waited for.

For the majority left, they're all in on Seven being IT.

For me... it's Oklahoma.

In reality, we all know deep down what these songs will be....they'll have a quickly thrown together verse/chorus and it will repeat depending on how lengthy the music is.

How do we know this? It's the pattern for "the second half of Chinese" He abandoned the project before finishing it.

Even knowing that, there's always that hope for one final grand slam....

There's gotta be....right?!? I mean....he assembled a supergroup for fucks sake.

Huge letdown. Haven't listened to it in a coon's age.

We're lucky they bothered to release it. It's obviously unfinished.

Even if the rest are in a similar state of completion, hopefully we get some of those too.

20 years was long enough.

I don't have the songs....just listened a few times on YouTube.

I don't even have Atlas or Nothing!

Our generation got to experience the final chapter of the golden age (90s-mid 00s).

It's been in a tail spin ever since. Mitch brought up some of the main issues....

Neutering/sanitizing the game to the point it will be flag football within 10-15 years.

The Pro Bowl is already flag football!!!

College football players back in the day were penalized/banned if they got a single nickel from the college.

They now earn millions a year and everyone is ok with this.

I wish I could find the article from around 20 years ago that was eerily accurate regarding how parity would destroy the league. Not only predicted the continued massive success of Belichick-Brady but also predicted another team would instantly take over when their run was over.

That's exactly what happened!

We're about to witness it again now that the Chiefs run is ending. The only question is which team. It's probably time for Belichick to come back.

Another thing destroying the league is the constant promotion and obsession with betting. Back in the day, they couldn't even mention this shit.

Now the league sponsors it!

This is all leading to a massive scandal of rigged games. It's inevitable.

I just wish the Bears or Ravens could win one more Superbowl before the whole thing comes crashing down.