PREDICTION FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON: Tom Brady comes back on an absolute tear. Demolishing the Browns by a score of 45-3 in his first week back. Meanwhile, the Jets upset the Steelers behind a 300yd 4TD performance from Ryan Fitzpatrick. On the NFC side, Detroit smashes Philadelphia with a score of 38-0. Back to Brady, he goes on a record-setting, absolute pounding for the rest of the season, winning the rest of the games and becoming 15-1. Brady has 7 500+yd games, and the Patriots don't win by less than 17. His closest win coming against the Jets in week twelve(score of 36-19 against) and his biggest win comes against the Bills in week 8 (score of 70-0). The rest of the league is absolutely shocked by Brady and co.'s domination, and Roger Goodell is NOT happy(we'll get back to this later). The rest of the teams finish with normal records, but weird division winners. The AFC North is won by Cincinnati, the AFC South by Jacksonville, the AFC West by Oakland, and obviously the AFC East by New England. The wildcard for the AFC is a strong Jets team, the Jets finish with a record of 12-4. The NFC North is won by Minnesota, the NFC South by Atlanta, The NFC West by Seattle, and the NFC East by Dallas. The wildcard for the NFC is Detroit. Detroit beats out Green Bay on a last second hail-mary in week 17 to up the Packers by 1 game, winning the wildcard spot. Now the playoffs are an absolute wreck. The Patriots beat the Jets in the divisional round on a very controversial call on a sideline TD run by Brady. The Patriots advance to the AFC Championship round against Oakland where the Patriots flat out demolish the Raiders with a score of 48-0(this causes Oakland's fans to begin rioting and protesting, and that begins the move of the Raiders from Oakland to Las Vegas.) On the NFC side, Detroit and Dallas both look very strong. They meet in the NFC Championship round and Dallas wins the shootout by a score of 56-49. Now back to Goodell, he is not happy with how good Brady is playing. Goodell fines Brady a total of $17.3mil throughout the season for stupid things, i.e. Brady didn't double knot his shoes, $85k fine. The NFL owners are upset with Goodell over his ridiculous actions against Brady, and they've been secretly meeting throughout the season trying to come up with a way to get Goodell out of power. Jerry Jones and Bill Belichick lead the way and decide the best way to get rid of him is for their two teams to meet in the Super Bowl, and then sit on the bench the whole game(this will cause a huge drop in ratings and Goodell will be forced to resign) the rest of the league agrees and purposely loses games to allow this to happen. Now that Dallas and New England are playing each other, the other teams realize how stupid this was and decide to blow their cover on the whole idea of purposely losing games. Goodell hears about this and decides to take action quickly. He postpones the Super Bowl until the middle of March to give him time to sort things out. Goodell announces a rule change, he says that since New England cheated the Jets out of a playoff win(with the controversial call), New England must play one more game and the winner will face Dallas in the Super Bowl. What team will New England play? The Goodell All-Pro Team. Goodell adds new rules and forms his own team, and then he forces teams to give their best players to create a "super team". Goodell's super team plays against New England and loses by 1 point. A rather devastated Roger Goodell poisons Jerry Jones and takes control of Dallas as their new owner, GM, and head coach. When the long awaited Super Bowl is finally played, it becomes apparent that both teams are evenly matched. They got into overtime, not just 1 overtime, but 17 quarters of overtime. The score is tied at 126-126 with 6 seconds left to play. Fatigue and injuries caused by this long game have plagued both teams. Roger Goodell is now playing quarterback for Dallas, and Bill Belichick is playing Safety for New England. On a last second hail-mary from Goodell to Bryant, Belichick makes a spectacular one handed INT, and runs it back for a TD. Thus New England beats Dallas with a score of 132-126. Goodell is so upset that he runs off to hide in the Amazon jungle, and Belichick becomes the new commissioner of the NFL. The Patriots win the next 13 Super Bowls, behind a never-aging Brady. This causes ratings to drop low, so low that even Keeping Up with the Kardashians is rated higher. The NFL disbands and American football as we know it fades into the nothing, with Belichick and Brady on the top. #BoldPredictions |