272 regular season games and we head to the playoffs
in in a silo, you can imagine moments of
the season, the Hail Mary between the Commanders and
the Bears. You can remember Thanksgiving Day and some
of the great conquests that we had there with the
Lions holding off against the Bears at the end of
that. There's a million games that we can discuss
, yet. Five still don't make sense to me
. 5 still do not make sense. Here,
here are the 5 head scratching outcomes from the 2024
regular season that you might have forgotten, who would
have totally changed the playoff picture had they gone differently
. Number 5. Guys, the 2nd worst team
in the NFL was the Cleveland Browns this season.
They beat the Baltimore Ravens in week 8. The
Ravens fell to the Browns in a game that still
makes no sense. It was a game that Derrick
Henry did score early in this one, but the
Jameis Winston led Browns just threw all over the Baltimore
. Guys, that's, it's T Tilman for a
38 yard touchdown. At the end of the game
, the Ravens had a chance. Lamar says go
deep. He, he pumps, he threw it
, he had a chance and Za Flowers fell down
and the Browns beat the Ravens. Yes, think
about it, the Browns have the#2 pick in
the draft. They beat the that happened. That
might be the difference between the Browns having a lower
pick or who knows, the Ravens maybe in a
different way that they have the playoffs and maybe the
2 seed.#4 on my list, week 4
, the LA Rams at the time, who were
a 1-2 team, went to Chicago and lost to
the Bears. The Rams. Loss to the Bears
this season. It happened, guys. This is
week 4. We go back and what the DJ
Moore touched down in the back here. I feel
like I forgot about. This happened. DeAndre Swift
went and scampered for 45 yards as the Shane Waldron
led Bears offense just absolutely dominated the Rams and.
Have any red zone success and then this was the
big play here. 1 minute 3 left to go
. Javon Brisker intercepts Matt Stafford. The Bears were
4-2. The Bears, they were 4-2 team.
They beat the Rams. They beat the division champion
Rams, who didn't have to play in week 18
because they don't. This happened. This is why
the NFL is such an amazing league. That happened
and guys, we talked about the Ravens. In
week 3, here we go, we go,
we go here. They, they beat the Bills
, right? They had this great or they beat
the Cowboys in week 2, the Ravens lost at
home to the Raiders. What? This wasn't some
road game that happened on a short week. It
was a Sunday 1 o'clock start and the Raiders came
in there and Gardner Minu and the Raiders walked right
into, to the M&T Bank and through to Duvonte
Adams for big plays and Brock Bowers had a big
day. The Raiders beat the Ravens in 2024.
This happened. Uh, the last play of the
game, this comes after, uh, you know
, Lamar out here. He has a lateral to
Justice Hill and he runs around and the Justice Hill
. Oh my gosh, you know, oh no
, the Raiders Davote Adams exhausted after the game.
They beat the Ravens. A couple of weeks later
. Devonte Adams would walk into Tom Telesko's office and
be like, I have to be traded, and
he got his wish and went to the Jets.
That happened too. Uh, number 3 on our
list. And#2 on our list, I'm sorry
, maybe the most bizarre outcome, and if it
goes differently, the Seahawks might be in the playoffs
. In week 5, the New York Giants went
up to the Pacific Northwest, and the New York
Giants beat the Seahawks in Seattle. The New York
Giants, who, who had one win at home
all season, also had a win at Lumen Field
. It, it's, it's head scratching, but
it happened and had this game gone differently. The
Seahawks, a team who had a 4 game winning
streak late in the season. Maybe the Seahawks are
not only in the playoffs, maybe the Seahawks.
the division champions and last week they would have been
playing for a lot more than just draft stock and
where their draft position would be. Giants came in
there. They got a go-ahead field goal late.
They returned this punt block for a touchdown. Giants
or a field goal block for a touchdown. The
Giants. Isiah Simmons block a field goal. Yes
, that was it. Simmons, they returned it
for a touch. It was a great moment.
They were alive. The Giants, they had beaten
the Browns. They had beaten, beaten the Seahawks
on the road. The Giants were alive. The
Giants beat the Seahawks in a game this season,
but the biggest head scratching loss of the entire 2024
season. Came on week one where the Joe Burrow
, Jamar Chase Bengals lost at home to the G
Gerard Mayo coached Jacoby Brissettled Patriots. The Bengals opened
the season up with a loss to New England that
still is a head scratching outcome even today. Had
the Bengals won this game, they're probably playing in
January. Had the Bengals won this game, they
probably would have had a completely different trajectory on the
season. The Patriots, who up until last week
were basically the number one pick in the worst team
in football, beat the Bengals on the road in
their building, ended everybody's survivor pooled everybody's. It's
over. And this was after a lot of head
scratching about the move to go to Mayo over offseason
. Then it was like, no, look,
Gerard Mayo had them running hills this summer. Gerard
Mayo had Gerard Mayo is no longer a coach.
The NFL. He's gonna be a coordinator or maybe
a linebacker's coach somewhere else, and the Bengals are
at home. That's still 18 weeks later is the
most head scratching outcome of any regular season game this
season. The Bengals at home lost to the Patriots
. There's my list. Confusing games looking back on
it now. It all happened before the, the
halfway mark. But Kyle, I turn to you
. Uh, does, does any game I didn't
mention stand out or does. Alright, so the
Bengals listening to the Patriots and Jacoby Brissett. Jacoby
Brissett is now starring in commercials that are based cheering
on the fact that he's a backup quarterback. He's
an insurance, but he was starting that game,
the last one, and then I'll throw it to
LA. I remember in the Ravens loss to the
Raiders, there's this great mic'd up clip of Max
Crosby on the Raiders sideline going to Gardner Mino and
be like, Hey, I wanna see that Washington
State guard to Minch. I wanna see him.
And he's like, I got you, man.
And then he went out and he beat Lamar Jackson
. It was a stunning loss.