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NFL Weekly Thread: Week 18

Let's chat about the National Football League. This week's schedule, all times Eastern, is the final week of the regular season.

The next post will be a single, post-season thread that'll include discussions about the playoffs and the Super Bowl.

Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM Buffalo Bills @ New England Patriots
Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM Carolina Panthers @ Atlanta Falcons
Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers
Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM Cincinnati Bengals @ Pittsburgh Steelers
Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM Cleveland Browns @ Baltimore Ravens
Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM Houston Texans @ Tennessee Titans
Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM Jacksonville Jaguars @ Indianapolis Colts
Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM Kansas City Chiefs @ Denver Broncos
Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM Miami Dolphins @ New York Jets
Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM Minnesota Vikings @ Detroit Lions
Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM New Orleans Saints @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM New York Giants @ Philadelphia Eagles
Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM Los Angeles Chargers @ Las Vegas Raiders
Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM Seattle Seahawks @ Los Angeles Rams
Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM San Francisco 49ers @ Arizona Cardinals
Sun 2025-01-05 1:00PM Washington Commanders @ Dallas Cowboys
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A local homeless man in the ABC store was very excited to tell me that the Washington commanders are gonna be in the playoffs this year. This was like a month ago.

Was he correct? Are the commanders any good this year? In order to properly blend in with the sports dads in my neighborhood do I need to actually pay attention to National football aside from finding out when the Superbowl is? (I forgot to do this one year and accidentally scheduled a party that weekend, it was poorly attended.)

The Commanders have had a good year, they did make the playoffs, they are in the 2nd tier of playoff teams in their conference, they will likely be the underdog in whichever playoff game they play. The 'don't follow it at all' thing to know about them is that they have a young QB Jayden Daniels who looks very promising, will almost certainly win rookie of the year this year, and if things go well, will be the Commanders QB for a very long time.

The Super Bowl will be some weekend early to middle February, as it will likely be every year for the foreseeable future.

Life is too short to pretend to have knowledge about things you don't care about.

My advice in these situations, is to not fake it, but be respectful that the universe of things to know and care about is big, and the things that you care about don't necessarily have priority.

In general, you are not going to read any cliff notes version of football and 'blend in' with people who actually care about it, similar to any subject.

I don't follow superhero movies at all.

I've gotten a lot of mileage out of "Oh, I don't really know that much about it, what happened?"

Giving the people who do care about it some space to show off their expertise will nearly always result in a reasonably smooth social encounter.

Ah no it's not like that, it's more like I end up in situations where I'm a third person in a conversation and the other two know everything and can have the in depth conversation, and I'm left sitting there like wtf happened.

I need a good minor interjection like "I heard the commanders have a good new quarter back?" And then once they answer that I can bow out of the conversation having briefly politely participated.

"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"

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