N.F.L. 21-22 Season (1 Viewer)

[Warrior]

true...Pats and Jets was not the most exciting game...but I love to watch Judon with those red sleeves wreak havoc in the pocket...

That signing is going to go down as one of the greatest free agent signings in franchise history, my God what a beast he is, it's a man vs boys out there when he's on the field.

 

[mikemiller1955]

That signing is going to go down as one of the greatest free agent signings in franchise history, my God what a beast he is, it's a man vs boys out there when he's on the field.

yea...great pick up for sure...I never heard to Grand Valley State University...but those trademark red sleeves are fun to watch...I'm sure you know he's leading the league in sacks this year...

 

[Combat]

In the age of idiocracy, this has to be my favorite NFL moment from this week (and this guy stole my adult porn name of choice):

The Minnesota Vikings were tricked into showing an adult film star on the giant screen — as they tried to honor Vikings fans who serve in the military on Sunday.
When the Vikings’ game against the Dallas Cowboys went into a commercial break Sunday, the Vikings’ social media team at US Bank Stadium showed tweets under the hashtag #skolsalute of men and women in uniform who purportedly have served. But one picture showed someone dressed in uniform which Outkick and other outlets identified as adult film star Johnny Sins.

 

[Warrior]

That was one of the games with terrible QB play I was referring to, and the missed calls on the punt return were inexcusable. -- Al

A tell on how far the Patriots star has fallen in New England; I know of four different people who had extra tickets for that ****show of a game yesterday and could barely give them away............they tried repeatedly; it came down to a friend of a friend of the guy down the street who delivers papers to the guy who he knows who has a friend who knows a guy who used to go to school with one of the guys trying to give tickets away.

In years gone by, you could sell your extra tickets for big money; now it takes 22 levels of friendship to find a sucker who will take them for free.

And their reward was to sit through that dumpster fire of a game.

 

[lancer]

A tell on how far the Patriots star has fallen in New England; I know of four different people who had extra tickets for that ****show of a game yesterday and could barely give them away............they tried repeatedly; it came down to a friend of a friend of the guy down the street who delivers papers to the guy who he knows who has a friend who knows a guy who used to go to school with one of the guys trying to give tickets away.

In years gone by, you could sell your extra tickets for big money; now it takes 22 levels of friendship to find a sucker who will take them for free.

And their reward was to sit through that dumpster fire of a game.

60 years of habit keep me tuning in to the NFL, but the quality over the last 25 years has really been poor from my POV, as I keep comparing to the glory days of the NFL in the 60's, 70's, and 80's. I know I'm old and a grouchy geezer but I sure miss the old NFL. And I still haven't remembered a Thursday night game yet. -- Al

 

[Combat]

A tell on how far the Patriots star has fallen in New England; I know of four different people who had extra tickets for that ****show of a game yesterday and could barely give them away............they tried repeatedly; it came down to a friend of a friend of the guy down the street who delivers papers to the guy who he knows who has a friend who knows a guy who used to go to school with one of the guys trying to give tickets away.

In years gone by, you could sell your extra tickets for big money; now it takes 22 levels of friendship to find a sucker who will take them for free.

And their reward was to sit through that dumpster fire of a game.

You couldn't pay me to go through the aggravation of attending a game. The drunks, traffic, cold, rain, and then trying to get home. A guy told me it took him two hours just to get out of the parking lot after a recent Eagles game. It's an all-day ordeal. And if you have to buy tickets for more than a couple folks, it adds about $1K on the bill for your troubles.

 

[Warrior]

You couldn't pay me to go through the aggravation of attending a game. The drunks, traffic, cold, rain, and then trying to get home. A guy told me it took him two hours just to get out of the parking lot after a recent Eagles game. It's an all-day ordeal. And if you have to buy tickets for more than a couple folks, it adds about $1K on the bill for your troubles.

My friends Dad had season tickets from the day the ****hole of a stadium was built in Foxboro in 1971 if I am not mistaken, it was my friends Dad, him and his two brothers, some other fella and his son, 6 seats.............the Father and the other guy gave them up in 1986, there were three tickets up for grabs, myself and two other friends took them, we had them for 11 years, until Parcells left and they hired Pete the poodle with his pom poms and rah rah nonsense.

Back then, I'd go to a club Saturday night, go out for breakfast after, roll in around 3:30am......sleep for about 5 hours, get up, shower and get ready, get to my friends around 9:30, get to the stadium around 10:00 just as the gates opened, drink and tailgate and drink and tailgate and drink, stumble up to the stadium, come back to the cars after the game, tailgate and drink and tailgate and drink, we'd be one of the last sets of cars out the gate around 7:00pm, get home about 8:00pm, then go to work on Monday.

If I tried that now, I'd be in a coma for a week.....................as you said, it's an ordeal to go to a game, like an expedition to the Artic Circle, just a project and a half.

No thanks.

 

[Warrior]

Jets have officially benched Zach Wilson, Belichick gets roasted for his bland press conferences and his wooden statements "Doing what's best of the team/It's on to Cincinatti/I've got to do a better job of coaching" this statement from their coach, I mean just wow, talk about throwing a guy under the bus, Wilson is now toast in NY;

"Robert Saleh said there are aspects of Zach Wilson's game that will "continue to deteriorate" if they kept throwing him out there. Right now, the way Wilson is playing, it's not capable of "winning football games." #Jets"

 

[Combat]

Will never understand why teams play a soft zone or prevent defense late in a close game. In an age when kickers can drill 50 plus yard FG's it is a recipe for defeat. The Lions did it again today. Good to see Goff is still choking. He had the WR for the game winning TD and inexplicably threw the ball 15 yards short. He also had that Gomer Pyle-look on his face on the sidelines.

 

[jazzeum]

Jets have officially benched Zach Wilson, Belichick gets roasted for his bland press conferences and his wooden statements "Doing what's best of the team/It's on to Cincinatti/I've got to do a better job of coaching" this statement from their coach, I mean just wow, talk about throwing a guy under the bus, Wilson is now toast in NY;

"Robert Saleh said there are aspects of Zach Wilson's game that will "continue to deteriorate" if they kept throwing him out there. Right now, the way Wilson is playing, it's not capable of "winning football games." #Jets"

They made the right decision, at least in the short term. The belief is that Wilson has lost the locker room and that had Salah not made this decision, the players might have lost respect for him too.

 

[Combat]

The Rams are 3-7, have lost four in a row, and are probably starting their third string QB this week who has never started an NFL game before. They also just cut their starting RB. The backup up running back Cam Akers was on the trading block and not playing a couple weeks ago but no one wanted him. And their top receiver is out for the next several weeks with an injury. They are also playing one of the best teams in the NFL on the road. Other than that, things are going great.

 

[Panzer ace]

The Niners look good, yet I still do see them as a Super Bowl winner.

Simply put there are at least 4 teams in the NFL that are better.

 

[jazzeum]

The Niners look good, yet I still do see them as a Super Bowl winner.

Simply put there are at least 4 teams in the NFL that are better.

In the NFC, I don’t see any team heads and shoulders above another. I’m not sold on the Eagles; Jalen Hurts doesn’t convince me. We will find out about SF after this week; they play Dolphins, Tampa and Seattle.

In the AFC, same although KC is probably the best there.

 

[Panzer ace]

In the NFC, I don’t see any team heads and shoulders above another. I’m not sold on the Eagles; Jalen Hurts doesn’t convince me. We will find out about SF after this week; they play Dolphins, Tampa and Seattle.

In the AFC, same although KC is probably the best there.

Even the second tier AFC teams like Baltimore look better than the best of the NFC.

As always time will tell, but you are right about the Niners, their next 3 games will say a lot about where they are. .

 

[mikemiller1955]

I don't quite understand this...understanding why? What is their purpose in attending? If I was sexually assaulted, I wouldn't want to watch my attacker do anything but suffer. This article says nearly all the women who filed suit against Watson have settled. Why would any of them want to go and watch Deshaun play football. I doubt they will be allowed to bring signs to try and display on national tv cameras with derogatory verbiage against him. Maybe they are all super Houston fans that have just put this behind them and are getting on with their life and the healing. Still...seems really weird to me.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...ettled-lawsuits-vs-deshaun-watson-attend-game

 

[Panzer ace]

I don't quite understand this...understanding why? What is their purpose in attending? If I was sexually assaulted, I wouldn't want to watch my attacker do anything but suffer. This article says nearly all the women who filed suit against Watson have settled. Why would any of them want to go and watch Deshaun play football. I doubt they will be allowed to bring signs to try and display on national tv cameras with derogatory verbiage against him. Maybe they are all super Houston fans that have just put this behind them and are getting on with their life and the healing. Still...seems really weird to me.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...ettled-lawsuits-vs-deshaun-watson-attend-game

Mike:

I by no means want to speak for these women, especially after what they went through.

With that being said I can’t help but think they, as victims, do not want to be ignored.

I have watched local coverage in San Antonio this week, all the way up to NFL Network and ESPN coverage of Watson’s return. None of them even mention his “settlements” regarding his sexual assaults. All of them say he is returning after serving a suspension for violations of the NFL’s misconduct policy.

I can’t blame them for attending the game and thus refusing to be forgotten. What they have suffered is bigger than football no matter how much Watson and the NFL try to omit their stories from history.

-Jason

 

[mikemiller1955]

Mike:

I by no means want to speak for these women, especially after what they went through.

With that being said I can’t help but think they, as victims, do not want to be ignored.

I have watched local coverage in San Antonio this week, all the way up to NFL Network and ESPN coverage of Watson’s return. None of them even mention his “settlements” regarding his sexual assaults. All of them say he is returning after serving a suspension for violations of the NFL’s misconduct policy.

I can’t blame them for attending the game and thus refusing to be forgotten. What they have suffered is bigger than football no matter how much Watson and the NFL try to omit their stories from history.

-Jason

Jason...agreed...they are victims...I have believed that since the story was first released...maybe they are just huge Houston Texan fans and want to attend a game...maybe they have some kind of plan in place to express their platform...I think the NFL, Cleveland and Houston wants us all to forget this story...it's an embarrassment to their brand...I was just curious how they were planning to get their message out at the game...curious what their plan is...I'm not expecting banners or signs...doubt they will be granted an interview either...as again...the whole story is an embarrassment to the NFL...maybe sneaking in t-shirts under their clothes...revealed once they get access to the stadium with a message denouncing Watson and sexual assault...hoping for a few seconds on a crowd shot?

 

[Combat]

Jason...agreed...they are victims...I have believed that since the story was first released...maybe they are just huge Houston Texan fans and want to attend a game...maybe they have some kind of plan in place to express their platform...I think the NFL, Cleveland and Houston wants us all to forget this story...it's an embarrassment to their brand...I was just curious how they were planning to get their message out at the game...curious what their plan is...I'm not expecting banners or signs...doubt they will be granted an interview either...as again...the whole story is an embarrassment to the NFL...maybe sneaking in t-shirts under their clothes...revealed once they get access to the stadium with a message denouncing Watson and sexual assault...hoping for a few seconds on a crowd shot?

Once professional sports leagues established a guilty until proven innocent standard for certain crimes that ignore the role of law enforcement to decide whether there is sufficient evidence to press charges, there becomes no way to tell the legitimate from the false claims. With so much settlement money available, people start coming out of the woodwork to claim they are victims. Maybe they are, maybe they are not. Because the consequences are so severe to the athletes and they are deemed responsible regardless of the conclusion of law enforcement, there is enormous pressure to pay off both real and fake claims. That creates a vicious cycle to encourage more questionable claims.

I have no doubt that many of these athletes engage in this kind of conduct but have real doubts about the legitimacy of all these claims absent law enforcement validation. Major sports leagues are under enormous pressure to pursue certain types of conduct and ignore others as the PC winds blow.

 

[mikemiller1955]

here's a weird stat...
Tom Brady and the Bucs lead the NFC South with a 5-6 record...
even if they lose Monday night...
they will still lead the NFC South with a 5-7 record...
that would be funny...sad...but funny...

when the NFL decided on the playoff format...
I don't think they had this in mind...
seems kind of unfair...

 

[Combat]

Jimmy G. is done for the year with the Niners after breaking his foot. The Niners are the least QB dependent team in the league, though. With their defense and skill players, all the QB has to do is not screw up.