Author Topic: 2018 NFL Thread - The Dynasty (Read 187297 times)

mikeyd23 · « **Reply #1400 on:** September 17, 2018, 01:38:17 PM »

Yeah, I believe my thoughts on AB have been well documented here - I can't stand the guy. His tweet doesn't surprise me at all.

Stadler · « **Reply #1401 on:** September 17, 2018, 01:42:03 PM »

Quote from: kingshmegland on September 17, 2018, 12:39:54 PM

DOC, kudos for the title. I love it.

Kev, I saw that tweet. Talk about balls.

No offense, King, but I don't think it takes any balls to be a dick or a bad teammate.

KevShmev · « **Reply #1402 on:** September 17, 2018, 01:45:03 PM »

Agreed.

Brown was throwing a fit yesterday and I would bet money he is secretly annoyed at the emergence of Smith-Schuster, which makes it less likely for him to get force fed the ball and pad his stats, and let's face it, while all guys like getting their numbers, Brown is obsessed with his stats. He strikes me as the kind of guy who would rather put up 10-170-2 in a loss than 5-50-0 in a win.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1403 on:** September 17, 2018, 01:55:41 PM »

Quote from: Stadler on September 17, 2018, 01:42:03 PM

Quote from: kingshmegland on September 17, 2018, 12:39:54 PM
DOC, kudos for the title. I love it.

Kev, I saw that tweet. Talk about balls.

No offense, King, but I don't think it takes any balls to be a dick or a bad teammate.

It takes balls to put that out to ownership.

Stadler · « **Reply #1404 on:** September 17, 2018, 02:10:56 PM »

Quote from: kingshmegland on September 17, 2018, 01:55:41 PM

Quote from: Stadler on September 17, 2018, 01:42:03 PM
Quote from: kingshmegland on September 17, 2018, 12:39:54 PM
DOC, kudos for the title. I love it.

Kev, I saw that tweet. Talk about balls.

No offense, King, but I don't think it takes any balls to be a dick or a bad teammate.

It takes balls to put that out to ownership.

Fair point.

mikeyd23 · « **Reply #1405 on:** September 17, 2018, 02:16:52 PM »

Quote from: KevShmev on September 17, 2018, 01:45:03 PM

Agreed.

Brown was throwing a fit yesterday and I would bet money he is secretly annoyed at the emergence of Smith-Schuster, which makes it less likely for him to get force fed the ball and pad his stats, and let's face it, while all guys like getting their numbers, Brown is obsessed with his stats. He strikes me as the kind of guy who would rather put up 10-170-2 in a loss than 5-50-0 in a win.

Well sure, anytime a player's reaction to his team scoring a touchdown is to go over and yell at the OC, he probably doesn't have his motivations in the right place.

Quote from: Stadler on September 17, 2018, 02:10:56 PM

Quote from: kingshmegland on September 17, 2018, 01:55:41 PM
Quote from: Stadler on September 17, 2018, 01:42:03 PM
Quote from: kingshmegland on September 17, 2018, 12:39:54 PM
DOC, kudos for the title. I love it.

Kev, I saw that tweet. Talk about balls.

No offense, King, but I don't think it takes any balls to be a dick or a bad teammate.

It takes balls to put that out to ownership.

Fair point.

Eh, I get what you guys are saying, but two things - (1) knowing AB he probably didn't even think that far ahead and (2) the Steelers aren't going to trade him anyway.

cramx3 · « **Reply #1406 on:** September 17, 2018, 02:28:21 PM »

Josh Gordon to the Pats? I guess BB is still doing what he does.

El Barto · « **Reply #1407 on:** September 17, 2018, 02:32:11 PM »

Quote from: cramx3 on September 17, 2018, 02:28:21 PM

Josh Gordon to the Pats? I guess BB is still doing what he does.

Well the price is certainly right. I don't have high hopes, but I'm certainly curious to see if the guy's got anything going for him.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1408 on:** September 17, 2018, 03:03:25 PM »

If he doesn't play 10 games this year there is some compensation back to the Pats.

Also. Hide all your weed and alcohol in N.E.

TAC · « **Reply #1409 on:** September 17, 2018, 04:04:58 PM »

Quote from: El Barto on September 17, 2018, 02:32:11 PM

Quote from: cramx3 on September 17, 2018, 02:28:21 PM
Josh Gordon to the Pats? I guess BB is still doing what he does.
Well the price is certainly right. I don't have high hopes, but I'm certainly curious to see if the guy's got anything going for him.

El Barto · « **Reply #1410 on:** September 17, 2018, 05:05:49 PM »

So does anybody actually understand this "scoop and pull" bullshit? The NFL is going to use Clay Matthew's penalty as a teaching aid to show how not to tackle. For 100 years that has been used to show people exactly how to tackle. Aside from what constitutes a catch, which has never made sense, most of their rules are understandable, even if silly or obnoxious. Now they've made it so that I don't even understand what constitutes a tackle.

lordxizor · « **Reply #1411 on:** September 17, 2018, 06:07:58 PM »

It's time to go two-hand-touch or flag football with the QB. At least then it would be clear what's legal or not.

Stadler · « **Reply #1412 on:** September 17, 2018, 06:10:54 PM »

Quote from: lordxizor on September 17, 2018, 06:07:58 PM

It's time to go two-hand-touch or flag football with the QB. At least then it would be clear what's legal or not.

Depends; did the rusher grab the flag, or the belt?

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1413 on:** September 17, 2018, 06:27:57 PM »

Quote from: El Barto on September 17, 2018, 05:05:49 PM

So does anybody actually understand this "scoop and pull" bullshit? The NFL is going to use Clay Matthew's penalty as a teaching aid to show how not to tackle. For 100 years that has been used to show people exactly how to tackle. Aside from what constitutes a catch, which has never made sense, most of their rules are understandable, even if silly or obnoxious. Now they've made it so that I don't even understand what constitutes a tackle.

Every new rule convoluted the game. We are at the point that players can't figure it out anymore.

KevShmev · « **Reply #1414 on:** September 17, 2018, 09:12:06 PM »

Dallas/NYG was unwatchable last night, and from what I have seen tonight, Seattle/Chicago has been awful as well. And these are their prime time games. I swear, if it wasn't for fantasy football, I would be thisclose to jumping ship. The product has gone way downhill.

Ben_Jamin · « **Reply #1415 on:** September 17, 2018, 09:18:49 PM »

Yeah...Seahawks finally doing shit last minute...ugh.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #1416 on:** September 18, 2018, 06:44:40 AM »

Quote from: KevShmev on September 17, 2018, 09:12:06 PM

Dallas/NYG was unwatchable last night, and from what I have seen tonight, Seattle/Chicago has been awful as well. And these are their prime time games. I swear, if it wasn't for fantasy football, I would be thisclose to jumping ship. The product has gone way downhill.

And that is why I pulled the ripcord a couple years ago. The product was shit, and the interpretation of some rules (especially what's a catch) frustrated me so much that I only cared about the Fantasy (ie, virtual) product. At that point, I realized I wasn't a fan of the actual game, and decided to invest my time elsewhere.

TAC · « **Reply #1417 on:** September 18, 2018, 07:04:54 AM »

It's funny you guys are saying this. I was just having this discussion with my wife last night.

I enjoy watching the Patriots, mostly because Belichick is so interesting, and an odd neutral game here and there, but I really don't care for football all that much.

I think as I get older, the glorification of some of these guys rubs me the wrong way. The announcers SUCK basically across the board. They tongue bath the players like crazy.

After each tackle, does the entire defense have to do a dance like they won the damn Superbowl? Just go back and lineup. I f'n hate that.

That said, I was generally interested is seeing the Bears QB, but I easily watched more of the Cards/Braves on MLB Network.

El Barto · « **Reply #1418 on:** September 18, 2018, 01:50:06 PM »

The sum total of the product might be shit, but there are still excellent games all the time. GB/Minn and KC/Pitt were both fun games to watch. I think part of the problem is when people can only watch whatever the network game is. If the Thur/SNF/MNF games suck then it reflects pretty poorly on the NFL. Whereas there are always a couple of really good games on Sunday afternoon that make it all worthwhile if you can watch them instead of what your regional coverage is.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1419 on:** September 18, 2018, 02:24:35 PM »

I tend to not watch TNF. Unless the Pats are on. I'll check in but I won't watch. same with SNF. I've got to get my ass to bed early.

Cool Chris · « **Reply #1420 on:** September 18, 2018, 02:36:28 PM »

When I used to watch NFL regularly, I really liked the SNF model. Good matchups, solid production value, Al Michaels, and I enjoyed focusing in on one game at the end of the day as I get caught up on everything else that happened in the league. I could never get excited about some random matchup on a Thursday night when the full schedule of games for that week was a whole 3 days away.

pg1067 · « **Reply #1421 on:** September 18, 2018, 03:15:41 PM »

I usually have the NFL on all day on Sunday (roughly 10 a.m. until 8 or 9 p.m. when the SNF game ends). That's not to say that I'm sitting on my couch for 11 hours; the games will be on the TV even though I'm puttering about doing things.

I rarely watch on Thursday (maybe if the Broncos are playing, but baseball or hockey is usually a higher priority). Monday games are hit or miss. As a kid, MNF was "must see." It wasn't that the games were always good or more consistently good than they are now. It's that ABC made the games into an entertainment event. Additionally, in the days before highlights were readily available, Howard Cosell's "Halftime Highlights" segment was about the only way to catch highlights from games that weren't shown in your market. Even when the Cosell/Meredith era ended in the mid-80s, the broadcast was still good because Al Michaels was so good and he had strong commentators working with him, but it really hasn't been very good since ESPN took over in the mid-2000s.

Cool Chris · « **Reply #1422 on:** September 19, 2018, 05:17:50 PM »

Well all true, but when MNF was "Must See" how many channels were there to choose from? It was either MNF, the local news, or Barney Miller. I'd actually take Barney Miller reruns over MNF now.

An another topic.... I read Maroon V is slated to the SB53 Halftime show. I've heard of them. But couldn't name one of their songs. This in and of itself isn't surprising as I couldn't name a Justin Timberlake song, or a Beyonce song, or a Coldplay song, or a Katy Perry song. But I recognize the status in the mainstream consciousness those artists have. So, is Maroon V really at that level? Did some Wiki'ing, and see "Maroon 5 has sold more than 75 million records, making them one of the world's best-selling music artists." Well I'll be damned. I see they also sang that annoying Moves Like Jagger song that you apparently have to have in your repertoire if you are going to be a casino-circuit cover band. So I tangentially know one of their songs I guess.

El Barto · « **Reply #1423 on:** September 19, 2018, 05:21:32 PM »

I think we all realize that Fitzpatrick is going to fall apart at some point, but this really makes me root for him. This is a guy that's really enjoying his place in life right now.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1424 on:** September 19, 2018, 05:23:44 PM »

Their first album is great. They went to pop after that. You never heard of this song?

https://youtu.be/rV8NHsmVMPE

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1425 on:** September 19, 2018, 05:24:33 PM »

Quote from: El Barto on September 19, 2018, 05:21:32 PM

I think we all realize that Fitzpatrick is going to fall apart at some point, but this really makes me root for him. This is a guy that's really enjoying his place in life right now.

Gunslinger. I've always liked him and he wins playing on different teams.

Cool Chris · « **Reply #1426 on:** September 19, 2018, 05:29:02 PM »

Quote from: kingshmegland on September 19, 2018, 05:23:44 PM

You never heard of this song?
https://youtu.be/rV8NHsmVMPE

Nope. Now pardon me while TAC and I go and have another beer.

El Barto · « **Reply #1427 on:** September 19, 2018, 05:31:23 PM »

Quote from: Cool Chris on September 19, 2018, 05:29:02 PM

Quote from: kingshmegland on September 19, 2018, 05:23:44 PM
You never heard of this song?
https://youtu.be/rV8NHsmVMPE

Nope. Now pardon me while TAC and I go and have another beer.

Yeah, guess I'll be joining y'all. Never heard it before in my life. It's not bad, though. Perfectly inoffensive superb owl music.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1428 on:** September 19, 2018, 05:38:08 PM »

I'm shocked. That song crossed radio formats and VH1 played it 24/7.

Cool Chris · « **Reply #1429 on:** September 19, 2018, 05:45:23 PM »

Quote from: kingshmegland on September 19, 2018, 05:38:08 PM

I'm shocked. That song crossed radio formats and VH1 played it 24/7.

Well I certainly might have seen it on VH1.... if this was in 1987 and VH1 was still worth watching.

TAC · « **Reply #1430 on:** September 19, 2018, 05:46:50 PM »

Crossover? Radio? VH1?

Is this some lost civilization?

pg1067 · « **Reply #1431 on:** September 19, 2018, 05:48:38 PM »

Superb owl...LOL!!! Many years ago, I sent someone an e-mail about a SB party, and I spelled "Superbowl" as one word. My e-mail spell checker offered me "Superb owl" as the first suggested alternative.

The guys on the sports talk show I listened to at lunch today were discussing Maroon 5 as the halftime act and basically were saying that Chris was wondering about: that M5 isn't a big enough band for the halftime show. They speculated that other artists would be added and mentioned that M5 did some song with some female singer I've never heard of and that she might be added.

I can't remember the last time I actually watched a halftime show, but I looked back at a list of performers. Prior to the early 90s, it was a bunch of D-list acts and marching bands. For example:

SB 23: An Elvis impersonator and "south Florida-area dancers and performers"
SB 21: George Burns, Mickey Rooney and the Grambling and USC marching bands
SB 10, 14, 16 and 20: Up with People
SB 17: The Los Angeles Super Drill Team

My, how things have changed.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1432 on:** September 19, 2018, 05:53:10 PM »

Quote from: TAC on September 19, 2018, 05:46:50 PM

Crossover? Radio? VH1?

Is this some lost civilization?

You probably had rabbit ears so yooouuuurrr out!!

Quote from: Cool Chris on September 19, 2018, 05:45:23 PM

Quote from: kingshmegland on September 19, 2018, 05:38:08 PM
I'm shocked. That song crossed radio formats and VH1 played it 24/7.

Well I certainly might have seen it on VH1.... if this was in 1987 and VH1 was still worth watching.

You are off 2 deacades. Lol

TAC · « **Reply #1433 on:** September 19, 2018, 05:55:43 PM »

VH1 wasn't around in 1967.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1434 on:** September 19, 2018, 05:57:13 PM »

I don't know. I wasn't born yet. Lol

News: Track-by-track video for Fall Into the Light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ezfzdMpRc0

Poll

Who is your favorite NFL Team

Author Topic: 2018 NFL Thread - The Dynasty (Read 187297 times)