2022 NFL Thread (Chiefs win Super Bowl 57)

[hefdaddy42]

Stads, what happened in March of ‘99 that started your grudge?

Uconn whipped Duke's ass for their first NCAA National Championship.  Nantz and Packer called the game and it was SO obviously in favor of Duke it was absolutely disgusting.  Packer was downright upset that Duke lost, and Nantz called it like it was a fluke or an abnormality.  It was a Cinderella season, it was Uconn's first real moment on the national scene, but it was neither a fluke or an abnormality (Uconn beat Duke again for the National title I think four years later). For a period there about ten years after that first championship, Uconn had the most active players in the NBA, even over Duke.  They were an elite program for at least 15 years, if not more, and Nantz (and Packer) treated them like they were a Division II school, all in the service of the "narrative". 

Yes, I'm bitter. 

Carolina fans know all about Packer's pro-Duke bias.  It's legendary down here.

[axeman90210]

J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS!

2-2 against the AFC North to start the season isn’t bad, even if they have yet to play a complete game. If they can stay competitive and even steal a couple of wins through this murderous stretch of games before their bye in week ten, the second half of their schedule potentially opens things up to them being a fringe playoff contender, although that’s still a long stretch.

EDIT: An interesting stat from this game, this was only the second times the Jets have won a game not just in Pittsburgh, but in the entire state of Pennsylvania (the Jets are 0-12 all time against the Eagles).

Honestly, if you told me before the start of training camp that we'd be 2-2 coming out of the AFC North portion of our schedule I'd have taken it. If you then told me that Zach Wilson would miss most of the preseason and the first three regular season games and we'd also lose four different starting OTs to injury (seriously, it's reached Spinal Tap drummer status) in that time, I can't really ask for more than 2-2.

[TheCountOfNYC]

J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS!

2-2 against the AFC North to start the season isn’t bad, even if they have yet to play a complete game. If they can stay competitive and even steal a couple of wins through this murderous stretch of games before their bye in week ten, the second half of their schedule potentially opens things up to them being a fringe playoff contender, although that’s still a long stretch.

EDIT: An interesting stat from this game, this was only the second times the Jets have won a game not just in Pittsburgh, but in the entire state of Pennsylvania (the Jets are 0-12 all time against the Eagles).

Honestly, if you told me before the start of training camp that we'd be 2-2 coming out of the AFC North portion of our schedule I'd have taken it. If you then told me that Zach Wilson would miss most of the preseason and the first three regular season games and we'd also lose four different starting OTs to injury (seriously, it's reached Spinal Tap drummer status) in that time, I can't really ask for more than 2-2.

We might get Duane Brown back within the next few weeks, so there’s hope for the offensive line still. Alijah Vera-Tucker is the clear team MVP through the first month, but the Jets need more than him holding down the fort if they hope to sustain any semblance of success.

[TAC]

Stads, what happened in March of ‘99 that started your grudge?

Uconn whipped Duke's ass for their first NCAA National Championship.  Nantz and Packer called the game and it was SO obviously in favor of Duke it was absolutely disgusting.  Packer was downright upset that Duke lost, and Nantz called it like it was a fluke or an abnormality.  It was a Cinderella season, it was Uconn's first real moment on the national scene, but it was neither a fluke or an abnormality (Uconn beat Duke again for the National title I think four years later). For a period there about ten years after that first championship, Uconn had the most active players in the NBA, even over Duke.  They were an elite program for at least 15 years, if not more, and Nantz (and Packer) treated them like they were a Division II school, all in the service of the "narrative". 

Yes, I'm bitter. 

Kind of how someone I know treats Mahomes. 

[Stadler]

Stads, what happened in March of ‘99 that started your grudge?

Uconn whipped Duke's ass for their first NCAA National Championship.  Nantz and Packer called the game and it was SO obviously in favor of Duke it was absolutely disgusting.  Packer was downright upset that Duke lost, and Nantz called it like it was a fluke or an abnormality.  It was a Cinderella season, it was Uconn's first real moment on the national scene, but it was neither a fluke or an abnormality (Uconn beat Duke again for the National title I think four years later). For a period there about ten years after that first championship, Uconn had the most active players in the NBA, even over Duke.  They were an elite program for at least 15 years, if not more, and Nantz (and Packer) treated them like they were a Division II school, all in the service of the "narrative". 

Yes, I'm bitter. 

Kind of how someone I know treats Mahomes. 

Who?  He's a dick, then! 

[Skeever]

Hopefully Russ can cook us up a decent game tonight after all the stinking up the two other primetime games the Broncos have already got this year. If not, it looks like we won't have to see them until a SNF game they'll possibly get flexed out of late in the season.

[pg1067]

Stads, what happened in March of ‘99 that started your grudge?

Uconn whipped Duke's ass for their first NCAA National Championship.  Nantz and Packer called the game and it was SO obviously in favor of Duke it was absolutely disgusting.  Packer was downright upset that Duke lost, and Nantz called it like it was a fluke or an abnormality.  It was a Cinderella season, it was Uconn's first real moment on the national scene, but it was neither a fluke or an abnormality (Uconn beat Duke again for the National title I think four years later). For a period there about ten years after that first championship, Uconn had the most active players in the NBA, even over Duke.  They were an elite program for at least 15 years, if not more, and Nantz (and Packer) treated them like they were a Division II school, all in the service of the "narrative". 

Yes, I'm bitter. 

Hold on...wait a minute.

1999 was not only CT's first national title; it was also the team's first time making a Final Four, so, AT THE TIME, it WAS an abnormality.  The fact that the team won two more titles IN THE FUTURE doesn't mean it wasn't an abnormality at the time.

[TAC]

I feel like I've seen the Broncos play every week so far. I'm honestly sick of Russel Wilson. It's not that I don't like him, but it seems like they're shoving him down my throat.

[Cool Chris]

I can remember watching UM/UNC in 1993, and thinking "Boy, the broadcaster is really pissed Webber got away with a travel... oh wait, now he's ecstatic Webber called a TO."

[KevShmev]

I feel like I've seen the Broncos play every week so far. I'm honestly sick of Russel Wilson. It's not that I don't like him, but it seems like they're shoving him down my throat.

The problem there is that the Broncos were projected by many to be one of the better teams in the league this year, especially with the addition of a big name QB in Wilson, so putting them on a bunch of prime time games made sense, but no one could have predicted that their offense would be this anemic or that their coach would be such a clueless wanker.

[King Postwhore]

Thanks for the image Tim.

[El Barto]

Kirk Herbstreit has the exact same voice as Kenny Blankenship from MXC. Now that I've noticed I can't unhear it. I keep expecting to hear "Oohh, he tried to go deep, choked, and coughed up a ball!"

[The Realm]

I feel like I've seen the Broncos play every week so far. I'm honestly sick of Russel Wilson. It's not that I don't like him, but it seems like they're shoving him down my throat.

The problem there is that the Broncos were projected by many to be one of the better teams in the league this year, especially with the addition of a big name QB in Wilson, so putting them on a bunch of prime time games made sense, but no one could have predicted that their offense would be this anemic or that their coach would be such a clueless wanker.

Totally agree. What are we? 5 weeks in and I am sick of the Broncos, something seriously wrong there. the fans know it too, they all left before OT.

[KevShmev]

I was ahead of the curve in abandoning the Broncos after week 1.  The franchise is totally screwed now. Firing the wanker coach in the next year or two will be easy, but they traded the farm and gave tons of money to a QB who, quite frankly, looks like he got blindsided by Father Time.  Wilson looks nothing like the QB he was for most of his time in Seattle.

[bosk1]

Couldn't be happier.  Well, actually, I have mixed feelings.  Couldn't be happier than to see Wilson losing and being exposed.  But it's a shame it's happening on the Broncos.  I still kinda love that team, even though...well, all the stuff Kev's been saying. 

[KevShmev]

He wasn't exposed in the sense that this is who he always was and now he is showing it.  He was a very good/great QB for most of his career.  Never in the top tier with Brady, Peyton, Brees, Rodgers, Mahomes, etc., but always in that 2nd tier.  He just doesn't look like the same guy.  When he used to have to break the pocket to throw from out of the pocket or run for a first down, he was pretty quick.  Now, when he tries that, he looks old and slow.  Not sure if he simply got lazy as he got older or after getting paid, but the decline in his play has been both sudden and rapid. That INT he threw late last night, when they had a chance to go up 12-6 with two minutes left, was atrocious.

[Skeever]

Even if the Broncos were living up to the hype, 3 outta 5 weeks in primetime is overkill. I never have a problem with flexing to games that matter on SNF late in the season, but early on its much more fun to see a variety of teams throughout the league.

[Stadler]

Even if the Broncos were living up to the hype, 3 outta 5 weeks in primetime is overkill. I never have a problem with flexing to games that matter on SNF late in the season, but early on its much more fun to see a variety of teams throughout the league.

This is where I am.  I don't care how good the Broncos were supposed to be, mix it up. They're not the only good team in the league.

[Stadler]

Stads, what happened in March of ‘99 that started your grudge?

Uconn whipped Duke's ass for their first NCAA National Championship.  Nantz and Packer called the game and it was SO obviously in favor of Duke it was absolutely disgusting.  Packer was downright upset that Duke lost, and Nantz called it like it was a fluke or an abnormality.  It was a Cinderella season, it was Uconn's first real moment on the national scene, but it was neither a fluke or an abnormality (Uconn beat Duke again for the National title I think four years later). For a period there about ten years after that first championship, Uconn had the most active players in the NBA, even over Duke.  They were an elite program for at least 15 years, if not more, and Nantz (and Packer) treated them like they were a Division II school, all in the service of the "narrative". 

Yes, I'm bitter. 

Hold on...wait a minute.

1999 was not only CT's first national title; it was also the team's first time making a Final Four, so, AT THE TIME, it WAS an abnormality.  The fact that the team won two more titles IN THE FUTURE doesn't mean it wasn't an abnormality at the time.

Well, the Championship was an abnormality, but they weren't an unknown quantity. They were in the Sweet Sixteen two out of the previous three years, they won the Big East (one of the best conferences in the country at that time) tournament two out of the past three years (and four times in the '90s) as well as the regular season title six times in the '90s.   Famously, it took a Christian Laettner buzzer-beater for Duke to beat Uconn in overtime in the tournament in '90 to go to the Final Four.  By that time, Dick Vitale had called Storrs "the basketball capital of the world" since the women were on the rise, and there was at least one season where both teams were undefeated late into the season (they are still the only program in NCAA history to have the men and women win the title in the same season, 2004).

[Dublagent66]

That game last night should've ended in a tie.  Worst.  TNF game.  Ever.

[El Barto]

That INT he threw late last night, when they had a chance to go up 12-6 with two minutes left, was atrocious.

I couldn't believe it was Russel Wilson making that throw. Atrocious is generous. But I agree completely with your greater point. You can't call him exposed for only his most recent play. He looked an awful lot like final season Peyton, as I'm sure you recall, and we don't use that season to say Peyton was overrated.

[pg1067]

I feel like I've seen the Broncos play every week so far. I'm honestly sick of Russel Wilson. It's not that I don't like him, but it seems like they're shoving him down my throat.

So are most of us Bronco fans....

[jammindude]

Well I do have to say that the people in Seattle who were criticizing Seattle for trading him have completely shut up.

I’m still not completely sold on Geno Smith, but right now Seattle is coming out smelling like a rose. We got all these draft picks that we’re sitting on, and now because of Wilson’s performance, that decision actually seems a bit genius.

[KevShmev]

I was telling a friend yesterday, is it any wonder why Tom Brady keeps coming back? Indy and Denver were projected by many to be among the two best teams from the AFC, the superior conference, and both look putrid on offense this week.  Brady has to see that and think, "I can play till I'm 50 and keep winning."

[King Postwhore]

[cramx3]

Hate these overseas games, but I'm so happy and shocked to see how the Giants have been so gutsy this season. A credit to the coach.

[KevShmev]

Yep, Brian Daboll might already be the coach of the year.  Getting a team with Daniel Jones at QB to 4-1 is a minor miracle.

Meanwhile, the Packers are still the Packers.  The body language of both Rodgers and LaFleur in the whole last half of the 4th quarter was downtrodden, like, "I can't believe we are going to lose this game."  Great works, fellas.  I fully expected the Packers to not score on that drive that took up most of the last few minutes of the game simply because Rodgers has too poor of a track record in those situations. 

[King Postwhore]

Dan Campbell has cost the Lions 10 points today.

[KevShmev]

NFL officiating is such a joke at this point. And what a shock that TB12 is the beneficiary yet again.

[TAC]

NFL officiating is such a joke at this point. And what a shock that TB12 is the beneficiary yet again.

That was an awful call.

[Dream Team]

NFL officiating is such a joke at this point. And what a shock that TB12 is the beneficiary yet again.

In other news, the sun rose this morning.

That was one of two iffy calls to extend that drive. Nothing to see here.

[bosk1]

Sorry, Hef.  *hugs*

[KevShmev]

NFL officiating is such a joke at this point. And what a shock that TB12 is the beneficiary yet again.

That was an awful call.

The funniest part was that not only did Brady got a bogus roughing the passer call in his favor, but he threw his foot up and tried to kick the guy who sacked him (clear unsportsmanlike) and that was perfectly okay. 

Seems like every NFL talking head/analyst is railing on Twitter today about awful that call is, but I am sure the NFL will ignore it and while laughing and counting their money while their overall product continues to decline.

[Dream Team]

Poor little Tommy always acts like a little bitch when a defender has the nerve to touch him. Never forgot him going at Ed Reed with his spikes aimed at his groin. Guy is 100% douche while his fans bury their faces in the sand.

Seen some hilarious posts on Twitter. One example: Brady fought harder to get that flag than he did for his marriage 

[King Postwhore]

I agree it was the worst call ever but I do love that he's still in your heads. It pleases me.