The NFL Thread - Root for your favorite team (or laugh at the Browns, whichever's easier)

[TheDarknessGrows]

When he gets better, I suppose we'll be...

 

[Path Wanderer]

They made UrinatingTree cry

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Well shit got some unrelated to Damar bad news

Former Jaguars Guard Uche Nwaneri Dies After Collapsing at Wife's Home

Former Jacksonville Jaguars offensive guard Uchechukwu "Uche" Nwaneri, who went to high school in North Texas, died Dec. 30 after collapsing in his wife's home. He was 38.

www.nbcdfw.com

Former Jaguars Guard, Garland-Native Uche Nwaneri Dies After Collapsing at Wife's Home​

That fucking sucks hard, Uche was an awesome dude

He was a vociferous vaxx advocate who blamed the unvaxxed for the pandemic and wanted us jailed.

Fuck that stupid fat dumb nigger. I'm glad he's dead and wish he could die twice.

 

[Fat Gay Riker]

Damar Hamlin is alive, seems to have decent cognitive function, and asked (via writing because hes still on the breathing tube) if they had won the game. Article. Archive.

 

[Iron Hamster]

I'll take the NFL league-wide virtue signaling over the health of one of their players instead of what they usually use their bully pulpit to preach about...

Certainly better than dealing with bullshit like kapernick.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Bills and Cin canceled. Neutral side championship to be used.

What a heart stopping finish to the season

 

[Beresford's Whip]

I would have expected the NFL to at least delay the decision until after this weekend. Get the games out of the way and then see how much it would have mattered to the seeding with other teams winning or losing.

 

[Absolutego]

Bills and Cin canceled. Neutral side championship to be used.

What a heart stopping finish to the season

Very on-brand for Goodell to throw out the existing rules for handling canceled games and playoff seeding so it won't cost him his pre-Super Bowl week of daily ad buys and retired players coming out from under their rock to shill boner pills or whatever.

Going this way took a fat dump all over the AFC north teams still in the hunt. Ravens are now totally eliminated from taking the division, Bengals get all the negatives of being a division champ (harder schedule next year) without the playoff home advantage. I dunno if the Steelers can even sneak in anymore, not that they had any business being in the post-season to begin with.

EDIT: Incidentally, Hamlin is up this morning, off the breathing tube, and talking to teammates. Early reports sound like he's retained mental faculties enough that brain damage assessment is now a longer-term thing instead of immediately apparent.

 

[Preferred Penne]

Former RB Peyton Hillis may have risked his own life to save his children

 

[american_amadan]

Very on-brand for Goodell to throw out the existing rules for handling canceled games and playoff seeding so it won't cost him his pre-Super Bowl week of daily ad buys and retired players coming out from under their rock to shill boner pills or whatever.

Going this way took a fat dump all over the AFC north teams still in the hunt. Ravens are now totally eliminated from taking the division, Bengals get all the negatives of being a division champ (harder schedule next year) without the playoff home advantage. I dunno if the Steelers can even sneak in anymore, not that they had any business being in the post-season to begin with.

EDIT: Incidentally, Hamlin is up this morning, off the breathing tube, and talking to teammates. Early reports sound like he's retained mental faculties enough that brain damage assessment is now a longer-term thing instead of immediately apparent.

Yeah but it looks like they kept the rule open allowing Goodell the power to make "corrective measures" when a game is canceled because of an "emergency", which I assume is how New York is reading the rule. So while there is a written policy, Goodell reserves the power to do what he wants.

 

[std::string]

Very on-brand for Goodell to throw out the existing rules for handling canceled games and playoff seeding so it won't cost him his pre-Super Bowl week of daily ad buys and retired players coming out from under their rock to shill boner pills or whatever.

To the surprise of nobody, this massively benefits the Chiefs.

Also I find it funny that like one of the first things Hamlin asked after being extubated is "who won?" I'm glad he did well though, out of hospital cardiac arrest is a coin flip at the best of times.

 

[Shirō Ishii]

Going this way took a fat dump all over the AFC north teams still in the hunt. I dunno if the Steelers can even sneak in anymore, not that they had any business being in the post-season to begin with.

This doesn't affect Pittsburgh in anyway as they could only get the 7th seed. What Buffalo/Cincy/KC/Baltimore do doesn't affect the Steelers as they need the Jets and Bills to win against the Dolphins and Patriots in order to get in the playoffs as well as of course winning against Groper Cleveland

 

[Super-Chevy454]

One article wondered what'll be the NFL's future after the collapse of Damar Hamlin.

The NFL's future: Rude reality and the questions still scrimmaging in our heads

Someone once jested,

www.americanthinker.com

January 7, 2023

The NFL's future: Rude reality and the questions still scrimmaging in our heads​

By Ned Cosby

Someone once jested, "When you close the door on reality, it comes in through the side windows."
How do you unsee something you witnessed with your own eyes? We all recall with horror how George Floyd died. Some of us recall watching Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald in a police garage in Dallas, Texas in 1963. Many of us recall watching the Challenger Space Shuttle disintegrate as it climbed through the atmosphere. We recall watching the mighty Twin Towers melt into a massive cloud of dust on September 11, 2001.
Many in America tuned in last Monday night to watch the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals compete for higher playoff ranking and placement in the 2022 postseason. Two Super Bowl contenders, two elite quarterbacks, and two proud franchises showed up to engage in America's most popular sport. Millions of us in America took seats around our big-screen TVs to forget about all our problems and escape into the vicarious thrills of NFL football.
The banquet did not go as planned. Halfway through the first period, safety Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills defense tackled wide receiver Tee Higgins after he caught a pass from Bengal quarterback Joe Burrow. The tackle looked routine. Both players rose from the field to regroup with their teams and get ready for the next play from scrimmage. Then something still not completely explained happened inside Damar Hamlin as he fell backward awkwardly on the field. Reality, uninvited, crashed our party.

 

[std::string]

One article wondered what'll be the NFL's future after the collapse of Damar Hamlin.

I'm more worried about Tua and his superpower of whipping his head into the turf.

The reaction to Hamlin is somewhat confusing to me because sudden deaths on the field happen across all levels of sports. They make kids playing baseball wear chest protectors once they move to kid pitch just so they don't get smacked in the chest with a wild fastball and die. A lot of high schools want cardiac clearance (EKG and echo) for players as part of the physical checking for Wolff-Parkinson-White and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, etc.

Maybe I'm just jaded.

 

[Norbert the Tiger]

This is apparently how the NFL is going to handle the unprecedented move of cancelling a game that would have had strong playoff implications. What a cluster fuck.

 

[Absolutego]

I thought it'd be fun to do a quick Black Monday overview before this weekend's games kick off in earnest. By division:

NFC West: Both Shanahan and Carroll have COTY resumes (and, as much as it pains me to admit this as a division rival, Shanahan's is stronger), and are safe. McVay has the job next year if he wants it, but I could see him choosing to retire this offseason as well. Kingsbury is deservedly fucked.

AFC West: Broncos are already in the hunt, Chiefs are fine, and Mark Davis literally cannot afford to fire Josh McDaniels, so the biggest Black Monday prospect in this division is Brandon Staley. Since the Chargers are already in the playoffs, I think if there's a halfway decent run Lombardi gets the axe, but if they embarrass themselves Staley goes with him.

NFC North: No one is getting fired. LaFleur has already earned himself some rope, O'Connell and Campbell have their teams performing above expectations, and Eberflus will get another year.

AFC North: Same as the NFC. Tomlin will literally never get fired no matter how much butthurt yinzers screech about it, Harbaugh's seat is safe, Zac Taylor is doing great with the Bengals and they'll give Stefanski at least a full season with the tiny towel enthusiast before canning him.

NFC South: Panthers are already looking for a new coach, but this whole division is a wild card. I think Arthur Smith is fine since the Falcons went into this year knowing it was a tank, but I could see Dennis Allen shouldering the blame of the Saints' perennial attempts to kick the can down the road finally coming to fruit, and who the fuck knows what happens to Tampa Bay after Brady inevitably leaves in free agency.

AFC South: Vrabel's fine, Pederson is fine, I fully expect Goodell to stage an intervention should the Texans decide they want to fire their 2nd black HC in as many years when they're obviously dysfunctional, and the Colts are already looking for their Brad Sunday to follow Jeff Saturday.

NFC East: Sirianni, Daboll are both cornerstones for their teams' future. I could see McCarthy getting fired if the Cowboys go one and done, since the Cowboys are firmly in 1995 territory where premium talent keeps bailing out bad coaching. But the most likely candidate is Ron Rivera - he's felt absent a lot this season, and is bowing to peer pressure re: his starting QB for the last month. The only thing I see staving off a Black Monday firing is Snyder not wanting to rock the boat in the leadup to selling the team.

AFC East: Everyone's fine. Belichick might be forced to close "Bill's home for the special needs rocket scientist who can't offense good" by Robert Kraft, but that's about it.

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

NFC South: Panthers are already looking for a new coach, but this whole division is a wild card. I think Arthur Smith is fine since the Falcons went into this year knowing it was a tank, but I could see Dennis Allen shouldering the blame of the Saints' perennial attempts to kick the can down the road finally coming to fruit, and who the fuck knows what happens to Tampa Bay after Brady inevitably leaves in free agency.

Sadly, I don't think the Saints will get rid of Dennis Allen in the off-season, unless Sean really does come back to coach (possibly with Brady in tow). Otherwise, I think they will stick with him for one more year, at least for a few games, though they absolutely should and probably will get rid of OC Pete Carmichael. Allen has probably done just enough in these last few games to save his job for awhile.

And the issue of who they would even find to replace him is also a lingering one. The Saints are probably not at the top of anyone's list of teams to coach for, with a GM who's probably nearing retirement, an aging roster that might be on the verge of being blownup entirely, no first round pick for this year unless they trade Sean for at least one, and being well over the predicted salary cap, meaning people are probably getting cut regardless.

 

[Absolutego]

Sadly, I don't think the Saints will get rid of Dennis Allen in the off-season, unless Sean really does come back to coach (possibly with Brady in tow). Otherwise, I think they will stick with him for one more year, at least for a few games, though they absolutely should and probably will get rid of OC Pete Carmichael. Allen has probably done just enough in these last few games to save his job for awhile.

And the issue of who they would even find to replace him is also a lingering one. The Saints are probably not at the top of anyone's list of teams to coach for, with a GM who's probably nearing retirement, an aging roster that might be on the verge of being blowup entirely, no first round pick for this year unless they trade Sean for at least one, and being well over the predicted salary cap, meaning people are probably getting cut regardless.

I'm not terribly familiar with Saints ownership, but what I'm getting from this is that if Loomis gets the axe/"retires", THEN I should expect some level of blowing it all up. Otherwise, Allen's job is safe?

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

The Chad Damar Hamlin:



The Virgin Peyton Hillis:



At least Damar will be lucky enough to even get his own special holiday on the calendar when it’s all said and done. Now we must ask the million dollar question:

Will Damar be able to get the Bills to the Super Bowl?

 

[std::string]

Sadly, I don't think the Saints will get rid of Dennis Allen in the off-season, unless Sean really does come back to coach (possibly with Brady in tow).

Yeah well at this point I'm not sure Brady is going to go to a team without one of the best O-Lines in the league. We're pretty close to just picking random fans in the stands to come pass block for him.