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

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Who are you rooting for in Super Bowl 60?

  • New England Patriots

    Votes: 11 22.0%

  • Seattle Seahawks

    Votes: 25 50.0%

  • Team State Farm

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • The Meteor

    Votes: 13 26.0%
  • Total voters
    50
  • Poll closed .
The Raiders and Seahawks game was highly entertaining today. Ended up going to overtime and the Raiders won it 40-34 on a game ending 86-yard run by Josh Jacobs (who ran for 229 yards on the day with a pair of TDs.)

I didn't watch any of it, but the road team also won in the Chargers and Cardinals game. Down 24-17, Justin Herbert threw a TD pass to Austin Ekeler with 18 seconds left and they decided to try for the win instead of going to OT. It worked out with a successful two-point conversion for the 25-24 win.

I didn't catch any of this one either, but the Jaguars surprised the Ravens also with 18 seconds left in the 4th quarter to beat them 28-27. Lots of nice games today it seems like. I'm hoping the Packers can put on an entertaining SNF game with Philly, but they're already down 7-0 and Rodgers just threw an interception at his own 29 yard line as I was typing this. :story:
 
Absolutego said:
Ok, does anyone have a higher traffic forum they use for football discussion that isn't reddit?
Because I've been banned from /r/NFL for like the 4th time now because one of the head mods is a Russell Wilson-cum-Broncos fan and I keep making fun of his team in game threads. I remember him being one of the most obnoxious assholes over the summer because of the Russ trade too, peak reddit janny bullshit.
How do you not make fun of an offense that is incapable of putting up more than 1 sad, solitary field goal against the 2022 Panthers?!
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Nah we just have yo make our own, I use to try and post in the SA football thread and gave up a while ago since I told them that continuing to talk about kaepernick was like tim tebow fans 5 years after the fact that he had been out of the league and was threatened with a ban. It sucks since the sports argument wiki was really funny and it use to be a really good place for football talk but Im thinking its dead in most places
 
Local Fed said:
The Raiders and Seahawks game was highly entertaining today. Ended up going to overtime and the Raiders won it 40-34 on a game ending 86-yard run by Josh Jacobs (who ran for 229 yards on the day with a pair of TDs.)
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That game made me think that Brooks should join Barton in the proverbial cannon we shoot towards the sun this offseason. He won't because he's a first round pick on a rookie deal, but our middle linebacker core is godawful at stopping the run.
Even with Geno dropping from his prior highs and Woods/Ford being anemic on the run game I still want Seattle to draft an edge rusher and then a linebacker with Denver's picks.
 
Absolutego said:
Ok, does anyone have a higher traffic forum they use for football discussion that isn't reddit?
Because I've been banned from /r/NFL for like the 4th time now because one of the head mods is a Russell Wilson-cum-Broncos fan and I keep making fun of his team in game threads. I remember him being one of the most obnoxious assholes over the summer because of the Russ trade too, peak reddit janny bullshit.
How do you not make fun of an offense that is incapable of putting up more than 1 sad, solitary field goal against the 2022 Panthers?!
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A reddit jannie seething about reality? Wow, thats a first

In other news, Packers offense finally decides to play really well in a game where our defense can't stop anyone. Wonderful. At least Jordan Love looked alright and is developing. Maybe in 2 years we can have an open salary so Rodgers and his always injured buddy Bakhtiari can stop eating away at the cap
 
DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
@Absolutego how did you guys get away with this?

Literally 12 men on the field
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My fanboy rationalization is Taylor ran on to celebrate the interception before realizing the play was still live and doing the football equivalent of looking like he belonged there.
Also probably because it was a home game and refs were distracted.
 
DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
In other news, Packers offense finally decides to play really well in a game where our defense can't stop anyone. Wonderful. At least Jordan Love looked alright and is developing. Maybe in 2 years we can have an open salary so Rodgers and his always injured buddy Bakhtiari can stop eating away at the cap
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The bad thing is that the Packers need to make a decision on Love's fifth-year option before the next season and they don't have much to go on.

If I was their FO I'd bench Rodgers after the Bears game. Lets him go out on a high note looking like an MVP again with the Bears, then you get to see Love in a whole game against some good teams.
 
std::string said:
The bad thing is that the Packers need to make a decision on Love's fifth-year option before the next season and they don't have much to go on.

If I was their FO I'd bench Rodgers after the Bears game. Lets him go out on a high note looking like an MVP again with the Bears, then you get to see Love in a whole game against some good teams.
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The FO needs to sit Rodgers down and explain to him that they can't do anything right now because his best buddy, Bakhtiari is the second highest paid player on the team and is hurt the entire time. They can't afford to do much and if he wants to win before retiring, he needs to let his buddy go
 
I had noticed the Chiefs have been doing a lot of 1-4 splits. I saw this video, from some guys who think about football more than me, talking about it's effectiveness against Cover 6. I didn't even know Cover 6 was a thing.
 
1Tonka_Truck said:
I had noticed the Chiefs have been doing a lot of 1-4 splits. I saw this video, from some guys who think about football more than me, talking about it's effectiveness against Cover 6. I didn't even know Cover 6 was a thing.
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I've seen a lot of teams try the 1-4 with a trailing receiver doing a comeback route this season.

Problem is that you're doing what the defense wants you to do. You're fucked taking checkdowns or short runs every snap if you get a sack or a penalty. 3rd and 18 you may as well just punt it.

It works for KC since they have Mahomes but man it hasn't worked well for the Bucs. I think the era of pocket passers is over.

e: in other news TPD is currently posted up outside Antonio Brown's house trying to serve a warrant
 
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Cpl. Long Dong Silver said:
The clock management by the Colts at the end of tonight's game was abysmal
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Welcome to my world. Harbaugh and Gro can't fucking get plays in unless there's under 10 seconds left on the play clock. Our rookie center has been balling but I cannot imagine it's fun when your QB is still looking at his wristband just seconds before the delay of game.
 
1Tonka_Truck said:
So now that youtube is trying to get me to watch everyone of these guys' videos, I can safely say the first half of this could be renamed Russel Wilson Slander. @Absolutego
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As a member of probably the only fanbase that enjoys watching Broncos football at this moment, I don't see any of that as slander. Russ has been missing obvious reads. He has been forcing stupid throws and playing favorites with his targets. He has been quick to check down or break out of pocket, though that last one can kinda be blamed on PTSD from years of shitty O-lines in Seattle, and the fact that Denver's fielding linemen 3 layers down on the depth chart right now on account of how injured they are.

The forcing throws and playing favorites has been an issue with Russ for years. It got really bad in 2017-2018 when Lockett was the only star receiver we had. I think trying to break Russ of that habit was a big part of why we drafted DK (Baldwin being a shell of his former self and retiring didn't help), and why we over-invested in finding a WR3 he liked instead of drafting Creed Humphrey to be our new center. If Russ has trust issues with receivers, he simply doesn't throw to them. Even when they're open. And since Courtland Sutton is basically the only WR on that team who hasn't dropped a bunch of passes from him (Jeudy particularly, there's a reason he was on the trade block), he's the one who gets all the targets. I wonder how much Russ bought into the same hype about how stacked Denver's receiving core was as the general media did and is experiencing buyer's remorse.

The only part of what's happening in Denver's offense right now that I find surprising (aside from just how steep the drop off was) is Russ missing reads this badly. I wonder how much of it is due to Hackett constantly handing him plays where the primary (and often secondary) reads are cross routes. Rodgers has no issue making those throws, but Pete didn't scheme that way for a reason. Because the deep cross is the hardest route for Russ to see over his linemen.

Watching whoever coaches the team in 2023 is going to answer a lot of questions about Russ' future. I worry with him being so chained to the team via that contract, and after forcing his way out of Seattle to have more influence over the playcalling, that Russ has truly become un-coachable. Like, I could tell you exactly what Denver needs to do to make the best effort at unlocking classic Russ (scheme reads along the sideline and invest in a bellcow RB to keep the middle threatened), but ever since the Let Russ Cook season in 2020 (which ended with him taking a nasty hit against the Cardinals in week 11 on an out-of-pocket play and never being the same), he's trying to become a pure pocket passer instead of a scrambler. And he's too short to be a pocket QB, I'm sorry to say.
 
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Absolutego said:
Like, I could tell you exactly what Denver needs to do to make the best effort at unlocking classic Russ (scheme reads along the sideline and invest in a bellcow RB to keep the middle threatened)
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Honestly, yeah. Russ won't pass over the middle and the Broncos have no real ground threat. MLB can just run in and sack him since there's nothing else to do, really.
 
std::string said:
I've seen a lot of teams try the 1-4 with a trailing receiver doing a comeback route this season.

Problem is that you're doing what the defense wants you to do. You're fucked taking checkdowns or short runs every snap if you get a sack or a penalty. 3rd and 18 you may as well just punt it.

It works for KC since they have Mahomes but man it hasn't worked well for the Bucs. I think the era of pocket passers is over.

e: in other news TPD is currently posted up outside Antonio Brown's house trying to serve a warrant
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2010's Brady used to overcome tough defenses with checkdowns that were just barely at or before the first down marker. You could still have a below average o line, but your receivers could still make a play or at least be 3rd and short. I remember he once carved up a Zimmer defense by just dinking and dunking up down the field.

But a lot of the checkdowns other QBs are doing are way before the marker. Like 5 yard short. So that's on the coaches or the QB.

And AB's probably gonna try and negotiate with the police by showing them his penis.
 
InteracialBowelSyndrome said:
But a lot of the checkdowns other QBs are doing are way before the marker. Like 5 yard short. So that's on the coaches or the QB.
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OCs have been pretty suspect this year.

Hmm yeah let's have a designed play where we pass to the TE over the middle for a six yard gain. Oh it was 3rd and 12?

Like, fuck, do they expect receivers to start teleporting or something?
 
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