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

[Froggy Fresh Sextape]

It's a good move. I won't be surprised if they get 11 plus wins. I don't know why everyone thinks the Steelers roster is so abysmal, it's been a playoff team with almost nothing coming from the backfield outside of Jaylen Warren as an RB2. Rodgers is far better than anything they have had since Big Ben.

They're also getting Rodgers on a discount contract. They're in a very good position.

Now all they need is for Montana Lemonious-Craig to become the next AB

 

[Trombonista]

Today is Chris Jones's birthday!

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

I refuse to accept that names in College Football are real. Who the fuck names their kid Dude Person or General Booty? Fucking Key and Peele skit level names...

Welp, I for one might actually have to watch a College Football game, solely to hear EPSN try to not fuck up saying Noah Knigga on National TV...

 

[Absolutego]

I had no idea he unretired.

The Dolphins OC was TE coach for the Raiders during Waller's breakout year. He probably saw Jonnu Smith walk out the door and called up his boy to say "hey, if we can get you out of New Jersey, you want to come back and play again?"

 

[HackerX]

Today is Chris Jones's birthday!

How and where do you look this stuff up every day?

The Dolphins OC was TE coach for the Raiders during Waller's breakout year. He probably saw Jonnu Smith walk out the door and called up his boy to say "hey, if we can get you out of New Jersey, you want to come back and play again?"

Do the Dolphins utilize their TE's that much in the passing game? I've got no clue but I can't recall them being known for it. Their offense, yeah, but their TE's? Not so much, but it's not something I've paid any particular attention to so who knows.

 

[Absolutego]

Do the Dolphins utilize their TE's that much in the passing game? I've got no clue but I can't recall them being known for it. Their offense, yeah, but their TE's? Not so much, but it's not something I've paid any particular attention to so who knows.

Not traditionally, but getting TEs more involved in the passing game was one of McDaniel's promises this time last year, and Jonnu Smith did have his most productive season after he made that promise. I don't know if Waller will have the same resurgence

 

[Iron Hamster]

How and where do you look this stuff up every day?

Do the Dolphins utilize their TE's that much in the passing game? I've got no clue but I can't recall them being known for it. Their offense, yeah, but their TE's? Not so much, but it's not something I've paid any particular attention to so who knows.

The most tight end usage I've seen in a while was when Gesicki was still there and that wasn't much.

 

[Trombonista]

How and where do you look this stuff up every day?

I just go through the NFL draft pages on Wikipedia.

 

[Drama Fan]

Randy Moss apparently beat the cancer

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

I hope he did a really disrespectful celebration dance. Fuck cancer.

 

[HackerX]

I hope he did a really disrespectful celebration dance. Fuck cancer.

I still can't believe (not really) the media was so up in arms over that. Legit rivalry game in the playoffs, in the division with the best rivalries. Especially when it being a well-known tradition in Green Bay to moon the opposing team when they were leaving on their busses.

The fake outrage was so ridiculous, but I guess it did lead to the Vikings trading a generational phenom at wide receiver to the Raiders for a draft pick and a fringe-starting caliber linebacker. It didn't really pan out, so that was pretty cool.

 

[Absolutego]

I still can't believe (not really) the media was so up in arms over that. Legit rivalry game in the playoffs, in the division with the best rivalries. Especially when it being a well-known tradition in Green Bay to moon the opposing team when they were leaving on their busses.

The fake outrage was so ridiculous, but I guess it did lead to the Vikings trading a generational phenom at wide receiver to the Raiders for a draft pick and a fringe-starting caliber linebacker. It didn't really pan out, so that was pretty cool.

My understanding is Joe Buck was aware of that tradition and thought Moss had actually mooned the audience for real in the moment. Think I've seen an interview where he agrees it was overblown, he just made a misread.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Hey everybody, just wanted to run something.

In the College Football thread, @Señora Airi brought up the idea of a pick ‘em for the season, and some people were on board over there. And in the spirit of high stakes fantasy football, I think we’ve even settled on a humiliating forfeit for the person who finished dead last: the champion gets to declare what their PFP (and the caption under it) will be, and it has to be kept for the entire offseason (with what I assume is the caveat that it can’t bring your account at risk).

I was wondering if anybody here was interested in something similar.

The way to do it I think would be this, though I’m open to talk about it:

Spoiler: Potential rules set.

Goes through entire regular season, with option to extend into playoffs

Tuesday and Wednesday are dedicated to making selections, with all picks considered locked in and unable to be changed the day of the first game of the scheduled week is played ( so normally Thursday)

Following the regular season, participants will be given the choice to either end their picking, or continue with each round of the playoffs, with the following caveats:

1. If a decision is made to decline the option of making additional picks after the regular season, that decision is binding, final, and irreversible.
2. If one reaches the point where they have the option to predict the Super Bowl, the choice of a winner is mandatory and will be considered locked in the Saturday before the game.

Also, participants provide predictions for the following awards:
MVP
Offensive Player of The Year
Defensive POY
Offensive Rookie of The Year
Defensive ROY
Comeback Player of The Year
Coach of The Year
Walter Payton NFL Man of The Year

This is to serve as a potential tiebreaker where any tie will be given to the participant who makes more correct predictions. Deadlines for these picks is the first game of the NFL season.

The person who finishes last will have their profile picture, along with the option of the caption under it, selected by the winner (provided it does not violate Kiwi Farms TOS) and must be kept until the start of the next regular season, or earlier if the two parties can come to a written agreement.

Let me know if anybody is interested.

 

[Squanto Airi]

I'll join an NFL pick em as well

 

[Fat Gay Riker]

Sign me up fren.

 

[DSP's Tax Lawyer]

I would be down. Not sure if I can get my image privilege's back from jersh but I would participate

 

[Random Internet Person]

So we got @Señora Airi , @Fat Gay Riker , @DSP's Tax Lawyer on board. I forgot about the new DM rules, so should I make a DM group or something just to keep track of things, say closer to week 1? While also adding new interested users?

 

[Squanto Airi]

A DM would work for all of them so it doesn't completely shit up the respective sports threads.

 

[Americunt]

So we got @Señora Airi , @Fat Gay Riker , @DSP's Tax Lawyer on board. I forgot about the new DM rules, so should I make a DM group or something just to keep track of things, say closer to week 1? While also adding new interested users?

I'm in

 

[DSP's Tax Lawyer]

A DM would work for all of them so it doesn't completely shit up the respective sports threads.

It would be nice to have an excel sheet keeping track of stuff too