NFL 2014: Preseason

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Hall of Fame Game is underway! Football is finally back!

Cris Collinsworth calls Mario Williams the best player on the defensive line. Wrong Williams, dude.

Kyle Williams >>>> Mario Williams.

As a Lions fan, I just had a mini freakout seeing Schwartz on TV.

lol @ Eli, mid season form

It's so weird that football is on. So weird.

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I'm missing the game to go to a Tori Amos concert with the wife. This is not the manliest day of my life.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I'm missing the game to go to a Tori Amos concert with the wife. This is not the manliest day of my life.

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LOL!!!

*Legion* wrote:

Cris Collinsworth calls Mario Williams the best player on the defensive line. Wrong Williams, dude.

Kyle Williams >>>> Mario Williams.

Apparently it's preseason for the announcers, too.

Also: It's preseason. Who cares? Apparently not Tori Amos.

Ugh. Pre-season.

Stele wrote:

Ugh. Pre-season.

You're not alive if you're not watching Thad Lewis slowballs get jumped on by linebackers.

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Bills early 2nd round pick Cyrus Kouandjio with some horrible waist-bending form.

(Grabbed this screen cap from Twitter, added my own circle highlight.)

Sammy Watkins: 3 targets, 0 catches. :/

Courtesy of Twitter, the season's first Manningface:

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OK, I'm starting to see the value of preseason.

Not Tori Amos, though. I hear she's a Jets fan in any case.

Ryan Nassib is the shortest 6'2" QB I think I've ever seen.

I mean, Mark Brunell was only 6'1" but he didn't look like he was having to strain to throw over the offensive line.

It looked to me like Nassib had a very wide stance, shortening him.

No one else wants to talk about Ryan Nassib's wide stance?

*Legion* wrote:

No one else wants to talk about Ryan Nassib's wide stance?

At least it wasn't in the locker room bathroom after the game?

I've always loved Mike Tanier's wiring, but this one is so great it has to be shared: Party Like a Browns Star.

Good article on FO about whether or not Kurt Warner deserves to be in the HoF.

I've always been in the camp that thinks he should be in, but the cons in the argument really stick out to me. I'm waffling now.

Bengals going all-in with Andy Dalton: 6 year, $115 million extension

*Legion* wrote:

Bengals going all-in with Andy Dalton: 6 year, $115 million extension

Details! Details! Details!

Are not known yet.

garion333 wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

Bengals going all-in with Andy Dalton: 6 year, $115 million extension

Details! Details! Details!

Are not known yet.

If I had to guess. Some contract that satisfies both parties giving Dalton cash money and the Bengals an option to gtfo if things don't go well.

Crossposting from the Xbox One thread.

NFL on Xbox One app gets Sunday Ticket and new fantasy football partners for 2014

One of the top requests from users of the NFL app, according to Jurenka, was the option to interface with a wider variety of fantasy football providers. Last year, the app only supported NFL.com, leaving out millions of fans who use sites such as Yahoo Sports, ESPN and CBS Sports.

"We are going to have more leagues than just NFL.com," said Jurenka. He couldn't name specific sites yet, saying that Microsoft is still "working on finalizing some deals," but assured us that once those agreements are in place, the providers in question will be supported within the app by the kickoff of the season on Sept. 4. A Microsoft representative later confirmed to Polygon that the Xbox One's ESPN app will support ESPN fantasy football for this season.

Microsoft's NFL app will also include NFL Now, the new personalized streaming network that the league announced before this year's Super Bowl. The ad-supported free version of NFL Now will allow users to get a stream of news, highlights and analysis about their favorite teams and players. Fans who pay for an NFL Now Plus subscription — the NFL has yet to announce the price or availability of the package — will have access to the "full NFL Films digital vault," according to Jurenka.
Say you've got Jordy Nelson on your fantasy team, and Aaron Rodgers throws him a 60-yard touchdown pass. Within approximately two minutes of that play, you'll get a notification on your Xbox One (see top screenshot). At that point, you can press the Xbox button on your controller to launch straight into Snap mode and watch the highlight, while your activity in the main screen — playing a game, watching Netflix, whatever — keeps running.

1080p60 or GTFO

Yeah, I left out the Sunday Ticket access, since that is mostly pointless if you have it on TV. But some of the highlights and fantasy tracking might be fun. They really needed to find more fantasy sites than just the NFL.com version. Hopefully Yahoo will be one of the new leagues.

*Legion* wrote:

Bengals going all-in with Andy Dalton: 6 year, $115 million extension

Insert Picard-forehead-holding-meme-picture here.

I know it could be worse (Cleveland lol) but I still don't understand. After spending multiple seasons watching him underthrow wide open receivers every game I just can't. Every time AJ Green breaks free and then has to come to a complete stop or even cut buck from what should have been a free TD just to make the ball catchable... UGH.

All that talent and it's all hamstrung by the guy behind center.

There should be a clause in the new contract that gives some of Dalton's money to Green every time he has to catch an off-target pass.

If you compiled all of them even just from last season that picture would be gigantic

I don't think he's trash. I'm not one of those people. But he's not worth all that contract money either.

I suppose I fit firmly in that article's classification of Dalton skeptic.

Okay, in 2014 how is it possible that story didn't have gifs of those catches?

*Legion* wrote:

There should be a clause in the new contract that gives some of Dalton's money to Green every time he has to catch an off-target pass.

That should be a real thing that can happen.

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