NFL 2017 Week 3 Thread

Jacoby Brissett looks like a proper NFL QB. Poised, making reads.

Kizer still looking raw. Throwing off back foot, looking down receivers. Browns OL isn't playing particularly well though.

Enix wrote:

I agree 1000 percent with everything you wrote about the Saints except for the hint that maybe New Orleans should think about getting rid of Sean Payton. I hope they keep him and his great defensive mind FOR YEARS.

I think he heard you.

Beckham fastest ever to 300 catches.

He celebrated on all fours, lifted his leg and pissed like a male dog.

Houston looking interesting. I switched off RedZone to follow this game. Watson decisive in throws. Ran a great QB draw on 3rd and 2. Offense looks more quick-read out of the shotgun, almost as if BOB read that Football Outsiders rant.

Watson has looked good except for a couple of throws. Somewhat unexpected nail biter for the Pats.

Houston snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

WTF how did Houston let the clock bleed from 0:13 to 0:03 before the timeout got called?

O'Brien should have been running onto the field calling that timeout the moment the play ended.

Pats had no business winning that game.

Eagles' 5th round pick kicker drills a 61-yarder for the win.

See, that's why you draft kickers.

Whenever people want to talk pre season about how the Bucs will be real good I'm glad I never believe them. Always making scrub QBs look good.

*Legion* wrote:

Eagles' 5th round pick kicker drills a 61-yarder for the win.

See, that's why you draft kickers.

I had no idea someone drafted a kicker this year, but that's because no one was dumb enough to trade up in the 2nd for one.

Also, P Brad Wing for the Giants kicked a 28 years doozie to give the Eagles the ball at the end. Bad time to shank one.

*Legion* wrote:

Eagles' 5th round pick kicker drills a 61-yarder for the win.

See, that's why you draft good kickers.

Fixed.

For a speed back that can be slippery, Kareem Hunt is a really violent runner.

Waaaaait a second. The Jets won a game?

Stele wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

Eagles' 5th round pick kicker drills a 61-yarder for the win.

See, that's why you draft good kickers.

Fixed.

Correction.. Cincy drafted him and I believe practice squad or cut him. Eagles picked him up when starter got IR'd after game 1

Well that pregame show of unity between the Seahawks and Titans didn't last through the first half.

Waitaminute:

*Rams scored over 40, again
*Cincinnati is leading GB 21-7
*Bortlesmania throttled the Ravens
*Buffalo is apparently better than Dallas and beat Denver
*The Saints... what? Sorry Enix
*The Bears beat the Steelers
*Cleveland... Cleveland had a rousing comeback to almost beat the Colts
*Houston gave NE all they could want

The NFL is weird.

garion333 wrote:

Waaaaait a second. The Jets won a game?

Legitimate potential sports page headline tomorrow: Jags, Jets dominant in wins.

In 5 games as the Jaguars head coach, Doug Marrone has already achieved over 20% of the win total Gus Bradley earned in 62 games.

So, Friday I didn't sleep well for some unknown reason. Last night? Literally barely slept at all. So, all exhausted, and then I "got" to go to that game. Well, the Vikings new stadium is really nice. Huge thumbs up.

If you watch the "highlights" of that game, note how often #28 is the guy getting burned Vernon Hargreaves III was the first-round CB last year. He wasn't good last year, and is awful so far this year. Also awful? Trey Waynes, on the Vikings, who was even gifted a pick. Near the end of the half, Desean Jackson utterly toasts Waynes and is several yards behind him on a post. Winston hangs the ball up short, DSJ has to almost stop, and easy pick. I got to see very bad Winston today. VERY bad.

Lavonte David getting taken off on a cart with about three minutes left in an utterly lost game was great. News is he's reported it's "minor", but, from the nature of the injury, high ankle sprain would be a good guess, and it's not like that's ever really "minor".

I blame the Jersey of Failure:

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My gawd, grunge never ended for you, eh?

Can't be grunge, shorts aren't plaid.

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Chiefs!

...I'd say this is a bad look for Mark Davis, but this is Mark Davis.

Sat Ryan for Carr because I want to believe.

Raiders on prime time tv? I'm starting to pay for 30 seconds in.

Leave it to the Jets to turn a victory into a loss.

Looks like Carolina sent its JV squad out to play the Saints today.

And the Raiders are losing. And Bortles looked like Brunell. And the Falcons won. And I had to work, so I missed a pretty good afternoon of football, except those things I mentioned. What a week.

garion333 wrote:

Jacoby Brissett looks like a proper NFL QB. Poised, making reads.

Kizer still looking raw. Throwing off back foot, looking down receivers. Browns OL isn't playing particularly well though.

PFF agreed.

QB JACOBY BRISSETT, 86.2 OVERALL GRADE
A career game for the second-year signal caller out of North Carolina State, Brissett finished the contest with grades north of 83 in both passing and rushing. Brissett had quite a bit of success moving the ball when he was provided a clean pocket, completing 15 of 19 passes for 248 yards and a touchdown, giving him a 136.3 passer rating on throws coming without pressure. He also had success when he pushed the ball downfield, completing 7 of 9 passes that traveled at least 10 yards down the field for a total of 203 yards and a touchdown.
QB DESHONE KIZER, 69.7 OVERALL GRADE
If you’re looking for a quarterback to take you to the playoffs this year, Kizer is not your guy. But that’s not what the Browns are focused on, and instead what they’ll be looking at is can he be a franchise quarterback in the long term. There was more good than bad (even with his receivers dropping three passes and doing a bad job of holding onto three more with defensive contact), including three big time throws that show he can really punish a defense over the top. But when it comes to 2017 there are too many errant throws and a tendency to hold the ball that bit too long.

It's interesting that the Browns can manage to pull within a FG or TD in garbage time, but at least they're getting there where in the past they'd have given up another 20 points.

That Lions game was a punch in the gut, and such a very Lions thing to happen to the Lions. I wasn't even surprised when they overturned (very questionably, I think) the game-winning TD and then ran out the clock on them. (I know they followed the rule, but it sucks that if they made that play call on the field the Lions likely would have had time to get off one more play, but because it was an overturned call it's an automatic 10-second run off and game over.)

garion333 wrote:

PFF agreed.

I didn't know that you could actually read PFF content. I thought it was super-secret or firewalled or something.

I think I'll go over and see what PFF thought of Cam's performance on Sunday and ...

* gouges eyes out *

Yeah, Cam was pretty sorry. The whole Carolina team was, too, actually. No idea why*. It's a conference game. Gotta get up for that.

* OK, Cam's shoulder still doesn't look like it's 100 percent. But Cam at 70-80-90 percent is still a top-15 QB in this league, especially against the Saints. The Saints! Gah. That's going to leave a mark.