NFL 2020: Week 6

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Joe Flacco: 11/25, 71 yards.

Joe Flacco is Joe Flacco-ing as hard as Joe Flacco has ever Joe Flaccoed.

Sack for a loss of 28.

The Jets just intercepted a Fitzpatrick pass with someone's ass cheeks. They can't get enough butt plays.

Then with 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter they finally got the first third down conversion of the game by either team.

Then on the next third down Flacco took a 28 yard sack.

Tua 100% career completions, 100% career third down conversion rate.

He's unstoppable.

Rat Boy wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Joe Flacco: 11/25, 71 yards.

Joe Flacco is Joe Flacco-ing as hard as Joe Flacco has ever Joe Flaccoed.

Sack for a loss of 28.

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Troy Aikman's getting tired of getting his stories interrupted and Joe Buck called him a "pretty boy." Have they been sheltering-in-place together for the last seven months?

Welp, Carolina remains on pace to go 3-13. Teddy was OK, but the O line wasn't good enough to consistently open running lanes for Mike Davis or keep Teddy upright.

Bears might actually be good. They're not great -- they've played garbage teams (except for the Bucs last week) -- but they look good enough to beat a lot of teams this year.

Stele wrote:

There's still no good reason to have 12 games at 1 and 2 games at 4. I'll never understand.

It can't be understood.

Deebo!

Paul Giamatti would be an incredible guest star on Succession.

What a clusterf*ck. Clearly not a fumble.

You can not possibly rule that a fumble. There's about 3 different ways he was down.

Terminator 2 theme is the best Terminator theme.

Mr Bismarck wrote:

Then on the next third down Flacco took a 28 yard sack.

Here's that highlight.

Make the Showtime Cam a permanent feature.

Jimmy's ankle better I guess.

Still wish they'd just sat him last week.

Stele wrote:

Jimmy's ankle better I guess.

Still wish they'd just sat him last week.

It's still not 100%, but it's not totally gimpy.

That plus getting at least 1 of the 3 starting CBs back have made quite a difference. No more Brian Allen getting torched. Still having to play Jamar Taylor though.

Rat Boy wrote:

Paul Giamatti would be an incredible guest star on Succession.

Those ads AREN'T stolen from weekly previews? I always assumed Brian Cox was going to show up in the back seat of the VW eating a Big Mac mumbling the McD's song.

65% 49ers > 100% Rams

Report: Adam Gase still not fired.

There's no story to link to. Just . . . how the hell is Adam Gase still not fired?

Adam Gase Ambles Onward, Unkillable

As I said a week or so ago, I don't think he gets fired in-season. He's doing exactly what they want him to do. Although, I'm starting to think Clemson's dickhead head coach may be paying the Jets to keep Gase to force Trevor Lawrence to stay in school for another year.

I'm starting to think I might have been wrong about the Jets being better than the Giants.

Greggggggg's Jets defense is still probably the best unit on either team, but they're on the field the entire game. The Jets offense is dead last in 1st downs. What's especially amazing is that the offense has a low turnover rate, so they're not failing to extend drives due to turnovers, but just a complete inability to move the ball and convert a 3rd down (30.2%, league worst). The metrics on the Jets D seems skewed from an offense that can't convert anything.

At 75 offensive points, the Jets are not only dead last in offensive scoring, but there's 26 points separating them and second-worst (the Giants).

Any edge Greggggg's semi-competence at defense might bring gets swallowed up by the Gase/Loggains black hole of an offense.

The Giants offense is technically statistically worse than the Jets, but the difference is due to turnovers from Daniel Jones the turnover machine. On drives where they don't turn the ball over, though, there's enough explosion there that they can actually score on occasion, thus you have an offense that has slightly fewer yards than the Jets but significantly more points, and a much longer average drive length (ie. rest time for the D).

Milkman made a crack about Blake Bortles as an injury replacement for the 49ers. Blake Bortles should legitimately be on the Jets radar. Bortles at his worst was never as impotent as Darnold or 35-year-old Flacco. Simply generating no offensive output at all is worse than throwing INTs and taking sacks. Bortles using his legs and big body to pick up some yards, and chucking some YOLO throws downfield, would be an offensive bonanza compared to what they are right now.

I would say that the Jets are simply tanking for Trevor, but this entire regime will be gone if they don't do something. The GM is a guy the organization didn't really want in the first place, but he had a Gase connection and was the fallback after their top choice spurned them.

For an update on my purchasing of questionable old QB jerseys, I just bought a Steve Beuerlein expansion Jags jersey.

I also own a Jags Beuerlein Starting Lineup figure:

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For those that don't recall expansion Jags history, Beuerlein was brought in to be the franchise QB. He was told that's exactly what he was going to be, and to not worry about the fact that Coughlin later traded for some backup QB from Green Bay. Then by week 6, Coughlin benched Beuerlein and put in Santa Maria legend Mark Brunell, the greatest QB of Jaguars history. Beuerlein was pissed about the short leash, and never took a snap for the Jags again.

*Legion* wrote:

Mark Brunell, the greatest QB of Jaguars history.

Siri, show me an example of a compliment that may not actually be a compliment.

I remember dreaming about being able to purchase a jersey...back in the day...and looking at football preview mags like Lindy's or something and seeing an ad that had Beuerlein's #7 in the brand new Jags jersey.

How are you allowed to keep that stuff in your house?!?

*Legion* wrote:

For those that don't recall expansion Jags history, Beuerlein was brought in to be the franchise QB. He was told that's exactly what he was going to be, and to not worry about the fact that Coughlin later traded for some backup QB from Green Bay. Then by week 6, Coughlin benched Beuerlein and put in Santa Maria legend Mark Brunell, the greatest QB of Jaguars history. Beuerlein was pissed about the short leash, and never took a snap for the Jags again.

This very specific point isn't true?

wikipedia wrote:

Beuerlein was the starting quarterback for the first game in team history, starting the first two games before spraining his right MCL in a game against the Cincinnati Bengals. When he was healthy two weeks later, backup Mark Brunell would keep the starting job, and Beuerlein would not see action again until Week 12 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He came off the bench for an injured Brunell in the fourth quarter and led a team-record 96-yard touchdown drive, throwing what was potentially the game-tying touchdown, until head coach Tom Coughlin decided to go for a two-point conversion and the win, which failed and the Jaguars lost 17-16. Beuerlein started the next four games in relief of Brunell – all losses – until Brunell returned and the Jags finished their inaugural season with a 4-12 record. Beuerlein reportedly had a confrontational relationship with head coach Coughlin, and finished the season as the third quarterback behind rookie Rob Johnson. As he was in the last year of his original three-year deal with the Cardinals, after the season he became a free agent.

Vector wrote:

This very specific point isn't true?

You're right. I actually mixed up the order of Beuerlein's starts. Brunell took over as starter earlier than I said, in week 3, and the other Beuerlein starts came after Brunell went down to injury. Serves me right for not double checking fuzzy 1995 memory.

The main point is that he was gone by the next season. He was the shortest lived Jaguars "franchise QB" until Nick Foles.

*Legion* wrote:

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Rather forward thinking of Starting Lineup to give their figures the "Dak Prescott Hip Dance" move.

Rat Boy wrote:

Rather forward thinking of Starting Lineup to give their figures the "Dak Prescott Hip Dance" move.

Starting Lineup also heavily reused their molds for multiple players. There's a ton of QB figures with that pose.

I'm convinced the reason that Mark Brunell had a Starting Lineup figure basically every single year is because Steve Young naturally did, and so they reused the "left handed QB" molds to make Brunells. Normally a player like Brunell would get represented maybe every 2-3 years or so, but he was basically an annual fixture in the line.

Where's that sweet, sweet Jags jersey with all the QB names? They deserve one too.