NFL 2020: Week 9

Saints might want to run up the score some more on Brady just to be safe. Just saying.

When the Packers lose in those classic sucker Punch games it hurts

I'm not even anywhere close to liking the Bucs ever, Tom Brady, Suh, Arians, AB. I don't even like Gronk. I can't think of a single thing I like about the Bucs beside that they went 0-16 once.

Watching this makes me feel hurt for the Bucs.

Edit: f*ck Warren Sapp also.

jowner wrote:

I can't think of a single thing I like about the Bucs beside that they went 0-16 once.

Technically it was 0-14, the 16 game season didn't begin for another couple years. But that aside, carry on...

jowner wrote:

When the Packers lose in those classic sucker Punch games it hurts

I'm not even anywhere close to liking the Bucs ever, Tom Brady, Suh, Arians, AB. I don't even like Gronk. I can't think of a single thing I like about the Bucs beside that they went 0-16 once.

Watching this makes me feel hurt for the Bucs.

Edit: f*ck Warren Sapp also.

1. Mike Evans is a genuinely great guy, an incredibly talented player who takes care of his community, plays right, and is just damn nice.

2. Lavonte David.

3. Derrick Brooks set up a charitable foundation when he was playing where he would feed people, take a couple dozen kids to Africa in the offseason, and repair houses. Once he retired, he got put in the Board of Governors of FSU, and founded a high school in the Tampa area to help kids who weren't fitting into other schools get a college prep experience, and it's a phenomenal school. Derrick Brooks is a good enough human being to help everyone pretend Warren Sapp doesn't exist.

4. F*ck Antonio Brown. They should have lost by 90.

Taysom Hill ran for 54 yards! And threw for 48! An offensive bonanza! He may catch up to average 3rd down RB production yet.

Philly manages to find a way to win even on their bye week.

*Legion* wrote:
jowner wrote:

I can't think of a single thing I like about the Bucs beside that they went 0-16 once.

Technically it was 0-14, the 16 game season didn't begin for another couple years. But that aside, carry on...

Hahah as I was typing this I was thinking this might be wrong but figured it would give an easy slam dunk for someone.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
jowner wrote:

When the Packers lose in those classic sucker Punch games it hurts

I'm not even anywhere close to liking the Bucs ever, Tom Brady, Suh, Arians, AB. I don't even like Gronk. I can't think of a single thing I like about the Bucs beside that they went 0-16 once.

Watching this makes me feel hurt for the Bucs.

Edit: f*ck Warren Sapp also.

1. Mike Evans is a genuinely great guy, an incredibly talented player who takes care of his community, plays right, and is just damn nice.

2. Lavonte David.

3. Derrick Brooks set up a charitable foundation when he was playing where he would feed people, take a couple dozen kids to Africa in the offseason, and repair houses. Once he retired, he got put in the Board of Governors of FSU, and founded a high school in the Tampa area to help kids who weren't fitting into other schools get a college prep experience, and it's a phenomenal school. Derrick Brooks is a good enough human being to help everyone pretend Warren Sapp doesn't exist.

4. F*ck Antonio Brown. They should have lost by 90.

I figure every org has some great people associated with them. (I'm sure there's a couple of teams that can put this to the test).

They also might have the Glazers which are pretty bleh.

I am not sure why, but I watched every minute of that game and have to say that Brady definitely deserves a large part of the blame for that pathetic display of absolute incompetence. He is clearly not suited for that offense.

This pretty much sums up Sunday's late game:

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I love the picks comics so much.

*Legion* wrote:

My god did the Jags get ref hosed in this game. I mean they're 1-6 and not relevant so who cares, but a couple of really egregious calls in this game that happened to be on pivotal plays.

Here's one of the plays I was referring to:

Sporting News: NFL should consider rule change after horrific no-call on Texans' touchdown vs. Jaguars

That one, plus a 50 yard pass interference call that was a shove to the back as an overthrown ball sailed past Will Fuller. A dumb push but there is no PI on uncatchable passes.

That no call sucks, but there's no way they're going to make that reviewable.

garion333 wrote:

That no call sucks, but there's no way they're going to make that reviewable.

I wouldn't make it reviewable, I would make play clock enforcement more strict and literal.

You already have a the line judge and down judge both staring down the line of scrimmage before the snap. With the magic of 2020 technology, it is possible to invent a buzzer that would shake and alert either one of them when the play clock hits :00.

When it does hit :00, throw the flag instead of doing this stupid "look at the line, now at the clock, now back at the line, now at the clock, is it :00 yet, now back at the line, now give them an indeterminate buffer period, then maybe reach for your flag" dance we have now.

The game clock is enforced down to the instant. There's no extra couple second buffer when it hits :00. There's zero reason for the play clock to be treated in such a silly, fuzzy manner.

I agree, I just don't think there's a particularly simple and effective way for the NFL to do it that doesn't involve humans and some fudge room.

The NFL also doesn't want it to be perfect. If it was always enforced the game would slow down and we can't have anything ruining the product more than it is (by TV time outs and replays).

It's small potatoes.

Granted, that's about as egregious as I've ever seen, but the defense still keyed off the snap, not the clock.

f*ck!!! I just realized that the most evil sports franchise (Patriots) are probably going to get Trevor Lawerence in the draft.

The Jets might have been better on offense if they had paid to keep Robby Anderson (seriously, why didn't they?).

Anderson + Mims + Perriman. Flacco would've gotten another ring!

garion333 wrote:

Granted, that's about as egregious as I've ever seen, but the defense still keyed off the snap, not the clock.

Oh yes, the Jags gave up the TD because they suck, not because of the lack of delay of game. It's just that it was SO egregious that it's infuriating.

Crazy quote from the Yahoo power rankings:

The Bears had one run longer than 6 yards on Sunday, and it was from outside linebacker on Barkevious Mingo on a fake punt. The Bears offense is impossibly bad.

Paleocon wrote:

Brady definitely deserves a large part of the blame for that pathetic display of absolute incompetence. He is clearly not suited for that offense.

I'm still trying to reconcile that, with 7 weeks of more competent play this year.

I went to bed confident that the Jets f*cked up their draft capital only to wake up and see they managed the save in OT.

It looks like Ben Roethesburger is on the covid protocol. Not sure if that means he is out for the week, but if so, does that give Joe Burrow a chance against a Mason Rudolph led Steelers?

Five days and no positives means he can play on Sunday, assuming they're all negative results.

Folks, Josh Allen, QB of the Bills, is now to be known as The Good Josh Allen. I'm beyond shocked.

garion333 wrote:

Folks, Josh Allen, QB of the Bills, is now to be known as The Good Josh Allen. I'm beyond shocked.

It would have happened sooner if Fresno State had recruited him. Wyoming didn't know how to unleash his Fresno power.

*Legion* wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Folks, Josh Allen, QB of the Bills, is now to be known as The Good Josh Allen. I'm beyond shocked.

It would have happened sooner if Fresno State had recruited him. Wyoming didn't know how to unleash his Fresno power.

He could have been the next Trent Dilfer.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

He could have been the next Trent Dilfer.

Champion of the Freedom Bowl AND the Super Bowl!

I've watched at least one Oregon State game a year for the last 20 years (guess which one) and I admit I've never heard of Jake Luton. That's surprising because nearly every non-Cal Pac-12 QB thats in the NFL has had one of his best games against Cal, and their names are branded into my head. Turns out in the 3 years Luton was at OSU he didn't play Cal in 2 of them and was horrible against us last year.

Welp, it was nice having CMC back for a week. But he busted up a shoulder, so the Mike Davis era continues.

Speaking of next week ... Week 10!

Beginning to wonder if the only reason Tampa stays clean here is the Greg Schiano Memorial MRSA Infection hangs around just enough to scare COVID away.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Beginning to wonder if the only reason Tampa stays clean here is the Greg Schiano Memorial MRSA Infection hangs around just enough to scare COVID away.

No, we know the real reason COVID has no chance in Tampa.