NFL 2021: The preseasoning

Top_Shelf wrote:

HFS. Look at this guy's house.

https://defector.com/mark-daviss-hou...

This looks like something form The Avengers or Incredibles.

I just want a tiny movie theater. And maybe an indoor pool.

Someone in the comments said it looked like a Transformer climbing out of the ground.

I can't help but be intrigued by what look to be statues throughout the grounds. I can't zoom in enough to make them out.

Are they Roman gladiators?
Life-size replicas of ex-Raiders?
In the pools?
Do they have fountains shooting water out of their eyes?
Are they ex-Raiders named Romanowski?

I certainly hope ALL of them are Bill Romanowski in various poses.

Top_Shelf wrote:

Do they have fountains shooting water out of their eyes?
Are they ex-Raiders named Romanowski?

I certainly hope ALL of them are Bill Romanowski in various poses.

If they're Romanowskis, the water would need to be coming out of the mouths. Ask JJ Stokes.

Granted, Romo wasn't a Raider at that time, but details details.

Was Romo ever really "not a Raider"?

It's funny, because the guy was only a Raider for 2 years, and he only played 3 games that final year.

6 years, 96 games, and 2 Super Bowl rings with the 49ers

6 years, 96 games, and 2 Super Bowl rings with the Broncos

No, that repetition is not a typo.

2 years, 32 games with the Eagles in-between the SF and Denver stops.

And yet, 19 games at the end of his career in the silver and black, and everyone remembers him as a Raider.

It's true though, the dude certainly played Raider football no matter whose colors he wore.

Yeah, I was just making a joke about his personality. I knew most of his career was elsewhere but I'm, honestly, really surprised he only played 19 games there. I could have sworn it was at least like four years.

He was like if Jon Favreau's character in The Replacements was an actual football playing person.

The lions are definitely playing fantasy football. They cut every kicker, and I guess are going to stream one off the waiver wire

Quick, how did Jarod Goff do in the Punt, Pass, and Kick competition as a kid?

Spoiler:

Hopefully, he was better at the first and last skill than he is at the middle one.

Looks like there will be good football in Jax in Week 1:

Saints-Packers will be played there because of the hurricane.

Saints are on the road in Weeks 2-3, then home in Week 4. I guess New Orleans will be ready to host a football game by early Oct?

Enix wrote:

Looks like there will be good football in Jax in Week 1:

Saints-Packers will be played there because of the hurricane.

Well, the Packers will play good football. It remains to be seen if the Saints will.

And that’s the third interception by Jameis. And here comes Taysom Hill, running the old veer option offense.

I have a complete dilettante football question.

I know that both teams are required to provide numbered game balls for each game. Are they the property of the respective teams? What happens when a team's defense gains possession of the game ball through a turnover? Does the recovering player get to keep it? Say for instance that a rookie DB scores his first career interception. Does he get to keep the ball? What if that happens late enough in a very wet game where they are down to their last game ball?

*Legion* wrote:
Enix wrote:

Looks like there will be good football in Jax in Week 1:

Saints-Packers will be played there because of the hurricane.

Well, the Packers will play good football. It remains to be seen if the Saints will.

That's exactly how I meant it, too.

In unrelated housekeeping news, we need to start a 2021 season thread soon (as in next week), seeing as those the preseason is pretty much over.

You want to stick with tradition and go week to week? Or do you want just one season-long megathread?

I'm volunteering to do one or the other. If we go the weekly thread route, however, I'm not planning to do more than post a new thread and throw out a few Sam Darnold memes. Anyone who wants to long-form this thing is welcome to it.

Paleocon wrote:

I have a complete dilettante football question.

I know that both teams are required to provide numbered game balls for each game. Are they the property of the respective teams? What happens when a team's defense gains possession of the game ball through a turnover? Does the recovering player get to keep it? Say for instance that a rookie DB scores his first career interception. Does he get to keep the ball? What if that happens late enough in a very wet game where they are down to their last game ball?

Rule 2, Section 2:

Each team will make 12 primary and 12 backup balls available for testing by the Referee no later than two hours and 30 minutes prior to the starting time of the game to meet League requirements. For all games, six new footballs, sealed in a special box and shipped by the manufacturer to the Referee, will be opened in the officials’ locker room two hours and 15 minutes prior to the starting time of the game. These balls are to be specially marked by the Referee and used exclusively for the kicking game.

In the event a home team ball does not conform to specifications, or its supply is exhausted, the Referee shall secure a proper ball from the visitors and, failing that, use the best available ball. Any such circumstances must be reported to the Commissioner.

In case of rain or a wet, muddy, or slippery field, a playable ball shall be used at the request of the offensive team’s center. The Game Clock shall not stop for such action (unless undue delay occurs).

Note: It is the responsibility of the home team to furnish playable balls at all times by attendants from either side of the playing field.

My take on your question: once a ball becomes a game ball, there's no longer any ownership associated with it. It's not like the ball will be reused after the game. So it really doesn't matter who provided the game ball that someone intercepted and keeps.

As for running out of balls, I think the part about "use the best available ball and let the Commissioner know about it", along with the note at the end of home teams being required to provide playable balls at all times, covers it.

Enix wrote:

You want to stick with tradition

I'll avoid re-posting my Fiddler on the Roof GIF, but you know my vote.

If there's going to be something fun in the OP for the new threads then, yeah, I want a new thread every week. If it's just a new thread then I see no point.

Tim Tebow has a new job: getting yelled at by Stephen A. Smith.

Bucs are 100% vaccinated.

God damn you Tom Brady doing something that I can't get upset about!

jowner wrote:

Bucs are 100% vaccinated.

God damn you Tom Brady doing something that I can't get upset about!

Probably that TB12 coach of his mandated it. Can't have people getting the whole gym Performance & Recovery Center sick!

jowner wrote:

Bucs are 100% vaccinated.

God damn you Tom Brady doing something that I can't get upset about!

He got Mike Pettine canned, so call that two things.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
jowner wrote:

Bucs are 100% vaccinated.

God damn you Tom Brady doing something that I can't get upset about!

He got Mike Pettine canned, so call that two things.

*insert Firefly gif* well played.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

He got Mike Pettine canned, so call that two things.

It's amazing that Raheem Mostert didn't.

*Legion* wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:

He got Mike Pettine canned, so call that two things.

It's amazing that Raheem Mostert didn't.

If only Rodgers had his temper tantrum after that season. What could of been.

jowner wrote:

If only Rodgers had his temper tantrum after that season. What could of been.

Packers defense isn't waiting to start making up for lost time:

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/2MwqHV6.png)

44.1% would exactly tie the highest full season blitz rate last year (Baltimore).

There's a discussion to be had about how wildly different "preseason defense" has meant from team to team this year. Actually, how different "preseason" period has meant from team to team.

Milkman made a comment a few pages back about "preseason seems more preseason-y than usual", which is either extremely true or extremely false depending on which team you're looking at. As the PFF guys got into during one of their podcasts, the lack of preseason last year paired with the reduction of 1 preseason game seems to have made every team rethink preseason, and all of the preseason standard operating procedure has been thrown out in favor of zero standardization.

I'll talk a little more about that when I finish working up my rookie QBs preseason post.

Seahawks signed another basketball player, this time to play TE.

Go Hawks?

Better than OL, again

I've wanted one long season thread for years.

Pretty sure forum activity is down the last 18 months. Think we'll get more participation in one thread as people pop back in and out.

Top_Shelf wrote:

Seahawks signed another basketball player, this time to play TE.

Go Hawks?

Did they get Ben Simmons? Will he have to shoot?