NFL 2021: The Week 3 thread

*Legion* wrote:

Davis Mills carves up Carolina’s defense right before halftime, and then the extra point goes wide.

Which is why Joey Slye is a former Panther.

*Legion* wrote:

Yes, give me more garbage Thursday football.

Two words to describe Thursday's game: boring (which is very on brand for TNF) and costly. Two of Carolina's last five No 1 picks hobbled off the field last night.

The Sam Darnold you saw last night was the same Sam Darnold I've been watching for two weeks now. He's mostly competent if you give him a lead and some nice easy throws. He has a surprising set of wheels. (That's two QB draw TDs in three weeks.) And he makes a few dumb plays (the two fumbles last night, a few puzzling throws, a bunch of missed reads) that somehow haven't come to bite the Panthers in the ass.

On to Dallas.

Update: Jaycee Horn out 2-3 months, which stinks for him and the team. No word yet on CMC. I gotta figure he'll miss 2-3 games at least.

Stele wrote:

Looks like I can't watch tonight. The Amazon Prime Thur night games don't start until next week

Next week or Oct 7?

This is so confusing. Which marketing doofus came up with,"TNF will be shown on CBS with Nantz for the third and first Thursdays of months with 30 days in them excepting whereby a month starts with a vowel, wherein it shall be Fox hosting the game except that if it be two teams from different conferences, the broadcast team will feature Collinsworth on play-by-play and Joe Buck on color, at the conclusion of said contest in Week The Fourth, the broadcasting license (hereforward referred to as, "The Dollars") shalt transition to Mr Bezos' spaceship orbiting Venus and be bestowed on subscribers to Prime alone and none other unless he slay a calf upon a stone altar in the Pit Of Everlasting Pain AND roll a natural 20. If he be unlucky and roll a 1-18, he shalt forfeit his soul. If he rolls a 19, nothing happens."

*Legion* wrote:

David Culley’s enthusiasm for punting shines again.

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Not even his worst punt this year

Didn't watch the game. Just watched the highlights, so, clearly qualified to make commentary here.

--Was Houston playing a prevent defense in the first quarter? JFC, Darnold had receivers so open I could have made some of those throws. When I was younger.
--Darnold looks good when he has time and made a few throws into tight windows, but he was throwing to guys where the nearest defender was yards away. Also, his pocket presence is somewhere between "bad" and "Hellen Keller". Good lord, man, that first strip-sack I think the defender's body caused it instead of an arm swipe, and the guy just stumbled into him.
--Davis Mills looks like a rookie who was the 8th quarterback taken and is playing on a very bad team. Some solid stat-padding on four-yard dumpoffs near the end of the game, though. Big fan of how on the Texans' last play he threw the ball about eight yards up the field on 4th and 11.
--I have no commentary on Chubba Hubbard other than to point out he has the best name in the NFL, and I wish the Bucs would have drafted him on that alone.

Losing CMC sucks, and, without that threat, we'll have to see how Carolina does against an actual NFL-quality defense. Eventually, since the Cowboys D appears to blow chunks. Then again, they've got a real offense, so time to really see how Carolina's defense looks against a team that probably shouldn't be contending for a playoff spot in the XFL.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Not even his worst punt this year

At least it was on purpose this time.

Paleocon wrote:

Lol. As a Ravens fan, I have to say that the whole Culley imploding in Houston is like someone stealing a tire full of yellow jackets from your front yard and getting an insurance payout for it.

*chef's kiss* That's the snark that I'm here for.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I have no commentary on Chubba Hubbard other than to point out he has the best name in the NFL, and I wish the Bucs would have drafted him on that alone.

I'm the CMC owner in the dynasty league, and I wanted to trade for Hubbard as the handcuff a week or so ago, but SOMEONE (*glares at iaintgotnopants*) had quite the asking price.

*Legion* wrote:

I'm the CMC owner in the dynasty league, and I wanted to trade for Hubbard as the handcuff a week or so ago, but SOMEONE (*glares at iaintgotnopants*) had quite the asking price.

It's not like I was suggesting a one-for-one trade. I'm mean I starting Kenyan frickin' Drake. Something his own team isn't doing. My best plan b was to wait for McCaffery too be out (I just assumed it would be Covid) and hope Hubbard would play well (doesn't look great).

I was just mad because I've been maintaining a fairly low-RB roster and was looking at handcuffs as a way to protect myself. The handcuff behind CMC has been a rotating collection of names over the past few years, some of whom were cheap and easy to grab and stash.

Mostly my fault for not prioritizing grabbing Chuba in the draft this year. Every time I overvalue a handcuff, I regret it, and every time I undervalue a handcuff, I regret it.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Didn't watch the game. Just watched the highlights, so, clearly qualified to make commentary here.

--Was Houston playing a prevent defense in the first quarter? JFC, Darnold had receivers so open I could have made some of those throws. When I was younger.

Almost. Texans were in a two-deep shell designed to prevent the deep ball.

Joke's on them! Darnold airs it out maybe once a game. And as you noted, even Darnold is capable of hitting a wide-open guy in the middle of the field.

Relatedly, the Panthers don't seem to have any plays for Robby Anderson except go long and draw off the underneath guys. Weird.

*Legion* wrote:

I was just mad because I've been maintaining a fairly low-RB roster and was looking at handcuffs as a way to protect myself. The handcuff behind CMC has been a rotating collection of names over the past few years, some of whom were cheap and easy to grab and stash.

Mostly my fault for not prioritizing grabbing Chuba in the draft this year. Every time I overvalue a handcuff, I regret it, and every time I undervalue a handcuff, I regret it.

Yeah, but it's the lesser of the two regrets.

That play where there's three receivers bunched down field. I don't think I've ever seen that in an NFL game.

Poor Jets fans. They can never win.

Those deep corner TE routes make a lot more sense when you realize that the last time LaFleur the Younger ran those plays, the TE running them was George Kittle.

It smells very much of taking a Xerox’d copy of the 2020 Shanahan 49ers playbook with you, but just running the plays as-is when those plays were designed specifically for personnel you don’t have.

The Ravens are not playing disciplined football right now. They should be up by 14

Hm just saw Chicago Cleveland score scroll by. And stats show Fields 1/1 for 11 yards... 10 min in the 2nd quarter.

How do you get through a full quarter without throwing more than 1 pass?

About 50 yards in the air and Lamar hit Watkins in the hands. They gonna blame that miss on him somehow.

Then 30 yards in the air hits Brown in the hands in the end zone. 2 plays later. Still no TD

Ravens finally get a TD. Up 10-0.

Passing yards 111 to -2.

Matt Prater attempts a 68-yard field goal to end the half.

Jags kick returner Jamal Agnew fields the short kick and returns it 109 yards for a TD.

Jags now up 13-7 at half.

Just Kliff Kingsbury coaching.

*Legion* wrote:

Matt Prater attempts a 68-yard field goal to end the half.

Jags kick returner Jamal Agnew fields the short kick and returns it 109 yards for a TD.

Jags now up 13-7 at half.

Just Kliff Kingsbury coaching.

We got a Gusgasm out of it.

Lamar just hit Brown in stride behind the defense... Dropped

Stele wrote:

Lamar just hit Brown in stride behind the defense... Dropped

And again. 3 plays later. Holy sh*t

Boy did we ever.

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Stele wrote:
Stele wrote:

Lamar just hit Brown in stride behind the defense... Dropped

And again. 3 plays later. Holy sh*t

I need to make some Necessary Roughness Featherstone "stonehands" GIFs because nobody has made any.

Lamar is going to take a lot of sh*t for receivers being straight up trash today

*Legion* wrote:
Stele wrote:
Stele wrote:

Lamar just hit Brown in stride behind the defense... Dropped

And again. 3 plays later. Holy sh*t

I need to make some Necessary Roughness Featherstone "stonehands" GIFs because nobody has made any.

Don't throw it to stone hands!

I was trying to remember the name searching for a gif myself a min ago.

Stele wrote:

Hm just saw Chicago Cleveland score scroll by. And stats show Fields 1/1 for 11 yards... 10 min in the 2nd quarter.

How do you get through a full quarter without throwing more than 1 pass?

Right now Fields has three completions, and has been sacked five times. Apparently, the NFC North is where offensive lines go to die. Fields has had zero time at all, and it feels like Cleveland should be up by about 20 by now because the Bears have just been awful.

Stele wrote:
*Legion* wrote:
Stele wrote:
Stele wrote:

Lamar just hit Brown in stride behind the defense... Dropped

And again. 3 plays later. Holy sh*t

I need to make some Necessary Roughness Featherstone "stonehands" GIFs because nobody has made any.

Don't throw it to stone hands!

I was trying to remember the name searching for a gif myself a min ago.

They should be giving Proche more targets.

Stele wrote:

Don't throw it to stone hands!

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Stele wrote:

Hm just saw Chicago Cleveland score scroll by. And stats show Fields 1/1 for 11 yards... 10 min in the 2nd quarter.

How do you get through a full quarter without throwing more than 1 pass?

Now he's 4-of-11 for 47 yards, deep into the 3rd quarter.

As for the "how"... 6 sacks so far. I'm guessing holding onto the ball is still a problem.

These Browns helmets look like a 7 year old drew the numbers on with a crayon.

And Jax throws pick 6 to end 3rd quarter and lose the lead. Oh well.

Stele wrote:

And Jax throws pick 6 to end 3rd quarter and lose the lead. Oh well.

Pick 6 on a flea flicker that the pass rush blew up and Lawrence needed to just sail out of bounds.

Also they're down by 5 instead of 3 thanks to two missed extra points. Jags things.