NFL 2021: The Week 7 thread

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GUESS WHO GOT OFF THE 20-GAME LOSING SCHNEID?

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That's right, the North London Jacksonville Jaguars. Even better, the Jags kicked their first two field goals of the season -- one to tie and one to win -- and then cut their opening day kicker shortly after they got back to the States. Yep, the Jags brought two kickers to London in case a soccer game broke out? Who knows with that team.

SOME NEWS

While we all got distracted by the Jags win and the Urban Meyer thing and the Jon Gruden thing, other stuff was happening:

* We're going to have a Monday night Wild Card game for the next five seasons. The first one is this January.

* Brett Favre owes the state of Mississippi $828,000 for his ALLEGED role in a welfare fraud scheme. Favre's ALLEGED role was to skip out on speaking engagements and pocket the cash.

* I haven't followed this very carefully, but a lot of folks seem to think the NFL might be in big trouble because of the Rams' move to LA. St. Louis is arguing that the NFL failed to follow its own bylaws regarding franchise moves. Moreover, the city says the Rams didn't negotiate in good faith and the city wasted their time and money coming up with a new stadium plan while the Rams were already Mayflowering west.

Lots of things can happen here. Among them: The Rams and NFL have to disclose a lot of sensitive and potentially embarrassing materials; there's a long court trial (now scheduled to start Jan 10); the NFL offers the Rams a new franchise and then adds three more teams to balance things out.

STATS OF THE WEEK

We had a Scorigami last week! Rams 38, Giants 11. That was the first Scorigami of 2021 and the 1,067th unique final score in NFL history.

And meet the long-time owner of the Chicago Bears, this guy:

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Since 2008, when Aaron Rodgers became the starting QB for the Packers, the Bears have had 16 different QBs. Here's that sad, sad list (source):

Kyle Orton (15 starts, 2008)
Rex Grossman (1, 2008)
Jay Cutler (102, 2009-16)
Todd Collins (1, 2010)
Caleb Hanie (4, 2011)
Josh McCown (7, 2011, 2013)
Jason Campbell (1, 2012)
Jimmy Clausen (2, 2014-15)
Matt Barkley (6, 2016)
Brian Hoyer (5, 2016)
Mitchell Trubisky (50, 2017-20)
Mike Glennon (4, 2017)
Chase Daniel (3, 2018-19)
Nick Foles (7, 2020)
Andy Dalton (2, 2021)
Justin Fields (4, 2021)

Only one NFL team has started more QBs since 2008: the Browns, who have their own commemorative jersey to celebrate their 21 different starting QBs.

DERRICK HENRY IS A BAD, BAD MAN

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Dude hit 21.8 mph on his first TD run of Monday night's game. Here's the video evidence.

CORRECTED POWER RANKINGS BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE HAVE TO MAKE A THING ABOUT MY DERP

Via 538.com this week:

1. Bucs (97% chance to make the playoffs, 15% chance to win the Super Bowl)
2. Ravens (95% / 14%)
3. Bills (97% / 13%)
4. Cardinals (98% / 12%)
5. Rams (95% / 10%)
(edited for copy-n-paste derp)

Ravens and Cards are their favorites for first-round byes.

Six teams have a <10% chance of making the playoffs: Dolphins, Giants, Jets, Texans, Jaguars, Lions.

WEEK 7 SCHEDULE

Not a great week, tbh. Here are your coverage maps. And here is your weather forecast in case you'd care to spend your Sunday afternoon outside.

Thursday night: Broncos at Browns (Fox, Amazon, NFL)
... no Baker for the Browns, but Teddy B looks like he'll play

Sunday early: Panthers at Giants, Jets at Patriots, **Chiefs at Titans**, Footballers at Packers, Falcons at Dolphins, *Bengals at Ravens*

Sunday late: Lions at Rams (aka the Stafford-Goff Swap Bowl), Eagles at Raiders, Texans at Cardinals, Team Owned by Aaron Rodgers at Bucs (GOTW)
... speaking of the Bears-Bucs game, the Bucs' starting QB is literally twice as old as the Bears' starting QB. The 22-year age gap is apparently a record, and it broke the record of three weeks ago when Brady faced McCorkle, who's 23.

Sunday night: Colts at Niners (NBC)

Monday night: Saints at Seahawks (ESPN) (MANNINGCAST IS BACK!!)

Off: Bills, Cowboys, Jaguars, Chargers, Vikings, Steelers

BEFORE WE GO

I present you ... an NFL Films short on tearaway jerseys, starring Greg Pruitt of the Cleveland Browns.

This video has everything: awful artificial turf, gridirons with dirt baseball infields, two-bar facemasks, gi-normous shoulder pads and Earl Campbell spearing a guy in the chest. I hope that doesn't give Derrick Henry any ideas.

Something seemed off with the thread when it went live, but I can't quite put my finger on it...

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Go away, Rat Boy! Come back when I'm done. Shoo! Scram!

Enix wrote:

Off: Bills, Cowboys, Jaguars, Chargers, Vikings, Steelers

A two-week period of the Jags not losing!

This is only the 4th such occurrence since the start of the 2018 season:

2018 (Weeks 1 and 2): wins vs Giants and Patriots (the Myles Jack Wasn't Down revenge game, aka the last gasp of the "good" Jags)

2019 (Weeks 3 and 4): wins vs Titans (Thursday night!) and Broncos

2019 (Weeks 7 and 8): wins vs Bengals and Jets

and now

2021 (Weeks 6 and 7): win vs Miami and bye

They managed to lose both the week before and week after their byes in 2018-2020.

The Ravens are second, third, AND fifth in SB win %? Damn! That's a lot of chances.

Derrick Henry has to know that his braid bundle makes it look like his helmet is pooping, right? He has to know that.

Enix wrote:

POWER RANKINGS

Via 538.com this week:

1. Bucs (97% chance to make the playoffs, 15% chance to win the Super Bowl)
2. Ravens (95% / 14%)
3. Ravens (97% / 13%)
4. Cardinals (98% / 12%)
5. Ravens (95% / 10%)

Ravens and Cards are their favorites for first-round byes.

Something off about that list...

Pink Stripes wrote:

The Ravens are second, third, AND fifth in SB win %? Damn! That's a lot of chances.

SOMEBODY busted into the thread early and knocked me off my game.

That was a HEY DARNOLD subtweet, btw

Stele wrote:
Enix wrote:

POWER RANKINGS

Via 538.com this week:

1. Bucs (97% chance to make the playoffs, 15% chance to win the Super Bowl)
2. Ravens (95% / 14%)
3. Ravens (97% / 13%)
4. Cardinals (98% / 12%)
5. Ravens (95% / 10%)

Ravens and Cards are their favorites for first-round byes.

Something off about that list...

THE RAVENS ARE DOMINANT AND I'M JUST REINFORCING THAT

Updated list makes the most sense of any rankings yet this season.

How much longer can the Ravens keep this up? Sooner or later they are going to run out of bodies.

Dan Snyder denies leaking the WFT emails. Dan Snyder's team is also getting lapped by Facebook for picking a new name.

Enix wrote:
Pink Stripes wrote:

The Ravens are second, third, AND fifth in SB win %? Damn! That's a lot of chances.

SOMEBODY busted into the thread early and knocked me off my game.

That was a HEY DARNOLD subtweet, btw

Newspaper guy live-editing on the production site, geez . . .

Looks like just about EVERYONE on the morning shows have the Ravens on upset alert. No one seems to think Lamar can deal with the Bengals #5 defense.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
Enix wrote:
Pink Stripes wrote:

The Ravens are second, third, AND fifth in SB win %? Damn! That's a lot of chances.

SOMEBODY busted into the thread early and knocked me off my game.

That was a HEY DARNOLD subtweet, btw

Newspaper guy live-editing on the production site, geez . . .

Ex-newspaper guy!

Unrelated: Did anyone watch the tearaway jersey video? I think the next round of throwback games should include some tearaway jersey action.

Saquon Barkley, Kenny Golladay, and Kadarius Toney did not practice. The clear consensus among New York beat writers is that none of the three will play this week.

Yikes.

I don't know how I would feel if I were a Dolphins fan, but if this were the Browns I know I would be looking for a new team. And I hate my QB.

Texans, Dolphins could have Deshaun Watson deal done this week

Bah, look at Flores trying to save his career as HC.

The fact that Miami has a bunch of ex-Belichick associates goes to show they care more about winning than what skeletons are in someone's closet. Or out of the closet and in court, as may be the case.

Forecast for tonight's Broncos-Browns game: Rainy and gusty.

I wasn't going to watch but I might have to tune in to see football played in the slop.

Here's a preview from 2007. The Steelers' big dopey QB is obvious. Bonus points if you can ID the Dolphins QB without looking it up.

(edited for punctuation and because I can)

Waited around to hear his name...

Spoiler:

John Beck.

I have no memories of that person.

Like anyone's watching football on Critical Role night, amirite?

I guessed very wrong on QB. Oh, yeah, that guy existed! 7 of his 8 career starts were that 1-15 year!

Edit: Clicked on the wrong box score on PFR, and thought it was Cleo Lemon, who it was not.

John Beck was an awful pick, one you would've thought the Browns would've made, but they wasted their 1st rounder on gym fanatic Brady Quinn (22nd pick!)

So, of course the Dolphins picked him.

So there are two tornados, one in the Cleveland area and one near me in Canton. I don’t think it will cancel the game, but there may be a delay and a mess.

Edit: Rain is over, both here and there. Game on!

garion333 wrote:

Bah, look at Flores trying to save his career as HC.

The fact that Miami has a bunch of ex-Belichick associates goes to show they care more about winning than what skeletons are in someone's closet. Or out of the closet and in court, as may be the case.

It's amazing that losing to the Jaguars is apparently the catalyst that clears the logjam around this long-rumored trade.

I imagine every dissenting voice in the Dolphins facility being shouted down with, "*clap* WE *clap* LOST *clap* TO *clap* JACK- *clap* SON- *clap* VILLE".

Even Case Keenum can't get the ball to OBJ. Poor guy, wasting away in his prime years.

Adam Schefter, person who appeared in the WFT email investigation, reports that Congress wants documents about the WFT investigation.

Rat Boy wrote:

Adam Schefter, person who appeared in the WFT email investigation, reports that Congress wants documents about the NFT investigation.

EVERYONE POUNT AT LAUGH AT THE SPELLING MISTAKE ON ENIX’S BEHALF!

garion333 wrote:

Even Case Keenum can't get the ball to OBJ. Poor guy, wasting away in his prime years.

OBJ just has not performed, and you have to admit Baker hasn't been great this year. At some point, Cleveland should move on, and offer Baker, OBJ, and a 2nd, and hope to get Baker, OBJ, and a 2nd in return. Probably the best value they can get.

Vector wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

Adam Schefter, person who appeared in the WFT email investigation, reports that Congress wants documents about the NFT investigation.

EVERYONE POUNT AT LAUGH AT THE SPELLING MISTAKE ON ENIX’S BEHALF!

NFL, WFT, 2021 economics. It happens.

Von Miller hurt from collision with his own teammate?

Case Keenum on 4th and 3? WTF

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