NFL 2021: The Week 10 thread

Fell asleep, wake up and the Dolphins made my team .5 games closer to the division lead? With Tua being the hero?

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Fell asleep, wake up and the Dolphins made my team .5 games closer to the division lead? With Tua being the hero?

The defense was the hero. Or more appropriately, the Ravens' offensive line decided not to show up until Sunday.

Stele wrote:
Enix wrote:

My Lamar-is-MVP take is barely 24 hours old and it did not age well. 6-3 at half? C'mon, Paleo. Tell your team to score some damn points!

He's had 0 TDs in the first quarter all season. He'll pick it up in the 2nd half, like always.

Speaking of takes that didn't age well.

What a strange game. The Dolphins are terrible, yet somehow they made the Ravens look even worse.

Which goes to show that none of us know a damn thing about football.

Paleocon wrote:

I get packing light for a short trip, but the Ravens really should have brought an o line.

Yeah I just assumed the Ravens might have a quick slant or screen pass play or two they would run against the sell out blitz. Maybe Harbaugh would talk about it at half or something?

They did actually do 2 slants, both complete for 8-12 yards. But I don't know why they didn't carve up that defense. Well Brown had 5 drops or something. But other than that.

My takeaways:
1) TNF sucks
2) Miami and Baltimore O-lines are both trash.
3) Brown needs some spider-tak on his gloves to help catch the ball
4) Maybe Vegas knows what they're doing after all with the Lamar MVP odds

ukickmydog wrote:

My takeaways:
1) TNF sucks
2) Miami and Baltimore O-lines are both trash.
3) Brown needs some spider-tak on his gloves to help catch the ball
4) Maybe Vegas knows what they're doing after all with the Lamar MVP odds

I don't know how you put this L on Lamar though.

Paleocon wrote:
ukickmydog wrote:

My takeaways:
1) TNF sucks
2) Miami and Baltimore O-lines are both trash.
3) Brown needs some spider-tak on his gloves to help catch the ball
4) Maybe Vegas knows what they're doing after all with the Lamar MVP odds

I don't know how you put this L on Lamar though.

I'm not, but it still negatively impacts his MVP candidacy.

ukickmydog wrote:

1) TNF sucks

No no no! Last night's game had maybe the Best Fat Guy TD That Didn't Count.

Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan, meanwhile, are dialing up guard-eligible pass plays for the weekend.

That ball fumbled before he hit the ground. Pretty sure it wasn't a TD even if he was eligible. And maybe Baltimore ball. Didn't see for sure who recovered.

Any given Sunday, folks. Or Thursday. Or Saturday. Or Monday.

Ahem.

Lots of Trap games this past week. Bills fell into one. Ravens, for sure. I mean, Jacoby Brisett is a fine backup but I doubt the team was scared of him in preparation.

And Brisset only scored 6 points. Ravens would have beat him.

garion333 wrote:

Lots of Trap games this past week. Bills fell into one.

How dare you.

In case you were wondering, here are all the QBs the Panthers have on the payroll and/or count toward their salary cap:

Caaaaaaaaam!

HEY DARNOLD (on IR)

PJ Walker (who starts Sunday)

Matt Barkley (who is dead to me bc he's wearing Jake Delhomme's old number)

James Morgan (practice squad)

Teddy Bridgewater (he's with the Broncos; his $17M cap hit is still with the Panthers)

Will Grier (now with the Cowboys)

Josh Love (who was on the practice squad for exactly a week)

Tyler Heinicke's ghost

Kyle Allen's corpse

Jimmy Clausen's lingering stink

Chris Weinke, who the Panthers never actually cut and is living in a second-floor men's room at BOA Stadium

Frank Reich (aka the Colts' coach who was the first starting QB in Panthers' history; the team sends him a fresh-killed deer, hunted by Kerry Collins on his farm in North Carolina, every Thanksgiving)

The thing that makes all this so funny is that the Panthers could have kept Cam in the first place. Or they could have drafted Fields or McCorkle.

I root for the dumbest franchise. At least the Jags have a plan at QB.

PS: Carolina's next home game? It's next Sunday ... against the Footballers, who are coached by the Riverboat and have seven (!!!!) former Panthers on their roster (Heinicke, Kyle Allen, WR Curtis Samuel, CB Corn Elder, LB David Mayo, OL Tyler Larsen and K Swole Joey Slye). Lordy.

Doesn’t bode well for the Ravens that the coaching staff and all the offensive players seem completely befuddled about how to handle blitzes from the defensive backs. It’s not like that’s a unique concept.

Dammit, Enix, you're telling me I have to either root for a team with Corn Elder or a team with Chubba Hubbard? Those are my two favorite NFL player names. I can't decide.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Dammit, Enix, you're telling me I have to either root for a team with Corn Elder or a team with Chubba Hubbard? Those are my two favorite NFL player names. I can't decide.

Carolina also has Yetor Gross-Matos, Frankie Luvu, Tommy Tremble and Stantley Thomas-Oliver III. Quality names up and down the roster.

PS to my earlier tweet (and taken from Twitter):

The Carolina Panthers are currently paying Cam Newton's replacement, Cam Newton's replacement's replacement, and for Cam Newton to replace his own replacement's replacement.

That's my team!

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Enix wrote:

The thing that makes all this so funny is that the Panthers could have kept Cam in the first place. Or they could have drafted Fields or McCorkle.

I will never understand them passing on Fields. Regardless of whether or not Fields lives up to his potential, you don't get to take guys with that skill set as the 4th QB off the board in very many drafts.

Shoulda kept Teddy for 2021 - since there was so much guaranteed money to be stuck with anyway - and drafted Fields. Play Teddy to start the year, play Fields when he's ready, trade Teddy in the offseason for the same lame late-round pick you got for him this year. And you don't trade a 2nd, 4th, and 6th for HEY DARNOLD (wtf)

Broncos sure appreciate it. Just one game back in division.

Who was Tepper listening to when they made that trade and passed on all the QB prospects?

garion333 wrote:

Who was Tepper listening to when they made that trade and passed on all the QB prospects?

Probably their GM Scott Fitterer, who spent the past decade in Seattle's personnel department.

You know, the Seattle personnel department that stumbled into drafting a superstar QB, and then spent the next decade building around that QB as little as possible.

*Legion* wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Who was Tepper listening to when they made that trade and passed on all the QB prospects?

Probably their GM Scott Fitterer, who spent the past decade in Seattle's personnel department.

You know, the Seattle personnel department that stumbled into drafting a superstar QB, and then spent the next decade building around that QB as little as possible.

Sounds like a guy who's going to be joining Jacksonville's front office soon.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Sounds like a guy who's going to be joining Jacksonville's front office soon.

Me when Baalke is fired, only to be replaced by more Seattle washouts:

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How every post in this thread not currently about the best play of the season thus far is beyond me.

*Legion* wrote:

Shoulda kept Teddy for 2021 - since there was so much guaranteed money to be stuck with anyway - and drafted Fields. Play Teddy to start the year, play Fields when he's ready, trade Teddy in the offseason for the same lame late-round pick you got for him this year. And you don't trade a 2nd, 4th, and 6th for HEY DARNOLD (wtf)

That's why you're not a GM, Legion. That makes entirely too much sense.

The modern NFL demands DRAMA 24/7. If you're not delivering on DRAMA, well, forget it.

The reality, of course, is that the Panthers' new owner has no impulse control and decided that Teddy B (where the B stands for Boring) had to go and what's an $18M cap hit when your personal fortune is somewhere in the trillions?

Darnold was Rhule's guy (and maybe Brady's, too). There was nothing on film to suggest that Darnold was anything but a low-floor/low-ceiling QB, and they were the only two dopes in the league who thought they could do a This Old QB fixer-upper on the QB equivalent of a mobile home with no walls or roof.

By trading three later-round picks for Darnold (and thus keeping a first-rounder, which they used on Jaycee Horn, who's really really good), Fitterer thought he was so damn smart -- you know, because he got two first-round players for a first and not-a-first. Problem is, Horn is definitely a first-round NFL talent, and Darnold is maybe only a first-round cornhole talent because the cornhole target doesn't move and presumably isn't haunted by ghosts.

And now Cam is back, and I couldn't be happier. FOOTBALL IS FUN AGAIN!

Yeah, no complaints with the Jaycee Horn pick aside from the part of passing on the QB spot (and maybe passing on Rashawn Slater, who would have been the left tackle Carolina's been trying to find since Jordan Gross retired). Horn was my #2 draft CB only because I didn't medically disqualify Caleb Farley from taking #1, whose season ended after only a few weeks thanks to an ACL tear. (Of course, Horn is missing much of this season too, because football is unkind.)

Prederick wrote:

How every post in this thread not currently about the best play of the season thus far is beyond me.

Rule change: everyone is an eligible receiver.

Prederick wrote:

How every post in this thread not currently about the best play of the season thus far is beyond me.

A few hours ago, on this same page...

Enix wrote:
ukickmydog wrote:

1) TNF sucks

No no no! Last night's game had maybe the Best Fat Guy TD That Didn't Count.

Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan, meanwhile, are dialing up guard-eligible pass plays for the weekend.

Stele wrote:

That ball fumbled before he hit the ground. Pretty sure it wasn't a TD even if he was eligible. And maybe Baltimore ball. Didn't see for sure who recovered.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:
Prederick wrote:

How every post in this thread not currently about the best play of the season thus far is beyond me.

Rule change: everyone is an eligible receiver.

Sure seems like the longterm goal.

How much do you think the NFL will pay Gruden to drop the lawsuit and keep the rest of those emails hidden?