So how many quarters will it take for this to Thursday up tonight? Two?
So it turns out the answer wasn’t a time, but a player. Kadarius Toney was touched by the Spirit of Thursday Night Football.
Paleocon wrote:The refs still love you since they didn't call a single false start penalty on Jawaan Taylor despite the fact that he was early on just about every snap he played.
As an old OT, I generally only pay attention to the tackles. I don't think he was starting early that often; definitely very close and a few early starts for sure but not that many.
What was egregious and should have been flagged every time was when he lined up in the backfield on every pass play. At least make the attempt to look like you are playing on the line, man.
Taylor's not the first guy to get a half-second head start on pass blocking. I started noticing it last season (though it might have been happening for a lot longer, I dunno). If someone as dumb as me can see it on my TV, I don't know why the refs (and the league) are blind to it.
You know how we have the Surrender Index for cowardly punts? We should have an converse metric for dumbass going for it on 4th down. I imagine Reid's decision to go for it on 4th and 25 from his own 40 yard line with four timeouts and 2:15 left to go has to be as high as it gets.
2:09 left. I wondered if they didn't think they could punt and avoid return or stop it in 8 seconds so maybe they thought the 2 minute warning would be wasted?
Doesn't really excuse it but makes it not quite as dumb
Since they had 2bd and 20 complete but WR just dropped it. Hah
2:09 left. I wondered if they didn't think they could punt and avoid return or stop it in 8 seconds so maybe they thought the 2 minute warning would be wasted?
Kick it as a line-drive out of bounds. The important part's not the yardage.
I'm sure this won't surprise anyone here, but Panthers' WR DJ Chark is already hurt and will miss Sunday's opener against the Falcons.
If you're in the market for prop bets, take the OVER on Miles Sanders/40 carries and Hayden Hurst/10 catches. Most of the Panthers' WRs are either hurt or unproven (or named Laviska).
It's finally Viska breakout time.
I'm sure this won't surprise anyone here, but Panthers' WR DJ Chark is already hurt and will miss Sunday's opener against the Falcons.
If you're in the market for prop bets, take the OVER on Miles Sanders/40 carries and Hayden Hurst/10 catches. Most of the Panthers' WRs are either hurt or unproven (or named Laviska).
Christian Watson is also out.
Welp. At least the hope was crushed nice and early.
Enix wrote:I'm sure this won't surprise anyone here, but Panthers' WR DJ Chark is already hurt and will miss Sunday's opener against the Falcons.
If you're in the market for prop bets, take the OVER on Miles Sanders/40 carries and Hayden Hurst/10 catches. Most of the Panthers' WRs are either hurt or unproven (or named Laviska).
Christian Watson is also out.
Welp. At least the hope was crushed nice and early.
Could be worse; Baker Mayfield could be in.
jowner wrote:Enix wrote:I'm sure this won't surprise anyone here, but Panthers' WR DJ Chark is already hurt and will miss Sunday's opener against the Falcons.
If you're in the market for prop bets, take the OVER on Miles Sanders/40 carries and Hayden Hurst/10 catches. Most of the Panthers' WRs are either hurt or unproven (or named Laviska).
Christian Watson is also out.
Welp. At least the hope was crushed nice and early.
Could be worse; Baker Mayfield could be in.
Which would be better/worse: having Baker and a good coach, or Matt Rhule and a good quarterback?
Buccaneers apparently have no intention of offering Mike Evans a contract extension before the start-of-the-season deadline his camp imposed.
He’s in the last year of his deal, so it seems likely Evans will reach free agency next offseason. Whether that means leaving or having the franchise tag slapped on him, we’ll see.
The Bucs have a bit over $76 million in dead cap, and just had to restructure Shaq Barrett's contract to the vet minimum with the rest being signing bonus to have enough money under the cap to do literally anything this year. I don't think it's exactly shocking they couldn't get an extension done here.
He’s already under contract this year though, so an extension would either not start until next year, or they would redo his 2023 as part of it and bring his number down and create more space.
Defector had a good write-up on the Lions win. It was funny. And profane.
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GWJ censorship changed the URL. Replace the * with the correct letter.
If I replace it with two i’s will I get the British version?
If I replace it with two i’s will I get the British version?
Yeah, but then it’s about the wrong football
Ravens-adjacent, so it's still on topic?
The Wire is on topic in any thread that I post in.
Matt Corral apparently left the Patriots squad without notice and was placed on the exempt/left squad list, which is something I did not know existed.
Matt Corral apparently left the Patriots squad without notice and was placed on the exempt/left squad list, which is something I did not know existed.
Belichick definitely the kind of coach that will handle this well.
Seen on Reddit, which stole it from Twitter: All four NFC South teams will start a QB this week different than the one a season ago. The last time an entire division turned over its starting QBs was the AFC West in 1973.
Even weirder and rarer, one of those 2022 NFC South starters is also a 2023 NFC South starter.
Figured I'd join in on a Packers breakdown so I can wallow in misery when the worst possible is even worse.
Green Bay Packers
Quick take: This is the first year since 1992 that the starting QB hasn't been Brett Favre or Aaron Rodgers. Favre came in the 2nd game of the 92 season at half time and here we are.
That's how spoiled Packers fans are. 30 straight years of quality QB play. Some years it was MVP quality. Some years was whatever last year was. Even in the down years it's been better than whatever the Browns have been doing forever.
Jordan Love is 24. He could be the QB for the next 10+ years. Statistically speaking the Packers having 40~ years of just 3 QBs doesn't seem probable. Here's hoping.
Best case: Deep playoff run. NFC title game? Super Bowl? Why not. Division is crap. NFC is kinda crap. It could happen.
Worst case: Love ain't the guy. Thing is I'm not sure if the Packers have a top 10, Top 5? Pick they would go straight for another QB. They probably should if this year is real rocky specifically at the QB spot.
The real people on the rocks IMO though are obviously Joe Barry and Matt LaFleur. I think it's pretty much a given that Barry gets axed unless the D is some electric top 10 unit. They have the talent but Barry could find a way. LaFleur? No Rodgers so it's time to prove he's the O genius. If he can scheme his way into easing Love in I think the the o line + offensive weapons are good enough to be a competent offense. (Watson starting hurt doesn't help).
Realistic case: Wild card? Is that too optimistic? There's so much defensive talent and the NFC North and NFC in general is pretty meh. 9-7 wild card let's go!
So I am on a phone for week one and can’t do the whole copy paste thing, but apparently something’s going between the Raiders and DE Chandler Jones. Also Mark Davis capitalizes the first letter of every word in a text like he’s some sort of loon.
When they just cut to the Panthers game on Red Zone my first thought was "oh no, there's a small child on the field". It's all good though, it's just their quarterback.
Five minutes into the games and we have had two passes caught by the QBs themselves after they ricocheted off of a defender.
Green Bay Packers
Quick take: This is the first year since 1992 that the starting QB hasn't been Brett Favre or Aaron Rodgers. Favre came in the 2nd game of the 92 season at half time and here we are.
That's how spoiled Packers fans are. 30 straight years of quality QB play.
In a division with the:
- Bears (best QB: Jay "Not Even The Best Athlete Named Jay Cutler Alive" Cutler)
- Lions (no playoff wins in that time and Matthew "I had Megatron and Did NOTHING, So I Shouldn't Be Talked About in HOF Convos" Stafford)
- Vikes (Randy Moss + Dante; 1yr of Favre)
With an (allegedly) elite home field playoff advantage.
And only 3 conference championships and 2-1 in Super Bowls.
And that 2014 NFC Championship game collapse.
Packers are an elite franchise, though, right?
The Bucs drafted Ko Kieft in the 6th round last year as a blocking TE; he had all of 10 catches last year, which almost equaled his four-year total in college at Minnesota of 12 college career catches.
I bring this up because, on the first two offensive plays of the year, they both were passes to Ko Kieft.
My confidence is not currently at an all-time high for the Bucs' new offensive coordinator.
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