Lost among all the resolutions to contract situations (Aiyuk, Trent Williams, CeeDee) is the fact that the Haason Reddick drama in New York drags on.
Reddick has still not shown up to the Jets facility. Reportedly there "has basically had no communication with Reddick" since April.
Saleh tried to reach Reddick through positive comments in his press conference, and kept the door open for him to play in week 1, but Reddick has ignored them.
It's amazing that the worst offseason move that involved a pass rusher going to New York wasn't the one where Brian Burns was traded for a box of donuts.
Thunder and lightning out to an early lead this evening.
Wow, they're not pulling any punches tonight. Not even the refs.
Tucker misses from 55 after going only 1-of-5 from 50+ last year.
The GOAT is slipping. Just in time for the new GOAT to take the crown.
Horseshit they keep calling that OL penalty on Ravens but ignoring the Chiefs doing the same damn thing all night.
Horseshit they keep calling that OL penalty on Ravens but ignoring the Chiefs doing the same damn thing all night.
Yup. The fix is in
Chiefs RT #74 is lined up in the backfield on every play
Chiefs RT #74 is lined up in the backfield on every play
He’s also the league’s biggest holder, until the Super Bowl when holding rules get suspended for KC.
That holding call on linderbaum was super soft
Tucker misses from 55 after going only 1-of-5 from 50+ last year.
The GOAT is slipping. Just in time for the new GOAT to take the crown.
Aubrey doesn't play until Sunday.
Lamar is taking some serious hits here in the second half. Bit early in the season to be playing hero ball.
Derrick Henry is looking like a 30-year-old power back who has taken a lot of hits.
*Legion* wrote:Tucker misses from 55 after going only 1-of-5 from 50+ last year.
The GOAT is slipping. Just in time for the new GOAT to take the crown.
Aubrey doesn't play until Sunday.
Lamar is taking some serious hits here in the second half. Bit early in the season to be playing hero ball.
Derrick Henry is looking like a 30-year-old power back who has taken a lot of hits.
In fairness, the o line play is atrocious
So that Xavier Worthy pick . . .
Aubrey doesn't play until Sunday.
So that Xavier Worthy pick . . .
Stupid Bills.
Brutal ending to an otherwise entertaining but Week-1-levels-of-sloppy Week 1 game.
Gotta like the Chiefs' chances for the season if the fastest guy in the NFL not named Tyreek Hill is, like, their eighth receiving option.
No picture for me. Live video footage of the Packers playing special teams this year.
It is somewhat fitting that the Packers enter the year as the youngest team (25 years and 7 months).
Helps when you have guys like Kenny Clark who was drafted back in 2016. He's turning 29 in October. Even Jaire Alexander is 27.
With how Jordan Love played down the stretch + how the Packers went out in the playoffs. The media + pundits are jumping on the bandwagon. The offseason also helped as I love Aaron Jones but he got too close to 30 for the Packers. As a RB also I don't really blame them either.
I still think the team is really 1 year away from serious conversations but fingers crossed they show up earlier as windows for the team to be competitive shrink quickly once all those young guys sign new contracts.
The biggest things I'm looking at are,
Is Jeff Hafley any good or is he just enough of an upgrade over Joe Barry that average defensive play pushes the team deeper.
If Hafley is just average level that might be good enough if Matt LaFleur is that guy. He's going under the radar IMO as a Coach of the year candidate especially with all the other noise around the league. If the Packers have a top 5 offense, win the NFC North and go 12-5? He's in there as a finalist.
Jordan Love, does he push into that top 5 QB conversation or settle around 6-10 this year? Even in that 5-10 range that might be good enough and I was very surprised how low some of his season total bets are looking. (sign me up for 35+ tds).
The ST stuff is terrifying. I could see a team that is top 5 Offense, 15~ Defense, and an absolute crapshoot on ST which costs them games + in the playoffs. Maybe I'm overreacting because Rich Bisaccia is supposed to be the ST GUY. But how many coaches on offense and defense are highly touted but then there's that year where it falls off and they are lucky to get that job again. If it's a disaster he's out most likely.
Which is too bad because who doesn't love this?
Jets Packers SB with Rodgers tears? That would be fun.
The biggest things I'm looking at are,
Is Jeff Hafley any good or is he just enough of an upgrade over Joe Barry that average defensive play pushes the team deeper.
The third possibility is that Jeff Hafley makes the situation worse, even if just in the short term.
Generally speaking, I think switching to a 4-3 base is the right move. Even though teams play base only about a quarter of the time, your base defense tends to affect your nickel fronts (ie. the Packers often kept 4 LBs on the field and ran a 2-4-5 nickel).
But it's still gonna be a transition for a team that's been a 3-man front defense for the past 15 years. And Hafley's NFL experience has mostly been as a DB coach on bad Jim O'Neil coordinated defenses in Cleveland (Mike Pettine) and San Francisco (Chip Kelly). He did get a couple of years in SF on the Robert Saleh defense before going back to the college ranks. But who knows how good he's going to be, and even if he's good in the long run, there may be rough patches early on.
But the time to go through that upheaval is now, with a young team that's just starting to open their window. As long as Love is good, the Packers don't have any contracts on the books that you're gonna raise an eyebrow at. Feels like they still need to acquire a couple of more top-end players to really scare people, but they're entering a period where they should be competitive and have some time to find those last pieces.
I'm not sure if worse than Joe Barry is possible though.
Were talking about the guy who helped Tony DeVito and Bryce Young and to a lesser extent Baker because he's not actually terrible, look like elite NFL QBs.
I'd give it a 5% worse, 20% the same but different problems, 60% better but just 15th in league, 15% wow. There is a bunch of high end draft investment there so I'm more optimistic.
Flags for 12 players on offense and 12 players on defense, the play should just count. Call it the CFL Rule.
Oof, Hurts just throwing it up for grabs. Awful INT.
What a sloppy game so far
What a sloppy game so far
Pretty much.
NFL, hey Brazil I hope you guys like players sliding around and penalty flags.
Barkley doing things
Are Brazilians watching this and thinking to themselves, "Is this is why their men can't win the World Cup?"
Saquon is going to have a Pro Bowl season and the Giants are going to win 5 games. I hate everything.
NGL, I'm enjoying the Brazilian announcer in the stadium
This game’s had 4 turnovers, and about 4 more shoulda-been turnovers.
LOL, I totally forgot, no-one actually AT the game in Brazil tonight can tweet about it.
Masterful gambit, etc.
Let's not go back to Brazil.
Ugly game on all sides. Neither QB looked good, neither defense looked good. Refs weren’t good. Saquon was good at least.
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