Yeah, that’s the “I’m going to be on waivers tomorrow” face.
Raiders QB Gardner Minshew is out for the season with a broken collarbone.
In this Rams-Eagles game, the officials arbitrarily gift the Rams a touchdown. It’s hard to play against both the guys in blue and gold as well as black and white.
3rd and forever, from mid field Stafford chucks it deep, the defender is barely touching Nicua on an overthrown ball and the flag comes out on the 3 yard line.
That was embarrassingly bad. Even the Sunday Night Football announcers didn’t hold back in saying there was nothing there.
As of this moment, Saquon Barkley is averaging 6.1 yards per carry for the season (213 carries, 1289 yards). Unreal.
Tonight’s game is in the books now; he finished with 255 yards rushing plus 47 receiving. That’s good, right?
The announcers noted at the end of the game that it was the 9th most rushing yards in a game in the history of the NFL. Top 10!
I’m definitely not hating having Barkley on my fantasy team.
Thanks. Now that I think about it, I didn’t notice where they kicked from.
Well, a couple of TDs would have made it better. Oh, wait…
Given the results of Barkley and Xavier McKinney this year, I fully expect Daniel Jones to throw for 5k yards and 50 TDs next season for whoever signs him.
My old boss, a diehard Jets fan, described them as a poverty franchise with a poverty mindset in the midst of this season’s debacle. Seems the disease is contagious at Meadowlands.
Maybe not for the next team that signs him but the team after. To my mind, Sam Darnold is the case study for Jones. That dude looked utterly worthless on the Jets and even worse in Carolina. They both started their careers with the Meadowlands disease, which has been infecting both teams for a dozen years.
I feel like Jones would be most useful as a third string emergency quarterback in Buffalo to run the scout team in practice, but you just know he’s going to get multiple chances. I mean, Sam Darnold! And come to think of it, Jameis Winston also. You could even toss Geno Smith and Baker Mayfield in that group. Am I remembering right that all four of those quarterbacks didn’t find success until their third team?
I had to look him up on pro-football reference. Seattle is actually his FOURTH team. He was drafted by the Jets and spent four seasons with them. Then a year with the Giants, followed by a year with the Chargers. He’s now in his fifth season at Seattle.
He was never really give a chance at the Giants and Chargers with only 40 passing attempts those two seasons combined. No team would put a QB who had bombed in his first team ahead of Eli or Rivers.
Initially he was in the same situation in Seattle only there to fill in for Russell Wilson if he got injured he had a passer rating of over 100 and that combined with what he did in practice and pre-season was enough to give him a shot at the starting job when Wilson left.
Well, the Patriots put up an absolutely embarrassing effort against the Dolphins. Sloppy play, tons of penalties, no defense in the first half, no offense until garbage time. I always knew this was going to be a rough season, but if you are rebuilding, you’d like to see some, you know, progress. Instead they are regressing. The red flags around Jerod Mayo are flying high right now.
On the plus side, they are still not the Jets 
Yeah, well, we all knew Bill Belichick the GM was terrible. But Bill Belichick the coach usually got what he could out of the teams he did assemble.
Mayo might get there eventually but that’s not a situation you toss a rookie HC into. Most former players turned coaches get a bit more seasoning before getting tossed into the meat grinder.
And after his surprisingly solid 2022 season, his passer rating has decreased every year, and his interception rate has skyrocketed this year to an Eli Manning-esque 3.0 (it was 1.9 and 1.8 the years prior).
Geno, Baker, and Sam are basically your slightly better than average NFL QB. Which, given the number of teams throwing their rookie/developmental QBs into the fire, is a nice thing to have. But they’re all “Win with” not “win because of” guys. Which, once again, is a good thing to have on your roster.
What they have is experience and reps, which let’s them run NFL offenses better than a lot of other QBs.
And, as an aside, I think the owners/fans of NYC teams would be better served lowering their assessments of their QBs. Giving Daniel Jones his “Danny Dimes” nickname before he starts a real NFL game, thinking Tommy Devito is a franchise saver, or thinking Zach Wilson is good for anything other than fucking his mom’s friends just leads to disappointment.
Everyone except Jets fans can say that.
If you’re a Jets fan though I’m sorry. That’s pretty rough.
The interceptions are certainly a problem, but he’s still a good passer and leader overall. But this year in particular it seems like every game he has one bad turnover that was just due to a stupid decision, rather than bad luck, and as a fan that’s hard to watch.
Not necessarily true. Geno has multiple times put the team on his back to win. He did that last week in San Francisco. Late in the game he said “screw it” and scrambled for a long run to get the game-winning TD.
If your argument is that none of them can consistently do such a thing though, you have an excellent point there.
Yes, thanks for the correction. Almost every NFL QB can be a '“win because” for a few games (like Daniel Jones’s 3rd career game or Sam Darnold’s most recent game). But by and large they aren’t consistent. Which makes guys who are, like Mahomes, P.Manning, Brady, worth their weight in gold.
Oh yeah; true franchise QBs don’t come along very often.
Ravens are now 8-4 and nipping on the Steelers’ heels again.
Reminder that the newspapers gave him that nickname after his first regular season start (week 3 of his rookie year) when he led an 18-point comeback. It was the first time the Giants had come back from an 18+ halftime deficit since 1949.