Patriots showed up last night as the team everyone thought they were going to be this season: atrocious. They might want to consider bringing in an offensive line, since they don’t seem to have one at the moment…
Quick, incredibly stupid rant:
The clickbait plague is annoying as fuck and has come to NFL news.
“Chargers star may miss Sunday’s game!”
“Could Brincos star be benched?”
“Stud Browns player pleads guilty”
Johua Palmer, Javonte Williams, and Michael Hall are not “stars”, or " studs".
Just stop it.
Eh, quite frankly I wish the Jets would go back to the uniforms that they wore from 1963 to 1977 and again from 1998 to 2018. Those uniforms look super sharp and are a classic. But, owners got to mix things up to make money, I guess.
Aaron Rodgers actually looked pretty damn good last night. Still, Jets fans are going to be inhaling deep every time he takes off on a QB run for the rest of the season.
The Jets have some winnable games coming up; if they can put out what they did last night, they might be able to make some noise. Time will tell.
Totally agree with what you said about the Jets. Rodgers looked extremely sharp and the Jets defense was excellent. Although, as @ShadowFacts observed, the Pats may want to field an offensive line at some point this season. Not sure how the Pats defeated the Bengals a couple of weeks ago, in Cincinnati.
Pats ran the ball, and ran it again. Covers up the turnstile pass blocking. It’s as if blitzing was foreign concept to the blockers. Add in a weak receiving group (not much speed) and a reluctant QB who won’t throw in tight windows and the sacks pile up. They should have beaten Seattle; Brisset took a bad sack that led to a blocked field goal. Just run the damn ball.
The Packers filed their final injury report of the week, prior to Sunday’s game at Tennessee. They listed Jordan Love as a limited participant in practices every day this week, and now list him as “questionable” to play on Sunday.
As someone who wants to see Jordan Love put up big numbers, I don’t want to see him on the field this week. Don’t rush back and make it worse.
I’ve seen QBs come back a week or more early and just play like garbage the rest of the season because they’re clearly not really able to play properly, and they can’t heal while playing. Especially this early in the year, you need to think of the long term benefit of being totally healed up compared to missing another game or two.
I got a little tired of Chris Berman’s old “give a player a nickname” (like Mike “You’re in good hands with” Alstott or Albert “Winnie the” Pujols). But I just heard one, not from Berman, about the Chargers first round pick, that made me chuckle.
Joe Alt Delete.
I just looked him up, and his real name is Joe Alt. The Berman Naming Convention is, as far as I’m aware, to always add a middle name. A good example (although not from Berman) would be Bert Eight-and-a-Half Blyleven.
But, as you said, “Joe Alt Delete” did not come from Berman, so is not bound by the BNC.
Berman’s nickname for Blyleven was Bert be home Blyleven.
I know. My brother came up with Eight-and-a-Half Blyleven, which is much better.
Ask and you shall receive. After pregame workouts this morning, the Packers just announced that Love is inactive for today’s game, and Malik Willis will start again, with Sean Clifford elevated from the practice squad as backup.
Anyone know what the NFL record is for most penalties incurred by a single player in a single game? Laremy Tunsil has four in the first half alone for Houston.
Thank Lombardi I get to watch the Packers game, because my quick looks at the Bears/Colts game have been painful.
I’m working, so I’m only able to check the ESPN website for updates, but I’m hoping that Indy can pull out a win here.
Giants playing pretty well today in Cleveland. In fairness, they also played pretty well last week in a loss to Washington. It was just that opener against Minnesota where they shit the bed.
Their entire playbook is “throw the ball to Nabers.” It’s as effective as it is funny, at least to me.
I’m not sure I’ve seen a rookie WR carry an entire team like Nabers is doing now.
Browns are pretty ass on offense. O-line can’t pass protect and the running plays are designed poorly. It’s possible replacing Watson with Jameis Winston might provide a spark - Watson is quite bad but the o-line would be bad for Winston too. But there’s a chance the team doesn’t really want to play for Watson, and so Winston might provide a spark.
But they’d have to fake/exaggerate a Watson injury since there’s no way Jimmy Haslam is going to admit the magnitude of his mistake by benching Watson, even if it means sinking the team he owns.
Well, in a game in which I expected a shootout, Saquan Barkley just scored the first TD on a 65 yard run. That first TD came with 13 minutes left in the game. 7-3 Eagles.
Huh, weird play and ruling in the Ravens-Cowboys game…
Cowboys QB drops back into his own end zone, cannot find anyone open, starts to be tackled, and, as he falls to the ground, throws the ball to a Dallas offensive lineman standing on the 2 yard line.
Amazingly, it was NOT called a safety, but an “illegal touching” by the lineman, which was declined by Baltimore to make them punt from their own end zone. Recall a safety is automatically called for any penalty committed IN the end zone. Here, technically the foul was just OUTSIDE the end zone, but the “impetus” was on the QB, not the lineman.
I am sure the Competition Committee will keep that play in mind when they look over the rules in the offseason. Otherwise the QB can avoid the safety by throwing it to one of his linemen, when if he simply intentionally grounded it it’s 2 points for the other team. Either that or the intentional grounding takes precedence over the illegal touching and the position of every lineman needs to be completely ignored when determining if it is I.G.