# NFL Week 1 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 5, 2013, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059 "2013-09-05T08:18:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/161 "2013-09-10T00:39:48Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > … does that include quarterbacks? Feel like I’m being whooshed… ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/162 "2013-09-10T00:52:21Z")
Girlfriends wear player jerseys. Guys use them to decorate the walls of their mancave. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/163 "2013-09-10T00:56:56Z")
Keep it going, Birds!!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/164 "2013-09-10T00:57:09Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Feel like I’m being whooshed… Well, they’re men, aren’t they? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/165 "2013-09-10T01:00:33Z")
Pretty classy of #95 coming off the field to have a word with RG. He’s the one that caused the sack and gimp. I dislike the shit out of the Eagles. I wish they’d quit making me have to say decent things about them. Not sure I’m sold on this double MNF format yet. My Texans start at 9:20 and that doesn’t work with a 5:00 day. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/166 "2013-09-10T01:02:35Z")
It’s only for this week, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/167 "2013-09-10T01:03:08Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, they’re men, aren’t they? Ah, well played. Let me lawyer out of this by saying that a actual NFL QB wears a jersey, just a generic jersey. A “QB jersey” is defined as a mass produced souvenir with a QBs particular branding on it. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/168 "2013-09-10T01:06:46Z")
_…we hold that Omni Rule #73 is void for vagueness and remand this matter to the trial court for proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion._ ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/169 "2013-09-10T01:11:30Z")
Jesus. I waited the whole off-season for this? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/170 "2013-09-10T01:25:18Z")
Can we just skip to the next game, now? ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/171 "2013-09-10T01:26:27Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Not sure I’m sold on this double MNF format yet. My Texans start at 9:20 and that doesn’t work with a 5:00 day. Neither does Chris Berman being the announcer of the late game. Greenberg and Golic weren’t very good when they did the 2nd Monday opener, but Berman is a whole other category of not good. Can we start Chargers-Texans now? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/172 "2013-09-10T01:37:56Z")
Don’t like the late start? Move west. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/173 "2013-09-10T01:43:31Z")
I still love how Gruden sees blitzes everywhere. Standard 4 man rush? Blitzing. 3 man rush? Did you see that blitz? 4 man rush with a linebacker coming on the blitz? ALL-OUT BLITZ! You gotta love his enthusiasm. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/174 "2013-09-10T01:48:17Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Don’t like the late start? Move west. NO KIDDING! I’m on the west coast and stuck at work! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/175 "2013-09-10T01:52:15Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Don’t like the late start? Move west. Do you realize what time I’d have to leave for work if I commuted from California? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/176 "2013-09-10T01:56:46Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Jesus. I waited the whole off-season for this? Huh. See here I am, getting my hopes up now. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/177 "2013-09-10T02:13:01Z")
Let’s go clock! Goooooo, clock! Hopefully, Chippy will cut out the quick, no huddle crap when we get the ball back. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/178 "2013-09-10T02:17:29Z")
Well sat in a hotel in Houston where the bar and resteraunt are under renovation, so both are relocated to a temporary area, there is a TV but the mmgt won’t turn up the volume for the Texans game, the patrons are getting testy and conspiring to take matters into thir own hands, some are lining up the audio via an ipad. Apparently even visitors to Texas take football seriously. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/179 "2013-09-10T02:29:07Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Looks incomplete. Interesting to see the Philly offense looking so good to begin with. Big Chip Kelly fan, but utterly baffled at Pat Shurmur at OC. > [@](#): > > Although I agree that Kelly’s passing game remains the biggest question mark about whether his offense will work in Philadelphia, my concern wasn’t that he lacked NFL passing concepts at Oregon. It was about how they were being taught. Some of this can be credited to the fact that Kelly only had talented passers in his first and last seasons at Oregon — first with Dennis Dixon and then last season with freshman Marcus Mariota. Still, Oregon’s passing game never struck me as particularly crisp. The concepts were there — including NFL staples like snag/scat, four verticals, drive, and cross — but Kelly’s quarterbacks rarely took a true drop, instead just shuffling in place, and all too often the timing and precision of the passing game was off. Despite the record numbers his offense put up, one always got the sense that without the impressive running game and dynamic overall design, Kelly’s Ducks would be an average passing team. > > In this context, however, Kelly’s seemingly odd hires of Shurmur, quarterbacks coach Bill Lazor, and wide receivers coach Bob Bicknell, who each have years of NFL experience coaching the passing game, make a lot more sense — Kelly was hiring to his weaknesses. > **[» Same Old Chip: What We Learned About the Eagles Offense in Their New...](https://grantland.com/the-triangle/same-old-chip-what-we-learned-about-the-eagles-offense-in-their-new-coachs-preseason-debut/)** ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/180 "2013-09-10T03:04:57Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > Well sat in a hotel in Houston where the bar and resteraunt are under renovation, so both are relocated to a temporary area, there is a TV but the mmgt won’t turn up the volume for the Texans game, the patrons are getting testy and conspiring to take matters into thir own hands, some are lining up the audio via an ipad. Apparently even visitors to Texas take football seriously. The management won’t turn up the volume for the last MNF game that people in the makeshift bar area want to watch? Is this not America? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059.md?page=10)