The age of Bridgewater and Bortles is upon us, football fans! NFL Week 4 - 2014

New York Giants vs. Washington http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG
Miami Dolphins vs. Oakland Raiders (London)
Green Bay Packers vs. Chicago Bears
Buffalo Bills vs. Houston Texans
Tennessee Titans vs. Indianapolis Colts
Carolina Panthers vs. Baltimore Ravens
Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
Detroit Lions vs. New York Jets
Jacksonville Jaguars vs. San Diego Chargers
Atlanta Falcons vs. Minnesota Vikings
Philadelphia Eagles vs. San Francisco 49ers
New Orleans Saints vs. Dallas Cowboys
New England Patriots vs. Kansas City Chiefs

d'oh, hatcat!

New York Giants vs. HATCATS - These two teams are hard to figure. I'll take the Giants.
Miami Dolphins vs. Oakland Raiders (London) - I don't think either of these two clubs are that good. I'll take Raiders.
Green Bay Packers vs. Chicago Bears - I'm going the Bears more out of loyalty and I really hope they blow them out even though by odds they probably will lose.
Buffalo Bills vs. Houston Texans - Eh...I guess Bills.
Tennessee Titans vs. Indianapolis Colts- Colts should win.
Carolina Panthers vs. Baltimore Ravens - Eh...I'd figure Panthers, but after last week I think it's more of a toss up.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers- Steelers and if they lose that's one heck of a let down.
Detroit Lions vs. New York Jets - Jets can get people to play ugly. I don't like taking the Lions on the road, but they 'seem' the better club.
Jacksonville Jaguars vs. San Diego Chargers - If the Chargers lose this one, it's a big let down.
Atlanta Falcons vs. Minnesota Vikings - I could see the Vikings keeping it close, but I have to think the Falcons are the better club.
Philadelphia Eagles vs. San Francisco 49ers- SF needs a win. I got to think Philly is going to eventually wear down a bit. I'm going Niners although they keep proving me wrong.
New Orleans Saints vs. Dallas Cowboys- I'd figure Saints.
New England Patriots vs. Kansas City Chiefs - I'd figure Pats, but KC can always be a tough place to play and NE doesn't appear that great on either side of the ball at this point.

Oh yeah... last week 10-6 and 27-21 for the season.

pack vs the bears has got to be intriguing game this week. GB offense has underperformed to say the least. if rodgers can hang a ton of points against a team with 1 player who can play pass coverage (but that 1 guy kyle fuller did look awesome monday) that will abate the doubts another week i guess, but if he can't then we know there are real problems with that team.

i am really hoping for washington to desecrate the corpse of the giants. i would hate for the giants to follow up on beating up houston with a second win and start to show worrying signs of being an actual football team. and i am all for kirk cousins looking great long enough to mess this franchise up some more before turning out to be useless.

what if philly is still the top scoring offense after this week? it is crazy that that somehow doesn't seem unlikely with 1.5 o linemen on the team and shady being broken and foles still playing like a backup. i don't even know how they have scored the points they do have. if the eagles score 30 again then worries about the niners defense are legit and chip kelly should be taken to salem, ma and burned at the stake.

i think new orleans outguns dallas although i really want it to go the other way so that we can forget about the saints this year and so that cowboys are 3-1 and start to believe they will make the playoffs, making the inevitable collapse all the sweeter

pats should beat an unconvincing kansas team but who knows? if they just aren't going to show up in the 2nd half anymore how many points do they need to be ahead at the half? i think kansas will struggle to score and the pats will continue to have the best pass defense in the league thanks to having not played a good offense all season. kansas outside pressure vs new england pass protection is going to be brutal. probably this will be a low scoring game unless kcc continue to be generous with turnovers.

this probably should be in the South Park thread, but last night's http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG episode was pretty amazing

I just watched the quick highlight reel on Deadspin. Dayum.

Snyder with a single tear streaming down his cheek nearly had me crying myself

stevie johnson's "fantasy workplace" twitter hijinx are v v fun
https://twitter.com/StevieJohnson13

i'm looking forward to some exceptional lolz in tnite's NYG/WSH game

i should prob go watch that south park instead of this hatcats game vs the UNSTOPPABLE eli

jesus that was embarrassing run d, morris strolled through for a 20y TD run without anyone so much as breathing on him

looks like a TD

this game is ridiculous

after years of unwarranted media oversaturation, the nfc east is now the actual most entertaining division in football

this stretch has been pretty wacky

oh boy, there is something extremely sad about eli overtaking jim kelly on the all time TD list

kirk cousins meltdown bang on schedule. 17 turnovers in 11 total appearances, 6 starts

picked up giants def today *adjusts monocle*

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/03/28/article-1370720-0B5F660000000578-87_468x348.jpg

oh boy, there is something extremely sad about eli overtaking jim kelly on the all time TD list

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, September 25, 2014 10:39 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea i was at a bro's house and none of us could really believe this

that hit that paul took was fucked up i winced for like 12 minutes

Giants whuped the Hatcats. Two weeks ago the NYG's were dead, end of empire. I still think they are pretty middling. Got to wonder if Wash. D on weak legs tonight after that battle with Philly last week.

"oh boy, there is something extremely sad about eli overtaking jim kelly on the all time TD list"

Peyton and Eli have now been around a long time. I'd say both careers are in the fourth quarter at this point. When those guys are done, those are a couple star players that will be hard to replace.

Jim Kelly should feel pretty proud about modern football; those guys, Cincy, Houston's run and shoot and of course SF west coast short passing game pretty much invented the modern game. There are still going to be clubs try to run the ball and play defense, but it's kind of an outlier style of offense at this point.

i picked up larry donnell today, it was a good day

i noticed someone started donnell in the ilx league because they had jordan cameron on a bye. nice work whoever that was.

that was my situation too though cameron's been bad enough that i'm going to need to keep both of them around for a couple weeks.

Great, now the Giants are gonna win the Super Bowl again.

otm

i just have a feeling that, if every team the giants play turns the ball over 6 times, they have a real good chance of winning out and being champs

perry fewell(?) is doing a great job with the basically no players they have on defense. meanwhile, eli and rashad are basically dragging a bad looking offense into the end zone. i mean, for pass catchers i am not surprised they are clutching at donnells right now, even victor cruz is absent. if the giants reach the playoffs it is because a 9-7 team is going to win that division, and they get to play each other.

I guess we should give some credit to the Lions and Cards who have beaten the Giants, at least so far those are a couple of teams looking pretty good. Next week between the Giants and Falcons should be an interesting match up.

I guess we should give some credit to the Lions and Cards who have beaten the Giants, at least so far those are a couple of teams looking pretty good. Next week between the Giants and Falcons should be an interesting match up.

― earlnash, Friday, September 26, 2014 4:29 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Falcons might put up 90 against that defense.

giants look like, at absolute best, a 9 and 7 team to me
i think washington hatcats minus rg3 are kinda fucked

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

Just testing

washington gets the kevin kolb they deserve this year i guess

ALLO WOTS ALL THIS THEN RAIDER TOUCHDOWN PIP PIP

crumpets for everyone

trent richardson and mike glennon with early TDs, just another nfl sunday

why would indy bothered with a q1 surprise onside kick against tennessee??

wow that steve smith sr catch off the deflection + TD

that was sick

v nice 4th inches play for a TD by fins

Bears lose close to GB, those six empty shots on the Packer one yard line are going to haunt.

wtf this is supposed a Raiders home game, stop cheering for the Dolphins britishers

;_;

there is a heavy raiders presence tho, apparently. on FB i saw a dude i went to school with at the game with a raiders flag, no prior interest in football that i can recall which is perhaps the explanation there

raiders are still cool to foreigners, which is nice

one of my tailgating friends made the trip to Wembley & texted us a few updates. Def Leppard opened apparently lol

is it bc raiders remind anglos of their hooligan football clubs from home?

ppl forget that eazy duz it was #1 on the uk album charts for 137 weeks

too $hort is basically like the biggest american act in the uk

wtf how is charlie whitehurst still employable

extremely intangibles

haha that rodgers throw was nuts.

why do oakland never have the ball in this game?

JJ!

flacco is having a really nice season

ffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

hate u london

Leave the rraiders in london imo

i look away from the bears game for a few min and suddenly they're down 21

thrilling conclusion to steelers/TB

wow what a thriller

Bears let 10 points or so slip through their fingers, not getting a TD in that goal line stand and then Bennett getting stopped on the one. After that they were beat.

I haven't seen the Eagles offense today.

Vic Tafur ‏@VicTafur 15s
Asked Allen about disconnect on plays where Dolphins had three WRs vs. two defenders: "We were misaligned on a couple of those."

Can Harbaugh just come over this week

good lord

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Byo0WKNCcAAYQZ_.jpg

eagles niners game is a grotesquerie. no idea what is going to happen in the 2nd half

the eagles have 7 yards rushing at the half

Look at all these 49ers diehards, what amazing fans

https://twitter.com/CamInman/status/516351247704539136

so uh, teddy bridgewater

yeesh I hope Vernon Davis is ok, back is hurt

jax with the saddest attempt at a smashmouth 4th and 1. tobinbo is not very good.

the fuck is roles doing

oh he got hit nvm

it was a terrible decision whether he got hit or not tbf. always good to see another graduate of fuckitgolong university in the nfl

lol kap u dumb

Good job chip

wrong maclin catch to challenge jim

Maclin :-0

fuuck

san francisco have done well with possession against their own end zone

chip kelly outsmarted himself this game - first accepting that hold that made it 3rd and long instead of taking 4th and whatever, and then not running it twice in a row when he's at the 2 yard line and needs a TD to win and has shady mccoy and sproles on his team

feels so weird having timeouts

this game is surreal. insane iggles defense, no offense idgi

I think Foles is good but maybe not good at end zone fades?

wow that was horrible

great game offense

ouch right in the feels

surely the Cowboys will consolidate this gain on the eagles with a resolute victory over the Saints tonight

that 2nd down play to sproles, what even...

Joel-Hans Embiid ‏@JoelEmbiid 8m

I'm not a coach but they should've used the run..... I mean Shady is there

not a coach, didn't watch any of the game up to that point

it was weird how the 9ers didn't go to Stevie more imo

oh god why do we have another cowboys game in primetime

they're the most entertaining franchise in sports

you want romo on that wall, you need romo on that wall

Painful day for a dude who follows falcons and bears. Damn. Go.....cowboys?

David Carr MCL sprain...

Romo looking better every week

tony romo is making plays with his feet

I think that Romo's preseason was weeks 1 and 2. He was so stiff and injured-looking then.

COWBOYS DEFENSE!

wow that was a great play

just turned on - wtf is happening here?!

Dallas O-Line completely dominating, Dallas ragtag defense making big plays

wow

Jerry Jones picked a center and a guard in consecutive first rounds and it worked out lol

for fans of the ryan bros' pained expression of failure, today has been a great day

Better job security: Rob Ryan or Dennis Allen?

Both guys might be in the Sun Belt Conference a year from now

http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/276/files/2014/09/rodgers.gif

This season on the field is really confusing as about half the teams I thought sucked a couple weeks ago all the sudden look great today.

every team will go 8-8

Falcons had a tight end playing right tackle today. Granted,The guy can't catch.

Bridgewater looked like joe Montana

The AP tweeted that Dennis Allen had been fired and Schefter rt'ed it. Then AP deleted the tweet and Schefter reported that as well. If Allen is indeed fired, this is a very Raiders way to do it and a very Schefter way of reporting it.

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<3 <3 <3

http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/276/files/2014/09/rodgers.gif

this was awesome but it was called back, so I'll just add this

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--JuJqGkO---/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/zn8smst0qzqqcnqghm1g.jpg

matthew slater is maybe the best gunner ever?

bring in garafolo

if this is what Brady and the Pats are, I think he could be on the Texans next season. And it could be great.

Pats are getting clocked, but you got to check how far Edelman went to make that tackle on the interception. He was just past the 40 yard line on the far side of the field and caught the KC DB on the 10 yard line on the other sideline. That is some hustle.

man I have never been more stoked for the belichick postgame

holy shit

i know the chiefs let off the gas on defense but seeing jimmy g back there is night and day

If the Pats are terrible this year and get into more games like this one, I wouldn't be surprised if some clubs run up the score on them.

yeah i would

i didn't really catch much of the game but.. how is it that they can't find any receivers. dobson and thompkins weren't even active. this has been going on for what, five seasons now?

Lions must be cursed. Last year Burleson breaks his arm trying to save a pizza, this year Tulloch blows his ACL celebrating a tackle. Now Fauria injures his ankle trying to stop his dog from peeing in the house.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/joseph-fauria-detroit-lions-lil-rufio

wow at that wow at these gifs

Tyron Fucking Smith

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Giants TE Larry Donnell: I benched myself in fantasy

oooops

xp that's awesome

also, lol @ larry donnell

Larry Donnell drives a Hyundai Accent