Your favorite team is 6 and 5 - Week 13 NFL 2015 / 2016

Thursday - Packers at Lions

Early Sunday -
Jets at Giants
Cardinals at Rams
Falcons at Bucs
Squawks at Vikings
Niners at Bears
Jaguars at Titans
Texans at Bills
Ravens at Dolphins
Bengals at Browns

Late Sunday -
Chiefs at Raiders
Broncos at Chargers
Eagles at Pats
Panthers at Saints

Sunday Night - Colts at Steelers
Monday Night - Cowboys at Hatcats

my only hope for this week is that belichick lets chip win to help him stick around bc they're buds

@UTKevinAcee
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell just said it appears San Diego will not be able to present a viable plan in time to keep the #Chargers.

are you in SD poly?

Age 5-18, but otherwise no

looking forward to the rams going to san diego in five years

but you're not anywhere they're likely to move to, i.e. LA i guess? seems super lame, looking for a bright side

I'm in Oakland. The team that plays here is probably also moving, so it's more likely that I'll just stop watching football (which I more or less have already).

Feel like pickin' for the first time this year.

Thursday - Packers at Lions- Surprising an interesting match-up considering the Lions defense has figured something out and beat the Pack in Green Bay a few weeks back. I got to think Packers but the story would be much more interesting if the Lions won.

Early Sunday -
Jets at Giants- They really should be in the same division. Jets seem to be not a fluke. I got to think a bad loss could weigh on Coughlin. This seems like a year the Jets win this one.
Cardinals at Rams- Rams defensive front is quite good but I think AZ has too much offense to hang.
Falcons at Bucs- Falcons are fading hard and the Bucs have been improved. Tampa.
Squawks at Vikings- This is a big game. Minnesota needs to put the pedal down to win the division. Seattle loss pretty much elimates them, right? I'm going Vikings.
Niners at Bears- I'm going Bears and hoping they don't play down to their opponent. Being that the Niners gave 80s Bears so much trouble, I hope Chicago rolls them bad. All things said, it does seem like the Bears are improved. Defense is much better than the last 2-3 year black hole and Cutler has cut down on mistakes.
Jaguars at Titans- One will rise, one will fall. No clue on these clubs.
Texans at Bills- Hands up who would have thought Tyrod Taylor and Brian Hoyer would have higher QBR rating than Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck, Eli Manning, Matt Ryan, Joe Flacco and Rofflesburger? Oh yeah, it's happened. Don't think it means much, but kinda weird. I think this game is a pickem being in Buffalo.
Ravens at Dolphins- Considering the weird crap that happens around the Ravens and Dolphins, this game should be played in the middle of a tropical storm. It would be more entertaining that way, check the weather. Who cares.
Bengals at Browns- Ah...now this is a matchup. These two fan bases are both so self-loathing that this game always has meaning. You got to go Bengals, but weird crap always happens in these games. No matter how clueless Cleveland or Cincy has looked, they seem to play up or both play ugly as sin in this game. Don't be surprised if it is a very competitive game.

Late Sunday -
Chiefs at Raiders
Broncos at Chargers
Eagles at Pats
Panthers at Saints

Sunday Night - Colts at Steelers
Monday Night - Cowboys at Hatcats

caldwell's face on that penalty

garbage penalty

awesome sack though

seems like everyone assumed green bay could just manufacture these receivers. it's amazing how long rodgers is holding the ball and how incredibly bad davante adams is.

still I don't think anybody predicted how far the offense would fall. obv no Jordy makes it easier to take Cobb out of the mix but Packer WRs are almost playing street football where they run their routes and just kinda stand there waiting for Rodgers to fling it up in the air like they're playing "500"!

Lacy being inconsistent as all fuck hasn't helped either.

holy shit

lol god damn it, Detroit

that pass went 68 yards in the air

<3 you Aaron

https://vine.co/v/iWPWHYxKguv

Holeeeeee shit, that was the craziest ending i can remembere

Wasnt a facemask in any case

Got to love that Lion fans a week later get to remind Brown's fans that they really do not know pain.

went to bed at 20-0

saw the facemask call this morning, so awful. missed calls are bad but i think everyone accepts they are part of the game. phantom calls otoh are unacceptable, such a feel-bad. whoever called that penalty couldn't have seen actual penalty contact because it wasn't there, so what was the sign or shortcut or heuristic that made that official confident in the probability that whatever he saw was actually a penalty? because whatever that is is what they have to stop doing!

I agree that the call was dumb but the NFL has been pretty consistent about flagging defenders who grab the QB's head, just saying. He got a finger in there and twisted the neck. It's like 100% incidental but still, that's the rule. Just like the offside on Peppers which otherwise would've swung the game.

Got to love that Lion fans a week later get to remind Brown's fans that they really do not know pain.

In one sense yeah, the Lions SHOULD be in the playoff hunt, given that both their dodgy losses came vs. the two current wild card teams, between that, the PI flag getting picked up in the playoffs and the Jim Schwartz illegal challenge play the Lions have certainly lost in some fucked up ways, HOWEVER I think any Browns fan would trade franchises with them in a second

lol dude

"grab the QB's head"
"twisted the neck"

at most his finger brushed the facemask and in fact you can't even tell 100% from pics or video that there was contact with the facemask at all, his finger could just be right by it. all the movement was caused by the contact with the shoulder pad.

I agree with you - but the league calls that ALL THE TIME on QBs. Since we have no replay/challenge system to pick up flags (unless you're Detroit I guess?) thats just the way it goes, ref sees part of the hand go in the face mask and the neck twist, he throws the flag. On replay you can see it's clearly just incidental and it looked worse than it was, but for some reason the NFL lets big game-changing penalties like that just stand. I mean full disclosure I am a huge Packer fan and everyone here knows we 100% got away with one, I don't wanna imply that we deserved this game at all!!

NFL football accounts for just a handful of programming hours each week, but accounts for 22% of total average viewership of the three networks this fall, according to CNNMoney’s analysis of Nielsen ratings data.

from here btw
http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/24/media/nfl-ratings-network-tv-fox-cbs-nbc/

Without football, viewership at CBS -- which has a Sunday afternoon package of games and had Thursday Night Football this fall -- would have fallen 15%.

87y qb td run is not bad i suppose

people were really complaining about that face mask call on rodgers when the replay showed rodgers being hit in the face by the defenders' fingers, huh? football fans, i guess

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/12/6/9857556/rams-breakout-out-zany-fake-punt-play-thats-actually-a-punt

the rams ran a really cool fake-fake punt today. unfortunately because they're the rams it turned into a touchback

even if it was clear that rodgers was hit in the face by the defenders fingers, which it isn't, that's not a penalty. i guess if you were a football fan you might know that. why are you here anyway?

giants basically take a knee and decide to go to ot uh

lol bears. jfc

jets with the saddest 3rd and goal play

even if it was clear that rodgers was hit in the face by the defenders fingers, which it isn't, that's not a penalty. i guess if you were a football fan you might know that. why are you here anyway?

― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, December 6, 2015 3:59 PM (18 minutes ago)

it's just such a silly thing to complain about. the guy clearly hit rodgers in the face, rodgers head jerked, the refs don't have the benefit of the replay. it's a reasonable if possibly technically incorrect call

there have been plenty of controversial calls this year that were much more egregious

wow
terrible loss by chicago

offense is a shitshow for both teams so far in pats vs eagles

eagles defense has something to say about that

i don't have a clue what that was

o_O

first bad mistake ive seen from pats special teams all year

chip is charged up

shouldn't have tried the total disrespect onside kick play imo

xp well since the game changing fumble last week ;)

yeah half fell apart after that dumb drop kick thing

yeah you're right i was thinking when punting. that never happens

looooooool

Uh....

belichick has to be losing his mind right about now

the eagles are the best team in the land!

brady running XD

hahahaha omg this fucking game

wow brady is so slow

fletcher cox looked like he was going to have a heart attack and he was gaining on him

LMAOOOOOOOOOOO

lol wtf

eagles offense can't do anything but they don't even need to

xp every time brady runs it's hilariously b/c soooo slow

chip spent all season preparing for belichick and neglected all the other teams on the schedule

i think a few of these dudes on NE watched the last two eagles games and figured they just had to turn up

this fucking game wtf

are they bored or...

brady's only done that once before imo

oh my god

this fucking game is the most ridiculous game i've ever seen

hahahaahahahahhahhaa

what is happening

the eagles broke the patriots

Have the pats forgotten how to play?

this is some preseason shit

RIP Patriots '16

also loooooooooooooooool

eh not really RIP - they don't have Gronk, Edelman or Hightower this week which is a huge deal on both sides of the ball

surprised at stupid mistake after stupid mistake today but it happens

it continues!

is this like that kansas city game or the pats/ravens playoff game they lost

why is the oline so bad though, seriously - they're only missing solder.

this game is over

Bill Burr's podcast will have some moments on this Eagles/Pats game no doubt.

Saw a bit of the Giants/Jets game and more than once JPP would get to the QB and have no hand to get ahold of them.

Marshall/Decker also have a bit of the old Keyshawn/Chrebet action going on. People have been talking about how Fitzpatrick has filled in the Jets QB crater this year, but this is the best combo of wideouts the Jets probably have had since Keyshawn/Chrebet.

uh oh

the wackiness continues

xp idk if it's the oline in particular, although they haven't exactly shone. eagles have blitzed well and pass def should be the thing they do best. but NE also made it too easy for them by dropping back to pass too often.

Eagles got the Bills, Cards and Hatcats at home then finish with the Giants.

Hatcats got Dallas, at Chicago, Buffalo, at Philly and at Dallas.

Looks like the Cowboys and Bills could decide the NFC LEast division winner.

Looking by matchup, I'd have to say the Hatcats might have a slight edge. Probably will come down to the head to game though as both of these clubs could lose a couple more games.

So how long do you think it will take in the Philly sports media for the statement of "it's good that the Eagles beat the Pats, but Kelly's still got to go" will happen?

I also got to think that Cam Newton is really the closest QB to John Elway to come along yet. People that kind of state Newton is not efficient as a passer really kind of miss that he is a hybrid player. I don't now that QBR can really capture players like that's run game or really the potential run, which a defense on every play has to take account. Every play there is probably a linebacker no matter the down or position that's job is to spy Newton and make sure he doesn't break out running up the middle.

i imagine philly sports media to be worse than boston so.. don't want to find out what they think about chip kelly right now. it didn't take me long into the pats game to get super annoyed with the smug look on his face..

okay i was just wondering to myself where antonio brown got drafted. how was it that low?! tell me that's the same draft the pats took dobson and boyce

wait, winning one ugly game vs the pats' second stringers should save kelly?

thank you antonio brown, what was that

Eagles are on the hook for a bunch of bucks to Kelly whether he coaches for him or not, I could believe them trying to get another season out of him before cutting him loose.

I got to figure the Steelers are going to be the Wildcard team in the AFC no one should want to play. They play well and they could beat anyone in the AFC.

yeah, ditto the Seahawks and the NFC.

lol

desean jackson on that punt return like shakespearian in its hubris and instant punishment.

10 minutes of punishment, followed by redemption

and instant redemption xp

insane

what a great throw

beautiful ending tbh

i just learnt for the first time that this is a thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_catch_kick

it's a bizarre relic. the harbaugh niners tried one a couple years ago.

a successful 52 yard drop kick through the uprights is a helluva achievement!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hornung

xp that was the 71 yard one! I was rooting so hard for that one. Every time I see a kicker nail a long field goal I wonder how long it WOULD have been good from. Someone's gotta be able to hit 71 given a dozen tries, right?

wow brutal viking loss

idk what the plan for that play was, looked like bridgewater was looking at the end zone. think whoever called that play really fucked up

yeah any play that could result in a sack should've been off limits, in fact I wouldn't fault them for kicking the FG right there. that said Vikings looked surprisingly good after getting smoked by Seattle, I was surprised they were able to put together a drive like that with 1:30 and one TO, Minnesota really isn't built for that

it is definitely that time of the season when you can tell which teams don't give a fuck anymore

https://vine.co/v/iZ9E0ZYXIpF

it is definitely that time of the season when you can tell which teams don't give a fuck anymore

bengals?

poor bengals :(

lol

https://twitter.com/AtlantaFalcons/status/676133838565851136

hahaha

priceless xp

omg look at cam's sweater <3

https://twitter.com/Panthers/status/676158751171301377

cmon raiders

what a drop, unbelievable

big vince looks significantly bigger than last season

gronk just step out of bounds dude, don't need the extra half yard that bad

Seriously, those low tackles have me holding my breath

"i guess this is the foul where he came over and jumped on top of him"

collinsworth earns his check

nice dance new guy

i was watching denver/oakland at the gym and oakland went for two up by three, was any explanation offered for this insane behavior

they said the oakland long snapper got hurt sometime prior to that play and was in the locker room so they didn't want to risk it with whoever was the backup

ahh ok ty that was confounding

still crazy/ill prepared tho imho

not having a back up long snapper you can even trust enough for an extra point is not a great situation

yup

gronky!

gronko

xxp i think they missed a fg later with the backup long snapper. curious how many teams have a decent replacement option at that position.

seems like something u cld teach someone to do

yeah they did miss a fg late. it was an interesting game, oakland offense did hardly anything and wasted some good opportunities, but the defense just went ham

yeah janikowski missed like a 43 yarder - said his timing was thrown off by it

it is weird that they hadn't prepared for that situation well enough

he missed one before that toooo

didnt see the whole thing but seemed like one of those games both teams kept trying to give away

I love a 5 minute break after every play

gives it a nice contemplative pace

btw james white made an amazing catch thats a wide receiver type catch

this has been his most impressive game for sure

patritos double screwed this drive

jfc

Fire pats special teams

patriots r a cursed franchise

Multiple fuckups on that play

what did the pats special teams do to anger the football gods

very similar to the last time it happened, invitation back into game after 2 score lead

not sure abt that call

Bad call Houston

Meanwhile mccourty might be injured

Can anyone stay healthy?!?

Aaaaaand another challenge

sheard is so good

this game sucks tho

afaik harper got cut and immediately resigned to the pats practice squad which is what they would have done regardless, b/c he was only on the active roster due to injuries to starting receivers

hoyer getting rung up

AFC South & NFC East looking like 7-9 might get it done. Kinda hope both of them end up making it at 7-9.

all due respect to houston but do not need gronk to still be in there

chiefs
@ bmore
vs cleveland
vs oakland

jets
@ dallas
vs ne
@ buffalo

steelers
vs denver
@ bmore
@ cleveland

p sure chiefs get in and maybe win out which is amazing considering (they also have the tie breakers, h2h vs pitt and best conf record). think jets prob miss out but if the rivalry can motivate those afc north teams in those pburgh division road games that would be the difference

Some of the talking heads really talking up KC's D. Don't think it matters as Andy Reid will screw it up in a close game late even if they get a shot.

I'm interested to see what AJ McCarron does with this shot with the Bengals. Dude won some huge games in college and he just got handed the keys to a pretty tricked out offense even with Eifert potentially out for a bit. If it goes well, it will end up being a big story.

AFC South & NFC East looking like 7-9 might get it done. Kinda hope both of them end up making it at 7-9.

this has gotta be the first time in NFL history where there were two division leaders with losing records heading into Week 15

Hell right now there are only 11 teams above .500.

love it

after last night belichick in 333 reg season games as hc has 222 wins and 111 losses

beautiful

666

billuminati

lo and he shall come clad in a hoodie

amazing catch by beckham

Good coverage guys

Fins looking like they are factoring shit Giants tackling into their playcalling.

‎@AdamSchefter
Through 25 NFL games, Giants' WR Odell Beckham Jr. now has more receptions and more receiving yards than any player in NFL history.

& next week josh norman is covering him

Through the first 12 weeks of the NFL season, the passer rating when throwing at Josh Norman was worse than just throwing it into the turf every play.[33]

jeez

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWSjslvU4AAJRAv.jpg

cam is the quarterback who can heal this divided nation

hah that sweater

this whole thing w/ shady just breaks my fucking heart