Dak Prescott contract talk AKA- NFL 2019-20 Week 1.

I guess it is that time...all Romans come to the arena for another season of America's favorite blood sport.

Thursday, September 05th
Packers at Bears

Sunday, September 08th
Rams at Panthers
Redskins at Eagles
Bills at Jets
Falcons at Vikings
Ravens at Dolphins
Chiefs at Jaguars
Titans at Browns
Colts at Chargers
Bengals at Seahawks
49ers at Buccaneers
Giants at Cowboys
Lions at Cardinals
Steelers at Patriots

Monday, September 09th
Texans at Saints
Broncos at Raiders

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Bill Belichick: "I like football. I like football season and all the things that go with it."

— Zack Cox (@ZackCoxNESN) September 4, 2019

what was that pass trubinsky

Josh Allen got ok to wear his college number #41 at DE in the pros. A few are already picking him as a potential rookie of the year candidate.

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okay that was fun. finally

New head coach has changed basically nothing

rex grossman is only 39

unleash the dragon

why couldn't the league have started the season with kansas city ffs

lmao Tramon

Full Tramon Williams quote on Mitch Trubisky:

"We wanted to make Mitch play quarterback. We knew they had a lot of weapons, we knew they were dangerous, we knew all of those things. But we knew if we could make Mitch play quarterback, that we’d have a chance."

— Matt Schneidman (@mattschneidman) September 6, 2019

I'm guessing the ball hat is MT branding himself, not exactly the best game for the ole' personal brand. That said, I don't think he played horrible, all he would have had to do was hit on that big one that was called back on the knick knack offensive pass interference. That was a heck of a throw and most of the game, he took what he could. The interception was the killer throw, but he's still seems to have some f'it chuckit in him.

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I didn't know that Howard had left the Bears, still haven't looked yet to see who he signed with as a free agent.

Ah nice deal for Howard getting to go to the Eagles, that seems like it could be a pretty good place for his talents.

both Rodgers & Trubisky were scrambling a lot, the difference was Rodgers is always looking downfield while Mitch seems to panic and defaults to just rushing. he made a lot of bad throws. Rodgers did too but that was mostly in the 1st q. hard to really know much until we see a few more games - the Packers defense has been really easy to put up big passing numbers against the last 5-6 years and I'm kinda doubtful they solved all that in one offseason

Antonio Brown JUST NOW posted this on YouTube. #RaiderNation, you need to watch this. pic.twitter.com/Z9LlsPczVV

— Raider Cody (@RaiderCody) September 7, 2019

That is some weird wild stuff there. It looks good, pretty slick production.

We have said it before on the board, the NFL is totally turning into pro wrestling. It always kinda was but now it's pronounced.

"I like football season and all of the things that go with it."

Welp congrats to the Patriots I guess

God damnit

God damnit

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i mean, it is hilarious, genuinely. steelers traded him to the hinterlands of the nfl where he'd never trouble them again and he winds up on the gdamn pats looooool

this is some bullshit

collusion!!1!!!

goodell is going to find a way to take away the pats first round pick for this i know it

at the risk of getting all qanon

AB was never crazy in pittsburgh until like the last week of last season. i mean he was fucking legendary for his work ethic. could he have orchestrated this whole process just to become a free agent?

i want to believe, because if so that's awesome. but if not, it's just another reason to hate the patritos

TO pretty much did the same thing. Favre took a detour season to get to Minnesota.

This seems to happen in the NBA from time to time.

It is a good wrestling manager heel move to make, especially if it takes off. Brown could definitely make up for the loss of Gronk. By what I was reading, some people think the Pats might be using more running game.

Antonio Brown sought advice from professional social media consultants for ideas on how to accelerate his release from the Oakland Raiders, sources tell ESPN.

At least one consultant couldn't tell whether Brown was serious or not, according to sources. Brown's tumultuous tenure with the Raiders officially ended Saturday, when the Pro Bowl receiver was released by Oakland and signed with the New England Patriots.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/27566034/ab-eyed-advice-expedite-raiders-exit

hatcats -> first opening drive TD since 2004 ????!!! hahahaha

Lord help me if I see any motherfucker in a Miami Fitzpatrick jersey I will punch them.

Lol.he just threw an INT

mahomes? next time look that would've been 6

Lol already down 14-0. God i know why we are rebuilding but it doesn't make it less painful to watch

ugggh mahomes is hurt nooooooo

Lol 35-3 Ravens.

Fuccck this year will barely be watchable

cleve brownies with five personal fouls in the first half

hatcats/eagles return to form here

sigh

this year will barely be watchable

it's been like that for a decade now. now's a good time to consider abandoning ship, before it reels you in with a lot of bullshit narratives that don't make it any more watchable.

Browns actually not looking like a super bowl team right now

loool @ NYJ

Meanwhile my team just lost 59-10 at home

man. is that the worst blowout since NE 59 TN 0?

lamar jackson did some things

Follow live: Patriots host Steelers in battle of AFC juggernauts

the patriots won as many playoff games last season as the steelers have this decade

Yeah and it sure looks like there’s only one juggernaut involved in this game

can't believe nfl teams still kick FGs down multiple scores from the 1.

lmao that is the appropriate karmic response to kicking that field goal

nice flop gilmore

i mean it was clearly a penalty but he SOLD it

gotta make sure the ref sees it

FLASH <3 <3 <3

before everyone dumps on the Pats remember they get Antonio Brown next week

"false start, offense: all the lineman except for the center"

i want to go to bed but every shot of roethlisberger and tomlin looking pissed is pure dopamine

Steelers really got a penalty because the center forgot to snap the ball LOOOL pic.twitter.com/TSr6QlSdSQ

— gifdsports (@gifdsports) September 9, 2019

maybe they should kick the FG here idk

the steelers were actually trying to score on that final drive

like i think they were actually preoccupied with getting a touchdown with 30 seconds left in a 30-point game

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that's a Madden glitch

onscreen graphic w/largest margins of victory by defending super bowl champions, this is why i stayed up

Coach Belichick had no comment on the Antonio Brown news...as expected pic.twitter.com/Wp17gCMr6T

— Patriots on NBCSB (@NBCSPatriots) September 9, 2019

Man their whinging has long passed "tedious".

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omfg this game

^^^^^^

watson is such an insane talent and the dumber of my two cats could do a better job coaching the texans

Incredible stuff

Damn, 58 yards?

2 lead changes with 50 seconds left and only one combined timeout

good ol Antonio brown ay

Wow guess he was really trying to engineer his way to Dallas all along

looks like Sam Darnold may miss a couple games because he has mono

This is science pic.twitter.com/dkHcaDGYgi

— Steve Palazzolo (@PFF_Steve) September 13, 2019

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lol

patriots defense might be good

Fitzy with an 8.9 passer ratimg

not great

patriots have allowed 3 points this season

just sacked fitz 2 out of 3 plays

Tbf our offensive linemen met each other like a week ago. You'll probably get 5 more

pick six

I bet a small sum on both the Patriots covering and also Miami winning cos the latter woulda been an insane payout.

Now that I'm winning the former, wish i had spent more

dolphins with 79 total yards

Time to bring back Wildcat

pick six

― lag∞n, Sunday, September 15, 2019 3:34 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yikes

this is a old fashioned butt whoopin tell you what

pats offense didnt even play that good

holy cats

lmao dolphins backup qb throwing two perfect bombs which are dropped

ah the promising backup has now blown out his knee

bills should play all their games in the meadowlands

of which we are treated to many slowmo replays

its seems now like hes fine....

Dolphins are going to contract themselves after this

honestly i tip my cap to them

gostkowski missed two extra points lol the score shd be 45-0 but instead its 43-0

ha almost another pick 6 on the final play except collins fell over

patriots have allowed 6 points in their last 3 games (one of them was the superbowl)

congratulations to the afc north champion baltimore ravens

i have a question and i dont want anyone to get to upset but why are many of the afc east teams more northerly than the afc north teams

AFC East outside of the Pats needs regulated down to the Big 12.

the bills are undefeated

the afc east represents the east coast and the afc north represents the north coast

tbh the ravens and bills should switch — accident of fate that the ravens came from cleveland

still not as bad as when the falcons were in the nfc west tho

which was weird cos for a while the Atlanta Braves were in the NL West too

so Brees out all game?

love endless shots of head coaches talking into mics behind sheets of paper

it’s the most exciting view in sports

lol @ the ending to Bears-Broncos

Broncos score a TD with :30 left to make it 13-12
Denver decides to go for 2, but they get a delay of game, moving it back to a 7
Denver now decides to go for 1, MISSES the XP, but a Bears OL flinched right before the snap
This somehow brings it back to the 1 yard line, Denver goes for 2 again and makes it, 14-13 Denver

Do-overball

wow Trubs just completed one with 0:01 left they have a shot to win now

wow

I mean :30 w/ one timeout is basically an impossible situation for Mitch UNLESS you rough him and give him 15 free yards

ok watching that again theres no way that should've been roughing, he was throwing as he got hit. that's the kind of shit they kept calling on Clay Matthews last season

I mean "inertia" and all, it's frustrating but the NFL is going to continue to call it that way to keep the facade of them giving a shit about player's health.

except for when players re-enter games with concussions despite wobbling around cross-eyed

which is not to say I don't think roughing should be a thing, but if the dude leaves his feet before the ball gets thrown, he ain't gonna realistically be able to stop, it's physics yo.

that roughing call on chubb was terrible and so was the one on goldman earlier in the game

also the saints got a fumble returned for a TD negated

bring back the scab refs from 2012

saw chubb trending on twitter and was afraid chubb rock was dead

tbf the Saints routinely getting blatantly screwed over by refs is pretty funny

almost wonder if they're gonna make roughing reviewable next year if they feel the changes to PI were a positive thing. its one of the more frustrating reffing things since it gets called in situations where the defender really had no way to stop themselves & its just another thing for the defense to have on their mind all the time. like 7-8 years ago you used to see a lot of drives extended by 15 yard "roughing the kicker" penalties that are basically the same, punter gets it off with 0.1 sec to spare, rusher dives for it and misses, winds up clipping the punter's knee, then boom drive extended. I feel like teams only half-try to block punts now because of that.

You should be allowed to bodyslam kickers and punters imo

eek

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- The Miami Dolphins are off to the worst start through two games of the regular season since 1973.

Following a 43-0 loss to the New England Patriots Sunday, the Dolphins have been outscored 102-10 after two games and now have a minus-92 point differential -- tied for worst in the Super Bowl era with the 1973 New Orleans Saints. Miami's 102 points allowed after two contests also is tied with those '73 Saints for most in Super Bowl era.

59-10
43-0

got clowned on a lot for taking Dolphins +19.5 and it turns out I deserved it

fins at dallas next lol

roffles out for season

you hate to see it

Brees out 6 weeks too, damn

collinsworth was earnestly saying "you hate to see it" after a tackle got hurt last night, and it sounded bad

overmemed twitterspeak "you love to see it" / "you hate to see it" RIP

The Pats have pretty much led to the ruin of the rest of their division. You got one team tanking by plan (kinda) and one team tanking by effect (usually) and the Bills are forever caught in the friend zone a game or two under .500.

It's been like this nearly for two decades and Tom Brady looks younger now than he did 15 years ago.

'Somewhere in Palo Alto is a dark mansion where a painting eeerrrillly of an "older" Tom Brady keeps slowly changing...'

Is this possibly the worst jets team of the modern era? Wouldn’t have guessed so, but looks like it could be

bradys gotta be juicing right

No doubt about it

incredibly, the rex ryan/mark sanchez/buttfumble era is the apex of the jets' last 30+ seasons

you have to go back to ken o'brien/wesley walker/freeman mcneil in the mid-80s to find something better

the buttfumble ruled

rip eli

incredibly, the rex ryan/mark sanchez/buttfumble era is the apex of the jets' last 30+ seasons

you have to go back to ken o'brien/wesley walker/freeman mcneil in the mid-80s to find something better

― mookieproof, Monday, September 16, 2019 9:24 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

the jets made the playoffs 6 times between 1998-2010, reaching the conf. champ 3 times!!! the playoff-making QBs: testaverde, pennington, sanchez

not an enviable peak, but my lions-fan friends are jealous

they nearly made it with Favre too but blew it in the last quarter of the season

(my theory is that Favre was badly injured but wouldn't sit & the Jets coaching staff didn't want to blow his streak, so they just lost out instead)

two of the conference finals were with rex/sanchize, which is why i referred to it as a high point

agreed, but the buttfumble itself marked the end of an old era of semi-success and the start of a new one of disastrous failure

btw do you actually know any lions fans

i like lions

btw do you actually know any lions fans

― mookieproof, Tuesday, September 17, 2019 10:16 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

went to u of m, so yes

Cam out indefinitely with a foot

Usually they have two, right?

two cams?

Jets need to bring back Mark Sanchez, save the team!

Dolphins really are in worse shape, as even though it is Miami, players are lining up at the door to get the heck out of the Hotel FLA.

They should be relegated to the CFL and the Calgary Stampeders move up.

lol at pitting the titans and jaguars against each other on a thursday night and expecting people to buy the nfl network

The Thursday Night Football under bet just keeps on giving.

hahaha yep

I've hit 4 unders in a row on nationally televised game and now (because I'm dumb as shit) am parlaying that onto Dolphins +24 and Jets +22.5

I am debating betting $20 on Miami straight up every week

Antonio Brown released, holy shit

wow

wowww

bad sign when neither the raiders nor patriots will take you

cowboys is his last hope

Fins only 21.5 point underdogs now

was surprised ab ever suited up for the pats tbh

why?

did you think they had morals

its not exactly morals but yeah was surprised he wasnt cut immediately

clearly they needed him to fell the mighty Dolphins, now that that's done....

patriots defense seems fairly decent

Only a modest 23 point lead though. Is this the beginning of the end?

the loss of antonio brown is really starting to hit home

pats give up their first td of the season.........on a muffed punt lol

Jets are now massively outscoring the Patriots' last 3 opponents. We are well and truly fucked. RIP.

j-e-t-s-

idk what the rules are on this stuff but I’m tired of seeing the big SF at midfield in Santa Clara

nyfg!

imagining a producer at sunday night football who had the barking dog from 'been caught stealing' on standby for like... a decade waiting for the browns to finally get on snf & get a turnover

lol i didn't even make the connection

lmao they just gave us “hounds of love”

sweet tunes

that jane's addiction drop was great, I don't think they even played the lyrics

Circle the wagons...the Bills are 3-0!

I got to wonder how long until one talking head starts takes a shot about Baker Mayfield's on field body language. That stuff is totally moronic, but it is red meat for the sportsline/radio crowd and Mayfield both at times looked a bit lost playing last night. They definitely need to figure some stuff out, they were muffing hand offs and the O-line was jumping around left and right.

Eagles fans have no chill 😂

In the middle of an eyewitness describing how people were saving babies out of a burning building, this fan brings up Eagles drops on @NBCPhiladelphia pic.twitter.com/RCLG5ZdNzw

— John Clark (@JClarkNBCS) September 23, 2019

hatcats are hatcatsing

Jay Gruden wearing his headset like a normal guy pic.twitter.com/E55zW8X4HE

— The Ringer (@ringer) September 24, 2019

Look at that NFC Central Start...

Packers 3-0
Lions 2-0-1 !!!
Vikings 2-1
Bears 2-1

I'd like to see the Colts play. They have been in tight games each week. They seem like a club that could hang around with anyone, but if they fall behind, got to see it to believe that Brissett can pull that off.

It would be pretty cool if Jacoby Brissett takes that next step and becomes a good starter. It would be hilarious for him to be the guy to lead them into NE and beat them and win a Superbowl. Long long way from that going down, but it seems like for 3 weeks - so far, so good.

never count Frank Reich out imo

worth mentioning that both the losses in the Central were to the Packers

https://sports.yahoo.com/upheld-nocall-in-packers-eagles-game-renews-pass-interference-review-debate-025025702.html

leave it to the NFL to make an even bigger mess of this. it's understandable to sometimes miss this sort of thing in real time, but when you implement a review system specifically to get these sorts of calls right, then spend 3 minutes reviewing a play and get it wrong anyway, what's the point? why even have this system?

A quietly great part about legalized sports gambling is how sites can’t use official logos so we get stuff like Revolutionary War Wolverine for the Patriots pic.twitter.com/CuLDgfjaVS

— DL (@davelozo) September 28, 2019

hello, frank gore is still an nfl player

josh gordon dropped a pass

wtf is up w goskowski thoooo

well the patriots r good

The Pats’ defense (21 points) has now scored more points than all Pats opponents combined (17 points) so far this season...in Week 4.

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) September 29, 2019

25 ints only up by 6 lol

jfc another int

caused 2 fumbles that werent recovered too

had another int over turned too

some sick defenses in the nfl this year. the bears are completely savage too.

HOW BOUT THOSE BROWNIES?!?!?!

You have no idea how happy I am right now

patriots D for the season 10 ints 1 td allowed

Falcons are fucked

IFL love and shout out to 36 year old Frank Gore running for 100 yards in a loss against a stingy Patriot defense!

Still impressive.

Brady is impressive, but you can touch Frank Gore.

I love frank gore what a dude

his career is nuts

patriots are in town next week to play the hatcats, do i buy a ticket off stubhub now or are they going to get cheaper if i wait a few more days?

this is going to be so weird. last time i was there eli got benched during a horrible thanksgiving night game

based on nothing whatsoever i feel like i'd wait, like i don't know what factor would cause the tickets to go up in price

burfict suspended for season

do we need a thread title edit? seems like we might be in here for the whole season

Falcons are fucked

failcons why you break <3

this is Burfict's 14th suspension? holy shit

Oh, wrinklefins:

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/27742260/party-bust-vendor-charges-724-two-beers

Untold Stories Episode 3 with Percy Harvin

Percy Harvin shares how he smoked weed before every game to help with his anxiety disorder/migraines.

Plus, he opens up about fighting Golden Tate before Super Bowl 48.pic.twitter.com/8xnaY9qOCZ

— Master (@MasterTes) October 2, 2019

fox sports spanish commentary on thursday night football is my new favorite thing
donde estaba la cobertura de los rams?!!

brady missing wide open receivers this year......

also holding the ball, getting sacked

guys, Mason Rudolph is bad

man, Rudolph just got sandwiched. I think he's knocked out.

They can't get the cart to work(!) so Rudolph has to wobble off the field under his own power, such as it is. He looks bad.

Somebody named Devlin Hodges is now the Steelers QB.

suddenly kirk cousins is Good

"OH, LET'S DELAY THE GAME. AND MY LIP WOULD TREMBLE, AND I'D SAY WE HAVEAN INJURED QUARTERBACK. LET'S GIVE UP. NO! YOU KNOW WHAT WE DID? WE BROUGHT IN THE SECOND-STRING QUARTERBACK. AND WHEN HE WENT DOWN, WE BROUGHT IN THE THIRD-STRING QUARTERBACK. AND WE WENT ON, AND WE WHIPPED THE PANTS OFF OF HARRY TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOL. ANDNEXT WEEK, WENT OUT AND MOPPED THE FLOOR WITH BLESSED HEART OF MARY. AND THEY WENT ON TO WIN THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP"

pats O line is traash lol

too many injuries up there, they got some real randos playing

yeah that worries me. brady didn't have a chance on some of the first half sacks it looked like

that was fun. the lower part of fedex was like 75% pats fans?! it was kind of ridiculous.

the guy cueing the music for the stadium had to have been trolling in the second half. i heard 'crazy train' at one point (which they play at gillette when the team runs onto the field) and i thought, that's weird, like i've been to a half dozen washington games and that's not their usual type of music. then josh gordon gets a first down and they played the theme from Flash Gordon & we're all looking around like ??? & toward the end "your love" by the outfield which.. they play every 4th quarter in foxboro

hah

don't want dan snyder to find out and fire the dude, it was like a pats home game already but i was like.. wait they're playing this??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbGfCvkDbC4

haha that rules. idk why but your love has become an unofficial pats anthem. it might be scott zolak's fault.

yeah i think it is? the one time i was at foxboro it was so much hair metal, plus like jump around. ugh

but the hatcats usually have hip hop, some go go and they have their own marching band which i really enjoy at football games in general. nfl in washington dc could be so great and snyder has made it so terrible. if only someone else could buy the team, change the name and move them back into the city

love 2 see jerry hall and rupert murdoch enjoying a cowboys game

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/10/06/even-tom-brady-thought-it-was-ridiculous-how-many-patriots-fans-were-fedex-field/

“It was amazing … Surprising and overwhelming,” Coach Bill Belichick said. “It was great seeing that. We appreciate the support from all our traveling Patriot fans. Or maybe they’re from here. I don’t know. It was great to see them. That’s awesome.”

I'm sure NE wouldn't have been paying attention to what a dumpster fire the hatcats are, but no one following DC sports is surprised. wish the owners could get together and do something to get snyder out of the league

how many times have i heard this disappointment from joe buck and troy aikman in America's Game of the Week as the cowboys fail in their own stadium again? i feel like it's a lot

i love mahomes but wow is collinsworth salty that kc didn't get the ball in overtime last year and beat the pats

my eyes were rolling out of my head when he started in on that. the rule was fine with everybody until the patriots won another playoff game.

pretty ragged so far tonight on both sides.

decades from now only one of us will be able to look back and say 'i was there for jay gruden's last game as coach of the hatcats'

don't think it's frustration with the OT rule so much as it is the fact that no one outside of MA likes the Pats so it's been frustrating to watch them get every possible break

everyone loves the patriots they are americas team

Every week on Jay Gruden's show he is given the "Bob's Discount Furniture Hot Seat Challenge." See if you can tell at what point in the season they started second-guessing this segment... pic.twitter.com/fs1a8HPKFF

— michael phillips (@michaelpRTD) December 22, 2018

ok that's the most fun nfl related thing i've seen this year
"s'little toasty"

Holy smokes, this game has been a shitshow so far.

thurs nite classique

its funny when the tv guys decide theyre horny for some random player, tonight james white

White's been crushed repeatedly

that was an exceptional touchdown play by van noy

this pats D is about as good as it gets

shades of the 2016 broncos. washed qb with a noodle arm being lifted up by a great defense.

hey whoa brady not that cooked yet

im sure his hgh cycle will kick in when it matters

lol

not detecting too much noodling but he has just been straight up missing guys all season

yeah hes fine im just ready for something else

wau @ having him do the sneak up 14 with 4 minutes left

he shd win the sb and retire imo

his son jimmy g gonna steal it from underneath him this year

i'm ok with him not winning another super bowl tbh

cmon give ol tommy one more

its fn hilarious how the refs will just not allow teams to call their own penalties via challenge

c. mccaffrey: 22 rushes for 31 yards (long of 10)

starting to think the Cowboys are frauds, once again

lol 6 straight flags on the final drive, who says this game is unwatchable

they almost jetsed it away

Cowboys trying to stage a comeback vs. Jets trying to cling onto a lead is some real unstoppable object vs. immovable wall shit

Is it time to hop on the niners bandwagon?

the patriots have scored the most points and given up the fewest

i thought this was going to be sad but it was too much fun. eli has reached enlightenment but he isn't going to tell anyone

https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/10/10/eli-manning-future-after-benching-according-to-friends-family

At Ole Miss, Manning’s karaoke machine had been his most prized possession. Nights out often ended back at his apartment, with the quarterback in jean shorts and a tank top screeching out Elton John, Def Leppard and Johnny Cash to a packed room.

When people tell him to start a Twitter account, he truly doesn’t understand why anyone would care what he has to say.

Years ago, on a flight home from London with friends, a loud explosion shortly before takeoff caused panic and forced everyone to deplane. In the terminal afterward, friends realized they didn’t know where Eli was, so they notified a flight attendant. Manning was soon found, fast asleep in his seat.

Eli didn’t speak until he was three, not because he couldn’t but because he didn’t want to.

It all reminds one friend of something Manning told him back in high school, that his ideal career was to be a 15-year NFL backup.

At one point, of course, Jack Handey is mentioned, and Manning’s eyes light up. He lifts himself off the couch and dashes to his study. When he returns he’s holding two books of Deep Thoughts, and as friends gather around he flips through the pages, reading his favorite quotes aloud.

a legend tbh

congrats to the steelers for a) not quite blowing a 24-0 fourth-quarter lead, and b) winning a game on the west coast

I have never loved Eli more

also so happy he basically got to live his dream

That Steeler's win was a fugly game of beauty, got to admire winning that game with the walk-on QB. Bears historically have been good at this type of football.

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I don't think Lamar Jackson is as fast as Michael Vick but he is really, really fast. Jackson is pretty good in the short passing game, he's got some touch. I'd say he's already better than Vick was at that part. Vick had a howitzer of an arm, no comparison there.

Vick made me crazy watching him run the ball leaving it all palmed out like a basketball. He lost a bunch of fumbles because of that stuff.

Stafford on pace for 700 yards, lmao Packers secondary

earlnash: it's okay to post mark malone, but never post bubby

cannot appreciate the TD pass after that bogus face mask call on trey flowers

Yeah that was pretty bad

Could’ve easily gotten the Pack on DPI on the Lions next drive too

That said it’s been a pretty shit luck game for the Packers outside of that, with all the dropped passes and bizzaro turnovers

2 phantom face mask calls, plus non-call on Packers pass interference, this game was bullshit.

I dunno if it's like this for a lot of teams but it really does seem like the Packers have played a lot of games that are directly decided by bad reffing decisions - the Fail Mary, the "Dez caught it" game, the phantom face mask vs. Detroit that led to that insane last minute Hail Mary, all those 'roughing' calls on Clay Matthews last year, the Week 4 Eagles game where they missed two blatant crucial PI calls, now this

It is totally crazy that NFL (and really any) of these pro athletes lose all their money.

This is the crap benefits of the NFL...

NFL players are also vested after three seasons. They earn $470 a month for each year they played. So according to The Street, Brett Favre, who played 20 years, will get about $112,000 a year once he turns 55. The NFL's optional 401(k) plan matches player contributions at 200%. Players that participate in four or more seasons can also get a $65,000 annuity bonus.

Of course, you probably will die young unless you play QB...

https://www.businessinsider.com/nfl-nhl-nba-mlb-retirement-pension-plans-lockout-2011-1

The NBA and MLB plans are crazy good though, not as many total players and much more games though.

uhhh...Mahomes??

why a sneak with him?

it seems really weird to me to injure a knee on a sneak, idk.

that good thurs nite football baby

soooooo glad I didn't buy a cheap ticket to the niners/hatcats game wow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Callahan_(American_football)

when i coached the r******s i wanted to live in a bathysphere

this is the worst game

best smog song imo xp

terrible. ravens aren't playing now so we don't even have another game on here either

omfg niners why did you use that run play on this field

Rodgers had a pretty good game huh

Carr nearly as good but kept fucking up in the red zone

wow is the bears offense putrid

They should be down 30

lol chargers

sadphiliprivers.jpg

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the patriots have scored the most points and given up the fewest

― lag∞n, Sunday, October 13, 2019 9:02 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

still true

defense has given up 3 tds this season

they have 18 ints

theyre getting a rush and then gobbling up desperate passes

played all trash teams except for weirdly the bills but if youre playing bad teams u cant ask more than completely annihilating them

pats play the entire afc north, plus one afc south team and one afc west team. is that normal?

also they play one game out of the eastern time zone (houston), which is nice

Their schedule has been absurdly easy

the patriots are actually bad, and we have a whole thread for them anyway thanks

Two day Jewish holiday just ended kev how’d we do :,( :,( :,(

it wasn't great

I know the Pats have played a garbage slate but even still what they're doing is just bonkers. their margin of victory is 25 points/game, 10 points higher than the next (SF). if they continue anywhere near this pace they're gonna set all sorts of single season records

Guess the Bears’ honeymoon with their new kicker is over

browns have 3 tos in the 1st quarter

amazingly on 3 consecutive snaps

wonder if thats ever happened before

Chargers were really inept winning that game too, just happened to not be last team to screw up.

Mitch T. is looking pretty lost, almost pulling it out after handing the game away is not really trademark logo acceptable work.

That Mayfield 'pass' to NE was hilarious. I'll be surprised if that guy does not crash and burn.

Does anyone know why the Chargers were burning timeouts there, they couldn’t get the ball back anyway

That's a pointless challenge.

shout out sunday night football music guy who cued up depeche "it's no good" right there

Lol at the Packers doing the worm a second time after the first time they did it having the TD calked back.

And this one is about to be ruled out lol

Mahomes looks so forlorn

Holy fuck Rodgers

No worm :(

it's not like the steelers are going anywhere either way, but if they lose, at home, after a week off, to a team that isn't even trying to win . . . that's pretty bad

Lol i knew Miami would lose

the patriots have scored the most points and given up the fewest

― lag∞n, Sunday, October 13, 2019 9:02 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

and now the 49ers are second in both, crazy

jets

Yay my Fins won.

Now i can go back to not giving a shit

Both teams had a safety, when was the last time that happened

preparing to watch the good game

turned on the tv and the patriots are playing an over-.500 team? weird

shdnt be allowed

Great game so far

bruv.....

According to #NFL sources, the league has discussed the possibility of the #Chargers moving to London, and that the team, while committed to L.A., would be willing to entertain the idea. My story for @TheAthleticLA: https://t.co/rHiF2zavIb

— Vincent Bonsignore (@VinnyBonsignore) November 5, 2019

american football yeah?

gridiron m8

Would probably have more fans than they do in LA

Actually they are joining Premier League and Norwich City is joining the NFL

im a massive english american football supporter m8

de-mamba mentality (Spottie)
Posted: November 5, 2019 at 10:51:05 AM
Would probably have more fans than they do in LA

its destiny

The Chargers should only be allowed to staff UK born players

they need to change their name to something incomprehensibly english like tottenham yellowchurch (pronounced tophat yeoman)

Baker shaved because 'didn't deserve' handlebar

i actually respect this a lot

It's good mojo either way, as they do have to get down to business.

It would be funnier for him to not shave or cut his hair until the Browns make the playoffs. He would be looking like Captain Caveman pretty quick.

Chargers should just become the Washington Generals of the NFL and just be a traveling team. They could play a couple games in Oklahoma City, a couple in Portland, a couple in Miami, couple in Mexico city...etc.

Give the players a travel per diem that was generous. If nothing the documentary about the seasons they tried such a scheme would be funny.

REALITY TV...this team could be your team!

Which cities come out and show the Chargers love, you can win your own NFL francise!

sick

Lamar Jackson... you are ridiculous. 47 yards to the house. This is just... WOW.

(via @NFL) pic.twitter.com/64S3feeiMy

— NFL Update (@MySportsUpdate) November 10, 2019

P cool that the best RB in the league happens to be a QB too

maybe teams should start looking for QBs that also run the ball. I feel like this would be a revolutionary step in the game.

four letter last names also a plus.

looking at that replay, that spin move pretty much nuked everybody around him. sick.

yes, but they were bengals

jesus the ending of that Packer game was tense

pretty good one goin on in SF right now

49ers managed to tie it at the last second despite running one of the worst 2 minute drives I've ever seen, everything was either a checkdown or straight into the defense's arms

holy shit Russell Wilson

AHAHAHAHAH WHAT

goddamn what a game

Great whacky game classic Seahawks style W

amazing how Seattle keeps fucking up just enough to give themselves the opportunity to pull out these insane wins

if I was a 49ers fan I'd be worried about Jimmy G in the playoffs, that final 4th quarter drive and all of OT he looked awful. funny how the announcers were saying "this is what everyone's been waiting for, a chance to see Jimmy Garroppolo in a pressure situation"...and he immediately hurls the ball right into a defender's arms, who miraculously dropped it. then proceeds to do that three more times, when he wasn't tossing the ball 20 feet over everyone's head

yeah that was perfect comic timing, as was them hyping up the drama of an untested kicker in a big moment then he misses the winning field goal as badly as possible

felt bad for him but that was hilarious

Each kick by that dude had more pressure than the last. Jimmy was bad but his receivers also dropped about 13 passes as well. Sanders has a hurt rib and Kittle was out so that messed him up a bit. He has about 2-3 per game that he just flat out shouldn’t throw. Let’s not forget Russell Wilson threw a pick last night at a huge moment.

jimmy really did look shook down the stretch, weirdly shitty game for being so close and two real good teams

He def looked shook

he's been unimpressive in general, imo

had his best game of his career the game before. i was there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nucd5grgLAE

kyle allen also threw 4 tds vs the cardinals

stop being mean voodoo

Cardinals have the worst defense in football so yeah

luckily they have GB next who are a bottom 5 defense in nearly every metric, lotta QBs having the "best game of their season" against them

jimmy seems to make a few bonehead plays every game

Yup

Myles Garrett to the Pats next year I guess

wow that fight was crazy

cant believe he's gonna get suspended for helping Rudolph put his helmet back on

Go Browns!

Garrett gone for the year. Can't say I disagree. Dude plays some wildly undisciplined football at times, which is too bad because he seems like a good guy otherwise.

Rudolph did start it but didn't get fined or suspended (so far). Pouncey suspended for three games I think.

yeah sounds about right. finally beating your longtime rival but getting one of your best players needlessly suspended for the year seems like a very Browns thing to do.

season long suspension was a given, I wonder if it'll go beyond that. I was always curious if a player could possibly be criminally charged for something they did on the field, I'm guessing the answer is not, but this is as close to "dude probably should be arrested for that" as I've ever seen. outside of Burfict I guess

on the "on-field arrest scale" with 1 being throwing a punch and 10 being "pulling a Billy Cole" i'd put this at about a 4 or a 5.

First time the New Browns have beaten the Ravens and Steelers in the same season.

probably would have been tough for the old browns to beat the ravens too

and it only took 21 years

there was only 8 seconds left in the game pretty sad.

Audbile.com (tm) presents:

ED ORGERON READING THE STORY OF O.

This thought made me chuckle.

How the fuck did the Falcons start 1-7

jfc Broncos

How the fuck did the Falcons start 1-7

Ryan got hurt for a couple of games and Julio Jones I think just came back a couple weeks ago too from injury.

So many clubs come out of the gate so poor, you really cannot tell how good they might be for a while.

B-more took apart Houston. They were not in the game. As long as Jackson keeps healthy and not turning over the ball, they are going to be really tough to beat. He makes it look so easy on these seemingly busted plays. The ball control angle of their offense makes their defense even better. Ravens are looking as good as ever on that side of the ball. Atlanta was good on D a couple of years with Vick, but they were never top of the league and Baltimore is definitely in the top tier. Being best team in the NFL in November is often not the same one in January...

hahahah awesome

49ers closed -10

Bad beat of the year/decade/century pic.twitter.com/EmOJ6fb3zW

— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) November 18, 2019

its funny that the spread is the standard way to bet when odds align better with whats going on the field, mb ppl just dont want to do math

only saw the 2nd half tonight but thought it was very excellent, particularly the houston O indy D match up kinda cldnt have been better every play was so tight and some truly perfect pass and catches happened

That was a really close game, one that it really did come down to just a couple plays either way being the difference. I hope the best for Brissett but the Colts could not get very many passes down field at all. Joseph made a heck of a play on the one throw to Hilton that was on the money.

Texans have gotten run over on the ground, as Indy could pretty much run the ball most of the night coming after the Ravens left tire tracks on them the week before.

legit have no clue how good either of those teams are. Texans are a lot of fun but yet again their ceiling seems to be a first-round elimination. Colts are just all over the map - they could be 8-3 if Vinatieri makes the kicks he usually does, but at the same time they have a ridiculously soft schedule. I'm glad the dropoff from Luck to Brisett hasn't been so steep...not convinced he's gonna stick around long but he's pretty decent

The Browns won!

They were playing my Dolphins, that wasn't hard

That tripping call vs Dallas was some bullshit. They should’ve gotten a chance to win the game.

9rs and pats are going to meet in the superbowl and the final score will be 10-6

Just 8 total safeties

yeah wanna say "Rodgers looks off today" but this defense is really fucking good today, he's got nowhere to go

Nice when you can just rush 4 dudes and still get pressure

ofc losing your best OL probably doesn't help

rodgers still looked pretty bad tho

u know who looked bad today? i was at the philly game and it is tough. saw one fan ejected for bad behavior in the second half when things were really dire. the weather was v cold and wet but one fan in i think an attempt to raise the spirits of the crowd took his shirt off and made "make some noise" gestures he looked extremely cold. my nephew is 6yo and came it was his first game and when we were leaving a guy cried to him "i'm sorry you had to see that" and then to us "i spent so much money and came so far to see them disappoint me" and then muttered to himself as he walked away "why am i so emotional about this." i think my nephew had a good time tho bc he doesn't really care who wins he got to eat a sausage, lots of popcorn, got a pin and toy and certificate, and hung out w/ his uncles. grim afternoon for the eagles tho.

right he's been forced to play perfect and definitely he hasn't been that

that said idk how many open receivers there's really been

Nice when you can just rush 4 dudes and still get pressure

― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Sunday, November 24, 2019 11:18 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

some ppl saying it might be the best d line ever

Gotta win the big one then we can talk

There has always got to be that one sports talking head that claims it doesn't matter you don't like the Cowboys or the Patriots, as that game was like the highest rated regular season game on Fox since like 2007.

So get used to the Dak Precott contract talk...it ain't goin' nowhere.

so the Ravens look pretty good this year

Niners v Ravens gonna be good

I really cannot compare how much the 'boys get the press compared to their now two decades of mediocrity.

Is there another team in pro sports that inspires such press compared to success on the field?

I suppose the English national football club could be considered one. Yanks have not won the big one in a while, but they have been better than Dallas in the regular season. Knicks obviously get a lot of press being in NYC and mostly for being absolutely terrible year after year. There are some people more than you probably would think that IU basketball is something of note, but not many don't have gray hair or if they do, they have been indoctrinated into the cult. (Probably could say the same about Nebraska football...moving to the Big 10 was so stupid for them.)

Niners v. Ravens is good possibility of Superbowl preview.

Ball control is going to be the big buzzword coming up, as people are starting to figure out it is a way to beat the big QB teams. I like it, running the ball is football. I am so sick of the spread and short passing game.

Got to laugh at Gruden and the Raiders for puffing out their feathers after their win a couple weeks ago and declaring themselves victor of the big trade with the Bears turning around and getting destroyed by the JETS this week.

The team that could be king if things were different is Indy. Not hard to see that club if Luck was healthy would be really tough. Brissett has been limiting his mistakes, but man he could not get the ball down field at ALL in the last game. The ground and pound game is good, but a bit more passing and they would be hard to stop.

cowboys have the cool star on their helmets

idk Cowboys getting repeatedly embarrassed in primetime is kind of a cool NFL tradition

I hate the cowboys but getting beaten by the patriots by not much is not some terrible shame

nah but frustrating to hold them to 13 and still lose

patriots giving up ~11pts a game, crazy

apparently garrett's two FG decisions decreased the cowboys' chances to win by 3%. his first fg brought down the probability 2.5% on its own.

ol troy was not feeling those decisions

with last night's win the Ravens become the first team to win by 34+ points in 3 consecutive games

also the first to beat two winning teams by 34+

rip to the arena football league

Cowboys would be so good if they didn’t have to play nationally televised games

cannot get enough shots of jerry when the cowboys are losing

Everyone on the Cowboys getting trolled pic.twitter.com/wse7yP5aKx

— Surf & Turf Podcast (@surfandturfpod) November 29, 2019

Yeah they should’ve cut to him way more than they did

Oh my... Matt Ryan is picked off and gets shoved to the ground trying to make the tackle. Holy cow.

(via @NFL)

pic.twitter.com/x0JFnI1CcJ

— NFL Update (@MySportsUpdate) November 29, 2019

At some point people will recognize that the Cowboys have for like two decades been the most 9-7 team of all, basically the glam version of the Marvin Lewis Bengals.

Messed up

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28194301/source-terrelle-pryor-critical-condition-stabbing

Lol @ that Dolphins trick play

Please do not lose to them Eagles

here come da bengals

9rs ravens superbo preview

ravens r preview champs

I bet 1k on the Eagles to cover the 6 point spread in the first half

Won it on the 2 point conv

whoever wins the nfc east won’t deserve a playoff berth

Seriously.

Browns have Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt but still only manage six fucking rushing attempts in the entire second half. Fuck analytics.

the patriots offense is honestly so bad

Brady is finally cooked

He needs receivers and an O line

I can comfortably say we've seen the last of Tom Brady.

Damn what a play

this is the patriots' only game outside the eastern time zone this season; obviously the jet lag is taking a toll

Jets first team in league history to lose to two teams 0-7 or worse

nice

ron rivera out

rr rip

I kinda just realized that Gary Kubiak came out of retirement and is working for the Vikings.

Would not be surprised if Ron Rivera ends up the defensive coordinator in Chicago at some point, it seems like a Bears kinda move.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28227397/49ers-suspend-radio-analyst-tim-ryan-lamar-jackson-comments

BRADENTON, Fla. -- The San Francisco 49ers suspended radio analyst Tim Ryan on Wednesday after he said on a Bay Area radio station that Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson's dark skin helps him disguise a dark football when running fake handoffs in Baltimore's zone-read heavy offense.

Ryan will not broadcast Sunday's game against the New Orleans Saints while serving the suspension. The Niners released a statement on the matter Wednesday evening from Florida, where they are practicing at IMG Academy in preparation to play at the Saints after losing 20-17 to the Ravens last week.

"He's really good at that fake, Lamar Jackson, but when you consider his dark skin color with a dark football with a dark uniform, you could not see that thing," Ryan said on air. "I mean you literally could not see when he was in and out of the mesh point."

lmao Dallas getting their asses handed to them on national TV for the 3rd straight game

Still first place in their division smh

yeah this loss doesn't really hurt their chances that much. they pretty much just have to beat Philly in 2 weeks

Bears on the other hand still need to beat GB, KC, and Minnesota, plus they'd need Minnesota to lose one more & the Rams to lose 2

cowboys got . . . trubiskied

Anyone got the over on Saints 49ers

Srsly this is like a college bowl game.

Such a fun game

historic game

Score Update:
SF 48 - 46 NO
Final

That's Scorigami!! It's the 1053rd unique final score in NFL history.

— Scorigami (@NFL_Scorigami) December 8, 2019

Michael Thomas has 121 receptions and 1,424 yards receiving with three games remaining.

My friend's four year old screamed for joy when Brady got sacked

Pats defense actually not the greatest of all time when they have to play real NFL teams

Wtf with that whistle?

Inarguably a fumble

Calling it dead is serious malpractice

Weird to see a big, blatantly incorrect call go against the Patriots

refs gotta call a td there and review it

In their defense that was an insane play, can easily see the ref having the wrong angle and just being like “no way”

Anyway everyone knows exactly how this game is gonna end anyway

See I jinxed it you’re welcome

What a heartbreaker

feeling irrationally embarrassed for the eagles

man I really wanted to see Eli be the hero

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28261318/nfl-probing-patriots-video-crew-bengals-browns-source-says-was-feature-shoot

makes sense, the Bengals offense has been pretty hard to figure out this year

eli's record as a starter: 116-117-0

hall of famer!

But two super bowelz omg

Always found it cute that he basically felt he never had to do anything of merit ever again after winning the second, but still insisted on playing anyway

i cant recall a single eli play outside of the helmet catch

oh and the obj catch.

so i guess the two most memorable catches of all time

I remember a ton of Eli plays

Mostly interceptions

the quintessential eli play is him looking vaguely confused while he ambles to the line of scrimmage, gently winding one-finger in the air in a "hurry it up" motion, helmet slightly off kilter, pupils entirely dilated

he's never looked like he enjoys playing, which makes it weird that he wants to keep doing it in his diminished state

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28276535/ranking-best-worst-potential-nfl-head-coaching-openings-2019

Appreciate the fact that this column chose to name both the city and team name except for Washington.

he's never looked like he enjoys playing, which makes it weird that he wants to keep doing it in his diminished state

― mookieproof, Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:15 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

think thats just his resting face

I still say beating the Patriots dynasty twice is pretty significant and worthy of laudation even if Eli is the most mediocre and dopey QB ever

obv tonight should be 73-6 Ravens so why do i have a feeling it might actually be a game?

being the Patriots twice is fine, but he hardly did that by himself.

99% football gods 1% receiver mojo

There’s a great bit in the America’s Game about the SB XLII team where Strahan explains Eli’s secret weapon, starts around 17:25 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvt2LgwZ9GA

Peyton always seemed like the consummate competitor, Eli always seemed like once he achieved major milestones, he was good with phoning it in. probably gets drunk at parties and goes "didjooo knoawos that i won tew super bowwwwwwl?".

in school he probably beat Oregon Trail once then just kept dying on purpose to write funny shit on the tomb stones.

That’s why I like him

obv tonight should be 73-6 Ravens so why do i have a feeling it might actually be a game?

i don't know why you had that feeling either

I mean they barely scrapped by the Fins on Sunday, and lol, they're also the Jets.

Lavar Jackson broke Vick's QB rushing record.

he was 9th in the league in rushing coming into tonight. fuckin insane.

would like to officially declare that I don't think this guy's a gimmick anymore

I could see the Ravens taking it all this year

but imagine how good he'd be at wr

he could probably throw to himself

hes fn shredding the league, kudos

and he’s like a little kid out there! Vick and Faaaaavruh all in one. Postgame with Ingram was 🔥

Is Jackson top scorer in fantasy leagues? I'd have to think with the number of TDs, it would be pretty good.

He must be — he’s also throwing a ton of TDS and not putting up huge passing yardage numbers, he’s first in TDs by a wide margin and 17th and passing yards.

Also he’s got a realistic shot at leading the league in rushing. He’s 5th, only 178 yds behind Nick Chubb for the lead.

the only way he's not #1 is if it's McCaffrey, who has 2k yards combined. but yeah without looking it up it pretty much has to be Lamar, I can't imagine there's another QB that's even close although I think Dak has a pretty crazy # of yards

yeah in both my leagues where qbs are scored differently he's way out ahead as the #1. maccafrey two in both. then deshaun, dalvin, russ all in differing orders m/l

He must be — he’s also throwing a ton of TDS and not putting up huge passing yardage numbers, he’s first in TDs by a wide margin and 17th and passing yards.

Also he’s got a realistic shot at leading the league in rushing. He’s 5th, only 178 yds behind Nick Chubb for the lead.

― omar little, Friday, December 13, 2019 10:24 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

and the browns have kareem hunt eating into chubbs touches a bit

P cool that the best RB in the league happens to be a QB too

― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Sunday, November 10, 2019 1:11 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

not great quality, but dan marino's 44 td passes in 1986 (ken o'brien was second with 25). impressive how often he gets away with throwing off his back foot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1cym2Zvax8

Marino seemed to be able to throw 40 yard bombs with no effort at all. Look up the yards per catch the Marks brothers had, they definitely was not getting that passing yards throwing 5 yard outs.

Raiders fans got unruly after they lost their last game at the Coliseum

disappointed that the nfc east champion will not be 7-9

Falcons are pretty impressive for a 5-9 team

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28314109/josh-gordon-banned-indefinitely-nfl-peds-substance-abuse

brees is 27-for-28 ffs

29/30 in the end, single game record.

that weak offensive PI call on his record tying TD is just classic NFL

record breaking even

not a joke

Three different #Jaguars players have already said the biggest adjustment since the Tom Coughlin firing has been the changing of all of the clocks back to normal.

— John Shipley (@_John_Shipley) December 19, 2019

so uh...it turns out the Pats really were spying on the Bengals and their explanation was totally bogus?

Jameis Winston has 32 TD passes and 28 INTs

Hahahaha

Has there ever been a 30/30 QB? Only 11 players have ever thrown 30 picks in a season.

Right now Jameis is tied for 14th most picks in a season

It’s legitimately difficult to throw that many interceptions in the modern NFL

The other guys who are in the same neighborhood in terms of that many picks (2000-present) are like ancient Favre, bad Eli, Cutler, and Testaverde in a throwback season with the Jets.

It’s like Blake Bortles never left Florida and got worse

yup. that's what is so impressive about it. in the ultra safe checkdown era, even hitting 20 is like a milestone for terrible

confirmed it. if he throws two picks in the last game, he'll be the first 30/30 QB. lolol

he is also tied for "most interceptions returned for a TD in a year", with 6. one more and that record is also his.

who's he tied with? matt schaub?

Jameis plays like he‘s been forced to start himself and the opposing defense on his fantasy team

— Pablo S. Torre (@PabloTorre) December 21, 2019

xpost multiple people, including Peyton Manning (lol)

xpost HAHAHA

tampa's defense is roughly average -- exceptional rushing defense + pretty bad pass defense -- but only the dolphins give up more points per game. the jameis factor

Every 49ers game is good entertainment

Wow happy they came back

losing to the Pats in the Super Bowl really curses your franchise doesn't it

come to think of it beating them does too

Nah that's just Eli syndrome

congrats to the cincinnati bengals and their quarterback of the future, joe burrow

love to change my mind

Jets are 5-2 in the second half of the season

And one of those losses was to the Bungles

fly iggles fly

ME, AN EAGLES FAN: the eagles stink

YOU, NOT AN EAGLES FAN: yeah they’re having a rough year

ME, AN EAGLES FAN: [suddenly simmering with rage] you… come into MY home… and you DISRESPECT the philadelphia eagles?

— Brian Grubb (@briancgrubb) December 22, 2019

lol otm great game :D

Jerry disappointed as Dallas loses grip on division

puir wee jerry

One more pick and Winston is the first 30-30 guy

Packers need to beat a 3 win team for a 1st round bye and they are blowing it hard

Yea my Manty friend is losing his mind

Hah what bar’s he at I might be watching it with him

fitzmagic

Lol. Another bet won. Miami straight up

Lol at no bye

at home, against an actively tanking team. bless

WINSTON DID IT.

FIRST 30-30 MAN!!!

Lions 4th quarter magic strikes again

i’m told jameis’ seventh pick-six is also a record

if both the Cowboys and Eagles manage to lose it truly would be the best Week 17

the browns have lost double-digit games in 14 of the last 17 seasons, which is really something

I was told they were Super Bowl contenders this year

It smells as bad as it could possibly smell" Arians said of the loss. "And it'll smell that way for a long time."

Really unbelievable the crazy victories Green Bay has pulled out vs Detroit these last few years

Dak 3 yards shy of the all time Cowboys record and he’s probably not gonna get it lol

Be great if he gets it by a yard and then next play throws pass for -4 and game ends

Freddie fired. That was fast. Couldn’t even wait til Monday.

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU TAKE A DELAY OF GAME THERE holy shit Seattle

Niners are going to give me a heart attack this year.

seriously Beastmode getting signed in Week 17 to score the walk-off division winning TD *in* Seattle would've been the fucking NFL story of the year and it didn't happen because Pistol Pete did not have a plan for the Seahawks getting a first down there

Interesting factoids re: the Patriots.

Miami hadn't won in Foxborough since 2008, the infamous Wildcat game.

Patriots not only have never won a Super Bowl when they didn't have a bye, but have only even played in one in that same scenario - 1985.

fourth down: barely not a touchdown
first down: could've run it in, spiked it instead
second down: couldn't run it in, took a penalty instead
third down: pass interference not called or even reviewed
fourth down: barely not a touchdown

btw lmao at that obvious no-call on PI at the end there, the rule was changed this year to prevent THIS EXACT THING from happening and instead it happens in another huge game and screws over the Saints again lol

If we're bitching about calls, that call on the late hit for the niners was pretty bogus. Should have at least been offset by the helmet shove into the turf.

NFL released a statement that that wasn’t a pi anyway. Seattle should have scored on their 8 tries

seemed like a pretty egregious PI to me, and Seattle's other myriad failures don't matter in that decision anyway.

xxp yeah Collinsworth was pretty livid about that one and rightfully so. I hate when teams wind up getting punished because someone made an unexpectedly great play.

but yeah Seattle had so many chances there, I think Barnwell pointed out that they basically could have scored on any of the last 5 or so final plays had Russell made the right decisions. hell if Hollister was holding the ball in his other hand it probably would've been a TD. still hell of a play by Greenlaw in the end to stuff him like that, feel like that winds up being a TD like 90% of the time

Taking that delay of game on the 1 was indeed inexcusable especially since it denied us a potential Beast Mode game winning TD that would’ve have provided proof that god is real and loves us