America's favorite Dystopian pastime - NFL 2021-22

Get your bets in, tighten up that fantasy team and get your favorite beverages to numb your mind - the NFL is here to make you feel fine.

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Giving the devil his due, cannot hate Tampa death metal Tom at this point - I just wants of LOLs of them beating the Boys in the most hilarious way tonight. Modern football is largely about the schadenfreude at this point.

Sportsball feels frivolous in antebellum usa is how i break it down to an extent

ty earlnash for the new thread

I agree that following the NFL is frivolous, but no more so than following the MCU, streaming TV series, pop music, the poetry scene, or almost anything else featured on SNA right now

I'd enjoy seeing ILX's foobaw board maintain a little parity with the much-more-active MLB and hoops boards (not to mention the alarums and excursions on boards related to strange foreign sports)

so NFL schadenfreude yes please

don't get me started on the college game right now; I'm really not looking forward to 93,000 people from all over Georgia packing into Sanford Stadium this weekend with no mask or vaccine requirements

Fp'd for use of "sportsball"

due to a series of clerical errors, i am watching some football this season for the first time in a decade+

jfc at the ravens bodies piling up

I guess it was a good game. I did as I often do and love about football, there was a kickoff and I zonked in the chair asleep and did not wake up until nearly 4 am.

Think it was much more fun to hate on the 'Boys when Romopaws was the QB, as I kinda like Dak and forever glad that his contract has finally been signed so ESPN radio can shut up about it (even though they STILL talk about it now in light of the injury).

That said, I think most ILNFL would agree that Romodamus is pretty fun in the announcing booth.

I think Drew Brees dyed his hair. That looked like a serious Grecian Formula job in the pregame.

Giving the devil his due, cannot hate Tampa death metal Tom at this point - I just wants of LOLs of them beating the Boys in the most hilarious way tonight. Modern football is largely about the schadenfreude at this point.

― earlnash, Thursday, September 9, 2021 7:28 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol

suit-and-tie Brees looked so miserable during the opening while they were hyping the ageless unretired GOAT

could not stop thinking about George Costanza with the hairpiece

its amazing with all the turnover in this league how some things always stay the same: Tom Brady always gets gifted a game-changing call (or no-call in this case) in crunch time, the Dallas Cowboys always find new ways to lose in the most excruciating way possible

"I WAS BALD." Ha! I don't think I caught that but come on...this is on his NFL bio.

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Big trucks, fast food, diet beer, 9/11. NFL is back!

Looking forward to catching a little of the Browns game. Not so much to watching my Bears get dismantled by Stafford on prime time week 1. It is going to be some Clockwork Orange can’t-look-away shit.

60 yards in the air

Russell Wilson NUKE to Lockett 🤯

Seahawks (-2.5) get a big score before the halfpic.twitter.com/gZxPD9x2HQ

— ClutchPoints Betting (@CPBetting) September 12, 2021

Tua TD!

cleve brownies looking pretty good

yikes packers

pats deserve to lose this for that cowardly field goal

cool int tho

yeah looks like they're gonna make it work but its still wrong

ball batted back and forth between teams in a one point 4th quarter game thats a high leverage play baby

thats why we call it volleyball

was wondering about that

this rookie here looking pretty good for the patriots

justice served

Fins woooooo. Defense got picked apart tho

guess i jinxed the browns

my bad

Baker really fucked up on that last throw

Classic Vikings loss today but overshadowed by the Pack looking like they have not played football

That was pretty shocking

Everyone on the Saints looked stronger and faster than everyone on the Packers, it was wild

Matt Nagy just went for it on 4th-and-15 down 13 while in FG range with 11 minutes on the clock

probably the right call but that's definitely something you would never have seen half a decade ago. I would've called something that actually got the ball past the line though

I don't see why the Bears are starting with Dalton. I think this is pretty much all you're gonna get with him. They liked Fields enough to trade up for him and this defense doesn't look like it's gonna stop anybody right now

I think it's good to keep going like they are. I'm in no hurry to see the kid carted off the field.

holy fuck Raiders

WHAT THE HELL

for those of you not watching the Raiders just threw what looked like a game winning TD in overtime - players were already shaking hands at midfield - but it turned out to be like 18 inches short. they run it to the 3 inch line or whatever on 1st down, then commit a false start (LOL) then on 3rd down it slips through a receivers hands and doinks off someone's helmet and now the Ravens are going for the win

oh Ravens just fumbled. oh well, I'm sure nothing incredibly weird will happen now

what happened

dunno if I've ever seen a QB throw a pick in that game situation before

didn't expect this kinda old school 80s NFC East barnburner but i'll take it

Giants really fucked that though, they needed a first down and not only was that route short of it, fucker dropped it anyway.

gave Washington the equivalent of 2 timeouts to get a field goal.

my mom is a Giants fan and is screaming at the Giants right now.

it's ridiculous how they have kept shooting themselves in the foot tonight. that was ballgame there.

fucking hell these NFC East teams really know how to lose in the most excruciating fashion

Washington sure af shouldn't act cocky after this one though, they played like shit defensively and benefitted from playing a much stupider team

in retrospect dropping a wide open touchdown wound up costing the Giants big time

yep. even Daniel Jones had a "what the fuck, man" look on his face after that

receiver should retire IMO

two extremely goofy NFL games in a row

one of my favorite things about the NFL is how frequently bizarre shit like that happens. its the natural outgrowth of a high-variance sport with dozens of nebulously defined rules. every week these guys come out and risk career-ending injury and it's all for naught because a guy jumped a tenth of a second early. i love it

otm its a great/terrible sport

The amount of hype the last 9 months about the Giants, especially Daniel Jones and Joe Judge, has been nauseating.

i thought both jones and heineike were p solid last night, looked like competent starting qbs

amazing

Okay, so

*Texans pick up 13 yards on 3rd and 15
*Browns called for offsides
*Texans can choose between 4th and 2 or 3rd and 10
*They choose 4th and 2
*They then punt the ball away

The Kevin Stefanski reaction is amazing pic.twitter.com/HMpY4ErhX4

— Benjamin Solak (@BenjaminSolak) September 20, 2021

I see the Vikings lost in hilarious fashion again

wow Kelce

Lamar already has the most 200+ yd passing/100+ yd rushing games in NFL history

excited to see this andy reid clock management

that last lamar drive was so fun. his runs seem so casual, like the other team somehow forgot he existed.

he would seriously run for 300+ yards against Green Bay

Huh...go figure, I guess Sam Darnold was not the problem with the NY Jets.

ESPN's gotta sign this kid

This kid crushed the Jets in his film breakdown from Sunday's game 😂

(via td.sports | TikTok) pic.twitter.com/i8d0EI94ZX

— The MMQB (@theMMQB) September 22, 2021

lol well done

Lol Rodgers is so salty, ESPN is running a montage of him talking shit in interviews this week

I’ve forgotten how boring Thursday Night Football is.

Holy shit Justin Tucker wins it with a 66 yarder at the buzzer

Obviously this was against Detroit

Bounced off the crossbar of course

Chargers/Chiefs was a fun game

it's such a gift living in a place where you can see every down of giants and jets games without having to be distracted by other matchups

Oof that's rough

poor Detroit.

go Bills imo

Ok, Chicago you got your start for Fields and he got sacked 9 times. I'm sure you are ready to run him out of town now.

Garrett was in the backfield so fast on some plays you was thinking the Bears were running a power sweep with him.

I don't see why the Bears are starting with Dalton. I think this is pretty much all you're gonna get with him. They liked Fields enough to trade up for him and this defense doesn't look like it's gonna stop anybody right now

― frogbs, Sunday, September 12, 2021 10:11 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

hmmm so this take didn't hold up well

really cool to see Rodgers win it with 37 seconds and no timeouts but the game never should've come to that, some of the most lopsided reffing I've ever seen in a SNF game (sorry)

that noncall on the illegal hit to the helmet on Adams was a travesty

they also missed a really blatant intentional grounding before the end of the half, gave them a late hit on 3rd-and-10 even though Jimmy G released the ball like a tenth of a second before getting hit and the defender tried to let up anyway, and I thought LaFleur's challenge should've been successful given the ground clearly aided the catch. all 3 of those calls led to 49ers TDs. then the Adams non-call right after which was a big "why do I still watch this dumb sport" moment

Chicago will never learn that you can be a contender in the NFL with a good offensive line. My whole history as a Bears fan has been watching quarterbacks running for their lives, grappling with injuries, and ending up with Jay Cutler face. Fans whine about being unlucky with QBs, but plenty of decent QBs have rolled through and gone through this same pattern. They ruin quarterbacks there.

The refereeing in the game last night was awful, almost game ruining for me. There were also some plays in that Bears Browns game that went in the favor of the Bears that had me going "Whaaatt?" That game probably should have been a shutout.

lmao the ref ltierally went over to McCarthy to ask him if he seriously wasn't going to use a timeout there

Finally saw the clip of Justin Tucker's 66 yarder...what a bomb. That record might stick for a bit, Tom Dempsey's 63 yard kick hung around till 2013.

Bears got a problem in that the McCaskey's run the club like a family owned car wash.

Watched most of the second half of the Bengals and Jags. Pretty entertaining game and you never know in about ten years, it might be known as the first time Burrell and Lawrence met in the pros. Both of them looked really good, Lawrence can really run quite well for his size.

Watching the post-game interviews they both came off as good corporate CEOs of 'the product' well groomed in mike speak.

Local news stations around here do a pretty good job covering local high school football and it always cracks me up when they put the mike in front of these players often times you get these kids doing their version of the ESPN mike speak. And really, they are better groomed than yo would think.

Burrell and Lawrence both in their interviews are the next step beyond of that corpspeak...sounding near like tech CEOs in how their new software launched. All Lawrence needed was a turtleneck...defending how their work had been good but it had not yet come together.

I like Lawrence because he's got a good quarterback face...he's got some odd features and kind of looks like a caricature but is also fairly handsome. almost reminds me of Joe Namath.
that's how QBs should look. and why I've always liked Manning more than Brady

Jacoby Brissett of the Miami Dolphins has the unique skill set of running for his life to evade a sack when he's in no danger of being sacked

he is SO BAD

i don’t wager but the packers only giving six points at home against the steelers is absurd

Miami finally showing signs of life on defense, Colts drive extended by most abysmally bad facemask call in history (hands nowhere near the mask). and then of course they score and basically put it almost out of reach.

sigh.....until Tua is back, this is gonna be a painful year

Buffalo uhh might just be good

wonder if a team has ever lost more yards in penalties than it gained from scrimmage

texans came awfully close today (100, 109)

thats fn crazy

Thought the Bears would’ve accomplished that last week but 47 yards total offense and 44 total penalties.

44 yards

It's early but this might be the best Cardinals team I've ever seen. Murray is so fun to watch.

this is a real barn burner between tommy brady and the new england pats haha

mac has thrown a touchdown and is there for the superior qb

greatest qb ever? time will tell

whatre thoose

Can someone explain Brady’s platform cleats to me? @UniWatch pic.twitter.com/qZBekkC8NW

— BC (@byronacampbell) October 4, 2021

i don’t wager but the packers only giving six points at home against the steelers is absurd

really should have doubled my net worth on this, although it was closer than i'd expected

Lugz

never rock lugz im way above

lol I was thinking about that on the final Steelers drive, could totally see the Pack playing prevent defense and giving them an easy TD with :23 left. I mean that's what McCarthy always did

its weird seeing the Steelers in last place. I was surprised Ben was still playing...for some reason I thought he retired like 2 years ago. He didn't look great!

I hate Brady’s stupid face so much I’m rooting for the Pats what have I become

:)

yeah no winners in this matchup

that said seeing Belichick throw a bunch of crazy defenses at Brady is pretty cool. and it seems to be working thus far.

ben is averaging like two yards per pass

part of it is that his line sucks and that's all the time he has, part of it is that he can no longer scramble for the extra time, and part of it is that he simply can't throw the ball very far. coming into this game i don't think he'd even *thrown* a pass 20 yards upfield between the hashmarks, let alone completed one

I have to admit that I…admire Belichick as a coach. Lord knows he’s outcoached the Bills almost every time he’s played us.

the pats are driving me nuts with execution mistakes but this judon guy is a lot of fun

xxp yeah he's in that late stage Eli phase where you know you're not going anywhere with him but you're probably worse off benching him

rather than benching ben the steelers should kill him idk just feels right

xp yeah but a) this has been going on for three years, and b) eli wasn't a rapist

patriots seem to be prepping to lose this game

its because it stopped raining, bad luck

well tbf the Steelers did start 11-0 last year and very nearly overcame a comically gruesome start to beat the Browns in the playoffs

Ben still had the same issues but he at least was hitting open dudes. he missed two not particularly difficult TD passes against GB today and if he can't hit those he's worthless

well well well nice lil drive there pats ok ok

they were really reeling off the good plays on that drive

rookie QB with no run game going against an excellent veteran defense, you'd think he would be getting clobbered

mac has got some game

steelers started last year 11-0 because they played the NFC East; they are not and never were in fact a good team

this will get me excommunicated by any trv steelers fans here, but mike tomlin is actually a really good coach. (i know, right?!)

ben is done. i don't know exactly how they proceed from here, but it has nothing to do with roffles

draft a quarterback?

Very smooth Tom! 😂😂 #SNFonNBC #GoBucs pic.twitter.com/gjmSeZpGZn

— 🔥Frank the Tank🔥 (@FrankAuthentic1) October 4, 2021

NE has rushed for -1 yard midway through the 4th and somehow they're only down 2

Too much time on the clock for Mac Jones…

— BasicCommenter (@PFTCommenter) October 4, 2021

this is a tight game!

ahahah ok sorry Bill Belichick rules

meyers 2 for 2!

belichick wants this one lol

i would really like to have had an early night for a lot of reasons but this game is too good

That was 19 consecutive completions for 180 yards and 2 TDs before the back-to-back misses from Mac Jones.

— Jeff Howe (@jeffphowe) October 4, 2021

who are you even rooting for lag∞n

the pats baby!

holy shit

tight game!

can't believe this game is actually delivering

now its raining again...

ahhhhh

lol so close

tight game

was probably the right call too

rain makes it dicey, thought they were gonna go for it tbh

going for it with a rookie QB in the rain probably also dicey, you got like a 40% shot of losing the game right there and who knows how many more yards you're gonna get

mac was dealing! youre gonna get like at least 6 more yards if you get it probably more

it was just a very long field goal for such poor conditions, if it hadnt started raining again sure kick it

oh actually I forgot there was still a minute on the clock and TB had two timeouts, the 35-40% shot of a Brady comeback definitely makes going for it correct

yeah that too

It was a special night

steelers started last year 11-0 because they played the NFC East; they are not and never were in fact a good team

Unless there's been some heavy duty conference realignment I didn't hear about i don't think this is true. AFC North is at the very least a solid to good division

My Vikings are on a dark path

I think they're referring to how each year, everybody in your division plays all of the teams in another division in the opposite conference. everybody in the AFC North played all of the teams in the NFC East.

But that's not really a good argument - only 3 of those first 11 wins came against the NFC East (Washington was their first loss), and they had to beat multiple playoff teams to start 11-0, including the Titans, Browns, and Ravens (who they beat twice).

I do think 11-0 was a mirage but mostly because they were beneficiaries of good fortune, not that they weren't good. they probably shoulda been 9-2.

Ahhh I didn't get the context

My Vikings are on a dark path

its crazy that Cousins will look like a Top 5 QB and then have a game where he can't beat the dude overthrowing all his receivers by 10 yards

still they probably should be 3-1 and are clearly at least the 2nd best team the division so I wouldn't panic yet

i've given up on having expectations for Miami. when they're supposed to be good, they find creative ways to soil their pants. then once you give up, suddenly they go on a crazy run and make the playoffs (or come close).

yesterday they were the dominant team in the Colts game (despite only being up 3-0) and one mental error (an offsides nullifying a stop on 4th down) lead to a snowball effect where the Colts ran roughshod over us the rest of the game.

I have to say, Urban Meyer's spectacular flame-out is giving me as much joy as anything this year, I hate that rotten fucker

its really great

otm

This is funny. Watch the "First Take" panel react to finding out that Urban Meyer will be teaching a class at Ohio State on character. pic.twitter.com/BHlre3eExR

— Cork Gaines (@CorkGaines) January 2, 2019

lmao

Vikings do seem to be stung with the ability to grasp defeat out of the jaws of victory in some pretty interesting ways. They rarely flat out stink, but they seem to be just terrible in close games and lose them in odd ways.

Urban Meyer will have a nervous breakdown before they get any good in JVille. That dude is just wired up a bit too tight.

Roffelsburger is cooked. Dude is about as mobile as Bernie Kosar and his arm while not as bad as Manning or Brees were at the end is just not the same. That said, I think the real problem is their O-line pretty much stinks now.

lol

https://www.theonion.com/urban-meyer-still-adjusting-to-speed-of-nfl-cover-ups-1847802700

Heh...did not even know about that viral video this morning.

lmao can't say I've ever seen a punter do that before

i would do anything for punts
but I won't do that

this is one of the oddest football games I've ever witnessed. just nonstop weird shit

sick

Michael Dickson has his punt blocked, so he casually picks it up and punts it 68 yards the second time.

Was deemed a legal move on the field 🤷🏽‍♂️pic.twitter.com/1uteTIeetl

— NFL on ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsNFL) October 8, 2021

there's no rule about how many times you can try to punt afaik!

lol seeing so many tweets expressing bafflement at this. did everyone just assume you got to punt once per play?

yeah but you can't punt past the line of scrimmage which I think he clearly was

You can punt any time. You can even punt, run downfield, pick it up and regain possession. It's just that no one does any more. Used to be called the "quick kick" and the QB was the surprise punter. The domination of the forward pass play made that trick obsolete.

xp ok i wasn't looking at that, and that would be a bad miss by the refs

his plant foot seems like its right on the line not sure if its one of those deals where if any part of your body is behind the line its cool or what

well I personally am in favor of the NBA rule where sick dunks and blocks don't get called as fouls if they look awesome enough. punters never get to do anything cool like that anymore now that coaches figured out you're supposed to go for it on a lot of 4th downs

guess that punter is a former aussie rules football player which stands to reason

well I think that's how it works for QBs right? who knows maybe it is different for punters. no one on Twitter would know that

btw FOX we don't really need to see 35 replays of Russell Wilson getting his finger fucked up. why do they do this

lmaooo 2 minutes on the clock and Geno Smith has a chance to win it

oh he immediately got picked off

ah well nevertheless

lol i said to myself he’ll throw a pick rn

Good for Geno still making a NFL paycheck at age 31. I bet Chase Daniel gives him a high five any time they run into each other.

He looked solid until he didn’t

Actually don’t think that pick was his fault, Lockett tripped over his own feet. Probably should’ve made a different throw with 3 defenders in the area but backups tend not to improvise like that

yah not his fault... but still

This Packers-Bengals game is a treat. I didn’t even mean to watch it. Now I’m worried Fox is going to have to yank it for the local afternoon game.

Pretty shocked they went for the FG on 4th and inches. I guess Crosby told LaFleur “seriously I got a feeling about this one”

You know what they say, give him 4 chances at a game winning field goal and he’ll make you pay

Zimmer and Cousins celebrate the win over the Lions by almost getting in a fight on the sidelines

Kirk Cousins and Mike Zimmer sure have a weird way of celebrating 😳😬

(Via @CasperSyd)pic.twitter.com/ajTDoBYV2r

— Stadium (@Stadium) October 10, 2021

lol what the hell

someone caption that vid plz

Why the fuck is it impossible to upload images with my post? I want everyone to see a picture of the single worst pass interference call of all-time.

This was called defensive pass-interference on the #Browns. Yikes. pic.twitter.com/zqiJoKlUup

— Jon Doss (@JonDoss) October 10, 2021

That was a fourth fucking down play by the way. God I am so pissed right now.

Tyreek Hill: very fast human being

You think Urban Meyer sent a gift basket to Jon Gruden for somehow coming up with a note from 10 years ago that makes him look less like an a-hole in a comparative sense?

Coaching profession is a magnet for some horrible human beings. I guess it keeps them out of becoming politicians with death squads or something...

you forget Coach Senator Tommy Tuberville

lmao just saw that Evan McPherson apparently thought his first game winning kick was good and started celebrating before turning around and going wha happen

the chiefs defense is a krakatoa-level disaster

Yeah they just look like they aren't as good a team as Buffalo

lmao what the hell was that little animation

wow that was a weak roughing the passer call

Andy Reid is aging into looking just like Wilford Brimley at this point.

NYT has more emails - "Gruden, now the coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, casually and frequently unleashed misogynistic and homophobic language over several years to denigrate people around the game and to mock some of the league’s momentous changes." https://t.co/n4oK26UxEW

— Michele Steele (@MicheleSteele) October 12, 2021

not lookin' good

would be cool to not have to look upon that dumb ass anymore

Important to remember that he was chosen to do commentary on Monday Night Football which is one of the league’s most visible and sought after jobs. I can’t imagine a single person in that process didn’t know he was like this. At least Urban Meyer’s having a good day!!

this is even better in light of tirico and dungy tripping all over themselves to defend his character on last night's broadcast.

text book boys club, i liked how the nytimes piece mentioned that gruden and allen were both college coaches sons

yup, the large adult sons club. and i will never cease to be amazed at what people will write in an email that is going to exist forever.

and we're done here! that was quick

Source: Jon Gruden just informed his staff that he plans to resign as #Raiders coach.

— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) October 12, 2021

Would be nice to see some public statements from players and coaches condemning this kind of conduct, but I doubt we will.

it sucks that carl nassib is going to have to deal with questions about his dickhead former head coach

chucky go bye bye

they threw him in his own grinder

one of the most singularly unlikable figures in american sports. what a nice way to end the day.

chucky, more like cheugy

Espn will hire him to host "Gruden's Email Camp" where he invites the subjects of his hateful words and breaks down the "mistakes" they made in their "reads".

all he ever wanted to do was to make $10 million a year coaching a mediocre football team . . . and they took it from him

I have always hated him. Fake tough guy coaches are one of my pet peeves.

Would love to see video of Nassib stuffing Gruden in a locker.

hate to admit it but the fake Jon Gruden account on Twitter was so good it kind of made me like him

that said the Raiders giving him $100m was so obviously stupid and I'm glad it's blowing up on them

i will never cease to be amazed at what people will write in an email that is going to exist forever.

― call all destroyer, Monday, October 11, 2021 8:59 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm especially in company email that can looked at by someone else any time they feel like, this came out in an unrelated investigation into the wash foot team lol, gruden was using a personal email but he was sending to corporate addrs

they couldve just been texting each other like normal people

can't believe the refs didn't let that incredibly cool lateral touchdown stand. i mean it definitely looked like he got it off in real time

ok yeah if Gruden's emailing stuff like that chances are he talked that way to his team and fellow front office people all the time, guessing we may be hearing a lotta stories about him soon

lol yeah there should be some good articles on the way

I guarantee there are others in the NFL that are sweating as they know some of the dumb bull shit they have put out there in texts and emails over the years.

yeah but Rex Ryan is currently unemployed so he's got nothing to worry about

Jon Gruden statement: “I have resigned as Head Coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. I love the Raiders and do not want to be a distraction. Thank you to all the players, coaches, staff, and fans of Raider Nation. I’m sorry, I never meant to hurt anyone.”

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 12, 2021

"I never meant to hurt anyone', Gruden went on to elaborate, "I only wanted to project a manly image by disparaging and dismissing whole groups of people en masse. It never occurred to me that my hurtful, ignorant, bigoted remarks could be taken personally by individuals within that group. Listen, some of my acquaintances and colleagues are faggots and I never said this stuff to their faces. I sort of almost liked some of them, even if they were pansies and dykes."

despite nearly turning it over 3 times on that drive Lamar Jackson still looks like the most unstoppable force in football

geez Blankenship really saved Young from being run out of town there

seriously you're at home, you know your offense will be completely unstoppable in overtime, and the other team has like 15 seconds on the clock...good time to dramatically shove a dude in plain sight after the play is over

that said Wentz is an anti-vaxx moron so I'm pretty glad to see them punt an incredibly winnable game like this. Lamar might've just put up the best 2nd half + OT numbers ever

gruden thing continues to be very satisfying. as does the unveiled racism and stupidity of bruce allen, not unlike that of his brother george

bizarrely, i met their mother (and her sister) once in a cafe in paris circa 1996. she was very nice but didn't seem quite all there. even more bizarrely, she gave me a pocket schedule of her late husband's last season as a coach -- long beach state in 1990. i probably still have it in a box somewhere

lol that is very random

https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-xpm-2012-may-17-la-sp-sn-gatorade-george-allen-20120517-story.html

it certainly feels like there are more shoes to drop but you never know with the NFL, it sounds like someone really wanted Gruden out

the nfl having this trove of 650,000 emails and only jon gruden’s getting out is very 🧐

don't worry, i'm sure there are no instances of daniel snyder doing anything unseemly

yeah but Rex Ryan is currently unemployed so he's got nothing to worry about

― frogbs, Monday, October 11, 2021 9:39 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

You'll be happy to know Rex is highly paid to bloviate on all matters NFL every morning on ESPN

Urban Meyer and Chucky going down is the greatest

Gross pic.twitter.com/GU3fDo2zOg

— Hookah Doncic (@MasterTes) October 12, 2021

A horrible unrelated fact that has emerged from the Jon Gruden fiasco is that he has a son named "Deuce Gruden" who looks like this pic.twitter.com/zcLMAlusDv

— Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) October 12, 2021

the perfect name

Bucs announce they are removing former coach Jon Gruden from their Ring of Honor.

— Greg Auman (@gregauman) October 12, 2021

who else is in it nobody haha

Warrick Dunn

lol i'll bet tony dungy is still in it

there will be 28 new coaches by season's end

mike tomlin will be among the other four (and i am totally okay with that)

Deuce Gruden looks like you asked an AI to draw a coach's son.

hahaha

I saw that picture and had a slow motion visual ala 'Eastbound and Down' of that dude tweaking his hair in the mirror with the Jesus Lizard's "Puss" as the soundtrack.

I wonder if all these coaches sons get together and do jello shooters at the probowl?

is that… Frank Luntz? pic.twitter.com/ya6PRPZbcR

— curtmills (@CurtMills) October 13, 2021

this is really great news:

The NFL has found no other current team or league personnel to have sent emails containing racist, anti-gay or misogynistic language similar to messages written by Jon Gruden that led to his resignation as Las Vegas Raiders coach, a person familiar with the documents told The Associated Press on Friday.

The person said the league "did not identify other areas and other individuals it has to contact at club leadership or league leadership levels." The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the league has not publicly released what is in the 650,000 emails the independent investigators collected during an investigation of sexual harassment and other workplace conditions at the Washington Football Team.

"The NFL did not identify any problems anywhere near what you saw with Jon Gruden," the person said.

hahahaha

That’s such a relief

no racist language in any emails to and from the uh Washington Football Team, as I assume it was known during the entire period covered by the investigation.

literally every single email including the name of the fucking team has racist language!

which i now see is a point you already made. hate these people.

Also there is totally stuff as bad as Gruden in 650,000 NFL emails

sounds like it was just bad one apple to me! gruden fired, problem solved!

thank goodness there are no more racists or misogynists now in the NFL

sure, 70% of the players are black while there are three black head coaches, two black general managers, and zero (ever) black owners. but the nfl doesn’t have a racial bone in its body, that much is sure

making me aware of the malaprop phrase "racial bone" is a crime in and of itself

"a racist blade" is what Gruden nonsensically called it

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium deserves better than this.

just got to see Lawrence putting hishand down his pants and adjusting his crotch, lovely

It's early but this might be the best Cardinals team I've ever seen. Murray is so fun to watch.

― Hannibal Lecture (PBKR), Sunday, October 3, 2021 9:04 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

Of course, being in the red zone this many times and kicking field goals is bound to come back to bite them.

Not red zone I guess, but still, a TD more and the game would have been over.

Seahawks offense looking very much like Green Bay's did whenever Rodgers was hurt

lmao mics caught Rodgers yelling "I've owned you all my fucking life" after rushing in a TD vs. the Bears, that is quite badass

didnt see what happened to Taylor but judging by the player reactions this is not good. hope that wasn't career ending. fuck

man Seattle just can't play a normal game can they

its unreal how bad an actor Gronk is in these commercials

Favre and Rodgers combined record against the Bears as QB of the Packers

45-18

Papa Bear Halas is pissed in whatever realm he ended up in the afterlife and Curly Lambeau is laughing his a$$ off.

All time record between the Bears and Packers is now

95 wins Chicago 102 wins GB

God that sucks so bad. I really don't give a shit but the Bears need to get a real QB and coach and fix this BS.

Truth is I obviously give a shit, but I am a fan of the Reds, Bears and IU basketball so I am not an optimistic person at this point. It has been a pretty crappy 30 years or so for the most part.

Bears have definitely made me appreciate how lucky GB has been to get 2 HOF QBs in a row. Fields seems fairly promising to me but also I can see exactly how he's likely to frustrate Bears fans for the next 3-4 years

pretty entertaining MNF game about to finish btw. Bills shouldve saved that cool 2-pt conversion for the playoffs, can't pull it off better than that

also Mike Vrabel for whatever reason reminds me a lot of James Murphy right now. both in look and in in facial expressions

holy shit Titans just made a game winning stand on 4th and a tenth of an inch

That game was way more entertaining than I thought it would be.

Titans beat the Bills and lose to the Bears and Jets. Go figure on that one.

It’s Case Keenum time!!!!

Miami's handling of Tua has been abysmal and Stephen Ross is a disgrace of an owner. and if we trade Tua and we get DeShaun Watson, I am done.

even ignoring the football stupidity of it (you know he's going on the exempt list as soon as anybody *tries* to play him, and the defense and offensive line will still suck and lose us games), yes, let's trade for the guy who has had 20+ women come forward with accusations of sexual impropriety. that's a good message to send to your female fanbase.

Always had a bad gut feeling on Tua as an NFL qb

thing is I don't think he's played badly at all. this year he's played in two full games, and only lasted a series and a half against Buffalo before being knocked out with injury. his numbers weren't spectacular vs New England, but it was enough to win, and he was moving the ball at will against Jax (only real big misstep was the late game INT).

but i'd rather have Akili Smith playing then let Watson on my team considering what he's accused of currently :/

I cannot believe anyone should be stupid enough to trade for Watson considering the circumstances. I don't think even Snyder is that f'n dumb, but these are NFL owners and they seem to be general scum on the top end of the equation.

I do believe our owner might be this stupid. fucking hate him

the chiefs became mediocre awfully quickly

fuck the Dolphins, fuck them so hard.

Remember when Ja'Marr Chase was being called a bust in pre-season?

Remember when the Panthers were 3-0? Lose to the Giants, WTF...?

It's just a matter of time until Nagy gets fired and I kinda did not like that dude going in, but I got a feeling Fields is what he is and that is a good college QB. I'll be really surprised if he gets all that much better even if they do get the O-line fixed. I wasn't sold when they drafted him and so far, he looks pretty much lost to me.

Burrow has some really nice touch, he's a very accurate passer.

some real adventures in quarterbacking tonight. I don't think Jameis has thrown a pick yet but he's playing like he's trying to beat his old record

i thought this peyton and eli show would be more entertaining (i missed the marshawn segment)

how in the world did Eli get benched for this guy

bout to see Geno cook on a 4th-and-28

nearly took a safety and then tossed it to an incredibly well-covered guy 10 yards short of the 1st down marker

Bruce Smith’s QB graveyard puts Myles Garrett’s to shame 😂🪦 pic.twitter.com/7Whgi78h1e

— PFF (@PFF) October 27, 2021

Got to admit I paused that one and took a couple of minutes looking at the names. Took me awhile to find Bernie Kosar but he was in there. It is a hilarious list of names for old school football fans.

You got a mix of eras of football with some serious old school guys like Steve DeBurg, Tommy Kramer and Steve Grogan. Trying to figure out who the 'newest' player in the yard might be. I kept hoping that Peyton Manning or Drew Brees or Tommy GOAT were in there as they overlapped a bit with Bruce but I did not see them. I guess the newest school would be Sexy Rexy Grossman or Matt Hasselbeck.

And of course David Carr is in there, dude was sacked like 200 times his first couple years in the league.

Jesse Palmer
Sean Salisbury
Doug Pederson
Jim Harbaugh

fucking insane ending to Packers-Cardinals

Cards weren't going to win them all. Losing Watt hurts, but it was only a matter of time. If they stay relatively healthy, they'll have a shot. The offense has so many weapons and the defense is really strong as well. Playmakers everywhere.

They probably would’ve won if AJ Green turned his head around. That said taking the TD off the board was just weird, may have been the “correct” call but idk if it’s one I’ve actually seen them make before. Didn’t look like there was any good angle on it but I guess they found one. Crazy the Cards made so many awesome plays on that drive (including miraculously avoiding a safety) only to lose it like that, such a weird sport sometimes

Hey enjoy it, at least there were no simultaneous catches or 4th and 26s

Packers definitely have a habit of finding crazy ways to win in the regular season then getting their hearts ripped out in the playoffs

in typical Miami fashion, Tua and company go on a pretty good drive, stall out just outside the red zone, kick a 36 yard field goal, which the kicker shanks terribly to the right.

meanwhile Jets showing signs of life.

honestly feel kinda bad for jared goff

MIKE WHITE, QUARTERBACK, NEW YORK JETS

For the first month the Lions looked like an ok team that just had horrible luck but good lord have they packed it up lately

Would be amazing if they become the first team in history to go 0-16 AND the first to go 0-17

I hung out with a Lions fan today who was proud of that opportunity

Jim Caldwell's record w/ Lions 36-28

Lions since .... 14-40-1

ya I admit I was wrong about Caldwell, at the time the hire felt like "lets get the exact opposite of the guy we have now" and I think he turned out to be one of the better coaches in Lions history. so of course they fired him and have turned out to be utterly hopeless since

this game has been pretty awful thus far, Dak is out, Cousins is playing like shit, and there are flags on every other play, but holy shit one of the funniest/luckiest downfield catches just happened on a potentially game-winning drive and somehow it was in the Cowboys favor

god I cannot even imagine what it must feel like as a Vikings fan to watch that

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

wrote this nearly five years ago; it's only gotten worse. my only regret is that matt patricia is no longer a part of it

in 47 seasons since the NFL-AFL merger, the lions have:

had 14 winning seasons
won three division titles
hosted two playoff games
gone 1-11 in the playoffs
gone 302-422-4 (.418) overall
had the only 0-16 season in NFL history

― mookieproof, Monday, January 2, 2017 12:34 AM

This Vikings team is so frustrating they just can't close

Looked up the terms of the Stafford trade cuz I couldn't remember

2 1sts
1 3rd
Goff

That might be one of the best trades in history if Stafford keeps it up, which there's no reason to believe he won't

God the Vikings could have matched that easily but with a better QB

Cousins is definitely at that frustrating level where he's mediocre most of the time but will put up like 400 yards & 3 TDs against a division rival once or twice a season, I can kinda see why the Vikings haven't moved on...yet

fun stat about last night's game - on 8 3rd downs in a row the Vikings ran a pass play in which Cousins did not throw past the first down line

really just an incredible loss for Minnesota, you were at home during primetime vs. Dallas's not very good backup QB, the refs were giving you tons of tick tack calls, you got two turnovers in crucial spots, and it's basically a must-win game...they had so many chances to do ~something~

yeah i definitely wasn't on the "Rams won that trade" boat at first as I really felt that Goff was being underrated as a QB, but as of right now, Rams are totally winning the trade, and Stafford is playing out of his mind. hard to not smile at that too.

yeah Cousins is insanely frustrating

basically under ideal circumstances, he has the ability to be great - good protection, clean pocket, receivers getting separation, etc. i've seen him throw some incredible passes.

however, being able to do it under non-ideal circumstances is kinda..the whole deal.

but yes, he's a real quandary in terms of "ok well tell me who we are going to go out and get that's better?" - it's not like players of Stafford's caliber aren't on the market that often

just looked it up and he's got the highest QBR of any QB who's thrown more than 200 passes, second in overall yards to Brady

I hate to say it, but I just think Dallas is loaded for bear this year. They seemed to have fixed the sieve of a defense and that big o-line is healthy again.

Cousins is good but just not quite good enough. I'd say he is a bit better but not totally similar to Andy Dalton, who put up some big games and numbers at times for the Bengals but seemed to wilt when the really big games happened. Bengals really could never get totally over B-more or Pittsburgh in their division. Perhaps not as big on the passing numbers, but Alex Smith was the same way in KC, very efficient but not really able to get them over the top either.

Hatcats have gone 19-37 since they decided to pass. Got to think the Vikings for all those skills players and defensive prowess would have probably been kinda similar without him.

Damned if you do have him and definitely damned if you don't.

NFL is weird though, explain why Tom Brady is having fits with NO. Saints won yesterday with Trevor Siemian, who had not really played much in 3 years. Siemian looked pretty decent too.

Vikings are in a similar boat as Bengals. They got one team in division with the Packers that are almost always there at the top and they pretty much fight for 2nd every year with the Bears. Minnesota has a hard time getting it all together at once, one year their defense is good and then one year their offense is good and then one year they are awesome and then special teams or something stupid happens.

How many wins would the Bears have had if they EVER had someone like Cousins? When your best for the last 30 years is Jimmy Mac and Jay Cutler - you suck. Bears pretty much have to win ugly to win.

basically under ideal circumstances, he has the ability to be great - good protection, clean pocket, receivers getting separation, etc. i've seen him throw some incredible passes.

however, being able to do it under non-ideal circumstances is kinda..the whole deal.

lol yeah i was like . . . me too

i don't think it's fair to call the stafford trade 'the best(/worst) in history' (that is the herschel trade, fwiw).

if the rams win this year, then okay, because flags fly forever. but given the choice of going 0-8 with a bunch of picks + goff or 2-6 (at best) with stafford, i'll take the former. perhaps they could have gotten more, but it wasn't a bad deal for detroit.

(granted, the lions will blow those draft picks -- because they're the lions -- but still)

and if the rams *don't* win this year, stafford is suddenly 34 and more prone to aging like eli/roffles than he is to aging like brady.

Lol mookie trust me you don't have to remind me about the Herschel walker trade believe me

That one is such a ridiculous outlier and isn't even conceivable in the modern NFL

But yes it's part of Vikings "lore"

<3

Just crazy, teams value draft picks way too much now, and obviously the way rookie contracts are structured now it would be pretty much impossible to get this kind of hall for any player. jesse solomon and ike holt were good players too..3 firsts and 3 seconds, dang

jesse solomon, ike holt and david howard were solid players too, was reading their wikis and this deal kind of fucked up their careers because when they got to dallas, johnson kept them on the bench because he wanted to cut them to get the picks

To Dallas Cowboys
LB Jesse Solomon
LB David Howard
CB Issiac Holt
DE Alex Stewart
Minnesota's 1st round pick in 1990
Minnesota's 2nd round pick in 1990
Minnesota's 6th round pick in 1990
Minnesota's 1st round pick in 1991 (conditional on cutting Solomon)
Minnesota's 2nd round pick in 1991 (conditional on cutting Howard)
Minnesota's 1st round pick in 1992 (conditional on cutting Holt)
Minnesota's 2nd round pick in 1992 (condition met by trading away Nelson)
Minnesota's 3rd round pick in 1992 (conditional on cutting Stewart)

it is kind of insane how prized top-tier running backs were back then, like they truly could be the difference maker, so you could see teams overspending for one. RB stock really dropped a lot in the last decade in the NFL given the drift to pass-happy offenses due to the QB renaissance.

Yeah I mean you *might* have been able to get this for Mahomes after he won the Super Bowl but I'd guess you'd be hard pressed to get a #1 for any running back now

I was just wondering the other day why you so rarely see franchise running backs like Adrian Peterson anymore, then Derrick Henry got injured and I guess I got my answer. I don't know if linebackers are just that much bigger and faster than they were 20 years ago but it does seem like you can't just feed it to your guy 30+ times a game like you could in the Priest Holmes days. Though if you read the stories of what Priest's life is like now...yikes

Until this year, the Vikings and Dalvin Cook... maybe Carolina and McCaffrey, but yeah building an offense around the running back is rare now

Plus they usually only get the second contract then after that are just scrapping around the league

wow this henry ruggs news...

will likely spend time in prison.

both those guys are in their 3rd or 4th year as a starter so I guess the real test comes now. like I know a lot of Packer fans are still excited about Aaron Jones but the way the modern NFL is he may only have one more good year in him. it's pretty brutal.

wow this henry ruggs news...

will likely spend time in prison.

― It's the Final Cluntdiwn (Spottie), Tuesday, November 2, 2021 2:21 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

whoa, just saw this. he's fucked.

and now, he's also released

all that bluster and DeShaun Watson didn't move. Texans really fucked this one up badly.

i'm kinda glad cos I don't want Watson playing anyway but i also didn't want him on my team.

Rodgers has Covid and will be out vs. the Chiefs. I actually kinda think this is good, Packers kinda need to know what Love is gonna look like as a starter and the Chiefs seem like a good defense to get your feet wet against

i wanna know what Love is

rodgers apparently is not vaxxed, despite telling reporters he was “immunized” in august

he was "immunized" by the lord

yeah if he used "immunized" to mean he had it already then that's pretty sneaky. I am guessing he is gonna want to clear this up, if he's missing a big game against the Chiefs cuz he's an idiot that seems like a big deal

not a surprise from him.

Rodgers definitely seems like a headcase but he reveals so little about himself that it's easy to hide. I do find it a little curious that he seems to have bad relationships with his entire family, several of his ex-teammates, the Packers front office, plus he's kinda had a lot of famous ex-girlfriends

all this talk of the discount double check and it turns out he didn’t do the most important double check of them all (two shots of the covid vaccine)

he got the Rodgers Rate (of infection)

if this is true I wonder if the NFL is gonna fine him. seems like he's been violating protocol in all these interviews.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Eric Bauman said in court today that former Raiders' WR Henry Ruggs was traveling at 156 MPH before the car crash that left a 23-year-old woman dead, and Ruggs' blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 3, 2021

banner day for the nfl

Major add to the Rodgers story here from @RobDemovsky.

This summer, Rodgers petitioned the NFL to have an “alternative treatment” count as a vaccination. The NFL denied his request and has considered him unvaccinated since the start of the season.https://t.co/GybsVt7RJc pic.twitter.com/LXufOZlMLe

— Kevin Seifert (@SeifertESPN) November 3, 2021

Lol what was the alternative treatment

Jfc on the Ruggs details

Also xxxxxpost voodoo lol

favremectin

jesus Ruggs makes the Leonard Little situation of many years back look quaint by comparison

Ruggs needs to be up on murder charges

156, damn. That's pretty fast.

With respect to Rodgers, I think it's important to remember that Shailene Woodley "makes her own medicines" (and "eats clay")

"Divergent" makes sense then

With respect to Rodgers, I think it's important to remember that Shailene Woodley "makes her own medicines" (and "eats clay")

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, November 3, 2021 1:44 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

boulder lol

exactly. a vast number of celebs aren't vaccinated & then even w/in that bubble shailene woodley seems particularly coocoo. also miles teller who rodgers was very publicly hanging out w/ when he was trying to force a trade cost a movie studio millions of dollars after they had to shut a movie down bcuz he was unvaccinated and got covid

this is extra funny because the league has been hyping up the Rodgers vs. Mahomes match all season

rogers got homeopathic treatment, apparently

a friend of mine who works for an nfl broadcast team has been going on for a decade-plus about what a tremendous asshole rodgers is, and we were all like, maybe he's just weird? welp

what did he say about him

he didn't really know any of those Jeopardy answers, they were all on cards in front of him

this fucker

that in a different life he'd be a guy who berates waitstaff and writes a screed on the bill rather than leave a tip

das bad

even back in 2008 when he became the starter I remember hearing a bunch of stories about him and getting the impression that he was....well, not an asshole exactly, but definitely a genuine eccentric.

the story I keep coming back to is Rodgers telling someone on the 49ers during a game that they should sign Greg Jennings, who was in a contract year (and the Packers #1 receiver at the time). I don't know how much that influenced Jennings' decision to leave but I'm guessing it didn't help. Rodgers says it never happened but it doesn't sound like something you'd just make up

seeing a lot of suggestions that Rodgers gets fined and/or suspended, but for what exactly? the league knew his status. it's only public knowledge now because he got the virus. if he hadn't no one would have known! Rodgers is a conniving dickhead for doing this, but the league sucks for letting this fly for so long.

Last year the Raiders, Broncos, and Saints paid hundreds of thousands in fines and lost draft picks for protocol violations. I'd expect something similar. I'm not sure if Rodgers will be suspended though.

Rodgers: "Thanks for giving me a good rate."

STATE FARM: "Ummm...I'm sorry our actuary says you are a risk, we have to raise your rates."

There is a better joke there, someone will find it.

Last year the Raiders, Broncos, and Saints paid hundreds of thousands in fines and lost draft picks for protocol violations.

but what exactly is the protocol violation? the interview where he claimed to be "immunized" wasn't just yesterday. the NFL knew it was a lie then, you can't just punish him now that it's public. oh wait I forgot that's exactly how the NFL handles these kinds of situations

Don't worry they're taking a second look at the WFT emails to see if they find anything about Rodgers

gonna be a lose/lose situation for him this week, if the Packers lose everyone's gonna be pissed at Rodgers for being a dipshit, if they win half the fanbase is gonna want him gone

does this mean he'll never host jeopardy

now cool guy is complaining about the leak of his "private medical data". what a cool guy.

can't violate HIPPO

google news pushing articles about justin fields publicly confirming that he is vaccinated. it's pathetic but hilarious -- GO BEARS!

for the Bears the opportunity to troll Aaron Rodgers is pretty rare so I say go for it

watch yourself, cheddar head!

omg these aaron rodgers quotes are GOLD baby

hes still going live on pat macafee show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3JU_oAEinQ

holy fuck he is on a roll right now

Aaron Rodgers says on the Pat McAfee show that he's "in the cross hairs of the woke mob right now", oh boy

— Computer Cowboy (@benbbaldwin) November 5, 2021

(this is a whole thread)

Rodgers: "The great MLK said, 'You have a moral obligation to object to unjust rules and rules that make no sense.'"

— Matt Schneidman (@mattschneidman) November 5, 2021

every line that comes out is worse than the last this is incredible

what a fucking doofus lmao

god he is getting absolutely roasted on Twitter right now. keeping his mouth shut was the smartest goddamn thing he ever did off the field

No wonder his family can't stand him.

PUBLISH THE POWERPOINT, AARON https://t.co/dfrXKEmHS6

— Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub) November 5, 2021

well if he consulted with Joe Rogan…

ahaaa his research

can't believe I'm saying this but I think I'm actually gonna be glad when they get rid of him next year

like this is much worse than even the Ryan Braun shit. I mean what Braun did was deceptive and shitty too but at least at the end of the day, he did it for you

lmao

joe rogan had to have written his script

if the Packers and/or the league try to discipline him in any way over this I can see him just pulling a Kyrie and never playing for Green Bay again

him and kyrie should form their own league of free thinkers

at the very least they should compare research. they may be onto something big

they could be lab partners

wow, this whole thread. lay off the Ivermectin, dude.

Rodgers is claiming that in 2020 the left was anti-vaccine while Trump was president, and then suddenly after Biden's election, "everything flips"

— Computer Cowboy (@benbbaldwin) November 5, 2021

haha wow

once again someone misremember that the left said they wouldn't take a vaccine that was "rushed through to production early" due to Trump pressuring the FDA/CDC, not that they were "anti-vax"

believe a great man from the Bears' home state has a famous quote about fools opening their mouths

I've really enjoyed Rodgers' heel turn these past couple of years. This chapter is just delicious. Looking forward to not seeing him every other commercial break after State Farm drops his ass (and then enjoying some popcorn while watching the fall-out from that).

I admire Rodgers' ability to remove doubt so quickly in the midst of so many covid-related operational delays

if someone could please add a CGI mirror in front of Rodgers to the "I've owned you" celebration

most humorous is he keeps glossing over how his homeopathic immune response failed to stop him from getting COVID

like the moment someone gets a breakthrough infection, anti-vax folks say SEE, THEY DON'T WORK, but when his magic essential oil pasta didn't stop him from getting sick, he'll say "well nuffin's perfect mate"

yeah, and then he starts singing a song about sweeping chimbleys

oooh well the vaccines don't 100% prevent you from getting Covid either. ever think of that? checkmate.

I can see being antivax but why would you take the horse paste smh

the more you guzzle the more triggered the libs get

horse paste makes me think of Rökt Ren but with smoked horse meat

lmao

pic.twitter.com/Z1BDcYd8Jz

— eve 6000 fan account (@Eve6) November 5, 2021

Ohhhhh, I get it. It all makes sense now. Aaron Rodgers is just stupid.

— Barry Petchesky (@barry) November 5, 2021

This really is it, like he kept his mouth shut and was cagey enough where his prick behavior could be seen as enigmatic or w/e but now he fucked up and we know he's dumber than Kirk Cousins

lol some of the comments show his fans are of the same ilk

his fans are of the same ilk

The USA cranks them out at a tremendous rate. (chants) We're number 1! We're number 1!

you know there was a time when Rodgers was actually really good at playing the media, back when he was able to dodge like 4000 straight questions about Brett Favre with ease. he probably could've come out of this unscathed if he really wanted to. instead he decides to namedrop "the woke agenda", "cancel culture", and MLK within like 15 minutes. dude has lost it

God yeah the MLK thing I was like dude what are you doing?

Eh-eh-ron

I want all the years I thought Aaron Rodgers was cute refunded

Recently, he resembles young Jaz Coleman from certain angles.

I love it every time some rich A$$hole outs himself (or herself) as a total creep, any media and in any field.

Blame everyone mf'er you want but it was the one in the mirror that brought you down.

xxpost horeshoe i was thinking the same thing

regrets ive had a few

wtf bills

Jordan Love looks terrible so far

on second thought he had approximately zero clean pockets and was constantly on the move so who knows

well, yeah

i'm 6'4"; if only i had clean pockets

I mean, the odds are overwhelming that Love will be mediocre or bad as most QBs are. I feel bad he has these elevated expectations just because the Packers lucked into two hall of Fame QBs in a row.

I'm curious what exactly it was the Packers saw in him. Rodgers was a weird case since a lot of people thought he would go #1 overall and he just kinda fell into Green Bay's lap. Jordan Love wasn't really on anyone's radar, he had one good year in college and it wasn't even his most recent one (his junior year he threw nearly as many picks as touchdowns). dude has "2nd rounder, might be a decent backup" written all over him, idk if anyone sees him as a potential franchise QB, but I guess GB saw something in him, so who knows. I hope I'm wrong but dude barely seems better than Brett Hundley and Hundley was a fucking disaster

that said its literally his first start, a lot of QBs have had pretty bad debuts especially when they get blitzed all the time (see: Fields, Justin). it gets said a lot but guys fresh out of college really do need a few games to adjust to the speed of the NFL, you need to develop that skill where half a second out of the snap you know if you have to get rid of the ball immediately. he's not really a scrambler.

can Magic Man come out of retirement?

Raiders just stepping in it this year

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32584857/las-vegas-raiders-cut-ex-first-round-cb-damon-arnette-video-death-threats

'this year'

fair play

holy shit that taunting call was straight up one of the stupidest things I've ever seen happen in a professional sporting event

yeah saw that on Twitter, such bullshit

That game was a good example of too much weird shit happening, it was nearly unwatchable

stillers

The o-line penalty on the Jimmy Graham TD was bullshit, too. The Bears deserved to win that game. The refs screwed them bigtime.

They missed a pretty blatant roughing the passer which probably would’ve led to a Bears TD

Funny how the Bears deserved to win but also shouldn’t have been in it, that punt down 10 w/ 7 minutes left felt like they were conceding the game

bradys live on the pat mcafee show again right now

lol i mean rodgers

not seeing a bunch of dumb shit on Twitter right now so I assume he's just doing damage control

it was mostly boring football talk but he doubled down and said hes standing by what he said and his 'opinion'. pat got a good zing in tho

Dr. Joe Rogan😂 pic.twitter.com/PxsxhMvGdt

— SideAction (@SideActionHQ) November 9, 2021

huh

Minnesota Vikings’ RB Dalvin Cook is the victim of domestic abuse and extortion – there’s pending litigation, according to his agent Zac Hiller.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 10, 2021

wait what

Uhh

Text message between Vikings Dalvin Cook and ex girlfriend who filed assault complaint against him from alleged November 2020 incident. pic.twitter.com/wwjUDoPYRi

— Rochelle Olson (@rochelleolson) November 10, 2021

Yeah it's so clear that they were trying to get in front of it and create doubt about the victim, disgusting

Adam Schefter is such a f'n tool.

Folks NFL is doubling down this year on the crazy.

Players whose career was of similar quality and shape to Odell Beckham Jr.:

Percy Harvin, Stefon Diggs, Amari Cooper, Lance Rentzel, Mike Evans, Keenan Allen, Brandin Cooks, John Jefferson, Al Toon, Tyler Lockett

Not even Kirk Gibson gets more mileage from one play.

Goddamn am I sick if hearing about OBJ.

Great President

wait a sec. was Tua the backup

Yea he's hurt (finger injury) and wasn't ready to return but the only other QB on the roster so they didn't wanna play him so they out him as backup but Brissett got hurt and sucks

COS IT'S THE
MIAMI DOLPHINS
MIAMI DOLPHINS

:-0

Ravens have that weird Madden AI energy in the 4th. you know where the game just decides, fuck it, you ain't winning, and everything goes wrong for you to blow the lead on the last play in the game. would've done it again if they had not completely blown a coverage on defense

well they were completely ref-aided in the first part of their comeback, only one of the four penalties on that drive was legitimate, and it totalled like 30-40 yards.

and the one legit penalty call is ridic. the body weight on the QB rule actually got one of our DEs hurt in 2018 as he fell weirdly trying to avoid putting his entire weight on the QB and tore something, was lost for the season. all to avoid a flag.

yeah Madden does that too

they didn't call it Gladden

Now that Gruden is suing the NFL (lol) I think we're going to see more of those emails.

Love the drama

I think Gruden actually has a pretty good case here

idk, what the NFL did was clearly shitty but was it really illegal?

i'm definitely here for it tho

whether he has a case or not, the end result is him coming out looking worse than he did going in, which was already bad.

the NFL is content with looking bad, they've done it for years.

the NFL, in the person of roger goodell, is content with looking bad, but if this somehow leads to dan snyder's emails becoming public . . . well, it would be awesome

(of course it won't, unless gruden is so bitter as to be immune to a cash settlement)

I could see Gruden wanting to burn it all down.

have no idea about the legality of any of this but it seems pretty clear that someone really wanted Gruden out and selectively leaking someone's emails as a part of an unrelated investigation might not be entirely above board. I mean fuck Gruden obviously but I am guessing what Snyder was up to is probably worse

the jets just got their first interception by a defensive back this season

Now that Gruden is suing the NFL (lol) I think we're going to see more of those emails.

― hocus pocus, alakazam (PBKR), Saturday, November 13, 2021 9:54 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

hell prob settle but i hope he doesnt

what a moment for the detroit lions

First team to do 0 wins 16 losses twice still in play

The return of Cam Newton seems to be going pretty well so far

i guess the chiefs are good again

love the fact that cam went 3-for-4 for eight yards and is among espn's top stories

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32633357/detroit-lions-pittsburgh-steelers-ends-nfl-first-tie-week-3-2020-coming-surprise-some-players

^^^ one of my favorite genres of NFL stories

oh my god K'Waun Williams almost made the interception of the century by pinning the ball against his own ass but alas he was flagged for PI on the play

Stafford's made some incredibly weird decisions today. he's thrown to the other team on multiple occasions with nary a white jersey around. on 3rd and goal he scrambled ahead for 2 and then threw it out of bounds (which drew a flag). on 4th and goal he threw it 10 yards out of the end zone. is he alright?

Ok I apologize in advance for telling a fantasy football story but

I came into MNF up by 3.5 points, opponent only has Rams kicker to play. bad situation but hey, I've got a chance

Rams offense totally sputters out, scoring all of one touchdown. Late in the 4th they get to a 1st and goal situation, screw it all up as they've been doing all game, then kick a fucking field goal down 24 with four minutes to play

something that made me less enthused about fantasy football is that for the second year in a row, I autodrafted, and haven't set a lineup and don't even know who is on my team, and I'm playoff bound currently.

(it's a non-money Yahoo league and life just got the best of me, and nobody has seemed to notice due to all of my wins)

Ok I apologize in advance for telling a fantasy football story but

no

I remember one year where our league was kinda wacky & I paid almost no attention, I autodrafted and wound up sneaking into the playoffs with a 6-7 record, playing sitting out players on multiple occasions. THREE of those six wins I got despite having the second-lowest point total for the week. I wound up making it to the finals. The guys I beat were pretty upset.

At least the Raiders just embarrassed themselves on the field this week.

I do love seeing the words 'soviet-style character assassination' associated with the NFL.

None of these teams this year are all that good really. I think the Bucs are just bored at this point and waiting for the playoffs.

Oh I think if Gruden can, he will try to burn it down...dude is toast, he will never be able to get another job in coaching or football media at any level again one would figure.

But hey, somehow someway Bobby Petrino has a job STILL...so I guess one could dream Chucky.

Ain’t this what the XFL is for

crazy that after 28-3 everyone thought it was the end of the Pats dynasty and that the Falcons would be perennial Super Bowl contenders. they won one playoff game the following year and haven't had a winning record since, finishing 4-12 in 2020. meanwhile the Patriots made the next two Super Bowls, winning one, then Brady jumped ship and won another one with the Bucs, and now here we are as the the Pats with their new QB are about to win 5 straight, dropping the Falcons to 4-6 and pushing Matt Ryan one step closer to retirement

Joey Buddaflacco sighting

kick 'im right in the peeshadeel

flags really feeling arbitrary this year.

our corner, Byron Jones, grabs a fistful of jersey while defending a WR, and no flag, Jets rightfully furious (me relieved).

our TE, Mike Gesicki, flagged for not one but two phantom offensive PIs, neither of which were legit. one ended a drive (the other would have ended even if no flag was thrown).

Sorry to hear that

Not the penalties but that you’re watching Jets Dolphins

lmao

i have Sunday ticket, i could watch *anything*, too

some weiiiird scores today.

Tyrod Taylor renaissance? Tannehill regression?

Kirk Cousins beast mode?

the way Flacco is being talked about you wouldn't know his team was losing right now

lol at Houston playing like juggernauts

I don't think anybody can legitimately call Buffalo Super Bowl contenders anymore. hell, they might not even win their division if NE keeps playing well.

jesus, Indy is mauling them.

Covid Passlehoff has Green Bay on top

hope jonathan taylor gets paid this offseason -- they ran him almost 30 times in the first three quarters today, and at that rate he'll be out of the game by the time he's 26

are the eagles Not Bad?

they’ve got a very good offensive line and it took them a bit too long to realize that they should lean on it.

they’re def a wild card contender

Rogers getting 4 TD passes and losing made my heart grow one size today. As a force of chaotic self-obsessed dumbassery I just want more of that, but also losing.

I did mean him as described force, but projection is a distinct possibility.

eh, Packers missed yet another FG and had 2 picks that didn't count (one bc it moved when it hit the ground, which was the right call, another for roughing the passer, which I thought was definitely not)

in other news this Steelers defense is absolutely atrocious, just getting clowned on every single play. crazy how much TJ Watt has to do for them

actually now that I'm watching the video I think both Packers INTs should've stood, he seemed clearly down before the ball moved, but who am I to understand the cryptic 2000-year old tome that is the NFL rulebook

this game will end with every AFC North team being over .500 yet none of them being any good

also just in general the ravens should be in the AFC East and the bills should be in the AFC North; get your shit together NFL

had no clue Herbert could run like that

holy hell Sutton with the pick of a lifetime

I know people think of the buttfumble as the Mark Sanchez signature play but for me it's those 5 yard throws that get easily picked off cuz there's not a receiver anywhere close...well Daniel Jones pulled a hell of a Sanchez tonight. I swear it looked just like him

poor lions

that was one of the worst football games I've ever seen

Guy on the punt team spinning around looking for the ball as it bounced into the end zone is an all time Lions moment

yes! hilarious

28 combined (accepted) penalties for 276 yards in the raiders-cowboys game

i am impressed

the ben roffles era is whimpering to a close

kinda sad to see after dominating that division for so long but damn idk if I've ever seen a less mobile quarterback. if he looks this miserable on the field I can't imagine how much his day to day life must suck

My friend is a Bengals fan and he is on cloud 9.

WTF was Ben thinking on that pick 6. Madden video gamers coulda read that coverage

Cam Newton
5-19, 92 yards. 2 INT

64 of those yards on one play lmao.

Lmaopic.twitter.com/rZ0wNYz1TS

— Ian Hartitz (@Ihartitz) November 28, 2021

The spirit of Mark Sanchez still haunts this team

Cam benched for PJ Walker.

Who gets sacked twice and throws a pick on one drive

Seems like an improvement

Tua has a 90% completion rate (27/30)

Lmao at Texans choking against Jets

This is a truly impressive meltdown by the Colts

Meanwhile Titans looking *not good* again

touchdown tom has done it (touchdown) again

Whoaaa

so close

rodgers looks like a hungover hobo

Jfc that throw to Cobb was nuts

Lamar Jackson is such an enigma, you really never know what's gonna happen one second to the next

on the other hand you have the Browns who seem to have reverted to the form we all remember, they picked Lamar 3 times and currently have 3 points

obviously they are missing Difference Maker OBJ, whom the packers scandalously low-balled

that TD catch quickly becoming the NFL equivalent of the blue/gold dress pic, everyone's using the same photo to prove it was or wasn't a catch

Mayfield sucks

I know he has good games here and there but most of the time he just looks like a shittier version of Kirk Cousins

Ravens had no run game and Lamar tossed 4 picks, how do you lose this one

everyone's using the same photo to prove it was or wasn't a catch

On my mediocre, non-HD 36" LCD television I could see grass clippings bounce off the turf from the camera angle that looked forward from behind the end zone to the front of end-zone. My conclusion: it hit the turf.

Ravens put nine in the box on some plays, they dared Baker to beat them and he couldn’t do it. FML

baker looked incredibly hobbled to me, both upper and lower body. they have a reasonable backup i thought so not sure why he was out there.

well its arguably their most important game of the regular season and the Browns already dropped several "Mayfield is feelin' fine!" stories so I guess you can't just start your backup, even if it's abundantly clear that Mayfield is not, in fact, feelin' fine. coaches do that cowardly shit all the time where they just throw their hands up and say "look, you gotta play your best players in the big ones!" knowing the shit they'd catch if Case Keenum couldn't deliver them a win in Baltimore. even though he probably would have.

this game was 7-3 and then I put the kids to bed and now it's 9-9. TD Washington then Seattle blocks the XP and returns it for 2. didn't know that was an actual rule lol

have I mentioned how much I love those nonsensical 3D MNF animations yet?

xpost I didn't either til the Fins did it against the Cards a few years back. it made a diff in the game too!

never thought I'd say this about a team with Wilson and Metcalf but the Seattle offense looks legitimately terrible. its one of those Jon Bois Breaking Madden things like "what if an offense was terrible at everything except QB scrambles?"

also I love how whenever Washington gets a penalty it says "Holding - Football Team" at the bottom instead of "Holding - Washington"

boooo to these refs. I know this is technically rigging sports but on a 50/50 call like that you gotta do what allows for the cooler outcome. that was about to be the craziest Russell Wilson magic ever

yes refs hate fun

i'm just occasionally looking up at this game and it feels like there's been a turnover every other play? who is this Saints quarterback? he's so fucking bad!!

LMAO and just like that he throws a 70 yard touchdown. well just a little 3 yard pass that Deondre Harris somehow managed to evade the entire Cowboys defense with

Stupid Vikings down 20-6 at the half to the winless Lions. Maybe a combination of a loss this embarrassing and missing the playoffs will be the impetus needed to finally shitcan Zimmer and management, but I just don’t know any more.

Five in a row.

Fins up!

Awww, happy for the Lions

As soon as that drive started I thought “if the Vikings blitz even once this game is over”, lo and behold the Vikings blitzed zero times

puntfest

— New New York Times (@NYT_first_said) December 6, 2021

Vikings running a three man front while dropping everyone back into a zone has never worked but by all means do it

Pretty brutal loss for the Ravens, they got exactly what they wanted on that 2 point conversion but Lamar threw it too far out

he seems wildly inconsistent this year

as someone who has him on my fantasy team, he sure is

yea he seems to oscillate a lot between Johnny Manziel and the greatest offensive player in NFL history

Teddy Bridgewater is quite ungood

nothing more fun in football than the long interception return, where the defense gets to block and the offense gets to play defense. you got ball carriers holding the football with one hand as far away from their body as possible running backwards to find a hole while tacklers are pulling wrestling moves on the blockers drawing flags for "well you can't fucking do that"

otm

This Chiefs offense is like last year's going through Seth Brundle's teleportation machine.

Idk why Mahomes sucks at home this year

Bailed out

Xxpost remember the time Warren Sapp basically murdered Chad Clifton?

Jesus, Chiefs can't even get a TD on a drive that started in the red zone

when you don't have a rooting interest in either team those muffed punt turnovers feel kinda weird

in most years this would be a more entertaining game than what we're getting

hahahahahahahahhahahaha

my god it is raining shit on Bridgewater tonight

at one point Bridgewater got in position to level the INT returner and he went low and tried to drop the boom and just slid off of him, comic book style

I have the sound off I can't imagine what these announcers have been talking about

probably dinner plans, cos this game is ass

god Teddy should have like 5 picks by now

some QBs make the game look easy Bridgewater makes it look incredibly difficult

25-9 is a Scorigami there is actually a really good chance of it happening

Chiefs gonna be the least convincing 8-4 team out there

lol this wind game rules

pats three drives into the wind, zero passes

2pt conversion because the extra point kick was impossible, love it

I took the over cuz it was only 40, now that I’m seeing what that looks like I think it was a huge mistake but I might get enough fluky touchdowns to win

yeah this is great, reminds me of the 2008 bills pats wind game

Just rooting for some more adventures in punting

pats three drives into the wind, zero passes

― lag∞n, Monday, December 6, 2021 8:45 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

update one pass in the half

which required a crazy circus catch by jonnu smith

amazing catch def

ok I know it's tough to throw out there but running on 2nd and 17 and then 3rd and 13 seems not too smart

Gotta use the ricochet method to complete passes

what QB rating is it if you throw one (1) pass and complete it the whole game? manningcast says 116.7

depends on how many yards it was for I think

man that sucks on that FG. wind just completely took it

thats the wind game baby

there goes that QB rating

3 passes! ah ah ah

noooo bill why did you throw, this game was perfect

holy hell that Allen throw into the wind.

god I want this to end in a tie so bad, but that'd take a Bills TD and a New England FG.

plz i can't have division rivals win

time 4 an int

Bills TD & NE FG is the only chance of this bet hitting

they should allow 3 point conversions on days like this

allen almost made an amazing play there

yeah woulda been a play of the year had it been reeled in

really wish the NFL would adopt the rouge, it'd be a creative way to get points when kicking with the wind in this game

oh man bill is living the fucking dream tonight. wind game, three passes, winning score in the teens.

he does look unusually happy lol

just absolute fuckery, this is his favorite thing

not that you can really fault them for losing in weather conditions like this, but man, Bills go from "Super Bowl contender" to "may struggle to make playoffs" real quick this year.

I still think they'll make it obv but the AFC is clogged with teams with winning records atm

i think my favorite 'weather' game, despite the shit result, was the Miami-Pittsburgh rain-soaked affair in 2007, where the mud was so thick there was a punt that came down and instead of rolling, just went 'plop' right into the mud and didn't go anywhere

I think my favorite crazy one was the fog playoff game back in the 80s between the Bears and Eagles. You could not see sxxt. They were trying to call the game from the sideline reporter and you could not even see the middle of the field, let alone the other side from the sideline.

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

Big Ben is going to be lucky to be able to walk in 5 years, yikes he's getting killed

lol these are the only two teams who couldn’t beat the Lions

if you aren't watching, watch the Dalvin Cook highlights later, literally the worst run defense I've seen in my life, like... incredible

entire Steelers D must have him on their fantasy teams

truly baffling on both sides of the ball. it's like all the offensive linemen switched positions

seriously if you made a team switch their O & D lines for a game without practicing you'd get pretty much what the Steelers are doing now

they should do Ironman football like the old Arena Football League

what the fuck is going on out there. center nearly snaps the ball over Ben's head (for like the 4th time), then Ben throws it right at a wide open receiver's feet even though he was like 4 yards away

then they ran a draw on 3rd and 8 which only could've picked up a few yards at BEST, only to get bailed out by a penalty on the Vikings, making it 3rd and 3. Steelers cannot get the play off and Ben furiously calls time out, but not before the clock hits 0. so it's 3rd and 8 again, and Ben immediately gets sacked

what the fuck Ben

should be the name of the thread for the season tbh

wanna say his receivers are really bailing him out but okay, that touchdown throw was legit

what the fuck Kirk

up 16 with 6 minutes left how do you do THAT

When you were up 29-0 and it becomes a one possession game #Vikings #Steelers pic.twitter.com/5m0BqpSBjN

— Tim and Friends (@timandfriends) December 10, 2021

lol Ben gets another chance

100% rooting for him to do this

dying for a tie

this team is going to be the death of me