"Brandon Lloyd however has said he is not quite ready to play football; he did however recently act in a straight-to-DVD zombie movie." NFL 2013 Week 4!

San Francisco 49ers at St. Louis Rams
Arizona Cardinals at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Baltimore Ravens at Buffalo Bills
Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions
Cincinnati Bengals at Cleveland Browns
Indianapolis Colts at Jacksonville Jaguars
New York Giants at Kansas City Chiefs
Pittsburgh Steelers at Minnesota Vikings *
Seattle Seahawks at Houston Texans
New York Jets at Tennessee Titans
Dallas Cowboys at San Diego Chargers
Philadelphia Eagles at Denver Broncos
Washington http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG at Oakland Raiders
New England Patriots at Atlanta Falcons
Miami Dolphins at New Orleans Saints

d'oh hatcat!

let us renew our pleas for a miniaturized hatcat autoreplace, surely a kindly mod will look down upon us

http://i.imgur.com/Rfc6Xpn.png

hey there lil fellah

Last week 10-6 (season 32-16)

San Francisco 49ers at St. Louis Rams - 49ers, but both clubs have been really meh.
Arizona Cardinals at Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Bucs, but this is a pretty much even steven matchup of pretty bleh teams.
Baltimore Ravens at Buffalo Bills- Ravens but they have already looked both bad and great, which makes this a pretty good trap game for b-more.
Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions- I'm going Lions at home in a slight upset. These games are generally pretty close no matter how good the clubs are and I think Detroit is improved some. Chicago losing Henry Melton for the year is a big loss to that great DL depth they usually have. Melton is pretty solid player.
Cincinnati Bengals at Cleveland Browns - Bengals, but these games are generally always close or get really wacky. Cincy has to cut down on the mistakes if they want to take that next step.
Indianapolis Colts at Jacksonville Jaguars- Colts were really impressive last week, but J-ville often plays them tough. Indy to win, but look for a closer game than you might expect.
New York Giants at Kansas City Chiefs- Give me the Chiefs, but I am not really sold on them and the Giants seem to play better often on the road when things get off.
Pittsburgh Steelers at Minnesota Vikings- Man, I dont' like either of these clubs- I guess Vikings.
Seattle Seahawks at Houston Texans- Seahawks
New York Jets at Tennessee Titans- Titans
Dallas Cowboys at San Diego Chargers- Cowboys
Philadelphia Eagles at Denver Broncos- Broncos
Washington at Oakland Raiders- I guess Washington.
New England Patriots at Atlanta Falcons- Pats...both teams are kind of off, but the Pats are better on D.
Miami Dolphins at New Orleans Saints- Good game! Saints.

I think the Chiefs win too, but how many games will the Giants have to play before winning one? There's definitely something wrong there this year, but I've seen them turn things around many times. It's coming one of these weeks. I'd be surprised if it were in Arrowhead, though.

The Chiefs were too bad last year to just magically become an amazing team overnight thanks to one walrus and one dilfer, it's puzzling.

they had historically bad qb play last year tho. alex smith counts as a serious upgrade. jamaal charles is back from his injury, they've had a couple more players come through on an already loaded defense, esp. dontari poe.

all true and the upgrade from crennel to reid is huge, like really worth stating how much of an upgrade that was.

great nugget from twitter: the Giants averaged 2.4 inches per dropback in the first half vs Carolina

pretty sure my Fins won't beat the Saints on their own field, but I like the fact that it's not considered such a huge leap at this point.

I do feel like the Falcs will hold off the Patsies.

all else equal the pats match up well against the falcons right now, but that offense in the dome, who knows? that atl has no pash rush at all negates some of the advantage of the dome atmosphere, but even so. i think it might com down to turnovers, but you have the give falcons a slight edge, vegas prob has it right at -1.5

i've thought about this game a lot and if the pats play clean on offense they should win, atl is hella overrated.

If the Dolphins weren't so banged up on defense right now I'd put them at even odds with the Saints.
If the Falcons weren't so overrated I'd put them at even odds with the Patriots.

KC has some talent. They got one of the best LB pairs in football in Tamba Hali and Justin Houston. They got a good set of skills guys in Charles, Bowe and now Donnie Avery who came over from the Colts. KC has kind of a tradition of being good at special teams.

I don't think they are ready to challenge Denver or anything, but I can believe they might be in the mix as they are playing a 2-14 club schedule. They only got 5 games left with teams that made the playoffs last year (and one of those is Washington).

Sun September 29 New York Giants
5 Sun October 6 @ Tennessee Titans
6 Sun October 13 Oakland Raiders
7 Sun October 20 Houston Texans
8 Sun October 27 Cleveland Browns
9 Sun November 3 @ Buffalo Bills
10 Bye Week
11 Sun November 17 @ Denver Broncos
12 Sun November 24 San Diego Chargers
13 Sun December 1 Denver Broncos
14 Sun December 8 @ Washington http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG
15 Sun December 15 @ Oakland Raiders
16 Sun December 22 Indianapolis Colts
17 Sun December 29 @ San Diego Chargers

I say pretty possible KC hang's around for a bit.

Now the Jets at 2-1...eh, I don't see them as a 'contenda'.

Falcons offense will be fine, really needs to go into orbit as ATL's defense is where I think they got real problems.

I thought the large hatcat problem was fixed!

To embed the mini-hatcat one may use the url: http://i.imgur.com/Rfc6Xpn.png, like so:

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Yeah, that's been covered. Supposedly, large-hatcat was replaced by mini-hatcat as an autoreplace for the word r edsk in s earlier today, though.

Going back to the mod request thread, I see it's devolved into mayhem.

I think the 2011 49ers prove just how valuable replacing a terrible coach with a good one can be

but I can believe they might be in the mix as they are playing a 2-14 club schedule.

yeah playing a last place sched plus significant upgrades @ coach + qb (even tho i really dont trust alex smith too much) = nfl success

you can totally trust alex smith, all he is is reliable, which alone makes him an above average qb. he has progressed into a terrific qb for a team that has a way to win games without throwing for 300 yards every week. he will complete at least 60% of his passes for around 7 yards/attempt and won't turn the ball over. you are not winning a super bowl with him nowadays, but he'll get you to the playoffs if you can run it a little and have a defense.

it's true, you are not winning a sb w/ him

drudge siren for the premature birth of the mike glennon era

http://www.runofplay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/diplodocus.jpg

I would say Jacksonville is a sure bet to pick up Josh Freeman if he actually does get released by Tampa Bay, but his regression from his rookie year to the present has basically made him no better than Chad Henne. There's no upside.

I like Freeman. I hope some team with a good coaching staff grabs him as a backup, retrains him, and reboots his career.

When you say "you will not win a Super Bowl with him", you really mean they won't be a top-5 team with him right? Because QBs who "you will not win a Super Bowl with" seem to still win 2-3 times a decade.

not in the last 10 years tho, and i don't think that's a coincidence.

thing is they tend to stop saying it after that qb wins. as long as you do that you are magically never wrong.

wow. so wise. very wry. such observation.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-films-presents/0ap2000000250293/NFL-Films-Presents-Horsin-around-with-Eric-Berry

i apologize if my rye-ness brought bad vibes to i<3nfl. pls enjoy tonights nfc west contest between perpetual disappointments GORAMS and sudden disappointments 9ers. watch as sam bradford sails majestic 6 yard passes throughout the dome in front of at least 20,000 fans!

make that tomorrow night

not in the last 10 years tho, and i don't think that's a coincidence.

I dunno, look at Flacco and 07 Manning, I remember hearing "you'll never win a Super Bowl with him" in regards to both those guys.

Don't forget that Alex Smith was very close to the SB in 2011, before Kyle Williams fumbled it away

that atl has no pash rush at all negates some of the advantage of the dome atmosphere

^that's last year's vintage. Falcons have been putting decent heat on this season esp. with the addition of Umenyiora. This year's achilles heel is on the other side of the ball: O-line.

well you will know better than i, but i have seen and heard nothing good about atl getting after qbs this year, and isn't biermann out now too?

do you think the o-line is even worse than it has been in recent years? one thing i think that is underrated about matt ryan is his ability to get shit done without protection. i do think esp. how NE is looking up front this year that they will get plenty of pressure, but i don't know whether that will really tell.

Flacco and E. Manning are good contrasts to a steady eddie type like Alex Smith. they might fuck you over one game but they also might win you a couple others, and while that's not really what you want over 16, that is more like what you want at qb in single elimination when usually you have to pull something extra out against one or two top teams. imo.

also, even tho i like eli and flac a lot more than some folx around here, that anyone might even think to compare alex smith to them shows the guy has come a long way.

Don't forget that Alex Smith was very close to the SB in 2011, before Kyle Williams fumbled it away

It's true, but Alex also did not play well in that game.

also being in the super bowl is not winning it. theory i just made up: rex grossman was the death knell of dilfers in the current era.

i think it was kyle orton

Kyle Orton got them to the playoffs, Grossman got them to the SB (and promptly lost it).

wtf is wrong with my brain. I went back to look at the Bears' 2006 season and what I remember happening didn't happen. o_O

Oh okay, what happened actually happened. It just happened in 2005.

sorta think orton is more of a dilfer-manager type. plus trent dilfer said that orton was the most underrated qb in football in like 2010. game(manager) recongnize game (manager).

kind of funny how not that long ago, before the neo-QB revolution, game managers were all the rage in the league. hell, in 2000, only 17 teams even averaged over 300 yards/game.

just doing my pick em and there are loads of interesting contests this week, nearly every game.

Bmore at Buffalo - if the ravens lose this game, which is a real possibility, that seems like a big deal
Chicago at Detroit - divisional so anything can happen but great game and could find out a lot
Giants at Kansas - it is hard to believe NYG is so bad or that KCC is good but both could be easier after this
Pittsburgh at Minnesota - again, stillers are a hard team to write off however bad they look, but a loss here would put a bow on it
Dallas at San Diego - feel like both these teams are trying to be good, and a chargers win keeps them in that particular contest, whereas a dallas win does make them look good after 4
Philadelphia at Denver - any outcome where philly doesn't get beaten up makes this fascinating
New England at Atlanta - same as boys/bolts maybe?
Miami at New Orleans - i am totally skeptical about miami but if they win here ppl have to reallt take notice

why are there 15 games and just 2 teams with a bye?

I'd guess it has something to do with the London game. Wouldn't be surprised to see another week with a two-team bye for the second London game.

wait, 2nd london game?

dun dun DUH

Yeah, 49ers and Jaguars in October.

o yea the league wants the jags to stay over there or whatever. the london louie jaggers i can dig it

haha

In other Jags news: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/09/26/jaguars-giving-away-free-beer-with-ticket-purchase/

well you will know better than i, but i have seen and heard nothing good about atl getting after qbs this year, and isn't biermann out now too?

do you think the o-line is even worse than it has been in recent years? one thing i think that is underrated about matt ryan is his ability to get shit done without protection. i do think esp. how NE is looking up front this year that they will get plenty of pressure, but i don't know whether that will really tell.

― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, September 25, 2013 4:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They had a good pash rush vs. Miami, and a decent one in the first game against the Rams. The Oline surprisingly played well last year, after the debacle in the Meadowlands in the playoffs the year before. Part of that had to do with Sam Baker (left tackle)being in a contract year, so he had a career year last year. This year, they lost the starting right tackle in camp and replaced him with a human turnstile (Lamar Holmes) just signed a guy who got cut by the fucking buccaneers, Baker has reverted to pre-contract shit form, had their center retire and had the guy who replaced him (Peter Konz) play possibly the the worst game an offensive lineman has ever played in the NFL, and that includes any Chicago Bear between the years 2007-2012.

and biermann wasnt a pass rusher per se, but some sort of jack of all trades. he'd play deep middle third a la urlacher at times.

was gonna say, they sacked Tannehill five times - granted our o-line, TEs, and RBs were to blame for many of those, but still, they were winning the battle at the line pretty easily.

I misspoke above when i said "first game against the Rams". That was the second game.

this is brutal so far

not a super good football game

bradford throwing the ball at donte whitner who then dropped it into jared cook's hands is the signature play of this game so far

maybe switch to friday nights?

just schedule both teams coming off a bye

seems m/l doable

Sam Bradford is Matt Schaub pretty much

these reviews where the ball is moving slightly and the announcers are all creaming themselves like oh the balls moving see are so dumb thats a catch in the real full speed world they need to fix that shit

lol at that 4th down D

Sam Bradford is Matt Schaub pretty much

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, September 26, 2013 9:38 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

except schaub can challenge defenses downfield

Rams' run blocking is pretty much the worst I've ever seen

In 1991, I was a few years into a career as an agent when I was presented an interesting opportunity. I was negotiating a contract for client Chris Doleman with Vikings general manager/part-owner, Mike Lynn.

When we finished negotiating Doleman’s contract, Lynn lit up a cigarette (one of a dozen he smoked in our two-hour meeting), eyed me closely and asked: “Do you speak Barcelonan?”

I thought this was an interesting question. “Does that mean Spanish?”

“Yeah, Spanish.” (It turned out he was wrong; Catalan is spoken in Barcelona.)

“Yes, I speak Spanish.” I took it in high school; I could fake my way through.

“How would you like to be the general manager of the Barcelona Dragons?”

http://mmqb.si.com/2013/09/26/nfl-owners-want-franchise-in-london/

what the shit

71 yrd free kick fg attempt after a fair catch

free kicks are a fun time for everyone

do not think ive ever seen one

... before tonight

http://quirkyresearch.blogspot.com/2006/07/nfl-fair-catch-kick-attempts.html

already updated, that is dedication

god belichick must be so pissed harbaugh did this in a before him

Rams' run blocking is pretty much the worst I've ever seen

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, September 26, 2013 10:00 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark

the dolphins decision to let jake long walk doesn't look too bad

I always forget which one of Jake Long and Joe Thomas is the one who sucks and this game is really nailing it down for me.

frank gore is tired from running so many yards

jared cook is the worst blocking TE i can remember seeing

he looks sick as a WR

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/811357057.gif

the rams are so pathetic

yeah the last two games are really on some "has anything gotten better here at all? shit

really gotta wonder if fisher is gonna be on the hot seat if they win 5 or 6 games, if bradford is gonna be there long term etc

this shit is awful

how bad was that injury? I cant watch, they say he was bent backwards?

from the screaming it seemed p bad

I guess he walked off so even if its bad at least its not some Johnny Knox type of thing.

tj mcdonald broke his fibula tonight i think

Joe Staley ✔ @jstaley74

I'm good. And I scream like no dude should ever scream lol my bad.

lol k

Deion was GOING OFF on Brian Schottenheimer during the post-game show. And with cause, certainly. Why do teams keep hiring that fool?

i feel bad for sam bradford, as bad as you can feel for a guy on a billion dollar contract. he is obv no kurt warner but i feel like maybe he will pop up somewhere late in career for a deep playoff run like warner at az.

i was stunned when i learned that someone else had given schotty an o.c. job

i am sure tampa will bring him in to develop mike glennon

vikes are sitting ponder because a broken piece of rib is slowly making its way towards his heart

lol @ richard sherman talking abt trash talking receivers - "you just get in their head, you use words not in their vernacular. yeah i know you don't know that word, go google it later go google it later"

vikes are sitting ponder because a broken piece of rib is slowly making its way towards his heart

― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, September 27, 2013 9:01 AM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Didnt Ponder have some potentially life threatening injury last year too?

ha maybe, i remember joe webb played the playoff game against the packers and actually died

Deion was GOING OFF on Brian Schottenheimer during the post-game show. And with cause, certainly. Why do teams keep hiring that fool?

― Johnny Fever, Friday, September 27, 2013 2:51 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dion was bringing the real

also they gave kaepernick a bag of old football action figures of all the announcers and of harbaugh and then they made him give gore the falk bear and gore was so happy and smiled and squeezed it lol

i was stunned when i learned that someone else had given schotty an o.c. job

― call all destroyer, Friday, September 27, 2013 8:17 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

seriously sometimes NFL teams cab be so uncreative i.e. the panthers hiring MIKE SHULA

bad organizations man, just hopeless

Surprise! Ahmad Bradshaw is out of the game with week with an injury.

it's okay, richardson will have had 9 days to learn the playbook, and apparently no one else knows their pass blocking assignments either.

Seeing as how the Jaguars have the absolute worst run defense in the league, I don't see this as too big a problem for the Colts.

Has Bradshaw ever played 16 games in a single season?

I'm kind of curious to see what Matt Cassel does in Minnesota. He had some decent games in KC, but as that club fell apart he got fragile and ineffective. It happens every year or so though that some former starter gets a shot and puts together some good games. If the Vikings can have some success in passing game and open things up a bit, Petersen and that defense could still win some games. I could see them getting back to .500, as they have some talent.

well peterson and their defense have to come back from wherever they have disappeared to before they win any games for them.

so..

http://vimeo.com/75577835

gene simmons singing the national anthem in london

feel like "god save the queen" rhymes "queen" with "queen" a lot for what is like a 30 second song

really wish the NFL would quit this damn London experiment.

oh wow, I get to choose between Arizona/Tampa Bay or Minnesota/Pittsburgh?

nah, gonna clean my house instead

zounds! browns with a 94 yard scoring drive

bengals taking over the north, browns taking over the bengals

lolz at the browns trying an onside kick after the TD

awesome

slow start followed by a rash of big good lookin plays

stupid third down penalty lead to FG. also, Kosar busted for drunk driving last night a 2:30AM

seattle off their game so far

brian hoyer tho

Peterson is so insane

fucking cundiff, there must ten kickers out there the browns could use

oh no eli

yay eli

cutler knocking a few bills off his extension today

reggie bush!

electric

omg cundiff

MARCEL DAREUS

Browns special teams so far today: two missed FGs and a kick for like seven years. I am SO GLAD we got rid of Phil Dawson.

GO BILLS

:D

browns going ham, they really should've got more than 1 score outta that fist half

battle of Lake Erie coming up 'shoe!

FUMBLE, browns recover

battle of lake erie is on a thursday!

all of america will tune in

lol

wow so afc definitely better than nfc this year

ho seahawks gave up 20 points in the second quarter

browns going ham, they really should've got more than 1 score outta that fist half

― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, September 29, 2013 2:46 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's time. their D is dominating. c'mon jerks!

FUCK

sometimes i feel like i cause turnovers with my mind

probably though it is just easy to tell when a QB shouldn't have thrown that

http://i.imgur.com/2oqjeWy.png

looking at the nfl coverage map in non patriots games vermont tends to get the games new york gets instead of the games boston gets which is pretty irritating, i never wanted to watch the jets or ginat when i was in ny and i still cant escape them

id like to be watching that game in london not because its a good game just cause i like the spectacle

lol flacco imo

xxp that's fucked up imo, reommend football fap in boston

BIIIIIIILLLLLLS

LOL FLACCO FOREEEEEEEVER

bills!

super bowl champion baltimore ravens

friends of mine are watching the game in london

like, they flew to london for this game

lol @ steeler fans

good week to finally release greg jennings from my fantasy team

giants should be losing by more, cmon kansas

what's the deal with the giants, anyway? i haven't really been paying attention.

they suck

lost 65-0 last week in game where eli was sacked 35 times in the first half

yeah nyg offense = garbage

their citizenship was also revoked immediately afterward

i was trying to watch that game and gave up, now on ravens-bills

it's always funny how Eli's play has spiraled downwards immediately following Super Bowl wins both times. You'd think at this point, since he's displayed that he can be elite when he wants to, that he'd develop any sort of consistency, but....nah.

course it isn't even remotely all of his fault, but it's kind of funny to lol at Eli.

dallas clark plays for the ravens now

don't even know most of these bills

grown so old

welp

verizon with an ad for nfl on mobile just now
some poor guy, all he wants to do is sit around watching nfl but his wife made him leave the house and go apple picking because women are laaaaame

this Bucs Cardinals game is worse than watching two newbs play Madden. seriously, whether they are good or bad, there is never a more boring team to watch than the Bucs.

this browns game is killing me

lol Cutler

Browns will always be in every game cuz of that defense. is it still 10-6?

lololol @ flacco

yep. bengals with the ball

xpost

Jacksonville
PASSING Passing Comp Att Yds Pct Y/A Sack YdsL TD Int QBRat FumL
Blaine Gabbert 7 14 44 50.0 3.1 3 11 0 2 17.3 0

lol damn. against that shitty D, too.

Jaguars with 81 yards in the game. 2 first downs. With the 3rd quarter almost over.

lol and one of the first downs came on a penalty. geesh.

mccluster punt return, oh boy

holy fuck, Flacco's thrown four picks? damn.

BILLS IMO

ej to woods is looking like a real good connection for buffalo

reallly wish I could see the Seahawks game, looks like they're battling back

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

lol at Alex Smith being the leading rusher for the Chiefs today

sup with all these pigeons on the browns field

oh nm

12th MAN

re: pigeons

wtf dashon goldson

Trent Richardson really ain't done much in his first few games with the Colts, eh?

can't stop pacing

good luck downstairs neighbor

haha

do you do that thing where you shout motivational platitudes at the TV? (or is that just me)

damn Russell Wilson :(

i yell c'mon jerks a lot. also, jesus christ

TOUCHDOWN

AHHHHHHHHH

kc abt to be 4-0

giants 0-4

lol Schiano, yeah have your rookie QB throw the ball while inside your own 20, with a 7 point lead, with 3 minutes left.

that pick may send this borefest to OT

haha TIED. god I hope he loses, fucking hate Schiano

BUSTER SKRINE!!!!!!!!

ZOMG

It's Thursday FOR ALL THE MARBLES

Holy shit, the Browns are gonna win!!!

:). congrats!

whoa, Seahawks tied it?

that pitt/minnesota game looks surprisingly entertaining

*furiously pieces together Browns/Lions tickets*

lol

:). congrats!

― Neanderthal, Sunday, September 29, 2013 4:00 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

:D

last two games

giants: 7
the other team: 69

lol, 13 unanswered points, and we are 1:30 away from the Bucs snatching another defeat from the jaws of victory.

i think we are now officially cleared to say that the giants and steelers blow this year

Fun Vikings game
They almost blew it
Gotta think they stick with Cassel

thank goodness tampa's problems at qb are finally over

one of my old HS friends, the Steelers brings out the worst in her. funny watching her going from snotty confidence to acting nasty anytime anybody even criticizes the Steelers. "WE HAVE THE MOST SB RINGS OMFG"

how was cassel, he looked ok whenever redzone was on him?

xpost lol. the Bucs had this game well in hand, it was 10-0 late, and yet again, gave it away. 0-4. Enjoy it, Schiano, you mouthy douche.

gooooo Seahawks

classic buffalo shows up for a second

fucking bills

dumb P.I. there

dareus bossing shit

but marcel dareus is just all right with me

lol at that failed double screen. Schaub's lucky that didn't turn out worse.

another punt. hope this doesn't end in a tie.

goddamn Wilson is fast. any other QB, that would have been a sack.

HOLY CRAP ALONSO

wooooooooooooooooooooooow, what a stupid fucking penalty.

this game was kind of a boring shitshow except for the interceptions but i'm okay with it

Seahawks 4-0 due to moronic Houston bodyslam

burgundy is the least flattering color possible on mike shanahan

good day for former pats backup QBs huh

the man can't help his face

xp

Manning already with TD #13. geez

blocked punt -> td

raiders vs wash department of football is going to keep on like this for four quarters

seahawks comeback was a big deal, wilson took the game on his shoulders

lmao eagles

i hate seahawks and broncos #breaking

this eagles offense really is the zerg rush of nfl offenses

yeah they're fun to watch

frazier says ponder is still starter

I understand them wanting to stand by a high draft pick, but c'mon.

2013 Jaguars the worst team in the last decade? Bad teams are rarely as bad as their records indicate, but this year's Jags have no business taking Shahid Khan's money.

raiders vs wash department of football is going to keep on like this for four quarters

pick six washington

rooting for more crazy

raiders fake punt on fourth and inches and pick up like 30 yards

<3 <3 <3 this game

philly right in this game folks

"There is no football or baseball fan like zoey deshanell star of the new girl Sundays on fox"

"Probably watching at home right now"

shootout shaping up here in denver

kinda nice, get to see a shootout tonight in Denver, hopefully another one later on Breaking Bad

dez bryant is quite good at football

h8 penalties

how come the broncos don't ever commit penalties I think this game is rigged

corrupt ass horses

lol eagle shoving the ref

if I see this fukking Jim Harbaugh commercial one more damn time

I FORMATION I FORMATION

it's almost as bad as the one Peyton did several years ago where he wore the fake mustache for w/e reason

Jesus, that throw

man manning looks SO much healthier this year

he could barely throw 15 yards last season

i am surprised by this development

ban peyton manning

"not a lot of urgency here, by these oakland raiders"
(raiders run the two minute drill but don't really try that hard)

haha manning sacked, sucks

Manning just ain't been the same QB since 2 minutes ago.

he shd retire

lol at that basketball-esque Geno Smith fumble

heh for all of the talk of the AFC East being bad (and it kind of still is), everybody in the division is at least .500 and there are two 3-0 teams in it.

won't hold though.

http://www.togetherwemakefootball.com/contest.html

you guys i think we could win this

"after securing financing from investors including time's man of the year adam schefter, the first Flying Dawkins bar is scheduled to open next season.. following a brief stay in chicago, working as a powerpoint coordination specialist for the bears' secondary, i returned to washington to call plays for the offense during the jim zorn era, in addition to freelance design work for several clubs including the development and promotion of the alternate "PATCAT" logo for new england.."

dear nfl this is my football story:

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

:-O

excitement at TD catch by pierre garçon quickly deflated by realization that now chris berman has a reason to pronounce this name on sportscenter

wish i could see the http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG tho

BEST OF LUCK CHIP KELLY. lolz at Pat Shurmur as OC.

::gets cocky::

i watched the early games in a bar playing every game and there was one table of ravens fans. one of them was literally the loudest person ever and started screaming like a maniac for every ravens play from the third quarter on. by the end of the game the entire bar was trolling her and flipping out at every good bills play.

haha that's awesome. I mean it's one thing if it's for like a TD or something but chill the fuck out otherwise.

there, but for the grace of god, go I

daria otm

so Manning is currently on pace to throw 64 touchdown passes on the year.

let's go washington department of football

this is a fun game, lots of turnovers

so i was listening to this talk by pema chödrön yesterday that i got from the library on CD and during the q&a time with the audience, after a couple of more expected type of questions, there's quiet for a moment and this guy asks "what do you think about the oakland raiders?"

i put it on pause for like ten minutes thinking how hilarious it would be if pema chödrön was a raider fan

she responds, "i have no shenpa for the raiders"

lmao

prob a 9ers fan

"L.A. Raiders or no Raiders for me"

she misses Justin Fargas as we all do

Todd Marinovich

I have def accidentally said la raiders w/in the last few years

never been to Cali, had no idea just how far away those two cities are (5 hours, innit?)

there abouts

someone from the bay was trying to tell me Santa Barbara was the beginning of Northern California would anyone care to comment

omg i love rodney harrison

what this snf theme song needs is all the gronkowski brothers dancing around on stage

don't let gronk dance, injury risk

Teams with Trindon Holliday on their roster are 20-0 in the regular season.

pridict falcons victory, they need it, also pats suck

falcons field is so gross

viiiiiiince. sit him out of the game, it's not worth it.

'wilfork is down' cut to shot of him standing there

was he already injured or something

no

damn

why did they let welker go

every play in football is an injury

wilfork and solder. cool. don't need either of those guys

bartu on day release from kid n play

brady is the best qb sneaker in history no

how do you even get an illegal shift penalty on a qb sneak?

wondering

solder is ok, his shoe came off

greg bedard (now at mmqb) has been pointing out since week 1 that wilfork is not 100%, nothing on injury reports though

ugh he got carted off apparently
nooooooo vince

return questionable. pats have no depth at DT

i love throwing a lateral to tony g when you need 20 yards

vince seemed not that injured despite the cart

he was standing casually thru the pain tho

wtf!

blocked into him

lol u must be kidding, totally deliberate

atlanta 34-0 in the 1st quarter thru 4 games

that'll do pig

matthew safe hands mulligan

howd that get through wow

D柵

trueblood is a good last name

baker maybe wasn't ready to return at all tonight

great play call falx

yeah baby. horrible throw.

4th and short that close is always worth it tho. nasty place for other team to start with the ball.

omfg lady that's the wrong fuel

tony gonzalez tho

suggested halftime adjustment for NE: stop tony gonzalez

falcons field is so gross

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, September 29, 2013 8:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Actually it's not. Ever been there?

lol wtf difference would that make??

i bet he isn't even a groundskeeper

Because maybe you shouldn't cast judgment in a place you've never been? It's actually a great fucking stadium

"Wtf difference does it make to criticize something as gross that you've never experienced"

Good call

so you have been on the field?

Yep. You??

fight fight fight

no but then i'm not making any claims to know about the quality of football fields, i didn't realize this was an area of your expertise

i'm starting to think there's a lot we don't know about bill magill

jesus wtf was that

oh!! ffs

There a lot you don't know. And fuck the patriots.

Hopefully that guy leaves in a bag

let's hope so

only 2nd time pats have got any kind of pressure on ryan, mix of quick release and often disappointing pressure

ok, pats third possession of the half. will the shitty holding decision this time be a phantom call on the offense like the first drive or a missed call on the defense like the second? tune in and find out

maponga

if he keeps making plays like that he'll soon be the best zimbabwean in the nfl

that boy KT

FUCK YEAH

Hakeem dent sucks

i love that that score came off atlanta finally being called on one of their dirty plays

That's pretty fucking rich if you're rooting for the patriots. Pretty tainted "dynasty"

oh "this" debate, awesome.

damn KT is hot is he can stop the drops

if

GO PATS GO

Cool story, Collinsworth. Except you forgot about Aaron Hernandez.

should've been throwing to that guy the whole time. unbelievable.

FUCK

seriously amazing how uncoordinated professional athletes can be sometimes

refs have brutalized NE today

ah

um

uncoordinated professional athletes

collinsworth OTM that this has happened once before this year

Patriots got straight up shafted on that spot smh

HIOLY

hahahaha THIS GAME what the hell

So was the "Mr. Wendell" clip before a commercial break a reference to the Pats' center?

pats totally got screwed on that spot but hey

ryan and jones, both perfect there

holy shit falcs

throwing on talib might not be working matty

oh man

talib <3

they didn't get over the hump but give a lot of credit to the refs for doing what they could for the falcons

lol

well, that was pretty comfortable in the end

It's always interesting to watch every generations great college quarterbacks become humbled by the NFL game and become immortalized with the "man, he was great when he was in college, but he sucked in the nfl". Welcome to the club, Sam Bradford!

man what happened at the end of that game jesus

http://www.click2houston.com/image/view/-/22186032/highRes/1/-/maxh/360/maxw/640/-/diad8nz/-/New-Document.jpg

nice to get a win over the texans of the nfc

"The Broncos are now averaging 44.8 points per game, which is more than the Buccaneers or Jaguars have scored all season."

lol. yeah Peyton has already thrown for more TDs than some starters will all year.

Who beats Denver at this point? I know it's still early in the season, but I haven't seen any other team that could even keep it close.

Any team once the playoffs start.

lol

it's not impossible that they lose one of the back to back games at gillette and arrowhead. doesn't seem all that likely tho, does it? i guess if they are 14-0 and someone other than manning starts in houston. or even in oakland, who knows what brock osweiler is capable of

once it gets cold peyton's neck is gonna stiffen up and they'll lose their first playoff game again

apparently the jags/broncos line 2 wks from now is at 28 points.

ha wow

heroic if ultimately futile work http://deadspin.com/eagles-respond-to-peyton-manning-audible-by-yelling-pa-1428548149

papa john btw is clearly a sociopath

they have to rest peyton after they get 2 scores clear in that game, i.e. about 7 minutes in. nothing would haunt a team more than losing their record setting maybe best ever qb in what looks like his best season of football to a freak injury in a blow out against the 2013 jax jags

papa john btw is clearly a sociopath

― lag∞n, Monday, September 30, 2013 3:39 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

100%

that was ridiculous

that's a nice drive and an important score. beautiful shifty run by marcus thigpen on 3rd and 9 made it. miami not going away.

ugly play fins

Tannehills solid but you cant force a fuckin pass like that jesus

it is hard on those quick timing throws, the qb is just supposed to get the ball out. the receiver sure didn't help and probably the playcall could've been better. tannehill does seem to be the kind of guy who tries to make things happen tho, so there will be some wild throws. still, i think you'd rather have that mentality and the promise of developing better instincts for those situations than a 'safe' qb who is scared to make a play, e.g. sam bradford

Yea i mean i got faith in dude just frustrated!

yeah i like him. miami is better all over than i expected. i was looking at the schedules and i think pats might have to beat them home and away to win the division. i think miami can maybe should win the rest of their fixtures on the road. i am starting to believe - 11 wins is realistic. this and the 4 game stretch after will be key - if they have a winning record at half way they will definitely hit 10+ wins.

saints are a good team and seem to have miami totally figured out since the half

New Orleans on offense is just some crazy CFL/Techmo bowl passing game. Why run?

Why can't the Saints play the Broncos next week? It's just like when the Greatest Show on Turf was going on, they didn't play the Colts which was the beginning of the Manning passing run. That was a game I would have like to have seen, as it would have been a pinball shootout.

that would be a fun superbowl. manning revenge subplot.

altho, just to be clear, fuck denver

christ, lol miami

Yikes, da Bears have the Saints next week. Bears got to be smart and be able to control the clock in that one. Cutler and others can't make mistakes like they did in Detroit.

Oh yeah, they are also talking that Vince Wilfork is out for the year for the Pats. Last time he got hurt, their defense had problems.

congrats Saints, didn't expect us to win this one, better team clearly won, etc etc

Awesome subplot to this game was WR Mike Wallace and CB Keenan Lewis playing against each other for the first time since they were kids. Best friends growing up. Lewis talked Wallace into trying out for their HS team. Got drafted by Pittsburgh together and even roomed together. Both got their FA contracts elsewhere this year but still kept in close contact. Trash talked each other all week. Traded jerseys after the game.

still laughing at the "Papa John's!" thing

If the line is anywhere close to 28 I'm taking the Jags. I dont know what kind of coach Fox is but I don't feel he's going to have the Broncos playing full tilt and Peyton will likely get pulled at some point. Plus 28 is just such a huge line - the underdogs typically have done well vs. such massive speads haven't they?