the nathan peterman 2018 regular season nfl thread

the number of chuckle-y, eyerolling pieces i've seen today that are like "lol no one knows what a catch is, the officiating is terrible, both of these teams sucked, yay football is back!" seems even higher than usual. does this have analogues in other sports? i'm struggling to think of any.

an entire subgenre of baseball writing is essentially this, although the lol/yay stuff comes from the kornheiser/stephen a. types rather than the strict baseball ppl.

the complaints are generally that strikeouts and home runs are way up (and thus there are fewer balls in play) and that half the league isn't really trying to win. neither is wrong

Happy w my Fins so far but fuck this lightning delay

thread title delivering

what is happening in cleveland

ok browns gonna brown nvm

Lol at that ending

Also my game has had 2.5 hours of lightning delays

Browns down 21-7 with 7 minutes left in the 4th quarter, Pitt has the ball 1st and 10. Browns win! tie!

haha jesus god my eyes

Mahomes is killing the Chargers.

lolz from the Deadspin comments:

The Browns were +5 in takeaways today. Since the Browns returned to the NFL, teams with a turnover margin of +5 or better in a game are 132-4-1. The Browns are responsible for two of those losses and the tie.

pretty sure EVERY SINGLE PLAY in the third quarter of this washington football team game had a penalty flag on it

🧐

— Le'Veon Bell (@LeVeonBell) September 9, 2018

My Fins game just entered the 4th.

It started at 1:02

lol @ dallas

Tannehill with the throw of his career

The Fins Titans game was 10-3 like 5 minutes ago.

24-17 now. Two kick return TDs

Lol @ Blaine Gabbert. He thinks he's people

man I’m loving the Peterman Era so much already

when he retires in 3 weeks he’s going to own a legendary stat line

Jesus Christ the Packers look awful

If Rodgers can’t come back they might get shut out

oh no rodgers

this is so depressing

If there was a player that deserved it less

football doc on the twitters says doesn't look like a major injury by video. seemed like 2017 season kicked off with about 4 or 5 franchise players gone for the year.

Lol and their backup gets strip sacked in the red zone

Don’t think it’s possible for this to go any worse for Green Bay

wtf i looked up and mack has another turnover?? gooood grief

(it got worse)

Lol I knew as soon as I posted that

Go Brew Crew

He's back!

Do they risk putting him out there?

This game would be interesting if Kizer hadn’t thrown what will inevitably go down as the dumbest pick six of the year

At least Garo Yepremian was a kicker

Don’t hate on the pajama drip💧 pic.twitter.com/UtgRMFYnOx

— Carolina Panthers (@Panthers) September 9, 2018

cam newton <3<3<3

Damn that throw

lol aaron just back legging a 50 yard bomb right on point nbd

Lol Matt Nagy. I saw him play Arena League matches

Well

Hmmm

The fuck ...shambolic closing on that last run

Here we go boys

legendary

Lol

If only McCarthy hadn’t burned those timeouts

hahhaa wow

https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7TKFZa9JRN1Fb40o/giphy.gif

What a boneheaded penalty

Oh my fucking god Clay

That was incredible

Btw i have both A Rodg and Davante Adams on my fantasy team lol

Holy shit Aaron Godgers

Marvin Lewis is a decent coach, the guy seems to have a knack for finding and developing talent. AFC South is pretty brutal conference and having to get over both the Steelers and Ravens both is a bigger task than most divisions in football. They won the division a couple of times going like 10-6 with the Ravens and Steelers going like 9-7... A couple of the playoff losses were totally fluky as they lost Palmer in the first series of the first playoff game and his knee was always a bit bonky after that play. His best team lost Dalton down the stretch run and had that insane loss to the Steelers with a backup QB a couple years ago.

Yeah there’s definitely an element of luck to that, much as there was when McCarthy was like 0-6 in OT games (several of which were in the playoffs). He’s probably the best guy on the market, right?

marvin lewis may have been as successful as was possible for a team controlled by mike brown, but what talent did he find or develop? not sure i'm willing to credit him with turning the undrafted burfict into a . . . notable player

the ravens and steelers were ~good~ during lewis' tenure, but neither was by any means the patriots, and god knows the browns were the browns

Steelers made the playoffs 10 times since 05, went to 3 Superbowls and won 2.
Ravens made the playoffs 9 times since '05 and won a Superbowl.

That's pretty good. Outside the Pats, I think the only division that has won 3 SB would be NFC East (Giants x2, Eagles last year)... NFC South has had Saints, Falcons and Panthers be in the playoffs with some regularity.

Bengals have had a good run of drafting on defense. Cincy was able to keep a good part of that core together for a while too. Some of these guys have had really long careers...

Geno Atkins
Carlos Dunlap
Domata Peko
Frostee Rucker
Rey Maualuga
Leon Hall
Jonathan Joseph

Lewis isn't quite Marty Schottenheimer, but he has had middling success.

well, the steelers made the playoffs that many times because they went 26-8 against his bengals

anyway, worlds will collide when the steelers hire him to run their defense next year

what a good team name tho

bengals

only because you can easily change it to "Bungles"

it's no 'pukers'

so you’re saying marvin lewis is the harold baines of NFL coaches

xxxp

Interesting stat: the six highest-paid QBs - Rodgers, Ryan, Cousins, Stafford, Garrappolo (lol), and Carr (double lol) - all missed the playoffs this year. Goff, Trubisky, Mahomes, Dak, Foles, and Lamar Jackson are all in. Maybe the "QB is everything" era is over.