the nathan peterman 2018 regular season nfl thread

yeah i think for too long people were making the mistake of seeing the Packers' success as a result of a Rodgers/McCarthy partnership as opposed to a guy who is in the conversation for greatest QB of all-time dragging a coach along with him. I think there was a wish that this would be a Belichick/Brady situation, and it could have been i think, there hasn't been a single dominant NFC team for the past decade but the Packers were the closest.

it's hilarious our local sports talk was reading comments from ppl in WI that think Rodgers is "uncoachable" and needs to be benched and all this shit too funny

It's like...even if you didn't value Rodgers as much as most, I think you have to put him in the top 10 QBs of all time and I don't think McCarthy is on anyone's top 10 coaches, or top 20, 50, 100 list

Yeah I'm looking at their Super Bowl season again and remembering how many games they either blew or came close to blowing thanks to McCarthy's singular obsession with "establishing the run", his inability to design a single reliable short-yardage play, and his late-game strategy of "run-run-pass-punt". they got Vick's Eagles in the WC game and absolutely dominated them through three quarters, but just completely shut down their offense in the 4th and nearly let them come back and tie it. 4 years later at Seattle they did the same thing and it cost them a trip to the Super Bowl.

one thing I've definitely noticed is how he added trick plays and fakes into his arsenal around 2012 but seems to pick the absolute worst times to deploy them. like running that fake punt vs. Miami, sure it caught them off guard and it wound up working but they were at a point in the game where Miami getting a cheap turnover was literally their only hope. see also his 4th-and-1 playcalling where he just rams it up the middle with the RB starting 3 years behind the line of scrimmage. you see that formation and you immediately know it isn't gonna work, and you just know that McCarthy is gonna throw his hands up and say, "see! I told ya going for it on 4th was dumb!"

I mean, all you really need to look at is McCarthy's record without Rodgers. Outside of a few magical Matt Flynn games they basically transform into a league-worst offense. obviously losing a great QB is gonna be tough but coaches like Belichick and Reid have managed pretty respectable records when their guys went down.

Reid managed a 53-27 record w/Alex Smith behind center and his success in Philly may be more impressive if you consider McNabb to have been a great but deeply inconsistent QB.

sports fans are great, i assume every fanbase has their own example of "run the bum out of town!" chatter when an all-time great player has some manufactured flaw. probably last season Saints fans were yelling that Drew Brees was holding them back.

it made some sense when Rodgers was backing up Favre and was clearly going to be at least decent...makes a lot less sense now that our backup is the only starter boneheaded enough to lose to Brett Hundley

kareem hunt ...

DAL/NO was pretty wild

was weird to see so many people say "this could be one of those weird and dumb upset games" and then have it actually happen

Jesus Christ Hunt needs to be cut from the team before sundown

apparenlty this happened in February. i bet he doesnt even get a one game suspension.

xxp i feel like dallas always beats teams they shouldn't have (see iirc KC game last year too) esp like the week after Philly loses to them

the bits of DAL/NO i saw were terrible. upsets are cool, but bad officiating, awful playing, idiotic penalties and multiple concussions are not

it was a horrible game to watch for sure

Hunt will get a four game suspension and be back really very contrite and just in time for the playoffs

NFL already knew about this months ago and didn't suspend him.

Oh wow ok chiefs

Chiefs statement about releasing RB Kareem Hunt: pic.twitter.com/kNVnM00mub

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 1, 2018

now release tyreek hill!

Guys its not like he knelt for the anthem

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/25420168/kareem-hunt-kansas-city-chiefs-placed-commissioner-exempt-list?platform=amp

Mike McCarthy gotta go. Rodgers should just stay home if McCarthy is still head coach for the next game.

Rodgers did not play especially well today

but yeah Mike is absolutely done

Merry Christmas to me

Wow

Yeah didn't expect a mid season firing

as a bears fan I’ll miss ol Mike

a loss to the 2018 cardinals will do that to you

Kaepernicks collusion case looking pretty damn good

Mark Sanchez will always be hilarious

I'll never call Tannehill elite but watching him throw a beautiful dime despite barely being able to plant was the best middle finger to fairweather Miami fans

pat mahomes man, unreal

looooooooooooooooooooooooool

OMG MIAMIIIIII

crying rn that was amazing

i mean that play NEVER works wtf

it was beautifully done

why did they put gronk back there? he's not as fast as he used to be!!

Lol yep not only is that the first time I’ve ever seen that play work it’s the first time I’ve seen it gain more than -5 yards

Music City Miracle?

Gronk at safety, 4 points dropped by Gostkowski, the points left at the end of the first half...Miami inspires their opponents to play like them.

gronk tryna make that game saving tackle & failing was a beautiful topper to that, all time great sequence

pats are cursed in miami for real

i feel like i've been watching joe buck and troy aikman call a ridiculous cowboys eagles game every single week of the football season for like six years

seems more like 20 years

generally would agree but, even while having no betting/rooting interest, this game has been p good esp the 2d half

every qb is in the rex grossman fan club ffs

last 20 minutes of this eagles-cowboys game has been p sick

cowboys had the ball for over 45 minutes— that can’t happen too often