“He is not going to get any better…It’s time to move in a different direction.” NFL week 14 thread (2014/5)

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

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Jeff McLane @Jeff_McLane · 15m 15 minutes ago
Chip Kelly again on why he wasn't interested in the Florida job: "I don't think our pro offense would work at the college level."

whos the title quote abt, roger goodell?

rg3?

rodney harrison on eli but the real answer is D) All of the above

Actually that quote works for like 75% of all starting QBs.

I would've bet good money on that being about RG3

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24865895/report-jay-gruden-is-done-with-robert-griffin-iii

This is pretty much Jay Gruden saying, "It's either him or me, which way you want to go?" I don't think it is the old school stance to play this out in the media by a head coach, but it might be the new school way especially working with a goofy owner like Snyder.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24862725/mike-ditka-im-embarrassed-for-rams-players-more-than-anything-
fuck ditka, yay fisher

can someone take mike ditka out back and put him to sleep?

Clowney to IR. Final 2014 stats: Four games, seven tackles, zero sacks.

http://lockyourscreen.com/sad-polar-bear.jpg

based on how these respective teams looked on tgiving imo this was a bet your house on it level lock

wait was there just a video game ad w/ kevin hart rapping abt xmas

london fletcher going off on washington def coordinator jim haslett

clueless as a defensive coordinator
so bad that he would've made the 85 bears Into a mediocre defense
Jay Gruden better get him out the door, because he's probably backstabbing Jay like he did everybody else

"Mike Shanahan recognized early that this guy does not know what he's doing."

wow car/no fight

that was pretty hilarious, much like new orleans' play to that point

luck looks like he is getting murdered today

bless you london fletcher for saying what most ppl hvae thought for years.

nice to see the jets get a little bit of hope to spice up what otherwise would have been just another routine defeat

Wow what a play by Jarius Wright!

poor old cleveland

yeah. sad for brian hoyer

Browns offense really let down the D. Cleveland should have won by 10+. Indy took a beating and kept trying to move forward though, which is somewhat admirable. Lots of dropped balls by Colt recievers. Luck got hit quite a few times. That one where he was running for the first down near the end of the game where he was getting tackled and Jim Leonard hit him up high (legal), was nasty. Barkevious Mingo is one of the truly great NFL names and he got a good shot on Luck, but in that play Luck was pretty impressive as Mingo had to hit him a couple times to get him down. Joe Hayden and the other DB #22 made a ton of big plays today. Browns defense the past couple of years has been ready for prime time, but again their offense is just not that good at all.

Browns/Colts was one of the more entertaining games I have seen this year.

Happy for Seahawks punter

lmao http://deadspin.com/jeff-fisher-taunts-skins-with-rg3-trade-haul-before-gam-1668003792

A+

Eagles unis are shit

They look like Seattle's uni's. Nice job taking a classic uni and turning it into garbage.

please raiders please beat the niners

can barely remember seeing philly with the ball in this game

fewest yards ever for a chip kelly offense. seems like seattle has really woken up now after snoozing thru the early part of the season

all of the afc is either within 1 win of the playoffs (7+ wins) or on 2 wins

Derek Carr plz pan out

wow stuckey is fast

nate solder is getting blown up on every single play

rip punter

a punter dies

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/rams-send-players-acquired-in-rg3-trade-out-for-pregame-coin-toss-223532066.html

I got to wonder if Jeff Fisher has something against Washington. That's pretty cold blooded, but very funny.

fisher just oesn't give a fuck, he called a fake extra point today (it made sense to go for two but still)

bolts might as well play 4 downs here on out

brady not having a good day at all

san diego is not good enough at pass rush to justify this

Looking at standings and schedules, I got to think the maligned Carolina Panthers might have a dark horse shot of making the playoffs. Their last three games are Tampa, Cleveland and Atlanta. I think if they win out, they will win that fugly division and looking at that schedule, I think it possible.

that's a clean hit

Absurd call

WTF

terrible

these calls need to be reviewable

yeah
this is such bullshit

Brutal hit but legal

Defenseless receiver hits are such an nfl fig leaf

tuuuurible call

still pissed

And heres the payback call, right on time

thanks rivers that helps

this kid ayers

Pats D and special teams doing amazing work. Too bad about their offense....

snuck a 1st down into the 3rd quarter, good stuff guys

chargers defense is comically aggressive but pats line hasn't been good enough to take advantage.

49ers are giving Skins a run for worst organization in the NFL. Kaepernick is a poor mans RG3

is collinsworth continually calling edelman "the punt returner" some kind of pejorative or what

haha i was wondering the same, it is some kind of wr snobbery thing?? it is bizarre.

you basically called that score vs aggressive D play

niners will get better when snyder trades them a first rounder for harbaugh

11 yards has never seemed so far

xxp yeah you can't keep playing with 10 guys within a couple yards of the line of scrimmage, its just not going to work.

fair play to novak, took a couple kicks to get his leg in but he's punting like a champ since

yeah he's been fine, feel like eventually one guy will do both jobs.

on the flipside, the bills are carrying a kickoff specialist this year which has bought them an impressive 13th ranking in touchback percentage.

wow Kaepernick handled his press conference like a 10-year old who's been grounded for a week

haha kaepernick's conference was too hilarious, what a herb

also maybe wait until you're off the podium to put your headphones around your neck

[takes notes]

One thing I learned from the playoff machine (http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/machine) is that the Chargers can still get the #1 seed if literally everything goes their way.

the rest of your games are kind of awkward, even tho chargers are clearly better than niners and chiefs at this point. beat the broncos at home next week and anything can happen tho. most likely you get 2 wins and hope cincy drop two out of @cle vs.den @pit which is not hard to see happening for a soft wildcard against the afc north winner rather than 6th seed vs indy which i don't think goes well.

I don't know if the Chargers are clearly better than either of those teams but I like your optimism.

both those teams lost to the raiders recently which i think is a pretty sound yardstick

chargers D was pretty magnificent yesterday iirc

chargers didn't exactly shred the raiders theyselves

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/12/08/eric-berry-diagnosed-with-hodgkin-lymphoma/

This seems to be largely curable, but still.

He's in the right place. Great hospital. Lots of athletes have come back from this, Mario Lemieux jumps out immediately.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4YDXs1IgAAgaHZ.jpg

<3

Cox has to be irate/scared for his job with this d-line performance

I'm going to falcons steelers next week. With this performance it might be 60% steeler fans. Ugh

The Pack is just a step ahead of everyone. Aaron Rodgers just does not make bad throws and the guy can stretch out plays so long, it's just efficiency at the position at another level. NE is the next closest and they are not far away. I think the big thing with 3 weeks to go is those two staying healthy.

Rodgers makes it look pretty effortless. Then again with 10 seconds to throw I might even be able to find an open guy. But the guy is a great fucking qb

these rodgers throws could make a grown man cry

hes the best

good thing Rodgers is freakin' amazing, because their whole defensive strategy of going man-to-man on Julio Jones all game (if they were even covering him at all) was totally not working

Jones has had 21 catches for 458 yards. William Gay has some toast in his future.

over past two games i should have said

guys cam newton was just in what seems like a bad car accident in charlotte

https://twitter.com/DianneG/status/542376150954414080/photo/1

though he seems to be ok, as far as "being alive"-wise. football-wise to tbd.

car flipped four times. damn

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/12/09/cam-newton-has-two-transverse-process-fractures-in-his-back/

Same injury Romo had earlier in the season.