NFL 2015 / WEEK 9: Sunday Night's game is Philadelphia and Dallas...what else is on?

Cleveland at Cincinnati

Green Bay at Carolina
Washington at New England
Tennessee at New Orleans
Miami at Buffalo
St. Louis at Minnesota
Jacksonville at New York Jets
Oakland at Pittsburgh
New York Giants at Tampa Bay
Atlanta at San Francisco
Denver at Indianapolis

Philadelphia at Dallas

Chicago at San Diego

Games to give a damn about:
Green Bay at Carolina
Tennessee at New Orleans (curious to see if Saints are getting it going and how Titans respond to a new temp head coach)
Miami at Buffalo (late in the game enough now that this could be a turning point for both team's season)
St. Louis at Minnesota (two surprising contenders with killer running games)
Denver at Indianapolis (will Luck die?)

otherwise, pretty weak week imo

Carolina vs GB gonna be a big one, that would be a huge home win for Carolina, meanwhile GB needs to rebound and risks being tied with Minnesota for the division (though Minnesota's second half schedule is pretty brutal)

Manziel starting for the Browns on Thursday!

http://a2.fssta.com/content/dam/fsdigital/fscom/Buzzer/Images/2015/06/16/johnny-manziel.vadapt.620.high.90.jpg

yeah i wish gb vs car wasn't on against the NE game, which hopefully will be v dull

oak vs pitt is an interesting game, a potential playoff playoff

stl vs minn should be a fairly straightforward win for the rams, vikes will find it hard to score and won't be able to stop stl on the ground

yeah Stl vs Minn should be interesting. Rams strike me as a potential playoff team and the Vikings still feel a bit unproven - good record but they've had the easiest schedule in the league thus far.

looking at Pro Football Reference - AFC South has the 3 worst teams in the league while the Colts are tied for 8th worst...could this be the worst division of all time? even the terrible NFC West that produced the Saint-beating 7-9 Hasselhawks wasn't this bad.

imagine being in a position where whether you keep or lose your job is going to be determined by how blaine gabbert plays qb. p terrifying.

cbs has decided not to air the game tonight?? it's only going to be on nfl network now

yeah that was the plan all along, air the first half nationally and then do the rest as usual

I have the NFL network but this is kinda bullshit

apparently thursday games will air on national network tv in their local regions, but that doesn't help most of the country

yeah Stl vs Minn should be interesting. Rams strike me as a potential playoff team and the Vikings still feel a bit unproven - good record but they've had the easiest schedule in the league thus far.

looking at Pro Football Reference - AFC South has the 3 worst teams in the league while the Colts are tied for 8th worst...could this be the worst division of all time? even the terrible NFC West that produced the Saint-beating 7-9 Hasselhawks wasn't this bad.
--frogbs

last year's NFC south was similarly horrendous but this could be worse

Gil Brandt
‏@Gil_Brandt
Last coach to get another NFL HC job after leaving #Lions was Buddy Parker in 1957. 16 coaches have come, gone since then w/out resurfacing

^ damning

I predict a Browns W tonight! It's Thursday Night Football, so anything can happen.

Wayne Fontes probably should have been given another shot by someone.

last year's NFC south was similarly horrendous but this could be worse

I don't know why this is but the "really terrible division" seems to be a recently new thing - NFC West in 2010, the NFC North in 2013 (though Rodgers was out for half that season), NFC South in 2014 and now the AFC South. I didn't realize how bad last yaer's NFC South really was b/c only the Buccos were really out-and-out bad, but all those teams feel like bottom third, maybe the Saints were league average but even they had huge holes. Can't think of any entire divisions that bad before then, I've gone back to 1990 on PFR and the only one that stands out is maaaaybe the 2008 AFC West, though those 8-8 Chargers were better than their record (the 8-8 Broncos sure weren't). Only a couple of division winners throughout the entire 90's had less than 10 wins. Weird.

On the plus side, this may be the year that finally convinces the NFL to re-do the playoffs. If the Colts get a home playoff game at 6-10 while the 10-6 Raiders have to sit out...

So is Tyrod Taylor pretty similar to Vick in QB style? I only go on that that he played at VT, haven't seen him play much for the Bills.

He's not like rookie Vick. He's more like post-prison Philly Vick.

he's nowhere near as athletic as young vick, or even middle-period vick.

here we go!

Shorter Charlie Frye has to bring the Browns back.

Browns should just go no-huddle every play from here on out.

https://vine.co/v/eLXBrF3aa67

damn manziel got bounce

welp, nice job over pursuing Browns defense. every game is the same.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-andrew-luck-book-club-1446675595

so my wife had to go to canton ohio for work the other day, her work thing wrapped up early so she went to the football hof and randomly got to install this todd gurley exhibit with her coworker http://www.profootballhof.com/todd-gurleys-record-artifacts-on-display-in-hall-of-fame/

Luck, a member of the same 2012 draft class, suggested (Ballard) read “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand, the story of a prisoner of war.

week 10 thread title imo

lol cad that's awesome

http://deadspin.com/this-is-why-nfl-star-greg-hardy-was-arrested-for-assaul-1739117634

trigger warning - graphic descriptions of domestic violence + abuse

good lord, if the panthers can do this to the pack, they have /maybe/ 4 difficult games left in the schedule (falcons twice, maaaaybe NYG, maaaaaybe NOLA) and can run roughshod over everyone else

wash gets a td here and starts the 2nd with the ball...game could look pretty different pretty quickly

It could...

vollmer return questionable. jfc

pack looking not great

chuck brown 'bustin loose' played on the broadcast as we go to break after washington fumble

that's cold

lolllllll

not sure if this is the worst a team has looked against the patritos (that booby prize prob goes to jacksonville), but the hatcats literally can't hold the football

not liking washes chances here

pats got a te on the line my lord

lol that went poorly. poor old bryan stork no idea who to block.

oh no dion

Noooooooooo

hope lewis is ok

Walked off

blount tho

based ivory with 2 TDs despite only 15 rushing yards, proving that jax remains the best way to break a losing streak

blount rushing to the outside is the slowest play in football

bolden > lewis, clearly

slothroprhymes
Posted: November 8, 2015 at 5:15:53 PM
loled at them picking off peyton on his would-be record-setting pass attempt

otm, beautiful

ahahah i missed that, the throw that would've been the record was an INT? that's so terrible :)

also.. guys tweeting about nfl in french is my new favorite thing

https://twitter.com/NFLFrance/status/663512272120082432

oh i love even more that it was brett favre's record he's trying to break

can't approach that record without a bad 4th quarter INT i guess

the record is cursed

lol costas being all "you can't blame roger goodell this time! see? SEE?! THIS ONE TIME??!! at long last my shilling is justified!"

(re: the whole hideous greg hardy affair)

wait they're showing greg hardy's tweets on screen and his twitter name is "OverlordKraken"??? wtf

collinsworth not too diplomatically says ed hochuli has 'been an entertainer for a long time'

lol amazing

wow that was a terrible throw that worked out

it's good to have a dez

classic eagles

well, that last drive was good for lols but both the PIs on maxwell seemed harsh tbh

the second one was crazy

it's funny that everybody knew that was a bad signing from the second it happened

bradford is really bad at recognizing when a screen pass is doomed

he throws more screen passes to guys who are tightly covered than anyone i'v ever seen

chip passing on 3rd and 3 and then running ryan matthews on 4th and 1 with demarco murray finally rumbling down the field 15 yards at a time for the first time all season seems like a personal troll at this point

holy shit we almost just had a greg hardy game changing overtime strip sack thank fuck for sam bradford

yeahhh

Wow that game!

that was thoroughly entertaining, love that Hardy was the one that almost-but-not-quite got there

look at this lunatic fucking play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xN_5tULkLE

the other team had it covered too!

Over a cranberry juice, Warner leans on the table and watches video of a play from Week 4. Fourth quarter, 49ers down 17-3 to Green Bay, trying to rally. On second-and-5 from the Packers' 15-yard line, Kaepernick takes the shotgun snap, sees running back Reggie Bush wide open over the middle for what should be a walk-in touchdown. "A layup," Warner says. Kap fires it in the dirt. Warner rewinds the clip, then freezes the frame as Kap is throwing. "The biggest thing that I see with Kap quite often -- and it's frustrating -- are his feet." As Kap releases the ball, his feet are parallel to the line of scrimmage, rather than perpendicular. He's throwing with all arm, rather than with his body. The result is a pass both late -- Bush was open by three steps before Kap even noticed -- and inaccurate. "Normally good quarterbacks don't throw like that," Warner says.

Warner leans back, disheartened. They had focused on footwork in the offseason. He was even more disheartened when Kap told reporters that he was "not huge" on mechanics. "That tells a big story right there," Warner says. He isn't faulting Kap's work ethic. "He worked his butt off" in their time together, Warner says. He is saying that Kap isn't really a fifth-year quarterback. He's a fifth-year player, 28 years old, but developmentally behind the curve. Warner faults the way football is trending, with youth and college coaches putting their best athletes at quarterback and deploying them in the spread, exactly what happened to Kap at the University of Nevada. "So now," Warner says, "we're saying -- at the highest level, against the best talent -- you have to learn how to play quarterback. To me, it sounds impossible."

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14067004/the-key-futures-bengals-qb-andy-dalton-panthers-qb-cam-newton-49ers-qb-colin-kaepernick

Over a cranberry juice,

https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/FUGja_rOHhZgA7q88X8YrSWAV_M=/800x0/filters:no_upscale%28%29/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4249419/dancerivers.0.gif

was waiting for someone to gif that

i have a soft spot for privers. can't believe how bad san diego is this year. seeing them stuck at the bottom of that division is pretty weird.

i like phil too, he's a tough dude.

sadly their defense is just awful, they have offensive line problems, and i have never seen melvin gordon do anything to suggest he's more than a jag.

andrew luck out 2-6 weeks w/internal injuries

lacerated kidney! kidney is the one that doesn't do anything right?

matt hass is 2-0 on the year, this could kick start their season...

i wonder if the cracked ribs moved around in there and scraped up the kidney.

lol

not really kidding!

i was actually wondering if that was possible (i dont know fuck-all about anatomy or science)

fuck that is gnarly as hell

2 lacerated kidneys! I wonder how/why keenan allen's is season ending while luck's is not

rib theory seems not likely in my professional opinion theres a lot of muscle in between the ribs and the kidney and the ribs are just cracked not all jagged and stabbing

did allen have surgery? supposedly luck does not need surgery.

if the ribs did that my guess is andrew luck would be andrew out of luck RIP etc.

Aaron Schatz ‏@FO_ASchatz 28s28 seconds ago Framingham, MA
The Andrew Luck injury actually isn't THAT big a deal since they have bye this week then play ATL and TB. But will he be back by PIT Wk 13?

*rimshot* xp

https://vine.co/v/elwrOdadQj5

ouch

luck is way too reckless with his runs

just remove the lacerated kidney that's giving you trouble i think

seemed like he was particularly interested in winning that game at all costs xp need to slide bro

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTeqef4XIAE8_4d.png

good thing they're one of the few teams in the league with a decent backup, dude needs to learn to slide before he becomes the next RG3