downhill from here >>> nfl 2017/18 weeks 10 thru 17 thread

10,000% magnification

fun times in oakland. crabtree trying to kill talib.

love to see a bare fist swing a punch at a helmet

3 players ejected

talib is a radgy asshole but tbf crabtree did just start trying to strangle him on the sideline

oh shit, talib got his chain again. LOL

Lol

nice lol

seriously just logged on to lol at crabtree again

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPmE8TrUEAE347d.jpg

haha that's incredible. talk about advanced metrics.

hoping juju and antonio brown recreate this as a TD celebration just to end the day on a high note

this game showed up somehow. steelers man smh

yeah this is kind of where things turn huh

Leveon v fun to watch

hey right on cue he fumbles......

or not

hard to overstate the importance of this game to GB, with two winnable games coming up and Rodgers potentially coming back right after. this may be the difference between gunning for a playoff spot and letting Rodgers take the year off

AB

pretty cool that the refs didn't call TJ Watt slamming his helmet into Hundley

unreal catch. that slow mo of the helmet to helmet hit was brutal

Raiders’ WR Michael Crabtree taped his chain to himself before Sunday’s game, knowing he was facing the chain-snatching Broncos CB Aqib Talib. And Talib still got it.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 27, 2017

Justin Tucker's 53-yard field goal gives him four field goals from beyond 50 yards this season. The Ravens kicker has converted 18 of his last 19 field goals (94.7 percent).
Jamison Hensley, ESPN Staff Writer

this is the lead item on espn dot com

it's absolutely the closest thing to anything interesting about this game

omg

Giants named Geno Smith their new starting QB.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 28, 2017

!!!

end times

mcadoo making a play to be the greatest entertainment value head coach of the modern era

fite brewing between the league and the hatcats re: color-rush uniforms on thursday

maybe color rush unis not racist enough

Every NFL team has utilized at least 3 different starting QB since Eli Manning's first NFL start in Week 11 of 2004, and every team in the NFC East has used at least 10. The Browns have utilized 24 starting QB in that time.

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) November 28, 2017

#browns #utilized

love to utilize

Starting QBs for Week 13 in the NFL:
Geno Smith
Ryan Fitzpatrick
Brett Hundley
Jacoby Brissett
Trevor Siemian
Matt Moore
Josh McCown
Tom Savage
Blaine Gabbert
Mitch Trubisky
DeShone Kizer

Shocking the ratings are down.

— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) November 28, 2017

Utilize
A noxious puff-word. Since it does nothing that good old use doesn’t do, its extra letters and syllables don’t make a writer seem smarter; rather, using utilize makes you seem either like a pompous twit or like someone so insecure that she’ll use pointlessly big words in an attempt to look sophisticated. The same is true for the noun utilization, for vehicle as used for car, for residence as used for house, for presently, at present, at this time, and at the present time as used for now, and so on. What’s worth remembering about puff-words is something that good writing teachers spend a lot of time drumming into undergrads: “formal writing” does not mean gratuitously fancy writing; it means clean, clear, maximally considerate writing.

bad writers + 280 = chaos

am i making this up or is it ok to use "utilize" when you're talking about using something for a novel or unintended purpose? may apply to some of those qbs.

It's ok, but unnecessary.

My manager is a good guy, but instead of saying "use", or even "utilize", he favors the phrase "utilize or leverage". Not sure why he does, but it always makes me antsy.

i have experienced my share of corpspeak and have to say pulling off "utilize or leverage" is impressive.

see also "cadence"

am i making this up or is it ok to use "utilize" when you're talking about using something for a novel or unintended purpose? may apply to some of those qbs.

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, November 28, 2017 10:29 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol nice

lol these teams are so bad

yes and the eagles are good

:D

does dallas play all its games at home or what

tyrod making a case

literally the worst challenge ever

if dion lewis was on another team he'd be getting a lot of press

so I went to that horrendous game at fedex field on Thanksgiving night and there was absolutely nothing memorable about it until... it was Eli's last starting game for the NYG. closed it out with an INT iirc

that's powerful motivation to get grandchildren

I forgot just how good dion lewis was, I guess since he didn't do much last year after the injury? idk.