NFL 2015, WEEK 8: Ryan Mallett NFL ranks this season: Comp pct: Last, Yards per att: Last, Total QBR: 22nd (out of 32 qualified QB)

now this should be a fun one, he said haltingly

Fins at Patritos (-7.5)

Lions vs. Chiefs (-4) in London
Minnesota (-2.5) at Chicago
Tampa Bay at ATL (-7)
NY Giants at New Orleans (-3)
San Fran at STL (-7.5)
Arizona (-4.5) at Cleveland
Cincy at Pittsburgh (toss-up, apparently?)
San Diego at Baltimore (-3)
Houston at Tennessee (also no line)
NY Jets (-1.5) at Oakland
Seattle (-6) at Dallas
Pack (-3) at Denver

Indianapolis at Carolina (-5)

5 points seems low for Carolina at home vs. Indy

lol @ no line for Houston vs. Tennessee. I imagine it's because Houston's QB situation is a coinflip but I imagine it's because who the hell would put action on that game?

imagine the former is oddsmakers being conservative bc i think some ppl still dont believe the panthers are for real and also still can't believe the presumed-frontrunner colts are actually pretty bad this year. -7.5 would make more sense imo

re: the latter - no fucking clue beyond your "who gives enough of a shit to bet" guess

title suggests it but here's the link
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/texans-release-punctuality-challenged-qb-ryan-mallett-165341595.html

fascinating vignette from in amongst the various waffling on the news that greg hardy is officially a gigantic asshole now that he shoved a coach (because that's the most fucked up thing he has done recently right):

In the last week of the season, on a Friday, according to a player who witnessed the entire incident, [Jeremiah] Ratliff showed up to practice and was behaving belligerently toward players and coaches. The coaching regime, then led by Marc Trestman, would not allow him to practice.

Ratliff went ballistic, this player said, and was asked to leave practice. He departed but later returned. Practice was stopped and most players went off to the side while a small group of players and coaches tried to calm Ratliff down and get him to leave.

It didn't work initially. Ratliff destroyed the game clock on the practice field, smashing it and kicking it. Later, he shoved an assistant coach to the ground. While all of this went on, Trestman never intervened. He just stood off to the side and watched.

And this is the most incredible part. The uber-enabling part. Not only was Ratliff never punished by Trestman...he was named one of the captains the next day. The entire locker room was incredulous.

Trestman justified making Ratliff a captain by saying he brought intensity, but no player bought that. That move, the player said, led to Trestman officially losing the locker room. Trestman was fired soon after.

along the same lines, charlie pierce on hardy just being the most egregious recent example of the inherent character of football http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-legacy-of-the-nfl-sin-eaters/

not that anyone cares but the consistenly misfiring lions offence has led to Joe Lombardi the oc being fired and the qb coach JIM BOB COOTER being promoted

It looks like Sammy Watkins obviously never took a marketing class at Clemson.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sammy-watkins-blasts-bills-fans-171658021.html

I gotta wonder at one point does the NFL start to lose fans as it has become such a never ending parade of ugliness.

Gronked it!

This is going to be a bloodbath

fins o-line looking good in pass pro, 5 on 5 on that last 1st down and tannehill had plenty of time

Ha ha

lollll

i think tannehill heard a whistle in the crowd or something??

i thought he was distracted but he was just daydreaming

Maybe a musket misfire?

wtf with this broadcast, the video is so choppy.

pi cmon

that was bullshit. early down playcalling by patriots pretty bullshit too.

throws to the flat and outside runs, none of it doing anything.

They love running those plays, esp. on 3rd, never understood it

Wow, the penalties!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/LewisDVD2.jpg/200px-LewisDVD2.jpg

love this dude

Guess he's all healed up

Kind of annoyed that CBS won't show Willie McGinest

fins d really playing well. game is one break for miami away from being awkward.

dolphins have basically had two really bad plays on defense unfortunately both of them ended up as touchdowns

i really hated that third down play call on the last dolphins drive. haven't been able to run all night plus tannehill is in a rhythm and going under center just totally telegraphed it.

womp womp

chandler jones has the most beautiful smile

https://twitter.com/GregABedard/status/659931943652470786

at this point in the game, every time phil simms starts talking i have no idea where he's going to wind up

lol

NE not looking flamboyantly dominant on offense like most of 2007 but lowest scoring game so far had 4 TDs so even tho it looks kinda rough at times they are really scoring. defense seems to be improving through the season. outside a brady injury, maybe gronk, if the wheels come off it'll most likely be that depleted o-line. they finished the game with 5 standing so the realms of a TE at tackle or a guy starting off the street are certainly possible. would be lame for this season to end with brady getting beaten senseless every week behind some ragtag scrubs.

offense feels kinda unstoppable when dion lewis is in there -- he seems like the perfect patriots back. when it's legarrette running into the line and falling ahead for 4 yards it starts to feel a bit bogged down.

i'll be interested in seeing who can challenge the pats thru the air. still feel like there's not a lot of talent in the secondary and even the LBs i think can be tested. if 2015 regular season andy dalton can play like this in the playoffs i feel like aj green & eifert and those guys could really put some pressure on them.

NE not looking flamboyantly dominant on offense like most of 2007 but lowest scoring game so far had 4 TDs so even tho it looks kinda rough at times they are really scoring.

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, October 29, 2015 11:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah its weird they just keep scoring constantly w/o seeming quite dominant, like it felt like the dolphins p much held them in check in the first half but they still had 17 offensive points, theyve scored in every quarter this season except the first, they had a game where they scored on every drive

imo the lack of dominance is due to the offensive line sinking drives on a fairly regular basis. with lafell back and amendola having a really strong stretch of play this is as good a group of skill players as they've had since whenever gronk and hernandez were both healthy and available.

jordan makes a good point but it's funny, for a passing league i can think of exactly three passing attacks that give me any level of concern.

yeah especially in the AFC with the broncos being fairly middling on offense and the colts completely broken

Should I bet the Raiders (10/1) and the Jags (7/1) to win their divisions y/n

dolphins drive chart last night, p solid

1 1 10:12 MIA 20 8 5:25 22 Punt
2 2 14:53 MIA 9 3 0:48 -9 Fumble, Safety
3 2 12:40 MIA 6 3 0:48 0 Punt
4 2 9:47 MIA 27 4 1:43 2 Punt
5 2 5:23 MIA 26 1 0:06 0 Interception
6 2 3:25 MIA 20 3 1:44 -3 Punt
7 2 0:24 MIA 20 4 0:24 35 Missed FG
8 3 15:00 MIA 20 7 3:35 80 Touchdown
9 3 6:09 MIA 18 5 3:44 24 Punt
10 3 0:56 MIA 12 5 1:41 14 Interception
11 4 13:29 50 3 2:01 -15 Punt
12 4 7:17 MIA 20 13 4:11 50 Downs »
13 4 1:13 MIA 11 4 1:13 36 End of Game

its good

cameron wake w/ a torn ACL, out for the season

achilles not acl

yeah especially in the AFC with the broncos being fairly middling on offense and the colts completely broken

― J0rdan S., Friday, October 30, 2015 9:58 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ftr denver is currently 32nd in offensive dvoa

xp ah my bad

of all the teams in the AFC i feel like denver could maybe give the patriots the best game only because they have one of the best front four pass rushes and secondaries in the nfl, which i think is the defensive blueprint to slow the pats down on offense. but denver's offense is pretty bad yeah, though i think maybe as they abandon all kubiak things and shift back into peyton as offensive coordinator mode it might bump up slightly.

denver is incapable of winning a game w/o scoring on D they r bad

has a team ever had the best defense and the worst offense before its p funny

first thought was 2000 ravens, they were 1st in defense dvoa and 20th in offense dvoa apparently

maybe belichick just hates the redskins from his nyg days, trying to brutalize them again

lol patriots r savage [shot of team doctor administering concussion test on edleman after leaving him in for rest of drive, cut to onside kick]

Weak

Edelman needs to sit out for a game or two or he'll be dead by the postseason

lol

lawl

walked thru a 12 man defense

shd prob allow wash 12 men for the rest of the game

poor old kirk cousins

ah the tv guy tried to blame both those drops on the sun but there is only one sun

La Fell just stood there and let the ball drop into his hands

yeah he was so open the redskins cldnt catch up to him for the entire duration of the pass m/l

bradys 1st legit int of the year, other one was edlmans fault

20 tds

pats didn't take this game all that seriously imo

no doesnt seem like it

arrgh why is carolina vs green bay at the same time as this! why nfl

otm

<3 chandler jones <3

run the swinging gate guys

wtf washinton doing lol

haha this game bad

Not sure the pats need to play defense, hatcats are determined to drop all their passes either way

wash run D... not great

just realized that although my impulse is to say "no.. *our* run d definitely isn't great" i'm still rooting for the other team

lol

boo fg

did we go back in time

"Legatron" I love it.

boo fg

― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, November 8, 2015 1:58 PM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

realizing washington had a blocker out front on the INT runback and the guy still got tackled by brady

https://twitter.com/SBNation/status/663429463754043394

washington offense looks a lot better when the receivers catch the ball

catching is crucial

oh whoops i bumped the wrong thread. the system is broken

nfl board shd really switch to a running thread anyway imo

fp

wld get more posts bet u

agree w/rolling regular season

not worth the pain in the ass of dealing with such an unwieldy thread. even tho i have brought it to its knees this system is superior

no not you too, gtfo

spring breakweek 8 forver

forver

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fyle forver

Green Bay srs lols, time for d to fite...each other

talib 1 game suspension pending appeal

lol wrong thread again, amazing

amazed he wasn't outright ejected

verrett is a star

attention: welker has been signed