http://gph.is/2fsU0P1 ~~ ┗(＾0＾)┓ ~~ nfl 2017-8 week THREE

THU 9/21
Los Rams at SF

SUN 9/24
Baltimore at Jacksonville (Wembley)

Atlanta at Detroit
Cleveland at Indianapolis
Denver at Buffalo
Houston at New England
Miami at N.Y. Jets
New Orleans at Carolina
N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia
Pittsburgh at Chicago
Tampa Bay at Minnesota

Seattle at Tennessee
Cincinnati at Green Bay
Kansas City at L.A. Chargers

Oakland at Washington

MON 9/25
Dallas at Arizona

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKQ9CZjV4AAiX1O.jpg

the rams are......decent

weird seeing the exact same dudes who were abject last year look p tasty. also, on another note, seahawks scored 12 against these niners...

this is...not the game i was expecting

that's a catch! good game.

that 2pt play was a cold dose of reality

that game was a blast night

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/23/politics/nfl-goodell-trump-response/index.html

hey roger, good....job? Sort of?

squarely in the grey area between not nearly enough and far exceeding my expectations

wonder how many players are gonna be kneeling this week

god please let Brady kneel

that would be incredible but

http://www.retroland.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Magic-8-Ball.jpg

if gronk kneels trump has to resign, it's in the constitution

man i hope the whole league gets in on this (they wont)

It's really sad man ... our president is a asshole

— Lesean McCoy (@CutonDime25) September 23, 2017

should i go to this sunday night game at fedex to see if something crazy happens? (aside from the RAIDERS being in town)

Again, i should point out that i will likely be on the field at metlife with a childrens choir singing the national anthem in about eleven hours so no pressure

Randy Moss' face when Rex Ryan said "I supported Donald Trump" pic.twitter.com/DwqAw02O1q

— △⃒⃘ (@ItsPaoloni) September 24, 2017

i hope the president has some strong words for the baltimore ravens embarrassing an american institution on the international stage

for the benefit of ppl not watching this game - hopefully everyone else - the jags, 37-0 in the lead, just ran for 59y on a fake punt.

Fins warming up with black #imwithkap tshirts on

27 ppl kneeled in this game. steelers are apparently staying in the locker room thru the anthem.

Nice

a lot of players on buffalo & denver kneeled. the players who stood had a hand on the shoulder of a kneeling player which i thought was v cool too

damn that was good. deshaun watson looks like a real player. shocking to me that o'brien thought tom savage was their best qb option game 1.

amazing

just a suggestion might wanna cover chris hogan

texans' pass defense seems 100% reliant on the rush getting there

qb controversy if/when andrew luck ever gets back

supposed best teams in the afc, and miami, all struggling today against teams that are kinda bad.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA MAIS QUEL IDIOT LE JOUEUR DES BEARS !!!!!!!!!

— NFL France (@FirstDownFR) September 24, 2017

c'est vrai

glennon has 35y passing after 35 mins play. and the bears are winning.

holy cow, odell did it again

did not imagine pats would lose this game because they couldn't stop the texans' juggernaut offense. watson is getting them in the air and on the ground and both lines look poor

absolute robbery

Football is terrible btw

effing pats O_O

football is crazy you guys

this whole set of 1pm games has been nuts

this guy, brandin cooks. i like this guy

feel bad for houston. less bad after that clock fuck up at the end, but still bad. they were better all around.

also not going for it on 4th and a foot towards the end there was p disgraceful

Lord have mercy, the Browns had 8 dropped passes and 4 offensive pass interference penalties.

philly just kicked a 61 yard FG to win! wtf

lol that is the kicker the bengals drafted this year and then cut

i feel like the texans cursed themselves with those letterman jackets. boston globe seems to write a new piece on them every time these teams play

sick pick 6 off rodgers. bengals dominating as expected. crazy day.

eagles :)

football is a really silly sport tbh. between special teams and officiating, the quality of which vary wildly from week to week, the influence of the players who people pay to watch play is so small

this play

Deshaun Watson is just insane, man. @battleredblog pic.twitter.com/Po9IPRdBgf

— Clay Wendler (@ClayWendler) September 24, 2017

Like a taller russel Wilson

bengals gonna bengal

Pack did not deserve this one but I’ll take it

a++ to the nbc people who played janet "state of the world" coming back from break just now

third and short.. you have marshawn lynch in the backfield.. steps back to throw and it's INTERCEPTED

yeahhhhh washington football team HAIL

this is looking like yr basic opposite-coast writeoff

;_;

raiders have jet lag for sure

if raiders lose then only 2 teams will be 3-0 after week 3, atlanta and kansas. gotta be pretty rare to have so few.

https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/files/2017/09/2250.jpeg

man the way the Lions lost was absolutely brutal

whose hand is that

Shannon Sharpe so eloquently called out every hypocrite in the league in his sermon today. pic.twitter.com/xnNFj7XYIs

— Lord of the North (@TrillestAC) September 25, 2017

i regret to inform u that the seattle o line is back on its bullshit

https://i.imgur.com/JVLa5sI.jpg

i guess if you dont know how to block you just lay down and hope they trip on you

it's embarrassing when you collectively get your offensive line instructions mixed up with the recent "what to do when your clothes are on fire" lesson the seahawks had.

ppl mock them but since the seahawks implemented their stop drop and roll blocking scheme not a single player has died of fire related injuries, and only a single tiny qb has died as a result of fumbling the snap and being jumped by 5 giant dudes

xxposts: 99% of the time Sharpe is an annoying blowhard but damn I kinda love that speech

Skip Bayless has ever been more tolerable than he was in that clip

lol otm

Alejandro Villaneuva: "Every single time I see that picture of me standing by myself, I feel embarrassed."

— Chris Adamski (@C_AdamskiTrib) September 25, 2017

worth reading the whole thread, of course.

jerry kneeled with the players before the anthem, not even during it, and ppl still booed and are v mad online

That seems pretty significant

How do you do, fellow social activists? pic.twitter.com/BQk6oABMMm

— Jason Gallagher (@jga41agher) September 26, 2017

gotta say i didn't see that coming

even if the league's response this weekend was straight out of the dysfunctional family playbook--we can rip each other to shreds, but come at us from the outside and watch the ranks close--it's better than i would have hoped or expected. bullying has its limits as a tactic.

as far as i have seen the only owner who has explicitly criticized the protests this weekend was jerry richardson, surely the worst human being to currently own a football team in what is a highly competitive field

cards offense is p ugly. they don't deserve david johnson anyway. turning out to not be such a bad season for him to sit out.

larry fitz has had to go both balls out and back in time 10 years to keep az in this

Fitz is a national treasure

Jerry Jones kneeling had me like whaaaaaaaat

the kneeling was before the anthem, not during it. it was a compromise and probably his way of upholding his "no protesting during the anthem" policy

Oh didn’t see that

ugh im so disgusted I believed in jerry jones for like two hours of my life ugggghhh

i mean that was my interpretation at least

yeah looks like he was trying to please both side but somehow ended up pissing off some of both sides while also making some on both sides proud? idk

Eric Reid (the player that started the kneeling with Kaep last year) post was good:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/opinion/colin-kaepernick-football-protests.html

worth remembering that complaints about the protests have ~0 to do with the anthem/flag which is why ppl were still incensed and why jerry kneeling was still great. that someone like him was manoeuvered into legitimizing the protests, or the right to protest, is a big development. yeah this weekend's actions became about responding to trump and the right to protest vs the protest itself but the usual tactics of marginalizing and threatening employment are gone now. and even so, a handful of high profile ppl did take the opportunity to say something about the actual substance of the protest.

yea this is 100% the most frustrating part of this, everyone on the right seems fine advancing the "they're protesting the flag of this great country!" narrative when they explicitly are not doing that

New JetBlue plane that will fly regular commercial flights. pic.twitter.com/cRviAWAroY

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) September 26, 2017

jeez just read Sproles tore his acl and broke his arm last week. probably time to retire

never heard of anyone sustaining two season-ending injuries on one play

tbh I didn't even know Sproles was still in the league. guys like that only last like 2-4 years

he was still producing! such a cool player

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/09/25/cecil-township-fire-chief-racial-slur-mike-tomlin/

good ol' Pittsburgh

Chief Smith is out of the country on vacation, but on Facebook, he responded to KDKA:

“I am embarrassed at this. I want to apologize. I was frustrated and angry at the Steelers not standing the anthem. This had nothing to do with my Fire Department. I regret what I said.”

the thing about really dumb people is sometimes when they type something they think only they can see it, maybe.

Races in Cecil township:
White Non-Hispanic: 97.0%
Black: 1.6%

yes, he said it

DirecTV allows Sunday Ticket refunds after NFL protests, per report https://t.co/wV9eBUc5U3

— SB Nation NFL (@SBNationNFL) September 26, 2017

this is some embarrassing shit. they should cancel without refund and then bilk them for a full cost season subscription again when they quietly change their mind in 2 weeks

they really are the worst. I got Sunday Ticket for free (which I used, like...twice) because I moved and wanted to cancel. never mentioned to me that it auto-renews and there is no way in their online system to cancel it, or even see that it's going to auto-renew. instead you have to have a 30-minute phone conversation where you have to explain why you don't want it even if they knock $5 off the cost.

that's hilarious tbh, if they really want to voluntarily lose revenue over something they have no control over, then by all means