back by not particularly popular demand: NFL 2016-7 week 1 thread

i'm told that a running back 'put the ball on the ground'

new denver qb looks like he could be a manning cousin. based on that play i imagine that's the main reason he's out there.

kelvin benjamin looks like he was worth the wait

end of this game is trash

yeah things got weird

the ruling on the field is TRASH

"gano is a very good kicker"

idk man i remember him on the hatcats..

carolina spewing the game away and don't deserve the win really but broncos defense apparently dirty motherfuckers again for 2016, so here's hoping this kick goes

omg the denver luck streak continues

https://thepackie.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/cam-sad-w529-h352.gif

https://twitter.com/MylesInSF/status/774091983069470721

the marshall hit is the most flagrant

https://vine.co/v/5JznpPnZMrg

in the present climate the nfl response has to be more than the usual fines. this display during the season opener, the brass have to be going apeshit

lucky he didn't get his knee wrecked as well xp

Now that's launching!

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lol that the only qbs on phillys team are wentz and chase daniel

Football commentators discussing Colin Kaepernick is unbearable

biden is at the philly game today

wentz looks fantastic. first drive in nfl gorgeous td pass to matthews

wentz era off to a nice start in philly

typically skip pregame shows anyway but zero chance i would've tuned in today. someone posted pic of randy giving dilfer daggers, don't even want to imagine

watching jets/bengals for some reason. jets rolled over bengals with ease first drive for the td. very disappointing. forte looks like he still has plenty

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omg that browns "fake punt". astounding

ronde barber is still terrible at announcing

had to look up the reaction just now - randy is the best

i understand the seahawks as a team are going to do a thing during the anthem today? not sure what. wonder if we get another round of freakouts. sigh

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don't have the browns game but does RGIII still look terrible?

idk don't have the game either but by the #s he seems to be doing ok

i was playing cricket one time at high school and was batting vs the star sports guy in our year. first play he threw the ball approx 100 mph and it nearly hit me. 2nd play as soon as he released the ball i just thought fuck this and literally ran away. and now, watching this game, it is interesting to see andy dalton do basically the same thing every dropback

RG looks fine! Horrible play calling in the first quarter tho.

oh that's good. rooting for RGIII to be successful! they did him wrong in washington

damn amazing catch by aj green

2nd time he's beaten revis deep too

my favorite twitter account guys

https://twitter.com/FirstDownFR/status/775046760251228160

Mesdames et messieurs. Les Cleveland Browns.

lets go raiders lets go clap clap

Guys I hate the Bills. They had 987 penalties today.

this last drive packers vs jax is insane

boooooo

go pack go!

shouldn't jax have just gone for the 1st down on 3 & 1? then get to the line & spike it?

and that screen play was gutless

i think going for the quick slant made sense, bortles just rushed it. but yeah the 4th down play was pretty lame

raiders! wow

so many of the 1pm games were/are great, basically every game that didn't feature the browns or bills (sorry guys)

I am not emotionally ready for Joe Buck

haha nope

so excited for football being back like 3 minutes ago and all of a sudden it's cowboys v giants

all of a sudden i started reevaluating my life choices because how many years have gone by and i'm sitting here watching ANOTHER cowboys-giants game called by joe buck

I kind of miss tony romo. Rooting against the cowboys isn't as fun without him.

they have a QB named Dak :/

RAIDERS :D

ok i need to watch the nfl network replay of the saints/raiders game. just now saw they went for two late in the 4th instead of kicking an extra point to tie. <3 the raiders

this #fakebrady guy lmao

lol someone asked bill a question and used the word "storyline," you can imagine how well that went

Every Belichick grimace conveys its own storyline

i watched two games this week and both ended on missed field goals

Like some of the Bears, I kinda napped through part of the game but from what I saw Houston looked pretty decent. Texan's D-line looked pretty good, Clowney was a menace a few plays and they seemed to get a big push in the middle even though Watt until the end was kind held in check. Cutler gets some time, he seems to do ok. Bears could be middling, they don't look as terrible as a couple years ago.

Indy's D isn't that hot as they got little pass rush and they were down to like 5 DBs by the end of the game. Got to figure even as a low key guy, Caldwell probably enjoyed winning. Colt's had a couple TEs that were new to me looked pretty good. Detroit looked a bit more talented to me, but both clubs are probably pretty middling. That RB for the Lions played pretty well.

onyl one double digit win so far this week, crazy

wow RG3 was shaky

should i stop trying to make janeane garofalo happen

hold on to that feeling

https://brobible.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/randy-moss-trent-dilfer.jpg?quality=90&w=650

rg3

fractured coracoid bone in his left shoulder. Although surgery is not required at this time, Griffin’s left shoulder will be re-evaluated in 3-4 weeks.

RIP

Poor, poor Browns.

hah my family in Akron all say they expected him to be out for the season by Week 4, can't believe they were actually being too optimistic

well...josh mccown was not really the reason the browns didn't win games last season. so the situation is bad but that's because it was already bad.

yes but RGIII had like a 5% shot at maybe resembling what he was that one year in Washington while John McCown is 100% Josh McCown

Josh "Raven Killer" McCown is back, baby

lol

o lord what a fall from grace

while John McCown is 100% Josh McCown

this is a p funny typo

also would be a good wk 2 thread title

I had to read it a couple times, I thought I typed "Josh McClown"

"Joe is as tough as a $2 steak," coach John Harbaugh said. "My brother didn’t come up with that, either. It’s from an old western, just for the record."

do... do we not have any other plan than leaving breeland on antonio brown here

cousins looks terrible

gorams?

Well, this is going to be a slog.

is bnw around? is he still gorams or are they dead to him now?

sidebar: I like that there's some raised fists during the anthem to complement taking a knee but some of these dudes look hella uncomfortable. keep yr head down, throw that fist high: just like the 68 Olympics.

never sleep again

https://twitter.com/deadspin/status/775539510641844224

Gabberts gotten away with like 4 throws that shoulda been picked

even the niners want to go home

Trent Brown: 6'8", 355lbs!

Could the Niners possibly be good, or are the Rams really that bad?

case keenum is a septic tank of a qb with no one to throw to anyway. the niners defense played like they knew it and worse the rams offense played like they knew it. it's going to be impossible for them to move the ball when the defense knows it only has to defend 10 yards from the LOS. niners offense seems like it is probably bad also but they played a conservative game vs a good defense and were able to score with it.

top response is perfect

https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/775694796174295040/photo/1

this is the best thing

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/kevin-harlans-play-by-play-radio-call-of-the-mnf-idiot-1786562558

kevin harlan needs to call football games on the national stage more often

the growl is a good look

http://deadspin.com/trent-dilfer-should-consider-sitting-this-one-out-1786605611

Dilfer appeared on radio station KNBR on Tuesday to clarify his comments. He said he had prepared all week to refine his Countdown takes in a way that would be thoughtful, but not give in to the “politically correct police.” (His words.) Dilfer believed that too many people focused on the part of his spiel where he said the role of a backup quarterback is to shut up. Then, in a bizarre twist, Dilfer invoked the time when he was a backup on the Seattle Seahawks and kept his mouth shut about child slavery, because he didn’t want to derail the team.

“My wife and I had been introduced to some really disturbing stuff and other social injustices: Childhood slavery in our country. And I’d gone to a couple seminars and presentations where we got really deep in the weeds about this issue. It became a passion of ours to help fight this battle of childhood slavery around the country and I had a very big platform in Seattle and I could have leveraged being a Seattle Seahawk, being an NFL quarterback, done a lot to get that message out there, but I chose not to at the sake of not wanting to disrupt the team and I never want to draw attention to myself, and take it away from Matt, the rest of our team and our preparation to win.”

jfc what a dipshit

roll eyes all the way back in my head

i was going to mention that earlier but didn't want to be a distraction to ilx

i was gonna free my child slaves but i didnt want to be a distraction to the team