America's favorite Dystopian pastime - NFL 2021-22

in retrospect dropping a wide open touchdown wound up costing the Giants big time

yep. even Daniel Jones had a "what the fuck, man" look on his face after that

receiver should retire IMO

two extremely goofy NFL games in a row

one of my favorite things about the NFL is how frequently bizarre shit like that happens. its the natural outgrowth of a high-variance sport with dozens of nebulously defined rules. every week these guys come out and risk career-ending injury and it's all for naught because a guy jumped a tenth of a second early. i love it

otm its a great/terrible sport

The amount of hype the last 9 months about the Giants, especially Daniel Jones and Joe Judge, has been nauseating.

i thought both jones and heineike were p solid last night, looked like competent starting qbs

amazing

Okay, so

*Texans pick up 13 yards on 3rd and 15
*Browns called for offsides
*Texans can choose between 4th and 2 or 3rd and 10
*They choose 4th and 2
*They then punt the ball away

The Kevin Stefanski reaction is amazing pic.twitter.com/HMpY4ErhX4

— Benjamin Solak (@BenjaminSolak) September 20, 2021

I see the Vikings lost in hilarious fashion again

wow Kelce

Lamar already has the most 200+ yd passing/100+ yd rushing games in NFL history

excited to see this andy reid clock management

that last lamar drive was so fun. his runs seem so casual, like the other team somehow forgot he existed.

he would seriously run for 300+ yards against Green Bay

Huh...go figure, I guess Sam Darnold was not the problem with the NY Jets.

ESPN's gotta sign this kid

This kid crushed the Jets in his film breakdown from Sunday's game 😂

(via td.sports | TikTok) pic.twitter.com/i8d0EI94ZX

— The MMQB (@theMMQB) September 22, 2021

lol well done

Lol Rodgers is so salty, ESPN is running a montage of him talking shit in interviews this week

I’ve forgotten how boring Thursday Night Football is.

Holy shit Justin Tucker wins it with a 66 yarder at the buzzer

Obviously this was against Detroit

Bounced off the crossbar of course

Chargers/Chiefs was a fun game

it's such a gift living in a place where you can see every down of giants and jets games without having to be distracted by other matchups

Oof that's rough

poor Detroit.

go Bills imo

Ok, Chicago you got your start for Fields and he got sacked 9 times. I'm sure you are ready to run him out of town now.

Garrett was in the backfield so fast on some plays you was thinking the Bears were running a power sweep with him.

I don't see why the Bears are starting with Dalton. I think this is pretty much all you're gonna get with him. They liked Fields enough to trade up for him and this defense doesn't look like it's gonna stop anybody right now

― frogbs, Sunday, September 12, 2021 10:11 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

hmmm so this take didn't hold up well

really cool to see Rodgers win it with 37 seconds and no timeouts but the game never should've come to that, some of the most lopsided reffing I've ever seen in a SNF game (sorry)

that noncall on the illegal hit to the helmet on Adams was a travesty

they also missed a really blatant intentional grounding before the end of the half, gave them a late hit on 3rd-and-10 even though Jimmy G released the ball like a tenth of a second before getting hit and the defender tried to let up anyway, and I thought LaFleur's challenge should've been successful given the ground clearly aided the catch. all 3 of those calls led to 49ers TDs. then the Adams non-call right after which was a big "why do I still watch this dumb sport" moment

Chicago will never learn that you can be a contender in the NFL with a good offensive line. My whole history as a Bears fan has been watching quarterbacks running for their lives, grappling with injuries, and ending up with Jay Cutler face. Fans whine about being unlucky with QBs, but plenty of decent QBs have rolled through and gone through this same pattern. They ruin quarterbacks there.

The refereeing in the game last night was awful, almost game ruining for me. There were also some plays in that Bears Browns game that went in the favor of the Bears that had me going "Whaaatt?" That game probably should have been a shutout.

lmao the ref ltierally went over to McCarthy to ask him if he seriously wasn't going to use a timeout there

Finally saw the clip of Justin Tucker's 66 yarder...what a bomb. That record might stick for a bit, Tom Dempsey's 63 yard kick hung around till 2013.

Bears got a problem in that the McCaskey's run the club like a family owned car wash.

Watched most of the second half of the Bengals and Jags. Pretty entertaining game and you never know in about ten years, it might be known as the first time Burrell and Lawrence met in the pros. Both of them looked really good, Lawrence can really run quite well for his size.

Watching the post-game interviews they both came off as good corporate CEOs of 'the product' well groomed in mike speak.

Local news stations around here do a pretty good job covering local high school football and it always cracks me up when they put the mike in front of these players often times you get these kids doing their version of the ESPN mike speak. And really, they are better groomed than yo would think.

Burrell and Lawrence both in their interviews are the next step beyond of that corpspeak...sounding near like tech CEOs in how their new software launched. All Lawrence needed was a turtleneck...defending how their work had been good but it had not yet come together.

I like Lawrence because he's got a good quarterback face...he's got some odd features and kind of looks like a caricature but is also fairly handsome. almost reminds me of Joe Namath.
that's how QBs should look. and why I've always liked Manning more than Brady

Jacoby Brissett of the Miami Dolphins has the unique skill set of running for his life to evade a sack when he's in no danger of being sacked

he is SO BAD

i don’t wager but the packers only giving six points at home against the steelers is absurd

Miami finally showing signs of life on defense, Colts drive extended by most abysmally bad facemask call in history (hands nowhere near the mask). and then of course they score and basically put it almost out of reach.

sigh.....until Tua is back, this is gonna be a painful year

Buffalo uhh might just be good

wonder if a team has ever lost more yards in penalties than it gained from scrimmage

texans came awfully close today (100, 109)

thats fn crazy

Thought the Bears would’ve accomplished that last week but 47 yards total offense and 44 total penalties.

44 yards

It's early but this might be the best Cardinals team I've ever seen. Murray is so fun to watch.

this is a real barn burner between tommy brady and the new england pats haha

mac has thrown a touchdown and is there for the superior qb

greatest qb ever? time will tell

whatre thoose

Can someone explain Brady’s platform cleats to me? @UniWatch pic.twitter.com/qZBekkC8NW

— BC (@byronacampbell) October 4, 2021

i don’t wager but the packers only giving six points at home against the steelers is absurd

really should have doubled my net worth on this, although it was closer than i'd expected

Lol now Russell Wilson did too.

This is execrable but I'm bored

“Herbert. Throws. It is caught. Second touchdown of the day for Andrews.”

I’ve never watched the Pro Bowl before. It really is as bad as everyone says.

Yeah it doesn’t work at all for the same reason there’s not really a such thing as “pick up football” the way there is basketball and baseball (if you have enough people)

a. will the texans demand that lovie smith put josh mccown on his staff
b. how long before the latter replaces the former, because jesus

i mean i guess it's cool that lovie's getting paid