America's favorite Dystopian pastime - NFL 2021-22

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

Lugz

never rock lugz im way above

lol I was thinking about that on the final Steelers drive, could totally see the Pack playing prevent defense and giving them an easy TD with :23 left. I mean that's what McCarthy always did

its weird seeing the Steelers in last place. I was surprised Ben was still playing...for some reason I thought he retired like 2 years ago. He didn't look great!

I hate Brady’s stupid face so much I’m rooting for the Pats what have I become

:)

yeah no winners in this matchup

that said seeing Belichick throw a bunch of crazy defenses at Brady is pretty cool. and it seems to be working thus far.

ben is averaging like two yards per pass

part of it is that his line sucks and that's all the time he has, part of it is that he can no longer scramble for the extra time, and part of it is that he simply can't throw the ball very far. coming into this game i don't think he'd even *thrown* a pass 20 yards upfield between the hashmarks, let alone completed one

I have to admit that I…admire Belichick as a coach. Lord knows he’s outcoached the Bills almost every time he’s played us.

the pats are driving me nuts with execution mistakes but this judon guy is a lot of fun

xxp yeah he's in that late stage Eli phase where you know you're not going anywhere with him but you're probably worse off benching him

rather than benching ben the steelers should kill him idk just feels right

xp yeah but a) this has been going on for three years, and b) eli wasn't a rapist

patriots seem to be prepping to lose this game

its because it stopped raining, bad luck

well tbf the Steelers did start 11-0 last year and very nearly overcame a comically gruesome start to beat the Browns in the playoffs

Ben still had the same issues but he at least was hitting open dudes. he missed two not particularly difficult TD passes against GB today and if he can't hit those he's worthless

well well well nice lil drive there pats ok ok

they were really reeling off the good plays on that drive

rookie QB with no run game going against an excellent veteran defense, you'd think he would be getting clobbered

mac has got some game

steelers started last year 11-0 because they played the NFC East; they are not and never were in fact a good team

this will get me excommunicated by any trv steelers fans here, but mike tomlin is actually a really good coach. (i know, right?!)

ben is done. i don't know exactly how they proceed from here, but it has nothing to do with roffles

draft a quarterback?

Very smooth Tom! 😂😂 #SNFonNBC #GoBucs pic.twitter.com/gjmSeZpGZn

— 🔥Frank the Tank🔥 (@FrankAuthentic1) October 4, 2021

NE has rushed for -1 yard midway through the 4th and somehow they're only down 2

Too much time on the clock for Mac Jones…

— BasicCommenter (@PFTCommenter) October 4, 2021

this is a tight game!

ahahah ok sorry Bill Belichick rules

meyers 2 for 2!

belichick wants this one lol