Ongoing NFL Discussion Thread V

by **Pr4wn** Sat 4 Jan 2014 - 16:45

First topic message reminder :

Strong staff for us, I'm excited for next season!

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 3 Feb 2014 - 14:11

Also thought the Broncos receivers were bullied and at times they looked physically scared to take a hit. Not for the first time this past season either

We'd have struggled last night for sure, but certainly would've put up a better showing than what Denver did.

by CJB Mon 3 Feb 2014 - 14:19

Incredible from Seattle.

1 more player needed in the fantasy game!

by Lowlandbrit Mon 3 Feb 2014 - 14:40

Denver just didn't seem up for the game at all. Got pushed around at every position from the start. Bizarre.

by CFCNick Mon 3 Feb 2014 - 15:14

It's games like last night that make me happy the NHL playoffs are best of seven. If I was at home last night I would've gone to bed after the halftime show.

by mikeygnfl Mon 3 Feb 2014 - 15:35

BamBam wrote:Congrats to the Seahawks, still can't quite believe they had that level of dominance over the Denver offence

The Denver offence helped set the tone in the first 12 seconds.

by GSC Mon 3 Feb 2014 - 15:46

Honestly, elimination games are far superior to the 7 game series favored by other leagues. Each NFL playoff game means a hell of a lot more

by mikeygnfl Mon 3 Feb 2014 - 15:53

Here is the final leaderboard from the nfl.com playoff challenge:-

Rank Entry Points
1 leebenbow's picks 840 pts
2 rduncan8's picks 801 pts
3 crazydave23's picks 792 pts
4 The Stormbringers 736 pts
5 gb1919's picks 689 pts
6 Shepton Mallet Matadors 623 pts
7 redmistx's picks 596 pts
8 jvaszst's picks 588 pts
9 I'd rather win the Lotto but... 561 pts
10 pr4wn's picks 558 pts
11 BamBam's picks 477 pts
12 Take it to the house 429 pts
13 wadey101's picks 405 pts
14 mikeygnfl 398 pts
15 ollyrules's picks 264 pts
16 nicklj88's picks 0 pts

by Number-25 Mon 3 Feb 2014 - 16:53

Lots of stupid stuff being said about Peyton Manning today. Like really stupid stuff. The guy is class. A master of the QB position. Seattle were just so up for it defensively last night and Denver as a team were flat from the off. Seattle's intensity would have overwhelmed any other team last night. That's not on Peyton. Sometimes the other team is just better than you on the day. Peyton is still one of the greats. There's nothing to choose between him and Brady. Brady has been fortunate to have played with better coaching his whole career than Manning has had. New England also never played a defense as good as Seattle's in a Superbowl.

by CFCNick Mon 3 Feb 2014 - 17:38

GSC wrote:Honestly, elimination games are far superior to the 7 game series favored by other leagues. Each NFL playoff game means a hell of a lot more

You've clearly never watched the Stanley Cup playoffs.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 3 Feb 2014 - 17:40

Number-25 wrote:Lots of stupid stuff being said about Peyton Manning today. Like really stupid stuff. The guy is class. A master of the QB position. Seattle were just so up for it defensively last night and Denver as a team were flat from the off. Seattle's intensity would have overwhelmed any other team last night. That's not on Peyton. Sometimes the other team is just better than you on the day. Peyton is still one of the greats. There's nothing to choose between him and Brady. Brady has been fortunate to have played with better coaching his whole career than Manning has had. New England also never played a defense as good as Seattle's in a Superbowl.

There has been a lot of rubbish (looking at you guys ESPN First Take, they somehow managed to get Tebow involved!!!!!) but there can be no denying that for as well as Seattle played, Denver was just as bad on offence. Peyton had a poor game, those picks were awful throws and I have the reason why it was so bad.

Didn't hear him say Omaha once. Rookie error

by GSC Mon 3 Feb 2014 - 20:00

To be brutally honest, I don't think anyone has.

By definition a win or go game means more than 1 of 7 games

by NYJ Mon 3 Feb 2014 - 23:44

Weird question here. Does anyone know the odds of a safety in your bog standard regular season game? I'm talking about "Will there be a safety? Yes" type bet not the first scorer.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 3 Feb 2014 - 23:46

NYJ wrote:Weird question here. Does anyone know the odds of a safety in your bog standard regular season game? I'm talking about "Will there be a safety? Yes" type bet not the first scorer.

I know first scorer last night it was like 50/1 on Sky, not sure what one is just during a game, would guess about 25/1

by GSC Tue 4 Feb 2014 - 10:04

If you go off the premise that there's 1 a week (no idea) then 16/1

by NYJ Tue 4 Feb 2014 - 12:06

In 2013/14, if you bet £1 every game of the regular season that there would be a safety, you'd need odds of 16/1 to break even. That's why I was asking.

by crazy_dave23 Tue 4 Feb 2014 - 20:11

NYJ wrote:In 2013/14, if you bet £1 every game of the regular season that there would be a safety, you'd need odds of 16/1 to break even. That's why I was asking.

So basically they are going on around 1 a week... i think there might be a tad less, but it would be close

by GSC Tue 4 Feb 2014 - 20:51

There were 10 in 2011 according to google. So around 25/1

by Lowlandbrit Tue 4 Feb 2014 - 20:55

If you're feeling a little out of shape, here's something to make you feel better: deadspin.com/jared-lorenzen-is-still-playing-quarterback

Still has the best collection of nicknames ever too.

by crazy_dave23 Tue 4 Feb 2014 - 22:51

by Bull Tue 4 Feb 2014 - 22:53

I see what you did there! Laugh

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sun 9 Feb 2014 - 15:38

Who did like the draft thing last year?

We gonna do it again this year?

by GSC Sun 9 Feb 2014 - 15:43

Im not allowed anymore Laugh

by GSC Sun 9 Feb 2014 - 15:44

I was thinking about doing a worst possible FF league next year where players get points for INTs etc and lose points for throwing TDs

by mikeygnfl Sun 9 Feb 2014 - 16:21

Olly wrote:Who did like the draft thing last year?

We gonna do it again this year?

TM Moot ran it last year jut after the Combine.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 10 Feb 2014 - 1:11

Michael Sam, projected mid round pick has come out as gay. Could be first openly gay NFL player

by mikeygnfl Mon 10 Feb 2014 - 1:34

Olly wrote:Michael Sam, projected mid round pick has come out as gay. Could be first openly gay NFL player

A brave/ bold decision. It will be interesting to see how that affects his draft stock and how teams react to him? Reports suggest that most scouts knew he was gay anyway and that he had told his Missouri team mates back in August,

He had 10.5 sacks for the year and was named SEC Defensive Player of the Year. Drafttek has him going 3rd round to the Cardinals and Walter Report has him going in the 2nd round to the Chargers.

by TM Moot Mon 10 Feb 2014 - 8:08

mikeygnfl wrote:
Olly wrote:Who did like the draft thing last year?

We gonna do it again this year?
TM Moot ran it last year jut after the Combine.

Yeah, I got the Mock GM Draft going last year. Happy to get the ball rolling again unless someone else wants to run it (i'm quite busy at the mo Rolling Eyes

).

Looking back, we picked teams about now, then ran the draft thru March up to the real thing. Managed to get 3 rounds completed. thumbsup

by GSC Mon 10 Feb 2014 - 8:35

Fair play to the guy but now we get the fun times of teams being labelled homophobic when he drops to later rounds as expected all along/he gets cut in TC.

Career wise, probably would've been best to wait until he's established/retired

by mikeygnfl Mon 10 Feb 2014 - 12:12

GSC wrote:Career wise, probably would've been best to wait until he's established/retired

I just wonder if someone else was going to leak it first.

by GSC Mon 10 Feb 2014 - 12:37

He had to come clean to NFL teams. But they wouldn't have cared as long as they knew. Now he's a distraction

by GSC Mon 10 Feb 2014 - 13:57

Ultimately though, its all irrelevant. If he can play, he'll get his chance. If he can't, he'll be canned. All hes done is likely earn himself a shorter leash, a la a certain Mr Tebow

by **Pr4wn** Mon 10 Feb 2014 - 15:19

I've removed those posts. There's no place on a public forum for comments like that.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 10 Feb 2014 - 15:23

That Sodhat has always been a troublemaker

In other news Doug Williams is back with the Skins.

by GSC Mon 10 Feb 2014 - 15:46

Its always Sodhat

by BamBam Mon 10 Feb 2014 - 16:05

Has Soddy been a bad boy Laugh

now i'm really intrigued as to what he said!

by GSC Mon 10 Feb 2014 - 16:06

It was filthy bambam. I was appalled

by sodhat Mon 10 Feb 2014 - 16:27

You turncoat GSC

It was mostly mild sexual innuendos. Probably best I don't give Pr4wn more work and start GSC off again Laugh

by GSC Mon 10 Feb 2014 - 16:29

Kinky

by sodhat Mon 10 Feb 2014 - 16:30

Let's not go there again GSC...

by GSC Tue 11 Feb 2014 - 15:41

Joe Banner and Mike Lombardi fired

by sodhat Tue 11 Feb 2014 - 15:43

Best comment I've seen on the Browns offseason:

"How long before they wheel in a bear on a unicycle?"

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Tue 11 Feb 2014 - 16:04

And the new GM had no part in the hiring of Mike Pettine! Oh Cleveland

What happened to Derbyblue

by Lowlandbrit Tue 11 Feb 2014 - 16:20

I'm almost surprised they didn't wait until after the draft.

by Duty281 Tue 11 Feb 2014 - 21:42

Olly wrote:Michael Sam, projected mid round pick has come out as gay. Could be first openly gay NFL player

Courage has to be applauded. clap

Hope it works out well for him.

by Number-25 Tue 11 Feb 2014 - 23:24

Olly wrote:That Sodhat has always been a troublemaker

In other news Doug Williams is back with the Skins.

The transformation of the Redskins into Tampa North continues.

by sodhat Thu 13 Feb 2014 - 9:53

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000325331/article/oakland-raiders-have-nfls-toughest-schedule-in-2014

Laugh

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Thu 13 Feb 2014 - 12:12

Is anybody interested in taking the 49ers in the fantasy game?

Doesn't require great amounts of your time!

by BamBam Thu 13 Feb 2014 - 12:32

Unless you're sad like me in which case it can take up as much time as you like

by NYJ Fri 14 Feb 2014 - 15:30

Ted Wells' report on Incognito and Martin is out. Not favourable towards Incognito (or MIke Puncey and John Jerry).

by Guest Fri 14 Feb 2014 - 18:20

sodhat wrote:http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000325331/article/oakland-raiders-have-nfls-toughest-schedule-in-2014

I seen this but took it with a pinch of salt. Depending on what Oakland do in the off season (considering this is the first time we have a compliment of picks and also have a large chunk of salary cap to play with) will depend on how tough the schedule will be

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