Ongoing NFL Discussion Thread V

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Well played San Diego

That was a fine performance

Made Seattle look ordinary

[sodhat]

Leaf backwards is Fael, which sounds kinda like fail.

Fun fact for the day.

[BamBam]

Leaf backwards is Fael, which sounds kinda like fail.

Fun fact for the day.

Its posts like this which make me keep coming back to the forum

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Sodhat - bastion of knowledge

[Lowlandbrit]

What is with the Pats refusing to throw outside the hashes at the moment, Dobson was not that bad when he played last year, is there a reason he is continually inactive?

http://deadspin.com/report-aaron-dobson-benched-after-he-mouthed-off-to-1641588282/all

[GSC]

So Christian Ponder is expected to start tonight.

In other news, viewership in the UK for tonights game just went down the toilet

[sodhat]

Ponder vs Rodgers

Who will win?

[crazy_dave23]

Ponder vs Rodgers

Who will win?

Let me Ponder that question and I'll get back to you...


(From the Sodhat school of postings)

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Did you know Ponder backwards is rednop

[mikeygnfl]

21-0 to the Packers. Christian Ponder has just thrown consecutive interceptions including a pick 6. The Vikings back up QB tonight is the 2012 Mr Irrelevant Chandler Harnish. He surely can't be any more irrelevant than Christian Ponder?

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Further proof to scrap TNF.

Anyway I look forward to GB becoming a trendy SB pick again.

[sodhat]

21-0 to the Packers. Christian Ponder has just thrown consecutive interceptions including a pick 6. The Vikings back up QB tonight is the 2012 Mr Irrelevant Chandler Harnish. He surely can't be any more irrelevant than Christian Ponder?

Yeah but Ponder has a super hot wife, and Chandler Harnish sounds like the kind of guy that spends a lot of time watching babestation.

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NFL.com has a Christian Ponder highlight video

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

TNF is wildly unfair to the away team (usually) and being divisional games they're important

[GSC]

To be honest its not condusive to upsets. On a short week, there isn't the time for coaches to install complicated gameplans or for the players to fully rehab so its usually a case of best team wins in a landslide.

[NYJ]

Further proof to scrap TNF.

Anyway I look forward to GB becoming a trendy SB pick again.

Or is it further proof to scrap Christian Ponder?

[GSC]

We needed further proof?

TNF is garbage though

[mikeygnfl]

I have three ideas for TNF:-

1) Scrap it. The NFL wouldn't like this though as it loses a live game, revenue, exposure etc

2) Move it to Saturday nights. Thid would be good for fans, give the teams more time to prepare and be a proper start to the NFL weekend rather than play a game then have nothing to two days. Probably not going to happen because of college football though.

3) Add another game and have two divisional games on a Thursday. The idea would be each division takes it in turns for a bye week and then play the following Thursday. Therefore teams would have about 10 days to prepare instead of 3.
This would also reduce the number of TNFs.

The AFC East would have a bye in week 4 and then play divisional TNF games in week 5. The AFC North would have a bye in week 5 and play on Thursday in week 6 and so on.

The only problem I see with this would be the International Series games.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Pats released kenbrell thompkins and the pats fan base is reacting like they just released Megatron ffs

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Also cos now Bryan Tyms makes the team and he was GARAPPOLO's fav WR in the pre season it fits the screwing Brady storyline apparently

[twelve283]

Pats released kenbrell thompkins and the pats fan base is reacting like they just released Megatron ffs

Too fkn funny. I try not to visit the main Pats forums anymore, just end up with a headache.

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3) Add another game and have two divisional games on a Thursday. The idea would be each division takes it in turns for a bye week and then play the following Thursday. Therefore teams would have about 10 days to prepare instead of 3.
This would also reduce the number of TNFs.

In fairness, not the worst idea ever

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Pats released kenbrell thompkins and the pats fan base is reacting like they just released Megatron ffs

Too fkn funny. I try not to visit the main Pats forums anymore, just end up with a headache.

On the ukpats forum one guy is genuinely calling for Belichick to be sacked like he hasn't coached this team to a conference title game like every season for the past decade

I just huh

[NYJ]

Pats released kenbrell thompkins and the pats fan base is reacting like they just released Megatron ffs

Too fkn funny. I try not to visit the main Pats forums anymore, just end up with a headache.

On the ukpats forum one guy is genuinely calling for Belichick to be sacked like he hasn't coached this team to a conference title game like every season for the past decade

I just huh

Got to ask some questions of his coaching style though. He's not had a good defense in years and the way he uses his RB's is clinically insane.

Wouldn't mind if the Jets picked up Thompkins off waivers.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Not sure why you'd want thompkins if he can't even make our dumpster fire of a WR corps he's not good 

I'd say those are more questions of his GM ability than coaching (and I think serious questions around his ability to draft players can be asked especially offensive skill players)

[twelve283]

Pats released kenbrell thompkins and the pats fan base is reacting like they just released Megatron ffs

Too fkn funny. I try not to visit the main Pats forums anymore, just end up with a headache.

On the ukpats forum one guy is genuinely calling for Belichick to be sacked like he hasn't coached this team to a conference title game like every season for the past decade

I just huh

Dammit Olly, now my head hurts.

Got to ask some questions of his coaching style though.

I prefer to just say thank you TBH.

[NYJ]

Not sure why you'd want thompkins if he can't even make our dumpster fire of a WR corps he's not good 

I'd say those are more questions of his GM ability than coaching (and I think serious questions around his ability to draft players can be asked especially offensive skill players)

He showed promise as an undrafted rookie. You can't just assume he's done now because one coach said so. Countless players get cut by teams then prove to be decent NFL players on another.

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Countless more are never heard from again

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

He has 200 yards and 17 catches since week 6 last season.

He was UDFA for a reason. He's really not very good

[NYJ]

Countless more are never heard from again

So that means you should never take a chance on a promising player when your one and only healthy receiver is Jeremy Kerley?

That's no slight on Kerley, btw, I love him and he's fantastic at what he does.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Thing is with Thompkins there's a very low ceiling which he's already potentially hit. He's not quick, hands are poor, not a good route runner, not the biggest, and like the rest of our WR's barring Edelman he doesn't seperate

He's just very meh, take a flier on DaRick Rogers I would he's got potential to be turned around

[NYJ]

He has 200 yards and 17 catches since week 6 last season.

He was UDFA for a reason. He's really not very good

He missed 8 games after Week 6 and started only 2. That's a terribly out of context stat.

In Weeks 1-5 of the 2013 regular season, he was in on average 90.6% of the Offensive Snaps. In those games, he had 18 receptions for 273 yards.

[NYJ]

Thing is with Thompkins there's a very low ceiling which he's already potentially hit. He's not quick, hands are poor, not a good route runner, not the biggest, and like the rest of our WR's barring Edelman he doesn't seperate

He's just very meh, take a flier on DaRick Rogers I would he's got potential to be turned around

So he's David Nelson who was our best receiver last year.

I also love Da'Rick Rogers but he has had off field issues for a long time and getting a shot in the NFL hasn't curbed those issues.

[GSC]

Chip needs to spend more time on the offense and less on the ST and Defense

[crazy_dave23]

So New Orleans is having a 'mare

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So the Bucs lose to the Rams at home, get obliterated by the Falcons on prime time, beat Pittsburgh on the road and set to beat the Saints on the road.

Someone make sense of that

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Is too soon to say the Saints season rests on turning this game around?

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Brees really hasn't been playing well this year every time I see the saints he's making a poor throw

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Is too soon to say the Saints season rests on turning this game around?

Not really, 1-4 with there road record isn't good

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Dallas doing very Dallas things

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Odds Demarco Murray gets injured by week 8 with his current usage?

1/3

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Jay Cutler doing Jay Cutler things

[crazy_dave23]

Dallas doing very Dallas things

Ryan Fitzpatrick's Beard is amazing... I think it just distracted Dan Bailey

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The Eagles are actually going to lose this

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Get ready for the Flacco hail Mary DPI......

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

This is the Joe Flacco we all know and love so dearly. Swear his football IQ is worse than kaepernicks sometimes

[crazy_dave23]

Well done Jay Cutler...

[Bull]

Bears suck.

[Lowlandbrit]

Bears suck.

Must have been part of the deal to host the draft.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Drew Brees's regression is the untold story of the NFL so far this season

[GSC]

So Alex Henery still sucks.

The Saints don't have any weapons with Graham injured and/or triple teamed. Cooks isn't there yet, theres a trio of decent RBs. Cutting Sproles and Jenkins adrift for shinier replacements looks an awful call at present.

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