NFL 2013

[K9]

Apparently JJ Watt wants to play on offense for the Texans 

[sickrubik]

My favorite wtf moment from this weekend.

[Paelos]

That's hilariously awesome.

[ghost]

What a clusterfuck.  They should just shut Arizona down and fire the whole team.

[sickrubik]

Of course, SD fucked up a bit there too, which just makes this hilarious.

Full disclosure of course, Hillman did something similar, but the Seahawks ran it back 106.

[ghost]

The Bills are just fucked.  But they probably aren't fucked as badly as Rex Ryan seems to be.   

[Paelos]

Why they didn't just fire Rex after last season was beyond me. It's not like they are ever going to get better with the current format. Plus you wasted draft picks with him as the coach.

[HaemishM]

Why they didn't just fire Rex after last season was beyond me. It's not like they are ever going to get better with the current format. Plus you wasted draft picks with him as the coach.

Because so long as you have a dumpster fire like Sanchez signed with guaranteed money through this year, why waste a perfectly good coach's first year dealing with a lame duck QB on a team that needs to get shitloads of draft picks? End of the year when the Jets and the Bills are done one-upping each other in the who sucks worst competition, they can fire Rex, get a real head coach and have some more high draft picks to replace Sanchez - they must also think Geno Smith can flourish under a real coach.

[Rasix]

Even if we don't get much of the Sanchize butt-fumble moments this year, I think Geno Smith will be able to provide his own humor.

edit: better image.  That slow-mo pause was wigging me out.

[ghost]

Geno Smith is going to be worse than Sanchez. 

[shiznitz]

Are you calling him a dirty Sanchez?  I think you are.

[01101010]

Looks like the Pats just clinched the AFC East.... again. Might as well put the x by their team name in the standings right now.

[sickrubik]

If you're saying that, just give them the Y.

[ghost]

Yeah, they do have Tebow so might as well.

[sickrubik]

I fully welcome Rex Ryan as the 2014 defensive coordinator for the Broncos, after Del Rio get's a headcoach job somewhere else.

[Nevermore]

Why they didn't just fire Rex after last season was beyond me. It's not like they are ever going to get better with the current format. Plus you wasted draft picks with him as the coach.

Ryan isn't making personnel decisions though, is he?  I mean, I don't like him at all and don't think he's a very good coach, but I don't think Vince Lombardi could do anything with that 'talent'.

[sickrubik]

Rex Ryan is not really the problem for the Jets. He's a great fucking couch coach. There's a reason he's still actually there after the new GM and all. The new GM dude is one that helped rebuild Seattle, so we'll see how that goes.

I think Rex will be actually happy when he gets fired. Who the fuck would voluntarily want to coach in a city that hates it's own teams as much as NY.

[HaemishM]

He's a great fucking couch.

The bolded part must be a Freudian slip.

Also, he's a great DEFENSIVE coach. As a head coach he's shit, no matter who is making personnel decisions. Though there have been some truly clueless fucking personnel decisions too.

[ghost]

I have to believe that the proof is in the pudding here.  He hasn't shown me a damned thing.

[sickrubik]

He's a great fucking couch.

The bolded part must be a Freudian slip.

Also, he's a great DEFENSIVE coach. As a head coach he's shit, no matter who is making personnel decisions. Though there have been some truly clueless fucking personnel decisions too.

Oh man. What's really hilarious is that I was thinking of weaving a pun in there, and then backed out... only to put... something in there. I just got off on the wrong foot.

And yes, Defensive. Like I said, I totally will be happy with him being the Broncos 2014 DC. It will definitely give us a leg up on the competition.

[ghost]

Looks like Tebow survived cut number one....

God must be on his side.   

[Nebu]

Looks like Tebow survived cut number one....

God must be on his side.   

There's value in a guy that's strong enough to carry two Gatorade containers at a time.

[ghost]

You have to wonder why he keeps bothering with this.  He would make so much money on the looney Christian talk circuit. 

[sickrubik]

The one thing you can never fault Tebow on is his DESIRE to play football. Ability is an entirely different matter.

[ghost]

I would have thought his desire to be a god fearing bible thumping hatred spewing bigot would have been more.

[sickrubik]

That stuff seems to be calming down a bit. He even cancelled on Jeffress.

See. He can't even be a BIGOT correctly. The guy is just an abject failure.

[HaemishM]

Titus Young can't show up in court ever - arrest warrant issued.

That kid has got to be just fucked in the head. This was the court appearance he was supposed to make to answer other charges and it's the 4th time he's missed a court date.

Also, I don't think Tebow is a bigot - he's just a great poster boy for bigots to use to make their hate-spewing shit more palatable. I still want Brady to take a helmet to the knee so Hobo Bill is forced to play Tebow at QB.

Geno Smith can't unseat the human turnover machine MARK FUCKING SANCHEZ, hurts himself, then Sanchez gets put back in against the Giants in the 4th qurater of a meaningless exhibition and hurts his shoulder. Oh Rex, is there nothing you can't fuck up with this quarterback situation? Any minute now I expect Deadspin to post your private YouTube channel dedicated to Sanchez foot fetish videos.

The Bills are a more of a dumpster fire than the Jets apparently. Kolb's bean is so fragile he can't take a feather to the head without being concussed. Of course, that would only matter if E.J. Manuel hadn't gone down with a knee injury that will probably keep him out of the season opener at least. The Bills are preparing for their 3rd string undrafted rookie QB to start Week 1, unless Matt Leinart can unseat him. YES, MATT LEINART. Go Trojans.

[K9]

[Cyrrex]

Also, I don't think Tebow is a bigot - he's just a great poster boy for bigots to use to make their hate-spewing shit more palatable. I still want Brady to take a helmet to the knee so Hobo Bill is forced to play Tebow at QB.

I think Ryan Mallet would get the nod over Tebow in any case, wouldn't he?  Anyway, it seems likely that Tebow will get cut at some point.  Kind of a shame - it still seems like there is plenty of untapped talent there, just not at the QB position.

[K9]

He didn't play against the Lions, so unless he starts against the Giants, or gets a good couple of series, he's not going to have a chance to shine.

I read yesterday that he's had a total of 71 snaps since Denver lost to NE in the playoffs two seasons ago, and in that game he took 77 snaps.

[ghost]

Also, I don't think Tebow is a bigot

Once he hits the post-career talk circuit we'll find out what he's really about, and I think you'll be wrong.

[Nebu]

Saw this in a Fantasy blog and it made me laugh... so I'm sharing.

Matt Schaub, QB, Texans: Unless you get points for handing off, he should be undrafted in one-QB, 10-team leagues.

[shiznitz]

And the counter argument on Schaub:

Schaub (7.7 YPA since 2010) is the 24th QB drafted. The argument is that he’s not going to get a lot of attempts for the Texans, given their defensive prowess and running game. But last year, he threw about as much as Aaron Rodgers. He did go over 4,000 yards, too. And he had a 500-yard passing day. But the caveat here is that Schaub for his career has, for reasons I do not understand, badly underachieved with a 4.3% TD rate when it should be about 5.5%. Obviously, the bias in favor of running near the goal line is a factor here. But the whole idea of using models in projections is to do your thinking when building the model and then stop thinking and do what it’s telling you.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/football-by-the-numbers--quarterbacks-and-ypa-172125563.html

For the record, I don;t agree with the counter argument.  You should not use a statistical framework with arbitrary divisions to overrule common sense.  As long as the Texans have a healthy Foster, Schaub will have a lot fewer TDs than comparable QBs.

[sickrubik]

Using the JV F13 League as a reference, Schaub was the #19 QB in 2012 and #20 in 2011 (Right behind tebow.)

The argument against Schaub is that their scheme doesn't allow for a top 10 scoring QB.

[HaemishM]

Aaron Hernandez used PCP, was told by Belichek to lie low or risk getting cut

Supposedly an article in an upcoming issue of Rolling Stone alleges that Aaron Hernandez was using PCP for the last year. I find that really hard to believe considering how much drug testing these guys get up to. If he was on angel dust, I'd think he'd have failed at least one NFL drug test.