NFL 2014

[Tannhauser]

I love these two white bread guys rapping.  Mannings are awesome. Also great to see Chris Johnson before his NFL exit.

[HaemishM]

The Mannings really are a couple of goobers, but they are likeable goobers. Namath macking on somebody's mom though... yeah, that was creepy.

[K9]

WR runs into a DB, that'll be a penalty on the defense for illegal contact. 

[Bunk]

You were watching the Bears game too huh?

There were what? 47 flags thrown.
I'm sure it will die down after preseason, because receivers will abuse the shit out of that if all the have to do is run straight in to the db at 7 yards.

[Paelos]

Yeah that flag on the DB was ridiculous. He's standing there and a guy makes contact with him. That's a flag now.

The fucking NFL is basically turning into the arena league. It's not going to be fun to watch unless they fix that.

[K9]

Yeah, I watched the first half. There were some pretty uninspiring penalties called on both sides.

On the plus side, the Bears o-line in pass protection looked unreal, and I'm liking what I see fro Jared Allen and Lamarr Houston.

[Paelos]

There was a third down sack where they gave the Jags a first down on illegal contact on the other side of the field for the guy running into the DB.

That was when I realized, if they do that in real games, people are going to fucking flip. There will be calls for changes. The NFL doesn't know how bad this is yet because they haven't really been paying attention.

[HaemishM]

I don't think it's that they aren't paying attention. I think it's actually that they really truly believe audiences love high-scoring passing attacks so much, they won't mind all the Mickey Mouse penalties they are going to be seeing. They are wrong. The first 4-6 games of the season are likely to be a fucking horror show.

[WayAbvPar]

Nothing says fun like seeing a big play and then getting to see a penalty take it back. Over and over and over again. If I wanted to watch mostly white old men make speeches to the camera all day I would be tuning in to C-SPAN instead of an NFL game.

[ynotgolf]

There were 86 penalties for 702 yards in four preseason games league-wide Friday. That included a total of 32 penalties for 295 yards in the Titans-Saints game and 21 penalties for 169 yards in the Eagles-Patriots game.  Shockingly, WAP, the Seahawks-Chargers game had the fewest of the night, "only" 15 penalties. 

Rest easy Eric Dickerson, no one will ever break 2000 yards rushing in the new NFL.

Anyone not drafting Megatron #1 overall in their PPR FFL this year is wrong.

[WayAbvPar]

I think my tweet Friday night summed it up pretty well-

Hey (illegal contact) @nfl, we (illegal contact) Get it. Is this (illegal contact) the product you want to (illegal contact) sell to us?

It is borderline unwatchable right now.

[Paelos]

I agree, I've been telling this to my friends who haven't seen it.

There's no way this can go live. It's like a bad beta test.

[K9]

The replacement refs were better than flag football

[Ingmar]

Early-onset 49ers panic is starting to set in locally as the team's 3rd stringers continue to underperform in preseason games against other teams' 3rd stringers.  

[Paelos]

Early-onset 49ers panic is starting to set in locally as the team's 3rd stringers continue to underperform in preseason games against other teams' 3rd stringers.  

I'm picking yall to miss the playoffs this year, but that's unrelated to the preseason stuff.

[Cyrrex]

It is in my DNA to want the Niners to fail, so that probably colors my opinion on the matter.  That said, preseason games don't matter.

Except sometimes they do as a full body of work.  Losing the games probably means nothing.  Getting annihilated means something if it happens 3 or 4 times.  Not time to panic yet, probably, but if it happens again in game 3, then it might be pants shitting time. 


 

[Rasix]

RG3 is not going to last the season.  He has no idea how to run and not get himself murdered.

[Mithas]

That game was a shitshow. The best QB play came from the third stringers.

[K9]

Connor Shaw for week 1 Browns QB!

[HaemishM]

Oh Johnny Football. Did ESPN pay you to flip off the Skins bench, just so they'd have more fucking reason to talk endlessly about you?

Christ, I hope the kid gets benched simply so the only shit they can talk about all goddamn year is when is it Johnny Football's time?

[K9]

 

[Paelos]

Apt. They will both be unemployed in sports in the next four years.

Tebow is a horrible announcer btw. Awful. He needs to focus full time on that if he wants to keep his job there.

[01101010]

Oh Johnny Football. Did ESPN pay you to flip off the Skins bench, just so they'd have more fucking reason to talk endlessly about you?

Christ, I hope the kid gets benched simply so the only shit they can talk about all goddamn year is when is it Johnny Football's time?

No. Emphatically. That story is so tired it is now more unwelcomed than the 40 required illegal contact penalties a game trend. Every fucking year I have to hear about stupid QB issues with the Browns benching a player everyone in the nation wants to see. Just play him and let him fall on his face. If he picks himself up, great. If not then at least we'll know early. The QB carousel is maddening already, as is the coaching one. I don't want to put up with every sports news outlet reporting how he is NOT starting this week and why... Just get it over with early and fall back on the age old excuse, he just didn't work out.

Really wonder how the Browns can employ scouts anymore... they obviously don't do their job so why spend the coin?

[Paelos]

They should start Connor Shaw. That would really get the meter moving.

[01101010]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2168370-nfl-reportedly-asking-potential-super-bowl-halftime-acts-to-pay-to-perform

The National Football League knows the publicity associated with performing during the Super Bowl halftime show. Now it apparently wants to get compensated by the group or artist for the opportunity to become the featured act.

Guess the NFL is hurting for $$$ these days. 

[Paelos]

Oh browns, never change.  

EDIT: By that I mean they named Hoyer the starter, apparently Johnny doesn't want to stay late or show up early, and Connor Shaw is in the background actually making throws.

[HaemishM]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2168370-nfl-reportedly-asking-potential-super-bowl-halftime-acts-to-pay-to-perform

The National Football League knows the publicity associated with performing during the Super Bowl halftime show. Now it apparently wants to get compensated by the group or artist for the opportunity to become the featured act.

Guess the NFL is hurting for $$$ these days. 

PIKA? THE FUCK?

The NFL is quickly rising up my list of "too greedy to be allowed the privilege of my patronage" outfits. That's just a fucking idiotic thing to do if true.

[WayAbvPar]

I just love that they want people to bid for the opportunity to play in the background while everyone is taking a piss/getting more beer/checking their pools.

[Rasix]

PUPPY BOWL!!!!

[Trippy]

I just love that they want people to bid for the opportunity to play in the background while everyone is taking a piss/getting more beer/checking their pools.

Apparently more people watched (tuned into) this year's halftime show (Bruno Mars and Red Hot Chili Peppers) than watched the game itself. 115.3 million viewers compared to 112.2 million.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/nfl-super-bowl-rihanna-coldplay-katy-perry-20140819

[Ingmar]

Honestly this is the final straw for me probably. The NFL takes greedy sports ownership to a transcendent level compared to even the other major sports. Continuing to try to find ever-more egregious ways to line their pockets at the cost of the people providing the actual entertainment - I'm out.

[Paelos]

The NFL hubris case just keeps building. They are going to be in ruins in 30 years. There's just no way this doesn't turn into a decline and fall of the Roman Empire type story.

EDIT - I can honestly say this is starting to affect whether or not I ever bother watching anymore. There's more than enough college football for me to watch that I enjoy. I'm not enough of an NFL fan to put up with this, and the fact the Cowboys are horrendous, anymore.

[Malakili]

There's more than enough college football for me to watch that I enjoy.

The NFL is arguably the good guy when you compare it to the NCAA

[Ingmar]

The NCAA is likely to not exist in its current form relatively soon in the future, and there are all sorts of social and familial bonds for me around college football that don't exist for the NFL. I could no sooner walk away from Cal football than I could walk away from, say, going to Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt's.

[Rasix]

Team performance makes it a bit easier to walk away from Arizona football.