NFL 2015

[Sir T]

Fuck Stan Kroenke with a jackhammer dipped in ebola.

Ouch.

[HaemishM]

He owns Arsenal too, so I'm obliged to agree with the sentiment, if not the actual act. 

[Goumindong]

Rams are going to be good this year. They will make a run at the Seahawks for the NFC West, and will probably make the playoffs. Their defense is legit, and Foles will probably last longer than Bradford usually does (into the regular season, at least!).

You sir, are high.

Todd Gurley is great, but who knows if he's 100%? Nick Foles had an outlier year in 2013, and now he's about to step into the full-time defensive nutcrusher that is the NFC West. Against which he threw 3 picks in 2 games last year. More than his 2 TDs in those same games.

Every analyst has been waiting as Magary says for the Rams to do good things because on paper they make these really smart NFL moves. On paper. In reality, they find a way to fuck it up.

What you're forgetting about the NFC west is that the 49er's no longer exist. Basically everyone but Kapernick left. I believe he is the lone returning starter. And they lost their entire coaching staff. So the Rams have a legitimate shot at a wild card depending on who our AFC rival division is. Giving the Hawks a run for their money is possible, but its not likely they will win. The real question is whether or not they can beat the Cardinals for second place, which is entirely possible if hard. If they can do that then they have a real legitimate wild card shot.

[Trippy]

What you're forgetting about the NFC west is that the 49er's no longer exist. Basically everyone but Kapernick left. I believe he is the lone returning starter.

Yeah, no.

[Nevermore]

The 49ers' have lost OLB Aldon Smith (released today after another DUI), ILB Chris Borland, DE Justin Smith, RB Frank Gore, coach Jim Harbaugh, both coordinators and most of the coaching staff, ILB Patrick Willis, LG Mike Iupati, CBs Perrish Cox and Chris Culliver, WRs Michael Crabtree and Stevie Johnson, OLB Dan Skuta, and RT Anthony Davis.

[Paelos]

SF will be terrible this season unless Kaep suddenly learns how to both be functional in the pocket and walk on water.

[Mithas]

Frank Gifford died.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nfl-legend-frank-gifford-passes-away-84-n406761

Like them or not, Al Michaels, Frank Gifford, and Dan Dierdorf are the voices of Monday Night Football for me. Every time I hear their voices, I think about watching MNF with my Dad when I was a kid.

[WayAbvPar]

It was Cosell, Gifford, and Dandy Don for me.

[HaemishM]

I got in on tail end of Dandy Don's run, so yeah, Gifford is a lot of Monday Night Football for me.

[sickrubik]

Geno Smith out 6-10 weeks with broken jaw from sucker punch.

Apparently by a teammate.

https://twitter.com/nflnetwork/status/631160474868908032

[Mithas]

Not that they were going to be good under Geno Smith, but this isn't really a good start for them. Time to bring back Vinny Testaverde?

[WayAbvPar]

As I said on Twitter-

Ryan Fitzpatrick is like herpes- he never really goes away, and there is an outbreak that lasts a few weeks almost every year #LOLJets

I hope that LB enjoys pumping gas instead of making several hundred thousand dollars a year.Although there is outside chance that Belichick will sign him just to give the Jets and everyone else the finger.

[sickrubik]

Not that they were going to be good under Geno Smith, but this isn't really a good start for them. Time to bring back Vinny Testaverde?

Vick.

[Paelos]

I like that in the span of two days, two QBs have already been punched in the face.

[Mithas]

It's a lack of leadership on Geno Smith's part that he would put himself in harms way to get sucker punched

--Chris Carter

 

[HaemishM]

I checked the guy's stats who did the punching. 3 total tackles last year. But at least he appears to be able to hit his teammates better than Geno Smith.  

[Paelos]

It's a lack of leadership on Geno Smith's part that he would put himself in harms way to get sucker punched

--Chris Carter

 

While poorly constructed in terms of the way he said it, I agree with his point. Nobody sucker punches a franchise QB that's a good leader and a good locker room guy. I've never even heard of something like this happening before.

[sickrubik]

No, it's still dumb. If you've never heard of it before, and there have been plenty of opportunities for it to happen, it still places the blame squarely on the dickhead.

[Phildo]

The Redskins should hire that guy to knock RGIII out for a few weeks, too.

[HaemishM]

I'm sure he can handle that all on his own by week 3.  

Yesterday's Why Your Team Suck 2015 Minnesota Vikings was art.

Watching the stadium construction progress is like watching Unicron take a shit on downtown Minneapolis.

Also, some great comments about Smith getting jacked:

Saying he was sucker punched implies Smith didn’t throw any punches which I find hard to believe. Most likely he threw some but most of them landed 10 yards past Enemkpali or out of bounds.

“No way a single jet could do that much damage.” - Pete Carroll

[sickrubik]

That Pete Carrol one is A++

[K9]

Apparently Enemkpali had run some camp which Geno had agreed to attend, but then cancelled on when his friend died in a motorbike crash, and Enemkpali has been chasing him for the $600 he spent on a plane ticket for Geno ever since. This is what led to the fight apparently.

I'm not going to blame Geno, but it does seem that for someone to whom $600 is pocket change, it might have been easier just to pay the damn guy.

[WayAbvPar]

$600 is a lot of hours at the gas station that dumbfuck will be working for next week.

[Paelos]

No, it's still dumb. If you've never heard of it before, and there have been plenty of opportunities for it to happen, it still places the blame squarely on the dickhead.

Of course it's dumb. The fight was dumb. But the Jets fans are probably thrilled because Geno sucks and they don't like his leadership or play.

[Surlyboi]

That Pete Carrol one is A++

Pete would know. He was a mighty shitty Jet coach.

[sickrubik]

He's also a truther, which I think the joke was more of a stab at.

Edit: LAWL

https://twitter.com/kjhogo/status/631156430729515008

[HaemishM]

Give that scout a promotion. 

[K9]

Rex has signed him to the Bills 

[Paelos]

I love everything about that. Even if they cut him later it's Rex giving both Geno and the Jets the finger publicly

[Triforcer]

Oh, you Jets.  If it weren't for you, the circus of dysfunction would never need to travel out of the Cleveland city limits. 

[Surlyboi]

 

[K9]

My main conclusion from the Skins-Lions game last night is that Jay Gruden's plan is to get RGIII murdered. Holy fuck the Lions made the skins o-line look awful.

[01101010]

In other news, Johnny Football is doing just enough to get the crowds to start that old familiar call for him to be the starter... and with McCown as really the only other person in that cesspool, it might not be a bad idea until they can draft another QB. 

[Bunk]

McCown looked like McCown in what little I watched last night of that game. People seem to forget just how good that Bear's offence was the year he took over for Cutler. That wasn't due to McCown.

Johnny looked ok I guess. Was funny watching him run for his life from the all out blitzes ever third down.

[sickrubik]

My main conclusion from the Skins-Lions game last night is that Jay Gruden's plan is to get RGIII murdered. Holy fuck the Lions made the skins o-line look awful.

The Skins O-Line is also just awful.