NFL 2022

[Rasix]

Watson suspended for 6 games

Anonymous sources of course, since it hasn't been publicly announced yet. But if true, that is some serious bullshit. Time to see the 0-17 Browns.

A quarter of a game for every woman he sexually assaulted. Neat.

[Trippy]

The AP article is written backwards cause they buried the part where the league was asking for a full season and they have a chance to appeal the ruling / send it to arbitration still.

[Surlyboi]

There’s a cornerback on the Jets roster named Rachad Wildgoose. If there isn’t a “wild goose chase” reference at least once this season, I’m going to be terribly disappointed.

There’s also a WR on the Bengals named Chase.

The Jets and the Bengals are playing each other this season. Make. It. Happen.

[01101010]

This has to be one of the worst seasons I have ever witnessed. Just boring bad football everywhere. The fucking Eagles are the only undefeated? The NCF East is the best in the division conference...? (edit to fix stupid)

Wake me up,
when the season ends . . .

[Rasix]

 Denver might be the most unwatchable team I have seen in years. Russel Wilson knob gobbling + horrendous football.

[Rasix]

What the fuck are these roughing calls?

[Sky]

Misinterpretations of the bodyslam/body weight components of the roughing rule, exacerbated by being unreviewable. There was some torque on the Brady sack and the other guy did come down on Carr (you can see the 'supporting arm' defense either way depending on how you want to see it, looked incidental when I was watching the game).

I don't think they're anywhere near as egregious as folks are making out, but I guess as long as the conversation starts to get another 'judgement call' foul looked at and adjusted, that's a good thing. Hopefully roughing calls will get the same attention PI calls got a few years back when the Saints got boned out of the SB. It'll take a few seasons to get it in better working and it'll never be perfect, but PI is generally in a WAY better place than it was 5 years ago imo.

But the real answer is PAY THE REFS. Make them full-time employees. A ref should never be working a Sunday night game when he has to go back to his FT accounting job first thing Monday morning, but that's how it is. Crazy to put such an important component of a billion+ dollar business on PT help like that.

[HaemishM]

I've been watching a whole lot less NFL this season. It's just not as fun anymore. Aaron Rodgers turning out to be a massive lying shitbag doesn't help, but it's even worse trying to watch them and seeing him lose the game because he thinks he can win it all by himself (similar to how he shit the bed against the Niners in the playoffs last season). I get that he's got nothing but rookies, a mediocre guy like Lazard and the aging corpse of Randall Cobb to throw to, but he clearly thinks he can just make any throw now at any time and he's not been that guy for at least a season, especially not without Davante Adams. That he spent the entire second half against the Giants going 3 and out by airmailing home run balls to the fucking moon was just irritating.

Watching all these dudes get literally concussed live and the NFL doing everything they can to say it wasn't a concussion doesn't help me.

[Surlyboi]

Watching Rodgers lose to the Jets was fun though.

[HaemishM]

It was infuriating. He's clearly not as accurate as he's been in the past. I'm not about to blame it all on rookie receivers (though that is certainly an issue). His offensive is utter garbage right now - though again, Quinnen Williams from the Jets is an absolute stud. That still doesn't explain how the line was continually beaten with the same stunts and blitz packages. Rodgers' ability to sense the rush and get out the pocket is so suspect right now. He holds onto the ball too long, doesn't move off his spot or worse, moves right up into the rush so many times. And he seems incapable these days of spreading the targets around. He hasn't been an "elite" QB since that playoff game with the Niners. And their defense is also back to being unable to stop the run.

I think they make the playoffs but I no longer have any confidence this team will make any kind of run.

[Surlyboi]

Too much Ayahuasca. And too much hanging out with Joe Rogan.

But hey, I'll take it if it gives my perennially underperforming team a shot in the arm.

[Trippy]

Randall Cobb is now out for a few weeks with an ankle injury. DeSean Jackson is looking for work, though.

[WayAbvPar]

Denver might be the most unwatchable team I have seen in years. Russel Wilson knob gobbling + horrendous football.

Seattle fans:



Watching the rest of the world discover what a self-promoting cunt Russ is has been glorious. He decided a couple of years ago that he was just a pocket passer now, and has gone directly into the shitter.

[01101010]

Russ is the solo artist and sees his teammates as his roadies. I am sorta loving watching the Denver local media try and untie themselves after this past summer of all the RAHRAH we going to the superbowl with Russ and Hackett.

Honestly think they can get right but not this year, then again, I don't give a shit about the NFL anymore. I've about disowned the Browns and have no real team to back now, so I am just watching games in which I hate both teams.

[Trippy]

He used to have the talent, at least, to justify some of that behavior. That's no longer the case, thanks to age and injuries, etc.

[Sky]

New rule: every HC/OC gets fired every week if they don't run Jonathan Taylor at least 3/4 of the game.

[HaemishM]

And the Packers shit the bed in exactly the fashion I knew they would: Aaron Rodgers trying to make a hero throw his body is no longer able to make, just tossing up a stinker and expecting Davante Adams to catch it from Las Vegas. If Rodgers retires, or forces a trade out of Green Bay or gets released in the offseason, I find it very hard to give a shit. Either Jordan Love is capable or he's not but Rodgers is no longer the HOF QB he was, but his giant fucking ego won't accept that. There's plenty of blame to go around, mind you, as the defense hasn't been able to adequately stop the run since Kaepernick beat the pants off of them in the playoffs oh so many years ago, their wide receiver recruitment has been suspect at best and even the two young guys they have now might not be consistent enough to be #1's for at least another 2 years. The Pack is not only going to piss away Rodgers last chance at a ring, they are going to make sure Aaron Jones and AJ Dillion are always wasted in pointless seasons with one-and-done playoff appearances.

But it's been a good 30 years with HOF level QB play, which is more than most fans get to see, I guess.

[Cyrrex]

And the Packers shit the bed in exactly the fashion I knew they would: Aaron Rodgers trying to make a hero throw his body is no longer able to make, just tossing up a stinker and expecting Davante Adams to catch it from Las Vegas. If Rodgers retires, or forces a trade out of Green Bay or gets released in the offseason, I find it very hard to give a shit. Either Jordan Love is capable or he's not but Rodgers is no longer the HOF QB he was, but his giant fucking ego won't accept that. There's plenty of blame to go around, mind you, as the defense hasn't been able to adequately stop the run since Kaepernick beat the pants off of them in the playoffs oh so many years ago, their wide receiver recruitment has been suspect at best and even the two young guys they have now might not be consistent enough to be #1's for at least another 2 years. The Pack is not only going to piss away Rodgers last chance at a ring, they are going to make sure Aaron Jones and AJ Dillion are always wasted in pointless seasons with one-and-done playoff appearances.

But it's been a good 30 years with HOF level QB play, which is more than most fans get to see, I guess.

In short, get fuck 

[Hoax]

Can't believe the nfl is pretending that they couldn't just put any game btwn Bengals and Bills in playoffs @ Steelers stadium now (or if they wanted it to be memorable The Big House) if they wanted to and any game btwn Chiefs and Bills/Bengals would be at Titans stadium or for college stadiums Tenn/Alabama/Auburn or there abouts.

Everything but Miami v Bills is intriguing for wild card round though so go football? I assume the NFC is about to win super bowl somehow someway, probably the AFC side will be such a meatgrinder while the Eagles, Cowboys or Niners are going to cake walk.

[01101010]

Odd that half of the wildcard games are divisional games.

AFCE - Bill/Dolphins
AFCN - Bengals/Ravens
NFCW - Seahawks/49ers

Giants and Cowboys just missed... and 3/4 NFCE teams are in which is bonkers.

[Sky]

The AFC East was crazy this year, at least before the Jets predictably imploded.

As far as the NFC, I'm a Dak/Zeke fan going back to their rookie year, but I don't think they're a superbowl contender compared to the Eagles (with Hurts) and Niners (with apparently anyone at QB).

[Trippy]

The Niners had the #1 ranked D by points and yards allowed.

[Velorath]

And the Packers shit the bed in exactly the fashion I knew they would: Aaron Rodgers trying to make a hero throw his body is no longer able to make, just tossing up a stinker and expecting Davante Adams to catch it from Las Vegas. If Rodgers retires, or forces a trade out of Green Bay or gets released in the offseason, I find it very hard to give a shit. Either Jordan Love is capable or he's not but Rodgers is no longer the HOF QB he was, but his giant fucking ego won't accept that. There's plenty of blame to go around, mind you, as the defense hasn't been able to adequately stop the run since Kaepernick beat the pants off of them in the playoffs oh so many years ago, their wide receiver recruitment has been suspect at best and even the two young guys they have now might not be consistent enough to be #1's for at least another 2 years. The Pack is not only going to piss away Rodgers last chance at a ring, they are going to make sure Aaron Jones and AJ Dillion are always wasted in pointless seasons with one-and-done playoff appearances.

But it's been a good 30 years with HOF level QB play, which is more than most fans get to see, I guess.

In short, get fuck 

Over the last few years especially, Aaron Rodgers managed to make himself possibly the most disliked person in the NFL. I think people would root for Tom Brady over Rodgers at this point. Actual rapist Ben Roethlisberger could come out of retirement and people would cheer him on over Rodgers. People who don't even watch football hate Aaron Rodgers. We all know the horrible victory lap we would have had to endure if Rodgers had won last night. As if being absolute shit most of the season and then pulling off a small winning streak against mostly bad teams would somehow be silencing the haters that just never had faith. Choking at Lambeau Field to end the Packers season for the 3rd straight year in a row was the best possible outcome last night.

Or, what Cyrrex said.

[HaemishM]

I don't disagree with you. I was one of Rodgers' biggest fans for a long time right up until the vax thing when he showed his entire ass. And then just kept showing it. I think I'd rather see how good Jordan Love is over having to endure another season of his smug face and hero-ball failures. At least they might have the salary cap space to sign a real free agent wide receiver or a d-line that could stop an off-tackle run.