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Would absolutely love to see the 49ers go 0-16.
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37 minutes ago, southwest1 said:
Hard to believe Jimmy G has 2 SB rings as a backup. Great work if ya can find it.
Steve Young had 2 as a backup, but I doubt Jimmy G is getting the monkey off his back in SF....
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Wow, they must think Brady is going to play until he's 45.....
Tom Brady is just like Brett Favre was at 40 years old....one brutal game with some good hits away from regressing badly and then needing to retire....
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His average puts him on pace for 58 TD's this year, but that's bound to drop eventually. Every QB who gets that insane stat half way in the year, it eventually falls down somewhat, even if it's only slightly.
I say he's definitely the real deal, and Cleveland fans must be drinking themselves into next year pondering the thought they could've had Goff, Prescott, Watson or Wentz by now.
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7 minutes ago, oldunclemark said:
Miami looked just like they did last week in 'the 'states'
I guess Jay Cutler isn't going to be MVP, huih?
But I thought Jay "don't care" Cutler was going to fix all their problems?
Back to back weeks, zero touchdowns and now shut out by a BAD Saints defense.
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And the Failcons blew a 14 point lead!!!
Congrats dirty birds. You're still epic chokers, but at least you're getting better at it. 14 points isn't as bad as 25.
EDIT: Oh my god, wow....That was controversial to the extremes. Bad officiating and what looks to be rigging. Will this one top the Calvin Johnson no catch?
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Is Joe Flacco still elite?
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On 9/23/2017 at 12:37 PM, 2006Coltsbestever said:
Bruschi is probably getting tired of being called a homer or maybe Belichick dissed him by not inviting him to a family picnic
Reverse psychology.....and it worked...ugh.
Must be nice to be a Pats fan sometimes....that team can play like complete crap and look mediocre as hell and still win.
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Nothing new. Drew Brees had those same stats, minus the interception last year in two games when the Saints were 0-2.
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Here's a decent take on this, that maybe defenses have just gotten good and no one appreciates defensive showcases anymore:
http://deadspin.com/nfl-games-seem-ugly-because-defenses-have-gotten-good-1818630651
Offense sells tickets, defense wins championships. Fans prefer seeing QB's put up monster numbers, but it's usually always been dominant defenses that win out.
Scoring is down so far this year too as a result of two weeks of strong defensive play.
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These topics are bad and simply rubbing salt in the wounds of bad teams.
Just wait till the Colts are losing 10+ games a season. That stadium will be empty too and full of opposing fans for the road team. Most NFL fans are fair weather and will not waste their money to see a bad team play (and they shouldn't). Picking on the Jags over this is a little dirty...The Rams stadium in St Louis was far worse than this for several years, and people don't even bother showing up to the 49ers new stadium since it's so bad. Even the Superdome last week was at least 1/3rd Patriots fans.
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CTE
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The players should sue. They have every right to get what they deserve.
They sacrificed their bodies and brains for our Sunday entertainment. If anything, the NFL should've come up with some kind of universal healthcare program to pay for all their medical problems after they retire. To see so many former players in the last decade have to sue the NFL for medical treatment is down right sad.
My outlook on the NFL has changed a lot in the last few years. I no longer really care about players being 'greedy' demanding millions. They're sacrificing their bodies for us, so they should be able to milk that cow and get the most out of it while they can.
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8 hours ago, crazycolt1 said:
CTE is slowly eating away at the core of football. There are schools all over the country who are doing away with football programs all together.
More parents are discouraging their sons from even playing football.
Not happening everywhere.
College football is never going away and is probably more popular now than it ever was....Grade Schools in southern states will blow their entire budgets on athletic programs faster than anything. High school football is still 'the thing" for a lot of local communities down here.
The NFL might lose popularity, but the sport is still alive and well in places where it's heavily tied in with local communities and where a college team is people's pride and joy.
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I think this topic proves that no one has a clear answer and just wants to blame it on whatever they value as an opinion. This is a Colts forum, so it's almost predictable that it will get blamed on Peyton Manning's retirement. This is the only place I see where the Brady/Manning games were taken seriously...I don't think most fair weather fans cared at all, it was just another game for us. If you're going that route, throw in Ray Lewis' and several other retired player's names...The league does not revolve around 2 QB's in a little rivalry that lost it's mojo when Manning went to Denver.
It's kinda like how people love to say "gee, pop music today is terrible! What happened?" There is an incredibly amount of bias to this that often shows the age of people who say it. Ages 35 and up often let nostalgia cloud their judgement. Like music for instance, it's easy to say that when you're just remembering the classics and the good stuff that stood the test of time and aged well. Every decade had horrible music, the songs that everyone forgets for good reason. I feel this is the same in sports and especially NFL. It's easy to say the old days had more dominant teams when you're only remember teams like the 49ers and Cowboys of the 90's. There was also a lot of bad teams in those same years. Same for quarterback play.
No sport in American history has reigned supreme forever. Boxing used to be the biggest household sport for the longest time. The heavy weight title was considered a crowning achievement, and that sport eventually died off to irrelevancy. MLB has the steroid era, NBA it's slow decline after the 90's....The NFL is going to decline like everything else did.
The true answer probably lies in CTE research and everything coming to light with concussions that we previously did not know beforehand. I think a lot of consumers and fans view the NFL as being more dishonest and more corporate and about the rich owners. Many of them see the NFL as they don't really care about their players like they do other professional sports...Roger Goodell is universally hated of all major sport commissioners and for good reason; he's a laughing stock and a phony. It also don't help that the fans have to sit there and witness Goodell and this league who clearly care far more about money than them with moving teams and re-locating them and the new stadium costs. Just look at how empty the 49ers new stadium is every game, or how the people in San Diego had their beloved team torn from them thanks to a sleazeball owner and a commissioner that couldn't just put his foot down and say no. Not every fan is going to keep watching this sport after they get royally screwed over and their beloved team ripped from their city and areas.
The NFL gets what it deserves. They wanted to keep Goodell around, and wanted to bring two teams to L.A. so bad while ripping them from their fans (not counting the Raiders move to Vegas, that's going to be bad too), and add in how dishonest they've been about the concussion stuff while former players suffer.
Most NFL fans are also "fair weather". When the team is doing poorly, they're not going to bother spending outrageous amounts of money to go to games and be surrounded by fans of the road team. Even a mediocre team, there is no point in wasting your money if they aren't having a winning season. But if the team starts winning and gets it together, all those fans are going to come back.
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Spread style offenses have changed the NFL for the last 30 years. If you want to historically date this, then the Oilers Run-N-Shoot and Buffalo's K-Gun offenses were the first that really legitimatized a spread offense into the NFL running multiple wide receiver sets and various shotgun plays. The West Coast Offense was still in it's primitive state back then.
The spread style offenses are the reason why the Bears style 4-6 defense became completely obsolete in just a matter of a few years, and quite frankly the reason they never won another Super Bowl. The 4-6 looks unbeatable against offenses running Smashmouth and other run heavy style offenses without a lot of passing. When you run the 4-6 up against a spread style offense, or even just something with good blocking and deep ball play (see 1985 Dan Marino carving it up, or any year in the playoffs where the Bears had to face Washington or San Fran who did the same thing), it's going to get exposed every single time.
I don't think it has anything to do with bad o-line play. In that time of span, we've seen several teams manage to run pass happy spread style offenses and have terrific o-line play.
The teams mentioned in the first post don't really put a lot of work into offensive line play. There are still some teams who make O-line play a top priority and invest heavily into it. Teams like Atlanta, Dallas and New Orleans focus on o-line play.
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NOPE! Sean Payton will resign or be rightfully fired before Marvin Lewis is finally canned.
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20 hours ago, oldunclemark said:
Dallas still has a top level offense but defensively, they're not going to stop a lot of people
Dallas is starting an entire secondary of all rookies....this was bound to happen to them and was waiting...They aren't winning 13 games this year with that secondary.
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21 hours ago, chad72 said:
Prescott cannot carry a team on his arm. His balls are not as accurate over 15 yards.
He's had one bad game so far, and it was still only his 4th career loss....way too early to throw the towel in on him. He will be fine....
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Only this time around, there is no one to be disappointed and feel sorry for them. They alienated their fan base by trashing them and moving to L.A...Spanos gets what he deserves. Just wait until they play the Raiders when that little stadium will be overrun in silver and black.
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I never watch pre-game shows anyway. Like to mute the TV and play music during games...
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7 hours ago, jvan1973 said:
You've never destroyed anything on this board other than your own arguments. Example. 8-8 is a winning season. 8
8-8 is a winning season only if you make the playoffs.
Outside of la la land in this forum where that's used to justify the Colts mediocrity in Pagano's coaching, it's pretty much well agreed on that an 8-8 record makes you an average, mediocre team and not a "winning season." If you make the playoffs at 8-8, then you can tell us how this is a winning team who fails to achieve 9 or 10 wins...
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21 hours ago, crazycolt1 said:
LT was the most cranked up player in history. It was known for years he did some heavy performance induced drugs like coke and crank while playing. Bill Parcells turned his head away and ignored what LT was doing.
In today's world he wouldn't be allowed to be on the field.
Most players on coke and other illegal drugs like that cannot perform at a high level. LT was an exception of this...Weather he was on crack or not, I don't see where it gave him a boost of performance since most people can't play that great when they're high like that on something like coke. Parcells has blamed himself for years about LT's behavior issues and drug problems, stating that he failed him as a person, so have to disagree with your comment that he ignored it.
LT played in an era where quarterbacks weren't treated like gods and you could beat the living crap out of them and not have to worry about fines, excessive flags, or "bounty" stuff...He is far from the only one of his era who wouldn't be allowed on the field today. Ronnie Lott, Rickey Jackson, Clyde Simmons, Reggie White and Bruce Smith would be getting fined every week for how brutal they beat up quarterbacks in this same era.
He still redefined the position of linebacker and completely changed how the position is viewed and played. Joe Gibbs has said before that he started using 2 Tight End sets back in the 80's to try and do something to hold off LT's pass rush from getting to the QB...
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Seat Geek is good for tracking down tickets for concert venues too.
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Can't believe people like Savage so much when they ripped on Brock all last year.
And now he's getting outplayed by Watson through sheer athleticism, even funnier! Brock was bad too, but he couldn't get the benefit of the doubt from many people for some reason...People wanted to see him fail since he won games in Denver, though Elway was 100% correct when he said they don't win that SB in 2015 without Brock to win a few games for them.
The coach is the problem in Houston and always was...He's went through quarterbacks like a pair of socks - Hoyer, Weeden, Brock, and now Savage and Watson...He still hasn't hit on a QB and yet he gets none of the blame for some reason.
Stafford's new record contract in NFL
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Stafford gave 3 touchdowns to the SAINTS horrible defense, and not a single post in here about that?
He singlehandedly turned the Saints defense into a reincarnation of the Dome Patrol.