NFL 2018 - week 11

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NFL has a mess on its hands in Mexico

Kudos to Mike Florio for taking the NFL to task for this.
PFT wrote:Here we are, six days before the Chiefs and Rams will meet in Mexico, and the league engaged in no obvious proactive effort to solve the problem until the pot reached a full, raging boil.

The turf at Aztec Stadium remains a “mess,” but the NFL is “determined” to play the game, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.
It’s easy to envision a series of hectic meetings and frazzled conference calls during which a variety of arguments are made and considerations are balanced. Here’s hoping that the only factors that ultimately matters are: (1) the safety of the players; and (2) the integrity of the game.

Remember the second one? That was the cover the NFL used to justify whacking the Patriots over a trivial football-inflation issue under a standard that had been on the books for so long that no one knew why it was even there. Taking a little air out of the ball to make it easier to throw (the NFL failed to prove that this ever happened) and thus making the game better is a far cry from forcing two of the best offenses in the NFL to play on a field that looks like the vacant lot in every neighborhood where a house was torn down and a smattering of grass, weeds, rocks, and dirt is now in its place.

Instead, other concerns will drive the decision, from legal claims made by fans who incurred travel plans in reliance on the game being played in Mexico (there will be liability, and the NFL should do the right thing and provide fair refunds) to potentially alienating Mexican officials who could kill future NFL games there to possibly undermining the league’s effort to squeeze as much money as possible out of international wallets. Those concerns should be secondary to the safety of the players and the integrity of the game.

But we know they won’t be. Because in too many past instances, they haven’t been.
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Game has been moved to LA.
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NFL ain't real until they're playing games in San Pedro Sula at 5PM.
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Watch the game in LA get postponed because the smoke from the fires makes it unsafe
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degenerasian wrote: Tue Nov 13, 2018 5:26 pm Watch the game in LA get postponed because the smoke from the fires makes it unsafe
They should move the game to Quito and play it at 9,000 feet.
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brian wrote: Tue Nov 13, 2018 4:53 pm Game has been moved to LA.
I can't recommend Mark Leibovich's book about the NFL too highly.

His portrait of Goddell and the idiots at the league office is subtly scathing.
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Aikman has been “a fan of Doug Baldwin’s for a long time”.

To emphasize this he described Baldwin as:

-an underrated receiver
-who always competes at the highest level
-and plays with a chip on his shoulder
-and is a heck of a ball player

All in one sentence.

Then Buck pointed out that was his first TD catch of the season.
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How bad are the Packers if they don't have Rodgers?
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Pruitt wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:49 pm How bad are the Packers if they don't have Rodgers?
Bad enough that a drunken Cheesehead would figure out time travel and use it to fire McCarthy three years ago.
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Matt Patricia is a piece of garbage. I hope the Ford Family cleans house and gets rid of every single former Patriot front office asshole in the organization.

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Is there anything more unknown yet certain than "Matt Patricia definitely supported the Kavanaugh confirmation"?
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Too early to call him "The Bearded Mangini?"

ETA: Just noticed that he wears the pencil to press conferences. Nice affectation.
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The Browns are amazing.
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rass wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 11:02 am The Browns are amazing.
While I get that NFL front offices are filled with right-wingers, do they seriously not realize that Rice was really, really bad at her job? The Bush administration’s foreign policy was so horrendous that it makes even Trump look good in comparison.
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Maybe the Browns can move to Oakland and you Cleveland fans can get one more swing at the expansion pinata.
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Why even float this as an idea?

What good can come of such a moronic concept?
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Pruitt wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 11:50 am Why even float this as an idea?

What good can come of such a moronic concept?
Everyone gets a good laugh in a time of serious peril?
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brian wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 12:01 pm
Pruitt wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 11:50 am Why even float this as an idea?

What good can come of such a moronic concept?
Everyone gets a good laugh in a time of serious peril?
I posted on the Toronto Browns Facebook site that this is a pathetic idea even as a publicity stunt.

First response:
How would adding a woman of colour make an organization a laughing stock? I think it's a great idea. She has some college football background.
If I'd have had a few beers, no telling what my response would have been!
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If they were talking about hiring her for some unspecified front office job I’d roll my eyes but it wouldn’t be a big deal ultimately but head coach? Come the fuck on.
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If this happens and the Jets hire Michelle Obama to replace Bowles, I’m back into football.
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I guess the Alex Smith pic was appropriate this week. ughhhhhhh
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Damn I wish that was Winston going gimp like that.
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Sat down to the Pit/Jax game at exactly the right time. woo
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rass wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 4:18 pm Sat down to the Pit/Jax game at exactly the right time. woo
Crazy 4th quarter - first half was abysmal.

Steelers deserved the win... but boy, they got EVERY call in that game.

And I am probably alone in this (we've had this discussion before) but I think Rivera was nuts to go for 2.
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Pruitt wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 4:21 pm And I am probably alone in this (we've had this discussion before) but I think Rivera was nuts to go for 2.
Cam just needed to make a pretty routine throw there to convert the 2PC. As for the decision, I think it all depends on the confidence he had in his 2 point play. If you kick, you can still lose the game on a missed PAT, a game winning drive by Detroit at the end of regulation, or in OT. So your odds of winning by kicking are probably ~30%.
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This Chargers team is not going anywhere.
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Sigh.

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Joe K wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 4:35 pm
Pruitt wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 4:21 pm And I am probably alone in this (we've had this discussion before) but I think Rivera was nuts to go for 2.
Cam just needed to make a pretty routine throw there to convert the 2PC. As for the decision, I think it all depends on the confidence he had in his 2 point play. If you kick, you can still lose the game on a missed PAT, a game winning drive by Detroit at the end of regulation, or in OT. So your odds of winning by kicking are probably ~30%.
I see it as a risk worth taking if there's barely any time left, but it doesn't make sense to take the risk when you would have been giving Detroit a minute to get into field goal range.

And that Philips Rivers play stopping the clock for Denver was horrendously stupid.
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So, I guess I should start paying attention to the Bears again?
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Mon Nov 19, 2018 2:19 pm So, I guess I should start paying attention to the Bears again?
For about seven weeks and then busy yourself with more pressing things.
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EdRomero wrote: Mon Nov 19, 2018 8:43 am
Joe K wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 4:35 pm
Pruitt wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 4:21 pm And I am probably alone in this (we've had this discussion before) but I think Rivera was nuts to go for 2.
Cam just needed to make a pretty routine throw there to convert the 2PC. As for the decision, I think it all depends on the confidence he had in his 2 point play. If you kick, you can still lose the game on a missed PAT, a game winning drive by Detroit at the end of regulation, or in OT. So your odds of winning by kicking are probably ~30%.
I see it as a risk worth taking if there's barely any time left, but it doesn't make sense to take the risk when you would have been giving Detroit a minute to get into field goal range.

And that Philips Rivers play stopping the clock for Denver was horrendously stupid.
Philip Rivers should play for Andy Reid. Both guys put up great numbers but regularly find ways to lose anything meaningful. If they were on the same team, the decision-making at the ends of big games would be hilarious.
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The Rivers play was coming out of the 2:00 warning as well. The kind of brain freeze you'd expect a rookie to have. Denver didn't have any time outs either.
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i know im supposed to be happy right now...but if there is such a thing as a fake 7-3 team this Texans squad is it...we had no business beating washington. our linebackers are the worst in the league, we at one point sunday were down to our last five offensive linemen on the ROSTER,and our kicker is so bad i legitimate'y thought it was a visual hallucination from pot when he hit a 53 yarder sunday. jesus fuck how much would it hurr to finish 8-8 after sitting at 7-3?
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That first half of the Chiefs-Rams game was a riot.
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