2021 NFL Season Thread

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Aug 02, 2021 5:28 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Aug 02, 2021 3:58 pm Those are the kind of jokes that …

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UNITAS!!!

I laughed anyway.

Tom 1860 · Post by **Tom 1860** » Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:46 am

sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Aug 02, 2021 5:05 pm
Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 02, 2021 9:32 am his typical whiny bullshit

hey, I wrote some pretty lovely things about Elway before I let rip.

He was a wonderful player, but...

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Aug 03, 2021 10:53 am

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Aug 03, 2021 10:55 am

Heh

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Tue Aug 03, 2021 11:07 am

I'm not following anyone from "Giants twitter", but I did get this before the fight, which accurately sums up anything re-tweeted into my timeline about them this far:

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Aug 03, 2021 11:29 am

I don't follow "Giants twitter" either - but -yeah - its oozing into my timeline. For hilarious reasons.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Tue Aug 03, 2021 11:30 am

I dated a girl a few years back who Mike Tanier taught HS math to.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Aug 03, 2021 11:34 am

So, Jonathan Taylor probably not a first round back anymore?

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Aug 03, 2021 11:37 am

Tom 1860 · Post by **Tom 1860** » Tue Aug 03, 2021 4:36 pm

tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 11:37 am

All this happening now is just gravy...

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Aug 04, 2021 4:32 pm

Urban Meyer to use Winners and Losers drill to help determine Jacksonville Jaguars' cuts

This seems incredibly stupid and probably lazy. Aren't you going to end up having players focus on conserving energy for one-on-one drills versus practicing like they would on a normal team?

EdRomero · Post by **EdRomero** » Wed Aug 04, 2021 4:35 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 4:32 pm Urban Meyer to use Winners and Losers drill to help determine Jacksonville Jaguars' cuts

This seems incredibly stupid and probably lazy. Aren't you going to end up having players focus on conserving energy for one-on-one drills versus practicing like they would on a normal team?

Worked for Robert California

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed Aug 04, 2021 4:59 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 4:32 pm Urban Meyer to use Winners and Losers drill to help determine Jacksonville Jaguars' cuts

This seems incredibly stupid and probably lazy. Aren't you going to end up having players focus on conserving energy for one-on-one drills versus practicing like they would on a normal team?

"But I've had to make decisions on who starts, and it's not fair to players to say, 'Well, I'm starting [you] because I like you or because you're from Ohio.' It's just, 'Here's the stats.' They say statistics are for losers, and my comment is usually losers say statistics are for losers."

Tell Canton to get the plaque ready...

Rams Fanny · Post by **Rams Fanny** » Wed Aug 04, 2021 5:31 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 4:59 pm
mister d wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 4:32 pm Urban Meyer to use Winners and Losers drill to help determine Jacksonville Jaguars' cuts

This seems incredibly stupid and probably lazy. Aren't you going to end up having players focus on conserving energy for one-on-one drills versus practicing like they would on a normal team?

"But I've had to make decisions on who starts, and it's not fair to players to say, 'Well, I'm starting [you] because I like you or because you're from Ohio.' It's just, 'Here's the stats.' They say statistics are for losers, and my comment is usually losers say statistics are for losers."
Tell Canton to get the plaque ready...

Since he's determining jobs after 5 reps, I wonder if he would like the "every man's got a record" criteria applied to him after five games this season?

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Wed Aug 04, 2021 6:38 pm

Seems like a loser's idea of making winners.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Aug 04, 2021 7:34 pm

If one took Meyer's tactic to a ridiculous extreme, he'd keep an old, injury-prone, overpriced player with no upside over a young guy with loads of potential, if he did a bit better in drills.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Aug 04, 2021 7:39 pm

My evergreen comment stands

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Aug 04, 2021 7:41 pm

And then use "look, he did tangibly better (at the test I made the absolute factor)" as the end-all to any questioning of decisions. But I can't possibly see that happening.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Thu Aug 05, 2021 7:06 pm

Post by **brian** » Thu Aug 05, 2021 7:14 pm

That’s a Michigan State education for you.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Thu Aug 05, 2021 9:50 pm

Qirk Qousins.

Qouch.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:44 pm

This explains some of it. Ffs

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:02 pm

You like that?

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 6:21 am

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 6:27 am

Lamar Jackson is not vaccinated, has had COVID twice, and posts anti Vax crap to his IG pages. So proud of my QB.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 8:15 am

tennbengal wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:44 pm This explains some of it. Ffs

Everybody on fuckin' Earth "has an agenda". Mike Zimmer has an agenda. Big Bird has an agenda. Uncle Sam has an agenda.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 9:26 am

You know who doesn't have an agenda? A preacher.

Post by **brian** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:06 am

Many people don't remember this now, but one of the reasons Cousins fell to the fourth round in the draft was his batshit crazy dad.

Post by **brian** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:07 am

Or maybe I'm thinking of Connor Cook's dad. What the fuck is it with Michigan State QBs and their fucking crazy-ass fascist fathers?

Post by **brian** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:20 am

NFL coaches are fucking nuts. I wonder if they're all somehow deciding to take the opposite lesson of Ted Lasso.

“My message to the team is very clear: We attack every day. It’s a climb and we’re attacking every day,” he said. “We like to even break it down further than that. We’re not only attacking every day; we’re attacking the little parts of that day, right? The players right now are attacking rest. The coaches, when we’re done here, I’m going to go up with the offensive staff and we’re going to watch the tape and we’re going to attack the crap out of the film. Then we’re going to attack the meeting room, right? Then we’re going to attack the walkthrough, then we are going to attack the meeting room again.”
philadelphiaeagles.com

Hell yeah! Oh hell yeah! Attack that rest!

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 12:00 pm

I’m seeing a lot of free autumn Sundays in my immediate future.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 12:06 pm

Its really nice. I enjoyed the routine for a while but then it became more like an obligation and being free is lovely.

Post by **brian** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 12:34 pm

I like Josh Allen but I’d be at least a little concerned over that extension. I would have thought they might be able to keep the AAV down a little more than $43M/year.

ETA: With the caveat that NFL contracts are bullshit. Of course, he did also get $150M guaranteed, so it's still a huge investment.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 1:12 pm

brian wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 12:34 pm I like Josh Allen but I’d be at least a little concerned over that extension. I would have thought they might be able to keep the AAV down a little more than $43M/year.

ETA: With the caveat that NFL contracts are bullshit. Of course, he did also get $150M guaranteed, so it's still a huge investment.

For that kind of money, you'd hope there's a clause forcing him to get a vaccine.

Rams Fanny · Post by **Rams Fanny** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 1:23 pm

brian wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:20 am NFL coaches are fucking nuts. I wonder if they're all somehow deciding to take the opposite lesson of Ted Lasso.

“My message to the team is very clear: We attack every day. It’s a climb and we’re attacking every day,” he said. “We like to even break it down further than that. We’re not only attacking every day; we’re attacking the little parts of that day, right? The players right now are attacking rest. The coaches, when we’re done here, I’m going to go up with the offensive staff and we’re going to watch the tape and we’re going to attack the crap out of the film. Then we’re going to attack the meeting room, right? Then we’re going to attack the walkthrough, then we are going to attack the meeting room again.”
philadelphiaeagles.com

Hell yeah! Oh hell yeah! Attack that rest!

I realize the journalist in you wouldn't delete the credit, but it would have been fun to play "guess which coach said this?". I'm sure there would have been at least 10 different answers. I would have guessed the lunatic in Detroit.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:29 pm

brian wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 12:34 pm I like Josh Allen but I’d be at least a little concerned over that extension. I would have thought they might be able to keep the AAV down a little more than $43M/year.

ETA: With the caveat that NFL contracts are bullshit. Of course, he did also get $150M guaranteed, so it's still a huge investment.

At the least the Ravens have their floor now. I like Pruitt's vaccine clause idea.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 3:30 pm

For the second consecutive season, DirecTV is comping me Sunday Ticket Max for some reason.

ETA: Well, last season was probably a bribe to get me to keep DirecTV through the pandemic, as that email came in late April of 2020.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 5:21 pm

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 3:30 pm For the second consecutive season, DirecTV is comping me Sunday Ticket Max for some reason.

ETA: Well, last season was probably a bribe to get me to keep DirecTV through the pandemic, as that email came in late April of 2020.

I received that email as well. But, I'll be quitting DirecTV just as soon as I can get my wife to get onboard.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 5:27 pm

I'm sure it will come as no surprise to anyone to find out that Nick Bosa's girlfriend's tweets loudly identify her as (also) a racist, homophobic, Trump-supporter who won't get the Covid vaccination. Even so, this thread of her tweets is a thing to behold. I could post them all in this thread, but they go on and on and on... (These tweets were recently brought to light, and she then deleted her Twitter account.)

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Fri Aug 06, 2021 6:14 pm

That just keeps going and going. Jesus.