NFL 2015 / Week 5: "Enjoy your practice squad paycheck, enjoy your practice squad trophy"

Alternate title: "They threw rocks at Jesus, and Jesus was an excellent guy who did a lot of awesome stuff"

Thursday Night Brawlfest:
Indy at Houston

Sunday noon:
Jacksonville at Tampa Bay (-3)
Buffalo at Tennessee (+3)
Cleveland at Baltimore (-6.5)
Washington at Atlanta (-8)
Chicago at Kansas City (-9.5)
New Orleans at Philadelphia (-5)
St. Louis at Green Bay (-9.5)
Seattle at Cincincatti (-1)

Sunday Afternoon:
Arizona at Detroit (+3)
New England at Dallas (+8)
Denver at Oakland (+5.5)

Been waiting all day for Sunday night:
San Fran at NY Giants (-7)

Monday Night Fight:
Pittsburgh at San Diego (-3)

Cleveland at Baltimore (-6.5)

Good Lord the Browns aren't that bad.

That Chicago line looks kinda high too as KC's offense on a good day is going to have to work to get a ten point lead with anyone.

Don't know about the source on this one, but it's a way different reaction if the case.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2576553-donte-stallworth-says-tom-brady-used-to-pay-practice-squad-players-for-ints?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=programming-national

fins practice squad drama is hilarious

Got to give some props to the Jets from looking like a tire fire this summer and being 3-1. It probably won't last but at least they have allowed the Dolphins to take over the position as the most out of touch NFL club.

Add all this crap in from this year with the Martin junk a couple years ago and Philbin looks like one of the bigger clown head coaches of the last 20-30 years. It doesn't look like he had any control on his club at all.

http://elitedaily.com/sports/victor-cruz-fiancee-group-text-side-chicks-photo/1237600/

cruuuuuz

hahaaa

"What were you, on SnapFace there or whatever you're talking about?"

belichick obvs

coyle now fired for real

whatever his faults i think coyle is exactly the kind of no-bullshit, high-energy, dynamic guy the dophins actually need in the post-philbincoma word

http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2015%2F0602%2Fnfl_u_kcoyle_jh_1296x729.jpg&w=570

can't believe they left the guy dangling since sunday. maybe it was done already but they were holding up the announcement until they had the replacement all tied up.

sounds like they gave campbell the authority to fire coyle and then campbell took four days to decide to do it or not

what a weird situation to put campbell in, a TE coach with no coordinator experience who suddenly has to choose whether the existing DC or another position coach is the best man to call the defense. at least the new guy has DC experience, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (1992-1994).

would love to get a couple quotes from bill lazor

i was going to make a joke about the merchant marine academy playing coast guard but i looked and they really do play coast guard!

Hahahaha wtf Indy

colts may want to cover hopkins, just a thought

this game has become an unexpected delight

ok game is terrible again

amazing

bill o'b is having a breakdown on the sideline

brutal

Colts won last night with the over the hill fantasy team from 2005...

Matt Hasselbeck
Andre Johnson
Frank Gore
Adam Vinatieri

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the wit and wisdom of jerry jones

would like to forward "WHY DID YOU THROW THAT?!?!" as a week 6 thread title
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o'brien was loads of fun to watch at that game
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even hatcats secondary can intercept a ball when thrown directly to them

Nick LOLs

"matt ryan is so good in these situations, that two minute drill"

ryan: [takes sack]

yeahhhhhh hatcats

this is a weird day in the nfl so far

wow what a catch by Barnidge

bills still looking p mediocre at best most often (and shitty often enough) but tyrod is legit

Jamal Charles :(

what a run

going nuts everywhere

bad day not to have redzone, shit

washington whyyyyyyy

an outstanding bit of chokeage by the seahawks, and there go like 8 of my pick em points

anyone see what happened at end of cle/bal 4th? online looked like cle had enough time to try a fg at end. no time outs?

jamaal charles w a torn ACL

They had three timeouts. McCown took too long to pass it with six seconds left and the clock ran out before the receiver could get his knee down.

i tuned in and the announcers were griping that the cleveland QB ran around for a while trying to evade a sack which wasted the 3 seconds they could've used to take a time out (which they had) and try a FG before the end of regulation. so they successfully completed a pass near/in FG range on the next play but the clock was at 0:00 = overtime

thx guys. great win in the end tho

omg Browns

McCown passed for 450 yards!?

first QB in Browns history to pass for 300 yards in three straight games

it's 2015

welcome to the future

no thanks!

::draws up Wing T end around::

dang the raiders are kinda for real aren't they?

Peyton's gotta pack it in after this year

Sick run by Gronk, swatting down defenders like flies

yeah he is legit good, looking like an upgrade on vereen if anything. did not see that coming.

Bill Barnwell ‏@billbarnwell 3m3 minutes ago
Dion Lewis was out of football last year. Nobody wanted him. Colts cut him and played Trent Richardson all year.

picking on #22 over there in the secondary - who is that?

WOODSON

old man is on fyah this season, unbelievable

go pats go

feel like i haven't watched a game called by simms in a while & it's kind of driving me crazy

the lack of useful info

._.

shit

this is gonna be another 2007 for brady isn't it

that second woodson INT was amazing

dude is like a bird of prey

How is Woodson so good still it's insane

I still can't believe that Peyton threw that second one. rookie mistake.

https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/653311139254829056

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there's eli face! that's why i watch giants games

Cleveland at Baltimore (-6.5)

Good Lord the Browns aren't that bad.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, October 6, 2015 1:13 PM

saddest of OTMs

wow the niners look... not awful

giants are so absurd

eli didn't call time out

chicken parm you taste so good

haha

awww happy coughlin for once

ugh

Giants 3-2 leading the NFC lEAST, kinda funny considering how it started.

Cowboys are proof how big a drop off you get after losing a good QB. Doubt it will make much difference with the mouthbreathers who lay in that Romo is the reason the Cowboys are not a dynasty.

Giants could've won the two games they lost if they hadn't bumbled around and given them away.

Hard to lose vs. NO the way they did but even with Romo I dunno if they're beating the Falcons or the Patriots. Worst thing about the Romo injury is it comes at a really brutal point in their schedule. Either way NYG is gonna run away with this division, which as a Packer fan scares me. As JF mentioned they could easily be 5-0 right now.

if they were 5-0 we'd be talking about how easily they could be 2-3, so let's not get carried away. a poor niners team crossed coasts and got made to look competent in this game. as a packers fan you should be pleased that this is the kind of tam you are supposed to be worried about, pack is considerably better on o and d.

Oh yes GB is the better team but NYG have delivered two pretty rough playoff losses to us. That 15-1 year followed by a first-round home loss really stung.

Not convinced that the 49ers are that awful. If Kaepernick is playing decent I think they could be 8-8. I don't wanna suggest the Giants are a top-5 team but the East is theirs to lose, and obviously they have that history of playing better as the season wears on. Denver is the team that I have no idea what to make of right now, Peyton looks terrible, though you can feel confident as a Denver fan b/c I don't think he can play any WORSE and they're still 5-0. Nov 1 vs GB should reveal a lot.

Oof! Daniel Fells's MRSA infection was so bad that the doctors have removed parts of his foot and may have to amputate it. His career is over. :(

jesus

holy shit :(

Really awful news. I just hope it doesn't get any worse for his sake. MRSA is scary

wow, is the suplex a legal tackle in the nfl

sure.

you know who is not impressing is melvin gordon. chargers line is a mess but he hasn't made any individual plays either.

soooooo many steeler fans ugh

that was p sick. wheaton murdered flowers and jammer. jammer looked like he gave up and sat down.

miller hanging on to that was amazing

jeeeeez

dramatic finish wow

he got it in but that was really really close

yeah gotta be a touchdown

sick

terrible play call btw

didn't tirico say run a qb sneak then call time out and kick if it didn't work? there's no way you can do that in six seconds

gruden said sneak i think. bell had too much time to dance, gotta run something faster.

yeah I'd worry with a QB sneak since the refs usually take a second or two to figure out when the guy's down given that they're such a pile. I was thinking snap and quick throw.

yeah quick throw is a low-percentage play given how inaccurate vick is but it's maybe the only safe choice

Pittsburgh's schedule is pretty brutal. I can't see them hanging with the Bengals for the division at this point. Other than a beat up KC, which really isn't a nancy, their schedule is nasty as heck especially with Cleveland and Oaktown playing competitive.

Cincy right now looks pretty good, they really don't have any part of their game that looks weak. I wish they were playing Green Bay or NE to really 'know' how they are doing, but they look good.

I feel like Dalton's turned a corner. yeah, he did make a dumb throw against Seattle but it really tells you more about your QB when he can rebound from that and lead a nice 17 point comeback.

I mean plus it's the Bengals - they've gotta be fuckin' due to advance this year

bengals do look like the real deal. after taking a step back with zimmer's departure the defense looks at good at it has been. and the offense, the perennial paper bengal, actually looks ok, with both talent and depth/redundancy that they haven't had in recent memory. overall they just feel different from the team that has always been 1-2 injuries away from unraveling in previous years. there is a v reasonable chance they won't even play a wildcard game to lose in, which could be the secret. i like them more than denver right now, and if that pass rush holds up through the season i'd be p uncomfortable about the pats playing them in a single elim game.