NFL WEEK ONE 2015-6 Michael Bennett a "full go" after being limited Wednesday

Thursday, September 10, 2015 8:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh Steelers @ New England Patriots (NBC)
Announcers: Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, Michele Tafoya

Sunday, September 13, 2015 1:00 p.m.

Carolina Panthers @ Jacksonville Jaguars (Fox)
Announcers: Chris Myers, Ronde Barber, Jennifer Hale

Cleveland Browns @ New York Jets (CBS)
Announcers: Greg Gumbel, Trent Green, Jamie Erdahl

Green Bay Packers @ Chicago Bears (Fox)
Announcers: Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Erin Andrews

Indianapolis Colts @ Buffalo Bills (CBS)
Announcers: Spero Dedes, Solomon Wilcots

Kansas City Chiefs @ Houston Texans (CBS)
Announcers: Kevin Harlan, Rich Gannon

Miami Dolphins @ Washington http://i.imgur.com/QbYzHTH.jpg (CBS)
Announcers: Ian Eagle, Dan Fouts, Evan Washburn

Seattle Seahawks @ St. Louis Rams (Fox)
Announcers: Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston, Laura Okmin

Sunday, Sep. 13, 2015 4:05 p.m.

Detroit Lions @ San Diego Chargers (Fox)
Announcers: Thom Brennaman, Charles Davis, Tony Siragusa

New Orleans Saints @ Arizona Cardinals (Fox)
Announcers: Kevin Burkhardt, John Lynch, Pam Oliver

Sunday, Sep. 13, 2015 4:25 p.m.

Baltimore Ravens @ Denver Broncos (CBS)
Announcers: Jim Nantz, Phil Simms, Tracy Wolfson

Cincinnati Bengals @ Oakland Raiders (CBS)
Announcers: Tom McCarthy, Chris Simms

Tennessee Titans @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers (CBS)
Announcers: Andrew Catalon, Steve Beuerlein, Steve Tasker, Chris Fischer

Sunday, Sep. 13, 2015 8:20 p.m.

New York Giants @ Dallas Cowboys (NBC)
Announcers: Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, Michele Tafoya

Monday, Sep. 14, 2015 6:55 p.m.

Philadelphia Eagles @ Atlanta Falcons (ESPN)
Announcers: Mike Tirico, Jon Gruden, Lisa Salters

Monday, Sep. 14, 2015 10:15 p.m.

Minnesota Vikings @ San Francisco 49ers (ESPN)
Announcers: Chris Berman, Trent Dilfer, Lindsay Czarniak

<3 boston's favourite son, t-pain

collinsworth looking old. picked up some sun damage over the off season.

tpain sounded so bad but props for using the perf song for the occasion

porcelain easley dead already

wassssasuuuuup

pburgh come out with script of exciting plays, NE same throw 3 times

a. brown not bad

no reason to cover Gronk

lol dhb

scobee p good pick up for pburgh

in my fantasy team obv

having gronk is the real cheating

was wondering when lewis would start fumbling

lol

granted it is the steelers running the same defense as always without good players but i think concerns about brady's offseason were being overstated

dying at the steelers covering in garbage time

is there a level of time beyond garbage time? like i feel that garbage time doesn't accurately capture the time we were in.

apparently tomlin accused the pats of cheating, fucking w/ the headsets tonight

https://twitter.com/recordsandradio/status/642184553403129856

everyone shd accuse tha pats of cheating every game and they shd change their name to the new england cheating patriots im into it

tomlin is being a fucking baby

its weird how betting the spread is the standard approach when one cld just bet the money line and not be subject to the stealers scoring a touchdown w literally two seconds remaining

xxpost i agree

when the reports showed up that the headsets were jacked up for both teams & run by the nfl i was actually kind of disappointed that we wouldn't get another week long round of accusations directed at the EVIL PATS.. i mean just roll with it at this point and do something awful every single week

prob only get half a day out of it :(

Karl Malone needs to do an Evil Guide Dog treatment of Tom Brady.

i just realized like literally just now that the reason belichick doesn't really respond to media reports to defend himself and his legacy against all these accusations of cheating and shady tactics and subterfuge and espionage is that he figured out like 20 years ago that it is FAR more of an advantage to not respond and have every other team distracted and paranoid all the time about everything when they play your team

also hes grumpy

loling right now at pats fans chanting WHERE IS RODGER so loudly during the 4th quarter that you could hear it on the tv broadcast

yeah that was great

new england is just one huge wrestling heel

weird that tomlin managed to embarrass himself more after the game

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COnxVxaWEAAxjaM.jpg

wow the steelers r such babies maybe they shdve tried throwing each other the "football" in the "endzone" instead of getting upest about throwing "words" in "headsets"

its weird how betting the spread is the standard approach when one cld just bet the money line and not be subject to the stealers scoring a touchdown w literally two seconds remaining

lol this happened to me too

wow the steelers r such babies maybe they shdve tried throwing each other the "football" in the "endzone" instead of getting upest about throwing "words" in "headsets"
--lag∞n

hi bill!

in all seriousness though that's a pretty weak accusation to levy given how well it's known that the league provides the headsets, not gillette

patriots hypothetically cldve been interfering w them tho

as they almost certainly have done in the past

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COmMs3yWsAAfkaJ.png

linking because enormous for some reason

regardless of any speculation about the past, interference is a known and current issue and yesterday was not tomlin's first day in football, even if it looked like it

christ, get rid of headsets

football died the day they allowed those things on the field

http://www.amegaglobalhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Screen-shot-2010-03-07-at-9.58.28-PM1.png

pretty much how Tomlin looked the entire game

dude was shook

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/19900000/Omar-in-Higher-Learning-omar-epps-19939331-900-506.jpg

http://deadspin.com/ben-roethlisberger-says-the-patriots-defense-bent-the-r-1730032314

is there a new rule where the defense isn't allowed to shift en masse? b/c i'm pretty sure i've been watching that happen for years.

theres a new rule where the opposing team has to accuse the patriots of cheating every game

ah makes sense

yeah there's some ambiguity there i guess though trying to draw yr opponent offsides isn't some dastardly new scheme. i hope if they do 'resolve' the ambiguity it doesn't eliminate that kinda craftiness.

raiders just signed aldon smith

NOW THAT'S HOW TO BE A GODDAMN HEEL, FOLKS

i thought he should have clocked it at a couple different points and am happy to have been wrong

yeahhe knew he had them reeling

that was the platonic ideal of bad defense

that entire drive

I've never seen a team shoot itself in the foot so many times and still win despite getting no turnovers

that drive feels like the death knell of the tom coughlin era

collinsworth was all over coughlins nuts right before he failed to run on third down then he spent the rest of the game killing him for it lol

Tony Romo 36/45 356 3 2

crazy line

letting jason witten run untouched to the goal line is just...... how

tbf the nyfg te was being held like crazy on that third-down play . . . but yeah

i don't mind passing there as long as eli clearly understands to not throw the ball out of bounds. that was the real problem.

feel like u cant risk the incompletion regardless

the difference between 97 seconds and 57 seconds is huge, I don't think passing can be right here at all. also if a 3rd down run failed my hunch is it's correct to go for it on 4th down. not that Coughlin of all people could've figured that out.

they coulda just played some form of defense on the last drive

they had gotten stuffed twice, if there's a play that's "if we spring a guy open pass it to him if not just take the sack" then there's really nothing wrong with it. but just calling a normal pass play was stupid.

like they had it half way. the play was designed only for one player and he wasn't open, but no one had communicated to eli that if that happened he shouldn't look for the other receivers

that drive feels like the death knell of the tom coughlin era

― J0rdan S., Sunday, September 13, 2015 11:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like the giants have been executing pretty poorly for a few years now and what's changed is they don't have any talent to cover it up.

insert caveat that it's the 2nd quarter in week 1 but...maaaaaaybe chip kelly was just straight up batshit crazy, not genius crazy

-3 yards and a cloud of dust

"Go to fanduel.com & enter promo code BROWNIE"

aaaaaand yea now it's a blowout

weren't the eagles supposed to be good this year

that drive feels like the death knell of the tom coughlin era

two-time super bowl champion qb eli manning flung himself under the bus

doesn't explain the absent defense tho

not quite dead yet tho

weren't the eagles supposed to be good this year

― usic ally (k3vin k.), Monday, September 14, 2015 8:37 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't think so?

goddamnit i feel good about the falcons for ten minutes and these fuckers are gonna comeback on us

this got pretty interesting in a hurry

Matt Ryan's just trying to keep his defense from getting complacent, these are educational turnovers

it's like the eagles just flipped a switch. nuts.

jesus terrance newman still plays?

man i was really looking forward to chortling through a season of niner ineptitude

Niners looking riiiiight. Shoulda had a couple more TDs tho.

Yeah, I was expecting the Niners to be a dumpster fire. Even if they're just looking good against poor competition, they clearly have talent on this team.

Hopefully the bush injury isn't too bad

it's been one game they're probably still going to suck

hyde looked great and aaron lynch is very good but it's utterly crazy that a team w/ torrey smith, anquan boldin and vernon davis can't move the ball thru the air. the vikings secondary is prob pretty good actually but i dunno, kaepernick looked kind of embarrassingly bad as a passer again.

eagles offense is gonna steamroll everyone as long as bradford is healthy but the secondary is def concerning. they're very very lucky they have the cowboys early w/ dez out.

.500 is probably the max for the niners imo

Kaep still can't throw a ball less than like 80% max velocity.

that's a lot of enthusiasm for an eagles offense that had to switch up their approach 100% at half time because they were being dominated by...the atlanta defense. maybe dan quinn is a miracle worker but half those dudes didn't stop being mediocre over the summer. i know chip's offensive genius is supposed to transcend the limitations of his players but i think it relies on him having at least somewhat competent line play.

speaking of o-lines, only saw 1st q of the late game but seems like the rest followed the same pattern. v surprised niners with 2 actual o-linemen plus the worst guard to wear a pats jersey in belichick's tenure were able to run the ball all day on minnesota. vikes looked bad all over but in particular couldn't block for peterson or protect teddy. teddy looked bad in q1 but i guess he ended up with ok #s considering.

going by Rams history, when Bradford has a really strong game it is indeed because the opponent has one of the worst defenses in the league. He is terrible under pressure. also he'll be in a body-cast by week 5.

This is somewhat off topic but just fascinating

http://www.nj.com/sports/index.ssf/2015/09/the_engineering_of_15_year_old_josh_mckenzie.html
http://media.nj.com/realtimesports_impact/photo/-c1c78ed816e54822jpg-3668ebf9f1896e15.jpg

He is 15 years old, 5-foot-9 and 185 pounds of cartoonish muscles on top of muscles. He had six-pack abs when he was 6. Today, he bench-presses one-and-a-half times his body weight and can leap from a standing position to the top of a car. He averages four touchdowns per game and hasn't lost a wrestling match since 2012, making him the nation's top-ranked football player and wrestler for his grade. And even though he doesn't begin high school for another two weeks, he already is one of the most talked about athletes in New Jersey. His name is Josh McKenzie. But people just call him Man-Child, D-Train, Animal, Machine or Beast, and he is a once-in-a-lifetime physical specimen who looks like he was engineered in a lab, each piece meticulously sculpted, tested and refined.

Josh also embodies the runaway free-for-all youth sports have become. Specialized training. High school coaches lining up to woo players. Working out to the point of total exhaustion. Repeating a grade for athletic advantage. Bouncing from team to team. It's all part of his family's all-in, college-scholarship-or-bust gamble.

Sound extreme? Consider: This past year, Josh's family spent more than $15,000 on specialized training and thousands more to parade him around at showcases, tournaments and all-star events from Florida to California. With access to 10 private trainers and coaches — at an annual cost of more than $15,000 — Josh McKenzie, 15, trains at a level professional athletes might find overwhelming. Josh, a rising freshman at Bergen Catholic, even wears a specialized breathing mask when running to simulate training at high altitude. Most of the 10 specialized personal trainers he will see during the year — that's right, 10 trainers — rely on state-of-the-art techniques and put Josh through futuristic workouts. He takes it a step further by wearing a Darth Vader-like elevation mask to restrict breathing and simulate training at elevations. Josh's stable of experts includes a mindset coach, an isokinetic performance trainer, a nutritionist, three sprinting specialists and a power-lifting guru. He also has a family friend who acts as his public relations guy, although Josh already speaks like someone who has had extensive media training. Even his most mundane activities are meticulously planned and closely monitored. So, for example, he will record every morsel he eats in his iPhone app or log book, making sure to consume exactly 4,500 calories and 175 grams of protein each day.

"In this stage of my life, football's my main focus," Josh says. "My friends and all that partying can take a side seat for now."

"They're not on a mission like I am," explains Josh, who will finish the year with straight A's, a 98.72 overall average and a nearly perfect behavior report. "So school's kind of, like, just a business day now."

About an hour into algebra, Josh leaves the classroom and returns with a bottle of water and a plastic container of protein powder. He mixes and shakes until the concoction is thick and brown. Then he swigs the drink as he checks his math book.

is it bad to hope that kid chokes on his protein shake

^ Sounds almost as bad as figure skaters.

or professional dancers.

at the risk of being overly trenchant, it's sad that the only winning endgoal future this immensely driven, very clever, disciplined kid can see is as an athlete. prob would not be the case if this was a white middle class teenager.
his ugly early upbringing clearly colors a lot of why discipline seems to matter so much.
otoh:

Bill counters and says Josh "understands this isn't just about sports. He knows that he has a purpose here in life; it goes above and beyond sports." Bill points to Josh's near-perfect grades, the way he greets people with a smile, handshake and eye contact, and his goal to attend a strong academic college to pursue a career as an entrepreneur.

"A lot of people would be like, 'I don't understand how he does it. There's no fun in it,'" Josh says. "But I enjoy it. I like the regimented plan and I enjoy getting better and working hard. I like seeing the results."

The family's Christian faith is also "a big part of Josh's life," Bill says. He and Josh talk often about praying for guidance and asking God for signs during trying moments, such as the high school decision process. And Bill is quick to credit God's blessing — and not training or coaching — for Josh's athletic abilities.

"We talk about leaving a legacy, making an impact, making a difference in other people — and not just through sports," Bill says. "He's a smart kid. He gets it."

in any case, sandra bullock needs to buy the rights now

this is good: https://storify.com/sgw94/bucs-vs-titans-2015-review

Dude is way too committed to Twitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Marinovich

Somebody wanna start a week two thread?
also:
https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/battle-for-benefits-part-1-why-do-i-have-to-fight-you-now
^never liked turley as a player but i agree with him: it is hella stupid that the nfl doesn't have a more proactive and extensive retiree (and rookie!) outreach and engagement program