downhill from here >>> nfl 2017/18 weeks 10 thru 17 thread

not since baseballs mcguire-bonds-sosa heyday

Yah meant to say modern

can't believe we're discussing juicing (they all are, especially gronk) when we could be talking about the pro bowl

gronk gotta get that juice bro!

Highest career passer rating, minimum 200 passes, NFL history:
106.5 Jimmy Garoppolo
103.8 Aaron Rodgers
103.0 Deshaun Watson

— Michael David Smith (@MichaelDavSmith) December 18, 2017

Stats

Missed one game this year and was this one of course. Maybe for the best with my heart condition. Watched British nfl highlights show, which was even more horrific than I expected, and got a proper look at the controversial call which...well, I'm sure it was very exciting at the time, but I didn't expect it to be quite so obviously not a catch. Anyway, that played out like the recent Pats super bowl wins, so might be done for the year now. Divisional round loss to bmore prediction continuing to look strong.

Warrick Dunn is making the down payment and furnishing a home for a single mother today in Atlanta. He's done that 159 times now. Cool guy.

nice

that's awesome

BREAKING: Papa John's founder John Schnatter to step down as CEO; announcement comes weeks after he criticized NFL over protests.

— AP Business News (@APBusiness) December 21, 2017

ripapa

i always loved how he pronounced it puppa juns in the commercials

hopefully he will still have the means to maintain one of the worst dye jobs going

im getting word that frank gore is not only still in the league but has become only the 2nd player ever to have 12 straight 1000 yard seasons and is 5th on the alltime rushing list

I'm kinda wondering if you might see some more NFL owners try to cash out at the end of the season and sell the club. Trying to get out before the fall.

Gore gonna go down as one of the most underrated players ever. Pretty crazy that he’s had the consistency and durability he has as someone who blew out both knees before he played in the NFL.

Also kind of proof that it takes luck to be a star. He was on a lot of crappy teams in SF and then signs with Indy thinking that is going to be a chance to get in the playoffs and be on good clubs and they turned into crud.

Those laters niner teams he was on were good!

Gore was on 3 good teams in 11. How many TV commercials would have had if he played for the Packers or Steelers in the same time?

Running back is weird in that way when discussing the greats, as you got some players that got hurt young Bo Jackson, Gayle Sayers, Billy Sims etc. and then you got people like Herschel Walker and Ricky Williams who by what you know really were a couple of the best of all time but their careers turned out really weird.

indy is playing good/hard imo

Gore kinda has a pretty dud personality too tho. Not much flare there to market

Emmitt Smith was great, but the dude had the luck of both being on the best exact place to put up tons and tons of yards and being durable enough to play forever. Smith was a masher and great running back to just pound the rock, but I can probably name on a hand at least a handful of guys I saw play that were more dangerous because of their speed and moves etc.

this game is bad.

yeah obv if you switch emitt smith w Barry sanders then Barry prob averages 3k yards a season and emitts name is unknown.

Smith would have been really good, but it would not have been as easy and he probably would have taken a worse pounding. Larry Allen alone, that era Cowboy o-line was the best of it's time.

Sanders kept a bunch of his teams in the game. They never got over that next level, but they won quite a few games. A couple of times they had a good passing games, they just couldn't get it all together to take that next step.

feel like every lions season they had sanders they had to win out their last three games to make the playoffs and save their coaches job and they always did it then lost in the first round

This is extremely unlikely but damn it would be the most hilarious thing

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/21863467/teams-complain-nfl-green-bay-packers-violated-ir-rule-think-aaron-rodgers-released

Multiple teams complained to the NFL last week that the Packers violated the rules regarding players who are eligible to be placed on injured reserve -- and that Green Bay should have to release quarterback Aaron Rodgers as a result, league sources told ESPN.

NFL rules stipulate that a player needs to have suffered a new injury that would sideline him at least six weeks to be placed on injured reserve. If that is not the case, the team is obligated to release the player once he is healthy.

Belichick have naked pictures of a replay official or something? Holy hell.

fuck the Bills but fuck the dirty ass Pats too imo

I’m on my second bottle of wine btw; gonna send this tab to the refs

thought it probably wasn't a TD but was amazed that they overturned the original call

by rule, the patriots do not allow touchdown catches

it's a heuristic more than a rule

jimbert g was the best qb in NE all along

poor eli

NFC playoff layout as of now is pretty interesting, too bad it is probably just a setup to get beat by NE in the Superbowl.

feel like maybe replay officials shd only be allowed to go to a certain level of slowmo

As much as I'd like to see them win again, NE looks fairly beatable in the playoffs.

xp

Who is going to beat the Pats? Steelers in Gillette? Jags? I would think anything less than getting to the Superbowl would be a let down. They are not anywhere near the best of the Pats teams or anything over the past decade or so, but the league is pretty mushy these days on good teams.

Eagles would probably be the big favorite if old boy hadn't got hurt, as they do look pretty good all the way around.

One of those NFC South could get hot and go to the Superbowl. Vikings are pretty good all the way around, so maybe they make it their year. I'd be good with that scenario myself. I'd like to have bet 20 on the Rams going to the Superbowl way back around the draft, that might turn out to be a pretty good payoff if it happens and it is still a long shot at this point.

feel like almost all "great" RBs either feel overrated because of where they played (Bettis, E. Smith) or supremely talented but somehow unsatisfying careers (Adrian Peterson, Barry Sanders)

I have a decent amount of confidence in the Vikings ability to turn the Superbowl into a dreary 21-13 slugfest that everyone outside the home markets stops watching

8-for-17, 51 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT

7 sacks for -42 yards

make that 2 INTs

I had OAK +10, that last play was a whirlwind of emotions

gdamn good on you for betting that

Wasn’t going to but it started at 8.5 and moved to 10 by kickoff. Lol @ anyone who got in early

There is a certain sweetness to read about a bunch of Cowboys hand wringing. It is good when not is all going well in Jerrahworld. It's funny that their stadium is the ultimate neutral site, even for the Cowboys. I'll be kind of surprised if Garrett gets fired, but man, he might kind of wish he does.

It's also hilarious that the Hatcats have screwed around and probably going to lose their QB. It's been a LONG LONG time since even a decent QB changed teams. I got to think Cousins is going to Denver, that makes way too much sense. They still have some picks and some good players. Got to wonder, would this had finally been the time and place for Wade Phillips to have been a head coach? Dude that defense really tuned up. Don't know.

Kinda curious in where Bruce Arians goes. If he leaves AZ, which he probably should - I got to think the Colts or Broncos might give him a call.

Remember when wade was a not great head coach in denver? So. Long. Ago.

please someone on social media screencap the sad giants fan kid with "WE BELIEVE IN ELI" sign