HARD KNOCKS on HBO

On Sept. 2 she received a text message from one of Shembo's friends, telling her, "Don't do anything you would regret. Messing with notre dame football is a bad idea."

ugh I didn't know abt that Seeberg case

let's not mention his name again

the only football player I would advise anyone to date would be Matt Saracen of Friday Night Lights and he is 100% fictional.

lol

special teams coach scorched-earth meeting was great

and can we talk abt Liev Schrieber narrating all these HBO sports things

he's so good. love the timbre of his voice

Ryan's SI shoot and refusal to take off his shirt because he's not as ripped as Kaepernick were lol-worthy ... He came over well in the series, ultra professional but nicer and goofier than I expected ... Maybe he's just smoother in front of cameras than some of the other guys

that made me lol so hard

I think he definitely understands the publicity-angle of Hard Knocks maybe more than the younger guys. But I like to think that maybe he's just a good guy in general?

I loved that scene with the little kids after the game, that one kid losing his shit over the photo and the jersey signature.

It's corny but I like that there can still be moments like that for kids

Ryan is definitely a genuinely good guy.

ryan has really won me over in these.

i'm on ep 4 and the jeff hawley pottery scene was so great.

omg i loved that

Joe brawley

oh yeah i meant joe, oops

i mean obviously that was my jam

this series of this dope tv show is not as dope as usual

i feel like everything jj watt does on camera that is not actual football is *for* the camera, way more than most guys I've seen on this show

idk maybe it's just me? but he seems like a giant poser dickwagon

they hoped for a lot of mileage from the rapport between him and wilfork but he entirely lacks the latter's good humour, though some of that might be the difference between a very good player and a great one with a commensurately high opinion of himself * and a developing personality cult

even his most basic repartee seemed to be processed via a rigid cost/benefit analysis of how it would further his position as alpha in all aspects

few of the other attempts to humanize players worked, eg the wide receiver who was trailed as an eccentric/livewire type in the space centre montage before he spoke nothing but shit, same for his undersized friend who barely appeared until he was cut by editor and team without giving any indication of why he was there in the first place

the head coach probably isn't an awful person but there's not a lot beyond that, the hilarity he found in the almost completely basic impression of himself by the rookie was fairly telling

* https://twitter.com/JJWatt/status/640182341285998592

i don't dislike him that much but his thing is very calculated for sure.

i liked some of the fringe roster guys but i think it was telling that there was a semi-legit qb competition happening and they got no material out of it.

bill o'b kind of annoyed me at first then kind of won me over; but when i hear patriots fans around here talk about him as a successor to belichick i'm like noooo thanks

the absence of anything from the quarterbacks was probably partly because neither was interesting, and partly because they were both starting behind the resident deity at defensive end anyway

yeah this season seemed to be more rookie based which is fine, but i would have liked more solid interactions from older players, even if it's just 1 or 2 yr vets

@nakh cmon the messi pic is cute