2022 NFL Thread

[CatsbyAZ]

I kinda felt bad for Mac Jones.  You're out for a while and rusty, while you're getting back in the flow some DB makes an incredible play on the ball, and you're benched the rest of the way.  So the guy who filled in for your comes in, who's been in the rhythm with the team lately, and provides a spark, but then subsequently starts likewise sucking, and you still don't get your number called again. 

I think probably Jones is a much better QB than Belichik was treating him, but hey, if he wants to go with the Steve Spurrier School Of QB Management, that's his prerogative. 

Not at all counting on Mac Jones to ever be more than a journeyman QB, nor do I remotely feel sorry for him, nor do I understand what the hype is based on (to reference Kyle Shanahan wanting to draft Jones as high as 3rd overall until picking similarly overhyped Trey Lance).

With Belichick stubbornly, albeit informally, testing out the two-QB system that NFL/College quickly moved on from after its brief moment over twenty years ago, it’s denigrating to hear the NFL media lecture the obvious to its audience on Belichick’s back-and-forth with Mac Jones/Zappe – that this is a two-QB system and how it usually doesn’t go well, as though we as fans could never know what we’re watching without their commentary.

[MikeDeTiger]

Didn't Jones have a pretty good rookie season?  Honestly don't know.  I thought I read some stuff last year that seemed impressive.  I haven't seen him play much. 

[Mdot21]

https://twitter.com/SethWalder/status/1585321630531829761?s=20&t=gBwfJ2uDBuhL_8Aes29weA

[847badgerfan]

The GOAT has to be done after this season, right?

[FearlessF]

yup

[FearlessF]

For the Cowboys game against the Bears, the NFL has given its approval for a rare "color vs. color" game. The Cowboys, who usually wear white at home, will be making a switch to their standard navy blue jersey for this week's game. To give you an idea of how rare that is, the Cowboys have existed since 1960 and they didn't wear their standard navy blue jersey at home for the first time until 2013. (The Cowboys had worn navy at home before that, but it was always a throwback jersey, not their standard one).

As for the Bears, they'll be going all-orange: Chicago will be rocking its orange helmet with an orange jersey for just the second time this year. Although the Bears have worn an orange jersey multiple times throughout history, they had never worn an orange helmet until Week 6 of this season.

[FearlessF]

[847badgerfan]

For the Cowboys game against the Bears, the NFL has given its approval for a rare "color vs. color" game. The Cowboys, who usually wear white at home, will be making a switch to their standard navy blue jersey for this week's game. To give you an idea of how rare that is, the Cowboys have existed since 1960 and they didn't wear their standard navy blue jersey at home for the first time until 2013. (The Cowboys had worn navy at home before that, but it was always a throwback jersey, not their standard one).

As for the Bears, they'll be going all-orange: Chicago will be rocking its orange helmet with an orange jersey for just the second time this year. Although the Bears have worn an orange jersey multiple times throughout history, they had never worn an orange helmet until Week 6 of this season.

Another reason to despise Halloween.

[FearlessF]

I'm rooting for Da Bears in Orange today!

[FearlessF]

ESPN+ streaming deserves this matchup

poor Brits

[Mdot21]

the Bears trade LB Raquon Smith to the Baltimore Ravens for a 2nd and 5th rd pick. Smith is one of the best LB's in the league. Baltimore is also getting their 2nd rd pick David Ojabo back from injury this week. Their defense is about to get a big shot in the arm in the coming weeks with those two additions to their front 7.

Man they really screwed up not getting Lamar Jackson a new deal a year or two ago. His price just keeps going up the better and better he plays this year. They are going to have give up an arm and a leg to pay him now- could've taken care of him 2 years ago and it'd probably be 30% less and way less guaranteed money than they're gonna have to pay him now.

[Mdot21]

Lions are such a clown show....they fire secondary coach Aubrey Pleasant- who in one year has helped bring Jeff Okudah along from "bust" into budding young star and helped develop a rookie 3rd Kerby Joseph into a real player. Other than those two young up and comers- do the Lions even have any good players in the secondary? Cause uh I don't think they do. How is that Pleasant's fault? The GM needs to get him more talent- and the DC needs to call a better scheme/defense.

Said it all along, Campbell is a clown coach. He's making Pleasant the scape goat for a GOD AWFUL defense. Aaron Glenn needed to go, not Aubrey Pleasant. Macho Man Randy Savage The Coach chose his homeboy Aaron Glenn over one hell of a coach in Pleasant. Hope this backfires on him and has a domino effect and he loses the locker room and his ass is fired soon.

[Cincydawg]

I heard en passant on the local news that they Falcons are in first place, which obviously is false.

[MikeDeTiger]

MNF was a blah game by objective standards, but by my standards (looking for former Tigers and rooting for them to have good games) it turns out the Browns and the Bengals are a gold mine.  I counted NINE (!! o.O !!) former LSU players in that game.  For a long time we had the most former players in the NFL, though I'm sure we've been passed up by Alabama now, probably Georgia and Ohio State too (I'm guessing...I don't know any numbers).  But spotting 9 players in a single game is something I've never seen before.  

That said, the most beautiful thing I saw was Myles Garrett put a vicious spin-move on the Bengals LT, left him flat footed, left the back who was trying to chip on the outside with a ghost and a memory, and waylaid Burrow into the dirt.  It was gorgeous.  

Well....I mean, as a Burrow fan I feel bad that he's going to be out of the league in two more years or less, but that's nearly inevitable, so.....dayum that spin move was pretty.