~2017 NFL Thread~

[Mdot21]

not even 1 QTR of football and Eagles have been moving the ball, on the road, against the #1 defense in the NFL. THAT is what offensive football should look like. Tempo, spread defenses out, all different kinds of looks/formations- and creative ways of using multiple TE's. Helps when you've got a QB like Wentz. That's a really big dude who can really run and has a huge arm.

[rook119]

Steelers are a mess, I think Tomlin is done after this year.  Oddly Chiefs look like easily the best team in the AFC right now

Nah Tomlin is a top 5 coach. Won a SB, went to a 2nd. Plus successfully navigated the Steelers through 3-4 years of salary cap hell. A couple years back he won the division with just Ben and a whole bunch of waiver wire garbage on D. Really the steelers should have became the Saints (a QB and nothing else) a few years ago. 
Also the steelers have developed players well under him. On another team Shazier is meh and DeCastro is a total bust. 

Sure he has his faults. Brady carves up the zone blitz and the Steelers stubbornly stick with it against him. However Brady and the Pats have made 30 other teams look stupid too. 

Ben was a great QB because he was crazy athletically gifted. He's lost a lot of that but still a good qb. Playing for almost a decade noted Quarterback breaker Bruce Arians will do that. They'll go 10-6 and win the division and I still like the Steelers chances against any AFC team in the playoffs with the exception of the pats who they might get to avoid. 

[MrNubbz]

You must be a staunch Squeeler fan.When they back into the play offs they'll be facing better teams than Chicago & Jax.We shall see as they have KC on deck

[ELA]

Nah Tomlin is a top 5 coach. Won a SB, went to a 2nd. Plus successfully navigated the Steelers through 3-4 years of salary cap hell. A couple years back he won the division with just Ben and a whole bunch of waiver wire garbage on D. Really the steelers should have became the Saints (a QB and nothing else) a few years ago.
Also the steelers have developed players well under him. On another team Shazier is meh and DeCastro is a total bust.

Sure he has his faults. Brady carves up the zone blitz and the Steelers stubbornly stick with it against him. However Brady and the Pats have made 30 other teams look stupid too.

Ben was a great QB because he was crazy athletically gifted. He's lost a lot of that but still a good qb. Playing for almost a decade noted Quarterback breaker Bruce Arians will do that. They'll go 10-6 and win the division and I still like the Steelers chances against any AFC team in the playoffs with the exception of the pats who they might get to avoid.

I think he's a phenomenal coach, I just think it feels like it's run it's course in Pittsburgh.  Ben looks disinterested.

[rook119]

You must be a staunch Squeeler fan.When they back into the play offs they'll be facing better teams than Chicago & Jax.We shall see as they have KC on deck

They've had a great run for about 25 years now (3 losing seasons?). I can't complain. 

[Mdot21]

They've had a great run for about 25 years now (3 losing seasons?). I can't complain.

Would've been an even better, longer streak had they drafted the home-town kid Marino in '83. Bet they wish they could've had that one back.

[Mdot21]

49ers release LB'er Novaro Bowman. Kinda shocked. He's not that old- think he was drafted out of Penn State in 2010-2011. Was it injury/contract? Combo of both? 

Anyway, if he's motivated to prove them wrong could be a steal of a pick-up for any team that needs a LB'er- because the guy had been one of the best in the NFL when right for a long time.

[ELA]

Lol, Rodgers taking the cart off...with a shoulder injury.  May require a walking boot.

[Mdot21]

Lol, Rodgers taking the cart off...with a shoulder injury.  May require a walking boot.

Welp, there goes the Packers season if he's out for any length of time. 
Lions need to dig their heads out of their asses and come back and beat the Saints and take advantage of this. Division is right there for the taking with a Rodgers-less Packers squad. Chicago is a dumpster fire and the Vikings have a great defense but zero offense and Dalvin Cook is out for the year.
If Rodgers winds up being out for most of the year and the Lions manage to blow the opportunity to win the division- I swear to god I will be done with them. 

[ELA]

Lions offensive line without it's two best guys is back to being the absolute dumpster fire it was prior to mid 2016

[CatsbyAZ]

Broadcasters and sideline reporters preoccupied with what's going on with Rodgers in the locker room than the game. And a Packers OL just got walked off the field.

[ELA]

Lions offensive line without it's two best guys is back to being the absolute dumpster fire it was prior to mid 2016

Greg Robinson pulled after being totally useless and nearly getting Stafford killed.

[rook119]

Would've been an even better, longer streak had they drafted the home-town kid Marino in '83. Bet they wish they could've had that one back.

Of course they would have been better with Marino over Mark Malone or Cliff Stout etc. However if there was one team that could have made Marino mediocre it was the Steelers in the early-mid 80s.
The Pitt and Steeler fanbases were so toxic and spoiled from prior success at the time that they were booing any city QB who ever touched a ball (even Marino and Bradshaw). They would have booed Marino all decade even if he was good. Marino got booed at Pitt his jr year (the year he was excellent) and unmercifully booed his senior year. I'm still shocked that Dan even occasionally comes back to the sideline for Pitt games today.

[ELA]

Bears with a pick 6 play of the week