~2017 NFL Thread~

[ELA]

Yeah, Cooter and Austin have been godsends, and a players coach like Caldwell works when you have elite coordinators in place.

[MrNubbz]

Wow Bungles in command for 99% of the game

[MaximumSam]

Wow Bungles in command for 99% of the game

Have to say Tony Romo turned me against Dalton.  His talk about Dalton simply missing pre-snap reads and open receivers really showed me the problems in the offense.

[rook119]

I think the AFC North may have had the quickest fall from Grace of any division I can recall.  From three legit Super Bowl contenders, to the Steelers might be the least crappy of the bunch in pretty short form.

He still almost always wins at least 10 a year but even with 10 you get your share of bad losses. Tomlin's main problem is that the steelers to zone blitz Brady. Now I assume a zone blitz could work, if you had the pass rushers to get to him.
Still think the Ravens are a playoff team. The AFC east, now that division is awful. Belicheck should just pull a Popovich and sit Brady a for a couple games this year. They'll still get the No.1 seed. 

[ELA]

He still almost always wins at least 10 a year but even with 10 you get your share of bad losses. Tomlin's main problem is that the steelers to zone blitz Brady. Now I assume a zone blitz could work, if you had the pass rushers to get to him.
Still think the Ravens are a playoff team. The AFC east, now that division is awful. Belicheck should just pull a Popovich and sit Brady a for a couple games this year. They'll still get the No.1 seed.

The rest of that division has been awful for the Patriots entire run, save like a three year window of the Jets being ok

[Mdot21]

He still almost always wins at least 10 a year but even with 10 you get your share of bad losses. Tomlin's main problem is that the steelers to zone blitz Brady. Now I assume a zone blitz could work, if you had the pass rushers to get to him.
Still think the Ravens are a playoff team. The AFC east, now that division is awful. Belicheck should just pull a Popovich and sit Brady a for a couple games this year. They'll still get the No.1 seed.

I don't think so. Without Brady that team might be 0-3 right now.
Chiefs absolutely pummeled them, who knows if they beat the Saints if Brady doesn't go berserk on the Saints and play a near perfect game going 30 for 39 for 450 yards and 4 TD's and 0 turnovers, and it took some Brady heroics to win at home against the Texans with 20 seconds left in the game.
Patriots defense looks slow and incapable of stopping anyone. They look like a team that is being held together by the best QB in the NFL. They'll win the division, but they are going to get bounced out of the playoffs and if they do happen to make it to the Super Bowl they will lose.

[Mdot21]

Wow Bungles in command for 99% of the game

Andy Dalton is their QB. Marvin Lewis is their head coach.
That outcome shouldn't have surprised anyone. I said as soon as the Packers got within a TD that they were winning that game. I knew Andy Dalton wasn't going to do shit. He absolutely sucks.

[Mdot21]

Have to say Tony Romo turned me against Dalton.  His talk about Dalton simply missing pre-snap reads and open receivers really showed me the problems in the offense.

Tony Romo is already the best guy on TV.
And you're just realizing this NOW about Andy Dalton? He's been this since the day he came into the league. He is straight up ass.

[bayareabadger]

Tony Romo is already the best guy on TV.

He got a job he didn't earn and is just killing it. 

[rook119]

He got a job he didn't earn and is just killing it.

He's been on television before. From what I heard he did extremely well. It was always known that he can retire and instantly get a TV job which is why Fox had to shell out huge money. 
Don't mind former players/coaches getting analyst jobs. 

[ELA]

He's been on television before. From what I heard he did extremely well. It was always known that he can retire and instantly get a TV job which is why Fox had to shell out huge money.
Don't mind former players/coaches getting analyst jobs.

I think the issue was that he jumped right to the A crew with Nantz.

[Mdot21]

Packers vs. Bears tonight on Thursday night football. Hoping the Bears pull off the upset.

[ELA]

Steelers with a 10:23 opening drive.  Longest drive of the year.  You never see drives like that anymore the way the game is played.

[Mdot21]

Patriots defense sucks this year. So much for that "defensive genius" Belichik. Cam Newton was bad last year. He was bad this year. Outside of that one great year he's had- he's been pretty much mediocre. He is shredding the Patriots defense in New England. They are making him look like Dan Marino. 21 of 25 for 320 yards and 3 TD's. One of the worst pure throwers of the football- is destroying that "defensive genius" defense.