~2017 NFL Thread~

[ELA]

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.

Didn't they have the best defense in the NFL last year?

[ELA]

Ravens OL is awful, but Flacco needs to adjust his clock accordingly.  He's held it too long more than once.

[ELA]

Didn't get to enjoy much scoring this weekend, but MSU and Lions both won to get to 3-1, so no complaints here

[MrNubbz]

The Browns.......well you know

[MrNubbz]

Rams up on the Boys with 2:00

[ELA]

The Browns.......well you know

Yeah, the positive vibes are gone.  They are the first team to make Andy Dalton look competent.

[Mdot21]

Rams up on the Boys with 2:00

Rams pull it out to move to 3-1.

Jarred Goff looks like an excellent QB once Jeff Fisher got fired. Who knew? Oh wait. I did. Jeff Fisher literally sucks. How in the hell he was an NFL head coach for so long is completely beyond me. He is literally the worst NFL coach that had a head coaching job for like 20 years. The guy ruined what should've been an excellent career for Vince Young. If you want your QB to suck ass- make sure Jeff Fisher is his head coach.

Rams are stacked with talent on both sides of the ball. Sammy Watkins, Tavon Austin, and Todd Gurley on offense. Talk about explosive play-making ability. Aaron Donald, Robert Quinn, and Michael Brockers on the defensive line. Talk about proto-type NFL defensive linemen.

[Mdot21]

Didn't they have the best defense in the NFL last year?

Texans.

New England's defense last year wasn't better than the Vikings, Texans, Seahawks, or Broncos defense. Probably not even close. They had something none of those teams did though- a functional high-level offense. Seattle was the only one with a QB in Wilson- but they had zero OL to go with that QB.

Just go by the eye test. New England's defense is slow. They don't have guys like JJ Watt, JaDeveon Clowney, or Von Miller at LB or DL. They are astoundingly average. And their secondary is just bad. I don't know if it's a bad secondary or it's just that they can't get to the QB and their secondary looks bad because they've got to play coverage for 20 years.

[ELA]

Jets plays levels Paul Posluszny with a block and injures himself.

Posluszny decides the head move is to taunt the injured player who just destroys him, and pits the Jets into winning FG range with his penalty.

I'm not sure whether that classifies more as dumb or classless?  It's high on both

[rook119]

The Jets can't even tank correctly. 

Darnold to Giants. 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Jarred Goff looks like an excellent QB once Jeff Fisher got fired. Who knew? Oh wait. I did. 

Well, if you watched him at Cal, and to be honest I think the only game I watched was a bowl game where Goff just went off, but it was clear he could make any throw the NFL requires. 
Give him a good coach, give him weapons around him, and what a shock that he looks like a competent NFL QB...

[BMF]

This taking a knee crap in the NFL is getting out of hand.  Now Russ Wilson is protesting safties.  Safties of all things!!!


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[Mdot21]

Patriots defense through 4 games is on pace to be all-time bad. They are giving up league high of 457 yards per game and 32 ppg. Can't rush the passer and that CB from Buffallo they spent $40 million guaranteed on hasn't been playing up to that contract. 

Can't rush the passer but it's 100% bc of personnel decisions. Belichik lets Howie Long's son Chris walk for nothing- doesn't even attempt to keep him. He's not a star but he's a good player. 

Trades his best pass rusher in Chandler Jones for a ham sandwich- he has 16 sacks in 20 games for Arizona. Trades his 2nd best pass rusher and most athletic player on defense in Jamie Collins to the Browns for another ham sandwich. Cuts Kony Ealy before they make it out of camp- he's only been a holy terror on the d-line for the division rival Jets through 4 games. Don't forget he also drafted a 260 pound DT out of Florida with two bad knees in the 1st round a couple years back- Dominique Easley had like 3 ACL's in college/HS. Complete waste of a 1st round pick there. 

I think he's a hell of a coach. Piss poor GM/personnel guy. Especially on defense- which is suppose to be his MO.

[betarhoalphadelta]

I don't think you can claim that he's a piss-poor GM/personnel guy. The Patriots have made their reputation on finding diamonds in the rough over the years. 

Maybe he's just reading too much of his own press clippings and thinks he's King Midas, and that anyone he touches is going to turn into gold.