~2018 NFL Thread~

[ELA]

As a Lions fan, the most predictable result of this season was watching a team win a Super Bowl with zero offense, 100% based on their defense...right after you hired away the supposed brains of that defense 

[MarqHusker]

Not a ringing endorsement of pocket passing tonight.

[ELA]

Does the fact that football season is over once the Super Bowl ends evade others?  I think because it's two weeks past any other game, it's more of a spectacle than a football game, and my viewing experience is always so out of whack with how I normally watch football, I don't view it the same.  Like after the championship games, I convince myself there is still football, but it's not really football, so I don't actually care when it's over.

[ELA]

Not a ringing endorsement of pocket passing tonight.

Well, did anyone think Jared Goff was good?  Patriots were ok, not great, and they left a ton of points on the field early.  Very easily could have been 13-0 or 17-0 at the half.
But yeah, oddly poor passing display both ways considering the dome conditions.  Looked for like an AFC Championship win in Foxboro than a Super Bowl.

[MarqHusker]

I'm checked out of football as appt viewing after the ccgs.  I plan to watch cfp but hardly think about it.  If I catch other bowl games fine.  This was most of a sb I've seen in some time.   About half of snaps.  My kids were asking when baseball started .  Ah, those are my girls.

[Anonymous Coward]

Why does bud think people care how light beer is made?

My guess is that they never used corn syrup to feed their yeast, know it matters only meh but received info about Miller Light's process including corn syrup and want to capitalize on that difference. It won't matter to their base but it may cause a few converts. Low risk/some reward is the origin of most good gambles. Just ask the insurance industry.

[ELA]

I'm checked out of football as appt viewing after the ccgs.  I plan to watch cfp but hardly think about it.  If I catch other bowl games fine.  This was most of a sb I've seen in some time.   About half of snaps.  My kids were asking when baseball started .  Ah, those are my girls.

My keepers locked in yesterday for our fantasy league . Baseball is close enough to think spring.  When do pitchers and catchers report?  I have a die hard college baseball acquaintance who went to a D2 game yesterday, informing me, that level started this weekend 

[MarqHusker]

Next thing they'll tell me is that Heinz and Coca cola use corn syrup too.    Breaking news, alcohol is a form of sugar via fermentation. 

[Anonymous Coward]

Commercials, halftime show, Romo, and the game's outcome all sucked this year.

I'm generally agreeable so take this with a grain of salt, but I liked all the things you didn't.

[MarqHusker]

Many not all report on Feb 12th with full rosters about a week later.  I will not make it to Cactus League this year,  winding down the house build and move, no time for fun.

[MaximumSam]

Now that was a snoozer.  I'm just waking up.  They could bottle that game up and replace Ambien with it.

[betarhoalphadelta]

I'm generally agreeable so take this with a grain of salt, but I liked all the things you didn't.

Fair enough... I kinda break it down this way...

• There were some good commercials. I think the Bud Light commercials generally held up well, and the mash up they did with Game of Thrones was... unexpected. In general I thought there were a lot of clunkers though. So I'd say the commercials were just so-so, but given that I was listing things that "sucked", I didn't have time for that nuance. 
• Honestly I don't really ever like the halftime shows. I don't care for Maroon 5, and have no clue who Travis Scott is. Thought Big Boi did well, but I would have loved it if somehow Andre 3000 had made a surprise appearance with him. But my problem with the halftime shows is that you're throwing multiple performers that have nothing to do with each other together [because they're trying to not snub any particular demographic], the songs are all shortened because they only have a very short time to perform, and as a result it seems like it's just a gratuitous performance that makes no sense. 
• Romo seems like he's been reading his own press clippings. People have been [rightfully] complimentary of his addition of actual X's and O's football knowledge, and it seems like he's just enjoying the spotlight a little too much. Again, however, like the commercials, Romo is better than a lot of other guys, but I found him to be worse than he's been for "lesser" games that I've heard him call this season because he was just too extra.
• Given that I haven't had an NFL team for a very long time, I've kinda adopted the Rams. And given my affinity for Brees as a Boiler, I was happy two weeks ago that either the Rams OR Brees would get a chance to win the Super Bowl, and beat the Patriots [who I don't particularly like]. So I wanted to see the Patriots lose, ergo the outcome sucked [for me]. 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Odds on Brady and/or Gronk retiring?

[ELA]

• Romo seems like he's been reading his own press clippings. People have been [rightfully] complimentary of his addition of actual X's and O's football knowledge, and it seems like he's just enjoying the spotlight a little too much. Again, however, like the commercials, Romo is better than a lot of other guys, but I found him to be worse than he's been for "lesser" games that I've heard him call this season because he was just too extra.

I'm starting to be concerned about the same.  Happens to a lot of guys.  There was a time when Dick Vitale was a fresh and unique voice.  When Dakich first did games, I thought he was great, then he became a charactature of himself.