NFL (since 2016)

[crystal falace]

"Free agency started last night and was pretty crazy some huge money being spent. Osweiler getting £18m a year for the Texans, leaving the Broncos without a QB, Giants have spent a fortune on good but not great players, Oliver Vernon has more guaranteed money than JJ Watt. lots more deals but cant be bothered to list them all."

[RBshorty]

Jags look like fun last night. Gone are the days when KC come into town and the home team rolls over for them.

[Takashi Miike]

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

statement victory for the Patriots by the way.
 

[Takashi Miike]

SB, it was worrying seeing him start in that knee brace but he got more and more comfortable as the game progressed. Never saw a rookie QB like him for any team, and if he can just keep sliding at the right time will have an unbelievable career

[southbankbornnbred]

Daniels is back!

[Far Cough UKunt]

At least my team won something at Tottenham's shithole. 

[Takashi Miike]

[RBshorty]

The only crumb of comfort being a Giants fan at the moment is knowing this shit show is over in 3 months. With the Irons it’s going too drag until May. And we will still be lumbered with our Glorious Leader.!

GO G MEN.

[southbankbornnbred]

Don’t even know what to say about the New York Jets anymore. They are a car accident I can’t look away from.

If we, as West Ham fans, hate our incompetent owners, just think how Jets fans feel. Woody Johnson has owned the Jets for ten years longer.

Aaron Glenn now has the worst start of any Jets coach ever (0-5). And we’ve had Rich Kotite and Adam Gase!

(I like Glenn, but these owners are not helping him)

[Takashi Miike]

I've seen a lot of bad QBs play for the skins since the early 89s, but he was by far the worst

He was always a poor QB. We massively over-reached for him at #5 in the 2009 draft. He was more like a #25+ pick. But, as always with QBs from successful college teams, his draft value was inflated. He only had one year as a starter at USC, which should have been a red flag: not really enough game time to evaluate him.

He was "OK" as a QB leading Ryan's run-heavy team for three seasons, and throwing screens and short third down plays. But his medium and long-range passing was poor for a top-five pick and he never improved. If anything, he got worse as his confidence evaporated.

Still the last QB to lead us to the play-offs, and did it two years in a row. Won four play-off games which, incredibly, is more than some really good NFL QBs. But that's a testament to Ryan's defense - and Revis.

yes SB, the lad in Indy is similarly inexperienced. great athlete but just hasnt played enough games

[southbankbornnbred]

I've seen a lot of bad QBs play for the skins since the early 89s, but he was by far the worst

He was always a poor QB. We massively over-reached for him at #5 in the 2009 draft. He was more like a #25+ pick. But, as always with QBs from successful college teams, his draft value was inflated. He only had one year as a starter at USC, which should have been a red flag: not really enough game time to evaluate him.

He was "OK" as a QB leading Ryan's run-heavy team for three seasons, and throwing screens and short third down plays. But his medium and long-range passing was poor for a top-five pick and he never improved. If anything, he got worse as his confidence evaporated.

Still the last QB to lead us to the play-offs, and did it two years in a row. Won four play-off games which, incredibly, is more than some really good NFL QBs. But that's a testament to Ryan's defense - and Revis.

[Takashi Miike]

I've seen a lot of bad QBs play for the skins since the early 89s, but he was by far the worst

[southbankbornnbred]

Didn't have an O line to protect him?

Ag ag ag!

[Far Cough UKunt]

Didn't have an O line to protect him?

[southbankbornnbred]

Mark Sanchez has been stabbbed in Indianapolis.
He was there to cover tomorrow's Colts game.

https://www.nfl.com/news/mark-sanchez-f ... dianapolis

Sanchez getting stabbed is about as Jets-y a story as you could imagine.

Sounds like he had an altercation with a delivery driver outside a bar that, possibly, Sanchez had been in. It’s being reported that Sanchez might have been drunk, had a go at the driver over where he parked his car, walloped the guy and got stabbed in the process (the order of events is unclear).

Both men arrested, according to some reports. Sanchez received minor stab wounds to the chest. The delivery driver has a significant facial injury, but is claiming self-defence.

Jets players can’t even go out for a quiet night on the sauce without getting injured!

[Nutsin]

I forgot 

Kittle our TE1, he’s also out injured.

Jake Tonges is doing a bloody good job filling in.
Amazing for someone who has bounced around practice squads and caught his first catch this season.

I agree, he’s done well so far.

[zebthecat]

I forgot 

Kittle our TE1, he’s also out injured.

Jake Tonges is doing a bloody good job filling in.
Amazing for someone who has bounced around practice squads and caught his first catch this season.

[Nutsin]

I forgot 

Kittle our TE1, he’s also out injured.

[Nutsin]

My Niners went in to Sofi stadium on Thursday against a heavily fancied LA Rams ( Arsenal)

The Niners were fielding practically a team of back ups due to an insane injured list.

Players out 

Purdy QB1
Aiyuk WR 1
Pearsall WR 2
Jennings WR 3

Bosa Edge Rusher

our starting left guard was out too as well as our starting Strong safety.

So plenty of excuses  to accept defeat before the game starts (West Ham) and walk away with a loss.

But no, they went out and against all odds and a bit of luck pulled off a huge upset win.

Something to be said for competing especially when your backs against the wall.

 

[Takashi Miike]

haha, I know. to be fair to him he never says he should be at a top franchise, way too much of a loose cannon but he does know his stuff and is friends with a lot of top players. that's a weird fucking drill (I know what the drill's for)

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I know what you mean: I like JB's podcast. He has been a coach, even if it was junior college, so he has some proper insight. Going back a while now, but he and a guest once did an analysis of how to defend a big WR once, aimed at CBs and safeties. It was funny, as well as informative. "Put your elbow in his spine. Can I say that? Maybe I can't say that! But do it anyways. Just don't tell them I said it."

 

 

he even got Bobby Wagner on during this week, but it's his chats with former legends (often other sports too) that are the most interesting (these are great )..........

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[zebthecat]

Mark Sanchez has been stabbbed in Indianapolis.
He was there to cover tomorrow's Colts game.

https://www.nfl.com/news/mark-sanchez-f ... dianapolis

[southbankbornnbred]

haha, I know. to be fair to him he never says he should be at a top franchise, way too much of a loose cannon but he does know his stuff and is friends with a lot of top players. that's a weird fucking drill (I know what the drill's for)

​​​​​​

I know what you mean: I like JB's podcast. He has been a coach, even if it was junior college, so he has some proper insight. Going back a while now, but he and a guest once did an analysis of how to defend a big WR once, aimed at CBs and safeties. It was funny, as well as informative. "Put your elbow in his spine. Can I say that? Maybe I can't say that! But do it anyways. Just don't tell them I said it."

[Takashi Miike]

haha, I know. to be fair to him he never says he should be at a top franchise, way too much of a loose cannon but he does know his stuff and is friends with a lot of top players. that's a weird fucking drill (I know what the drill's for)

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[southbankbornnbred]

Haha!

Interesting, cheers TM.

I have to say, much as I think JB is making a half-decent point, his coaching "top trumps" falls flat when you remember he was just a junior college coach. Glenn, for all of his flaws, had been coaching in the NFL, for a successful (play-off) team, for some time before taking the Jets job. That's probably a light drill he used in Detroit, even if it looks a bit comical.

All he's doing there, during a light session (probably two days after playing) is reminding the players to keep a tight grip on the football at all times. We've been fumbling and turning over the ball a lot recently. And Glenn is fed up with it. So it's just his novelty way of reminding them that once you walk out on the field (even the training ground) you grip the ball tightly at all times.

His bigger challenge now is getting the fucking idiot players to understand the rules better - we're giving away SO many penalties and it has cost us two games this season already. And then sorting out a defense that has some good players on it, but can't play and tackle as a unit. That's a hangover from Saleh's final season.

I think things will get worse before they get better, though. Away in Dallas this weekend. If we go 0-5, Glenn will be the first Jets coach ever to do that. It would be even worse than Gase!

[Takashi Miike]