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."

[zebthecat]

Play offs here we come. Go Fins

[Mr. Burns]

Joe C 8:38 Sun Jan 8 Rams fans have taken over?

[zebthecat]

Christ on a bike! Nathan Peterman is playing.

[Joe C]

Every bar round Lumen Field utterly rammed at 10:30am. You love to see it

[Norflundon]

Looking forward to tonight's games interesting to see if NY play their first team

[Norflundon]

"Plus the added bonus is if we win the division then I maybe able to get to a game or two""¶ Realistically if we're away every game I've got no chance"

[Norflundon]

Big week for us away to Washington Don't really see the giants beating the Eagles but worst case is we'll play the buccs who are by far the weakest team but we just do not do well against them Although I have liked sone of the performances last few weeks it gives me confidence that we are winning ugly as I think that's something we haven't done in the past as we're usually either lights out smashing teams or losing. We're into the back ups of the back ups in the secondary and it's a real weakness with two of the starting O line missing but nearly every team has players missing so if we can stay healthy we could get a decent playoff run

[Far Cough]

Horrible news about that Bills player

[southbankbornnbred]

"Def - amen to that! I was in NYC when the other Jets players started wearing 'Mike Fucking White' t-shirts. Superb bit of 'Carlton Fucking Cole' trolling of Wilson...by his own fecked-off team-mates! Loved it. The press saw it as a divided camp, but I was less sure. Seemed to me that the camp under Saleh is actually pretty united...with one high-profile exception. He needs to come back down to Earth, start showing he's a team player and develop a Brady-style work ethic."

[defjam]

"southbankbornnbred 1:37 Oh cool I don't mind Jimmy G, Funnily enough I was watching the games Sunday and it was touted on there that Brady might be looking for one more season somewhere, ok he might be old but maybe that's what Wilson needs, Jimmy G fits the bill as well. Mayfield works as well. You're right about Wilson though he needs a attitude change, the difference between him and White in love from his team mates is enormous."

[southbankbornnbred]

Trunds - I think Jimmy G would do alright with the Jets. The fans in New Jersey would certainly get behind him: Italian heritage and all that!

[Lee Trundle]

"Jimmy G is solid enough. I've never had the opinion that he was/is ever a SB winning QB, but he's easily good to lead most teams to a play-off place."

[southbankbornnbred]

"Def - the smart money in Gotham suggests we're going in for Jimmy G in the off-season. He's certainly better than what we have - but 49ers fans will raise a smile! Personally, I'd take a risk on somebody like Baker Mayfield and sit Wilson as the #2 behind him. But that kid has to learn some humility and start focusing on his team-mates."

[defjam]

"lab 1:20 - ag ag ag That's the only way we're going to get them at the moment. :) A much better season than we've had for years but could've been so much more, a lot in common between the Jets and WHU. Hamlin just been reading about him confirming the posts on here. I generally sleep through anything but I was up till 4AM this mornng as couldn't sleep and I don't support either team, I was just looking forward to a cracking game like everyone else. Anyway as for the Jets, the future looks green, just need that QB"

[southbankbornnbred]

That genuinely made me laugh!

[lab]

As a Jets fan I didn't think you would mention touchdowns .

[defjam]

10000 Touch downs.

[southbankbornnbred]

"Awful situation and I hope the fella involved makes a full recovery, like Eriksen. Read that it seemed to come from heavy contact with his chest, which is always an unfortunate risk. The two head coaches, and players on both sides, deserve credit for refusing to continue when officials asked. It's too dangerous a game to have people distracted or concerned and not fully focused - other injuries would have followed. Bills went up in my estimation after that."

[Hermit Road]

Wondered what happened. Got up to watch the 40 minutes highlights this morning and assumed that there was bad weather when I saw it was suspended. Well done to the coaches. What a brutal thing to happen. Hopefully the prompt medical attention will mean he lives to fight another day. No way can anyone play a game after that.

[Lee Trundle]

"Just reading that the officials were told to carry on playing 5 mins after he was carted off the field after receiving CPR. Both coaches told them to fuck off. I know the saying that the show must go on, but surely there limits?!"

[Lee Trundle]

"""His vitals are back to normal and they have put him to sleep to put a breathing tube down his throat. They are currently running tests.""ù Source is Damar Hamlin's marketing rep."

[defjam]

"Shocking scenes at the Bills v Bengals game, Damar Hamlin given CPR on the pitch. Just went in for a normal tackle, got up then a second later literally just fell backwards. Not looking good."

[zebthecat]

bobbymoore 12:53 Mon Jan 2 Well done. Even if I'd got my bench decisions right your team would still have stuffed mine out of sigh as Daniel Jones smashed it.

[southbankbornnbred]

"Zach Wilson is going through something very similar right now. He probably needed to learn that he's not god (that's Elway!), and that he has to cut the ego and focus on learning how to be effective and win at the highest level. What's happened instead is that he swaggered into New York, thought he was the best thing since sliced bread having been the #2 overall pick, allegedly got a bit carried away by the milf market (certainly distracted by some off-field issues), and rubbed his team-mates up the wrong way. Now, he's crashed back down to Earth and has lost all confidence because it has dawned on him that he's not god's gift unless he works like a dog and cuts out the nonsense. He's been found out. We'll see if he has the character to bounce back. Maybe he will."

[southbankbornnbred]

"Don't get me wrong - Geno also had his flaws in New York and some of them were very much of his own making. Often they were about his early-career ego, which is common among high-pick QBs who had been idolised at university, to whom few people had ever said ""no"" and they had not (yet) experienced failure as part of their learning curve. Geno had a huge ego coming out of college. He'd led (very well) a successful university side, and was personally expecting to be drafted in the first round - even though he wasn't quite top-30 standard that year. He handled the draft process badly - people thought he was arrogant for expecting to go in the first round and, when he didn't, he sacked his agents. That should have been a bit of a red flag - to him. He needed to rein in his ego. So when he encountered his early struggles in the NFL, which most young QBs encounter, he didn't seem to have the experience or character to deal with the challenges the professional league throws at you. He needed time to learn the game at the highest level, and also to manage his own ego so that he became more of a team player. It's no coincidence that he's now playing arguably the best football of his career now that he's 32, has experienced the trials and tribulations of the game and is a much older, wiser and less egotistical head. If he'd been a little more like that at the Jets, he'd have done better. But that's how the game - and extreme wealth, adulation and pressure - at a young age, can get you."