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"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."

"Strange times in the old fantasy league. I'm in two - the WHO one I've now lost 5 straight, even having the 3rd highest score didn't save me this week. Steelers defence roughed me up with 18 points. In my non-WHO one I've won 5 straight after losing the first 6! Fins lost too - best not be so sloppy against the Jets. Be just typical for them to gift the Jets their first win."

"On the officiating. One weird play I saw in the highlights. Brady threw two passes on one play. Pretty sure that is a penalty and a loss of down like grounding. I read the Rams declined. But should not have needed to? Not sure if that is on the officials or the Rams staff not knowing the rules. Anyway, was a Rams fan last night. 2 1/2 games up on Bucs and the Saints control the road to the bye. Cheers."

"The officiating was awful. Still I'm with cockney here, Go Rams to the top of the division."

"Grumpster - exactly. It's one of the least notable of the BLM achievements, to say the least! ""And now we're proud to announce that every advert during this NFL game has been voiced by a black, native American, one-legged, lesbian actress, or gender neutral actor, with a hair lip and a slight stutter...and I think I'm right in saying, Jon, that's an NFL first...?"""

"Full set of black officials in the game. I mean i never know if I'm missing something, but who gives a shit? Fans only care about them doing a good job, don't get why a thing is made of it when all I actually wanted when watching the highlights was to see the plays!"

go rams

"You chose well - great city, New Orleans. Proper party city. Amazing music and food. Too many swamp animals that'll kill you for my liking, but still a fine place..!"

"southbank Cheers I, as a rural kid, was wowed by the flashiness of New Orleans when I was a wanna-be jazz musician on a school trip. Not sure what that says about me. Aside from that I respect old-school, in the trenches, teams. I feel like the Packers were that and the Steelers back in the day. Played line the little bit I played in high school. Hitting people is fun. My favourite Saint to this point, Kyle Turley was a blue collar line guy."

"Irons - the Steelers are all about whether Roethlisberger's knees and back can hold up. He still has an absolute cannon for an arm, despite surgeries, and when he's hitting people like Claypool in the deep then any opponent will struggle. They are a decent all-round team, both offensively and defensively. Good players in all key positions. They always seem to scout and draft well. But as has been the case since 2005, Roethlisberger;s fitness is the thing that lifts them to SB contenders or not. Savvy, savvy coach Mike Tomlin. Feels like he was appointed five minutes ago, but he's been in the job for 13 years now and has seen it all. He's still only 48 years-old, too. If I had not been won over by the Jets' mental fans on an early trip to Gotham, I probably would have been a Steelers fan. Either them or the Browns. I like the hardened blue collar cities."

"Cowboys have a player called Looney Arf, how crazy is that"

That Thielen catch was amazing. CeeDee Lamb's was also phenomenal. Quite funny that everyone else was struggling to make easy catches!

"After one the Chargers touchdowns (it might have been the pick 6), it cut to Gase and he was just starting up at the sky hoping for some divine intervention or something. He was looking up there for a long, long time."

"Trundle - I watched it, as always, through the gaps in my fingers. Every week is a horror show under Gase. I genuinely think he's the worst NFL coach of all time. TM - yep, next year's draft is going to include some excellent QBs. Fields and Ehrlinger look very good, too. Lawrence seems to be the consensus stud pick. The respected commentators say he's the best kid coming out of college since Andrew Luck - I don't know if that's true or not - but we'd no doubt find a way to waste him. The thing about the non-Lawrence picks is what the Jets would do if Lawrence doesn't make himself available. I'm still a fan of Darnold, even though he hasn't progressed as quickly as we'd like under the idiot Gase. For my money, that's on Gase and Darnold remains a good prospect. He was the #3 overall pick, has good all-round reads and accuracy. He's been mistake prone - too many intercpetions when he's played - but, again, that's down to Gase's fucking awful coaching manual and lack of leadership for the kid. Darnold was also a year younger than most draftees when we picked him up - so has a tiny bit more time to develop than most. The important thing is getting Gase away from him. My guess is that if Lawrence runs a mile (which he might) then the Jets might retain Darnold as starting QB and trade out the #1 pick for several strong choices. That way, having sacked Gase (which is inevitable) the new HC cann build something with a lot of strong picks. But it will all depend on Lawrence. If he's available, then it seems the Jets will take him as #1 if we have that pick and trade Darnold (who has also been injury prone - he missed y'days game, too)."

"I have not seen the Steelers at all (mostly NFC watch) but they keep rolling, seemingly as under the radar as an undefeated team can be. Claypool getting lots of press back home. Talk of some award he probably shouldn't win. Anyone watch them? As good as their record?"

"Even I had my head in my hands watching that Jets game, and I'm not even a fan of theirs!"

"SB, I wouldn't worry about a new QB until you bin that freak, Gase. I watched Fields play again on saturday night and he was very impressive. very poised, stronger than he looks (a few times defenders got pressure yet bounced off him) and he can also take off & run. there's a few more that will be coming out of college next year, could be one of the best group of QBs ever to turn pro. I don't think we'll get near Fields or Lawrence but I'd be happy with Zach Wilson or Tre Lance. even Ehlinger or Mac Jones would be a good pick"

"Jets getting it done. If 'getting it done' means 'losing with as much ineptitude as it is possible for a professional NFL team to muster'. Keenan Allen caught 16 catches for the Chargers. Now, you'd think to double-team him at some point on a day like that, wouldn't you? But not in Gotham. Oh no. Was impressed with Herbert, though. He looks highly organised, makes quick reads and he's got a good arm. Looks like Rivers' successor has arrived. That said, hard to judge many QBs when the opposition is the worst Jets team in franchise history. Trevor Lawrence is probably shitting himself about declaring for the draft now. No doubt his agent will be saying: 'You've got to cash in at some point, Trev. You could get hurt tomorrow and never play again.' And he's thinking: 'Yeah, but there's cashing-in and there's cashing out...'"

"I watched most of the game and a couple of fumbles at key times hurt you. your defence also struggled to get any pressure on that ginger cսnt, dalton. dallas were lucky to win"

"Mike, shame we lost though"

genius catch from thielen

Hermit Road 12:15 Mon Nov 23 Yes sorry about that Hermit. He has to be the most frustrating QB out there. Bad news about Joe Burrow as well.

Devante adams must absolutely love playing with Rodgers. One of the only starting QB's who isn't currently dead!!!

I would be amazed if Trevor Lawrence declares for the 2021 draft.

With that O-line it was only so long until the Bengals broke Joe Burrow.

"So much for hoping (kind of ) that the Colts would slow down the Packers. Have Aaron Jones in both my fantasy teams to slightly soften the blow, though it will not help my WHO league one. I am done with Jared Cook."