West Ham Online

"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."

Watson and Darnold are both a poor mans Baker Mayfield.

"deion was quick but darrell green was quicker, and a better cornerback"

"I really like DeShaun Watson, btw. I'm no fan of the Texans, but I lament the day the Jets passed on Watson in the draft. We've potentially - potentially - drafted a better QB in Darnold one year later. But I think Watson has top-level talent, and we could have spent April's draft finding him some weapons if we'd taken him last year. He'd have put the Jets one year ahead of their current rebuilding curve."

"Neon Deon was a ridiculously talented player. He oozed quality. Personally, I'm not one to be impressed by the showboating etc. But at least he almost always backed it up with top level performances - and I mean top level. I doubt, btw, that there have been many faster American footballers. I don't mean somebody who can run 100m in a straight line - that's an entirely different sport and, frankly, has little place in American football. I mean somebody who can run like lightening, often going backwards (if you're a cornerback or safety), change direction in milliseconds, exhibit ridiculous agility and do it all while being tackled or hassled by a 250lb linebacker (or in Deon's case, a 300lb offensive lineman angry that his QB has been picked off) who wants to tear your head off. That's the sort of speed that you need in the NFL. Running quickly in a straight line and handing over a baton is fine. But it's not the same by any stretch of the imagination - because it never exists in the sport. So it is an entirely superfluous debate."

"i like the texans. they have a very good d-line/linebackers and two elite receivers. watson's still learning though at this level and often takes unnecessary risks when taking off on a run. hopefully he learns to slide and cut the chances of another bad injury, as he's great to watch"

"Texans are like a premiership 7-8 side. Clearly better than most, but will be quickly brushed aside by the proper decent teams when it comes to the play offs."

"Don't really know what to make of the Texans they obviously have a good record and have some star players (Watson, Hopkins, Watt, Clowney) but I don't think they're very good. The only good team they've played all season is the Patriots and that was in week 1 and they lost, other than that its the Redskins or Cowboys as the best team's they've played. They've also scraped by a lot of games this season due to missed kicks or terrible coaching decisions"

"I had Demarious Thomas to score the first TD in both halves last night at 16's a fiver a pop. Maybe I shouldn't have been greedy and should have instead just done the 1st TD for his team and cleaned up twice, instead of getting fuck all!!"

"Sanders was before my time but I've seen highlights of him. Can't stand the bloke now though he does my head in. In terms of sheer speed surely Tyreek Hill is the fastest to ever play in the NFL? (atleast play well, I remember the Patriots had a member of the American Olympic relay team on their squad a few years back but he did nothing) I've seen a clip where they show Hill's HIGH SCHOOL 200M time vs Usain Bolt when he won the Olympic and he's really not far behind"

Ah Neon Deion

Deon Sanders was ludicrously quick. One the reasons I love the NFL is the mix of out and out strength merchants and olympic level speed. One sniff of open space and nobody caught Deon.

"no, deoin. when he scored after an interception, though he was also used a fair bit as a receiver. still the only bloke to play in a super bowl and world series"

I assume you mean Barry?

"no, but cough, he'd be doing it twenty yards short of the line. hahaha, it was hilarious some of the shit he did :.)"

"Mike, I would give Sanders a break on that as the bloke was so fucking good, he could do what he liked in the end zone"

"players like butkus and singletary were a different breed, all about playing. not sure when it changed but sanders was one of the early showboaters. he was funny though, sometimes celebrating, high stepping yards before he'd got to the endzone :.)"

"southbank, Butkus was a fucking beast, no one comes close, shame he was on a shit Bears side which also had the great Gayle Sayers"

Joe Paterno used it but the original I think is Lombardi?

"I totally agree with the Lombardi (?) quote.* These end zone dances and routines are horrendous. Also, you look really stupid when your team loses and all you have to boast about is a tightly choreographed mock-up of the Thriller video involving 300lb zombies. Nah. 'When you get into the end zone, act like you've been there before'. Damn right. * Note: I think it's Lombardi. The origins of the quote are often disputed. Many coaches seem to have used it down the years."

"Proper player, Butkus. Relentless and fearsome. That's how you want your linebackers to be. He'd clothes-line his gran if it won his team the ball back."

"""When you get into the end zone, act like you've been there before."""

"Dick Butkus on celebrations, ag ag ag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDhaavqT7tU"

"Dick Butkus would not have any of that shit, he just wants QB sacks"

"This thing with entire defences running into the end zone and doing a group pose for the camera is bloody annoying, seems like evry single defence does it every time they get a turnover now"

"Fucking outrageous TD celebrations they're doing now, did anyone see the Vikings limbo one? They need Michail Antonio to sort their celebrations out"