I think we should all take a moment and meditate. ..(week 1 NFL discussion thread)

[OutHouse]

tons of talent but way too many drops.

yea it takes tons of talent to drop the ball a lot.

 

[purbeast0]

This was just a game that got away from one team. Happens all the time.

But having to open in the altitude of Denver is a complete shitter, and you can tell the Ravens hit a wall.

well when your defense is resting for 3 minutes because the offense can't get first downs, it's going to wear on a team.

 

[OutHouse]

Quit watching after the first quarter. The nfl is nothing more than an advertisement vehicle with football thrown in periodically. What a joke.
I think commercial time was 3 to 1 to the football.

yea by the third my football anticipation was over. 5 second of showing the football landing in the end-zone from a kick off then 3-4 minutes of commercials. back to the game to show Rice run 3 yards for 10 seconds of play time then cut to 3-4 minutes of commercials.

rinse and repeat for 3-4 hours.

 

[dank69]

Both teams looked rough. With the limited amount of practice in pads and the limited time the regulars get in preseason the first game is going to be rough for most teams.

Extra practice in pads isn't going to prevent you from running full speed into your best player while he's trying to catch the ball or stop you from dropping the ball before you cross the goal line. 😀

 

[lupi]

The power conference has always been a cycical thing. Even so the top AFC teams are easily on par with the top NFC even now. The main problem with the AFC is that the current bottom teams seem disinterested in removing themseves from that situation (browns, jags, da'raiders).

 

[preslove]

Quit watching after the first quarter. The nfl is nothing more than an advertisement vehicle with football thrown in periodically. What a joke.
I think commercial time was 3 to 1 to the football.

i stopped watching football years ago because of this. Average of 11 min of football in a 4 hour window

i just turn on the red zone channel in the background as white noise now

i actually enjoy watching Golf more, ta least the Majors

This + the concussion/injury problems with no guaranteed contracts + the fact that your average football fan is an idiot who doesn't understand that the offensive line wins more games than great QB play, and football just isn't a great sport to spend my time on.

People say soccer is boring, but it's 2 hours of constant action (minus a short half time). Football is mostly beer commercials (or just waiting around at the game).

 

[purbeast0]

This + the concussion/injury problems with no guaranteed contracts + the fact that your average football fan is an idiot who doesn't understand that the offensive line wins more games than great QB play, and football just isn't a great sport to spend my time on.

People say soccer is boring, but it's 2 hours of constant action (minus a short half time). Football is mostly beer commercials (or just waiting around at the game).

gonna have to disagree with the bolded.

but to each their own. it always just baffles me when people come into threads about topic X just to let everyone know they don't like X, yet they came into and read a thread about it.

 

[AMDZen]

After some time to rewatch the game last night in certain spots and also to sleep on it, here are my thoughts as a whole on the game and the two teams:

Broncos:

- Its a good start but Eric Decker needs to get his ship together, bad drops by him.
- Running game was mediocre but I expected that, it should be "good enough"
- Our defense without Von Miller, Elvis and Champ looked good. Got better as the game went on.
- I've decided I won't miss Elvis Dumervil nearly as much as I thought. Elvis = 1 sack last night at 8 million guaranteed. Sean Phillips, our replacement with 2.5 sacks at 1.5 million. I think I'll take Phillips.
- DRC is back. Its clear with the play most recently of Asomugha that who ever coaches the DB's in Philly is retarded and his play is back on par. When Champ is healthy and Duke Ihenacho as one of the great surprises of camp, our secondary is going to be better than last year by far.
-Eric Decker better get his shit together.

Ravens:

- I hope the White Sox / Orioles game was good last night. Fucking n00bs.
- Glad I don't live in a city where baseball, hell any sport, trumps football let alone my Superbowl winning team.
- Fans thought Defense would be better this year with Canty and Dumervil. Dumervil was prone to those offsides penalties so get used to them, they will be happening a lot. I don't see the defense as improved at all but time will tell
- Will be missing Ed Reed and Bernard Pollard a lot more then Ray Lewis
- This
- Hope the Orioles have a chance to make the playoffs

 

[AMDZen]

Fluko? Your rental QB has the same amount of playoff wins, super bowl rings, and super bowl MVPs as Joe Flacco. Congrats on your regular season win against the Ravens, since that's the only time the Broncos can actually beat them.

Congrats to Ravens fans for allowing an Orioles game to make your Superbowl Champions open up on the road for the first time in a decade. Its a good thing your team won the Superbowl since nobody in your murdering city gives a fuck.

At least our regular season wins the last two years were convincing. We don't need the miracle of Rahim "the Dream" completely choking on one of the worst plays in human history to accomplish a win. Ray Lewis still tried to curse Trevaithan into also committing one of the dumbest plays ever seen by man last night, amounting to a 14 point swing, which didn't help you even a little bit.

Congrats again.

 

[dank69]

After some time to rewatch the game last night in certain spots and also to sleep on it, here are my thoughts as a whole on the game and the two teams:

Broncos:

- Its a good start but Eric Decker needs to get his ship together, bad drops by him.
- Running game was mediocre but I expected that, it should be "good enough"
- Our defense without Von Miller, Elvis and Champ looked good. Got better as the game went on.
- I've decided I won't miss Elvis Dumervil nearly as much as I thought. Elvis = 1 sack last night at 8 million guaranteed. Sean Phillips, our replacement with 2.5 sacks at 1.5 million. I think I'll take Phillips.
- DRC is back. Its clear with the play most recently of Asomugha that who ever coaches the DB's in Philly is retarded and his play is back on par. When Champ is healthy and Duke Ihenacho as one of the great surprises of camp, our secondary is going to be better than last year by far.
-Eric Decker better get his shit together.

Ravens:

- I hope the White Sox / Orioles game was good last night. Fucking n00bs.
- Glad I don't live in a city where baseball, hell any sport, trumps football let alone my Superbowl winning team.
- Fans thought Defense would be better this year with Canty and Dumervil. Dumervil was prone to those offsides penalties so get used to them, they will be happening a lot. I don't see the defense as improved at all but time will tell
- Will be missing Ed Reed and Bernard Pollard a lot more then Ray Lewis
- This
- Hope the Orioles have a chance to make the playoffs

Your defense didn't get better. What's-his-face got knocked out by his own teammate. Before that, the Ravens were tearing your team's defense a new one.

 

[AMDZen]

Your defense didn't get better. What's-his-face got knocked out by his own teammate. Before that, the Ravens were tearing your team's defense a new one.

I never said our defense is better, I said our secondary is. And it is. Champ will be back healthy next week. It is clearly better.

Defense as a whole played so much better in the second half. Minus Trevaithan and his Leon Lett incantation. If they play like that then yes, they could be a better defense all around as well.

 

[dank69]

I never said our defense is better, I said our secondary is. And it is. Champ will be back healthy next week. It is clearly better.

Defense as a whole played so much better in the second half. Minus Trevaithan and his Leon Lett incantation. If they play like that then yes, they could be a better defense all around as well.

I should have bolded this part so there would be no confusion:

...

- Our defense without Von Miller, Elvis and Champ looked good. Got better as the game went on.
...

 

[gorcorps]

This + the concussion/injury problems with no guaranteed contracts + the fact that your average football fan is an idiot who doesn't understand that the offensive line wins more games than great QB play, and football just isn't a great sport to spend my time on.

People say soccer is boring, but it's 2 hours of constant action (minus a short half time). Football is mostly beer commercials (or just waiting around at the game).

Uh... no. Just because the clock is always counting down (or up) in soccer doesn't mean it's constant action. Most of the time it's trotting down the midfield at a leisurely pace until you get closer to the goal, which oddly enough is the same leisurely trotting that happens in between downs during football. I see no difference in action, only a difference in when the clock runs. The field is simply too big for there to be constant action.

The sport that has the closest to truly constant action is hockey IMO. Relatively small play area and everybody moves faster.

 

[mugs]

- I hope the White Sox / Orioles game was good last night. Fucking n00bs.
- Glad I don't live in a city where baseball, hell any sport, trumps football let alone my Superbowl winning team.
- Hope the Orioles have a chance to make the playoffs

Congrats to Ravens fans for allowing an Orioles game to make your Superbowl Champions open up on the road for the first time in a decade. Its a good thing your team won the Superbowl since nobody in your murdering city gives a fuck.

I was trying to figure out why you were so bitter toward the Ravens that you'd bring this up 4 times. And then I remembered. :biggrin:

 

[rudeguy]

I was trying to figure out why you were so bitter toward the Ravens that you'd bring this up 4 times. And then I remembered. :biggrin:

???


I'm curious

 

[dank69]

???


I'm curious

Search Rahimgate

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

yea by the third my football anticipation was over. 5 second of showing the football landing in the end-zone from a kick off then 3-4 minutes of commercials. back to the game to show Rice run 3 yards for 10 seconds of play time then cut to 3-4 minutes of commercials.

rinse and repeat for 3-4 hours.

Yeah I couldn't tell whether I was watching an infomercial or a football game. At one point there was maybe 20 seconds of football crammed in between 7 minutes of commercials. After the first quarter I turned off the tv and walked away. My wife asked why I turned it off and I said it's just one continuous commercial I can't watch it anymore.

 

[lupi]

No he's right, in context the denver defense did get better as the game went on. Of course it ignores that the ravens lost like three starters on offense, but that doesn't matter since denver is destined to win the super bowl this year.

 

[ichy]

I was trying to figure out why you were so bitter toward the Ravens that you'd bring this up 4 times. And then I remembered. :biggrin:

Well now we know that he's a sore winner in addition to a sore loser.

I didnt get to watch the game but it sounds like the loss of Bouldin and Pitta was even worse than people said it would be. The veteran FAs that were picked up were borderline worthless. I say gamble on some rookies, make Marlon Brown the #2 receiver and bring Matt Furstenburg up off of the practice squad. Torrey Smith is the team's only legit WR and the current TEs are all garbage. I can't even be pissed at the defense, they were on the field so much it's no wonder they were worn out.

 

[rudeguy]

Search Rahimgate

LOL...then I see JD50's sig


Poor AMD

 

[AMDZen]

No he's right, in context the denver defense did get better as the game went on. Of course it ignores that the ravens lost like three starters on offense, but that doesn't matter since denver is destined to win the super bowl this year.

Actually, if you read the Superbowl thread you will see my reservations on them winning it this year. I am certainly not convinced yet that they can.

Last year was their year to win it and Rahim stole it from us. But at least if we had won it, Denver would have cared. If the Rockies had a game it wouldn't have mattered. As a city we can have more then one game happen at a time without it affecting the other, its quite the concept.

 

[preslove]

Uh... no. Just because the clock is always counting down (or up) in soccer doesn't mean it's constant action. Most of the time it's trotting down the midfield at a leisurely pace until you get closer to the goal, which oddly enough is the same leisurely trotting that happens in between downs during football. I see no difference in action, only a difference in when the clock runs. The field is simply too big for there to be constant action.

The sport that has the closest to truly constant action is hockey IMO. Relatively small play area and everybody moves faster.

They are constantly running and moving the ball vs american football, which is constant standing around while beer commercials play, interspersed with a few minutes (if that) of play, followed by more standing and waiting.

Yeah I couldn't tell whether I was watching an infomercial or a football game. At one point there was maybe 20 seconds of football crammed in between 7 minutes of commercials. After the first quarter I turned off the tv and walked away. My wife asked why I turned it off and I said it's just one continuous commercial I can't watch it anymore.

This this this

 

[AMDZen]

LOL...then I see JD50's sig


Poor AMD

I will admit that I deserve it to an extent. Those comments were written either Friday night before the game or Saturday before the game. In either instance, I was drunk and riding high on the Broncos. Too much so it seems.

I get belligerent when I'm drunk which is why I've switched to MJ almost entirely over the course of the last year. Alcohol is bad mmmkay

 

[ichy]

I'm still torn on Flacco. I've generally always liked him but I'm still not sure he is an elite QB, though he is definitely on the borderline. Regardless, I like the Ravens because they seem to stick it to the Patriots in the playoffs. 🙂

Flacco's not good enough to carry an otherwise mediocre team so I wouldn't call him "elite" but fortunately the Ravens are a well run organization and in that context he's very good. I may be biased since Baltimore had a string of borderline special Olympians at QB before Flacco arrived but I'm not sure what else people want from him. He's won a playoff game every year of his career, has made three trips to the AFC championship and won a Superbowl. Joe Flacco isnt the team's current problem.

 

[rudeguy]

I will admit that I deserve it to an extent. Those comments were written either Friday night before the game or Saturday before the game. In either instance, I was drunk and riding high on the Broncos. Too much so it seems.

I get belligerent when I'm drunk which is why I've switched to MJ almost entirely over the course of the last year. Alcohol is bad mmmkay

lol...no excuses needed.

Some of the NFL threads last year got downright brutal! I'm surprised Indycotlsfan survived the season. Plus the playoffs were heart wrenching. So many ups and downs and close games....I was literally out of breath after a few of them. Of course emotions are going to run high when games are that good.

And who thought Baltimore had a chance? I wanted them to win but I didn't think they had any chance in hell. There are guys that get paid to predict games that made a worse prediction than you did.