2017 NFL Thread - Become a Chiefs Fan! (Or Don't)

[Schlich]

Love it when rodgers catches the defense sleeping

[Tim]

How bout them Ravens?!? We never win in Cincy

[Joe Shlabotnik]

The Bills will never lose again.

[pioneer98]

[pioneer98]

I don't follow the NFL closely at all. Has the parity level changed as described in this article? I guess when I used to follow the NFL, it seemed decent even if many of the same teams would win most years. Now it seems like unless you have one of the top 5 or 6 QC's, you are simply out of luck for the next 5-7 years. Maybe my perception is wrong because I just don't follow it close enough.

https://victoryjournal.com/stories/getting-used-to-it/

There’s something shocking about the extent to which the NFL has de-emphasized and neglected the F that makes NFL more than a bare tautology. There’s a sort of perverse swagger to this, but it’s the perversity that stands out; the NFL is so secure in its dominance that it has stopped caring about what it actually is, the teams and the games they play and the players that are both the league’s labor and product. Every league has bad teams, but the NFL stands out for the striking number that seem content to ineffectually hump away at mediocrity. The Jacksonville Jaguars understand that Blake Bortles is not going to help them win many games, and have all but admitted as much; while they have built a roster that might otherwise contend for a playoff spot, they are doing nothing to reconcile or remedy the problem, unless you count front office people proffering anonymous quotes about how unprepared college quarterbacks are for the pro game and how difficult it is to develop players nowadays.

They are not remotely alone in this. Something like a third of the league’s teams are starting quarterbacks that they know aren’t much good; that they are doing this while blackballing a superior talent out of politicized spite is a nice little grace note, but the overt malaise is the thing. Some of these teams are tanking with an eye on building for the future, but a larger number of them aren’t really trying to do much of anything. The NFL has, in recent years, had several seasons open in actual disgrace, but it’s hard to remember one that began with such a pervasive sense of resignation.

Some of that owes to the dark things we know about what this game does to the people that play it and what the people in charge do and don’t value. But the NFL’s most basic problem, moment by moment, is that it just sucks, and that is very obviously the fault of the league’s most powerful parties. The NFL’s salary cap guarantees that the balance of power stays firmly on the management side of things, and ensures lusty profits for team owners. And yet a stunning number of teams are plainly unable to function even within a system custom-built to make things as easy as possible for them. There is, in the NFL’s combination of inequality and pissy inertia, another whopping bummer of a metaphor, and you can take it if you’re so inclined.

[MrCrowesGarden]

I felt bad for this guy. I give him credit--especially since English is his second language--but there should've been someone better.

[go birds]

that whole broadcast was bewildering. Rex Ryan and some lady no one has ever heard of and then Sergio.

Sergio was the highlight though. I havent laughed that hard in quite some time and he was a pretty good sport about it.

I felt bad for him though because they never went back to him again the entire game, which was disappointing.

[MrCrowesGarden]

Beth Mowins usually gets the 11AM Big Ten [expletive] that ESPN always has every college football Saturday. She's not great, but I think she's okay. Rex Ryan is garbage. Sergio got put in a bad spot.

[Socnorb11]

With the Steelers beating the Browns last weekend, Roethlisberger now has more wins in Cleveland than any Browns quarterback since 1999.

How does that happen?

[CardsofSTL]

The the Steelers beating the Browns last weekend, Roethlisberger now has more wins in Cleveland than any Browns quarterback since 1999.

How does that happen?

LOL Browns.

I wish that franchise could get a clue because if they ever won a Super Bowl everyone in the state of Ohio would probably get a free call in drunk day.