NFL 2014 - 2015 Season Thread

Yeah, no shit. That Maclin TD just put me up by .48 points.

Eagles, Panthers, Cardinals, Bills, Bengals, Houston, and Denver are the remaining undefeated teams. Who remains undefeated the longest?

Damn, this is Luck's third year and this is the first time he's lost consecutive games?

Well Chip's halftime adjustments might have included a couple big checks to the refs, but I will take it. This is Philly, after all, it isn't like the place is a bastion of morality.

It seems like there are a lot of teams this season that can't sustain their level of play throughout an entire game.

Jaguars against Eagles
Jets against Packers
Niners against Bears
Colts against Eagles

I don't know that I've seen so many games where teams come out dominating their opponent only to have them come back in the 2nd half and overcome 2-3 possession leads. I'm probably leaving some off too, because I haven't been able to keep track of them all.

Steelers vs Browns was almost a full collapse by the Steelers in week 1 as well

Fennin_sl said:

Eagles, Panthers, Cardinals, Bills, Bengals, Houston, and Denver are the remaining undefeated teams. Who remains undefeated the longest?

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Bills are at Houston in week 4. Panthers are at Cinci in week 6. Cardinals are at Denver in week 6. The Eagles play the Cardinals, Texans, and Panthers in weeks 8, 9, 10.

Next week, Denver goes to Seattle after a week where Seattle got embarrassed, so I doubt Denver comes out of that game with a win. Even though Denver has the "revenge" factor after the Super Bowl, Seattle has far more reason to be playing better. San Francisco goes to Arizona, again, following a week where San Fran struggled and will be looking to blow someone out. Cardinals don't survive that one either. So after next week, I'm predicting your undefeated teams will be Eagles, Panthers, Bills, Bengals, and Houston.

Houston knocks Bills from the undefeated in week 4. And 49'ers knock off the Eagles after the Eagles have to fly across the country to go to San Fran. After week 4 your undefeated will be Houston, Panthers and Bengals.

Week 5, Cinci travels to New England... bye bye undefeated Bengals. Panthers host Bears. Could be close, but Panthers hang on. Houston embarrasses Dallas. Week 5 undefeated: Houston and Carolina.

Week 6, Houston hosts Indi on Thursday night, Houston will be fine. Carolina goes to Cinci.... and loses. Houston remains the only undefeated after week 6.

Answer: Houston.

We (Cincinnati) played Pats last year and beat them. Granted it was at Cincinnati. Don't see how that is penned in as a loss. Not exactly like the Pats impressed the nation week one then the Vikings couldn't stop not letting the Pats defense walk all over them week 2.

Kaines_sl said:

Week 5, Cinci travels to New England... bye bye undefeated Bengals.

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I wouldn't count on that. Bengals beat NE last year. I'm expecting another dominant Cincy defensive showing. We'll see if the offense can compliment it. This newfound run game is looking pretty hot.

We have a coordinator who isn't faggoting hard on throwing the ball 50 times a game and we have an extremely strong double back set. I don't know if the run game is really new-found but last year we kind of lacked with a rookie Gio and an aging BJGE.

Alex_sl said:

I wouldn't count on that. Bengals beat NE last year. I'm expecting another dominant Cincy defensive showing. We'll see if the offense can compliment it. This newfound run game is looking pretty hot.

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Not only that, but the Patriots are looking like shit this year. I'm about 50/50 on whether they even make the playoffs.

There's a good possibility that Brady plays his last year with the Patriots this year before bouncing around the league for 2-3 seasons and then retires.

I can't imagine that Brady would leave. It's not like they have a Steve Young or Aaron Rodgers waiting in the wings or will be able to draft an Andrew Luck type player so I doubt the Patriots would get rid of him and they've been competitive every year for the most part so doubt he'd leave on his own either.

Elurin_sl said:

It seems like there are a lot of teams this season that can't sustain their level of play throughout an entire game.

Jaguars against Eagles
Jets against Packers
Niners against Bears
Colts against Eagles

I don't know that I've seen so many games where teams come out dominating their opponent only to have them come back in the 2nd half and overcome 2-3 possession leads. I'm probably leaving some off too, because I haven't been able to keep track of them all.

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Agree or disagree I will go ahead and add the Saints as well. 2 weeks in a row the defense completely blows coverage at the end to allow a field goal to win the game. The offense has played well but I will admit the defense is certainly suspect now after the last 2 games. They got better vs the browns but I think that Robinson needs to go. He is still getting beat constantly just like in the past. I mean Payton is already starting to lose faith in him as he got demoted to nickel during the last game.

Araysar_sl said:

No way. Brady retires as a Patriot. Hoodie is gonna ride him until all the tread falls of the wheels.

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I doubt it. The Patriots of the last 15 years have never been a team to stick with a player once their play starts to decline. Maybe Brady will be different, but I doubt it.

Honestly, how many quarterbacks retire with the team they had success with?

Only ones I can think of are Marino, Elway, and Kelly.

Edit: It's possible that Brady just outright retires as opposed to going to another team. But I've got to imagine some bottom dweller offers him a substantial amount of money to come play for them, especially after the Manning success.

Well once they lose like 10+ games this year and miss the playoffs Belichick might get fired!

I am not so sure the money matters to Brady; he has taken pay cuts in the past, and his wife is by far the highest paid supermodel in the world.

If he does go somewhere, I imagine it will be a Manning type situation; he will go somewhere where the team is already in place and all that is missing is a top-flight QB, sort of like Houston this year.

Its my dream to be a modern hall of fame quarterback and still have my wife make more money than me