NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread
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lol. The eagles sure are a force to be reckoned with in their current state. I mean fuck, who the hell could stop them? Certainly not an injured dallas, thats for sure.
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BTW, hairless Linebacker Ryan Shazier is starting to look like he might live up to some of the hype. He put on some weight this offseason and seems to have grasped the defense finally. Worth keeping an eye on to see if he's going to really become a force. If Jarvis Jones and him can shape up they'll be a real terror for years to come.
Probably just wishful thinking.
Probably just wishful thinking.
nice picks ladies
it made sense though Brady was only 23-3 versus the franchise prior to the game and hadonlyjust come off a Superbowl win, moral victory, and dominating the steelers...
it definitely couldn't be an agenda driven sort of thing
it made sense though Brady was only 23-3 versus the franchise prior to the game and hadonlyjust come off a Superbowl win, moral victory, and dominating the steelers...
it definitely couldn't be an agenda driven sort of thing
Define "odds"... the Ravens, and probably 2 of the NFC teams are making the playoffs. Is that beating the odds?
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Eh, even the guys on Boston Sports radio were picking a Bills win. They all bought into the Bills hype after that Colts game.nice picks ladies
it made sense though Brady was only 23-3 versus the franchise prior to the game and hadonlyjust come off a Superbowl win, moral victory, and dominating the steelers...
it definitely couldn't be an agenda driven sort of thing
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Dallas has good offensive players and that defense is doing pretty well for not having a few guys right now. Couple that with the state of the NFC East and as long as they don't completely shit the bed and go winless, they can keep it going just enough to not prevent themselves from going to the playoffs.
The only correlation I have here is the 2008 Pats. Lost Brady for the year and were a cunt hair from the playoffs but still managed 11-5 with Cassel at the helm. And the only reason they missed the playoffs was because of an overachieving Miami team.
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Teams that start 0-2 miss the playoffs 88.3% of the time.
This Ravens team couldn't take a cold shower if there was only 1 spigot.
By dominating you mean "Throwing for less yards then Kapernick did". Like seriously. The Steelers defense lost a ton of starters and has a new defensive coordinator. Let's not pretend like all my friends on Facebook that Brady is the fucking god of man.
he threw for 4 touchdowns. dominated. i dont care if its tom brady throwing against a high school team, or geno smith throwing on the 2013 seahawks. 4 throwing TDs is a dominant QB performance.
Who? I heard 100% patriots picks. Toucher, Rich, Dennis, Callahan, Wallach, Zolak, Bertrand, Felger, Mazz, Big Jim, Dale, Michael, Adam Jones.
Who?
So many things i could say about the Dolphins, so i will just focus on one thing. If the Dolphins had even a decent performance from the O-line they would have a win yesterday. How can a team that has had a shit o-line for 6 years suffer the same fate again? In fact there is no doubt Miami would have made the playoffs a few times in recent memory with a decent line.
Everyone knows Philbin is terrible coach but if a Qb/offensive guru can't even get some blockers for his quarterback why does he have a job?
I never post, never overreact, but when Jared Odrick seals the game for Jacksonville while the overpriced free agent who replaced him records 1 tackle, i can't help it.
Fire everyone!
Philbin, Coyle the idiot who replaced Ireland, i don't care.
We have about 5 years to build something around Tannehill, might as well start now. Took about 16 years to say this but the quarterback is NOT the problem. Dolphins have come full circle.
Everyone knows Philbin is terrible coach but if a Qb/offensive guru can't even get some blockers for his quarterback why does he have a job?
I never post, never overreact, but when Jared Odrick seals the game for Jacksonville while the overpriced free agent who replaced him records 1 tackle, i can't help it.
Fire everyone!
Philbin, Coyle the idiot who replaced Ireland, i don't care.
We have about 5 years to build something around Tannehill, might as well start now. Took about 16 years to say this but the quarterback is NOT the problem. Dolphins have come full circle.
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Honestly I expected more out of the Bills' defense. However, quick pace offenses are the bane of complex defenses because they don't give the defensive players time to obfuscate. If they had run something simple and relied purely on the skill of their players, which is not inconsiderable being a top 10 defense last year, they might have done better.
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Coyle is just utter dogshit, I'm convinced he has no place in the NFL. How on earth does a defense that talented play so poorly. Passing on Mathis really hurt us, Brandon Albert is made of glass. OV is a dipshit who cost us the game with his 15 yard shove after the play. Lamar Miller had less rushing yards than Tannehill and was afraid of contact throughout the game.
On the plus side Tannehill looked pretty damn awesome though.
That was nothing but poor planning by Rex Ryan. The Patriots used the exact same scheme and plays on Pittsburgh, it's almost like he didn't watch the film at all. You need to be able to mask your defense against the Patriots since everyone knows they have your signals video taped somewhere and studied.
Then again I was happy when he went to Buffalo as HC, since I knew they'd be mediocre for all of his tenure there, he's not a good HC.
Here is one more for all the dolphin fans here, copied from Finheaven message boards. Pretty much explains the state of our franchise.
At some point you've got to be accountable for your gullibility. If anyone thought the Dolphins' off-season represented improvement, the question needs to be asked: Why? Stephen Ross did not sell the team. The front office wasn't swept away. Joe Philbin was not fired. He and most of his assistants were returning for their fourth season. Why would anyone harbor the illusion that things would change? It's clear by the third year of a coach's tenure whether or not he's going to turn it around, it's often apparent by the second season. You see progression in various aspects of the team's preparation, efficiency, discipline, talent and ultimately the results. We've seen none of that year to year with the Dolphins. They're a team with middling talent getting middling results with the same inefficiencies and seeming lack of preparation we witnessed in years 1, 2 and 3. We lost to the Jags and nearly lost to the Redskins, 2 of the worst teams in the NFL and it was simply inexcusable.
But perhaps you were fooled by Suh's free agent signing? At this point it's almost like bashing one's head against a wall in an insane asylum explaining to some of you that big ticket free agency doesn't work. It's always the same thing, a vocal clique of fans advocating the big, splashy free agent signings, like we've been doing since the advent of UFA in the early nineties, then convincing themselves that free agent X is going to put the team over the top, or at least put the offense or defense over the top. It never happens. The best teams don't do what the Dolphins do and its been shown empirically, like trading up in the draft, to be a loser's gambit. It doesn't work and if you know this, then you really had no reason to buy into what the Dolphins did, not because the Dolphins did it, but rather because it's a formula for failure that the best organizations avoid. The best organizations over the long haul: Patriots, Steelers, Ravens, Packers, Colts and even the shorter haul like the Seahawks, lose a lot of good players to free agency, but seldom use free agency for anything but filling out the roster. The Dolphins are perpetually using free agency to compensate for terrible drafting or to make marketing splashes to low information fans attracted to recognizable names. The best organizations are built through the draft, using free agency only when the player represents extreme value or to fill out the roster, but this approach still requires elite coaching and front office management, something this organization hasn't had since the seventies.
At some point you've got to be accountable for your gullibility. If anyone thought the Dolphins' off-season represented improvement, the question needs to be asked: Why? Stephen Ross did not sell the team. The front office wasn't swept away. Joe Philbin was not fired. He and most of his assistants were returning for their fourth season. Why would anyone harbor the illusion that things would change? It's clear by the third year of a coach's tenure whether or not he's going to turn it around, it's often apparent by the second season. You see progression in various aspects of the team's preparation, efficiency, discipline, talent and ultimately the results. We've seen none of that year to year with the Dolphins. They're a team with middling talent getting middling results with the same inefficiencies and seeming lack of preparation we witnessed in years 1, 2 and 3. We lost to the Jags and nearly lost to the Redskins, 2 of the worst teams in the NFL and it was simply inexcusable.
But perhaps you were fooled by Suh's free agent signing? At this point it's almost like bashing one's head against a wall in an insane asylum explaining to some of you that big ticket free agency doesn't work. It's always the same thing, a vocal clique of fans advocating the big, splashy free agent signings, like we've been doing since the advent of UFA in the early nineties, then convincing themselves that free agent X is going to put the team over the top, or at least put the offense or defense over the top. It never happens. The best teams don't do what the Dolphins do and its been shown empirically, like trading up in the draft, to be a loser's gambit. It doesn't work and if you know this, then you really had no reason to buy into what the Dolphins did, not because the Dolphins did it, but rather because it's a formula for failure that the best organizations avoid. The best organizations over the long haul: Patriots, Steelers, Ravens, Packers, Colts and even the shorter haul like the Seahawks, lose a lot of good players to free agency, but seldom use free agency for anything but filling out the roster. The Dolphins are perpetually using free agency to compensate for terrible drafting or to make marketing splashes to low information fans attracted to recognizable names. The best organizations are built through the draft, using free agency only when the player represents extreme value or to fill out the roster, but this approach still requires elite coaching and front office management, something this organization hasn't had since the seventies.
Gravel
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Throwing balls at guys who are not even covered is not dominating. I could do that and I suck.
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The 2 big things with the Dolphins is that their Oline is pure shit and their playcalling is atrocious. I actually like their receivers and Tannehill is solid and effecient if he's not running for his life. The defense has plenty of talent, but is put into some pretty bad spots by the offense. It's really frustrating. Guard is one of the easier positions to fill normally, and yet the Dolphins just haven't really addressed this issue very well for years.