NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

Phazael · Sep 23, 2015

Just in time for 5 easy games in a row where he can look like a hero, too. Problem for the Roidhawks is if Sherman is getting beat by guys picked up off the waiver wire (and they are actually flagging him for riding receivers around like a rented mule this year) and Lynch is getting contained, Chancellor is not going to fix their main issues. What he will do is help them beat the cardinals.

I am in the bandwagon of the Cards looking great but Palmer not having any chance of remaining healthy all year, but even if he did I don't see the Cards making it by GB even with home field. They have not typically been able to keep up with quality offenses, even with Palmer under center. I do like their team a lot and it would be nice for Fitz to get a ring finally, but I just don't see it even if they keep Palmer alive all season.

Tenks · Sep 23, 2015

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Alex · Sep 23, 2015

Phazael_sl said:
Just in time for 5 easy games in a row where he can look like a hero, too.

I'm going to laugh at you faggots so hard when the Bengals roll up the Seahawks. It ain't in Seattle. Oh, also a place where Dalton already won.

Kreugen · Sep 23, 2015

Tenks_sl said:
I have no idea how all these professional analysts don't understand the #1 rule of the NFL. If you don't have a QB you don't have a team. Taylor is better than Manuel but they're both still fucking bad.

There are way too many "game manager at best" QBs and other one-and-done types with Super Bowl rings to make such a statement I'm afraid.

Fuck it, NFL matchups are so ludicrously complex that winning a knockout/survival league year after year is about as random as being a world roulette champion.

Phazael · Sep 23, 2015

It will be a nationally covered game. How do the Bungles do at those again?

Kreugen · Sep 23, 2015

Man, those Bungle playoff games though. Ho-ly fuck.

Phazael · Sep 23, 2015

Kreugen_sl said:
There are way too many "game manager at best" QBs and other one-and-done types with Super Bowl rings to make such a statement I'm afraid.

Fuck it, NFL matchups are so ludicrously complex that winning a knockout/survival league year after year is about as random as being a world roulette champion.

Yeah Eli Manning has two rings, for fucks sake. The bummer is teams overpay for average QB talent because it is so important just to not have a complete fuckstick under center and it can bite them in the ass when the actual talented guys in other positions look at some guy getting paid like he is Joe Montana when he is really more like Kyle Orton. It corrodes the team long term. Its what happened with Cutler. I also think its happening to a lesser extent in Seattle and Baltimore, but they basically had no choice unless they want to take a turn on the Fitzmagic/Cassel lottery down the road.

Kirun · Sep 23, 2015

Grimmlokk_sl said:
I'd like some citations for people calling you crazy. Because everyone was saying they'd be good until Palmer gets hurt.

Ambiturner_sl said:
Even for a 9ers fan that's some retarded shit

Badabidi_sl said:
Don't go full retard on us now.

There likely would've been more denouncing of my brilliance, but it was during a Cowboys game, so too many of the posters were occupied by performing fellatio on each other.

Tenks · Sep 23, 2015

Phazael_sl said:
It will be a nationally covered game. How do the Bungles do at those again?

Last week Bengals vs SD was a pretty widely covered game. I haven't seen coverage maps for this week's.

Tenks · Sep 23, 2015

Alex_sl said:
I'm going to laugh at you faggots so hard when the Bengals roll up the Seahawks. It ain't in Seattle. Oh, also a place where Dalton already won.

Seattle's offensive line is abysmal and our defensive line is going to eat it.

Creslin · Sep 23, 2015

Kreugen_sl said:
There are way too many "game manager at best" QBs and other one-and-done types with Super Bowl rings to make such a statement I'm afraid.

Fuck it, NFL matchups are so ludicrously complex that winning a knockout/survival league year after year is about as random as being a world roulette champion.

Guys who aren't top 5 QBs win SBs quite a bit recently, but guys outside the top 10? The worst two QBs to win a SB in the last decade are probably Eli Manning and Russel Wilson. With a dilfer type the giants lose both those superbowls. So I guess he wins with the Hawks but Wilson played pretty good to get to that SB even if he didn't need to play well in the game itself.

The odds of you making it through the playoffs without needing your QB to step up and help win a game are just too low, now other guys than just the top 5 can step up but a real game manager like Tyrod or Smith is pretty likely to be faced with that situation and come up short sending his team home.

Tenks · Sep 23, 2015

Wilson has an absurd TD:INT ratio. I can't fathom why people undervalue the guy.

Tarrant · Sep 23, 2015

Your TE is going to revolt soon if you guys don't start using him.

Zzen · Sep 23, 2015

Tenks_sl said:
Wilson has an absurd TD:INT ratio. I can't fathom why people undervalue the guy.

I guess God doesn't want people to be Russell Wilson fans.

Kreugen · Sep 23, 2015

Isn't the whole genesis of the "game manager" label a low turnover rate offsetting a low yardage output?

Tenks · Sep 23, 2015

Kreugen_sl said:
Isn't the whole genesis of the "game manager" label a low turnover rate offsetting a low yardage output?

Generally yes but everyone says Alex Smith is a textbook game manager and he has like a 1.8 TD:INT ratio. Fact is Wilson protects the ball and also makes plays with his legs. He is far from a game manager.

zombiewizardhawk · Sep 23, 2015

Tenks_sl said:
Wilson has an absurd TD:INT ratio. I can't fathom why people undervalue the guy.

He's probably underinflating balls or cheating them in some other way, because as we learned with the Patriots and fumbles, it's impossible to have good turnover stats without cheating.

Merrith · Sep 23, 2015

Kreugen_sl said:
Isn't the whole genesis of the "game manager" label a low turnover rate offsetting a low yardage output?

Basically what the label evolved into. Guys who weren't asked to throw the ball as much or make a lot of dangerous throws. The "good" ones at it would naturally have lower totals in each. I'm trying to think of "game managers" that have won SB's. Dilfer, maybe Brad Johnson qualifies with Tampa. Eli is a little murkier. In '07 he was 12th in passing yards with 23 TD's and 20 picks. In 2011 though, he was 4th in passing yards with 4,933, along with 29 TD's and 16 picks. That year, at the very least is absolutely not "game manager" status.

Tenks · Sep 23, 2015

ZombieWizardhawk_sl said:
He's probably underinflating balls or cheating them in some other way, because as we learned with the Patriots and fumbles, it's impossible to have good turnover stats without cheating.

Holy fuck not everything relates back to the fucking Patriots and your anal best friend Brady

Merrith · Sep 23, 2015

ZombieWizardhawk_sl said:
it's impossible to have good turnover stats without cheating.

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