NFL 2017-18: Watch athletes destroy their brains

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Lenardo

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the nfl has tried before team in LA it didn't work before, and it will not work now imo. as can see with the half full stadium......team might last 6-10 years, then move.

Raiders before lasted what 5-6 years in LA and didn't succeed there.
 
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Genjiro said:
Strangely the Iggles look like the best team in the NFC East, boy was I wrong picking Giants.

Also LOL at Los Angeles.

Chargers + Rams = less combined attendance than USC game. NFL gonna look stupid if they dont find some way to give those teams the easiest fucking schedules known to man so they can get some wins and try to make that gorgeous new stadium not look retarded on national TV when its half empty.
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Selling on Eagles. Hell we had chances to make more plays against them and win that game but didn't. Their O line isn't very strong, and lack of running game will hurt them. Wentz looks pretty good, uses his mobility well to evade pressure, and their D front 7 is extremely good. But I think Cowboys get the nod still, lot of teams have been decimated by Denver's defense...no other team is going to hold Zeke down like that. We'll see, though.
 
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Its week 2 jump to conclusion time man, no rational thoughts allowed right now. Like Ravens fans already comparing their D to the 2000 team. Its that time of year, retardation is thick in the air.

Dallas though I think is going to have some Jeff Fisher 7-9 bullshit this year. Maybe 8-8 at best looking at that schedule. Broncos ran all the fuck over them on the ground, that's bad mmkay.
 
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The fucking 49ers simply can't catch a break when it comes to injuries. They were already without Reuben Foster for probably at least a month. Now, Eric Reid is definitely out this week (probably a few games) with a PCL injury, and the backup safety (he fills in at both Free and Strong) Tartt is questionable as well.

I get that the 49ers weren't going to be great this year. But holy fuck if they could at least stay healthy so we can see what the potential is, that would have been nice!
 
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its overreaction every week...

pats lose game one--omg brady sucks, defense sucks gonna be lucky to to make it to 8-8 this year

game 2 - omg brady awesome, defense was better, 15-1 this season!!!!

injuries on offense are "killing" the pats offense right now... amendola (concussion) edelman(ACL) mitchell(knee) gronk(groin) hogan etc ....Pats will adapt.,. big test coming this week for the offense vs houston (pats will win)

defense was BETTER than last week but still gives up too many long plays in the passing game.
 
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Genjiro said:
Its week 2 jump to conclusion time man, no rational thoughts allowed right now. Like Ravens fans already comparing their D to the 2000 team. Its that time of year, retardation is thick in the air.
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Oh yeah, hearing a lot of that around here. Told friends might get a little tougher when not playing Cincy/Cleveland.
 
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In typical ESPN fashion they dropped the Lions two spots to 12th in their power ranks after a convincing win on the road that they played well in both sides of the ball as well as special teams and never trailed in the game.

Life as a Lions fan.
 
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Tarrant

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Clearly I'm raging about it. -rolls eyes- I'm a Lions fan, we get shit on all the time. I posted more so as a comment to how retarded power ranks are as well. They did the same thing to us last year week one when we beat Indy in Indy.
 
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Tarrant said:
Clearly I'm raging about it. -rolls eyes- I'm a Lions fan, we get shit on all the time. I posted more so as a comment to how retarded power ranks are as well. They did the same thing to us last year week one when we beat Indy in Indy.
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If I'm doing a rough power rankings, I'd say AFC has edge on NFC currently, but in each conference would look something like this...

AFC: Chiefs, Raiders, Denver, Steelers, Patriots, Ravens. Titans look to be class of AFC South, decimated Jax who handled Houston, and their loss was to the Raiders. Chargers literally most heartbreaking team ever.

NFC: Falcons, Detroit, Green Bay, Tampa. Don't trust Seattle's O line, need to see who ends up cream of NFC East, and Minnesota without Bradford won't compete with Packers and Lions.
 
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Genjiro said:
Dallas though I think is going to have some Jeff Fisher 7-9 bullshit this year. Maybe 8-8 at best looking at that schedule. Broncos ran all the fuck over them on the ground, that's bad mmkay.
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I think the cowboy's DB situation hurt their run defense. At multiple points in the game, they were out of defensive backs on the bench. I don't know what defensive adjustments they made for that, but I'm betting it was along the lines of "protect the rookie backups" not "crowd the line and hope they're in a run they can't check out of"
 
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The Rams drew fine for many years in LA, then decided the Coliseum is a shitty ass place to play and moved to Anaheim. Then Carroll Rosenbloom was murdered by his dumb wife who proceeded to run the Rams into the ground long enough she could move them to St Louis.

The Raiders were also doing fine and actually has the largest fanbase in LA to this day I'd wager. Al Davis also hated the Coliseum and wanted out. The area around it is dangerous and it's a shitty old venue. He wanted to build a stadium but couldn't get it done.

Now supporting 2 teams in the same stadium? Doubtful. It's a good thing for the Rams that the Raiders weren't the team awarded LA.

Nowadays people have large screen TVs, aren't worrying about blackouts, and games have gotten more and more expensive. Leaving LA empty for 20+ years was a huge mistake.
 
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Raiders actually won games and failed out of LA at a time where they had little competition. And the Mexican fans of the chargers are the wealthy variety (i.e. not the kind who live in LA) so that demographic is not going to help. Most native LA Mexicans like the Raiders, anyhow. The Chargers might become the first NFL franchise since the pre merger era to be dissolved.
 
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They didn't fail out of LA, Davis wanted a new stadium, he also thought he'd be able to get Luxury Boxes and shit like that. The area around the Colosseum (at least back then) was a fucking ghetto and the stadium itself is garbage for football.

They actually approved a deal for where the new stadium is going now in Hollywood Park but he refused to allow a 2nd team to play there so he left back for Oakland.
 
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Daezuel said:
I mean, the Chargers do play in the Home Depot Center or whatever the fuck they're calling it now so 30k max? LA expects a team to win and be entertaining or cheap. You can't expect fans to pay a shit ton for a shitty product like what the Rams put out last year.

The Chargers move I just don't get. Growing up in Socal there is a healthy dislike between San Diego and LA when it comes to sports. San Diego-ans just haven't had any reason to hate LA football for the past 20+ years until now. Welcome to LA, new Clippers. It's going to be super rough filling even that new stadium in Inglewood though. Every week for NFL season? Good luck getting people to drive through that traffic into the hood for a football game at outrageous prices.

The Colosseum is a complete ass place to watch a game as well. Still, I'll probably make a trek to catch a game sooner or later before they move into the new place.

(plus USC is good and has a Heisman candidate QB with a bitter rematch against Texas)
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You can get Rams tickets for $6. Also, the owners don't care because most of their money comes from TV deals and stadium naming rights.
 
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Rengak said:
You can get Rams tickets for $6. Also, the owners don't care because most of their money comes from TV deals and stadium naming rights.
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I really think this is an over-looked dynamic when people talk about putting teams in LA and how it failed in the past. When Al Davis was trying to get a new stadium built in LA, ticket sales were still a major part of a team's budget. Those days are long gone. A team could sell 0 tickets all year and still have the same budget for players that the Packers have (who have sold out every game for decades).
 
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