2023 NFL Regular Season Thread

[Solecismic]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

Stetson Bennett has been put on the non-football injury reserve list. Sean McVay would not disclose the reason saying they will keep it in-house. Rehab?

I'm going with osteoporosis.

[JPhillips]

Originally Posted by Solecismic

I'm going with osteoporosis.

This is a high quality response.

[BishopMVP]

Originally Posted by bhlloy

Nobody is trading their starter at this point in the season - well maybe the Cards but you can’t get Murray under the cap if you wanted to although it would be amusing to have two injured QBs with the highest cap hits in the league I suppose.

Are backups any better than Wilson or Wentz? Maybe you hope Mariota can be a better version of Wilson or that you get OK Jameis rather than “fuck it I’m throwing downfield” Jameis, but I can’t see an obvious option that keeps them in contention. Wilson knows the offense and is supposedly showing signs of improvement, he’s almost certainly the guy and they will sign a veteran to backup.

Jameis, Davis Mills in Houston, Cooper Rush in Dallas seem like the 3 cheap backups, if the Rams look bad the next month maybe Stafford is available? The "good thing" about it happening Week 1 (and improbably sneaking out that win over a division rival) is you can give Wilson a few weeks as the starter before needing to make a move, and saying anything other than Zach is our guy would just kill your leverage. Colt McCoy allegedly has a shoulder injury he's been dealing with, maybe that heals in the interim too. I can't imagine any of these other statuesque old FA names could survive behind that OL.

[BishopMVP]

Originally Posted by weegeebored

For me it calls into question the level of competition that QBs like Maye play against. The ACC isn't exactly the SEC which is why a few years ago the Trubisky pick over Watson was just dumb. I see the same possible issue with Maye. It's a crapshoot anyway, but I've seen too much of Fields slow processing to know he is not a franchise QB. I just hope that the Bears don't win too many games and have to give up a ton of draft capital to move into a good draft position for 2024.

I think Drake Maye is pretty overrated myself and Watson's performances vs Alabama showed him to be an elite prospect, but what conference do you think he played in? Shoot he didn't just play in the ACC he got to avoid the one really good defense in the league at the time. Not advocating for any of them 1st round but the league was also loaded with mid round prospects last year though a couple have transferred out (Hartman, Van Dyke, Leonard, Leary, Travis, decidedly not Brennan Armstrong LoL)

[Edward64]

Hmmm. Probably saw Gringer doing well and figured why not compromise also.

MSN

According to NFL Insider Jordan Schultz, Colin Kaepernick has reached out to the New York Jets in hopes that he could help replace Aaron Rodgers after his devastating injury on Monday night.

“I just spoke with Colin Kaepernick, who tells me his agent has reached out to the #Jets about his desire to make an NFL return. Kaepernick remains on the West Coast working out,” Schultz said in a tweet this week.

[Suicane75]

The year is 2040, colin Kaepernick reaches out to the Packers about replacing a retiring Jordan Love.

[sovereignstar v2]

Primetime Kirk Cousins, let's go!

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[Ryche]

Hopeful as a Vikings fan and ready to have that hope crushed in the next 15 minutes or so.

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by sovereignstar v2

Primetime Kirk Cousins, let's go!

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He certainly let the ball go...

[Lathum]

Hard to blame cousins for this. Punt return fumble, left tackle whiffs the block and he gets blindsided, Jeffereson fumbles on the goal line...

[cuervo72]

Eh, plenty of time.

[thesloppy]

Oh man, I forgot how much Kirk Herbstreit sucks on TNF. It's remarkable because he seems fine on Saturdays, but he somehow sucks the air out of these TNF broadcasts.

[Solecismic]

The Vikings are now -6 in turnover margin. Cousins has 700 yards passing (6,000-yard pace), Jefferson 20 receptions for 309 yards (170-2,626 pace). And they're 0-2 (0-17 pace).

Do you blame Cousins? Four of the turnovers are his. Even when you're blind-sided (I didn't see the game), you're supposed to have an internal clock out there.

[Coffee Warlord]

Brad Biggs, Bears columnist. Agreeing with a lot of my impressions of Fields from the Packers game.

I know there has been a lot of criticism of Getsy’s game plan, but what a lot of people are missing is there were plenty of plays on which I’m sure Justin Fields’ first and second reads were downfield. For myriad reasons, he didn’t push the ball to the second or third level often.

Only four of his 37 passes traveled 10 yards or more beyond the line of scrimmage. One was the touchdown pass to Darnell Mooney. One was the interception over the middle by Packers linebacker Quay Walker. There were a lot of passes in the flat and screens, and I’d venture to say more than half of the 16 passes targeted for running backs were check-downs when the primary and secondary targets were — guess where — downfield.

[CrimsonFox]

No pressure, zach, no pressure

[Ryche]

Actually feeling fairly positive given the Vikings are 0-2. I will definitely take this defense over last year's. Did pretty well tonight for having two offensive line starters out against that defensive line. A lot of last year's good luck evening out.

Cousins is playing well enough. 4 turnovers but I'd really only fault him for 2 and those were blindside sacks where he held on to the ball too long. Also had his offensive lineman knock the ball out of his hands at the snap and a wide receiver out fought for an interception (same receiver dropped two balls tonight)

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Edward64

Hmmm. Probably saw Gringer doing well and figured why not compromise also.

MSN

wait! I see a perfect match! Kaeper should reach out to Da Bearss!

They already run clown routes!@

All they were missing is da clown to sell more tix! Perfect matcH!

[GrantDawg]

That Falcon drive had so much good, and so much concerning. Ridder made a couple of runs including one in the red zone that was design run that was really encouraging. He really need to learn to use his speed and it would open up so much. The play calling mixing up Allgeire and Robinson looked so good. Loved seeing both on the field at the same time. It makes so many weapons for the defense to consider.
The concerning was Ridder missing an open Pitts without any real pressure. That along with the chunk it up in the air pass for his first interception of his career make you worry. On the general playcalling, what was that play with 4 tight ends on the goal line? Making it a pass to try to fool the defense makes some sense, but the Packers knew that pass was going to Pitts and the defende showed it. Settling for a FG after a 15 play drive is sub-optimal.

[Coffee Warlord]

They're actually showing all these open reads Fields is missing this week. It's pretty telling.

[GrantDawg]

Falcons have a solid two minute drive to tie it up. Gambling on 4th and 1 at the GB 20 paid off, though taking the points there was probably tempting. Ridder with 5 runs and throwing it around well. 12 completions with 5 different recievers so far. Bijan already has 72 rushing yards.

[flere-imsaho]

Well, the good news is that the Bears are still in position to tank.

[Coffee Warlord]

Carolina is more than welcome to tank as well.

[GrantDawg]

The refs absolutely robbed Mack Hollins of a touchdown. He caught the ball in the air and had both toes down in bounds. Because his heels landed out of bounds they called it incomplete. They allow toe drags, how is that different?

[SirFozzie]

GENO with a major brainfart there.

[Solecismic]

He didn't throw a pick there, though. I come away from this game really impressed with him - even over last season. All those years as a backup, and now he's the guy people thought he could be with the Jets.

[GrantDawg]

Big comeback win for the Falcons. 2-0, and the team looks to be coming together.

[weegeebored]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

Well, the good news is that the Bears are still in position to tank.

They don't have to tank. Playing at their best with this roster and coaching staff will still equal enough losses to compete for the first pick again. 0-17? Possible. But I suspect that the tides will reverse and the Bears win one more game than Houston just to even things up.

Five things we know for sure: 1) Ryan Pace has zero clue about drafting quarterbacks; 2) Tremaine Edmunds is waaaay overpaid and should never again be mentioned in the same breath as Urlacher; 3) With his helmet on, Justin Fields looks like Pepe the Frog and plays about the same; 4) no one in this organization will have the balls to sit Fields and play Bagent; and 5) Eberflus' HITS philosophy has been officially changed to SHIT.

[Thomkal]

Still on the Lions bandwagon I guess even with the loss.


Hey look Cardinals scored a TD....

[Edward64]

Looks like Bijan Robinson was a good bet for the Falcons. Hope he continues to do well


EDIT: his game highlight reel. I liked the one at :56. He has some nice moves.

[Thomkal]

Ok then I might have found a team worse than my beloved Cards this season.

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

They're actually showing all these open reads Fields is missing this week. It's pretty telling.

Fields was god awful today. Time to move one.

Should be easy with the picks and 3 likely first round qbs out there assuming Sanders leaves early instead of returning to play for his dad 1 more year.

[Ksyrup]

There are slow starts to a season and then there is whatever the Giants decided to try.

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by Solecismic

He didn't throw a pick there, though. I come away from this game really impressed with him - even over last season. All those years as a backup, and now he's the guy people thought he could be with the Jets.

He's always had some of the best arm talent I've ever seen. All qbs aren't meant to start right out the gate, especially when there isn't the talent or coaching to support them. It's nice to see things working out for him.

[Thomkal]

There's the Cardinals I know...

[SirFozzie]

It says a lot about how the game has changed, when it comes to Logan Thomas getting KTFO in catching a touchdown pass. Circa 2000, ESPN NFL Primetime would have shown it eighty three billion times with the words "JACKED UP" said roughly the same amount, and now it gets a player ejected.

(I prefer modern day, if you were wondering)

[JPhillips]

Burrow's calf is going to be a problem all year.

And it's ging to keep them out of the playoffs.

[Thomkal]

Originally Posted by Thomkal

Ok then I might have found a team worse than my beloved Cards this season.

Or maybe not...

[Lathum]

DANNY DIMES!!!!!!

[CrimsonFox]

I don't understand this fine crap. The Jets won last week's game on a punt return. Now suddenly the league is fining a guyy saying he tripped a guy on the play. So fucking what.
People are saying it should have been called a penalty which calls back the touchdown....possibly no win. But it wasn't and Jets won. No one saw it, no one called it. Game over. Done. So what's this fine crap? Bullshit. If a call was missed, tough shit. Fine the refs then for missing it. Otherwise forget about it. It's done. Don't understand how tripping is a penalty. People try to knock people off balance any way they can all the time.

[Solecismic]

I thought it would be interesting to see the play cards, since they're showing the coaches in closeup a lot and McDaniel is holding a large card. But they've got some technology of some sort working there. Even when the headers are readable, the text is completely obscured. You can tell the subheaders refer to personnel groups, but that's it. Nothing on the plays. Went frame-by-frame, recalling those days when you'd watch cable and try and catch the good parts of movies between whatever scrambling technology they used to use. They must have something built in - even a seven-second delay wouldn't be enough to define a space by hand in the truck.

[Ksyrup]

Try jimmying the knob with a baseball card or credit card. Worked for me 35 years ago.

[GrantDawg]

"Think that's a boob.....no, darn it. Elbow...."

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[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

"Think that's a boob.....no, darn it. Elbow...."

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that sounds familiar....like people looking at a jigsaw puzzle.
maybe M*A*S*H?

[Solecismic]

When we first had cable, we had one of those boxes with a push button for every channel. That was back in the days when cable systems had channels that went beyond your typical Cinemax fare.

If you pushed the buttons on either side of a channel simultaneously and got the timing right, it would bypass whatever scrambling technology was inside the box.

Of course, these days, ten-year-olds are watching far, far worse on the Internet without even having to look for it.

The Patriots are bad. Can't handle the Dolphins' speed and can't generate enough of a running game to make the passing effective. And I have no idea why Mac Jones threw to a covered receiver who won't battle for anything on a first down.

[molson]

Originally Posted by Solecismic

When we first had cable, we had one of those boxes with a push button for every channel. That was back in the days when cable systems had channels that went beyond your typical Cinemax fare.

If you pushed the buttons on either side of a channel simultaneously and got the timing right, it would bypass whatever scrambling technology was inside the box.

Wow, I've tried to describe this phenomenon to people over the years and nobody has had any idea what I'm talking about.

We had a community cable setup in the 80's - homes were wired to just get the over-the-air channels clearly, and then you could upgrade from there (we were just far enough from Boston that antennas didn't give you much). We had a VCR that the cable ran through, and the VCR had those individual channel push-buttons, 1-13 I think. I figured out that if you pushed those buttons in different combinations, you'd get cable and premium channels. Like 1+4 would be ESPN, 2+8 would be HBO. That was cool.

[cartman]

Yeah, I remember the push button ones too and doing that. Not too long after they switched to the dial boxes, and couldn't do it anymore.

[Ksyrup]

I remember the dial boxes, and messing with the dial with a card could get you somewhat watchable premium channels. Especially for a 14 year old tuning in after midnight.

[SirFozzie]

Ok, this is actually pretty cool.

New MNF theme is a new version of an old classic:

Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight", done by Chris Stapleton, Cindy Black, and... SNOOP DOG?

https://twitter.com/JoePompliano/sta...82677583663345

[cuervo72]

Honestly, I just mute all of these now. Carrie Underwood's on NBC got too country for me, I don't know wtf is doing the B1G Saturday Night stuff, etc. I mean I guess it was cool for a bit with MNF riffing off Little Richard, but even then I usually tuned in too late for it. I don't need a pre-game concert k thx.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Carrie Underwood's on NBC got too country for me

That was pretty much the shark jump