2015 NFL Season Discussion
well, the season starts on thursday. dang, this always reminds me of alucard, he was a huge football fan. RIP.
any thoughts? predictions?
for once, i'm optimistic about the vikings. i like the direction our team is headed in. that said, we are in a tough division, so it won't be easy. but i'm excited.
anyway, the season opening game is THIS thursday around 8:30pm and it'll be the steelers vs. patriots
any thoughts? predictions?
for once, i'm optimistic about the vikings. i like the direction our team is headed in. that said, we are in a tough division, so it won't be easy. but i'm excited.
anyway, the season opening game is THIS thursday around 8:30pm and it'll be the steelers vs. patriots
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Our schedule isn't too bad so I do see my Falcons improving with our new head coach during the regular season but I'm not yet convinced that we will advance far in the playoffs.
The AFC is going to be interesting. Denver, Pittsburgh, New England and the Colts should all be good.
I think with the Colts' easy schedule they will have home field advantage and be able to beat New England
Colts-Packers Super Bowl
Everyone is counting out the team that made two straight Super Bowls, and should be back to back defending champs if not for the worst call in Super Bowl history. This year I think it will be Seahawks Patriots rematch, they are the two best teams in the league.
I'm predicting a Denver-Green bay superbowl. RIP Alucard. when i first joined TUSCL a few years ago that guy kind of got on my nerves. I felt like he was too much of what you folks call a white knight. But he took it on himself to PM me and we talked it out and found out that we had some things in common in out stripper beliefs:)..LOL!
Oh man that game was crazy. On gameday I had a house full of rabid (and I mean RABID) cheeseheads in full garb. The house was all decked out in green & yellow streamers and everyone really did have on cheeseheads that were ordered from the GB store in Wisconsin. I sat there with my Manning NYG jersey underneath my Favre jersey and pretty much STFU during the game. I held back on the liquor intake too since I didn't want to risk slipping up and accidentally saying something pro-Giant.
Oh the concessions you make in a (secret) 2-team household :)
Honestly it wouldn't shock me if the Chargers more or less intentionally tank. Easier to get a 4-12 team out of town than a 10-6 playoff team.
You'll benefit from Washington being awful. But Dallas is a 9-7 first round playoff loss at best.
JamesSD- Romo isn't the cowboys problem, its their defense.
skibum-- seattle isn't going to go to the superbowl 3 times in a row
my superbowl prediction is packers vs. colts
When you have the best QB....the importance of the receivers drops dramatically
Unless Tomlin has been hiding his real starters, it's going to be a long season.
I'm hoping the Steelers put up a lot of points. I used my first pick in the the fantasy draft to take Antonio Brown.
VIKINGS ON MNF! :-)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con…
Peyton Manning will always be known as an excellent QB, but he has also always been a bit of a prima donna. He has relied heavily on timing routes during his career and he had the benefit of playing all of his home games in a dome when he was in Indy. Indy kept coming into New England in winter conditions during the playoffs and kept getting beat, due in no small part to the Pats physical corners. So instead of growing some balls and getting more physical with the Pats in turn, they went and asked Mommy to protect them instead.
I see the Falcons still have a little room for improvement on the defensive side.
Just and FYI guys/gals......the Jags will win the SB this year
well, obviously not a good performance from the vikings, but its only week 1, so i haven't entered "panic mode" yet.
we couldn't convert on 3rd down to save our lives, so that means we weren't able to sustain drives. our run defense struggled, but that didn't surprise me because that was an issue last season.
bridgewater missed some routine throws that starting NFL QB's cannot miss. peterson was bottled up, but he's never had good games against the 9ers. he's always struggled against them. they have his number
ah well, lions are next up
And now one of our tougher road games was made much easier with Romo out for the next several weeks. It's an embarrassment of riches when one is a Patriots fan. Playoffs here we come!
RickyBoy- don't get ahead of yourself
We play Chargers today, Rivers scares me
I felt that Branden Weeden played pretty well for the most part besides that one interception. Dallas defense just seemingly was out of gas throughout the second half.
Watch out AFC WEST!!!
Devonta Freeman is a straight up beast though. I also would have love to see Roddy White get the ball thrown to him more. He hasn't been much of a factor thus far this season compared to previous years.
Best guess would be Patriots over Packers in the big game.
honestly, i don't think we are as good as our record indicates, but i'll take it because we are in a position to get a wildcard
Brady is tearing it up. Does anyone still believe that his performance last year was due to fucking air pressure in the footballs? He's shutting up every whiny little cunt who was looking for any reason other than the real one to explain why their teams lost to the Pats.
Btw, I would be no more happy if bogus penalties had been called against Denver. I want my team to win square or not at all. But this was just atrocious and obvious. If I was a Denver fan, I wouldn't feel very good about this win.
I aint feelin' it this season.
If we make the playoffs, then I get what I want for Christmas
Look out for my Texans! If only we could get a good coach and a good quarterback.
Ken
They over reacted
The wild and wacky NFL!
I also heard recently that Kelly had the attitude that “culture” was more important than “talent” - this may sound great on paper and perhaps can work in college; but talent is def a requirement and a team full of “good guys that fit the culture” probably won't be as good as a team of very-talented misfits.
Unless Kelly adjusts his system; he'll probably be up-and-down in the NFL.
And the current coach Jason Garret is just a puppet and seem to get paid to do nothing more than stand in the sidelines since it seems the coordinators are the ones that run the team.
1) Jimmy Johnson
2) Jim Harbaugh
And Harbaugh took perennial underachievers (49ers) to 3-straight NFC championship games and a Super-Bowl appearance in his first 3-years where the 49ers were not even making the playoffs or even playing 500 b/f that – another damn good coach but also with a bit of a wacky personality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cowhe…
Now we play Cincy next week so I'm hoping Dalton is still out with his injury. If we win we face New England, which makes me crap my pants, they have had our number forever.
The Steelers D sucks b/c they have drafted for shit for years now on that side of the ball. CB Cortez Allen, CB Curtis Brown, LB Jarvis Jones, S Shamarko Thomas among others. The good players got old and there was no one to replace them.
But you can't seem to make up your mind
I think you better close it
And let me guide you to the purple reign
PURPLE REIGN, PURPLE REIGN, PURPLE REIGN, PURPLE REIGN
If you know what I'm singing about up here
C'mon, raise your hand