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An FBI house raid is how Jared from Subway went down. Just saying.

Do we have ourselves a Jared from Subway situation here?

You guys remember this thread? Zappe reminded @Einstein of Tom Brady. Then the very next week they played the Bears on Monday Night Football. Mac Jones stunk up the joint, causing Pats fans to chant for Zappe. Zappe came in and played worse. Life comes at you fast in the NFL.

I'm not British, but I believe that league games are called fixtures because they are on a fixed schedule. This is opposed to cup ties or other tournament games which are played in a tournament format so you don't know who you're playing before the season starts.

And he had sweet headbands.

Interesting story. It's true that video games are one of the ways that kids first interact with sports nowadays. My kids play soccer. Their coaches taught them technique and ball skills. FIFA taught them tactics. If you turn the level up, you cannot run the ball past the defense. You have to build from the back and down the wings. You have to be patient. If you get a lead, you have to adjust your formation to defend it. It's a lot easier to see this by playing the game than it is by watching TV where all you see is the one player with the ball. Same thing with Madden. I think that some of the old guys on here should give it a try. If they played on all-Madden level they would throw INT after INT by trying to hit these guys that they see on TV and think are open when in fact there's a safety waiting to jump the route.

After the Bills, I'm watching the Chiefs and Bears. It might be an epic blowout. That is, of course, if the Bills win. If they lose I'm done with football for the week.

Urban Meyer picked J.K. Dobbins over Joe Burrow. Does Burrow suck now too? And Jalen Hurts finished second in the Heisman voting to Burrow. College coaches overrecruit and guys have to transfer to play all the time. It means nothing.

You saw their entire careers as an adult. No one ever seems as good as the players that you watched as a kid. That's why, to me, Joe Montana will always be the best QB of all time. He seemed larger than life. Brady just won a lot of football games. I'm sure that if I were 20 years older, I would feel the same way about Unitas.

They've also given up 10 sacks, so that cuts both ways.

With Taylor, it was (is?) a business decision. INTs get mentioned at contract negotiation time. As a matter of fact, his lack of INTs has created a pretty nice NFL career. According to Spotrec, he's made over 70 million not throwing INTs.

Done

If Mahomes had thrown that pass, there would have been a 30-minute segment on GMF breaking down the play from every angle.

But it's not good either

They gave up a lot for Fields. It was their 2021 first (20th), fifth, and their 2022 first and fourth. Just brutal.

The entire schedule this week is garbage. There will be an upset somewhere, but on paper there are no compelling matchups.

So it’s considered an expert opinion to declare the only 2-0 teams after week 2 the “teams to beat?”

The Commies have played two garbage teams so I have no idea if they’re good or not.

No QB contract. It’s an interesting thing. In SF and Miami, the coach is the biggest star. It’s like college basketball.

No team has two #1 WRs unless one or both of them are on their rookie contracts. Have you seen Davante Adams contract? https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/davante-adams-14463/

The last time the NFL rushing leader won the Superbowl was Terell Davis and the Broncos in 1998. The last time that the NFL's rushing leader even played in the SB was 2005 (Shawn Alexander). I am willing to admit that there is a change underway in the NFL. It seems to me that Shannhan and McDaniel have cracked the code on how to win without being QB-dependent and if the Dolphins and 49ers play in the SB this year you may see a lot of teams try to load up on speed at the skill positions instead of chasing that elite quarterback. But to claim that the key to winning is a big power back getting the lion's share of touches? I would have to see that to believe that we are going back to the 80's

The rumor at the time was that it took the collective effort of the entire Cowboys' organization to talk Jerry Jones out of taking him.

Was it ever any different? People didn't think that they were witnessing a murder or even an assault. They thought that it was a fight. Like in high school, everyone would just yell FIGHT and make a circle around the two dudes fighting. It took a while until someone broke it up. The only difference is that everyone has a video camera in their pocket now.

After reading thebrownsboard.com, I really want to thank @Simon for the moderation here. Also, not allowing swear words really makes this place more civil. Sometimes I think that the filter here is a bit over the top, but it's a lot better than the alternative

But how unknown was it? The last time he had played, he led the league in passing yards and had his best statistical season on a 4-12 tanking Texans team that had traded away his best WR. Then he "took a year off" and has now completely fallen off. It's really strange.