NFL: 2019 Season

[Breedlove]

Everything you say is correct and I hope we can work it out . Freddie is a super laid back guy like a young Bruce Arians . The Browns have real good talent but young . They also have probably one of the best GM's in the league . Now coach ….we will see .
They were in the game last week till the baiting got to them . Vrabel will win games like this and we just became one of them . Kind of funny D Lawrence was flagged 15yds for dropping an F bomb . Now come to find out the ref dropped an F Bomb on him . And he F bombed back . any way you look at it he was the fool .

 

[joeea]

Browns fan here first game was a kick in the butt . How can you win a game with 185 yards in penalties . We haven't had that many since 1951 . Came to the news yesterday that Vrabel had his guys egg the Browns on because the Browns are a young team . ( it worked ) Two players fined one kicked out of the game . Hope to recover this weekend .

Hopefully Kitchens can get this young team to focus. Too many stupid penalties. He's new to being a head coach and needs to reign them in quickly. They have a lot of talent. They need more discipline. Hopefully he's not too laid back to lay down the law.

This for Texan fans , I listen to Sports 610 Houston and they been talking how close they were to victory . Guess what you were nowhere close to winning ,that was the Saints first game .

I watched the game. It's pretty hard to say a team was nowhere close to winning when they lost on the last play of the game. It doesn't get much closer than that.

 

[ziggy29]

It was a great game but also shows how bad the Texan coaches are...

I will be surprised if they are there next year... too many loses due to coaches poor decisions...

It is the same old Texans, just as they were under Kubiak. It seems to be embedded in the team's DNA that when you get a two score lead, you shut it down. Start calling the offense conservatively, play a form of prevent defense, and pray you can hang on until the end when the opponent inevitably comes back to make it a nail-biter. There is not, and never has been, ANY "killer instinct" within the Texans' coaching staff.

 

[ziggy29]

You’re mistaken to be polite about it. Kraft, Belichick and Brady all have considerable say and work together well, anyone else would have to have the ear of one or more of them.

I seem to recall that Belichick was rather miffed when Brady convinced Kraft to move Garoppolo to San Francisco.

 

[Corporateburnout]

I seem to recall that Belichick was rather miffed when Brady convinced Kraft to move Garoppolo to San Francisco.

Bill wanted to keep them both for a couple of years until Brady retires but Kraft didn't want to pay both. He wanted to stay with the proven winner who helped make the brand big money. Ultimately it was the right decision to move Grappolo since in these two years, the Pats have been to the SB twice winning one.

As a shrewd businessman Kraft made the decision solely based on making more money for the brand and not because Brady convinced him to do so.

 

[Breedlove]

The Texans are a good team but Bill Obrien is not Bill Belichick . Without Clowny the team will suffer . Last season I was lucky enough to be on the field before the Texans / Browns game . Jason Segura a Browns journalist told us that the Browns thought Clowny was more of a threat then JJ. Called him a run killer.
I will tell you how the season for the Texans will end . Romeo will be the fall guy and will be fired , but the truth the Texans have let a lot of talent walk . BOB blames everyone around him , the sooner the Texans move on the quicker the

 

[GravitySucks]

Of course!
I've been saying this is our year for the last 12 September's. Usually stop first week of October.
On the plus, look how many Sundays in January I've had free over the last 15 years.

This confidence after only a one point win against the Jets

 

[easysurfer]

Looks like A. Brown will be eligible to play for the Pats come Sunday after all. No criminal charge, no exempt list.

Wide receiver Antonio Brown will be eligible to make his New England Patriots debut Sunday against the Miami Dolphins.
Brown, who signed with the Patriots after his release from the Oakland Raiders last week, was accused of rape and sexual assault in a civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in Southern District of Florida. Brown and his legal team have denied the allegations.
The NFL decided against placing Brown on the commissioner's exempt list because no criminal charges have been filed in the case, a person with knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY Sports.
The exempt list is a procedural move, which only commissioner Roger Goodell has the power to execute .

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...y-new-england-patriots-nfl-week-2/2310480001/

 

[aaronc879]

Looks like A. Brown will be eligible to play for the Pats come Sunday after all. No criminal charge, no exempt list.

AB is a horrible person and IMO should have been removed from the league due to prior transgressions. That being said, there is no reason for him to be punished due to the rape allegations. To the best of my knowledge there is no video and he has not been convicted of a crime so there is no reasonable cause to make him sit in this case.

 

[joeea]

Looks like A. Brown will be eligible to play for the Pats come Sunday after all. No criminal charge, no exempt list.

He is eligible.

It will be interesting to see if he actually plays or not.

 

[target2019]

What is the over/under on how long before AB's next alleged transgression?

 

[aaronc879]

What is the over/under on how long before AB's next alleged transgression?

Depends what you consider a transgression. I'm sure he will mouth off to someone in management within the next few weeks.

 

[Birdie Num Nums]

NFL Power Rankings: Week 2

NFL Power Rankings: Week 2 (Going into today's Week #2 games):

1. NE
2. LAR
3. KC
4. NO
5. PHI
6. DAL
7. MIN
8. SEA
9. BAL
10. GB
11. CHI
12. LAC
13. TEN
14. PIT
15. HOU
16. CAR
17. BUF
18. IND
19. SF
20. OAK
21. CLE
22. NYJ
23. ATL
24. CIN
25. DEN
26. JAX
27. DET
28. WAS
29. NYG
30. ARI
31. TB
32. MIA

 

[harley]

Go Rams!

 

[Car-Guy]

Well the Texans won today by 1 point over the Jaguars but they didn't play anywhere near as well as they did Monday night against the Saints. IMO, a couple of bad calls again in this game by the officials. One was in the Texans favor, the other not. You would think, that with all the challenges that are allowed now and with high resolution instant replay, they'd get it right all the time. Not so!

 

[Midpack]

Wow Miami, sorry.

 

[Corporateburnout]

So much for Belichick not running up the score against his former defensive coordinator. He had Brady playing the whole game and throwing for a TD with the score at 37-0 with 2 minutes left in the game. He is ruthless.....

 

[Dawg52]

I've never seen a team get screwed by the refs more than the Saints. Rams qb has the ball knocked out of his throwing hand and the Saints return it for a td only to have the play called an incomplete pass. Replay clearly shows the ball was knocked out before a passing motion was made but the play is dead at that point and Saints are given possession. The refs are suppose to let the play run and not call it dead if there is any doubt.... then replay can overrule if indeed an incompletion. Unreal.

 

[Beststash]

Well the Texans won today by 1 point over the Jaguars but they didn't play anywhere near as well as they did Monday night against the Saints. IMO, a couple of bad calls again in this game by the officials. One was in the Texans favor, the other not. You would think, that with all the challenges that are allowed now and with high resolution instant replay, they'd get it right all the time. Not so!

Agreed. A win is a win but the Texans defense did not look good at all nor did the offense. The defense (usually standout on Texan teams) against the pass is weak and on offense the 3rd/19 run call late in the game was noticeably lame. The new offense coordinator this year is making calls that look a lot like O'Brien in the past. With some of the best receivers in football they do not utilize them. At some point with all of the QB sacks I think it becomes obvious that Watson needs to throw the ball quicker. Go Texans!

 

[Popeye]

So much for Belichick not running up the score against his former defensive coordinator. He had Brady playing the whole game and throwing for a TD with the score at 37-0 with 2 minutes left in the game. He is ruthless.....

That’s when you throw a safety blitz and don’t stop at the whistle, or at release of the ball. Just take 15 yards to send the message. Maybe that’s my hockey playing mentality!

 

[dirtbiker]

I've never seen a team get screwed by the refs more than the Saints. Rams qb has the ball knocked out of his throwing hand and the Saints return it for a td only to have the play called an incomplete pass. Replay clearly shows the ball was knocked out before a passing motion was made but the play is dead at that point and Saints are given possession. The refs are suppose to let the play run and not call it dead if there is any doubt.... then replay can overrule if indeed an incompletion. Unreal.

It's kind of like it's karma for employing a head coach that was paying his players to injure opposing team's players. I love watching Sean Peyton cry about it. I wish they would have permanently banned him from the NFL rather than suspend him for a year. Sucks for the players and fans though.

But, yeah, that whole play was a complete screw job.

 

[kgtest]

Favre beat the vikings, playing for the vikings, at the conference championship, ON HIS 40th birthday!!! The NFL had to schedule it that way, and he delivered.

Cousins was terrible last night?

Where did AB go? Apparently someone cleared his locker out within a 15min timeframe between him changing and the media coming in. POOF Gone like the wind.

 

[kgtest]

It's kind of like it's karma for employing a head coach that was paying his players to injure opposing team's players. I love watching Sean Peyton cry about it. I wish they would have permanently banned him from the NFL rather than suspend him for a year. Sucks for the players and fans though.

But, yeah, that whole play was a complete screw job.

Did you see the Vikings game? They overturned a TD within the 2min automatic review. There was no flag prior to the automatic review. THEN they overturned it. and it was not an infraction so WE did get literally screwed. NO reasonable doubt that it was NOT a TD. I HATE GOODELL's officals!

 

[golfnut]

Boy, the refs got alot of face time this weekend.

 

[dirtbiker]

Did you see the Vikings game? They overturned a TD within the 2min automatic review. There was no flag prior to the automatic review. THEN they overturned it. and it was not an infraction so WE did get literally screwed. NO reasonable doubt that it was NOT a TD. I HATE GOODELL's officals!

Yep. I feel like officiating is getting worse, not better.


And speaking of screwjobs, last night's game Wentz dives into the endzone for a 2 point conversion, and they ruled that he gave himself up and took back the two points. Because a year or two ago they changed the rules that a QB either sliding or going down headfirst was giving himself up. HOWEVER, he was diving into the endzone between two defensive players for a score. He most certainly wasn't giving himself up. Those two points ultimately may have cost us the game. Ugh.