The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread

spiralism

Feel pretty bad for the one lad in the Forte jersey, have to say!

Billy86

Draft order is out, for non-playoff teams:

1. Texans
2. Rams (via Redskins)
3. Jaguars
4. Browns
5. Raiders
6. Falcons
7. Buccaneers
8. Vikings
9. Bills
10. Lions
11. Titans
12. Giants
13. Rams
14. Bears
15. Steelers
16. Cowboys/Ravens (coin flip)
17. Cowboys/Ravens (coin flip)
18. Jets
19. Dolphins
20. Cardinals

Pudsy33

I suppose it's nice to have a meaningful Ravens pick to look forward to. Wide receivers and fat men please Ozzie.

mikemac1

Ozzie will trade down.....as he always does

davyjose

Billy86 wrote: »

Draft order is out, for non-playoff teams:

1. Texans
2. Rams (via Redskins)
3. Jaguars
4. Browns
5. Raiders
6. Falcons
7. Buccaneers
8. Vikings
9. Bills
10. Lions
11. Titans
12. Giants
13. Rams
14. Bears
15. Steelers
16. Cowboys/Ravens (coin flip)
17. Cowboys/Ravens (coin flip)
18. Jets
19. Dolphins
20. Cardinals

20th pick in the draft really is a sh!t reward.

spiritcrusher

Crazy that the Texans have the first pick, they really don't have a bad team. Sort out the QB, pick up some extra defensive cover, then with Foster and Cushing both likely back next year they could be properly dangerous.

rockonollie

Billy86 wrote: »

Draft order is out, for non-playoff teams:

1. Texans
2. Rams (via Redskins)
3. Jaguars
4. Browns
5. Raiders
6. Falcons
7. Buccaneers
8. Vikings
9. Bills
10. Lions
11. Titans
12. Giants
13. Rams
14. Bears
15. Steelers
16. Cowboys/Ravens (coin flip)
17. Cowboys/Ravens (coin flip)
18. Jets
19. Dolphins
20. Cardinals

Sucks that the Jets passed the Dolphins in the AFC East but are still considered behind them overall

rockonollie

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/blog/2013/12/will-bengals-sell-out-sundays.html

Only in Cincinnati......team is 8-0 at home, and they still can't sell-out a PLAYOFF game

mikemac1

Ohio is top 15 of 50 states for unemployment and bottom 5 of 50 states for income

I think the NFL set the prices of playoff tickets and they will be at least double the regular season price

Trying to get 60,000 paying fans isn't easily achievable for some franchises

Your location is Cincinatti so you'd know more then me. I've just seen all this put forward as reasons before

rockonollie

mikemac1 wrote: »

Ohio is top 15 of 50 states for unemployment and bottom 5 of 50 states for income

I think the NFL set the prices of playoff tickets and they will be at least double the regular season price

Trying to get 60,000 paying fans isn't easily achievable for some franchises

Your location is Cincinatti so you'd know more then me. I've just seen all this put forward as reasons before

Normally acceptable reasons, but when you consider that the team sold out all 8 home games this season.....it's tough to imagine how, even with the increased price, that the playoff game wouldn't sell out. There's obviously a dedicated fan base, or else they wouldn't have sold out all season.

Then again, the last time the Chargers played the Bengals in the playoffs, about 300,000 people claim to have been there.

GoldFour4

Funniest sports quotes of the year

Good list from the national post of the funniest sports quotes of the year. It's a general sports list but there is a nice bit of football mentioned

Paully D

Ray Rice on Magnus Hunt :pac: (image via @PFF_Sam)

johnmcdnl

Home and Away fixtures for 2014 season have been announced.

Billy86

Fixture list has not been kind to GB - of our 10 non-divisional games, we'll have NE, PHI, CAR at home, and NO & SEA away. Also ATL at home, who could well be back to a 12+ win team.

Home: Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Minnesota Vikings, Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots, New York Jets

Away: Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Seattle Seahawks, Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins

mikemac1

A welcome break for Ravens fans from facing Denver and New England which seems to be almost every year

Paully D

Paully D wrote: »

I had a free evening so, after seeing a thread on NFL UK forum, decided to go ahead and predict what I thought each teams record would be over the course of the season, baring in mind that it doesn't account for possible injuries, momentum etc.

It's far too early to put up a prediction thread so this is just to pass a bit of free time. I haven't looked at games in much detail at all, if I looked over it again I'd probably come up with a few different results, which I will do for the proper prediction thread. But anyway, I thought I'd fire the predictions in here to get some opinion and hopefully others will put up theirs too

AFC East:

Patriots 12-4
Dolphins 8-8
Bills 5-11
Jets 4-12

AFC North:

Ravens 10-6
Bengals 9-7
Steelers 9-7
Browns 5-11

AFC South:

Texans 11-5
Colts 8-8
Titans 5-11
Jaguars 3-13

AFC West:

Broncos 12-4
Chiefs 7-9
Chargers 7-9
Raiders 3-13

Playoff teams: Patriots, Broncos, Texans, Ravens
Wildcards: Bengals, Steelers

Last time three teams from the same division made the playoffs was 2007. Unlikely, but you never know! AFC North has sent two teams to the playoffs for the past 5 years, perhaps this is the year they bring three?

NFC East:

Giants 9-7
Redskins 8-8
Cowboys 8-8
Eagles 7-9

NFC North:

Packers 11-5
Bears 8-8
Vikings 7-9
Lions 7-9

NFC South:

Falcons 11-5
Saints 9-7
Panthers 8-8
Buccaneers 6-10

NFC West:

49ers 12-4
Seahawks 11-5
Rams 8-8
Cardinals 4-12

Playoffs: 49ers, Packers, Falcons, Giants
Wildcards: Seahawks, Saints

If the above happens that would leave the Raiders and Jaguars fighting it out for the number 1 pick in the 2014 draft, with the Jets, Cardinals and Browns/Titans all picking in the top five.

That passed an hour anyway :pac:

Searching through some of my old posts and this one crossed my mind. I thought it would be interesting to have a look back over my pre-season predictions.

Nailed - Patriots, Dolphins, Cowboys, Lions, Bears, 49ers

One game out - Bills, Steelers, Ravens, Browns, Broncos, Jaguars, Raiders

Two games out - Ravens, Titans, Chargers, Giants, Seahawks

Miles off - Jets, Texans, Colts, Chiefs, Chargers, Falcons, Saints, Panthers, Buccaneers, Packers, Eagles, Giants, Redskins, Cardinals

About half and half between being bang on/reasonably close and miles off. The NFC South really messed me up. I was miles off on all those selections. Biggest surprise to me was the Cardinals. I never envisaged them having such a great season.

kmart6

Bill O'Brien is the new Texans coach

Son Of A Vidic

For a guy who demanded team loyalty and loyalty to each other at Penn State. It really doesn't look good, now that he has decided to bail out after just two years.

davyjose

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

For a guy who demanded team loyalty and loyalty to each other at Penn State. It really doesn't look good, now that he has decided to bail out after just two years.

Apparently he promised a number of recruits he was sticking around too.

Son Of A Vidic

davyjose wrote: »

Apparently he promised a number of recruits he was sticking around too.

It must leave a very bad taste in the mouth for Penn State fans.

Itssoeasy

Just finished watching the second part of the Vince Lombardi a football life. As always with a football life its superb stuff.

frostie500

Good hire for the Texans but I can understand why Penn State fans will be upset. They've been used to Joe Paterno turning down NFL jobs and spending a career at the school. I think that they'd be very upset with O'Brien leaving but the important thing is that he did stabilise a floundering programme and showed that even with the restrictions in place you could do a good job. The next few years will be tough for whoever comes in but he's done a lot of good work to build for the future at least

frostie500

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Just finished watching the second part of the Vince Lombardi a football life. As always with a football life its superb stuff.

Just finished it too. Football is always great but this was superb. Spread over two episodes it was great to see the flaws of Lombardi as well as the greatness. Terrific show!

Itssoeasy

frostie500 wrote: »

Just finished it too. Football is always great but this was superb. Spread over two episodes it was great to see the flaws of Lombardi as well as the greatness. Terrific show!

And it was nice that they had recordings of him talking about his philosophies instead of someone who wasn't connected to him saying, "I think Lombardi felt this way." And in the nfl he was clearly not the norm when it came to race.

I felt sorry for his son though. I can't have been easy growing up being the son of Vince Lombardi. The end was hard to watch as it was obvious it was genuine emotion being expressed from people who knew the man even if he had a times been a asshole to them and made them feel like ****e. It was clear they loved the guy. There's a reason that trophy that is handed out at the end of the Super Bowl is the Vince Lombardi trophy.

Paully D

Lovie Smith heading to Tampa Bay. Very good hire.

Realt Dearg Sec

Paully D wrote: »

Lovie Smith heading to Tampa Bay. Very good hire.

Due to play the bears next year too

Oat23

Jason La Canfora posted yesterday that there was rumours about Jerry Angelo going to Tampa as well. I hope that doesn't happen for their sake.

Lovie is a good hire. I liked him, but we needed a change last year so he had to go. I'm happy the Lions didn't get their interview because he would have done a serious job with the D they have in Detroit.

SameOleJay

I like Lovie and think he’s well worth a job but there’s lessons he’ll need to have learned from Chicago.

His offence in the last year consisted of throwing the ball high to Brandon Marshall with no tight-end, no second receiver and no offensive line. And J’Marcus Webb. My God J’Marcus Webb

spiralism

SameOleJay wrote: »

I like Lovie and think he’s well worth a job but there’s lessons he’ll need to have learned from Chicago.

His offence in the last year consisted of throwing the ball high to Brandon Marshall with no tight-end, no second receiver and no offensive line. And J’Marcus Webb. My God J’Marcus Webb

Good amount of that could be down to Jerry Angelo. Mind you i wouldnt rule out the Bucs hiring him too.

mikemac1

Jerry Angelo agreed a trade with Baltimore to move up from 29 to 26 in the 2011 draft in exchange for Chicago's 4th round pick.

Chicago never confirmed the trade to the league and time expired so the Chiefs made their 27th pick ahead of Baltimore 26th

The Ravens front office complained to the league and Jerry Angelo refused to give the 4th rounder.

In the end Kansas and Baltimore got the players they wanted so no harm done. That was almost three years ago and not forgotton

The Bears spent 29 on Gabe Carmini who was later traded to the Bucs for a 6the rounder. Karma