NFL Week 8 Thread

paulie21

Thursday Night/Friday Morning 1.25am

Jags @ Titans

Sunday 1.30pm

Redskins v Bengals @ Wembley

Sunday 5pm

Lions @ Texans
Cardinals @ Panthers
Seahawks @ Saints
Chiefs @ Colts
Raiders @ Bucs
Patriots @ Bills Live on Sky Sports
Jets @ Browns

Sunday 8.05pm

Chargers @ Broncos

Sunday 8.25pm

Packers @ Falcons Live on Sky Sports

Sunday Night/Monday Morning 12.30am

Eagles @ Cowboys

Monday Night/Tuesday Morning 12.30am

Vikings @ Bears

paulie21

7-8 (presume a draw goes in loss column) this week, 57-50 on year

Jags @ Titans
Redskins v Bengals
Lions @ Texans
Cardinals @ Panthers
Seahawks @ Saints
Chiefs @ Colts
Raiders @ Bucs
Patriots @ Bills
Jets @ Browns
Chargers @ Broncos
Packers @ Falcons
Eagles @ Cowboys
Vikings @ Bears

helimachoptor

3 year in a row Jags @ Titans is the terrible thursday game.. no surprise tbh

D9Male

What a pity that the Sunday with games on an hour earlier is the Sunday with just two games in the 4pm Eastern slot.

At least they're interesting.

BoJack Horseman

Oh NFL.... with that Thursday night matchup you are really spoiling us!

Itssoeasy

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

Oh NFL.... with that Thursday night matchup you are really spoiling us!

The term drizzling ****s was invented for a game like this.

eagle eye

8-7 on the week which leaves me at 72-35 for the season.

Jags @ Titans
Redskins v Bengals
Lions @ Texans
Cardinals @ Panthers
Seahawks @ Saints
Chiefs @ Colts
Raiders @ Bucs
Patriots @ Bills
Jets @ Browns
Chargers @ Broncos
Packers @ Falcons
Eagles @ Cowboys
Vikings @ Bears

eagle eye

helimachoptor wrote: »

3 year in a row Jags @ Titans is the terrible thursday game.. no surprise tbh

While the last two Thursday night games between them might not have been great games I can remember a lot of cracking games between the two in Nashville over the last couple of years.

I'm looking forward to it again. Mariota seems to have improved over the last couple of games and the Jags need to put on a show after last week's debacle. I think this could be the game of the week.

D9Male

Yeah, I am looking forward to it too. Lots at stake in the game too. Both teams have realistic playoff prospects (although many doubt they can do it).

irishrover99

D9Male wrote: »

What a pity that the Sunday with games on an hour earlier is the Sunday with just two games in the 4pm Eastern slot.

At least they're interesting.

That means you'll get nearly 50/50 coverage of two decent games on Sky sports mix (Redzone). Plus with the hour earlier it means ill get to watch more of the evening games before hitting the hay for work on a Monday.

And the Bengals/Washington are on SSM that day.

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman

16-14 on the season , so not a great start after two weeks. Had a horrendous 6-9 last week

Jags @ Titans
Redskins v Bengals
Lions @ Texans
Cardinals @ Panthers
Seahawks @ Saints
Chiefs @ Colts
Raiders @ Bucs
Patriots @ Bills
Jets @ Browns
Chargers @ Broncos
Packers @ Falcons
Eagles @ Cowboys
Vikings @ Bears

cosatron

8-7 last week, 56-51 overall
Jags @ Titans
Redskins v Bengals
Lions @ Texans
Cardinals @ Panthers
Seahawks @ Saints
Chiefs @ Colts
Raiders @ Bucs
Bills
Jets @ Browns
Chargers @ Broncos
Packers @ Falcons
Eagles @ Cowboys
Vikings @ Bears

helimachoptor

eagle eye wrote: »

While the last two Thursday night games between them might not have been great games I can remember a lot of cracking games between the two in Nashville over the last couple of years.

I'm looking forward to it again. Mariota seems to have improved over the last couple of games and the Jags need to put on a show after last week's debacle. I think this could be the game of the week.

LAst couple of years games have been ok, but neither team had anything to play for

D9Male wrote: »

Yeah, I am looking forward to it too. Lots at stake in the game too. Both teams have realistic playoff prospects (although many doubt they can do it).

Titans have more playoff aspirations than the Jags but a loss here and they are dead and buried imo

DDC1990

Going to my first Bucs game on Sunday after 15 years of being a fan.

Missed the London Bucs games for various reasons so buzzing for this.

Heading to the TNF game against the Falcons as well.

The Raiders game should be exciting with two great young QB/WR combos with AC/DC and Winston/Evans. Crabtree is on fire at the moment as well. Both sides offence looks good, but defensively both have significant wrak spots.

Hoping for a Bucs win and a quick turnaround to do the double on the Falcons to clip their wings and take the lead in the NFC South.

helimachoptor

Enjoy!

D9Male

helimachoptor wrote: »

LAst couple of years games have been ok, but neither team had anything to play for




Titans have more playoff aspirations than the Jags but a loss here and they are dead and buried imo

I wouldn't bury Titans in this division. Their schedule looks okay, too.

helimachoptor

agree, but lose this and they are 0-3 in the division.. no team is going to outright win this by 2/3 games imo, it'll be very close and could come down to their division games

dfx-

27-0....

Mysterypunter

dfx- wrote: »

27-0....

Ended 36-22,was not an accurate reflection. Jacksonville were disgraceful, could have been 60-0.

helimachoptor

Titans really took their foot off the jags throat.

D9Male

Mariota was golden.

Bortles' numbers look good, but he was gash. I wonder how long they keep faith in him. And Bradley for that matter.

ScummyMan

Bortles throwing motion is absolutely terrible, the regression from last year is incredible.

letowski

Bortles is like the ultimate garbage time QB.

helimachoptor

just watched the game there..

Titans were impressive even with how bad the Jags were, Henry was let loose a bit more here and just ran over everyone.

Titans o-line even with both starters at guard out is a big run mauling machine, Mariota was smart with the ball.

only 2 sacks and Bortles put up big garbage time stats which we need to stop happening.

eagle eye

Watched the first half last night and a little bit of the second half and then watched the rest this morning.

Titans looked impressive on both sides of the ball. Henry is going to keep Murray fresh and it's a really good one two punch with slightly different ways of running. Mariota looked impressive too as did pretty much the whole offense and defense.

The end of the game showed that the Jags issues are all related to the offensive line. They don't seem able to open a hole for the running game and Bortles isn't getting much time in the pocket either. The last quarter showed that Bortles is accurate when given a bit of time as Titans went into soft zone and didn't go after him as much. What I seen time and time again was Bortles having to get out of the pocket because it wasn't just one tackle not able to do his thing, the whole pocket was collapsing nearly all the time and there was no way to stay in there and step around to avoid it.

Anyways Tennessee have certainly improved over the last couple of weeks and are serious contenders for divisional honours.

helimachoptor

I would expect both the Texans and colts to lose this sunday, so titans will be tied but 2 division games behind

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman

helimachoptor wrote: »

I would expect both the Texans and colts to lose this sunday, so titans will be tied but 2 division games behind

last weeks loss was a massive one for the Titans, such a pity they couldn't get the win there would have put them in the driving seat

helimachoptor

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman wrote: »

last weeks loss was a massive one for the Titans, such a pity they couldn't get the win there would have put them in the driving seat

yep big time, a win there would have been immense in the battle for the division.

Chargers
Packers
Colts

Are up next, expect Rodgers to tear our secondary apart, but we need to win those other 2 games

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman

helimachoptor wrote: »

yep big time, a win there would have been immense in the battle for the division.

Chargers
Packers
Colts

Are up next, expect Rodgers to tear our secondary apart, but we need to win those other 2 games

I think you can beat the Packers and Colts, I think the Chargers could be one of those under the radar teams this season , they shouldnt be where they are having lost alot of close ones.

Realt Dearg Sec

Thursday night football needs to be put out of its misery. There's been a huge decline in ratings for football this season, and many people think a part of the problem is oversaturation, best exemplified by TNF, which seems to pit two banged up teams against each other week after week, with not nearly enough time to recover from their previous outing. The Packers Bears game was a great instance of this, a bunch of second stringers playing a bunch of third stringers. This kind of ****e makes people switch off, and dilutes the product.

Also, stop putting the Bears on primetime, show some mercy for the love of God.

thomond2006

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Thursday night football needs to be put out of its misery. There's been a huge decline in ratings for football this season, and many people think a part of the problem is oversaturation, best exemplified by TNF, which seems to pit two banged up teams against each other week after week, with not nearly enough time to recover from their previous outing. The Packers Bears game was a great instance of this, a bunch of second stringers playing a bunch of third stringers. This kind of ****e makes people switch off, and dilutes the product.

Also, stop putting the Bears on primetime, show some mercy for the love of God.

I agree, the Thursday night games have been both poor on paper and poor in reality, except for the season opener between Denver and Carolina. Listening to the CBS commentary doesn't help either, although I think NBC are taking over the later TNF games which will help.

Is putting some games on Saturday simply a non-starter because of college and other sports? I wonder how well a Superbowl would compare ratings wise if it was played on a Saturday night. Certainly more people on this side of the Altantic would watch it live...

Realt Dearg Sec

thomond2006 wrote: »

I agree, the Thursday night games have been both poor on paper and poor in reality.

Is putting some games on Saturday simply a non-starter because of college and other sports? I wonder how well a Superbowl would compare ratings wise if it was played on a Saturday night. Certainly more people on this side of the Altantic would watch it live...

Probably Saturday wouldn't work simply because so many people who might watch NFL will not do so if it clashes with their college games. It would probably be considered a serious encroachment on the NCAA's territory as well, doubt it would be considered very favourably (also if the NCAA responded in kind and started putting major college games up against NFL games on Sunday, they could be badly hurt). It could be possible to have some Saturday games on when college football is out of season.

It would be more in their line to get their Sunday product right and forget Thursdays. Getting it right probably means different things to different people but they could start by easing up on the excessive celebration penalties, letting a catch be a catch, and generally not turning their games into flag festivals and zebra parades, which the last year or two have been increasingly unbearable facts of the game.

Itssoeasy

I agree with RDSs last paragraph in that the standard across the league(players and officiating) has been poor for the past seven weeks.

Paully D

Bank Holiday Monday = being able to stay up for Sunday Night Football.

Also the Sunday and Monday Night Football games will be on an hour earlier (00:30am) this week as well as Thursday Night Football in week 9.

It's the little things.

Deco99

Redskins game was advertised on bbc?

writhen

Deco99 wrote: »

Redskins game was advertised on bbc?

Red button

astraj

No red button available. Is there a way to manually search for the red button broadcast on other channels section on sky.

Paully D

Some drive to kick things off for the Redskins.

Paully D

Perfect response from the Bengals.

65 yard kick off return followed by a couple of strong runs from Hill and Bernard finished off by the latter for a 12 yard TD.

Mr. Guappa

astraj wrote: »

No red button available. Is there a way to manually search for the red button broadcast on other channels section on sky.

Try Sky Sports Mix (407). That's free for some non-Sports subscribers.

Itssoeasy

This bengals and redskins game is a decent enough game.

Itssoeasy

The NFL shouldn't have moved the PAT back.

Paully D

Superb play action from the Bengals there. Fooled everyone.

Paully D

Horrific play from Dalton there. That was truly awful.

Paully D

That catch from Green, even with Norman's PI. :eek:

Paully D

That extra point miss from Nugent is such a killer now. Redskins would have needed a TD.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Itssoeasy wrote: »

The NFL shouldn't have moved the PAT back.

Why?

It makes the kicking part of the game more crucial as PAT's aren't complete gimmes anymore and they can have a role in deciding a game now.

Itssoeasy

Redskins player down. It looked terrible. His neck bent in a way it's not meant to.

Hazys

What are the commentators talking about? Hightower hit him in bounds

Paully D

I think I'd move on from Lewis at the end of this season if I were the Bengals.

11 years, no playoff wins in 7 attempts (and 5 in a row) and they are really struggling this year.

There's only so many years the same message can last before becoming stale.

BoJack Horseman

Wow.... Iceing the kicker actually worked!