The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V3

Jofspring

Has there been anymore word about games being played on Saturdays also? Would be great to get a few games in on a Saturday and not be hanging tired in work on a Monday.

jack presley

Jofspring wrote: »

Has there been anymore word about games being played on Saturdays also? Would be great to get a few games in on a Saturday and not be hanging tired in work on a Monday.

If college games go ahead, they can't. Well not until that season's over.

thomond2006

Derwin James injured again. The Chargers never change.

jack presley

Sky Sports NFL launches today. It seems to be replacing Sky Sports Action as opposed to being a new channel.

VillaMad

jack presley wrote: »

Sky Sports NFL launches today. It seems to be replacing Sky Sports Action as opposed to being a new channel.

Reason being, once the season is over, it will revert back to being Sky Sports Action.

5 hour programme called Live: NFL 32 is scheduled tonight, whatever that is.

alchemist33

VillaMad wrote: »

Reason being, once the season is over, it will revert back to being Sky Sports Action.

5 hour programme called Live: NFL 32 is scheduled tonight, whatever that is.

Reporters broadcasting from 32 training camps, is what they did before

Foxtrol

Looks like college teams that are pushing ahead with the season, ramping up this week, are really gambling with the lives of unpaid kids.

Same argument for NFL players but at least they are paid, can more easily isolate, and have better care/attention

https://twitter.com/pupadhyaya_/status/1301544819731451904?s=20

jack presley

I didn't see this coming

https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1301850483649392641

VillaMad

Channel 5 in the UK showing Monday Night Football, midnight the 14th, with the Giants v Steelers. They seem to have bought some NFL TV rights.

Can be manually added on Sky Boxes. Not sure if any other TV providers in Ireland show Channel 5.

Itssoeasy

VillaMad wrote: »

Channel 5 in the UK showing Monday Night Football, midnight the 14th, with the Giants v Steelers. They seem to have bought some NFL TV rights.

Can be manually added on Sky Boxes. Not sure if any other TV providers in Ireland show Channel 5.

So did sky sports announced they had MNF earlier and it changed ?

VillaMad

Itssoeasy wrote: »

So did sky sports announced they had MNF earlier and it changed ?

Sky are showing it also.

el Fenomeno

VillaMad wrote: »

Channel 5 in the UK showing Monday Night Football, midnight the 14th, with the Giants v Steelers. They seem to have bought some NFL TV rights.

Can be manually added on Sky Boxes. Not sure if any other TV providers in Ireland show Channel 5.

Is it Mike and Nat again?

VillaMad

el Fenomeno wrote: »

Is it Mike and Nat again?

No official announcement by Channel 5 about what they are doing. Would imagine they will just get the whole feed off ESPN as Sky do.

jack presley

Adrian Peterson is signing with Detroit.

jack presley

....and Clowney to the Titans.

the baby bull elephant

jack presley wrote: »

Adrian Peterson is signing with Detroit.

I was absolutely not expecting that. Strange move.

cosatron

the baby bull elephant wrote: »

I was absolutely not expecting that. Strange move.

Patricia is making some funny moves. What do u make of him

AbusesToilets

cosatron wrote: »

Patricia is making some funny moves. What do u make of him

Throwing **** at the wall, hoping to avoid the sack. He's been awful

the baby bull elephant

cosatron wrote: »

Patricia is making some funny moves. What do u make of him

So there's a pretty wide variation of opinions on him. AbusesToilets is far from alone in his view but I do lean the other way. I do think most moves in the Quinn/Patricia era have a clear logic to them, whether you agree with that logic is another thing. This year should tell a lot beat writers have noted the feeling is different around camp this year and there seems to be complete buy in. They're definitely his guys now. I'm not expecting miracles but provided Stafford stays healthy there needs to be serious improvement.

Oat23

What a sweet deal. 12 grand a week to be on retainer basically. He gets to continue living at home so apart from having to continue working out nothing in his life changes.

https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1302685764178841601

TheDoctor

It’s week 1 baby!!

raze_them_all_

Some fall for josh rosen, practice squad of the bucks. I know its a career move for him to try fix his career but still... Number one to practice squad in what 4 years??

hots

raze_them_all_ wrote: »

Some fall for josh rosen, practice squad of the bucks. I know its a career move for him to try fix his career but still... Number one to practice squad in what 4 years??

You've got to respect the move all the same, could have taken backup money elsewhere but goes to the place where he's got the best chance to fight for #1 after this year and learn from the best.

jack presley

hots wrote: »

You've got to respect the move all the same, could have taken backup money elsewhere but goes to the place where he's got the best chance to fight for #1 after this year and learn from the best.

After this year....????? TB's going to play until he's 60.

jack presley

Interesting bending of the rules by the Saints thwarted by the NFL.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29826419/nfl-nixed-saints-wild-sign-trade-plan-land-jadeveon-clowney-source-says

Realt Dearg Sec

jack presley wrote: »

Interesting bending of the rules by the Saints thwarted by the NFL.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29826419/nfl-nixed-saints-wild-sign-trade-plan-land-jadeveon-clowney-source-says

"The other team essentially would have been "buying" a draft pick, which the NFL has never allowed."

Yeah, Brock Osweiler says different.

AbusesToilets

jack presley wrote: »

Interesting bending of the rules by the Saints thwarted by the NFL.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29826419/nfl-nixed-saints-wild-sign-trade-plan-land-jadeveon-clowney-source-says

It's pretty common in the NBA from what I understand..

helimachoptor

just remembered that the Titans are on MNF, so highlights for me

BonnieSituation

helimachoptor wrote: »

just remembered that the Titans are on MNF, so highlights for me

Remoting in on Tuesday morning to watch it live.

HON DENVER!

The_Honeybadger

Mercifully the Steelers are the early MNF game at 12.15. I will tell myself that I will only watch the first half but inevitably stay up for it all and pay the pice Tuesday

Any bars in Dublin be showing the 6pm game? Be great if they also did lovely chicken wings

jack presley

The_Honeybadger wrote: »

Mercifully the Steelers are the early MNF game at 12.15. I will tell myself that I will only watch the first half but inevitably stay up for it all and pay the pice Tuesday

One advantage (and probably the only advantage) of supporting a rubbish team, Washington in my case, is that they don't get any national games so all their games are either in the 1pm or 4:30pm time slots!

Loughc

Deleted User wrote: »

Any bars in Dublin be showing the 6pm game? Be great if they also did lovely chicken wings

The Woolshed will be and they do fantastic wings. There's a regular boards meetup there every gameday Sunday so loads of like minded fans as well.

thomond2006

5 yrs 105m with 71m guaranteed for Jalen Ramsey.

The Rams dug themselves a hole by not extending him as part of the trade.

Foxtrol

thomond2006 wrote: »

5 yrs 105m with 71m guaranteed for Jalen Ramsey.

The Rams dug themselves a hole by not extending him as part of the trade.

Funny thing is that the new contract for him is the reason why they'll end up under the cap (were $400k above).

Rams made a complete mess of their contracts since the Super Bowl. Goff way over market for his skills and then moving on from Gurley and Cooks has cost them $33m in dead cap. Add big money for Donald and Ramsey, even if deserved, and trading away cheap draft picks has left them likely to struggle with depth for a while.

VillaMad

https://twitter.com/NFLUK/status/1303729699135221761

That's the final line-up for TV in Ireland & the UK. The Tuesday night show on BBC showing the highlights seems to have gone, while Channel 5's live Monday Night Football will be in a US studio, whilst also having a magazine programme on a Sunday morning.

Itssoeasy

I know that it says any game, any time on the gamepass bit and if you didn’t know any better you’d think there were no potential for blackouts of games (I say potential because they seem to have forgotten) and I like MJD and I’ve never heard of Kirsten Watson but I’m sure she’s qualified to do the job.

The_Honeybadger

I liked that Tuesday night NFL show on BBC, it was a bit cringey and Jason Bell is annoying as f##k but it was a decent run around the league. Presumably most of us don’t have time to follow it all on Sundays.

That said I never saw the point of two shows so I suppose it’s a sort of consolidation

Itssoeasy

The_Honeybadger wrote: »

I liked that Tuesday night NFL show on BBC, it was a bit cringey and Jason Bell is annoying as f##k but it was a decent run around the league. Presumably most of us don’t have time to follow it all on Sundays.

That said I never saw the point of two shows so I suppose it’s a sort of consolidation

Well I normally watch the eagles game when it’s on a Sunday and if that’s 6pm or 9:25pm I’ll watch red zone for the slot the eagles game isn’t in if that makes sense. The week the eagles were on a bye or when they are on TNF or MNF I’d use red zone for the late window on Sunday and pick a game for the early. So I used to see a fair bit but nobody can physically watch every minute of every game on a Sunday.

Edit: also nfl game day highlights is a great way to get an overall recap of what happened.

MrKingsley

The_Honeybadger wrote: »

I liked that Tuesday night NFL show on BBC, it was a bit cringey and Jason Bell is annoying as f##k but it was a decent run around the league. Presumably most of us don’t have time to follow it all on Sundays.

That said I never saw the point of two shows so I suppose it’s a sort of consolidation

I thought mark Chapman was growing into it well well.

Fine recap show in MOTD format. I’m surprised it wasn’t kept

The_Honeybadger

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Well I normally watch the eagles game when it’s on a Sunday and if that’s 6pm or 9:25pm I’ll watch red zone for the slot the eagles game isn’t in if that makes sense. The week the eagles were on a bye or when they are on TNF or MNF I’d use red zone for the late window on Sunday and pick a game for the early. So I used to see a fair bit but nobody can physically watch every minute of every game on a Sunday.

Edit: also nfl game day highlights is a great way to get an overall recap of what happened.

Yeah same, I’d watch the Steelers unless they are 1.00am starts and I’d have an eye on Redzone most of Sunday evening but am always getting distracted by kids or people calling to the house or whatever.

I used to like the early week catchup show but I’m sure I’ll live without it

The_Honeybadger

MrKingsley wrote: »

I thought mark Chapman was growing into it well well.

Fine recap show in MOTD format. I’m surprised it wasn’t kept

I’d imagine that the Saturday show will be expanded to an hour or longer?

All NFL highlight shows are terrible anyway because of that weird slow motion filming that the "highlights" always shown in. The condensed versions at normal speed they put on YouTube are way better.

ScrubsfanChris

The_Honeybadger wrote: »

I’d imagine that the Saturday show will be expanded to an hour or longer?

Not even close, 35 minutes.
I actually think it will probably move away from highlights more than ever and just become solely a Sunday preview

Shedite27

Itssoeasy wrote: »

I know that it says any game, any time on the gamepass bit and if you didn’t know any better you’d think there were no potential for blackouts of games (I say potential because they seem to have forgotten)

What's the blackout rule on Gamepass? Thought they abandonded that rule (in the states anyway)

Shedite27

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

All NFL highlight shows are terrible anyway because of that weird slow motion filming that the "highlights" always shown in. The condensed versions at normal speed they put on YouTube are way better.

I don't think there's any good way to watch NFL nightlights, watching the 5/6 minute version with regular angles is grand to show you the big plays and scores, but if you're watching highlights of a game you don't know the outcome of, it's hard to follow. Doesn't work as well as watching Sunday Game or Match of the Day I feel

Itssoeasy

Shedite27 wrote: »

What's the blackout rule on Gamepass? Thought they abandonded that rule (in the states anyway)

The games that are shown on sky sports at 6pm and 9:25 pm on Sunday are meant to be blacked out for 24 hours but since the new crowd took over a few years ago and we don’t get them. I don’t know why it’s happening that way but I’m not complaining.

Foxtrol

Shedite27 wrote: »

What's the blackout rule on Gamepass? Thought they abandonded that rule (in the states anyway)

Still in place in the States as well when using Sunday Ticket. Anything shown on local TV in your area is blocked.

Itssoeasy

I see skip Bayless is being his usual charming self. Those comments he made about Dak Prescott say more about him than dak.

alchemist33

The_Honeybadger wrote: »

I liked that Tuesday night NFL show on BBC, it was a bit cringey and Jason Bell is annoying as f##k but it was a decent run around the league. Presumably most of us don’t have time to follow it all on Sundays.

That said I never saw the point of two shows so I suppose it’s a sort of consolidation

Yep, a Saturday show is pretty useless for me. Who wants to warch last weeks recap when this week has already started? Hopefully theres something similar on Gamepass