2024 NFL Season discussion thread (not picks)

It's good to be back. Here for the three-peat, enjoy the season!

That was a fun play, Xavier Worthy straight into the action.

Worthy is going to be a superstar I think. I thought it when he was coming out of college, when he joined the Chiefs I was more confident and now two touchdowns in his first game.

Despite it finishing as it did I thought that Chiefs looked as potent as I've ever seen it on offense. There's a lot of playmakers, obviously Mahomes but Pacheco, Rice and Worthy all look very dangerous. Kelce might find himself well down the pecking order for receptions. Noah Gray seems to be a late bloomer too.

Its just like Belichick, they are so good at drafting defenders and picking up udfa's.

They got Mahomes and then Rice last year and now Worthy. They got Hill as well.

But defensively, Marcus Peters, Jones, Bolton and McDuffie are superb players and they've a few more like Nnadi, Karlaftis and Willie Gay. That Watson guy looked good last night too.

When you've got Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes and you are drafting as well as they are it's just scary.

I've said it before because although I'm a Patriots fan I don't wear goggles. Mahomes will take Tom Brady's GOAT throne. They'll keep winning and contending as long as Andy Reid is there and even if he goes they will still do very well so long as Mahomes is there.

This is the third time that I can remember the great HC/QB combination. Bill Walsh and Joe Montana won three, Bill Belichick and Tom Brady won six and Andy Reid and the soon to be 29 year-old Patrick Mahomes have won three.

When you've got the best HC and the best QB it's very hard to stop.

I just love watching great players unless they are playing the Patriots. 😕

From Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Barry Sanders and Deion Sanders through Junior Seau, Rod Woodson, Reggie White, Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers and I'll stop there because the list is endless, I just love watching the best.

Mahomes is such a joy to behold, he can consistently do things nobody else would dare try. Chris Jones is fantastic to watch to. They'll lose in the playoffs due to injuries mounting up but they'll win a lot more. I think they'll go close to, if not matching or beating six.

Mentioned on GMFB earlier, but it's insane how Worthy went unpicked and landed at the Chiefs, thus strengthening the most oiled unit in the league. Seems almost unfair, but Chiefs' wheeling and dealing in this era is up there with the best ever in terms of results.

Sorry meant to say, not picked by someone before Chiefs nabbed him. Dream draft for them.

Jackson did little to silence his critics when it comes to his passing. That miss at the end for flowers was brutal, you have to make that throw.

The pitch is terrible, players losing their footing everywhere.

Saquon Barkley joins a good team and we are seeing a much improved player.

I'd call that the least entertaining 63 point game I've ever witnessed even though it was a close game all through. Eagles get the win. Barkley the star with 109 rushing and 23 receiving yards and 3 tds. Josh Jacobs looked poor early for the Packers but picked it up in the second half and ended up with 84 rushing and 20 receiving yards.

Jordan Love got injured right at the end of the game, might be a hyper extended knee.

I guess week 1 is the time for over-reactions, but the Eagles look back. Big upgrades in the two co-ordinator positions, and Saquon (Giants fans have to be absolutely sick watching that...3 touchdowns, wow).

One thing that didn't look quite as good was the tush-push, without Jason Kelce in the middle, but maybe they can rectify that.

Re: Jordan Love

Yeah, I wonder about this too. $50m/year contract for a guy who played one season. A lot of guys look decent for one season. While his numbers last year looked decent, how much of that is La Fleur putting him in good situations? I dunno, but just seems a big risk, giving him that contract, will be interesting to see how goes (badly, I hope!)

Yeah, the pitch was brutal, and really affected the game. I think the d-backs faired worse, a bunch of the big plays were just because the defensive-back slipped.

Yep, it was a jaw dropping throw, pressure, almost on his back foot - certainly a far from ideal platform and threw a dime 65 yards in the air. The best I have seen for a long time.

Lions win in overtime. Fantastic game.

Just on the Bengals this is the sixth consecutive season they've lost the first game of the season, they've went 0-2 or worse in each of those seasons.

I don't like the Jets but I have sometimes pitied them.

Anyhow I'm looking forward to tonight's game because a lot of so called experts are saying they have a real shot at winning the game.

They have a 40 year old QB who had his worst ever season in 2022 and then missed 2023. A young man can come back fine from missing a year even though not all of them do but a 30 year old missing a full season is a much bigger thing and much harder to get back from. So there's the difficulty of recovering all your skills for a man that age after a year out and then the possibility that he was already regressing even before the injury.

I expect the 49ers to win easily tonight.

Aaron Rodgers finishes 13/21 for 167 yards, 1 TD and 1 int.

Easy win fir the niners,

Tua is having a shocker so far. James Cook, on the other hand, is not.

A pick six so yep, worse!

Skykar Thompson in for Tua, thinks are going to get a lot worse now.

The left side of the Dolphins offensive line was horrendous, Tua was under fire all night, he had no chance.

I agree, when you get time and you have Waddle and Hill, and Achane, it's pretty easy. When you meet the best defenses it's a while different ball game.

Well it was a very strange one, he got hit hard by a chest. You never expect a concussion to happen like that.

If you're not a good QB with those two (Hill and Waddle) to throw to, you'll never be. Time to move on. It was time to move on last year.