2017 NFL Season Thread

[jrhodes]

10 hours ago, Meacon said:

The NFC North is going to be one of the most fun divisions to watch, because it could legit be Minnesota, Green Bay, or Detroit winning it. It'll be a battle that'll come down to the last weeks of the season, that's fo' sho'. 

Who are you to doubt Mike Glennon?

[Adam]

I've just seen what Marcus Cooper did in the Bears game. What a moron 

[The Buscher]

"Hey Vince, it's Donnie.  I need you to start the XFL back up.  It'll rally the country."

[RoHitman Reigns]

Darren Sproles has both a broken wrist and torn ACL from 1 play

[Maxx]

Local Cowboys pregame host Dale Hansen did an opinion piece on the anthem protests, supporting them.  He also burned the shit out of Trump by saying “I served in the military during the Vietnam War, and my foot hurt too” 

[gunnar hendershow]

What weird fever dream am I currently having?

[The Buscher]

The entire Cowboys organization from Jerry Jones on down took a collective knee before the anthem.  Everyone then stood up for the anthem itself with interlocked arms.

And yet Twitter is still erupting with Cowboys fans renouncing their fandom because the team "disrespected the country". 

Triggered as fuck.

[Maxx]

Good god injuries have already ruined this defense entirely 

[gunnar hendershow]

42 minutes ago, Buschy Heenan said:

The entire Cowboys organization from Jerry Jones on down took a collective knee before the anthem.  Everyone then stood up for the anthem itself with interlocked arms.

And yet Twitter is still erupting with Cowboys fans renouncing their fandom because the team "disrespected the country". 

Triggered as fuck.

It's almost like their anger was never about the flag nor the anthem.

[ThrillhouseMAX]

 

I just wanna watch football. It doesn't bother me that an athlete would either choose to kneel or not kneel during the national anthem. But it would bother me if the Cowboys lost tonight. Go Cowboys!

[Maxx]

2 hours ago, Maxx said:

Local Cowboys pregame host Dale Hansen did an opinion piece on the anthem protests, supporting them.  He also burned the shit out of Trump by saying “I served in the military during the Vietnam War, and my foot hurt too” 

http://www.wfaa.com/mobile/article/sports/nfl/hansen-unplugged-anthem-protests-not-about-disrespecting-the-flag/287-478596561

[The Buscher]

Of course none of the people threatening to quit being fans have bothered to unfollow the team FB or Twitter pages.  The Giants official FB page is pretty much unreadable at the moment.  Every post is immediately hammered with threatening comments about how they're never gonna watch again, and because of FB's algorithm being the way it is the stuff that gets upvoted/commented the most goes straight to the top.  So it's pretty much impossible to read any comments that are actually about the game or the team.  I'd guess it's the same story for most team pages and it'll probably be that way for a while.

It's almost like they don't actually want to quit at all but are only making a stink about it because Dear Orange Leader told them to.  Shocker. 

[Maxx]

2 hours ago, Maxx said:

Good god injuries have already ruined this defense entirely 

Nevermind, apparently DeMarcus Lawrence has got this

[Lint]

53 minutes ago, Maxx said:

http://www.wfaa.com/mobile/article/sports/nfl/hansen-unplugged-anthem-protests-not-about-disrespecting-the-flag/287-478596561

Haven't watched yet, but is that the same guy who had his segment on gay marriage go viral a few years ago?

[The Buscher]

Dag.  So the Giants are now 2 games behind Washington and, ostensibly, 3 behind the Cowboys and Eagles due to tiebreakers.

Suddenly that whole "only 3 teams out of 158 since 1990 have made the playoffs at 0-3" stat makes a lot more sense.  You can get fall behind damn quickly in this league.

[Twist]

4 hours ago, Buschy Heenan said:

Dag.  So the Giants are now 2 games behind Washington and, ostensibly, 3 behind the Cowboys and Eagles due to tiebreakers.

Suddenly that whole "only 3 teams out of 158 since 1990 have made the playoffs at 0-3" stat makes a lot more sense.  You can get fall behind damn quickly in this league.

Yeah, when you scale this up its the equivalent of losing the first 15 games in an NBA season or the first 30 in the MLB. You wouldn't be putting money on teams with those records to make the playoffs either but at least they have an extended season to at least have a fighting chance. A rough patch to start the season in the NFL is a death sentence for playoff hopes.

[Lineker]

7 hours ago, damshow said:

What weird fever dream am I currently having?

He looks uncomfortable as fuck  

[Slogger]

5 hours ago, Buschy Heenan said:

Of course none of the people threatening to quit being fans have bothered to unfollow the team FB or Twitter pages.  The Giants official FB page is pretty much unreadable at the moment.  Every post is immediately hammered with threatening comments about how they're never gonna watch again, and because of FB's algorithm being the way it is the stuff that gets upvoted/commented the most goes straight to the top.  So it's pretty much impossible to read any comments that are actually about the game or the team.  I'd guess it's the same story for most team pages and it'll probably be that way for a while.

It's almost like they don't actually want to quit at all but are only making a stink about it because Dear Orange Leader told them to.  Shocker. 

The Ravens page is the same... Which is a great distraction from getting blown out by the Jags in London. Oh I made myself sad again. 

38 minutes ago, Lineker said:

He looks uncomfortable as fuck  

Those pants are probably tight as fuck.

[Adam]

2 hours ago, Lineker said:

He looks uncomfortable as fuck  

He's 74 years old. That kneeling stance is probably pretty uncomfortable to do.

[Lineker]

Aaron Rodgers wants fans to link arms during anthem