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2014-15 NFL season thread

maflynn said:
Here's my observations :)

Saints - I'm shocked to see them winless
Pats - Great solid performance but with AP playing I think the Patriots were able to largely dismiss the running game and key off of Cassel throwing the ball. If he was playing, I think the outcome might have been different, or at the very least a lot closer.
Chargers - they came out to play and play hard. The Seahawks looked flat, they just didn't seem to have the fire in their belly. I'm not sure if it was more of the Chargers winning the game or the Seahawks losing it.

[MOD NOTE]
Putting on my moderator hat.
Lets stop with the PRSI comments regarding the various issues the NFL is facing. This thread is not the place to discuss them.
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My Hawks fell flat on their face. They had no defense. None. Nada. Zilch.

Gratz to the Chargers. Perhaps this will wake up Seattle. I hope so. Otherwise I have to change my sig.
 
Worst NFL choke in my lifetime

There are all types of chokes in football which are notable and everybody has their top pick, but over in the Bay Area, this has got to take first place in any local sport. 4th quarter 20-7 lead, new stadium (after so many tries and ridiculous local infighting), against Bears??

http://www.49ers.com/news/article-2...vs-Bears/55ad7f3a-8ba8-4e10-8d45-693766a6c6e9

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-bears-did-off-field-distractions-play-a-part

What's the worst choke you can think of (football or otherwise)?

So your team goes in having won its first game of season,

is heavily favored and went to NFC Championship game in the last three years,

your QB is throwing great and running back looks in good form

and you are up 17-0 and this looks like a typical lopsided win,

but out of nowhere you start chalking up penalties like you are the Oakland Raiders of the 1970s.

This was as ugly a meltdown as I have seen in sports.

Here's the overall list of ones I can think of in the game's notable chokes throughout history but SF debacle should now be an addition to it. It's never good to lose in your first home game, but then in a brand new home stadium that almost never got built, but then to a team that went 8-8 last year. I can understand losing to someone like the Seahawks but the Bears? Add to this you hand the other team the win and add one penalty on top of another to the point the other team is tired having the refs keep moving you up the field. And when you throw a pass, try to get it to the guy in the same uniform! No matter how well the Niners do this year, nothing will erase this embarrassment and the stadium opener game will be remembered for many years to come. We should have stayed at Candlestick and those who say that moving out of SF was back luck actually have something to gloat about.

http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/23/nfl-worst-chokes-forbeslife-cx_ph_1023sports.html

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...eart-attack-during-49ers-levis-stadium-debut/

Choke, choke, choke now putting the Niners into the same context with the San Jose Sharks and Golden State Warriors.
 
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einmusiker said:
Jets choke job was almost as bad. I prefer to think th Pack just finally woke the **** up though
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Snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory was awesome. I totally loved that they scored the go ahead run, only to have it called back because they sideline called a TO. :D

The Iowa and Iowa state game was exactly the same, the Iowa coach called a TO just as the kicker was attempting a field goal. He missed the field goal, and that would have sent it OT, but instead he got another crack at it, and made it.
 
maflynn said:
Snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory was awesome. I totally loved that they scored the go ahead run, only to have it called back because they sideline called a TO. :D

The Iowa and Iowa state game was exactly the same, the Iowa coach called a TO just as the kicker was attempting a field goal. He missed the field goal, and that would have sent it OT, but instead he got another crack at it, and made it.
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To be fair, that TD would have tied it up, which would have given the Jets another opportunity to be the Jets and lose anyway.

And yet, I still love them! :D
 
Moyank24 said:
To be fair, that TD would have tied it up, which would have given the Jets another opportunity to be the Jets and lose anyway.

And yet, I still love them! :D
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My bad, I thought was the go ahead score - but yeah. Any day the jets look bad, is a good day :D
 
Moyank24 said:
To be fair, that TD would have tied it up, which would have given the Jets another opportunity to be the Jets and lose anyway.

And yet, I still love them! :D
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I cringed for you. Football is a cruel mistress. :/

Patriots won, but I am extremely bummed in general because Gronk does not look like Gronk to me. I didn't see the explosiveness at all. I'm hoping it's just a continuing process, but man...it's just an unfair football world when Gronk looks like a human.
 
einmusiker said:
Jets choke job was almost as bad. I prefer to think th Pack just finally woke the **** up though
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Jets were almost as bad? Yikes, I didn't know someone could choke like Niners did. I understand in years when Niners sucked and they blow a lead, but with who they have now, how do you do that?

Maybe the pressure about the new stadium and all the press it got was too much. When the types of errors that turned into penalties come out so often in a game, it shows that they were tight and that it's still early in the season. I hope this bumbling play doesn't foreshadow the rest of the season.

On D we lost a few top players and this alone has made some think that we won't have a postseason this year, but last night had no excuse. The great thing about sports, but also the heartache, is that no matter how good or bad you are anything can happen in a game. But it feels good in bad and mediocre 8-8 type seasons when we are expected to lose but pull off a miraculous win. There's also a lot of pressure when you have your stadium opener and the visiting team appears to be a sacrificial lamb. If you lose to them the press will be all over you.

We felt that going into the Super Bowl against the Ravens and though most thought we would easily win and by a big margin, the pressure to win and squash them was too much. They scored on us and contained Kaepernick very well and simply beat us on all fronts in a football game. Kap couldn't use his secret weapon of running because they blocked off his lanes and forced him to pass and he couldn't do that type of game (which he later grew into much better).

I know the Broncos felt the pressure last year to beat Seattle because everyone was going to crown Manning as the greatest QB ever. New England came twice into a Super Bowl against the surprise NFC champ Giants who nobody predicted to do well, let alone even get to the big game. On paper you could be the better team but after the first snap, the game doesn't care who did better last week or last season and it's just play by play. We got outplayed and it showed. Bears looked amazing in 4th and kudos to you Chicago.
 
63dot said:
… but out of nowhere you start chalking up penalties like you are the Oakland Raiders of the 1970s …
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You need to fail to get hung up on the laundry. I have been paying attention this season: so far, the teams with more penalty yardage are 19-12-1 (the Seahawks and Chargers tied at 53yds each Sunday). Sometimes penalties are an indication of sloppy play or a team getting so beat-down that they start becomes undisciplined. But more often, it seems, a team that plays close to the edge gets a properly balanced combination of flags and wildly successful plays (obviously, those '70s Raiders did well turning the turf yellow, they took home 2 Lombardis). Just look at the Pats-Viks game – points: 30-7, flag yards: 163-58
 
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Sydde said:
You need to fail to get hung up on the laundry. I have been paying attention this season: so far, the teams with more penalty yardage are 19-12-1 (the Seahawks and Chargers tied at 53yds each Sunday). Sometimes penalties are an indication of sloppy play or a team getting so beat-down that they start becomes undisciplined. But more often, it seems, a team that plays close to the edge gets a properly balanced combination of flags and wildly successful plays (obviously, those '70s Raiders did well turning the turf yellow, they took home 2 Lombardis). Just look at the Pats-Viks game – points: 30-7, flag yards: 163-58
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I thought of those Raiders. Those were great years for me when they were the Bay Area team to watch. I think with us this Sunday it was just pure sloppiness.
 
ucfgrad93 said:
This is a good move by the Vikings.
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I agree and I said it on another board, he should be away from the team until all his legal matters have been resolved. If he is exonerated, great play ball, if he is found guilty, I think at that point the League and the team should step in and handle how they are going to deal with him.
 
AZ Cardinals RB Jonathan Dwyer arrested for domestic violence.

Charges:
-aggravated assault
-preventing someone from calling 911


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Lock up your daughters, lock up your wife. Lock up your back door and run for your life, The NFL is back in town.
 
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