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2022-2023 NFL Thread

Herdfan said:
They were saying on one sports show IO was watching that the Raiders are going to go at him hard.
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Yeah, I heard that, but then chatter about the Dolphins, and even the Patriots. In all honesty, I think his time as an elite QB is over and he needs to hang up his cleats but he truly does love the fan fair and being the talk of the town, so he'll be sending out little teasers and being coy and not retire.
 
maflynn said:
Yeah, I heard that, but then chatter about the Dolphins, and even the Patriots. In all honesty, I think his time as an elite QB is over and he needs to hang up his cleats but he truly does love the fan fair and being the talk of the town, so he'll be sending out little teasers and being coy and not retire.
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I agree on everything you said... beside he no longer has to worry about the wife at home with the kids...

I hope he goes to the Raiders just to see their fan base lose their sh*t!

And speaking of kickers... I know it is fake, but this had a lot of us cracking up on a few of the group text threads I have:

https://thesportsrush.com/nfl-news-...wboys-kicker-brett-maher-creates-nfl-history/

“If You Can Kick, We Got a Jersey For You”: Hilarious But “Fake” Jerry Jones Tweet About Kicker Brett Maher’s Incompetence is Breaking the Internet​

 
maflynn said:
Well now we come to the silly season - where everyone obsesses over Tom Brady's future. Here's my prognostication. He's returning and he'll be coy on where, just to keep his name being uttered by espn and the like.
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Yep!
I over heard 2 chaps blabbing about this now.
and intervened and said "Brady will join the Partridge Family next season!"

they might laugh tomorrow
 
maflynn said:
Yeah, I heard that, but then chatter about the Dolphins, and even the Patriots. In all honesty, I think his time as an elite QB is over and he needs to hang up his cleats but he truly does love the fan fair and being the talk of the town, so he'll be sending out little teasers and being coy and not retire.
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I agree he should hang it up. I don't know if I could say he's not elite:

Comp Pct Yards TDs Int Rating
66.84,69425990.7

The 25 TDs is low, but everything else looks good.
 
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maflynn said:
Yeah, I heard that, but then chatter about the Dolphins, and even the Patriots. In all honesty, I think his time as an elite QB is over and he needs to hang up his cleats but he truly does love the fan fair and being the talk of the town, so he'll be sending out little teasers and being coy and not retire.
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Did you actually watch all of the Buccaneers' games this season? Brady was not their issue. He did have an errant low/high/off target throw here and there (like any QB does), but their lack of success was not at all because Brady wasn't "elite." They had a historically bad running game (can't set up for the play action pass, which is Brady's bread and butter), so defenses knew they would pass. Oh, but they couldn't pass protect for long because their O-line was constantly banged up and killing their drives with holding calls, so Brady had to get the ball out quickly to receivers at the line of scrimmage who'd constantly get tackled within 1-2 yards of contact. And then their play-calling was bland and predictable.

Buccaneers defense gave up four straight 80+ yard touchdown drives last night, forcing Brady to throw 60+ times to try to come back. Very few successful stories will come from that formula. Give him a good, healthy O-line and a good running back and he can very well go win another.
 
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UltimateSyn said:
Did you actually watch all of the Buccaneers' games this season?
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:p Hell no. I'm not a bucs fan, nor am I a brady fan. In fact I was between he horns of a dilemma last night. I hate the cowboys and I don't like the bucs - I couldn't root for either one.

UltimateSyn said:
Brady was not their issue.
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He may not have been the issue, but he certainly wasn't part of the solution. When you end the season with a losing record, then there's plenty of blame to go around, brady included. Ending the season at 8 - 9 they really didn't deserve to be in the playoffs and getting spanked like that by the cowboys showed it.

Like Aaron Rodgers, he's no longer at the top of his game. He still can compete in the NFL, but we're at the stage of seeing an aging superstar desperately trying to hang on
 
maflynn said:
Yeah, I heard that, but then chatter about the Dolphins, and even the Patriots. In all honesty, I think his time as an elite QB is over and he needs to hang up his cleats but he truly does love the fan fair and being the talk of the town, so he'll be sending out little teasers and being coy and not retire.
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Agreed, Brady needs to move on to the next phase of his life.
 
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Herdfan said:
So the Chargers have fired their OC after Saturday's collapse:

Shouldn't they have fired their DC instead? Thirty points should have been enough.
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Don't forget it's also the refs' fault for calling those unforced penalties on Joey Bosa.

Chargers: Never Stop Chargering!

The Bucs were entirely predictable, and if I were the Lions, I'd be at least mildly annoyed that a less than mediocre team can back into the playoffs based on divisional seeding, instead of won/loss record, but those are the rules.

For fans, Goff probably could have played a more entertaining game.

But now, the real deal begins, and there isn't a runt in the litter.
 
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TheIntruder said:
Don't forget it's also the refs' fault for calling those unforced penalties on Joey Bosa.
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What other penalties? Bosa is 100% at fault for the unsportsmanlike penalty, and his immature, and stupid temper tantrum, literally changed the balance of the game. It meant a field goal could win the game instead of tie it.

From what I've read/heard (I didn't watch the game), the Refs mostly stayed out of the way and their action/inaction did not stop one team from winning.

No matter how you slice it, the Chargers collapsed, they had the game in hand, but just didn't finish the jags off.
 
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ucfgrad93 said:
Agreed. You should be able to protect a 27 point lead for last 2 quarters.
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Yep, this is a sign of a poorly coached team. The Chargers let up, and started taking it easy because they thought they had the game in hand. The Jags were a better coached team, because they didn't lose focus, or the will to keep trying.
 
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The Dolphins GM reiterated his support for Tua, and stated that he's no more likely to get a concussion then the rest of us, but that's not the case. After getting one concussion, you can be 3 times more likely to get another. I can only imagine getting 3 concussions in quick succession also means he's high risk for another.

Probably an apocryphal story, but I remember when Troy Aikman was pondering retirement because he kept getting concussions, and his wife said, do you want to keep playing, only to not remember your daughters name in a few years because of brain injury? He then retired.
 
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maflynn said:
What other penalties? Bosa is 100% at fault for the unsportsmanlike penalty, and his immature, and stupid temper tantrum, literally changed the balance of the game. It meant a field goal could win the game instead of tie it.
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Agreed. “Bosa’s blunder” was costly. Can’t lose your cool like that, gotta keep your head in the game.
 
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