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The 2013-14 NFL football season thread

rhett7660 said:
Exactly, seems like you could put your practice squad on and still win games. A win is a win doesn't matter if it is by 1 point or 30 points.

Heck you could be like the Giants at 0-6!!! :D (Sorry MacNut had to be said one more time). I won't kick you to much while you are down.
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How dare you sir! :D
 
Queen of Spades said:
At least Matthews and Cobb will be back this season. Gronk hasn't played a down, and Wilfork and Mayo are done for the year. :mad:
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unfortunately it goes WAY beyond just cobb and clay...

Cobb and Perry now join a growing list of the walking wounded in Green Bay. Among those still nursing injuries are Clay Matthews (thumb), Casey Hayward (hamstring), James Starks (knee) and Brad Jones (hamstring).

Back in August, the Packers lost starting left tackle Bryan Bulaga (torn ACL) and running back DuJuan Harris (knee) to season-ending injuries, and both Hayward and safety Morgan Burnett suffered hamstring problems that robbed each of playing time early this season. Burnett only returned to the field two weeks ago, and Hayward is still working his way back.

Between then and now, the Packers have also been without Eddie Lacy (concussion), John Kuhn (hamstring) and Jarrett Bush (hamstring) at various points. Backup inside linebacker Robert Francois, who filled in for Jones, tore his Achilles and was placed on injured reserve.

While every one of the 32 NFL teams deal with injuries on a week-to-week, season-by-season basis, the Packers seem to take the brunt more than most.

"It's a component of our game you can't control," McCarthy said.

The Packers "next man up" calling card will be put to the test in coming weeks.

Cobb and Jones are vital members of a passing game that has been stagnant at times this season, and neither have readily available backups on the active roster. The Packers are currently carrying just four receivers, including Cobb and Jones, leaving Jordy Nelson and Jarrett Boykin as the only two healthy members left.


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Perry will miss significant time for the second straight season.
The Packers will have to make a roster move to bring in receiver help in the coming days, and chances are that receiver will have to play a role immediately.

Perry will also be difficult to replace, especially given Matthews' thumb injury. The Packers were playing Perry on Matthews' right side, with Mike Neal starting opposite him on the left. Matthews isn't expected back for another two or three weeks. Green Bay will now have to shift gears at one of their defense's most crucial positions, making undrafted free agent Andy Mulumba the most likely candidate to start alongside Neal.

In fact, after coming into the season with Matthews, Perry, Hawk and Jones as the four starters, the Packers could very well start Mulumba, Neal, A.J. Hawk and Jamari Lattimore at linebacker against Cleveland.

Perry's injury is a bad break for a player who appeared to be coming into his own as a pass-rusher the past two weeks. A first-round pick of the Packers in 2012, Perry had three sacks and two forced fumbles in games against the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns.

A broken foot can have a varying timeline, but it wouldn't be a shock if Perry is looking at a similar recovery period as Cobb's.

If there's any bright side for the Packers, it's that McCarthy and general manager Ted Thompson have been down the injury road many times before.

Green Bay was hit hard by injuries at around this time last season and still rallied for an 11-win season. More famously, the 2010 Packers overcame 15 players going on injured reserve, including six starters, to win Super Bowl XLV.

“I actually had a friend of mine call me this morning and say, ‘Hey, man, your team looks a lot like that 2010 team,’” McCarthy said. “And I said, ‘This team is nothing like the 2010 team.’ Then when I got to work and saw the injury report, I wanted to call him back. I didn’t think it was that bad.”

There will be no crying from Mike McCarthy and the 2013 Packers. This feeling now is all too familiar.

But there's little doubt that this run of injuries will put Green Bay to the test. While history tells us the Packers will respond favorably, this is still a roster that is being pushed to its limits.
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pachyderm said:
Chiefs vs Seahawks SB?
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I really can't see Alex Smith having enough firepower to beat the Broncos in a playoff game..... I know Peyton doesnt have the best playoff track record... and I know the chiefs defense will slow them down. But Alex Smith is too much of a game manager to keep up with a high powered offense like that......

And on the NFC side despite their loss to the Patriots this weekend I think the saints can give the hawks a run for their money.... that one comes down to who gets homefield advantage.... if the hawks get homefield throughout the playoffs its pretty much over.
 
ucfgrad93 said:
I don't think he will be a huge factor this week, but it is definitely good news for the Patriots.
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I don't know... fresh legs, eager to play, and Brady is probably giddy to have his favorite target back. Could be a huge day for him.
 
einmusiker said:
the only thing that really matters in the regular season is making the playoffs. Once that's done it's ALL about who gets hot on the playoff run
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Agree 100%. Also, defense, defense, defense.

bigjnyc said:
I don't know... fresh legs, eager to play, and Brady is probably giddy to have his favorite target back. Could be a huge day for him.
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I'll believe it when I see him actually in a Patriots uniform on game day. Although my Gronk jersey is ready to go, so here's hoping. :)
 
Peace said:
How about them Jets eh ?

:p

For future reference NE had Gronk too.
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Nice win... I know all Pats fans will be complaining about that call, and completely ignore that the Jets defense held the pats to 2 field goals in the 2nd half, and stopped Brady in the first possession in OT
 
rhett7660 said:
I call that one carma..... remember the playoff game against the Raiders....hahahahahaha
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Pats fans after the Raiders game: It’s called the tuck rule! Look it up. It’s in the rule book for a reason!

Pats fans after today's game: Today’s call was the worst call ever!
 
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Well the broncos lost by more than the Patriots did this week. ;)


Pats played like crap and the Jets defense really stepped it up in the 2nd half. They deserved to lose the game.

That said, they were in a position to have a chance to win it at the end of the game, and that penalty call was ridiculous. The league botched that badly enough that they had to go onto their website two hours after the game to change the rule:

The rule was implemented this year as a player-safety consideration to protect defenseless players, and what became clear after the game was that umpire Tony Michalek had one interpretation in throwing his penalty flag while Belichick, who prides himself on knowing every nuance of the rulebook, had an entirely different one.
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On the 56-yard field goal attempt, Patriots rookie defensive tackle Chris Jones lined up over Vladimir Ducasse, the right tackle on the field goal protection unit. At the snap, he looped to his right and pushed from the behind of teammate Will Svitek, with the force of Svitek knocking the Jets’ Damon Harrison out of his stance while Svitek reached up with his right arm.

Michalek threw his flag almost immediately, with referee Jerome Boger later explaining that Jones’ act was illegal because he “pushed his teammate into the formation.” Belichick saw it differently, sharing his opinion that it would be a penalty only if the push came from a player who was initially lined up behind the line of scrimmage so he could get a running start. “You can’t push from the second level, and I didn’t think we did that,” Belichick said. “They eliminated the pushing on the second level.”

But any pushing, at any level, is not allowed. So from a bottom-line perspective, Belichick didn’t fully understand the rule to coach his players appropriately, which is surprising.

At the same time, it takes only a Google search to understand why there might be some misunderstanding about the rule. The league’s own website, NFL.com, had explained the rule this way for the past six weeks: “Team B players not on the line of scrimmage at the snap cannot push players on the line of scrimmage into the offensive formation.”

An accompanying video had NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino saying, “They cannot push from the second level, the down linemen into the offensive formation. … These techniques are dangerous, pushing into the offensive formation, and that’s why we want to get them out of the game.”

But within two hours of the conclusion of the Patriots-Jets game, the NFL.com article explaining the rule had been altered, the league perhaps sensing that there would be a lot more discussion about Rule 9, Section 1, Article 3 following Sunday’s controversial call.

The following sentence in the explainer was eliminated: “Team B players not on the line of scrimmage at the snap cannot push players on the line of scrimmage into the offensive formation.”

The sentence now reads: “Team B players cannot push teammates on the line of scrimmage into the offensive formation.”

Why the change eliminating the reference to players “not on the line of scrimmage at the snap”?
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ESPN

Pretty shady move by the NFL here. What's worse? The refs botching the call or the league failing to correctly explain a new rule change to it's clubs, having it incorrect on their website, and then quietly changing it after a controversial call to cover it up?
 
zioxide said:
Well the broncos lost by more than the Patriots did this week. ;)


Pats played like crap and the Jets defense really stepped it up in the 2nd half. They deserved to lose the game.

That said, they were in a position to have a chance to win it at the end of the game, and that penalty call was ridiculous. The league botched that badly enough that they had to go onto their website two hours after the game to change the rule:



ESPN

Pretty shady move by the NFL here. What's worse? The refs botching the call or the league failing to correctly explain a new rule change to it's clubs, having it incorrect on their website, and then quietly changing it after a controversial call to cover it up?
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Sounds a lot like the Tuck Rule. But you liked that one because it went in the Pats favor...
 
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