NFL 2020
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Looks like Tua was pleased to go to Miami. According to ESPN he is likely to be the understudy to Ryan Fitzpatrick. Considering his injuries and the fact the team isn't good, I'd keep him out for most if not all of the season. Let him hold a clipboard and learn the systems all the while giving him valuable healing time for the long term
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The big shocker was the Packers.
The Packers hadn't selected an offensive skill position player in the first round since picking Rodgers in 2005 - Rodgers has 4 years left on his contract - it was the deepest WR draft in a long time - so the Packers trade up to select...
..a quarterback. Jordan Love.
Wow.
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Have been watching some old NFL games while exercising.
2014 Seahawks Packers, at Seattle, Championship game.
Russell Wilson stunk. The Seahawks stunk. And yet, they burgled a late touchdown through a brave fake punt, and then managed a few minutes of magic at the end to draw it.
I'll be honest, I almost turned off 10 minutes into the third quarter. DIdn't remember the result, and it looked like a dead game to me. How Wrong I Was. This had to be one of the great comebacks to win; up there with the Pats Falcons. Aaron and the Packers must have walked away shaking their heads wondering how they lost.
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@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2020:
@nzzp that was the beginning of the end of McCarthy as coach of Packers.
Yeah, amazing with a talent like Rodgers that they didn't do better. What a talent.
Their draft was terrible this year too. If that guys not at Wilson/Brady level, they should have grabbed some of the WR talent running around. Weird times.
Any tips on great games to watch most welcomed, by the way.
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@Bovidae @KiwiMurph cheers.
One of the more memorable for me was the shitty (I think) wildcard playoff Steelers Bengals a few years back, where the Bengals absolutely blew it through anger and indiscipline. It was one of those rare pro games where people stopped being professional, and just started trying to kill or maim the opposition. Raw, brutal, engrossing but I felt a bit dirty watching tbh. Can google the year if anyone cares.
Burfict is a nasty nasty player
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Mitch looking on slightly shakier ground in ChiTown
Source: Bears decline '21 option on QB Trubisky
The Bears will not pick up the fifth-year option on QB Mitchell Trubisky, who finished last season 28th in Total QBR (39.4), tied for 27th in touchdown passes (17) and was 21st in passing yards (3,138).
Fancy the Bears moving up to get him in the draft ahead of Mahomes and Watson. Ouch
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@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2020:
@nzzp the NFC title game the year prior - 2013 - 49ers-Falcons is a good watch too.
mis-read this and wound up re-watching the 2014 49ers Seahawks championship game. This was one of the ones I watched when I was getting back into NFL.
Kaepernick was great, such a strong running game. In hindsight, the 49ers got stiffed on a few critical calls in the game; if I'd been a fan I'd have been spitting. Marshawn Lynch is amazing, and Wilson's ability to get out of the pocket and make plays was incredible.
Aside from a great finish, the highlight had to be Sherman blowing up on camera about Crabtree:
Well I'm the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree that's the result you're going to get," Sherman screamed. "Don't you ever talk about me."
When Andrews asked him who was talking about him, Sherman yelled "CRABTREE" before continuing on his rant.
"Don't you open your mouth about the best," Sherman yelled. "Or I'm gonna shut it for you real quick. "
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