NFL 2024
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Showing how much good coaching can make a difference, the Chargers are quietly very good this year.
Just cutting out dumb mistakes, improving special teams and having an ounce of injury luck and now they are 6-3.
Payton having much the same impact in Denver. They aren't stacked with talent but they don't make dumb mistakes that hand their opposition the game.
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@mariner4life said in NFL 2024:
god fucking DAMMIT. we had it, it was right there, we had beaten the Chiefs, at their house. The streak was over. The Broncos had arrived. And bang, a blocked field goal and those bastards escape again.
that was heartbreak hotel time. How often does that get blocked - 1 in 200?
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In addition to the Jets, I really do enjoy watching the Cowboys fail. Jerry Jones is right with Rodgers as one of the most contemptable people in sport.
The stadium that blinds its own receivers with the sun is just so perfect. It's everything about Jerry all wrapped up in one. Stupidity to build it like that in the first place. Obstinance to not have it (easily) fixed. The sincere belief he's playing 4D chess and the media are all just jealous of his success.
I mean the bloke is Joe Biden's age and still running an NFL team. They traded a 4th rounder for a Panthers receiver who can't get on the field, while guys like Mike Williams and DeAndre Hopkins go for 6th or 7th rounders.
I wish them nothing but endless failure, and with Jerry at the helm I know that's what I will get.
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Haven't even won a conference title in 30 years. Irrelevant but still too often spoken about. The Carlton of the NFL
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Jerry is interesting because he's put himself in charge of everything.
Every other team spreads the blame. The owners are too cheap. The GM is an idiot.
The Cowboys just have Jerry. And he's not shy in speaking publicly. Some of his public utterances this year have been hilariously stupid. GMs get fired all the time for the moves Jerry makes. They are going nowhere while he owns the team.
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@barbarian said in NFL 2024:
he's functional.
absolutely damning appraisal of the highest paid guy in the league.
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Final nail in the 49ers season today.
They are in a really weird spot now - Deebo looks completely washed, they are going to be forced to overpay Purdy and Shanahan shows no signs of ever being the coach who wins 49ers a Super Bowl.
It won't happen but there's a real argument they blow up the whole regime and start again.
The alternative is this just drags out for 2-3 more years and then do it anyway.
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Bo Nix continues to impress. The Falcons have been decent (though their defence is shredded) and Nix takes them for 307 yards and 4 TDs.
Lions continue to rack up scores.
Steelers beat the Ravens in a close division game and take the lead
Was about to say the Niners are in strife but not dead because of the state of their division when @KiwiMurph pipes up to say they are cooked.Bills are currently ending the Chiefs run. Which is standard, Buffalo wins in the regular season, Chiefs in the play offs. Allen is a fucking stud.
Richardson back in the Colts and gets a W with 270 yards.
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@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2024:
Shanahan shows no signs of ever being the coach who wins 49ers a Super Bowl
this is how fine the margins are. He's been like 1 good play away from winning it twice.
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Darnold also showed this week he can score not just through Jefferson
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on the field the cowboys are a shit show, which I absolutely love!
but i have to give it to jerry jones off the field
even with a shit onfield record he has not only maintained the corporate value of the cowboys but increased it
$ 11 billion franchise value for cowboys at the mo, thats the most of any sports franchise in the world
he is also more involved with league business than any other owner, and the league is going gang busters as welljosh allen . . . my favorite player right now . . . of any football code . . . awesome run
and our boy taysom hill . . . had a blinder or what!
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couple of guys played yesterday that sort of illustrate that regular season wins are not a QB stat.
For a few years people have tried to claim Justin Herbert isn't amazing because the Chargers invariably stink. This wrong because he's a fucking baller. Now the Chargers have a decent coach and an improving defense, the Chargers are a wildcard team, and suddenly Herbert is a good QB. Bullshit, he's always been amazing, he throws it as well as anyone in the league, absolute cannon for an arm.
Joe Burrow is having an MVP level season, and yet the Bengals are 4-7. Through those 11 games, his numbers are 3,028 yards, 27 touchdowns and 5 interceptions.
Those kind of numbers through 11 games have only been thrown up by Brady (twice), Rodgers (twice) Mahomes and Brees. On every occasion their teams finished the season no worse than 13-3. The Bengals defense stinks. -
So the Jets fired their GM this week (on a bye), not a surprise and there's been lots of speculation that he'd already been sidelined based on how the last few weeks have played out. However, now he's officially out the leaks are starting. Most are pretty typical - owner getting way too involved at way too low a level (supposedly insisting that one of the starting safeties be benched). The craziest one in that the owners son is actually the source of all this stuff. He's 17.
On the one hand, there are only 32 GM roles in the NFL and every team that has a vacancy will have issues (if they didn't they wouldn't be hiring). On the other hand, GMs almost never get a second shot, so landing in the wrong spot is a career killer. Ownership is one of the most important things that potential GMs will consider. I suspect that this all means they're going to struggle to find a decent GM and therefore there will be another decade in purgatory.
Even more insane are the rumours that Rex Ryan wants to come back to coach the Jets. Out of the league for a decade and a disaster both in his last few years at the Jets and his last HC role at the Bills. Sounds like something they'd do.
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Giants released Daniel Jones. And look, they still suck.
Carolina had a crack at the Chiefs, but gave Mahomes a minute 46 to get a field goal, so you know what happened.
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The Texans loss is a big one. They just looked limp and Stroud missed a few targets at crucial times late.
They will still win the division but they don't look up to Superbowl standard. The Lions on the other hand continue to look dominant, clearly the best team at the moment.
