I have a love hate relationship with tailgating. It's a great experience and a lot of fun. My only advice is to try and keep track of how much you drink since it's pretty much free game for a couple hours before the game. You start pounding drinks and by the time you come to, the games over and you only remember bits and pieces. That's how my first game went at least.
GAME. THOMAS MOTHERFUCKING BRADY! BOOM! HOLY SHIT! That was a fucking ending right there. That was the craziest two minute drive ever. That motherfucker was going to score! WOOOOOOO! Welcome to the NFL KEMBRELL THOMPKINS! Also, nice to see Austin Collie in the lineup. He is actually a good receiver if he doesn't get concussed for the 100th time. We gotta start working him in. Man, that game was nuts. I do kinda feel a little bad for Rob Ryan, that man coached his ass off, he looks like someone else shit in his pants.
Rob Ryan coached his ass off and then probably forgot how to coach the last minute of the game. Those coverages were terrible. Credit where credit is due, but I don't know how the Saints have the ball twice and barely run off a minute of clock. Way too fucking conservative.
Bill Simmons' trend of referring to the NFL as the League of Denial seems apt. Amendola was fucking wrecked. Dobson probably sustained some brain damage today too. I can't watch the game without thinking about this shit now. Patriots roster is so fucking thin, I have no idea how the Saints didn't take advantage. It's pretty clear how you beat them: 1. run the ball up the gut 2. pressure Brady Saints couldn't do #1 until the third quarter, and they never got sustained pressure either.
Massive holds on game winning TD passes don't exactly help. Speaking of injuries, I can't think of a season where more top teams got wrecked by injuries this early in the year.
Did you see the Randall Cobb hit? Any other year, the safety drops his shoulder right into Cobb's chest and lights him up. This year he goes super low and cuts him off at the knee. Enough of this occurs and you'll see a backlash against the "safety conscious" Goodell, who is enough of a hypocrite to claim to care about players while wanting to add games to the schedule.
I've been watching football for long enough that I think I've got a solution for this: Get rid of all the route running protection receivers get and let defenders actually defend against passes. As it stands, you pretty much can't touch the guy you're defending at all or risk getting called for holding or interference, so really the only thing left for defenders is to let the receiver catch the ball then hit him as hard as you can to try to jar the ball loose. Furthermore that might actually serve de-emphasize the passing game a bit, which is where the majority of these injuries seem to occur.
They made the same argument when Keller was knocked out for the season. There has to be a place to hit a guy other than the earhole or the side of the knee. The defenseless received this is bullshit. Just make it illegal to catch a crossing route and move on. I am fine with hitting a guy right in the chin, but once a WR starts to go down and lower his head, how are you as a defender supposed to tell where youre helet or shoulder is gonna wind up? Its a little too much to ask.
Brady HAD to have a different sweater if they lost, right? You cant come out looking like the Gorton fisherman's gay cousin if you lose that game after throwing that INT late in the game. Its almost like Brady said, after that previous drive ended in the 4th down incompletion: OK FUCKERS...I HIT 3 DIFFERENT GUYS IN THE FUCKING HANDS AND NOBODY CAUGHT IT. LETS SEE YOU CATCH THIS SAD DUCK! I hate Brady with a passion, but goddammit do I respect him.
It's funny you say that, but I was watching the game with my dad and after that interception I turned to him and said pretty much the same thing. It was almost as if he said to himself "Fuck it. We're not going to drive down the field with these shitballs and their butterfingers. HERE YOU GO EDELMAN. FUCK YOU AND FUCK EVERYONE. I HOPE DOBSON DIES IN A FIRE."
Hey, if we're talking about uncalled holding, let's not forget that it happened on the David Tyree helmet catch in the Super Bowl, too. I'll trade ya...
"Brady's back! That's your quarterback! Who left the building? Unicorns! Show ponies! Where's the beef? "Boy, when you thought you'd seen it all, when it's total despair... 14 years in the league. This situation after this situation he's been through ... and to elevate a rookie, my god." Spoiler
Gotta admit, the Chargers actually looked good. If they learn how to finish drives they might just exorcise the ghost of Norv Turner.
I agree, but I think you're going in a little too hard on AP here. If this was a kid he had been supporting for 2 years and giving no fucks about, then I get your point. But he just found out about it in the past few weeks. I mean, I'd wager a large majority of players wouldn't have went then lengths that he did. He's involved pretty heavily with his other kids, and by all accounts, including a few second hand, he's a really good dude. Your overall sentiment is right, but your need to keep throwing shade at Peterson when he did the right thing here isnt necessary.
Let’s talk about the hits that happened this weekend. WTF? Obviously the rules that are in place right now aren't working. Although, they may work slightly better IF THEY'D CALL THE LOW FUCKING HITS. I was so pissed the fuck off on Sunday, after watching two Packer receivers go down the same way, the person I was watching the game with decided to go out for a bit. So let’s trade concussions for knee blow outs that can end a career. Toss up right? And hey Texans, you suck for cheering when your QB went down. Way to show the young fans how not to be a real fan of the game.