The NFL Thread

5 INTs for Joe "$120million" Flacco

24 million for each INT

edited 29th Sep '13 4:21:31 PM by NoChorus

This may be a bit of a reaching opinion, but I am going to say that, as of right now, the AFC East is the best division in football. Even if both teams lose their games tonight/tomorrow, not a single team in the AFC East will be under .500, and each has been able to pull out victories that otherwise were defeats, and beating opponents that were expected to easily roll over them. This is closely followed by the AFC West, buoyed by the perfect records of Denver and Kansas City, but hampered by the inconsistent play of the Chargers and Raiders. The AFC South and North are pleasant surprises, but neither has done anything special and poor play has prevented them from being as good as they can be.

In the NFC, clearly the NFC West is far and above the best division, as each team in the division has at least 1 win, and 3 have at least 2. The NFC North until today contains two 3-1 teams, and an angry Packers team on the heels of an ugly defeat. This is followed by the NFC South and at the bottom, the NFC East. The NFC East is easily the worst division in football. Period. With a combined record of 4-11, piss-poor play from multiple teams, and containing a team with a turnover differential of -9 after only 4 weeks, there is not a worse division in the league.

So TL;DR: These are my divisional rankings as of Week 4:

1. AFC East

2. AFC West

3. NFC West

4. NFC North

5. AFC South

6. NFC South

7. AFC North

8. NFC East

edited 29th Sep '13 4:34:17 PM by EagleFan

Well I don't know how serious Jake Locker's injury is, but the fact that the Titans are expecting Ryan Fitzpatrick to be their starting quarterback for the "coming weeks" can't be a good sign.

As much as I hate the Titans you hate to see something like that happen to a kid.

My Bears.. t-they got beat -cries-

• pat pat* Its okay.

at least they arent the Jaguars.

The Giants are 0-4. Quit yer whinin'.

Y-yeah, at least, h-haha. ;_;

at least they aren't the Giants, either.

So are the Steelers right now.

On which note, the Vikings are likely to be forced to decide whether to keep Ponder on the sidelines for the rest of the season in the very near future.

wooooo mediocre QB controversy

It's almost as "exciting" as the Gabbert/Henne controversy

edited 29th Sep '13 8:01:30 PM by NoChorus

Or the endless stream of idiots latching onto the jaguars as the next home of perennial shit QB Tebow?

...Well, it is the logical choice.

if they want to absolutely guarantee wasting some more money on making sure they get draft pick number one, sure.

This is different than how the Jags usually act....how?

Remaining undefeated teams: The Chiefs, Seahawks, Broncos, Patriots, and depending on the outcome of tomorrow night's game, either the Dolphins or Saints.

Remaining winless teams: Jacksonville, Pittsburgh, New York (Giants) and the Buccaneers.

Side note: Seattle's 4-0 start is the first ever in franchise history.

edited 29th Sep '13 10:02:28 PM by EagleFan

Yeah, a 4-0 start tends to require winning on the road, which the Seahawks have struggled with prior to this year. I mean, I suppose they're still having a bit of trouble on the road, but at least they're winning, and I'll take a close win any day, especially when they're down to mostly backups on the offensive line.

The Broncos are starting to look like the 2011 Packers.

Time will tell how far that analogy holds.

The 2011 Packers couldn't get to the SB. The 2007 Pats couldn't win it. I honestly believe this Bronco team can go all the way to 20-0.

Shit, they stopped losing regular season games after week 5 last year.

Injury News: Vince Wilfork tears Achilles, out for season.

Locker could be out for 4-8 weeks, depending on the severity of his injury.

P. Manning has tied the record for most TD's since the start of the season without an INT (16TD-0INT).

The injury bug is strong this year

The Geno Smith era will now extend to at least the end of the year. Mark Sanchez has decided to have season ending surgery to fix his torn labrum. Unfortunately, since Sanchez was the Jet placed on the IR with option to return, and he will not, the Jets cannot place the IR with option to return on any other player for the rest of the year.

Sanchez manages to fuck up the team even when he's not throwing INT's. Shit. Meanwhile everyone refuses to give Tebow a shot. Only in the NFL.

thats because at this point, regardless of any questionable amount of skill he has, his name has become synonymous with the breed of idiot fan that is convinced he can magically save your franchise.

This, I admit that he's done more than quite a few starting QBs but no team wants the baggage that comes with him.