The NFL Thread

Mc Nair was the Titans' starting QB in the 2000 Super Bowl; O'Donnell was their backup.

Yeah that's right, my bad.

No worries.

Looking through past Super Bowls, one thing I don't think gets mentioned enough is just how rare exciting Super Bowls used to be. If you look at the first 20 or 30 I don't think you'll find many truly great ones. I think it was the 1998 game that really ushered in the golden era of great Super Bowls.

Statistically shown by Fivethirtyeight. Since the Buccaneers-Raiders one after the 2002 season, only Seahawks-Broncos and Patriots-Falcons rate as below-average in excitement for all Super Bowls, the latter I assume because the score was so lopsided for the majority of the game (the most recent Patriots-Rams one isn't included since the article predates that one so I don't know where that one lands, but even if that does come in at below historical average 3 out of 17 is a small proportion).

Edited by megarockman on Jan 6th 2020 at 9:18:34 AM

Super Bowl LI being rated low for excitement is probably because it wasn't until late in the third quarter that the Pats started carving up the Falcons. There are NFL videos about the articles the sports press had prepared about the Patriots getting curbstomped and about the guys who left the stadium at half time (this boggles my mind — it costs like three and a half kidneys to be able to afford a ticket to the Super Bowl. Who the fuck leaves at half time?) and then like, learning on the radio that the Pats won.

i will be at the sf-vikings game i am excited

Guys, the Titans are up 14-3 on the Ravens. The fuck am I witnessing?

Iunno, Titans playing loose with nothing to lose?

this is what u r watching◊

Guys, the Texans are up 21-0 on the Chiefs. The fuck am I witnessing?

21-0 to the Texans.

It isn't even the end of the first quarter.

Plenty of time, but boy has this got out of hand quickly.

EDIT - The throw is on. Special Teams have been - interesting - to say the least.

EDIT II - The throw is really on. Special Team whoopsies are now tied at 2 for each team.

EDIT III - And the Chiefs have the lead, 24-28. With Patrick Mahomes showing that toe dragging isn't just for wide receivers.

Edited by singularityshot on Jan 12th 2020 at 1:43:49 AM

Think the Texans should have gone for it on 4th and 1 inside the 5 rather than kick the field goal?

Commentators think so. I don't think it was that vital - points are points.

There are a whole host of errors after that which are more important, and basically losing their heads as a result.

Yesterday was a day of blowouts by whoever got the lead first

Today is a day of being damned if you score first

EDIT: hooray the bad man is gone!

Edited by ch00beh on Jan 12th 2020 at 9:53:10 AM

Well it's Monday in the UK so your observation still holds true despite the Packers winning the game.

Yet another three quarter performance from Green Bay however, compared to the complete game put together by SF.

SF have to be strong favourites next week. Still, only four teams left alive in the season so have to have pride in the Pack to get this far.

Yeah, I wanted an all NFC North or all NFC West final. Think those would have been good games. GB @ SF is a mismatch, and both of us would have been sickened watching MIN @ SEA.

Edited by singularityshot on Jan 12th 2020 at 7:02:35 AM

I may be misremembering but I feel like there were one or two key offensive guys missing when we played Green Bay which contributed to that first rout. Like maybe Adams or one of the OL? Either way, not counting them out just yet, but also not as worried as if it was that fucking greased up pig for the third time this year.

Also, despite moving from one state to another this coming weekend, and despite flying from west to east right now, I moved some flights around and now I’m going to the next 49er game again. Rip my wallet and sleep schedule

You said you were going to be at the game. If you find the Packers' testicles please could you send them back to Wisconsin at your earliest possible convenience that would be great. I think they were last seen being spiked into the end zone by Mostert.

Chiefs-49ers.

There are exactly four NFL playoff games where a team has 8 or fewer official pass attempts. Three of them are from early 70's Miami Dolphins teams quarterbacked by Bob Griese, the fourth was the Niners today. All four of those games were blowouts.

I was hoping the Packers would win so we'd get a rematch of the first Super Bowl.

^^^^fun fact! Mostert gives the o-line the ball to spike after all his touchdowns

So I’ll have to ask which lineman had them last

PS. My favorite part was how jimmy threw 8 passes. Shanahan has become the anti-Shanahan after 28-3

Edited by ch00beh on Jan 19th 2020 at 11:02:16 AM

So, there's actually something interesting happening with the probowl this year. The league wants to try out the alternative to the onside kick: giving a team the option after scoring of having a 4th and 15 at their 25 instead of a traditional kickoff.

I'm not sold on this idea: I thought the plan was to replace the kickoff entirely with the 4th and 15 idea, with the view that a punt would replace the kickoff (if you do want to give the ball to your opponent) as punts are safer than kickoffs. So making it an option seemingly defeats the object.

Nevertheless, it got me thinking: how would you go about replacing the kickoff? I've put an idea in spoiler tags below but it's just to start discussion.

My idea would be to use the extra point as a way to dictate field position. Basically a team can choose to kick the extra point from any point between the 10 and 40 yard line. For each yard over the 10 the opponent is pushed back from the 25 by the same amount if the kick is good. So for example, an extra point from the 25 yard line means that the next possession for the opposing team will start on their 10. However, if the extra point is missed the opponent will start their next possession from the spot of the kick (as if it was a missed field goal) So in this example a missed extra point from the 25 would mean the next possession starts around the 32.

The onside kick element comes into play if the extra point is attempted at any point beyond the 35. A successful extra point from that distance means you keep the ball at your 35.

Effectively I am saying that the onside kick gets replaced by an all or nothing 50 yard extra point.

Saints executives are going to court to prevent the release of emails related to their attempts at public relations control regarding the church's sexual abuse scandals.

As if we didn't have enough sports scandals without non-sports scandals working their way into sports.

So now the day is here for the Super Bowl. I was originally going to side with the 49ers, but then I heard Kansas City hasn't been here for 50 years, so I'm gonna have to root for them.