NFL 2014 Thread

[Jmustang1968]

No way can Wilson even sniff the top 4.

Wilson, 8-0 against Superbowl winning QBs, 5-0 in OT. Record 42-13 in his first 3 years.

I'm a homer though. So not an unbiased source.

Seattle wins because of their defense and ball control run game. Their passing game is the weak point of the team.

[DonSilvestre]

No way can Wilson even sniff the top 4.

Wilson, 8-0 against Superbowl winning QBs, 5-0 in OT. Record 42-13 in his first 3 years.

I'm a homer though. So not an unbiased source.

That stat drives me nuts as the clear strength of the team is the defense and run game. I'm not trying to say Wilson is bad by any stretch of the imagination either, dude makes huge plays all the time. I just think it's impossible to know how good he actually is with the existing makeup of the team. Defense and best RB in the game without even what most teams would consider a #2 wide receiver. Just makes it tough to read.

[Stark]

No way can Wilson even sniff the top 4.

Wilson, 8-0 against Superbowl winning QBs, 5-0 in OT. Record 42-13 in his first 3 years.

I'm a homer though. So not an unbiased source.

Seattle wins because of their defense and ball control run game. Their passing game is the weak point of the team.

But where I feel I differ from that is that it's our weak point because we choose it to be, not because of Russell Wilson. If he was asked to be the heavy passer and they surrounded him with receiving talent, he'd get it done.

[Jmustang1968]

I disagree. He would be alright, but they have shown when they try to put the offense more on his arm he has struggled.

[Stark]

Funny, Belichick says that Chiefs game this year was turning point for the Pats:
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300000 ... -vs-chiefs

Funny because I think that's when it turned for the Seahawks as well.

[dsheinem]

Seriously, fuck the entire Patriots run under Belichick.

I'm not one for conspiracy theory nonsense but it is crystal clear that he is now and has always been a cheater. The Spygate stuff alone is damnable and should have been enough to throw him out of the league and to erase the wins under his tenure there, and this new deflation thing is just another instance of largely unnecessary but still detestable cheating.

The Pats have good players, Belichick can call Xs and Os well, and they generally don't need the small competitive advantage that this stuff brings them...but that doesn't negate the fact that they ARE gaining a competitive advantage by violating the rules of the game. They should be DQ'd because of it. The NFL should put the Colts in the Superbowl as a statement.

At this point, one has to wonder what shenanigans he's pulled that haven't been caught. Whatever "dynasty" has been carved out there in the past decade or so is now going to forever have a giant cloud of doubt hanging over it. Remember, for example, what Marshall Faulk said a year or two ago about their close Superbowl defeat against the Pats:

We had some plays in the red zone that we hadn’t ran. . . . And a couple of plays on third down that we walked through also . . . And they created a check for it. It’s just little things like that. It’s either the best coaching in the world when you come up with situations that you had never seen before. Or you’d seen it and knew what to do.

Fuck Belichick. Kick him out of the league.

[noiseredux]

cool story, bro.

[dsheinem]

cool story, bro.

I have a lot of friends - mostly from college - who are Pats fans from Boston.

The willful disavowal of all of this stuff by them (and you?) is just crazy. If I were a Pats fan, I'd want Belichick gone and a new era - free of the cloud of suspicion - started right away. You must realize that few outside of New England think that Belichick is anything but a cheater, right?

[noiseredux]

I typed a lot of stuff, then deleted.

tl;dr: I like to watch football. I live in MA. So I'm a "Pat's fan." But outside of watching games, IDGAF about any of it. You'd have a lot more fun talking to any other "Pat's fan" than me. I just enjoy watching the games.

[stickem]

It might look bad but the pats don't have access to the balls. The refs inspect them right before gametime and go directly to the field with an nfl employee and that's where they stay.