NFL 2021 Regular Season!

[babyblob]

My Eagles ran the ball for over 200 yards for the fifth time this season and Jalen Hurts broke the franchise record for rushing touchdowns by a quarterback at 10 in a 27-17 win over the Deadskins.

They did have a good game. Do this vs Dallas and I will be impressed.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Just heard Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni tested positive for COVID.

[babyblob]

Just heard Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni tested positive for COVID.

Damn Covid is getting crazy in the NFl. Now how many Eagles players will be tested?

Does anyone think they will move the Chiefs game back a few days?

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Damn Covid is getting crazy in the NFl. Now how many Eagles players will be tested?

Does anyone think they will move the Chiefs game back a few days?

The Birds had just three players on the COVID list before last night’s game. I’m guessing that testing will go into overdrive.

[Deathstroke]

Jets coach Robert Saleh has tested positive for Covid.

Browns coach Kevin Stefanski and two players have cleared Covid protocols and will be back with the team. But the team also added another player to the Covid list. Article Link

[Scott Taylor]

I don't see how the NFL could not move the Chiefs game back, unless the NFLPA nixes it for some reason and they won't.

[CSTowle]

If they can't play it should be a forfeit. It sucks, but I thought that was the deal this year?

[babyblob]

If they can't play it should be a forfeit. It sucks, but I thought that was the deal this year?

I thought it was only a forfeit if the teams did not follow covid rules.

[MRP]

I thought it was only a forfeit if the teams did not follow covid rules.

If a game cannot be played, it is at the league's discretion whether it is declared a forfeit. However, if the game is cancelled, forfeit or not, nobody gets a game check, so the NFLPA will do whatever is in their power to see that the game is played, whether rescheduled or not. The Browns player rep was taking a lot of **** for pushing to to have their game rescheduled (moreso since the Browns lost), and his response was-my job as NFLPA team president is to make sure my guys and their guys get paid. Win or lose, we get paid if we play, we don't play, we don't get paid and we all lose. So pretty much the NFLPA will do everything in its power to see that games get played whatever that does to schedules or records because they don't want to have to answer to players who miss game checks.

-M

[babyblob]

If a game cannot be played, it is at the league's discretion whether it is declared a forfeit. However, if the game is cancelled, forfeit or not, nobody gets a game check, so the NFLPA will do whatever is in their power to see that the game is played, whether rescheduled or not. The Browns player rep was taking a lot of **** for pushing to to have their game rescheduled (moreso since the Browns lost), and his response was-my job as NFLPA team president is to make sure my guys and their guys get paid. Win or lose, we get paid if we play, we don't play, we don't get paid and we all lose. So pretty much the NFLPA will do everything in its power to see that games get played whatever that does to schedules or records because they don't want to have to answer to players who miss game checks.

-M

Ah. i did not know this.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

The Chiefs kicker now was placed on Covid deal and that makes like 11-13 players now that could miss the Steelers game.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

If a game cannot be played, it is at the league's discretion whether it is declared a forfeit. However, if the game is cancelled, forfeit or not, nobody gets a game check, so the NFLPA will do whatever is in their power to see that the game is played, whether rescheduled or not. The Browns player rep was taking a lot of **** for pushing to to have their game rescheduled (moreso since the Browns lost), and his response was-my job as NFLPA team president is to make sure my guys and their guys get paid. Win or lose, we get paid if we play, we don't play, we don't get paid and we all lose. So pretty much the NFLPA will do everything in its power to see that games get played whatever that does to schedules or records because they don't want to have to answer to players who miss game checks.

-M

For the Tom Bradys, Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes of the NFL, one missed paycheck is no big deal, but for players further down the depth charts, say like kickers, third string quarterbacks or backup offensive linemen, that missed check could make the difference between being able to pay the rent or mortgage or not.

[MRP]

For the Tom Bradys, Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes of the NFL, one missed paycheck is no big deal, but for players further down the depth charts, say like kickers, third string quarterbacks or backup offensive linemen, that missed check could make the difference between being able to pay the rent or mortgage or not.

Not to mention people like the officials, the stadium employees, etc. who lose work and paychecks when the games aren't played as well.

-M

[worstblogever]

WEEK 15 "WHO'S COOKIN' ON THE HOTSEAT?/FIRE THIS COACH!" DISCUSSION
ALREADY RESIGNED/FIRED BEFORE WEEK 6: Jon Gruden (Raiders) , Urban Meyer (Jaguars) , RESIGNED/FIRED! THEY’RE FIRED!

GUYS WHO WERE ON THE HOT SEAT THIS SEASON, BUT FOR THE MOMENT LOOK SAFE: Zac Taylor (Bengals) , Mike McCarthy (Cowboys), Brian Flores (Dolphins)

10. Rich Bisaccia, Raiders We’re going to say that it seems clear that this interim guy who took over for Jon Gruden is done at the end of the year. It’s not just that team owner Mark Davis has been spotted hosting Clemson coach Dabo Swinney in his private box at Raiders games.
https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/the-b...hunter-renfrow

It’s more that yesterday, he didn’t stop his players, playing on the road in Kansas City, from going to the logo at Arrowhead to pump themselves up by disrespecting the Chiefs that way before kickoff.

Stupid move, all around, and a wiser coach would have put the kibosh on it. Kansas City got all fired up, and beat the snot out of Las Vegas, winning 48-9. The Raiders turned it over five times, including four fumbles.

Bisaccia just is not the sort of “name coach” that the Raiders would hire full time. He just isn’t. He’s the guy that took over until Mark Davis could open his wallet to get the team’s “real coach”.

9. Pete Carroll, Seahawks Yes, Carroll gave this city a Super Bowl. That was… some time ago. His franchise QB wants out of town, and on a Thursday night game against the Rams, the ligament in his middle finger decided to try to leave the team a bit before Russ was even ready for it to. After their loss on a rescheduled Tuesday Night Football, this team is 5-9 and that’s not necessarily because Russell Wilson missed 3 games. We knew it would be bleak any time they ran Geno Smith out there instead of Russ, it was gonna be rough because Chris Carson’s done for the year, as well. We want to point out that it’s not just that the O-Line never got rebuilt… and that even with Russell Wilson’s medical miracle month to come back from a severed tendon in the middle finger of his throwing hand…

The Legion of Boom is GONE. This defense is no longer scary, it’s Bobby Wagner and a bunch of scarecrows in the secondary (Jamaal Adams is great against the run, but gets torched in coverage a LOT… and now he’s done for the year). Through their first thirteen games, they are giving up 394 YPG, 32nd in the NFL and are the worst team against defending the pass. They gave up 331 yards passing to friggin’ DAVIS MILLS yesterday. Offensively, they’re 28th in YPG, Just… Jesus. Their kicker’s also only 64% accurate (dead last in the NFL), so at this point, they’re failing at all three phases of the game.


Our reason why we think Carroll won’t be fired no batter how bad this year gets (they’re more likely to force his hand and make him retire)… Even though he’s a kooky 9/11 truther who keeps violating NFL policies for practices and getting the organization fined (he kind of has a track record of cheating, but he’s not Belichek so it’s not thought about)…. Our reason he won’t be fired is Pete Carroll is under contract now until 2025. That’s a lot of money to eat, no matter how awful this squad is going to get, and we think their best case scenario is once Wilson gets back will be to overachieve down the stretch and maybe end up third in the division... but we are thinking they’re going to finish last. And if they’re lucky, they can convince Carroll to retire, because we don’t think he has a rebuild in him.




8. Robert Saleh, Jets: Look, we’re gonna say it… we thought this was a solid hire. It probably still is… but the Jets statistical numbers are butt ugly at this point of the year. They got shut out against the Denver Broncos in Week 5, struggling to get even 162 total yards of offense. After that loss, they got an early BYE week so they had extra time to prepare to travel to New England, and they probably needed a whole MONTH if they were gonna have a chance based on how it went. The Jets lost 54-13 in a lopsided loss that is one of the worst in recent history for the Jets… and that’s saying something.

Even though Saleh is a defensive guru, the Jets now at the bottom of the NFL in points per game allowed at 30.5 PPG, 31st in YPG allowed, and second to last in point differential at -171. They have rotated through an injured Zach Wilson, one-game-fluke-hero Mike White, Josh Johnson for most of a Thursday game, and Joe Flacco only to settle back on Wilson.

A first year head coach usually doesn’t end up on the chopping block… But it can happen. Steve Wilks went 3-13 in one year in Arizona and the locker room knew his OC was a joke, and they just gave up on him. So no matter how fired up people were to play for Saleh in San Francisco, if things don’t reverse course with the Jets while he sits at 3-11, he could end up a “one and done” guy. Especially if that defense doesn’t start stopping someone… anyone, or it looks like this staff has taught Zack Wilson ANYTHING about how to play QB.


7. Matt Ruhle, Panthers: The Panthers started 3-0, but now are 5-9… They opened up looking like they proved Sam Darnold was a successful reclamation project, but once injury removed Christian McCaffrey from the Carolina offense, Darnold looked like he was back to being a draft bust again… and then HE got hurt. The team got a boost in the arm from the play of XFL V. 2.0 star P.J. Walker, and then s*** the bed by inviting Cam Newton back in town to get two TDs from the 1 yard line in Arizona, steal all the glory in that win on the road, and have immediately realized why no other teams signed Cam Newton off the street.

Fun statistic… Cam Newton has now lost his last 11 straight as a starter for the Panthers dating back to 2018, and had two big turnovers this week, including a pick-six.

Outside of Cam factor… This team has lost 8 of its past 10 games since their hot start, Matt Ruhle has not developed anyone into being a credible starter for this team going forward, and McCaffrey might be the most injury prone non-QB in the league that they still foolishly built their offense around. McCaffrey is also now gone for the final 4 games of the season, so get ready to watch the embarrassing swan song for Cam Newton with the franchise who drafted him.

We don’t know if Ruhle is gonna get straight-up “FIRED!” but if they don’t perform well down the stretch after Ruhle just jettisoned offensive coordinator Joe Brady during the BYE week… he’s not going to one of the elite college programs that had openings but already filled them. If Ruhle is given a pink slip, he might have to take a year off.




6. David Culley, Texans: Houston is sitting at 3-11, with the first win coming from when they beat lowly Jacksonville in Week 1 before they rattled off eight straight losses and then upset the Titans (Tennessee had 5 turnovers to hand it to them). Those first seven L’s were, frankly, a series of games where opposing coaches have utterly dismantled a team led by rookie 3rd string QB Davis Mills. They’ve already been shut out twice this season. They just got their second wind because, again, the football gods were kind, took mercy on them, and fed Jacksonville to them.

With the win, the Texans increased their averages so they are now scoring 14.8 points a game (31st) and their offense ranks 31st in yards per game. Their defense isn’t much better, sitting at 28th in yards per game. Again, what a difference playing the Jags can make. They shipped Mark Ingram off before the trade deadline, falling back on David Johnson (who hasn’t had a good season since… what 2016?) as their main offensive weapon. Brandin Cooks is pulling his hair out that he couldn’t managed to get himself traded to an actual football team before the trade deadline. It doesn’t look like anyone is going to manage to take serial sexual predator DeShaun Watson out of Houston in a trade, either, a move that’s hovered over this team’s fate for almost nine months now. Everyone thought things would get better when Tyrod Taylor came off of the injured list, and he went out and threw 3 INTs in his first game back and have gone back to Davis Mills for the remainder of the season (word is they’re officially trying to tank and fall back behind Detroit to get the #1 pick).

So… we’ve covered that the Texans are BAD right now. We’re going to say that their misfortunes are not a product necessarily of bad coaching, but a TON of bad front office decisions, because obviously, that’s the case. It sucks that a guy who’s considered such a nice dude like David Culley, who’s waited his whole life for a head coaching gig, could get the blame if he couldn’t turn the chickens*** roster he was given into chicken salad. But that can be the cruel nature of NFL coaching gigs…

[worstblogever]

5. Mike Zimmer, Vikings: The team whose playoff hopes just never seem to die… it’s the Vikes. They keep hovering around .500, but they have the Rams and Packers the next two weeks, and it’s going to take a continuing Covid-19 outbreak to shake up rosters and give them a chance in those two games, before they get the Bears in a finale…

The Vikings were supposedly "just a QB away" from winning a Super Bowl a few years ago with the impeccable defense they had, and they spent BIG for Kirk Cousins. Then they traded away Stephon Diggs (BIG MISTAKE), and their defense officially "got a case of the olds" going into LAST season. This season, they’re just a year older than that. Minnesota’s biggest off-season free agent signing was CB Patrick Peterson, who age has not just proven to be “no longer an elite corner”, he’s arguably “not even a starting corner” in the league, admitting on his podcast he struggles at covering any receiver who’s simply PUT IN MOTION. That’s the top free agent addition to an aged defense, which also just cut #2 corner Bashaud Breeland, after he fought with coaches and had both HC Mike Zimmer and GM Rick Spielman jump all over him about it in the middle of a practice. DE Everson Griffin has major psychological problems and might never play another down in the league. NO PROBLEMS IN THIS LOCKER ROOM TWO DAYS BEFORE MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL.

What was once an elite defensive unit now is simply medicore, and Kirk Cousins has been widely inconsistent game to game (certainly not deserving of what he gets paid). The schedule down the stretch that has the Bears twice, the Rams, and AT Lambeau field to play the Packers. This is looking like a 8-9 team in a few weeks. More importantly…

YOU LOST TO THE LIONS.

There is no easier reason for the Wilfs to drop the axe than that.

4. Dan Campbell, Lions : We always say that first year coaches are not usually on the hot seat, but Dan Campbell is a former Tight Ends coach who yells about getting up again and again to bite your opponents’ kneecaps, which starts out like some inspiring Captain America speech but ends up sounding like a meek little chihuahua. He’s close to motivating… but not close enough.

The good news? The Lions upset Arizona yesterday, becoming the first team in the 101 year history of the NFL to enter a game as a team with 1 win or fewer and beat a team with 10 or more wins. Seriously, not since 1920 had that upset ever been done, and this 11-point underdog beat the Cardinals handily by 18 points. (Note: Kliff Kingsbury is no longer deemed “safe” from getting fired after how yesterday went).

The bad news… this team still sucks, and now cost themselves possession of having the #1 pick in the NFL draft. They’re now slotted at #2 behind Jacksonville.

To paraphrase a cleverer poster than me, “The Lions continue their 60 year process of rebuilding…”


3. Joe Judge, Giants : We don’t believe Joe Judge should have ever been a head coach. His prior experience before getting the gig in the Meadowlands with the G-Men was serving as special teams coordinator/wide receivers coach in New England (a team not regarded well for its WR corps during his tenure). His QB, when healthy, is living blooper reel Daniel Jones (who had two embarrassing INTs in yet another primetime game this team doesn’t deserve the spotlight for). His team’s preseason was marred by a massive brawl with THEMSELVES where the pileup of players throwing haymakers tumbled onto their starting QB who ended up at the bottom of the mound of humanity, enraging Judge so he made his players run gassers like they were back in high school JV, and resulting in one veteran filing to retire immediately, rather than play for him any more. Two other veteran players announced their retirement before the preseason was over.

This guy’s team loathes him, and the New York media are salivating at all the ink they can lay out simply by getting his players to throw him under the bus. His only hope for any job security was that he’s coaching in the worst division in the NFL right now, where practically any of the four teams in it could accidentally stumble into a division title to get destroyed in the first round of the playoffs. At least, that was the case before Dak Prescott screwed his foot back on and went out slinging the ball around. While the Eagles and WFT look like they’re starting to trend in the right direction, that is not true in New York.

The Giants are now 4-10 and will be forced to start human giraffe Mike Glennon the rest of the season after placing Daniel ones on IR, and lost WR Sterling Shepard as well. They might be able to snag a win at Soldier Field, or maybe upset division rivals Philly or Washington in their final three… but unless someone is just flat out more inept on offense than they are, I wouldn’t expect more than one win before year’s end.





2. Matt Nagy, Bears: Matt Nagy was considered one of the hottest young coaches in the league before the Double-Doink happened like 3 years ago, but it made something snap in the guy. He spent that entire off-season talking about it, and making his players relive that trauma, and they responded by getting worse afterwards. The Bears have been shy a QB this whole time, finally giving up on Mitch Trubisky to draft Justin Fields… but Nagy kept insisting he would go with Andy Dalton. If you’re going with the Red Rifle at this stage of his career, you’re pretty f***ed. Their defense? They still have DPOTY candidate Khalil Mack. It’s statistically still a Top 10 defense the NFL. Truly, this is a team that can live up to the Bears’ legacy in the Windy City…

Matt Nagy caved to the pressure of fans and put Justin Fields in at the start of October, and got two wins in his first two games… however, in Week 6, they got handled by Green Bay, and Aaron Rodgers barked at fans, “I STILL OWN YOU!” And nobody is questioned the validity of that statement, because it’s true. Justin Fields is getting sacked at a rate not seen for any rookie QB since David Carr was getting his brains bashed in for the expansion Texans (or whoever they line up back there, this squad is 31st in the league in sacks allowed). They’re now 4-10, and are 32nd in the NFL in passing, with just 176 yards a game (they used their first five draft picks all on offensive players, and they seem to be slow learners). Justin Fields’ rookie season currently stacks up as statistically comparable to such luminaries as Blaine Gabbert, Josh Rosen, and Jimmy Clausen.

Chicago fans at least might stop turning up to yell “FIRE NAGY” at pro-wrestling events and at high school games where Nagy’s son is playing because we don’t believe the sins of the father should be held against a son when he gets fired… it seems a certainty.







1. Urban Meyer, Jaguars: RESIGNED/FIRED! THEY’RE FIRED! Jacksonville’s whole season was marred with self-inflicted wounds caused by decisions from Meyer, from hiring coaches without vetting them properly (strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle), bringing in Tim Tebow as a possible TIGHT END option that was nothing but a media distraction, and acting like he’s the smartest guy in the NFL because of his college success. I’m no coaching expert, but having a rookie QB throw over 50 times in his first start MAAAYBE isn’t a winning formula, even if he is a butt-chin wonder like Trevor Lawrence.

After week 4, where Jacksonville lost their nineteenth straight game after they blew another double-digit lead to the Cincinnatti Bengals… Urban Meyer trended on Twitter for lying to his team about “visiting his grandkids” and not flying back to Jacksonville to instead, go out to get free lap dances in the bar of his Cleveland restaurant because… well, I guess that’s what happens when you got a title with Ohio State. THAT… is not what you want to make headlines for after a month into the season… zero wins, poor development on Trevor Lawrence, and having someone rub their ass on your junk in your own dive bar.

But… this week Urban Meyer threw a few more logs on his own funeral pyre. There were reports of how Trevor Lawrence had to complain that Meyer had benched RB James Robinson to get him put back in (and that was likely only because Meyer would prefer his old Ohio State alum Carlos Hyde in the backfield)… there was the report of Meyer chewing out his wide receivers enough that Marvin Jones Jr. left the team facility and had to be pleaded with to return… and the report that Meyer called all his own coaching staff “losers” after getting into a pissing contest with them about how good their coaching resumes looked compared to his own.

And just when it looked like Shad Khan would be too pensive to fire the guy, a report dropped that he ran up and kicked his own placekicker in practice in the preseason, which is, y’know, just assault. The Jaguars didn’t just fire Urban Meyer, they’re doing it with cause so the rest of his contract is voided.

The Jags still have a game against the Jets that they might get a win, but at this point, they are more than likely looking like they’re going to have the #1 pick in the draft for the second year in a row, and will draft whatever offensive lineman that blows people’s minds at the NFL combine to try and protect Trevor Lawrence’s blind side for the next few years. That’s what the future holds.