2014 NFL Season Thread

[Detox]

Congrats to the Champs! Congrats to the Hawks too, they are as advertised. Great game!

[Michael P]

There are isolated tribes in the Amazon River Basin who have never heard of outside society, and even they woke up this morning thinking "Second and goal! What the hell?"

[Neoprime]

The curse is alive, "The Madden Curse" lives on this is why they lost, if Richard Sherman hadn't put his face on a videogame cover, the Seahawks would have not been cursed. Which goes to show dont put your face on the cover of a Madden game, I hope the next person learns from this.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

There are isolated tribes in the Amazon River Basin who have never heard of outside society, and even they woke up this morning thinking "Second and goal! What the hell?"

Ha ha ... they are likely getting the Seattle Seahawks Superbowl 49 Champion stuff as they say this.


This reminds me in a bit of a way of the Super Bowl 23 situation. Boomer basically says that with 2+ minutes the Bengals staff done brought in the champagne and Super Bowl 23 winning shirts to the locker room. Everyone thought they were gonna win. Then Joe Montana started driving...and Boomer says he did a "Uh oh.."

This was the famous drive where Montana told Harris Barton who was real nervous and antsy had Montana stop before they got in the pocket , "Hey H ....is that John Candy ?" Barton is like WTF ? Joe were in this potential game winning drive of the year and he looks over and there is Candy eating in the stands.

But as Barton says , Montana needed to cool him down. He needed his guys calm...and as he looked back he understands why Joe pointed at John Candy and took Barton's mind elsewhere to do what had to be done.

[ExcelsiorPrime]

Like a picture where Joe Montana was seen in the locker room , his back to the camera and facing his team as leader....this Brady pic will likely go into his future book. A very content Tom Brady. His legacy finally secure as the greatest QB in NFL history.

Wonder what his legacy will be after the cheating allegations are formalized and the Pats loosed draft picks. That will be Pats caught cheating twice.

Not mad tho..Lance Armstrong was the greatest American Athlete for awhile.

[David Walton]

The NFL is paid billions of dollars for the right to show their games and sell advertising. They have no more say on how the commercials are made than during any show. It's like saying the Producers of CSI have a say on the content of commercials.

There might be some say on a controversial commercial after it is made, but they are not involved in the creative process. Unless the commercial has some NFL content.

You're right, I didn't think it through. It was just kind of weird that the advertising trends went somber at the same time the NFL is trying to repair its image.

Here's an interesting article about Carroll and the play call.

[Ghost Rider TheHellfireDemon]

It's still surprising to see bill smile for a long period of time again this time after winning the Super Bowl.

The Seahawks harrowing loss in the worst way possible. I guess like the buffalo bills the missed field goal and San Francisco 49ers of 2012 it'll go down with infamous plays they couldn't finish to score in Super Bowls late in games to win.

I'm still astounded that the Seahawks didn't hand it to lynch but I guess all teams called bad or terrible plays the Seahawks were no exception.
So it took 10 years for the patriots to finally shut people up that they can't win after spygate.

[Ghost Rider TheHellfireDemon]

The curse is alive, "The Madden Curse" lives on this is why they lost, if Richard Sherman hadn't put his face on a videogame cover, the Seahawks would have not been cursed. Which goes to show dont put your face on the cover of a Madden game, I hope the next person learns from this.

So if the player doesn't get hurt, underperform then the team choked in the worst way.
Get a raider on the cover, the raiders have been terrible so it's not like they would be getting cursed.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Wonder what his legacy will be after the cheating allegations are formalized and the Pats loosed draft picks. That will be Pats caught cheating twice.

Not mad tho..Lance Armstrong was the greatest American Athlete for awhile.

Considering that the NFL is still scrambling to know how the balls was deflated and numerous players and some experts have came in and said footballs do deflate in cold weather....it won't impact Brady at all. Its just some fans who wanna deny Brady his place. They think this deflate stuff cancels out the following numbers...

4 Super Bowls
3 Super Bowl MVP Trophies
9 AFC Championship appearances
NFL Record for playoff wins
NFL Record for TD Passes in playoffs
NFL Record for SB TD Passes
NFL Record for Super Bowl passing yards

As one player said weeks ago , Tom Brady's greatness the past 12 years has long showed , he could have played with a flat ball that game and no one would deny him his place as the Greatest.

[ExcelsiorPrime]

Considering that the NFL is still scrambling to know how the balls was deflated and numerous players and some experts have came in and said footballs do deflate in cold weather....it won't impact Brady at all. Its just some fans who wanna deny Brady his place. They think this deflate stuff cancels out the following numbers...

4 Super Bowls
3 Super Bowl MVP Trophies
9 AFC Championship appearances
NFL Record for playoff wins
NFL Record for TD Passes in playoffs
NFL Record for SB TD Passes
NFL Record for Super Bowl passing yards

As one player said weeks ago , Tom Brady's greatness the past 12 years has long showed , he could have played with a flat ball that game and no one would deny him his place as the Greatest.

You do know that Sid Luckman the Chicago bears QB won 4 titles with a winning percentage of .833

And basically created the t-formation. Also back in the day they didnt track stats like they do now.

Also he played 3 positions. QB-HB-DB

[PwrdOn]

If you don't need to cheat in order to win, and the Patriots obviously don't, then why bother with it at all? It's pathological with them, they are obsessed with exploiting any advantage no matter how small and they can't help themselves from doing it, even at the risk of getting caught.

And for the record, there were definitely a couple of awful throws that Brady made because he clearly didn't have a good grip on the ball when he released it. Not game deciding by any means, but the ball pressure certainly matters to a quarterback.

[Detox]

Wonder what his legacy will be after the cheating allegations are formalized and the Pats loosed draft picks. That will be Pats caught cheating twice.

Not mad tho..Lance Armstrong was the greatest American Athlete for awhile.

Assuming your assumption is correct, his legacy should be that he was top 2 qb to ever play the game with 4 Superbowl rings who just happened to play for a coach who was stupid enough to get caught doing what most if not all teams do on more than one occasion end of run on sentence.

[Detox]

If you don't need to cheat in order to win, and the Patriots obviously don't, then why bother with it at all? It's pathological with them, they are obsessed with exploiting any advantage no matter how small and they can't help themselves from doing it, even at the risk of getting caught.

And for the record, there were definitely a couple of awful throws that Brady made because he clearly didn't have a good grip on the ball when he released it. Not game deciding by any means, but the ball pressure certainly matters to a quarterback.

That was one of the warmest superbowls on record. Did the temp even drop below 60? Nice try though.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

You do know that Sid Luckman the Chicago bears QB won 4 titles with a winning percentage of .833

And basically created the t-formation. Also back in the day they didnt track stats like they do now.

Also he played 3 positions. QB-HB-DB

So ...we can play this game as well. Otto Graham won 7 Championships in Cleveland Browns. Bart Starr won 5 championships in Green Bay. People throw up the old players. Of course the old eras didn't have the bigger , stronger , faster players we see today. So it sorta evens out.

[ExcelsiorPrime]

So ...we can play this game as well. Otto Graham won 7 Championships in Cleveland Browns. Bart Starr won 5 championships in Green Bay. People throw up the old players. Of course the old eras didn't have the bigger , stronger , faster players we see today. So it sorta evens out.

yeah. I was off-sides..the greatest will always be subjective. Its why some think Bill Russell is the Greatest NBA player of all-time and others think it is Jordan.