NFL 2022 Regular Season Thread.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Rodgers has a no trade contract. He only goes if he wants and to whom he wants.

What team would put him in a good spot to win and needs a QB. The only one I can remotely think of is the 49ers And that is if they dont want to stick with Trey Lance when he is healthy.
Not like he is going some where Like The jets or Colts.

Aaron Rodgers does not have a NO TRADE clause.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/overthe...on-rodgers/amp

The biggest issue is his contract. A team would have to take that big salary for a couple seasons.

The NY Jets or NY Giants could look at this and go...were a QB away on offense. We need someone. Can we make this trade and send draft picks etc to get Rodgers ?

This is one deal where if I'm Green Bay I decide a divorce needs to happen. As one former GB GM said...if Love is traded for a 3rd rd pick to say..Atlanta and he crushes it for years...in 2 seasons Green Bay will be in a worse spot as Aaron retires and they have to hope the young QB they get after Love works out.

[Jimbi]

This was a good one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkD8...ighlightHeaven

Thoughts?

Remember when the Steelers would go for 2 after every touchdown?

[Jimbi]

This was a good one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkD8...ighlightHeaven

Thoughts?

Remember when the Steelers would go for 2 after every touchdown?

I'm sorry I have to come back to this... So freakin beautiful.

[Jimbi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNOG...ighlightHeaven

Here is another great one. WOW!

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I have a sneaking suspicion Pickett will do well tonight, he might even win. Might.

Pickett's stats weren't exactly stellar, 20-28 for 174 yards, but he notched the win.

[worstblogever]

Pickett's stats weren't exactly stellar, 20-28 for 174 yards, but he notched the win.

No turnovers is the biggest stat. Pittsburgh ran the ball for 172 yards and were playing with a lead, so it's not like they needed Pickett to throw. He got them up 16-3, they nursed that to a win.

[worstblogever]

WEEK 13 "WHO'S COOKIN' ON THE HOTSEAT?/FIRE THIS COACH!" DISCUSSION
(ALREADY FIRED BEFORE WEEK 6): Matt Ruhle (Panthers), Frank Reich (Colts) FIRED! THEY’RE FIRED!



10. Mike Tomlin, Steelers: Alright, look… I don’t want Mike Tomlin fired. I think he’s a damned fine coach, he’s kept the Steelers winning for like a decade, and has never posted a record under .500 in that time. It’s prolifically good. Historically, he’s got one of the best and most consistent coaching records in the entire history of the league. This being said, even when he just loses in the playoffs, there are Yinzers out there in Pennsyltucky who call for his job. (They’re wrong, but they still do.) Now they’re 4-8, without T.J. Watt, whose whole body imploded like it couldn’t bear the weight of trying to carry all the cash they signed him to a long-term deal for, and they have Kenny Pickett trying to find his way. Pittsburgh hasn’t been four games under .500 since starting 0-4 back in 2013, when Tomlin still got the team to limp back to 8-8 by the end of that year. They are last in the NFL in point differential at -77.

Thought, Tomlin got the “W” on Monday Night Football against the Indianapolis Colts, and Pickett did not turn the ball over in that win. The Steelers sit at 4-7 and a favorable schedule down the stretch, and Pickett getting hot… it’s not impossible that Tomlin defies all logic and stays above .500 again. Atlanta’s on the docket next Sunday, and

With the QBs around the AFC, I don’t want to fault Mike Tomlin for at least this season, Pittsburgh bringing a knife to a gunfight. Why WON’T he be fired? The Steelers franchise changes coaches about as often as cicadas turn up.





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

Wait, is it now 70? It might be 70. But to the current guy…

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 sometimes ends up sounding like a meek little chihuahua. He needs to send a bouquet of flowers to HBO’s Hard Knocks every day for making him look like a super-soldier throughout the pre-season, and making Detroit a hard team to root against, especially young receiver Amon Ra-St.Brown and DeAndre Swift, who is possibly the best RB in Detroit since Barry retired.

Alas, after getting a three game win streak, the Detroit Lions honored their Thanksgiving tradition of losing in the opening game on Turkey Day. That ends that streak, their longest since 2017, but they at least remain out of the cellar in the NFC North because the Bears are who we thought they were.

Since the Lions didn’t get humiliated completely in that game, maybe… maybe with that win streak, Dan Campbell’s job is safe. But they still have the worst defense, both in terms of YPG and points per game. We’re talking more the 2 PPG worse than the team in 31st, and almost 25 yards worse than the 31st in YPG. Abysmal, frankly.

Detroit gets a ten day spot to prepare for the Jacksonville Jaguars to hit Ford Field, with both teams’ fortunes taking a turn for the better lately. But if the Lions’ defense makes Trevor Lawrence look like the real deal, Campbell’s seat will start getting hotter again.




8. Josh McDaniels, Raiders: Oakland brought in 25 new players in free agency coming into this year, and were surprised McDaniels couldn’t coach them up during early season struggles. So far this year, Oakland is 4-7. They lost to Arizona in Week Two, where they were up 20-0 at halftime, and had the biggest blown lead in the history of the Raiders franchise, regardless of what city they’ve ever played in. In Week 5, they blew a 17 point lead against the Chiefs. In Week Eight, there was no blown lead, because they failed to score in a 24-0 shutout against the Saints. In Week Nine, they traveled east to play the hapless 2-6 Jags… and blew another 17 point lead to lose 27-20. They went scoreless from the point they got a FG with 4:05 left in the second quarter.

But lo and behold, the Raiders are on a two-game win streak after McDaniels locked horns with Nathaniel Hackett two weeks ago, and for once the Raiders didn’t blow it in the 4th quarter, and came from behind to beat the Broncos in overtime. They had another “come from behind and win in OT” victory Sunday against the Seahawks, as the 12s sat in the stands dumbstruck that their god-awful run defense could not stop a beastly Josh Jacobs as he ran up TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE YARDS against them. He also had 79 yards receiving, putting up over three hundred all-purpose yards. Did Pete Carroll forget to tell his guys to tackle, or…?

This week, the Raiders host the Chargers, whose original offensive line were already taken to the glue factory weeks ago, and the backups are all getting injured now, too. If anything, they might get a 3 game win streak to get McDaniels off the hotseat, and get the satisfaction of quashing the playoff hopes of a division rival.




7. Kevin Stefanski, Browns: Well, I’ll open by telling you why Stefanski might NOT be fired.

Cleveland’s front office traded for a serial sexual predator knowing full well that he would be suspended for at least part of the season, and then found out that it would be a total of 11 games, which averages out to less than two quarters of punishment per sexual assault committed by DeShaun Watson. The fanbase has leaned into this awful decision, thinking that if they can just stay around .500, maybe 5-6 or 4-7 until when Watson returns… they can go on a run in their final six games, make the playoffs, and finish hot to win a Super Bowl.

The moral implications of that devil’s bargain aside… Kevin Stefanski is 4-7 right now, after getting a big OT win that barely keeps there “win out” playoff hopes alive. We wish we could say that his job is secure for having broken the Factory of Sadness’ playoff drought two years ago, but with the Haslem family running this team as badly as they do, nothing is certain in Cleveland.

He could escape off this list entirely, or at least near the ten spot next week, when the Browns travel to Houston WITH DeShaun Watson to play the absolute “butt quality” Texans. Of course, if Cleveland loses what’s billed as “DeShaun’s revenge game” to what should be a clearly inferior opponent, Stefanski will be looking over his shoulder for a potential Black Friday firing, for sure.

6. Jeff Saturday, Colts : The Colts have been underachieving this year, and hired former Colts center and current ESPN commentator Jeff Saturday as the interim coach to replace Frank Reich. This had to be a shock that Irsay didn’t trust anyone on Reich’s staff to fill in, and that Saturday’s only coaching experience is at a Georgia high school. He was apparently asking fellow commentators at ESPN for weeks about “what scheme would you use if you were running a team?” for the past several weeks, a sure sign he might be in over his head. Saturday already deked everybody by claiming he would continue to start Sam Ehlinger the rest of the year, but immediately went back to Matt Ryan.

But he won his first game in spite of all that chaos, because the Colts were lucky enough to be in Las Vegas to play the hapless Las Vegas Raiders and their terrible defense, and got a 25-20 win and in his second game, narrowly came up short against the 9-1 Philadelphia Eagles. We were also wondering if maybe we were too hasty in thinking Saturday was too inexperienced to do the job, and maybe he might actually be okay…

And then he forgot time-outs were a thing against a struggling Steelers team on Monday Night Football, and wasted almost a minute of time with all three time-outs left. He should know better. Matt Ryan should know better. Whoever was up in the booth should know better. They should have stopped the clock on a third down, taken a minute to talk about a play on the sideline, try to pick up three yards, but nuh huh. Then they failed on a fourth down and the game was over, a full battery of clock-stoppage still sitting in his pocket. And he doubled-down on this obvious f***up postgame, completely rewriting the story that he had us wanting to believe after his first two outings.

Six days later, they’re gonna be in primetime again, facing off against the Dallas Cowboys, and the top passing defense in the league. We do not think he’s gonna be picking up his second win in that tilt.

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5. Kliff Kingsbury, Cardinals: Kliff Kingsbury has convinced GM Keim to spend most of the Cardinals’ salary cap on the offensive side of the ball, and yet, they got all the way to Week 9 before they scored a first quarter touchdown, by far the last team to do so. They have done so twice in their first twelve games.

Kingsbury is coaching Kyler Murray, got James Connor, Ertz, Nuke, Hollywood, Rondale Moore, A.J. Green, and Robbie Anderson, and he’s doing f*** all with all that talent. Kyler Murray isn’t throwing for 300 yards in a game, partially because he only throws the ball 5 yards or less when he does drop back. AND ALWAYS IN SHOTGUN. Kingsbury does not push his QB to take snaps under center. His coaching staff has been a trainwreck, with the original RB coach fired for domestic battery, his replacement just “dismissed” for mystery reasons, and a O-Line coach fired on the team’s trip to Mexico City for sexually assaulting a woman in a bar so they gave him a pink slip literally hours before kickoff against the division leading 49ers. They never had a true Offensive Coordinator, and Kliff is calling all the plays (badly).

The Cardinals franchise is run by Bill Bidwill, and he’s a boob like his father. He already resigned GM Steve Keim and Kingsbury to contracts this offseason to keep them in AZ until 2027… so no matter how bad the Cardinals fall on their face this year, both those morons are safe. Because the Bidwill family are some of the biggest skinflints in the league, they’re not paying coaches to stay home. GM Steve Keim traded away several late round draft picks for Trayvon Mullen and Robbie Anderson, the latter of whom didn’t play because of a freak deep fryer accident, and the latter who has two catches for 13 yards in his first six games with the team… so you can’t say he did nothing to help the coach mid-season.

But goddamn, I sit in awe on Sundays of how s***ty a coach Kliff Kingsbury is, and cannot believe he was thrown enough money to own a mansion in the hills when he has so much talent and can do f*** all with it. This team was 2-4 without DeAndre Hopkins, and has gone 2-4 since his return to sit at 4-8, as well as being 1-4 in NFC West Divisional games. They’re 30th in the league in penalties. They’ve finally come to their BYE week, and Kingsbury already had a reported mid-season rift with Kyler Murray, but hey, at least he did a real thinking man’s move by avoiding yet another a late season collapse by stepping on his d*** in the first half this season, so at least his team will consistently suck all year long.


This week, Arizona went up by a TD over the Chargers with about 10 minutes left in the 4th quarter, and for the rest of the game, Kingsbury, the offensive genius, managed to call plays that resulted in a trio of three-and-outs, followed by getting the ball back trailing with 15 seconds left, and running two more plays that went nowhere. From the point Arizona took the lead, they ran 11 plays and got 16 yards on them. The L.A. Chargers, who are playing third stringers all over their offensive line, were given chance after chance to mount their comeback and win the game in the final minute.

I have admitted to everyone on this forum I’m a masochist, just by saying I root for the Cardinals, and at this point, I’m hoping the Kingsbury curse about losing after Nov. 1st continues to Michael Bidwill gets angry enough to at least fire him after the season, since they didn’t at the BYE, and then can hire Sean Payton, who’s making noise through the rumor mill he wants to “unretire” to coach Kyler Murray.

When Arizona gets back from their BYE, 15 days later, they’ll be playing the New England Patriots on Monday Night Football. (Wanna bet Darth Hoodie outcoaches Kliff that night?) Kingsbury is 1-6 coaching in primetime games, so it’s not like he has a tendency to blow it under a national spotlight.

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4. Dennis Allen, Saints : You took over for the guy who brought a Super Bowl to New Orleans. The first rule is, “Never be the guy, who follows THE guy.” Then, you took a job where Jameis Winston was your initial QB. Your first job was, obviously, “Minimize his mistakes. His stupid, stupid mistakes.” You failed at that, and now have turned your team over to the Red Rifle, Andy Dalton, whose best years in the league were about taking a Wild Card team to the playoffs to immediately get sent home. The outlook is not even as bright of that now, in the “veteran journeyman” stage of Dalton’s career.

We were thinking New Orleans would take a step back this year, but this… yikes.

Dennis Allen has gotten the Saints off to a 4-8 start, in spite of all their talent at the skill positions and on defense. Their battery of offensive weapons are all on the shelf with injuries, and their 2023 draft prospects are irrelevant to any attempts at tanking… the Eagles own their first round pick because of the Saints trading up for WR Chris Olave… so it doesn’t look like they’re solving their hole at QB unless there’s a free agent they can snag… which isn’t traditionally the Saints’ forte.

Sunday, the Saints were shut out by the 49ers, the first time they had been held scoreless in a game since 2001. Twenty years. In two full decades, no one had shut out the Saints. Alvin Kamara getting fumble-itis and putting two balls on the ground had a lot to do with San Francisco getting the 13-0 win, Will Lutz missing his one FG attempt factors in, but this is the latest in a lot of disappointing moments for a team whose fanbase have to be turning back to the paper-bag masks pretty fast here.

New Orleand is headed to Tampa Bay to play a somehow first place 5-6 Bucs team. If they get embarrassed and enter their BYE week having lost four of five, Dennis Allen could be out of a job.

3. Matt LaFleur, Packers: Green Bay has lost seven of their past eight, because Aaron Rodgers and the offense for Green Bay have a problem with a lot of young receivers who are not in synch with the back-to-back MVP. They broke the 30 point scoring threshold for the first time this week, and Aaron Rodgers literally threw out his oblique trying to carry this team, meaning we’re probably looking at a lot of Jordan Love in December.

They failed to convert even a single third down against the Commanders, got absolutely handled by the Buffalo Bills... and lonely put up 9 points in a loss to the Detroit Lions, which in any season for Green Bay practically ever, would be a “get right game”… Were it not for Mike McCarthy blundering away a game when the Packers played Dallas, the losing streak would be at 8. They got handled by the Titans, and the Eagles again showed their dominance on Sunday Night Football this past week.

Green Bay is 4-8, and has to win out to even finish above .500. The only mercy Matt LaFleur may be getting, is that he’s getting the Bears at Soldier Field perhaps without Justin Fields at all, and if he does play, he might be hurt. After that, they get the train wreck that the L.A. Rams have been this year. If they can’t get some wins in either of those games, it’s a pretty sure sign this team has quit on him.


2. Nathaniel Hackett, Broncos : The Broncos simply cannot put points on the board with the dessicated husk of Russell Wilson under center. Their three wins have underwhelmed, with one against the lowly Texans. They are averaging only 14.3 points per game, dead last in the league, and have only scored over twenty twice in their first eleven games. If they’d poached Eric Bienemy from the Chiefs, they wouldn’t be having this problem right now. Instead, they have a coaching staff with a first time head coach, first time OC, first time DC, and first time Special Teams coach, and all the inexperience is showing, what with them leading the league in penalties. Nathaniel Hackett’s situational awareness seems like he’s coaching from the moon, thus he had to hire an assistant to help him with game management before the first half of the season was even over.

Russell Wilson was brought in for a king’s ransom and underwhelmed from the jump. The front office already signed Wilson to a 5 year extension that will put them in salary cap hell even if he retires or they cut him. Russ’ antics for trying to show he’s a “try hard” legend haven’t fooled anyone, and yesterday, DT Mike Purcell started screaming at him on the sideline, and it’s easy to understand why, considering the Broncos still have a Top 3 defense that is taking all these “L”s because Wilson can’t get them any points.

The fact that Hackett coached the Broncos to a divided locker room, and dropped to 3-8 after being beat by Steve Wilks and the Sam Darnold led Panthers by two scores? Good lord, that’s pathetic. But to lose by two scores to a team when you hold them to 2-12 on third down?

Nathaniel Hackett’s middle name is “can’t”. And now he’s got a locker room implosion. He should be one-and-done, especially given the expectations in Denver were he’d lure Aaron Rodgers to town (he didn’t), and even with Russell Wilson, this team was supposed to be an AFC favorite.



1. Lovie Smith, Texans: We respect Lovie Smith, but we also know that the owners of the Houston Texans wanted Josh McCown to be their next coach, and it’s only because of Brian Flores’ lawsuit that the f***sticks in their front office got caught potentially skirting the Rooney Rule and backpedaled to hire Lovie to cover their asses from any league punishments that could have come.

The best news for Lovie is that Jack Easterby got FIRED FIRED this season, so there’s no longer a guy trying to elevate Josh McCown to replace him. IN THEORY.

Lovie is regarded as the architect of the Bears’ highly touted defenses of the mid-oughts, but is in charge of a team so devoid of talent that they are currently dead last in the league in yards of offense, 30th in rushing, 30th in points per game, 30th in the league in yards on defense, and dead last in rushing defense. Somehow, don’t ask us how, people can definitively say they look much better in 2022 than they did last year, and try and credit Smith with coaching his guys to not quit.

Two weeks ago, they played the Washington Commanders and the Texans were held to just 148 total yards of offense yesterday, including but 21 rushing yards on 16 attempts while Houston’s defense also had zero sacks, and forced zero turnovers as Washington just played it safe, went into halftime up 20-0, and took no chances with a Texans team that is not a threat to any team in the league right now.

Yesterday? More of the same, but worse. They were down 30-0 at halftime to the Miami Dolphins, and were 2-13 on third down. They failed on two different two-point conversion attempts and made the final 30-15, but the Dolphins seemingly took it easy on them to not embarrass them. How can this get any worse?

Next week, Cleveland visits for the DeShaun Watson “Revenge of the Sexual Predator” game. The game that’s been looming over Houston’s whole season. This will be their Super Bowl, considering they’re 1-9-1.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Hey, WBE! I’m surprised you didn’t have Sean McVay on the list as his 3-8 Rams are making history for THE worst defense by a defending Super Bowl champion EVER.

[Jimbi]

WBE, you have a better chance of seeing the Steelers win the superbowl than you do of them replacing Mike Tomlin.

[Scott Taylor]

The Rams Sean McVay isn't going anywhere. The OC will be replaced first, because he's new this year and hasn't been performing very well it seems.

Anyone see that winning drive by Trevor Lawrence? I know he's had a bad go overall but that one was impressive.

[babyblob]

I dont see how Jeff Saturday made the list. Has a team ever fired an interim head coach as firing the head coach to start with just means the season is a failure anyway.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

I dont see how Jeff Saturday made the list. Has a team ever fired an interim head coach as firing the head coach to start with just means the season is a failure anyway.

Whats amazing is ... Saturday has made his team competitive. I mean ...you walk in wondering each game if the Colts will win each game now. Just imagine if he actually had coaching experience at positions than being a TV guy and former HS coach.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

2 seasons ago Lamar Jackson was a HOT , NFL QB with the talk of a MVP season he could be like Mahomes and make a Super Bowl. He even going into this past off season rejected a huge offer from the Ravens wanting a Watson guaranteed deal. Turning down a $133 million guaranteed deal. Overall Jackson's deal would be worth $250 million through 2027. But he was more wanting Watson's deal and well....he's crashing.

Sometimes money and ego go too far. Jackson right now with the Ravens are 7-4 and trying to hold off the Bengals. They are coming off a loss against the Jaguars and in a moment Jackson likely regrets ....he went on twitter and went off on a user in a vulgar tweet. Over the recommendation the Ravens trade Jackson and save $250 million guaranteed since Watson deal looks stupid as f-ck to do.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...haracter-tweet


Now I don't think Jackson is a homophobe. I do think he took the wrong idea and went off on a fan. Harbaugh is blaming the whole Twitter deal and going on there after a game. No... that isn't it either. Its more in line...Jackson has to learn to be a mature man. Pat Mahomes has lost a number of big games. He's not gonna go on Twitter at fans who do blame him and swear at them. Its a maturity issue here John Harbaugh.