NFL 2022 Regular Season Thread.

[Ghost Rider TheHellfireDemon]

A huge embarrassment for the Chargers that made the Jaguars offense look like the Greatest Show on Turf Rams since they lost to the Jaguars 38-10. 1 Man can make a difference since the Jaguars have a good head coach, and the Jaguars are a winning team.

Jackson continues to make the Patriots his jabroni since the Patriots couldn't hold the Ravens under 30 points in a high-scoring game that they lost at home to the Ravens.

I saw my Titans defeat the Raiders 24-22 in what was a thrilling close game. Not surprising since Henry did have a good game, the Titans held the Raiders mostly to field goals, and the Titans' defense was able to prevent the Raiders from scoring a needed 2-point conversion.

The Jets continue to be a reliable embarrassment because the Bengals had no struggles on the road outplaying the Jets. The Jets have been outplayed in 2 uncompetitive games at home which is an impressive embarrassing feat.
Any Jets fans that didn't overreact to the Jet's great late comeback win vs the Browns were proven right because the Jets had an embarrassing performance vs the Bengals.


Mark Sanchez has to be pretty damn happy because the Dolphins had the mistake of a punted football that hit the butt of a Dolphins player resulting in a safety because the football moved backward. The Dolphins still were able to defeat a great Bills team so no doubt Bills fans are very disappointed with this soul-crushing defeat to a playing great Dolphins team.

[worstblogever]

Winless teams going into Week 3: Raiders, and the Texans with the 0-2-1 mark.

Your 3-0 teams are the Eagles, Dolphins, and should they win tonight, the New York Giants.


Doesn't seem like that was anything predicted prior to kickoff a couple weeks ago.


I mean, we all thought the Texans would be bad, but I think the Eagles starting out on a hot streak is the only thing remotely predictable.

[BeastieRunner]

Winless teams going into Week 3: Raiders, and the Texans with the 0-2-1 mark.

Your 3-0 teams are the Eagles, Dolphins, and should they win tonight, the New York Giants.


Doesn't seem like that was anything predicted prior to kickoff a couple weeks ago.


I mean, we all thought the Texans would be bad, but I think the Eagles starting out on a hot streak is the only thing remotely predictable.

I had the eagles going 4-1 but not starting 3-0 to get there ...

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I had the eagles going 4-1 but not starting 3-0 to get there ...

Week four should be plenty interesting for the Birds when they host Doug Pederson and Jacksonville. Philly should win, but it won’t be easy.

[Kirby101]

Barkley puts the Giants ahead with an explosive 35 yd TD run. 13-6.


And the Boys come right back and March down for a score.

[Scott Taylor]

Its good to know the Giants are still bad and the entire NFL world isn't actually upside down after all.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

To see Saquon Barkley really doing ok now after missing 2 seasons nearly to injuries is pretty good. RBs don't really get much chances once injuries hit. But in 3 games Barkley has 6.0+ yards per rush.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

And the Giants fall from the ranks of the unbeaten with a 23-16 loss to the Cowboys.

[worstblogever]

WEEK 4 "WHO'S COOKIN' ON THE HOTSEAT?/FIRE THIS COACH!" DISCUSSION

YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR *** AND GET SOME WINS LIST: Kyle Shanahan, 49ers; Kliff Kingsbury, Cardinals[/B]; Mike Tomlin, Steelers; Frank Reich, Colts;
Now, to the actual countdown...

10. Nathaniel Hackett, Broncos : This team is the most inept-looking 2-1 team in the league right now. Their wins have underwhelmed, and one was against the lowly Texans. 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. Who the F*** does something that arrogant?

Oh yeah, John Elway is still making decisions, right? While the team got sold to the Walton family and the old ownership bickered over Pat Bowlen’s will. Right, everything checks out.

The NFL schedule-makers fed Denver the Seahawks’ “Pete Carroll farewell tour” in Week One because they wanted that “Russell Wilson’s Revenge Game”, and then followed it up with giving the Broncos the Clusterf*** that is the Houston Texans in Week Two. And it’s lucky for Hackett that he had that second attempt at a layup, because people wanted him fired after the first week. This week, Jimmy G managed to step on his own d*** so that the Broncos got their second win in a game where their offense just looks disjoined and non-functional. An offense that, again, yoinked Russell Wilson out of Seattle and are making John Schneider look smart for dealing him.

All we know is next week, the Broncos get the Raiders, and if they give their division rivals their first win of the season, the fans in Mile High are going to be spending their Halloween making effigies of Coach Hackett to hang in the yard.



9. Bill Belichik, Patriots (COOL SEAT) : Belichik got to the playoffs last year with a rookie QB in Mac Jones. Mind you, Buffalo DESTROYED THEM in that game, never punting against a vaunted Patriots defense. Well, New England got handled by division rival Miami in the season opener, 20-7, and that might have something to do with the fact that they nearly broke Mac Jones’ back. He was injured again in Week 3, and looks to be missing multiple games this time.

For the next few weeks, the Patriots are likely going to have Brian Hoyer starting at QB while Jones heals. Yes, the guy who most famously was a starter in Cleveland and has been a journeyman starting for eight different teams. He’s definitely not going to scare anyone, with a lot of his targets being veteran players who are on “second chance” tours like Devante Parker, Hunter Henry, and Nelson Agolhor, trying to make up for not living up to whatever hype they may have once had. Also, the only name you’ll recognize on their defense is Devin McCourty, which no matter what level of genius Belichek is (or his goober son Steve and his mullet running the defense), this coaching staff is just filled with assistants who are vultures looking to be the guy who takes over for Belichik when he retires.

Which is the caveat to us listing him. We don’t think Belichik ever gets FIRED fired, but Robert Kraft coerces him to retirement before dipping out to a local massage parlor and let the faithful keep heading to Foxboro for overpriced tickets. So we’re keeping him at the #9 spot on our list for now.


8. Mike Vrabel, Titans: Good news? You beat the Raiders and avoided 0-3. Ryan Tannehill looks like he has seriously regressed. Derek Henry isn’t Superman right now. You got destroyed by the Bills 41-7 in front of a national viewing audience on MNF in Week 2. While that still might not be enough to warrant a pink slip for Vrabel…

But come on, this reeks of an NFL team who would fire a coach for simply not getting to the “next level” to the Super Bowl, and then when there’s the first sign of regression, they kick the guy to the curb and bring in some other hot shot young coach thinking they’ll be the key to unlocking the Lombardi Trophy case.

It's usually a bad idea, but that doesn’t stop dumb owners from doing it.

Next week, Vrabel could leapfrog back off this list with a win to get to .500 on the season. And if they do, who falls onto this list to take his place? Probably the coach of the Colts, Frank Reich, who’s sitting at a modest 1-1-1 even though his team was considered a trendy Super Bowl pick with Matt Ryan.

Whoever loses that game is gonna be somewhere on this list.


7. Robert Saleh, Jets: The Jets already lost Zach Wilson to injury in the preseason, and the Jets might have him ready to go this week… if not, they’re starting the ghost of Joe Flacco under center. Which is a shame, because this roster should be much improved this season. But alas, in a league where QB play determines so much, they’ve got a necromancer in the locker room doing whatever he can to get Flaccenstein to function for a few weeks until the Wilson kid’s mommy gets distracted by her Instagram account and he sneaks back off of IR when she’s not looking.

While pundits are taking shots at a franchise that’s run so badly by Woody Johnson, Saleh already went to “tough guy quotes” after WEEK ONE, saying he was “taking receipts” for people who felt were being too critical of his team.

Robert, I want you to make the Jets good. But my dude, DO NOT get antagonistic with every meatball in the New York media market. They will circle like sharks smelling blood in the water more than they already do. I’m glad you beat the Browns (because f*** them for signing a serial sexual predator like Watson) and staging a comeback. Your players clearly responded to what you said in that Week 1 presser, coming back with 14 points in the final 1:22 to get you the W. You backed up the tough guy quote with a big, big win. You’re gonna need more, though, especially after getting handled by the Bengals this weekend, and settling for only four FGs.

If Saleh doesn’t get a QB worth a f***, he’s gonna take the blame for something that’s been the root of the Jets problems since the creation of the team. (I mean, statistically, even Joe Namath sucked.) Making matters worse, the whole AFC is beastly these days. If this team even improves on their four wins from last year, I would like to see Saleh get a third year as coach. I mean, he’s better than Adam Gase.

Okay, low bar to clear, but… this week, you go to Pittsburgh to play a discombobulated Steelers team who are going to be hungry to get off the schneide themselves.



6. Ron Rivera, Washington Commanders: We hate putting his name on this list, but we’ve done it for three years now. Why’s it hard? The guy risked Covid-19 while coaching through fighting cancer and BEAT IT. That battle is probably the only positive news story you can find about the Washington Football Team from the past two years. The front office absolutely wants a guy they can champion who’s up against something as reviled as cancer, because it’s only slightly better regarded than a scumbag like their owner Daniel Snyder, who currently is trying to mitigate the damage from several potentially criminal activities and ignore Congressional subpoenas, hoping he won’t be forced to sell the team.

We have been, and continue to rooting for Riverboat Ron, but we know Daniel Snyder is also the exact kind of motherf***er who would fire a guy who risked death to coach his team.

They opened up with a schedule with the Jaguars (they won!) but in Week 2, they went on the road to Detroit, and gave up 4 TDs to Jared Goff. Yes, THAT Jared Goff, who we give no credit to, we just know Amon St. Brown is that f’n good. Week 3 saw them get completely humiliated by their division rivals from Philly, and the defense, which is supposed to be Rivera’s forte, looks like toasted ass.

Probably not a good time to have the Cowboys rolling into town, looking to keep pace with the Eagles for the division lead.

[worstblogever]

5. Arthur Smith, Falcons: All right, here’s one of our true hot seats on this list. Matt Ryan is, again, gone to Indianapolis. This team is led by Marcus Mariota, and has rookie QB Desmond Ridder waiting to step in mid-season to prove something. Their top WR is suspended for gambling for the whole year, and their best RB is actually a WR. They have virtually no one you’ve ever heard of on the defensive side of the ball, and their best player, currently, might be their kicker.

But on Sunday, the Falcons got their first win of the year when they were lucky enough to have the Seahawks on their schedule. The 12s are going to always remember the day that the Falcons came and only had two penalties as Cordarelle Patterson rushed for 8 yards a carry against their team, and Mariota only had to throw passes to Kyle Pitts to get enough offense to win.

Next week, the Falcons play the Browns, who had better hope that Myles Garrett isn’t too dinged up from a car accident he got in.

4. Matt Ruhle, Panthers: Under Ruhle’s leadership, the Panthers have lost 14 of their last 17 games. Bringing in Baker Mayfield has not changed the fortunes of Carolina’s offense. Note also, Ruhle’s supposed to be an offensive genius, he’s got a former Heismann winning QB and one of the best running backs in football over the past decade… and they only get 170 passing yards with them… luckily they were playing a Saints team led by Jameis Winston who had 2 fumbles (recovered both, but lost yards) and 2 INTs… which was enough to give the Panthers a 22-16 win.

Ruhle’s record as a coach is now 11-25. He’s got to try and move up in a division that features the Saints and Bucs (New Orleans comes to town next week), but hey, at least he should get some free wins from the Falcons or beat up on Arizona when they come to town. There are a lot of folks thinking this might be the year that he turns it around, and Baker Mayfield finally settles in as a quality NFL starter and stops putting his foot in his mouth.

But they gotta win. If Ruhle can’t get to at least .500 for just this season, we think he’s done at season’s end.


3. Pete Carroll, Seahawks: Yes, Carroll gave this city a Super Bowl. That was… some time ago. After what were apparently many seasons of attempting to jettison his franchise QB, Russell Wilson, management sent him to Denver after a disappointing 2021 season with a 7-10 record and with offenses, defenses, and kicking team all ranked in the bottom five in the NFL in their respective categories. The Legion of Boom is LONG GONE. This defense lost Bobby Wagner this offseason, and Chris Carson retired. All they have is Metcalf and Lockett at WR, and Jamaal Adams and a bunch of scarecrows in the secondary (Adams is great against the run, but gets torched in coverage a LOT… and he got carted off in Week 1, not a good sign).

Now, a lot of prognosticators around the NFL world predicted the Seahawks would be one of the worst teams in the league this year, what with putting Geno Smith as their starting QB and having Drew Lock as the backup who would likely get inserted into the lineup when they failed. Seattle, on paper, is the most flawed team in the NFC West… and they’ve looked like it the past two weeks against San Francisco and Atlanta.

They’re traveling to Detroit this week in a game where they’re likely the betting underdogs. If you give up 8 yards a carry to Cordarelle Patterson, I don’t like your chances against DeAndre Swift. Also, you don’t have anybody to cover Amon St. Ra, so…

If Carroll and the ‘Hawks win this game, they might jump a bit up the Top Ten, if not off this list. We might have to drop Dan Campbell onto the list to take his place if that happens.



2. 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.

There were some thoughts about how Lovie might be coaching his ass off through the first two games, tying the Colts in Week 1 even though they were many people’s AFC favorite, and in Week 2, they held their own against the Broncos, another trendy pick to do the same. Was Lovie turning Houston around?

Week 3 was a big, “DOUBT IT” moment after the Texans lost an easily winnable game to the Bears. And it was ugly offensively. How did the Bears win with Justin Fields posting a stat line of 8/17 for 107 yards, 0 TDs, and 2 INTs?

Because Houston’s defense gave up 281 yards rushing to Chicago, that’s how. And Lovie is one of those “defensive coaches”, so that’s pretty sad that his front 7 were a sieve like that.

Next week might not help them get their first win, with Justin Herbert and the Chargers coming to town.

We’ll again, say that first year coaches usually are safer, but the Texans are one of the worst run teams in the league, and we know that Lovie wasn’t who they wanted on the sidelines… so if they underperform, they’re gonna run him right back out of town on a rail and then, for whatever reason, hire Josh McCown and his zero games of coaching experience to ensure the also suck next year.



1. Josh McDaniels, Raiders: The motto is “Commitment to Excellence”? More like “Commitment to Excrement”, AMIRITE?. Sure, Week One was against the Chargers, who look pretty damned good. Week Two, you got an Arizona team that has no corners, and couldn’t stop Kansas City. The Raiders took a 20-0 lead into the locker room, after six quarters, they looked like a disaster. Overall in that game, the Cardinals committed 12 penalties for 120 yards, A.J. Green and Hollywood Brown were dropping almost every first down and TD chucked their way…

AND THE RAIDERS CHOKED away the largest lead ever blown by any Raiders team, ever. They were up 23-7 going into the fourth quarter. They couldn’t get the ball to Davante Adams (2 receptions on 7 targets for 12 yards). Derek Carr went literally 40 minutes in the fourth quarter and overtime without getting to touch the ball, and just when he had Las Vegas in FG range to win it… the Raiders receivers got fumble-itis and managed to have the game end on a note more worthy of an NFL blooper reel, which their defense should also feel while they failed to tackle Kyler Murray on a TD run where he literally scrambled around them for 20 seconds.

Week 3: Hey, you didn’t play awful… but you lost. Mostly because the red zone offense settled for 3 FGs through the day against the Titans, who just did enough to escape with the victory. We know, we know… he’s a first year coach again, and the Raiders still have half of Jon Gruden’s obscene contract to eat. But Raider Nation isn’t endeared with Josh McDaniels, who has to own this embarrassing start to a season where he’s going to be competing in the toughest division in football.

And now has to get ready to play the Broncos next week, who are 2-1, but still clearly trying to figure it out with a brand new coaching staff. We don’t know how long it’s gonna take before this Raiders team gets a win (and it shouldn’t take long, they should be way better than their record), but the fact that McDaniels hasn’t coached them to a victory yet is the main indictment of how his 0-3 record has them here.

[BeastieRunner]

Haven't both set of owners of NE and SEA openly stated their coaches get to leave on their own terms?

[CSTowle]

Bill's 70, I'd imagine he'd like to match Shula on the win total list but he's several more seasons from that (and this year ain't looking like one to help him along). I hope he gets the franchise up and running again, but I can't blame him if he wants to hang it up and enjoy retirement before he gets too much older. What more can you ask of a coach? But I'll be shocked if it's not on his terms, unless we get a Gruden e-mail situation.

[Witchfan]

There are no winless teams in the NFC. Everyone looks competitive.

[Jimbi]

https://twitter.com/jamisonhensley/s...vMgXTZBV_27Plg

John Harbaugh was also complaining about the Met Life Turf

[MRP]

There are no winless teams in the NFC. Everyone looks competitive.

I think it's a bit of fool's gold tough, as I think some of those teams have already gotten a third to half of what their season win total will be.

-M