2025 NFL Season Thread

[Cobra Mgr]

Just turned on the game.

Call the FBI. The has been an Xavier Legette sighting.

[Amazin69]

Yes, with both Waller and Legette scoring, that means each team has had contributions from a formerly-retired player.

(What, Legette wasn't retired? Huh.)

[Cobra Mgr]

As the Miami/Carolina game unfolded, I got the feeling the loser would have a new HC next game.

[Cobra Mgr]

Tampa & Seattle both wearing old school jerseys. Nice seeing as they came into the NFL together.

[Amazin69]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

Tampa & Seattle both wearing old school jerseys. Nice seeing as they came into the NFL together.

Nice to see the Expansion Bowl throwbacks; the Bucs honor the Creamsicles fairly regularly, but since Seattle switched conferences, they've really committed to the new color palette, in various permutations. Cool.

Good comeback by the Panthers. Rico Dowdle busting out for 206 rushing yards was a pleasant surprise. Cowboys coming to Charlotte next week…that game could go any of several ways.

Mike McDaniel didn't bother to use the Dolphins' final time-out, hoping for a botched snap. Eric Collins wondered if that meant Mike just gave up…and presuming his bosses are wondering the same thing. I hope Mike doesn't get fired, though…I enjoy Annie Agar's impression of him too much.

"To win the game, you need to win the game." We'll miss you, Mike…

[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

If I was as a coach, you could not keep my foot out of a player's behind if he lost a TD because he fumbled the ball celebrating before he crossed the goal line

Come on, man...................

[Cobra Mgr]

You gotta be kidding me............

[Cobra Mgr]

Did the Titans announcer just say "if you lose it, it still goes down as a loss"?

[Cobra Mgr]

[Cobra Mgr]

So this is roughing.............

[Ragnar]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

Dolphins drove down the field and converted Bryce's TO into a TD. They lead the Panthers 10-0, one play into the 2nd Quarter.

Meanwhile on CBS, the truck puts up a graphic showing that the Eagles average 251 YPG, which is the lowest for a 4-0 team since the 1941 Giants. Jim Nantz challenges Tony Romo to name a member of that Giants team, but neither he nor Nantz can do so.

I'm proud to say that I had an answer, instantly. (He is a Hall of Famer who spent his entire career with New York, but that's still reasonably impressive.). Perhaps, I should be worried that this is the sort of thing I take pride in, but still.

Did anybody else have that reflex kick in?

Wasn't Rosie Grier an outstanding member of the Giants? But I doubt he played in 1941.

[Ragnar]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

You gotta be kidding me............

I lost 10 bucks on that game. All I can do is shake my head.

[Ragnar]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

So this is roughing.............

No. Not unless you can't touch the QB. That ref should probably not be a ref.

[Ragnar]

The Jets are garbage. Starting the season 0-5 for the first time in their history. They made the Dallas defense look like a professional unit. Game was over at 30-3. Everything that came after that is meaningless.

A few interesting historical tidbits about New York football.

The Giants scored a TD on their first two possessions on Sunday. The last time they did that was 5 years ago.

The Giants turned the ball over on 5 consecutive possessions. The last time any team did that was 9 years ago. The team that did it, the Jets.

The New York Jets are the first team in league history to start 0-5 and have 0 turnovers.

[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by Ragnar

The Jets are garbage. Starting the season 0-5 for the first time in their history. They made the Dallas defense look like a professional unit. Game was over at 30-3. Everything that came after that is meaningless.

A few interesting historical tidbits about New York football.

The Giants scored a TD on their first two possessions on Sunday. The last time they did that was 5 years ago.

The Giants turned the ball over on 5 consecutive possessions. The last time any team did that was 9 years ago. The team that did it, the Jets.

The New York Jets are the first team in league history to start 0-5 and have 0 turnovers.

A friend in a fantasy league of mine was upset that he didn't play Dak, who got close to 50 pts. I said "you didn't play Dak & he was playing the JETS????" SMH

IDK what it is, I have nothing to base this on, this is pure speculation & intuition not based on any fact at all. In fact, downright stupid. But something inside tells me Glenn is going to turn the Jets around like Campbell did the Lions. That this is the calm before the storm.

I can't tell you why I feel that way. Feel free to mark this down & show how stupid I am after his firing next year. I just got that feeling.

[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by Ragnar

Wasn't Rosie Grier an outstanding member of the Giants? But I doubt he played in 1941.

This wasn't '41, but my dad claims in the early 50's he, his brothers & the neighborhood kids would play on the same field the Giants practiced on. The NYG came for practice in the middle of the neighborhood kids game & they didn't want to stop. So the Giants said they would play them for the field & the kids agreed. He said he got on the LOS the opposing player's leg was wider than he was. And my father said "Heck naw"! And left. His bros were furious but he just went home.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

If I was as a coach, you could not keep my foot out of a player's behind if he lost a TD because he fumbled the ball celebrating before he crossed the goal line

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

Come on, man...................

That is an interesting play when you (or more precisely, I) think about it. The first thought (again in my mind) is that while the runner gave up possession of the ball before he crossed the plane of the goal line, the defense did not have possession of it either. So, the offense should retain possession, with a loss of down, at say the one-yard line.

But no:

In American football, a touchback is a ruling that is made and signaled by an official when the ball becomes dead on or behind a team's own goal line (i.e., in their end zone) and the opposing team gave the ball the momentum, or impetus, to travel over the goal line, but did not have possession of the ball when it became dead. Such impetus may be imparted by a kick, pass, fumble, or in certain instances by batting the ball.

The result of a touchback is that the team in whose end zone the ball became dead receives possession of the ball and starts play with a first down at its own 20-, 25-, or 35-yard line, depending on the situation and league. A touchback is not a play, but a result of events that may occur during a play. A touchback is the opposite of a safety with regard to impetus since a safety is scored when the ball becomes dead in a team's end zone after that team — the team whose end zone it is — caused the ball to cross the goal line.

But wow, do these guys follow the news at all? Sporting news, at least? These are not rocket scientists, many of them.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Ragnar

The Jets are garbage. Starting the season 0-5 for the first time in their history. They made the Dallas defense look like a professional unit. Game was over at 30-3. Everything that came after that is meaningless.

A few interesting historical tidbits about New York football.

The Giants scored a TD on their first two possessions on Sunday. The last time they did that was 5 years ago.

The Giants turned the ball over on 5 consecutive possessions. The last time any team did that was 9 years ago. The team that did it, the Jets.

The New York Jets are the first team in league history to start 0-5 and have 0 turnovers.

The usual nonsense yesterday, in two ways: Crappy football by New York teams and being forced to watch it because CBS and Fox figure that is what we want to view. Well, not this go round; for the first time, I found something else to watch.

I have "left town" in spirit, if not in body, when it comes to New York sports, particularly football. I am a free spirit now. It's wonderful.

[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

If I was as a coach, you could not keep my foot out of a player's behind if he lost a TD because he fumbled the ball celebrating before he crossed the goal line

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

Come on, man...................

Ok. So I know I made a statement implying I would kick people for an inopportune fumble. But I wasn't serious. Just describing how furious I would be.

I do not condone hitting players for screw ups no matter how big the screw up is.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

Ok. So I know I made a statement implying I would kick people for an inopportune fumble. But I wasn't serious. Just describing how furious I would be.

I do not condone hitting players for screw ups no matter how big the screw up is.

Coach is lucky that, in this day and age, he didn't get a stiff forearm to the nose in response. I don't see the average professional taking that lightly.