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The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread

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  • #7452
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,338 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    adrian522 wrote: »
    Scott Hansen's cheat sheet for the NFC playoff scenarios. 64 different possibilities:

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    128 different possibilities on the AFC one he put up. It's on two cards. I hope he goes to the jacks before he goes on tomorrow.


  • #7453
    Paully D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,710 ✭✭✭✭Paully D


    Texans are working on a deal to bring Bill O'Brien (Penn State) in as head coach:

    http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10205777/bill-obrien-penn-state-nittany-lions-coach-working-deal-become-houston-texans-head-coach
    Bill O'Brien has emerged as the overwhelming favorite to become the next coach of the Houston Texans, and the two sides are working to get a deal in place within the next week, league sources told ESPN.

    O'Brien met with the Texans this week after Christmas at his home in Cape Cod, resulting in intensified discussions they hope will culminate with a finalized contract, the sources said.

    The Texans had been doing due diligence on O'Brien, including his six-year stint with the New England Patriots. The feedback has been strong in his favor, sources said, which motivated Houston to commence negotiations to get a deal in place.

    O'Brien, 44, just finished his second season at Penn State, where he was the Big Ten coach of the year in 2012, followed by a 7-5 season this year while playing with a freshman quarterback (Christian Hackenberg) and amid heavy sanctions placed on the Nittany Lions after the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

    O'Brien was a New England assistant from 2007 until 2012. He eventually became the offensive coordinator for a Patriots team that lost to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI.

    After O'Brien interviewed with the Philadelphia Eagles and Cleveland Browns last offseason, he returned to Penn State. But his interest in any prominent NFL head coaching job is not a secret.

    As a condition to returning to Penn State for 2012, O'Brien and the school agreed to an amended contract that lowered his buyout to join an NFL team from $19.33 million to $6.48 million. There had been conversations to further reduce the NFL buyout.

    The Texans will have either the first or second overall pick in the 2014 NFL draft and are expected to target a quarterback for the future.

    The Texans, who will enter Sunday's season finale with a 2-13 record, are searching for a replacement for Gary Kubiak, who was fired earlier this month.

    Greg Schiano has apparently had his eye on the Penn State job for a long time according to Charlie Campbell of Walter Football who worked with Schaino's agent before:
    Charlie Campbell ‏@DraftCampbell 2m
    I worked for Greg Schiano's agent in 2004-2005. He always had his eye on the Penn State job. I bet his agent has already called PSU.


  • #7454
    HigginsJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,317 ✭✭✭HigginsJ


    Paully D wrote: »
    Texans are working on a deal to bring Bill O'Brien (Penn State) in as head coach:
    :


    He had done a great job for Penn State & it's a pity for them as they have a bright future with Hackenberg in place at QB.


  • #7455
    Lionbacker
    Registered Users Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Lionbacker


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    I like the pick of Warford at guard.

    A rookie from the 3rd round and he has been impressive on a poor Lions offensive line

    Actually the offensive line is one of the Lions biggest strengths at the moment. 3 new starters in there this year (Reiff LT, Warford RG, Waddle RT) have all acquitted themselves better than anyone expected. The new improved line has created huge running lanes for Bell & Bush to go through & Stafford is the least sacked QB in the NFL!

    The real issues with this team are a defensive line can't get to the QB, the secondary is a never-ending problem, there is only one decent receiver on the team & Stafford along with the RB's can't stop turning the ball over.


  • #7456
    Silver-Tiger
    Registered Users Posts: 947 ✭✭✭Silver-Tiger


    Browns last game today :(


  • #7457
    adrian522
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,139 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    Currently on sale in Seattle, hopefully it all blows up in their face

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  • #7458
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    ^ ^ ^

    Christ, everyone must be on drugs in that place.:pac:


  • #7459
    GoldFour4
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 5,014 Mod ✭✭✭✭GoldFour4


    That's just asking for results to go against them tbh


  • #7460
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,902 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    They should ask the kerryfootball team about their 5 in a row t shirts. Those are collectors items in Offaly, these things could be selling like hot cakes in st Louis tomorrow.


  • #7461
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Reminds me of Tipp blowing up Kilkenny's five in a row :cool:


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  • #7462
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    Corvus Maximus wrote: »
    ^ ^ ^

    Christ, everyone must be on drugs in that place.:pac:

    In fairness, they probably will make it, and stuff like this has to be ready to hit the shelves ASAP.


  • #7463
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,902 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Reminds me of Tipp blowing up Kilkenny's five in a row :cool:

    Hold your horses we never made t shirts! And while I don't like the rams, they aren't 'Tipperary bad'


  • #7464
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    davyjose wrote: »
    In fairness, they probably will make it, and stuff like this has to be ready to hit the shelves ASAP.

    Yes I know, but I just couldn't resist.


  • #7465
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Remind me of this little cracker!



  • #7466
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    They should ask the kerryfootball team about their 5 in a row t shirts...

    Think that was some private individual, don't think it was official merchandise afair.


  • #7467
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,902 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Think that was some private individual, don't think it was official merchandise afair.

    I know but the truth should never interfere with a good story.


  • #7468
    me89
    Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭me89


    The Texans are on the clock.

    Who saw that coming at the start of the season :eek::eek:


  • #7469
    Red Crow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,139 ✭✭✭Red Crow


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    Hold your horses we never made t shirts! And while I don't like the rams, they aren't 'Tipperary bad'

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  • #7470
    me89
    Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭me89


    Red Crow wrote: »
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    Poor old Tipp, one title every ten years :D:D:D
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  • #7471
    adrian522
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,139 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    Lads, check out this link to carry on this conversation:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=269


  • #7472
    Paully D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,710 ✭✭✭✭Paully D


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  • #7473
    adrian522
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,139 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    Joe Thomas: "Great franchises don't fire the coaching staff after one season"

    Not sure there was too much more they could have done, Pity Hoyer got injured, still 2 first round picks and one of the best receivers in the league.


  • #7474
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Manchester United have The Theatre of Dreams.

    Cleveland Bowns have The Factory of Sadness.

    The most epic and apt stadium nickname in the world, by a country mile. :D


  • #7475
    Paully D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,710 ✭✭✭✭Paully D


    adrian522 wrote: »
    Joe Thomas: "Great franchises don't fire the coaching staff after one season"

    Not sure there was too much more they could have done, Pity Hoyer got injured, still 2 first round picks and one of the best receivers in the league.

    I think he's been very hard done by. Injury to his main QB among others, front office actively trying to trade Gordon during the season, his running back traded to the Colts mid-season. I mean, one can only blame head coaches for so long before you have to look at those above him. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them make an absolute bollocks of the 2014 draft as usual and be back to square one this time next year.

    Some interesting Tweets:

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  • #7476
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    When Joe Thomas speaks out, you know something's up. Guy's one of the most low profile, best professionals in sports. This would be like Paul Scholes coming out and criticising those above him... he's not one for publicity (Joe Thomas went fishing with family when he knew he'd be a top 10 draft pick, because he'd promised to before the draft dates were announced).


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  • #7477
    Melissa Lazy Cane
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ Melissa Lazy Cane


    Billy86 wrote: »
    When Joe Thomas speaks out, you know something's up. Guy's one of the most low profile, best professionals in sports. This would be like Paul Scholes coming out and criticising those above him... he's not one for publicity (Joe Thomas went fishing with family when he knew he'd be a top 10 draft pick, because he'd promised to before the draft dates were announced).

    whens his contract up i would imagine he wants out now. this seems to be the straw that broke the camels back


  • #7478
    spiritcrusher
    Registered Users Posts: 1,403 ✭✭✭spiritcrusher


    The last 4 head coaches fired in the AFC North have been from the Cleveland Browns.


  • #7479
    matthew8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭matthew8


    Seamus Angry Luck wrote: »
    whens his contract up i would imagine he wants out now. this seems to be the straw that broke the camels back

    That's not for a long long time. He has a very long contract, essentially a brown for life.


  • #7480
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Seamus Angry Luck wrote: »
    whens his contract up i would imagine he wants out now. this seems to be the straw that broke the camels back
    I'm guessing so. Sucks for them because, especially with the Steelers and Ravens struggling, they looked a RB & QB away from being a possible contender. Get some other decent WR options and maybe a RB in FA, try get the QB high, and look for two 'high risk, high reward' RBs in the 4-6th rounds and you never know. But one of the top LTs in the league is a big thing to lose.

    I wonder where he'll go? He won't struggle to get paid well on a good team, just a bit sleep now and can't figure out where he best money/success chances would be.

    Let's not forget Alex Mack is also up for FA either this year or next. Thomas just went 29 in December, and Mack 28 in November so both are good for big money 4-5 year deals around the league.

    One also shares the same name as the 'normal' guy from The Inbetweeners, and the other with that old Alex Mack Nickelodeon TV show... which I noticed when I Googled their ages. :p


  • #7481
    Paully D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,710 ✭✭✭✭Paully D


    252 days until week 1 of the 2014 season :pac:


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  • #7482
    matthew8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭matthew8


    Billy86 wrote: »
    I'm guessing so. Sucks for them because, especially with the Steelers and Ravens struggling, they looked a RB & QB away from being a possible contender. Get some other decent WR options and maybe a RB in FA, try get the QB high, and look for two 'high risk, high reward' RBs in the 4-6th rounds and you never know. But one of the top LTs in the league is a big thing to lose.

    I wonder where he'll go? He won't struggle to get paid well on a good team, just a bit sleep now and can't figure out where he best money/success chances would be.

    Let's not forget Alex Mack is also up for FA either this year or next. Thomas just went 29 in December, and Mack 28 in November so both are good for big money 4-5 year deals around the league.

    One also shares the same name as the 'normal' guy from The Inbetweeners, and the other with that old Alex Mack Nickelodeon TV show... which I noticed when I Googled their ages. :p

    He's not a FA until 2018. I'd say he's going nowhere.


  • #7483
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    matthew8 wrote: »
    He's not a FA until 2018. I'd say he's going nowhere.
    Yeah, misread the other posters' message. :o


  • #7484
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Paully D wrote: »
    252 days until week 1 of the 2014 season :pac:

    Nominated for the most suicide inducing post of the year.


  • #7485
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Corvus Maximus wrote: »
    Nominated for the most suicide inducing post of the year.
    Well if you're a fan of a playoff team... it's not the case!

    How GB are in the playoffs is beyond being beyond me, to be honest.


  • #7486
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Billy86 wrote: »
    Well if you're a fan of a playoff team... it's not the case!

    Ya we are, but it's just the sheer thought of how far the 2014 season start is away from this point.
    Billy86 wrote: »
    How GB are in the playoffs is beyond being beyond me, to be honest.

    Giants became the first 9-7 team to win a SB, surely to God an 8-8 team won't do it?


  • #7487
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Corvus Maximus wrote: »
    Ya we are, but it's just the sheer thought of how far the 2014 season start is away from this point.

    Giants became the first 9-7 team to win a SB, surely to God an 8-8 team won't do it?
    We've done it with the 6th seed before all on the road so you never know, and Rodgers/Cobb back is massive, but our defense is like yours was in 2011/12 (and ours in those years too actually) - it's at the point I laugh at it like you laugh at a goat trying to write a book.

    REALLY wanted DAL in since I figured quite a doable route was SF --> @CAR --> DAL, but hey you never know 'til you know.

    As for your first sentence, don't wanna even think about it right now! :p


  • #7488
    spiralism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,299 ✭✭✭spiralism


    Billy86 wrote: »
    Well if you're a fan of a playoff team... it's not the case!

    How GB are in the playoffs is beyond being beyond me, to be honest.

    No but the night of Sunday the 12th is going to take years off my life


  • #7489
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    spiralism wrote: »
    No but the night of Sunday the 12th is going to take years off my life
    No offense intended, but I could see preseason OTA taking at least 3-4 months off your life after the Pats/Broncos game. :p

    For what it's worth, I get very, very wound up in games as well. :D


  • #7490
    spiralism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,299 ✭✭✭spiralism


    Billy86 wrote: »
    No offense intended, but I could see preseason OTA taking at least 3-4 months off your life after the Pats/Broncos game. :p

    For what it's worth, I get very, very wound up in games as well. :D

    Yeah, i developed this rep i have with watching the Broncos over time, too used to the ****ups. Gonna be very very wound up no matter who we're playing, any of the three it could be are a tough task for us, unlike if it were say Miami, Pittsburgh or Baltimore, who we match well with.


  • #7491
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    Quick question: why was the TD in the GB-Bears game (you know the one) nott an incompletoon? Presumably it was considered a fumble?


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  • #7492
    SantryRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭SantryRed


    davyjose wrote: »
    Quick question: why was the TD in the GB-Bears game (you know the one) nott an incompletoon? Presumably it was considered a fumble?

    Rodgers hand was empty as it went forward, he kinda pushed the ball the whole way instead of ever throwing it, so it was considered a fumble.


  • #7493
    kmart6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,172 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    SantryRed wrote: »
    Rodgers hand was empty as it went forward, he kinda pushed the ball the whole way instead of ever throwing it, so it was considered a fumble.
    Same thing happened last week in the Colts game against KC. Mathis basically strip-sacked Smith and he pushed the ball forward the same way Rodgers did last not but it was ruled as a pass and not a fumble, Freeman caught it and it counted as an INT as opposed to a sack-fumble for Mathis.


  • #7494
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    SantryRed wrote: »
    Rodgers hand was empty as it went forward, he kinda pushed the ball the whole way instead of ever throwing it, so it was considered a fumble.

    Wow. I'd feel hard done by that if I were a Bears fan. Although they had an opportunity to run it in too.


  • #7495
    Pudsy33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,795 ✭✭✭✭Pudsy33


    davyjose wrote: »
    Wow. I'd feel hard done by that if I were a Bears fan. Although they had an opportunity to run it in too.

    It was clearly a fumble. The Bears fans shouldn't feel hard done by, they should blame the players for not continuing to play until the play was blown dead. Brainless stuff.


  • #7496
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,338 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    The league are investigating how the injury report was done with regard to romo in week 16.


  • #7497
    phatkev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,638 ✭✭✭phatkev


    Great reaction from the Jets locker room when they fine out Rex is staying.

    http://www.newyorkjets.com/videos/videos/Jets_Locker_Room_Exclusive_Rex_Retained_as_Coach/ac9d869a-d78d-410a-b819-055f06ccf75c


  • #7498
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    Pudsy33 wrote: »
    It was clearly a fumble. The Bears fans shouldn't feel hard done by, they should blame the players for not continuing to play until the play was blown dead. Brainless stuff.

    It wasn't that clear. The ball went forward. Alex smith had an interception for yhe exact same thing last week against indy
    Either way it was a turnover but officially it was a pick, not a fumble recovery.


  • #7499
    Pudsy33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,795 ✭✭✭✭Pudsy33


    davyjose wrote: »
    It wasn't that clear. The ball went forward. Alex smith had an interception for yhe exact same thing last week against indy
    Either way it was a turnover but officially it was a pick, not a fumble recovery.


    Regardless of that, the bears player should have kept playing. Assume the play is still alive. You have nothing to lose.


  • #7500
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    Pudsy33 wrote: »
    Regardless of that, the bears player should have kept playing. Assume the play is still alive. You have nothing to lose.

    Yeah. Agree 100% with you there. Play to the whistle.


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  • #7501
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Looks like the Badgers had a slight bias during the Bears Packers clash...



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