NFL week 2 thread

eagle eye

No thread up yet and games tonight. I love the first three weeks with a full schedule and no bye weeks, so many games.

Thursday, September 11

Pittsburgh at Baltimore 1:25 am

Sunday, September 14

Miami at Buffalo 6:00 pm
Atlanta at Cincinnati 6:00 pm
New Orleans at Cleveland 6:00 pm
Dallas at Tennessee 6:00 pm
New England at Minnesota 6:00 pm
Arizona at NY Giants 6:00 pm
Jacksonville at Washington 6:00 pm
Detroit at Carolina 6:00 pm

Seattle at San Diego 9:05 pm
St. Louis at Tampa Bay 9:05 pm
Kansas City at Denver 9:25 pm
NY Jets at Green Bay 9:25 pm
Houston at Oakland 9:25 pm

Sunday night/Monday morning

Chicago at San Francisco 1:30 am

Monday night/Tuesday morning

Philadelphia at Indianapolis 1:30 am

eagle eye

Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

Knex*

Tonight's game should be a cracker, hoping I can catch some of it.

Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

helimachoptor

Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis


Romo will bounce back this week, Witten/Brant and Murray will be tough to handle, but the Titans offense will have too much for the Cowboys defense.
Titans to go 2-0 and start their march towards the play offs

Billy86

Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

Seven Road team is kind of Hugh, buy there are a few close ones in there.

adrian522

Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

UnitedIrishman

Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

phatkev

Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

mikemac1

Tonight will be a cracking game! AFC North football!
The Ravens win 19 - 14. Justin Tucker kicks 4 field goals



Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

boccy23

Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

HigginsJ

Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

LightningBlue

Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

Paully D

I have a horrible feeling that I'm going to wake up tomorrow morning to see that the Steelers won on a last second field goal.

GoldFour4

Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

Wouldn't be surprised if i went 4-12 this week!!

Son Of A Vidic

The televised games this week are...

Thursday, September 11
Steelers @ Ravens
On Sky Sports 2 (01:25am)


Sunday, September 14
Falcons @ Bengals
On Sky Sports 2 (5:30pm)

Kansas City Chiefs @ Denver Broncos
On Sky Sports 2 (9:00pm)


Sunday night/Monday morning
Bears @ 49er's
On Channel 4 (12:45AM)


Monday night
Eagles @ Colts
On Eurosport 2 (1:30am)

HigginsJ

Was hoping the would show the Jets vs Packers Sunday night

Langdon Alger

Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

UnitedIrishman

Oh good God, I've just watch Fox Sports interview some Ravens fans with Ray Rice jerseys on.

I know it's Fox but some of the answers...

It ranged from:

"He should be allowed to defend himself" (couldn't be more Fox really!) to "there's others in the league that have done worse and they're still playing".

kryogen

What would you expect from fox

me89

Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

Realt Dearg Sec

Pittsburgh at Baltimore
Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

9 away wins in one week seems pretty unlikely but it's just how I see it. Detroit and Carolina seems tough to call right now, and the Texans and Oakland too. Sadly the easiest prediction of the week seems to be the Bears to lose. Would be delighted to have that wrong but we might as well have no linebackers as have the ones there right now, if last week is any measure. I'm predicting a total and utter trimming. Hopefully the league's propensity to produce shocks will have its say.

Billy86

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Detroit and Carolina seems tough to call right now,

Just think of it this way: who would win in a fight, Donkey Kong or Superman.

That said, I don't think Panthers fans would like their stadium to become known as the Fortress of Solitude.

gerire

I can't pick a winner tonight.
I can justify both teams winning and losing.

Just done a quick scan through the predictions it's 8-8 too.

I've steelers picked with my head but bet Balintore based on this tweet from earlier and I think the ray ray issue will piss em off to prove a point

@espnstatsinfo: The Ravens are undefeated at home on Thursdays (3-0) under John Harbaugh. The Steelers have lost 3 straight Thursday road games. #PITvsBAL

Langdon Alger

That was a very soft flag on Upshaw

Hazys

Football on a thursday night...awesome

No longer on NFL Network only

raze_them_all_

keeps it on a massive hit, coughs it up on a soft tackle....

spiritcrusher

Ref is an absolute baysht of a man. Cripes he's built.

Langdon Alger

spiritcrusher wrote: »

Ref is an absolute baysht of a man. Cripes he's built.

spiritcrusher

Langdon Alger wrote: »

That. Is amazing. Somehow in previous years I'd never quite noticed the size of him. Loving that it's a thing though.

Billy86

"Possibly the darkest week in the history of the league" according to one of the commentators.

It's been a horrible, clusterf*** embarrassment of a week for them on a number of front alright. But please, spare that nonsense when things like Aaron Hernandez and even Rae Carruth and fresh in the memory.

Son Of A Vidic

Billy86 wrote: »

"Possibly the darkest week in the history of the league" according to one of the commentators.

It's been a horrible, clusterf*** embarrassment of a week for them on a number of front alright. But please, spare that nonsense when things like Aaron Hernandez and even Rae Carruth and fresh in the memory.

The Pats won widespread acclaim from across the league & media, for how they dealt with Hernandez situation. It should have been the ideal PR template to follow. But the Ravens and the NFL ballsed up the Rice situation from day 1.

Hazys

Turnovers are the 2nd most statistic in football.

2 turnovers by Steelers, 2 TDs down.

Hazys

Billy86 wrote: »

"Possibly the darkest week in the history of the league" according to one of the commentators.

It's been a horrible, clusterf*** embarrassment of a week for them on a number of front alright. But please, spare that nonsense when things like Aaron Hernandez and even Rae Carruth and fresh in the memory.

The hyperbole and fake outrage is ridiculous...nobody at this point even cares that Janay Rice was punched in the face.

Joseph291987

Ravens defense is a joy

Paully D

It's a beautiful morning

mikemac1

Ravens win, Ravens win :P

FreeOSCAR

Big Ben gets the fap treatment a lot from NFL Media but he was just horrible last night. Very soft calls against the Steelers from Hochuli and his crew last night the Ravens still whooped their butts without even being at their best themselves.

Billy86

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

The Pats won widespread acclaim from across the league & media, for how they dealt with Hernandez situation. It should have been the ideal PR template to follow. But the Ravens and the NFL ballsed up the Rice situation from day 1.

In terms of actions yeah they were exemplary and hundreds of players eligible for the draft grew up in areas surrounded by gangs, of which some were a part. Some players have even said the local gangs held them get a leg up before their talent/potential was wider recognised by colleges (or high schools with better facilities)... But that wasn't the case for Hernandez. It's not at all on the Pats that they couldn't tell which side of the fence he was on coming out of college.

Nothing at all to do with the Patriots or Panthers for Carruth, but they basically said that the video coming to light this week (when we all knew pretty much exactly what happened beforehand anyway) was the equivalent to it coming to light that Hernandez had been involved in many murders, or that Carruth had (and watched) a woman murdered who was 8 months pregnant with his child.

BKWDR

No graphic at the start of the thread, this wouldn't have happened if Corv was doing it...

*sigh*

PokeHerKing

Late to the party but..:

Miami at Buffalo
Atlanta at Cincinnati
New Orleans at Cleveland
Dallas at Tennessee
New England at Minnesota
Arizona at NY Giants
Jacksonville at Washington
Detroit at Carolina
Seattle at San Diego
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
Kansas City at Denver
NY Jets at Green Bay
Houston at Oakland
Chicago at San Francisco
Philadelphia at Indianapolis

Billy86

FreeOSCAR wrote: »

Big Ben gets the fap treatment a lot from NFL Media but he was just horrible last night. Very soft calls against the Steelers from Hochuli and his crew last night the Ravens still whooped their butts without even being at their best themselves.

I think saying the Ravens "whooped" the Steelers is an exaggeration. They pulled away in the last 20 minutes or so, but we're clinging on at times and those penalties that went in their favour were a huge benefit. Punting with less than 10 minutes left and a 17 point deficit was also a terrible decision by Tomlin.

Especially on the back of the Ray Rice affair, I thought the game seemed to lack some of the usual intensity when these two play, though. Could have been due to it being so early in the season, but at times the atmosphere was just kind of dead.

Billy86

Also decided to get NFL Game pass and it's pretty good alright (though it's not cheap!), but again it reminded me just how remarkably stupid American coverage of their own sport can be, at least some of the mainstream stuff.

Most of the half time discussion was literally just Deion Sanders shouting "woo boy, dats my Ravens don't go sleeping on Joe Flacco, Joe knows Baby! Whoo Ravens!" while Bill Cowher was sat next to him shouting "steelers buddy, d line baby! 3 and out here we come! Yeah! Woo! Steelers"

Just remarkably brain dead stuff.

BKWDR

Billy86 wrote: »

Also decided to get NFL Game pass and it's pretty good alright (though it's not cheap!), but again it reminded me just how remarkably stupid American coverage of their own sport can be, at least some of the mainstream stuff.

Most of the half time discussion was literally just Deion Sanders shouting "woo boy, dats my Ravens don't go sleeping on Joe Flacco, Joe knows Baby! Whoo Ravens!" while Bill Cowher was sat next to him shouting "steelers buddy, d line baby! 3 and out here we come! Yeah! Woo! Steelers"

Just remarkably brain dead stuff.

Sure that's half the craic with it...makes us Irish feel normal..although it's hard after to watch George Hamilton give commentary on a 0-0 Rep of Ireland match after...

Son Of A Vidic

BKWDR wrote: »

No graphic at the start of the thread, this wouldn't have happened if Corv was doing it...

*sigh*

Standards are slipping alright, I'll probably have to come out of retirement.....:pac:

Billy86

BKWDR wrote: »

Sure that's half the craic with it...makes us Irish feel normal..although it's hard after to watch George Hamilton give commentary on a 0-0 Rep of Ireland match after...

It's not the commentary on talking about though, most NFL commentary teams are pretty solid. It's just odd that the pre/post/in game analysis from the likes of Mike Carlson on channel 4 and Jeff Reinebold on Sky a solution wipe the floor with most of what the American channels themselves show.

It's probably more to do with the doctor that a lot more people who own home in there do do casually, while here most viewers are more dedicated (sure we're up until 5am some mornings to watch it), but it's just remarkable how childishly they cover the sport. Rod Woodson comes over like that quite often in American programming too, but he was on the BBC for the Superbowl a few years back and was brilliant at breaking things down, so I guess that backs it up a fair bit also.

spiritcrusher

Sky's analysis can vary a bit depending on who they have. For example if Cecil is th-BOOM!! HE JUST GOT HIT! AAWW BABY!
"What have they got to do in the second half to get back in the game Cecil?"
"Well lemme tell you that D needs to STEP UP and then they need to stop throwing interceptions and make some plays on offence"
No shit Cecil.

Billy86

It is painful how much he plays it up (he's quite good at talking about fullback play though I guess). I also really miss Nick Halling, thought he was always quite underrated.

UnitedIrishman

Meant to ask, maybe it was just stream I was watching, but how come the Sky commentary lads weren't on last night? I had a Sky Sports 2 stream and it was the American coverage for the night.

Masked Man

Probably just easier and/or cheaper to get the CBS coverage, looks like it'll be that way for the rest of the season.

Billy86

I doubt they get many tuning in at 1.30am on a Thursday night to be honest, so no point paying any of their guys to come in and cover it. I think Europsport do the same for the Monday games. Channel 4 probably get away with having analysts in because it's a very minimalist approach they take and there is likely a spill over of people who are up later from sleeping in a bit on Sunday, and want to get some more before going to sleep in having been watching the games from 6 on (and likely having a few beverages during them).