The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V3

Don't feel too bad, we've all been there.

Interesting that the Texans are such easy competition when Lance arguably performed the best performance against them among the rookie QBs they faced, despite Lance being by far the least experienced.

Lance - 249 yards & 31 rushing, 2 TD, 1 INT

Wilson - 145 yards & 3 rushing (1TD), 0 TD, 1 INT

Jones - 231 yards & 1 rushing, 1 TD, 1 INT

Admittedly, Jones did have a completion rate of 76% vs Lance's 70% but that can be easily explained by Lance trying to push the ball down the field a lot more aggressively - average air yards of 10.6 vs 6.9.

Can't remember his full team but that was the team Tyrod Taylor brought to the play offs so it couldn't be that terrible. Though they did try and sit Allen his first year it was just hard to justify starting Nathan Peterman for that many games (having tried to replace Taylor with Peterman the year before).

Allen who is the player that Kyle said he hoped would come out in 2017 when they had the 2nd pick and who maps incredibly closely with Lance when it comes to background (small school, weak opposition) and traits (big, mobile, tough in the pocket, aggressive, cannon arm, initially not accurate).

Kyle doesn't want a player who is going to be quick to check down - anyone that watches the 49ers regularly could see him losing his mind on the sidelines when Jimmy would check it down and there was a more aggressive throw to be made, especially on 3rd down. Kyle wants to run the hell out of the opposition and then for his QB to be brave and make the aggressive downfield throws when they are there.

I was on the same page as you regarding switching to Lance during last season but can't complain about getting to the NFC Championship. Love Jimmy as a pro but anyone that points to the 49ers win rate and tying it to him is just saying they don't watch 49ers games. I can count on about one hand the amount of games that I could point to and say the team 'won because of Jimmy', most games it was 'won with Jimmy', and many were 'won in spite Jimmy'. Lance will have his ups and downs this season but the bar of QB play he has to meet for the same sort of results isn't that high.

Lance is younger than every QB except for one in the draft that just happened and is currently the age when some of his peers were only starting their first season with their college as QB1. 49ers know he is raw and everything points to them giving him time now to grow.

Late games for most of the season should be the AFC west.

BTW, do sky have any contractual obligations when it comes to showing teams, does every team have to be featured once or twice or anything?

As EE says Sky only have 36 games (18 weeks by 2 a week) where they get to choose so I doubt there's a min quota as it would be too difficult, and would probably be obvious (in much the same way it's an obvious q filler when Sky pick Brighton v Wolves)

I don't recall seeing Houston or Detroit for example in the 6 or 9 Sunday slot last year, but open to being wrong.

Every team gets shown naturally as part of TNF at least once anyway, and usually at least one more via SNF/MNF, Thanksgiving, London etc.

Afaik Sky choose what game they want to show on the Mon/Tue before each gameweek.

I'm basing this off whenever I used to look up the schedule last season to see what games would be geoblocked, I wasn't able to find out until about Mon/Tue. It used to say "Live NFL" or something along those lines until then. They generally always picked the games that likely would have the biggest TV audience (naturally enough).

I stand to be corrected on all that.

Good on him. A lot of money to leave on the table and it must have been tempting to just sign it and move on but he knows that the price is only going to go up if he has a good season

Are Osi and Jason Bell just doing one show a week this season? Used to like their Tuesday night show on BBC, seems to be just a Saturday night thing now that it's moved to ITV/Virgin. Bad time for highlight show to air, far too late after the games happen.

TNF is often like this, because of the rule that every team must be shown once and once only (excluding the opening game & Thanksgiving).

There are some other doozies on the way - pick your fav. Commanders Bears maybe. Or Jets Jags the Thursday before Christmas.

Thursday Night Football schedule for 2022 NFL season - College Football HQ (si.com)

In fairness Steelers and Browns is always going to be a bit chippy so it will have a nice edge to it anyway. And as a Bears fan who really wants Trubisky to succeed, I'll be watching and hoping he shows he can get it done when he's not being coached by an incompetent fool whose main skill is passing the blame onto others.

I was about to turn it on and remembered tnf is only on Amazon prime. I actually have prime but haha no thanks, no way I'm supporting that move.