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The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V2

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  • #602
    raze_them_all_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭raze_them_all_


    Clementine Scary String wrote: »
    My bad it's late

    tis no bothers! Tis some beastly kick. Longest was in 1969, 98 yards jets at broncos apparently

    http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24754566/just-because-heres-the-longest-nfl-punt-in-history


  • #603
    phatkev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,645 ✭✭✭phatkev


    Wilforks t-shirt game is strong

    CHojcBKVEAEYLL1.jpg:large


  • #604
    Knex*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,475 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    How do you throw that deep ball against the wind like that? Insane!


  • #605
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,829 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Shonn Greene cut, not surprised one bit


  • #606
    Adamcp898
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    CFL starts back in twenty minutes or so if anyone is remotely interested.


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  • #607
    Beefy78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    Does the CFL have any coverage in Europe?


  • #608
    Knex*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,475 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    Pryor changing positions to Wide Receiver, apparently.


  • #609
    Shedite27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭Shedite27


    Knex. wrote: »
    Pryor changing positions to Wide Receiver, apparently.
    Read that this morning. All I could think was he's gone from a Free Agent QB to a Free Agent WR. Might as well call himself a lineman!


  • #610
    Paully D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,710 ✭✭✭✭Paully D


    This is really interesting from Doug Farrar at Sports Illustrated. Too many images etc to copy the whole thing over, but it's worth the click and read.

    "Grading Evan Mathis' 2014 Tape With.....Evan Mathis":

    http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/06/19/evan-mathis-contract-eagles-offseason-chip-kelly


  • #611
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,781 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Adamcp898 wrote: »
    CFL starts back in twenty minutes or so if anyone is remotely interested.

    Canadian football is just wrong to me.


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  • #612
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    I'm torn... I've moved to Toronto a few months ago and only live about a 20 minute walk from Rogers stadium (Argonauts home). But on the other hand, Hamilton is a 60-90 minute drive away and Jeff f'n Reinebold!!


  • #613
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Knex. wrote: »
    Pryor changing positions to Wide Receiver, apparently.

    6'5"
    235lbs
    4.4 40 time

    He'll get a tryout somewhere.


  • #614
    Soyokakano
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 59 ✭✭Soyokakano


    I've tried to get into this sport, and I think I would be able to if there wasn't so many stoppages. I looked it up and found that an average professional football game lasts 3 hours and 12 minutes, but if you tally up the time when the ball is actually in play, the action amounts to a mere 11 minutes. This is what kills it for me.


  • #615
    Beefy78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    But that is the game.... It's short bursts of high intensity action and lots of strategy.

    I'm new to the sport but when it clicks and you start to get it it really is great.


  • #616
    raze_them_all_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭raze_them_all_


    Soyokakano wrote: »
    I've tried to get into this sport, and I think I would be able to if there wasn't so many stoppages. I looked it up and found that an average professional football game lasts 3 hours and 12 minutes, but if you tally up the time when the ball is actually in play, the action amounts to a mere 11 minutes. This is what kills it for me.

    closer to 24 mins nowdays.
    Think of it like sprinting the 100m but with lads trying to smash the bolox out of each other. It's fast and violent but with a **** load of skill and athleticism


  • #617
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Soyokakano wrote: »
    I've tried to get into this sport, and I think I would be able to if there wasn't so many stoppages. I looked it up and found that an average professional football game lasts 3 hours and 12 minutes, but if you tally up the time when the ball is actually in play, the action amounts to a mere 11 minutes. This is what kills it for me.

    It sounds silly, but one of the best ways to get into the sport is if you play Madden on the Xbox or playstation for a while. It's a sport with a very steep initial learning curve, but also a very gradual learning curve after that. Basically, when the QB is at the line shouting stuff it can be boring for a lot of people, but when you know what they are up to, it can be really enthralling watching each side change shape over and over, trying to get good match ups. It's a huge, huge reason why Peyton Manning is regarded as one of the best ever, especially for his tien with the Colts, where he would spend right up to the last second of every play it seemed, getting his offense set up correctly.

    Truth is without all that delaying there are extremely few teams who could operate as effectively as they do and the plays would be a lot less organised.


  • #618
    Soyokakano
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 59 ✭✭Soyokakano


    Billy86 wrote: »
    It sounds silly, but one of the best ways to get into the sport is if you play Madden on the Xbox or playstation for a while. It's a sport with a very steep initial learning curve, but also a very gradual learning curve after that. Basically, when the QB is at the line shouting stuff it can be boring for a lot of people, but when you know what they are up to, it can be really enthralling watching each side change shape over and over, trying to get good match ups. It's a huge, huge reason why Peyton Manning is regarded as one of the best ever, especially for his tien with the Colts, where he would spend right up to the last second of every play it seemed, getting his offense set up correctly.

    Truth is without all that delaying there are extremely few teams who could operate as effectively as they do and the plays would be a lot less organised.

    I play the video games and they are fun to play. You are right its a good way to learn the rules, teams and players. But then when I watch it on TV, I get board after a few minutes and have usually tuned out by the end of the 1st quarter


  • #619
    Soyokakano
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 59 ✭✭Soyokakano


    raze_them_all_ wrote: »
    closer to 24 mins nowdays.
    Think of it like sprinting the 100m but with lads trying to smash the bolox out of each other. It's fast and violent but with a **** load of skill and athleticism

    I appreciate they are skilled athletes. I don't have a problem with the actually game play.
    Its the long drawn out games with stoppage after stoppage that gets on my nerves
    No disrespect to players and fans of the sport.


  • #620
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Soyokakano wrote: »
    I play the video games and they are fun to play. You are right its a good way to learn the rules, teams and players. But then when I watch it on TV, I get board after a few minutes and have usually tuned out by the end of the 1st quarter

    One games can get like that I guess, I had the good fortune of my first two games both being high scoring OT thrillers. But if it really is a deal breaker for you, you should watch RedZone. It's basically like MOTD type highlights of games, as they happen. It's probably about 75% ball-in-action and has NO ads!


  • #621
    Luciano Embarrassed Drummer
    Posts: 10,091 ✭✭✭✭ Luciano Embarrassed Drummer


    Soyokakano wrote: »
    I appreciate they are skilled athletes. I don't have a problem with the actually game play.
    Its the long drawn out games with stoppage after stoppage that gets on my nerves
    No disrespect to players and fans of the sport.
    If you buy nfl gamepass (it is a bit pricy I your not planning on watching a lot of games) you can watch games afterwords without any breaks just play after play


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  • #622
    raze_them_all_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭raze_them_all_


    Soyokakano wrote: »
    I appreciate they are skilled athletes. I don't have a problem with the actually game play.
    Its the long drawn out games with stoppage after stoppage that gets on my nerves
    No disrespect to players and fans of the sport.

    Beer-Group-VDG.png


  • #623
    paulie21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,335 ✭✭✭✭paulie21


    Undrafted owned by Wes Welker won the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Ascot today


  • #624
    Paully D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,710 ✭✭✭✭Paully D


    paulie21 wrote: »
    Undrafted owned by Wes Welker won the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Ascot today

    14/1 too. Nice.


  • #625
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Hopefully Welker was on hand to make it rain, give hugs and backbreakers, ask for a few litres of water, and introduce the crowds to his two friends Molly and Mandy. :pac:


  • #626
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    Somebody just recognised Saints Junior Galette in a video of a fight uploaded in 2013 where he hits a women who is coming at him with a belt.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeYCVSVadhk


    Cue Goodell to investigate, give a way over the top suspension that can't be legally enforced and have the ruling overturned in court with Goodell looking incompetent again.


  • #627
    Augme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,629 ✭✭✭Augme


    The highlight of this has to be his lawyer coming out and claiming it wasn't him. He should have checked him instagram account first.

    http://imgur.com/ahSOHbX

    http://imgur.com/RkXMaQM


  • #628
    JaMarcusHustle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭JaMarcusHustle


    The fact that he hit a woman with his belt shouldn't be a factor in this at all, or at least I hope it isn't. She was a willing participant in the brawl, she actually made it all kick off again when it looked like it was dying down by approaching him in a confrontational manner.

    Of course, "Saints linebacker hits woman with belt" attracts more clicks than "Saints linebacker hits attacker with belt".

    Tbh, to me it looks like he's defending himself for the first half of the video. He gets involved again at the end because his friend (the guy with the dreads and blue top in the picture Augme posted) is getting attacked again.

    Also, I don't know whether Goodell has the authority to do so, but the person holding the camera needs to be fined for filming in portrait.


  • #629
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    JaMarcusHustle wrote: »
    Also, I don't know whether Goodell has the authority to do so, but the person holding the camera needs to be fined for filming in portrait.
    In their defense, at leas they didn't turn the camera towards themselves and stare blankly/creepily into it, or start screaming "shout out to [insert 48 names here], World Star Hhhhiiiiiippppp Hhhhoooppp!!"


  • #630
    Paully D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,710 ✭✭✭✭Paully D


    JaMarcusHustle wrote: »
    The fact that he hit a woman with his belt shouldn't be a factor in this at all, or at least I hope it isn't. She was a willing participant in the brawl, she actually made it all kick off again when it looked like it was dying down by approaching him in a confrontational manner.

    Completely agree.

    As a wise man once said to me - "if she wants to act like a man, let her be treated like a man" :pac:


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  • #631
    Paully D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,710 ✭✭✭✭Paully D


    Can anyone recommend some good podcasts to help get me through my daily run please lads? I've been enjoying the Ross Tucker podcast lately and some of the SB Nation ones are/were quite good especially during draft time, any others? :)


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