NFL For Dummies

[Cuenca 'ammer]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/to ... r-AA1q9X91

not an inspiring list that's for sure..

only other option would be a trade for another team's back up somewhere.. bit early in the season though, if we were say 5 weeks plus and a team with a back up back up going nowhere might be tempted....

[bitter-iron-ny]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/to ... r-AA1q9X91

not an inspiring list that's for sure..

only other option would be a trade for another team's back up somewhere.. bit early in the season though, if we were say 5 weeks plus and a team with a back up back up going nowhere might be tempted....

I'd trade them Drew Lock yesterday.

[bitter-iron-ny]

Report: Tua Tagovailoa has “no plans” to retire
By Mike Florio
Published September 15, 2024 09:44 AM

In the aftermath of his latest concussion — officially his third in the NFL but most likely his fourth, at least — Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa eventually will have a decision to make.

Should he keep playing?

Via Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, Tua currently has “no plans” to retire.

That’s fine, but it’s also premature. He has yet to meet with specialists. There’s a chance he won’t be cleared to play again, at all. That would make his plans moot.

Or he could be cleared but, based on the things he’s told when meeting with neurologists and other experts and after talking to his family, he could change his plans.

Also, Tua is barely 60 hours removed from his latest brain injury. The very brain that has made the preliminary decision to not retire is necessarily impaired, unless all concussion symptoms have disappeared in fewer than three days.

So while it’s newsworthy for the NFL’s in-house news service to report that Tua has “no plans” to retire, it’s critical to remember that many factors could change those plans.

Especially since those plans are being formed by a brain that has very recently absorbed its latest concussion.

[WCpete]

Does Tua have a wife and kids? If so, then he probably should call it a day. If not, I still think he should retire but at least if he doesn’t encumber his loved ones with the burden.

[simon hammer]

Take a bow Malik Willis. Returned some great numbers for Green Bay today in the absence of Jordan Love.

[bitter-iron-ny]

Does Tua have a wife and kids? If so, then he probably should call it a day. If not, I still think he should retire but at least if he doesn’t encumber his loved ones with the burden.

Wife Annah, son Ace and daughter Maisey pictured here at Tua's $214m contract signing

[Cuenca 'ammer]

welcome to the NFL Caleb Williams. showed some good stuff but the defensive unit for the Texans was a bit hard for him to handle quite a bit of the time.

tight game to win (yet again, and can't remember how many times I said that last season) running game couldn't get going, OL couldn't protect Stroud but luckily Stroud is Stroud. Collins getting off to another good start, but no run blocking this week and not much pass protection either.

and don't talk about stupid penalties..



combined with the Cowboys getting pummeled by the Saints. Giants lost again, Rodgers won his first game as a Jet. Mahomes relying on a late f.g. lowest yards of his career so far. few surprising results, unsurprisingly..... Baltimore 0-2 !!!!

[WCpete]

That was some feat the Giants pulled off yesterday. Scored 3 td’s, allowed no td’s at all. Lost 21-18. That’s one for the annals.

[bitter-iron-ny]

That was some feat the Giants pulled off yesterday. Scored 3 td’s, allowed no td’s at all. Lost 21-18. That’s one for the annals.

Only second time that has happened in all NFL history, apparently.

Not having a kicker is a great way to lose a game (so is not stopping the run.) Master class in self-serving groupthink by Giant beat reporters, clearly all medical experts, who have decided that the coach should fear for his job because he did not predict that the kicker's lingering groin issue would lead to a pulled hamstring in his other leg, Ask the question once or twice, that's fine. There are always going to be stupid questions in the post-game presser. But I watched it, and they asked the same thing at least 7 different times. Did they think Daboll forgot his answer? Or maybe he will change his mind if he hears the question enough times? So many things to ask him about but why bother...

[WCpete]

And the first time in regulation play.

[Cuenca 'ammer]

@ b-i-ny

I have come to the general conclusion that no matter WHAT the sport, the "reporters" (refuse to call them journalists) are idiots. as you said, and it isn't the first, not will it be the last time, they all ask the same question over and over, hoping the bloke (or woman) they are interviewing will get so exasperated that they will answer the question differently and they can claim an "exclusive."

"why did you play 'x' instead of 'y' ?" "well I thought it would make us a far worse team than if I played 'y' instead."

"why didn't you go for it on 4th and 24 on your own 2 yard line ?"

same as the actual news reporters when interviewing a candidate or similar. it is SO frustrating.

the sideline people who ask stupid questions at h-t when the coaches are coming off the field, their head thinking about the half time talk ahead, the things they need to address etc. do they think the coach is going to come out with some earth shattering revelation as to what went on previously when the world and his brother can see ? after it IS t.v. and not radio. I "could" understand perhaps were it, and we didn't have the previous experience of how ever many minutes being able to see what unfolded.

I honestly think it just keeps people employed. and it annoys the piss out of me... and offers no insight at all. it's no surprise that every now and again one of the head coaches gets snappy.....

[WHU Independent]

say it quietly.

Hawks 2-0 and playing quite well.

[bitter-iron-ny]

@ b-i-ny

I have come to the general conclusion that no matter WHAT the sport, the "reporters" (refuse to call them journalists) are idiots. as you said, and it isn't the first, not will it be the last time, they all ask the same question over and over, hoping the bloke (or woman) they are interviewing will get so exasperated that they will answer the question differently and they can claim an "exclusive."

"why did you play 'x' instead of 'y' ?" "well I thought it would make us a far worse team than if I played 'y' instead."

"why didn't you go for it on 4th and 24 on your own 2 yard line ?"

same as the actual news reporters when interviewing a candidate or similar. it is SO frustrating.

the sideline people who ask stupid questions at h-t when the coaches are coming off the field, their head thinking about the half time talk ahead, the things they need to address etc. do they think the coach is going to come out with some earth shattering revelation as to what went on previously when the world and his brother can see ? after it IS t.v. and not radio. I "could" understand perhaps were it, and we didn't have the previous experience of how ever many minutes being able to see what unfolded.

I honestly think it just keeps people employed. and it annoys the piss out of me... and offers no insight at all. it's no surprise that every now and again one of the head coaches gets snappy.....

There's two elements to the bad coverage. The during the game stuff, I guess it gets dumbed down to drawn in the fabled "casual fan", the hypothetical ones that are on the cusp of spending money to follow their team, if only the game is explained to them in less complicated, more emotional terms. We get told that somehow mouthpieces like "Hollerin" Kevin Harlan or that marble-mouthed chucklehead Cris Collinsworth add to the experience. Just like the eye candy on the sidelines asking dumb questions to the coaches during the game, it doesn't help.

It's the after/between the game stuff that is the worst. Please don't ever post anything from fansided ever again, it's one of countless sites that manufacture football content out of rumor and creative imagination. They have no sources. They have no real experience playing the game, let alone coaching it on high level. It's just idiotic musings from wannabe sports writers just out of college who are still calling their parents' basement home.

[Bend it like Repka]

I find it staggering that for a sport as meticulously planned as American football a team can only have 1 guy capable of kicking points. Why would your punter not be capable of a least 30 yd field goals?

Madness

[Cuenca 'ammer]

I find it staggering that for a sport as meticulously planned as American football a team can only have 1 guy capable of kicking points. Why would your punter not be capable of a least 30 yd field goals?

Madness

our f.g. kicker was injured for a slew of games last season. our FB kicked, I think it was, about a 40 yarder to win the game !!!!

[Supreme]

Chiefs getting bailed out by the refs again in our game against them last week. Got to keep the Mahomes and Taylor Swift love in going eh? PI call at the end that basically gives them the win is complete BS

And no chance Tua retires thus giving up his multi-million contract

[Denzil]

Chiefs getting bailed out by the refs again in our game against them last week. Got to keep the Mahomes and Taylor Swift love in going eh? PI call at the end that basically gives them the win is complete BS

And no chance Tua retires thus giving up his multi-million contract

Some Chiefs calls have seemed suss but you can't run through his back before the ball gets there and complain that a flag has been thrown. The lack of blame he's getting for that is crazy. He cost you the game with that.

Re Tua. He won't give it up if a doctor retires him as a career ending injury. I agree with you though, he ain't retiring.

[bitter-iron-ny]

Re Tua. He won't give it up if a doctor retires him as a career ending injury. I agree with you though, he ain't retiring.

If a League-approved doctor (not a personal one or a team-affiliated one) doesn't clear him, then he gets paid via settlement and the Fish get to move on. Where it could get sticky is if he was cleared and didn't want to play. Agree that the latter is unlikely.

[Cuenca 'ammer]

if a doctor says he isn't fit to play, then presumably he can't play or if he did and something happened the insurance pay out wouldn't click in ?

so if a doctor says he isn't fit, then he HAS to retire, presumably he gets the guaranteed money ? and the Dolphins get money back from the insurance people ?

[Loftyhammer]

Koonce out for season for Raiders apparently. Big blow