NFL Week 1: Eagles defend their SB championship

Are they trying to sell PSLs too? Yeah I don't see that.

By the end of this, I think it's likely the Spanos family will have cost themselves somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion by not investing in their own product in San Diego. They're the Trumps of the football world.

 

Chiefs get one on the way to winning a pretty much dog-ass division. Patrick Mahomes might be the real deal, and even if he isn't, he's got a canon for an arm.

If the Chargers had caught, oh, two passes they dropped, might have been a different outcome. I haven't seen so many drops since I last saw J'Mon Moore fumble-fucking his way out of Mizzou eligibility.

 

Los Angeles Chargers Announce First Phase of Season Ticket Membership Sales for LA Stadium at Hollywood Park

 

Is the Chiefs' defense that bad?

Next week should be interesting. The Chiefs have had some ugly losses to the Steelers in recent seasons and this one is in Pittsburgh. One was a blowout and the other two were painful ones when they had a great chance to win.

The Steelers could be facing an 0-1-1 start and I'm guessing they will be without cornerback Joe Haden, who injured his hamstring in the fourth quarter Sunday. The Browns' game-tying drive was basically two long passes that burned Haden's replacement, Cam Sutton, including the touchdown.

 

On Chiefs-Steelers, I wouldn't upgrade the Chiefs too much nor downgrade the Steelers too much. This game is at Pittsburgh. Kansas City stole an opener and they'll be more than fine with opening 1-1 (if that win was in the division). I really don't think you'll get a desperate focus from KC. You WILL from Pittsburgh.

Look, I hate the Steelers but their turnovers were just sloppy and mostly in the rain. They led 21-7 late and blew it at the end, by turnovers and just idiotic decisions.

As good as Mahomes looked in Week 1, I imagine Week 2 -- on the road against an angry Pittsburgh team -- will be more average. I could see Pittsburgh shutting Hill down and KC trailing 17-0 after one. As that point, Reid will shift into keeping Mahomes' confidence up for the home opener.

Still befuddled by the end-game strategy of Nagy. They had a 3rd-and-1 with 2:40 left. GB has no time-outs. One yard and the game is over.

RUN the ball.

Even if you're stuffed and get 4th and 1 at the 2:00 mark, perhaps consider going for the first down AGAIN (and not kicking the field goal).

By kicking the field goal, you give the ball back the Rodgers (23-17 Bears with 1:50 left). Still don't like those odds.

Gain one yard... and you win the game.

 

It's officially football season, OOP is passively aggressively whining about the officials. He doesn't want to blame them, he just brings up what he perceived to be every missed call against his beloved Steelers in every subsequent post.

 

They were terrible and I'm not the only one posting as much. This is really just you obsessing about me again.

 

As noted here and other places, why these teams don't have a quality control manager is beyond stupid.

Belicheck does it, and well. I bet that McVay can do it well. Most of these other guys are IDIOTS

 

Just one specialist - not a 'football guy' but a gameplay analyst. This person is on the field before the game, taking in wind, field wetness and other atmosphere variables.

Then, during the game, the analyst is up with the coordinators. The focus is on time-outs (if I had that job, I'd ban the QB from taking any timeouts if the play clock is about to run out. Take the five yards. Time-outs are gold). The end of game then targets time-out usage, FG positioning, running a clock down, perhaps even scoring too early.

 

Is Aaron Rodgers the LeBron James to Tom Brady’s Michael Jordan?

 

If it is me, he has just one job. Clock/time out management.

 

If the Chargers had just made two less mistakes in each game played in the tenure of Phillip Rivers they would have been more dominant than New England and Brady.