Week 2 NFL thread

Tony Dungy says if Skins lose next week to Detroit, bench RG3 and go with Cousins.

Apologies to our RG3 crew, I like him, but I am loving the idea of Shanahan squirming through this.

 

Does the NFL have a protocol for lightning delays? Just curious.

 

Games used to be played at 1 p.m. by the hosting team's clock. The west coast kickoffs were also 1 p.m. starts, or close to it, when they kicked off. When the Steelers played at home, they played at 1 p.m. They started fucking with this about 8-9 years ago.

We had only one game played at night, Monday night, and only the west coast teams would kickoff around sunset.

Thunderstorms typically form after 4 p.m. or 5 p.m. The NFL was not dumb enough to screw with this years ago.

 

Not true. There have always been plenty of east coast games that started at 4 p.m. And that's not including Denver and Arizona, which would play in the late time slot and kick off at 2 p.m. local time.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season

Every home game outside of Monday night and Thanksgiving is kicked off at 1 p.m. The local time of the other games, outside of the Central Time Zone, would have been kicking off at 3 p.m., which is still better than 4:30.

 

Random observations:

* How in the world did the Panthers not cover Stevie Johnson on that final play?

* How in the world do the refs not flag Brandon Meriweather? Even if he got knocked out with a concussion later, I can't believe the refs wouldn't be able to tell it was blatant helmet-to-helmet contact.

* The final seconds in regulation of Titans-Texans just made me shake my head. First Bullock makes the FG but Mike Munchak ices him. Then he gets it blocked but the guy blocking it is offsides. So Munchak ices Bullock again (and Bullock misses). Then Bullock misses anyway on the final try. I was actually hoping for another Titan penalty so that Munchak could his final time out for another icing.

* Seriously, you all know you want to see a situation in which a coach gets to use all three time outs for the sole purpose of icing the kicker. That's what you call good water cooler talk there.

* I will say that DeAndre Hopkins was a good find for the Texans. Some of those catches were amazing.

* How long will it take before the talk begins about Tom Coughlin's job being in jeopardy?

* I'd ask about Ron Rivera but I think we all knew it would come at some point this season.

* God, were the Broncos racking up the penalties. Personally, I thought the PI calls on DRC were nonsense, as was the flag on Rahim Moore for unnecessary roughness, but the others were correct calls, so that's still eight penalties for 80 yards or so.

 

Haven't seen this talked about, but then I haven't been looking either -- but did anyone say anything about whether that was a pick play and thus possibly offensive PI? Sure looked like it fit that category.

 

Jay Cutler: Winner.

 

Check the Washington at Pittsburgh game on Nov. 24.

Sometimes you make it too easy.

 

Coughlin should never be fired from the Giants. Never.

I was watching Redzone with a friend who missed the field goal that hit the cross bar. She fucked up the DVR and went back 20 minutes instead of two and we spent the next five figuring which fucking field goal attempt was the real one. The time out right before the kick is the most unprofessional, harry high school, bullshit move in almost all of professional sports. It amazes me this shit continues.

 

The games have started at 1 and 4 p.m. Eastern time for at least 25 years, and there's been Sunday night games dating back to 1987 when ESPN begn getting a Sunday night game for the last half of the season. It continued that way till 1997 when Sunday night games went to full-season.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League_regular_season