#9

Fairly lucky win for Pittsburgh there. It’s always good when the other team completely miss that they’ve scored a TD. The weather drained the offense out of the game aside for a couple of drives for each team. The Steelers would’ve been properly lost without DeAngelo Williams too.

#10

Like CBS’s new typeface, very clean and stylish

#11

Brilliant stuff from Frank Gore, there

#14

Can someone tell me the best games from last night to watch on gamepass when I get in? No spoiliers please.

Cheers!

#15

Ravens Browns (no, really, I promise) and Redskins Cowboys probably the two I’d go for.

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#16

Mrs HYG made me do a pub quiz last night instead of watching the Lions, I only got to watch the first quarter (up 9-0! Tidy!) and the final drive (Stafford INT to lose the game, nice one). Sounds like a hideous mess start to finish - 29 penalties, and a huge raft of injuries. Like I’m not sure we have any LBs left. I think the Lions were the better team, but that’s not much comfort with Lambeau looming next week.

#17

Lions really felt like the better team last night. Riddick kept on getting shut down in his runs. Despite Marvin Jones getting me 10pts I still feel his hype train has ground to a halt, even when the ball didn’t slip through his butter fingers he took one step and went down. Ebron though, he’s my boy. Whole game was a shocker though, so many fucking fouls.

Gonna watch the Packers game when I get in tonight.

#18

The Lions look so much better than I was expecting. A shame (for you) that they completely Lionsed it up last night, they should have been out of sight. I think they’ll be OK this year, Stafford and Cooter look like they were made for each other.

#19

Last night was the most SOL game I could envision. Three touchdowns written off due to flags… a last minute interception… key players all taken out with niggly injuries… legit calls NOT being made (like the knee hit on Stafford).

I agree that the offence, on a good night, will be really frisky and fun to watch (if Abdullah comes back okay, even the run game is clicking). But the defence is looking very ropey. Shame we have two legitimately good teams in our division.

#20

I’ve been on holiday for 3 weeks. Obviously I have a lot of feelings about the Bridgewater thing but it feels pointless going over it now.

Watched the Vikings Packers game condensed this morning and I’m still all fluttery about it. What Bradford did was so impressive, and far exceeded any expectations I had of him. To do that a week and a half after arriving, you have to give him and Turner/Shurmer a shitload of credit. I don’t feel too bad about the high price they paid for him now.

Stefon Diggs is the truth. He had a quiet second half of the season last year, and I was worried he wasn’t as good as I initially thought. But he is so, so good. Great combination of speed, route-running and savvy, he really is reminiscent of Antonio Brown.

A couple of years ago I would have been in the abyss about Peterson’s injury,but I honestly think this could benefit the offense. McKinnon is so much more versatile and having him start should make them a lot less easy to predict. The O-line needs to sort their shit out for either of them to have success, though.

Anyway, how is everyone.

#21

This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so true:

#22

Can’t argue with that. Didn’t we have a safety playing LB at one point. I think that’s like Arsenal staying in a game despite only having 10 men on the field.

#23

Bradford really impressed me, the 2 week turnaround is pretty amazing. Astounding to think where the Vikes have got to from where they were about when you went on holiday. I still have serious doubts about Bradford’s ability to keep it going week to week, but as a start that’s pretty hard to beat.

#24

Patriots news - Evil Bill is keeping us rolling merrily along, somehow, without Brady or Gronk. Jimmy G was absolutely pasting the Miami D until he got squashed, which is a real shame for him and us. There’s a pretty decent chance that Julian Edelman gets to throw some passes in the next couple of weeks, so there’s that.

#25

The state of The Vikings and Lions is worrying. Not sure how the Bears are going to get a division win

#26

Loved Edelman’s quote when asked if he was ready to step up. “I play receiver for a reason.”

Also, I guess this slightly out of date, but really fascinating: a list of emergency QBs for every team (the player who will play QB if all your actual QBs go down in a game).

#27

The thing I find most interesting about that is the number of pass catchers who used to play QB at college. I would have thought it would be too late to change position by the time you finish college, but it seems like it’s a reasonably regular occurrence. I’d be pretty pissed off if I was a WR coming out of college and a QB got drafted to my position in front of me.

#28

but loads of college schemes have the QB running much more than they pass. Seems that in high school and somewhat in college, some teams just put the best athlete at QB to get them the ball as much as possible, regardless of their passing ability

#29

Yeah, that makes sense for runners, but I’m mainly thinking receivers, I’d have thought route running and catching would be better learned as early as possible. But then again, I know literally fuck all about learning or actually playing football, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

#30

Yeah this was one of the best games of his career, he almost definitely won’t keep it up. He doesn’t need to be that good against most opponents though, the defence looks like a top 5 unit this year and will be able to keep games close. Bradford just needs to not fuck up egregiously and make a few plays a game.

The other thing about Bradford is that he will almost certainly get hurt at some point (he hurt his non-throwing hand last night ffs), so we will have to deal with Shaun Hill again this year.