Week 4 Gamethread

timelysarcasm

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You could put a card board cut out back there and with that defense, they'd be 4-0. They scored 14 points today off of two INT's by Talib, their defense sets up the offense, which is a great combination.

The road to the Super Bowl looks like it will go through Denver as annoying to me as that is, 0-4 there all time in the playoffs for the Patriots does not bode well.
There's way too much season left to say that. The Patriots have improved their team this year, and were a few crap breaks away from winning in Denver. That streak has to go sometime. I like what I see from the OL already and our offense has the chance to be truly ridiculous when everyone is in there contributing. Denver is good, but we'll see. Maybe I'm nuts, but fearing them seems a stretch.
 

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Edelman re-broke his foot early that game last year, as well, and was basically non-existent after that. I think Denver is going to get the one seed, looking at the schedules, but I would give the Pats a solid shot. Assuming health, which is a big assumption for anyone at this point.
 

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Edelman re-broke his foot early that game last year, as well, and was basically non-existent after that. I think Denver is going to get the one seed, looking at the schedules, but I would give the Pats a solid shot. Assuming health, which is a big assumption for anyone at this point.
That's where I'm at. Dreaming of Bennett/Gronk running wild. Anyway, hopefully we get lucky health-wise this year. We were not lucky at all last year with Edelman and Dion Lewis suffering significant injuries.
 

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Yeah you can be in meetings if you are suspended under the substance abuse policy (not sure about the indefinite ones though)
 

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One of those kids in the Play 60 commercial clearly leaves the line of scrimmage early. NFL can't even catch penalties in their own commercials.
 

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There's way too much season left to say that. The Patriots have improved their team this year, and were a few crap breaks away from winning in Denver. That streak has to go sometime. I like what I see from the OL already and our offense has the chance to be truly ridiculous when everyone is in there contributing. Denver is good, but we'll see. Maybe I'm nuts, but fearing them seems a stretch.
You're no more nuts than the many folks who kept saying that it didn't matter if that Pats lost out last year, they didn't fear Denver in Denver.

That's not really insanity, just denial. 0-4 is 0-4, regardless of how it gets explained away.
 

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The Steelers getting a bunch of luck in this quarter is really putting an exclamation point on this day.
 

Kliq

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James Harrison looks like someone that could pass an honest drug test.
 

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You're no more nuts than the many folks who kept saying that it didn't matter if that Pats lost out last year, they didn't fear Denver in Denver.

That's not really insanity, just denial. 0-4 is 0-4, regardless of how it gets explained away.
Bingo.

The Broncos have been annoying the shit out of me when the Patriots play Denver in Denver for close to 40 years, specifically in the playoffs.

It's a fumble, a snowstorm, a 100 yard TD off of an interception, a muffed punt, a cheap shot that takes out a star receiver, crowd noise, figuring out the silent snap count. If it's not one thing, it's another. The Broncos have had some loaded teams as well, so credit where credit is due and all that.

I hope it doesn't come to beating Denver in Denver; time will tell.
 

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Did #24 just lose interest in covering his man on that play? That was horrible.
 

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I don't understand how LeVeon Bell is so good. Isn't being too patient supposed to be a bad thing for a RB? That gives times for defenders to get off their blockers. Yet he just glides through the holes.
 

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I hope it doesn't come to beating Denver in Denver; time will tell.
Trying to figure out where the first Denver loss wil come is a bit tricky.

host Falcons
@ Chargers
host Texans
host Chargers

@ Raiders
@Saints
host Chiefs
@ Jaguars

The Raiders, maybe, if they get their defense together.
 

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The Falcons offense is obscene, if their defense plays OK they could steal that.
If it were in Atlanta, I'd agree, particularly if Semien doesn't play (whoever thought that would matter?) In Denver, though, the conditions and the defense stepping up to the challenge of a top-flight offense? Probably closer than I'm thinking, but I don't see it as a win.

After the Jags, the Broncos are @ Tennessee before hosting the Patriots
 

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Nick Foles might have been the starter in Dallas, instead he goes to KC where he can't even get in a game where Alex Smith looks like ass and his team loses by 4 TDs.
 

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Trying to figure out where the first Denver loss wil come is a bit tricky.

host Falcons
@ Chargers
host Texans
host Chargers

@ Raiders
@Saints
host Chiefs
@ Jaguars

The Raiders, maybe, if they get their defense together.
I'll guess at Chargers. The Broncos have enjoyed such great luck and the Chargers such terrible luck that maybe their fortunes reverse for a day. It would be one of those inexplicable games like the one we lost to the Eagles last year.
 

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I was out for most of the day and I'm just getting caught up on most of the day's action right now. Julio Jones...damn what a game. The best way to describe it is like when you see highlights of a 5 star high school recruit just using superior athleticism to clown everyone on the defense. Except it was the NFL.
 

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The league desperately needs the following rule changes:

- excessive celebration turned into a team warning for first offense and then a 10 yard penalty on second offense. Also, clarify what the hell will be called.
- PI turned into a 10 yard penalty and automatic first down. There is a material PI in every game now. Some are well called, some aren't.
- offensive holding is a 5 yard penalty.
 

shoosh77

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The league desperately needs the following rule changes:

- excessive celebration turned into a team warning for first offense and then a 10 yard penalty on second offense. Also, clarify what the hell will be called.
- PI turned into a 10 yard penalty and automatic first down. There is a material PI in every game now. Some are well called, some aren't.
- offensive holding is a 5 yard penalty.
I agree on the PI, although at the end of a game it would get abused. You could go the other way on offensive PI, and move the ball back the distance the def would be penalized (that would be funny).
 

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I love the idea of changing offensive holding to 5 yards. It is a crippling penalty and basically a drive ender. It shouldn't be.