NFL News and Notes 2024 Season
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Anyone attending either game and already paid for airline tickets and hotel rooms.
Just for fun, here are the current #2 QBs for teams who'd make the playoffs if the season ended today:
KC: Carson Wentz
Buffalo: Mitch Trubisky
Steelers: Justin Fields
Ravens: Josh Johnson
Texans: Davis Mills
Denver: Our boy Stidham
Lions: Hendon Hooker
Eagles: Kenny Pickett
Commies: Marcus Mariota
Cardinals: Clayton Tune
Packers: Malik Willis
Falcons: Michael Penix
Vikings: Nick Mullens
The Ravens seem like a perfect fit for Jones given that they have the corpse of Josh Johnson as their QB2. I think Jones is probably a better bet than Trubisky or Pickett, too.
I wouldn't call it a perfect fit with Jones trying to run that offense. I can't see that happening.
Seems like the Patriots should have been in on him no? Perhaps he just only wanted to play for a contender.
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We did reportedly kick the tires on him a few weeks ago.
Hard to say what he'll be able to offer 11 months after an ACL injury and not having practiced with an NFL team for nearly a full year. He might not really see significant snaps for a while. Beyond his own preferences, I can see why he would make more sense for a contending team for which he might make a difference in the playoffs.
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Yeah Humphries doesn't make a lot of sense for either side...hes probably not going to be ready for a couple weeks, which means 3-4 games tops for the Patriots. Better off continuing to develop young guys (hopefully Wallace back around the the same time).. And he's going to want a playoff team to showcase more games before FA
He wouldn't be playing today. They worked him out weeks back because if they got him for a real period of time, worth a look, but I would guess the earliest he's game ready is week 14, since the Pats have a bye that means week 15, and you're looking at 3 gamesYeah much better to see how many penalties Lowe can rack up on a single game.
He had made it pretty clear pre-season that this was going to be his final year. His statements since Sunday seem to indicate he may give it another go, but I'll be surprised.
Smart choice by DJ. Darnold could always blow up, and it is the site of the playoff win that got him the bag from the Giants.
Counter: It’s nearly December and he is moving to Minnesota. Dolphins don’t need a backup?
Seems like a good fit for Jones, insofar as it gives him a head start on finding a 2025 landing spot. Darnold won’t be back in Minnesota and they’ll need someone to bridge to McCarthy.
Jones signed to the Vikings practice squad so he still has the flexibility to sign somewhere else if an injury pops up to a playoff team.
Danny Amendola finished fifth after finishing with this
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaPLpdXEIPA
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaPLpdXEIPA
A solid 15 years or so after BB started advocating for fixed cameras. Good job NFL.
http://amp.awfulannouncing.com/nfl/boundary-cameras-all-stadiums-end-of-2024.html
http://amp.awfulannouncing.com/nfl/boundary-cameras-all-stadiums-end-of-2024.html
Shameful list of franchises that don’t have them. Giants, Chargers or Rams, Jacksonville, Tampa Bay, Miami.
And of course the NFL has this bizarre double standard
So depending on if it happened outside the windows of automatic official initiated reviews, you can be up to the whim of whether the official decides to expedite review it.
I think this wins the award for most NFL thing ever. It's the most absurd rule. Just when you think they couldn't get any dumber...
It’s so stupid. We’ve seen the same issues for years where the shittier games have half the cameras as SNF or the Game of the Week, but they can use all those cameras.
Making calls in one game "less correct" because other stadiums don't have the cameras is pretty fucking dumb.
Soccer has a similar rule--some stadiums in CONCACAF don't have ability to have VAR so, in some tourneys, it's not used at all, even if other stadiums have it.
Soccer has a similar rule--some stadiums in CONCACAF don't have ability to have VAR so, in some tourneys, it's not used at all, even if other stadiums have it.
But here the NFL is saying if a coach challenges it, we can't use it. However if it's an official challenge it can be used. It would make more sense to make it blanket no one uses it. Yet the NFL gets it wrong again.
After his bizarre lack of attention at the end of a winnable (or at least tie-able) Lions game, Matt Eberflus has been fired. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/42679835/sources-bears-fire-eberflus-sixth-straight-loss
espn: The San Francisco 49ers will be without their top two running backs for the foreseeable future. Starter Christian McCaffrey will be placed on injured reserve due to a PCL injury in his right knee and top backup Jordan Mason is headed to IR with a high ankle sprain, coach Kyle Shanahan announced Monday.
Maybe this was posted elsewhere, but:
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-coach-demeco-ryans-defends-azeez-al-shaair-after-violent-hit-on-trevor-lawrence/
That is a pretty callous defense by Ryans. I get standing up for your players but yeesh.
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-coach-demeco-ryans-defends-azeez-al-shaair-after-violent-hit-on-trevor-lawrence/
That is a pretty callous defense by Ryans. I get standing up for your players but yeesh.
Between this and the bullshit non-apology al-Shaair put out yesterday, the gaslighting is off the charts.
This was a dirty, intentionally dangerous play. He should have been put in ice for the rest of the year.
Way too light. Dumbasses in the league office never cease to amaze with their overall stupidity.
As a first time offender, he would not have gotten 3 games (not 3 weeks, so it takes him through the end of the regular season). But there was a litany of prior infractions with dangerous/reckless plays that led to this. It wasn't Christian Gonzalez coming in late.
Honestly it's more than I expected, it's his first suspension, very few guys get multiple games (or any games) for dirty hits
I'm actually surprised they didn't. Someone else mentioned it in one the BBTL threads, but I also thought this would be the Miles Garrett moment for these kinds of hits. They don't care at all about player safety from a moral/compassion standpoint, but they sure as fuck care about ratings, fantasy interest, and gambling revenue. Having starting QB's getting knocked out for multiple weeks on dirty, needless hits like that can't be good for any of those things. Thought they would set the precedent that these kind of egregious cheap shots are no longer going to be tolerated with this one.
Imagine if this had been Mahomes getting cheap-shotted on a slide and knocked out for the season. Taylor Swift would have killed Al-Shaair herself, and Cris Collinsworth would mop up the blood with a smile.
Instead, it's the oft-injured Lawrence, whose team is basically tanking anyhow. Trev gets to sit home and recoup, knowing he's literally untradable (full NTC, plus an enormous cap hit), and the Jags get to see if Mac has sufficiently rejuvenated as a backup. The NFL can sweep it under the rug.
Not for nothing, but if Stroud had taken that shot it would have been closer to a Mahomes-level crisis than Lawrence. And I am doubtful Ryans would have blamed it on Stroud trying to eke out an extra yard, not getting down enough, or whatever it was.
I absolutely don't doubt that if we were taking about Mahomes, Jackson, Burrow, or Allen here, the suspension would've been significantly longer.
Texans really pushing back on Al-Shaair being dirty. Except he's been in multiple punch situations and cheap shots. He's Burfict for the 20s.
Now the GM is saying the NFL is painting an unfair picture of him. Ummm, their picture is pretty clear.
Now the GM is saying the NFL is painting an unfair picture of him. Ummm, their picture is pretty clear.
I think the fact he led with his forearm into Lawrence's head is what sealed the deal for the suspension. If he had gone for a "wrap up" tackle and hit high, he could have maybe made an argument that it was "football play" gone wrong. Yet the video shows him diving in with his forearm loaded up right at Lawrence so even if Lawrence hadn't slid, it was a complete non-tackle attempt.
Welp, I had heard a decent amount of defense of Azeez Al-Shaair after the incident with Trevor Lawrence but I guess he’s embracing the villain role after his suspension was upheld
Comparing yourself to the joker is certainly a choice.
And the juxtaposition of Allah, the Joker and the middle fingers (the top right and bottom left image) is also a choice one can make…