The NFL Thread

[niko_cee]

Heads have gone.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Stunned Mahomes isn't injured after that.

[niko_cee]

Best outcome for Baltimore there though. Just need to have a proper drive now.

Ugh, punter chose the right time to turn up.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Why throw that?

Game over.

[niko_cee]

Oh dear, start the car.

[Ian]

Awful decision from Jackson you can't do that into triple coverage.

[Foe]

Not over yet, but this game really highlighting just how good mahomes is. That first half was a thing of beauty. Ravens defense stepped up big in the second half though, chiefs haven’t had a sniff and don’t want to do anything risky.

Lamar is such a good athlete but he’s still a long way off being an elite passer. Should’ve been picked earlier too.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was a fucking flag.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The fuck are we doing?

[niko_cee]

I do like that the refs have the discretion to know what is going on and to take action accordingly, although maybe take that away from them by just overstepping and not hammering someone.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fuck :(

[niko_cee]

Cover zero doesn't work.

[Gray Fox]

It can do, but not against MVPat.

[Foe]

Clutch.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Niners or Lions Owl win please.

[niko_cee]

Fuck the Niners, 'mon the Lions.

This Chiefs team is better than the high flying offense version.

[Foe]

I would love a lions win now.

That ravens team was so good this season but just buckled when it mattered. Such a well run organisation. I’m not sure why they didn’t lean into Lamar and his legs. Through a 17 week season you don’t want to do it because he will get too many hit, but in one off playoff and championship games is so tough to defend.

Until he’s does a knee he’s going to continue to be such a menace to NFL defences.

Kelce was unbelievable. Think he retires after the Super Bowl?

[Ben]

Kelce still looks a bit too prime to retire. But it's happened before.

Get your mortgages on KC to win the whole thing. Between Purdy's inexperience and the NFL's desperation to get a picture of Taylor Swift holding the Lombardi, I'd say it's nailed on.

[Gray Fox]

MVPats got a 14-3 record in the post season and is maybe about to win his 3rd ring and he's still 28.

I don't think he could hit Bradys passing records, but his Superbowl count he really could. Though I do think if the Chiefs win you'll see Andy Reid off into the sunset. If that happens Travis will be very tempted to join him and his brother in a happy retirement.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Everyone in MVPAT's "support network" is seemingly a cunt.

[Ben]

I’m not well versed in music these days admittedly but Post Malone performing America the Beautiful is odd right? Pretty good as well.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It is.

Also, I always forget how fucking moronic he looks.

Those teeth alone, fucking hell.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Please let CMC go wild.

[Ian]

Fuck the Chiefs.

Also.Post Malone wasn't good. He can carry a tune but only very quietly.

[Baz]

Some big controversy around the length of the national anthem is really overshadowing the Super Bowl among my betting group chat :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fuck sake.

Don't do this to me.

[Dan]

Game over :harold:

[Gray Fox]

'mon Chiefs.

Big Red off into the sunset.

[Gray Fox]

This is also a great example of the two stages of roster development. Chiefs have the mega QB and decent defence but have to sacrifice at WR because they can't afford it.
49ers meanwhile have Purdy on next to nothing and because of this the other skill positions are all stacked.

[Dan]

This is also a great example of the two stages of roster development. Chiefs have the mega QB and decent defence but have to sacrifice at WR because they can't afford it.
49ers meanwhile have Purdy on next to nothing and because of this the other skill positions are all stacked.

This is a huge part of why the Bears are almost certainly going to take Caleb Williams at 1. Why have a top 20-25 QB on £40m a year when you can get one who could potentially be a top 5 guy on a rookie deal? Even if he busts it opens up space for you to build the team up for the next guy.

[Gray Fox]

Another example is the Eagles having to give up several players after paying Hurts.

I think Fields does deserve that shit somewhere else. Maybe New England? I actually think Atlanta could do a lot worse. That's if the twitter talk that Caleb has told the Bears not to draft him is false.

Could well have another 2-3 years of this 49ers team too.

[Spikey M]

Every year I try to watch this, and every year I get annoyed by it. Just play the fucking game. Just throw the ball. You don't need headphones and tablets every 30 seconds, you utter 'spergs.

[Shindig]

Yep. It's why I wait for the highlights in the morning.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fucking hell a DJ.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Niners defence is looking SPICY tonight.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was a scary fucking play.

[igor_balis]

Petulance like that is annoying in football, but the way the fouls work in NFL, it's unbelievable stupidity to do what the KC bloke did for the 15 yard foul. What a spaz.

[Dan]

Not exactly the first half I was expecting. Gotta love seeing Jauan Jennings throw the only TD of the game so far though.

[Ben]

Usher :cool:

[Dan]

I never gave a shit about Usher back in the day so that did basically nothing for me, even without the dodgy sound.

[igor_balis]

Oh fuck off

[Ben]

Kyle choking again. This is it.

[Gray Fox]

Twice Shanahan has played Mahomes in the big game and twice Mahomes has done nothing for 3 quarters.

Needs a long hard look in the mirror if they don't come back to win this.

[Gray Fox]

Absolutely glorious. Get fucked San Fran.

[Dan]

Really happy to see Mecole Hardman win the game. Great player, I’ve always said it.

[Ian]

Every year I try to watch this, and every year I get annoyed by it. Just play the fucking game. Just throw the ball. You don't need headphones and tablets every 30 seconds, you utter 'spergs.

If only there was a way to not watch it?


Fuck the Chiefs

Bears repeating.

[Spikey M]

If only there was a way to not watch it?





It's entirely your choice, but I would recommend NOT turning into Phonics.

[phonics]

Yeah, being the guy who tells people the thing they like is shit is much cooler than being phonics.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Woke up this morning to clips of a man claiming to have 'overcome adversity' by winning a football trophy while banging Taylor Swift. Sportsman-brain is so strange.

[Spikey M]

Yeah, being the guy who tells people the thing they like is shit is much cooler than being phonics.

Don't express opinions. Gotcha.

[Manc]

Did America win?

[Ian]

By all means dislike it. It's weird and bitty and honestly the Super Bowl is probably the worst way to try and get anything out of it because it's all the stuff you probably don't like about it but amplified. But if you're getting annoyed by it every year then save yourself the bother and spend the time doing something you might actually like rather than something you can probably be fairly certain you won't.


Woke up this morning to clips of a man claiming to have 'overcome adversity' by winning a football trophy while banging Taylor Swift. Sportsman-brain is so strange.

To be fair if he'd been doing both simultaneously that would have been quite a feat.

And it would have sent that bloke who wanted to sue the NFL because Shakira's bum gave him a stiffy over the edge.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You knew the Chiefs were winning as soon as it went to OT.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Shanahan fucked it hard by not running it nearly enough in the second half.

[Gray Fox]

Did America win?

America always wins. World* Champs.

Shanahan definitely blew the game by trying to make it about Purdy. The kid is good, but CMC was gashing them up for 5+ yards a touch. Put it on his back and run him into the ground. Chiefs defence was gassed leading up to OT and during. Obviously the injuries didn't help, but the Chiefs were begging to give them the ball over in the first half. Game should have been gone by then.

A big lesson he needs to learn is if you have a GOAT level QB on the other team, going for 3 points and giving him the ball back just isn't going to cut it. He's just dragged a team of nobodies and Taylor Swifts angry boyfriend to another title without any of them doing much for him.

[phonics]

https://i.imgur.com/Jcjyld2.png

[niko_cee]

Managed to somehow avoid the result all day, got in, saw the Sky NFL channel had a scheduled full match replay on from 8-12, was in about 9 so thought it would be better to watch it that way and suck up a missed quarter or whatever than in highlights, which are shit. 9pm, 1 hour into a 4 hour programme, what do I see when I turn it on? 19-19 and over time just kicking off. Death to the schedulers.

[Gray Fox]

To be fair, the first 3 quarters were the Chiefs pretending to be bad and having to watch Usher on roller skates.

[Ben]

Don't you dare disrespect my man. He actually had the balls to sing live rather than lip sync and did a lot of dancing too. Like him or not, you've got to give him props for committing himself to it and not taking the coward's way out like most of them do.

[Gray Fox]

I will give him all of his respect back and then some for cuddling up to Alicia Keys. The man saw his chance and took it.

[Gray Fox]

Some great ones in here.

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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That is stunning.

[phonics]

Cam Newton being attacked 3 v 1 and not even losing his hat is such king shit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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The Texans are looking pretty damn good right now.

[phonics]

He seems like a massive prick.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Almost certainly, although I imagine most NFL players are (hello Rashee Rice).

Bills are taking a $31.1m dead cap hit for the trade which is quite telling, they really don't want him there.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Jesus wept.

[Ian]

The man is a loon.

[Shindig]

Concussions are one hell of a drug.

[Ian]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr/24/strange-nfl-draft-moments

Some.good stuff in here.

[Dan]

You’ll never guess who went first overall in the draft.

[Dan]

Falcons with the bracket buster.

[Ben]

Pretty much every team in the top 10 selected a QB, except NYG who are sticking with Jones. :D

[Gray Fox]

Record set for consecutive picks on one side of the ball. Record set for longest time into the draft before a defensive player was picked. Record set for QBs taken in the top 10 and top 12.

Basically if you had a need for defence but didnt pick until the late teens or 20's then you lucked out.

There were a couple of head scratchers in there though. Penix to Atlanta doesn't make a lot of sense for the capital involved. They could have moved back at least once or twice and still picked him up. He'll also be 28 if Cousins does play all of that deal he signed literally last month too. They have a talented young offence that was being held back by poor QB play and bad coaching. Both of those were fixed in the off season. You had the chance to do whatever you wanted with this pick and still got it wrong.

Bowers the other strange one. No idea if the Raiders tried to get into the QB party room but got stopped at the door, but this team had a lot of needs. They also just took a big pass catching TE in R2 last year. Either they think he's shit or they don't know what they're doing.

49ers have been touting Deebo and moreso the unhappy Aiyuk according to reporters, so to see them take WR here suggests to me one of them may well move on.

Eagles went into the draft needing some serious CB help. I was expecting Howie to have to trade into the mid-early teens to get the guy he wanted. Turns out we didnt move at all and at #22 still had every CB still on the board to take a pick of.

[Ian]

I'm seeing mixed things about Nix but i was worried we were gonna spunk a load more picks on trading up and it sounds like Payron genuinely likes him so I guess I'll just cross my fingers and hope for the best.

[Gray Fox]

Talk on Twitter was that Payton was going to take Mahomes back in the day(even had the name down on the card ready to turn in) but the Chiefs sniped him. He supposedly likes Bo as much as Mahomes.

As for the Chiefs, This is their 3rd shot at trying to take the next Tyreek. One of them has to land eventually right?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nuts that the Bills would trade with them.

[Dan]

Supposedly the Raiders, Seahawks & Saints were all trying to trade up for Penix, so seems like Atlanta wouldn’t have been able to have moved back & still got him.

It’s definitely weird considering the contract they have Kirk about a month ago, but they do have half of the Saints old back office so of course they’re pissing money & picks everywhere.

As for Nix, I doubt he’ll be a star, but he should be a better option in day one than Jarrett Stidham & Zach Wilson. Not sure it’ll be the most explosive offense, but Payton will be able to craft a system for him so he could settle in around the borderline of acceptable & solid.

Mayer & Bowers is going to be a better version of the Bills having Knox & Kincaid. Mayer will do the boring stuff underneath & Bowers will do the fun stuff from the slot or the backfield.

In general I’d say it’s a pretty solid job all round, with Penix being by far the strangest pick. Most of the OL picks seem like they should work out alright, and even if we end up with 10 good players from the 32 picks I think you can at least get what most teams were going for.

[Ben]

Just seen Panthers wasted a pick to trade up one spot to get a guy they would have got anyway with pick 33 tonight. :D

[niko_cee]

How is this Penix person having his name said as, from the outside, it looks like that name has plenty of lol potential.

[Dan]

How is this Penix person having his name said as, from the outside, it looks like that name has plenty of lol potential.

Pen-icks

[niko_cee]

Was hoping for pee-nix, unless his first name is Denix.

[Gray Fox]

Was hoping for pee-nix, unless his first name is Denix.

https://i.imgflip.com/1j2n7d.jpg

[Ian]

Well sure, he's gonna say it's Pen-icks.

Big Hyacinth energy.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Penis ahoy.

[Foe]

Kirk must be pissed.

The falcons organisation doing the tinder talk the world and then ghost after the pump. Only they’ve done it with 2 or 3 years of awkward interactions.

Kirk could’ve just stayed in Minnesota at this point. Be good if he just says fuck it, I’ll be QB2, trade me.

[Gray Fox]

Maybe they took Penix at the right time for getting him in the draft, but looking at their team, you have 3 big name offensive guys. Drake London is still only 22, Bijan was underused last year and Pitts(still 23 himself) is getting to the point now where he should be ready to show what he's got. You now also have the QB in Cousins to support them.

They could really have made any other pick here and made their current team better. Maybe grab an Odunze and watch the fun on offense, maybe take a tackle and protect your ageing but new QB investment. You had your pick of any defensive player in the draft. You could also have traded back and got even more draft capital down the line.

As someone who saw his team take Jalen Hurts and insist he was a project/backup/gadget guy, this is one injury away from turning ugly.

[Dan]

The worst case scenario here is that they sit Penix for three years while Kirk takes them as far as Kirk takes teams, then they make the switch & Penix immediately has his third torn ACL & ends up being 29 before he’s even completed a season of NFL football

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's the dream.

[Ian]

My name of the draft so far is Dominick Puni, because it turns out he is 6'5 and 320lbs.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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[Gray Fox]

Can't say I've ever seen this kid play, but I did see a fair few mock drafts suggesting we take him in R1. So to get him as well as our free choice of CB in day 1 seems alright.

As ever though the whole draft process is just educated guessing. Look at those QBs who went before Mahomes as an example. Eagles drafting Reagor when Jefferson was available.