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Most Training camps officially start this Friday. I figured it was about time to get the dakkadakka football thread up and running.
After the Patriots off-season turmoil I'm looking forward to getting the year started and moving on. Who will be the AFC contenders this year? Baltimore lost a TON of players. The broncos could be losing a huge part of their defense for a 1/4 of the season. The patriots will be without rob gronkowski for a part of the season, and Dennard for some of the season, and of course Hernandez. Could the texans be the power this season again? So many storylines I love this time of year but can't wait for the season.
Also who ran leagues last year? It was kronk right? We doing another pick-em and of fantasy league this year?
Ahh my bad kronk who ran it then? Piston or someone else?
Yah this could be the texans year they're still stacked and the rest of the AFC has seemingly gotten worse. Although I gotta ask what's with the "themed" home games haha. Do the texans really have problems selling out?
It's just something the owner started with a few games the first season and has been adding to it.
I went to the Dallas/Houston game a few years ago and it was FREAKING packed. You couldn't park within 2 miles of the stadium with all of the fething tailgaters. None of them had tickets, either. I fething hate that.
Edit: I don't recall who did the league. I thought it was you!
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Yah I just tried checking who ran it and that's the only past league I can't view for some reason. I'm totally down to run leagues this year if no one else wants to.
And gorgon how much does BIG Ben weigh now? ;p He was huge last pic I saw, like seriously entering Jamarcus level of overweight. And how do you think losing Wallace is gonna effect the stealers?
Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote: Apparently Von Miller is facing a four game suspension for using restricted substances, Denver's pass rush will invisible for those four games.
Also Beardown, lets copy the Blackhawks
More guys using Adderall?
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Perhaps in a year or two if the rookies and Bradford play up to their potential
Yeah... they're looking good right now. I think they're primed to squeak into the playoff this year and really take off in the next couple. Bradford finallyhas some offensive weapons at his disposal.
I'll try my best to get involved with this thread this season, but I have no team I wish the NFL would pull the finger out and create a franchise in London. I remember the names we came up with a while back: London Redcoats or London Fog.
I'll have to adopt a team based primarily on which emblem I like. I'm edging towards Tampa Bay or Miami.
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Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: I'll try my best to get involved with this thread this season, but I have no team :( I wish the NFL would pull the finger out and create a franchise in London. I remember the names we came up with a while back: London Redcoats or London Fog.
I'll have to adopt a team based primarily on which emblem I like. I'm edging towards Tampa Bay or Miami.
Please don't become a "Dolfan" please
And personally I feel a London franchise would be too costly and doesn't have the base for it. Austria would genuinely get better crowds etcetera
Currently debating whether to study for my exams or paint some Deathwing
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: I'll try my best to get involved with this thread this season, but I have no team :( I wish the NFL would pull the finger out and create a franchise in London. I remember the names we came up with a while back: London Redcoats or London Fog.
I'll have to adopt a team based primarily on which emblem I like. I'm edging towards Tampa Bay or Miami.
Please don't become a "Dolfan" please
And personally I feel a London franchise would be too costly and doesn't have the base for it. Austria would genuinely get better crowds etcetera
Austria? Better crowds?
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Root for the Texans!!! Never! Never! Never! You get the general idea.
I have never forgiven Texas for being,er, Texas!
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Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: I'll try my best to get involved with this thread this season, but I have no team I wish the NFL would pull the finger out and create a franchise in London. I remember the names we came up with a while back: London Redcoats or London Fog.
I'll have to adopt a team based primarily on which emblem I like. I'm edging towards Tampa Bay or Miami.
Take a look at the up and coming Rams...
Here's the first round pick this year:
That dude got some serious gears. o.O
This one here, a later rnd pick, is going to be a sleeper:
And I'd argue that the RAM's defense will be in the top 3 this year.
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: I'll try my best to get involved with this thread this season, but I have no team :( I wish the NFL would pull the finger out and create a franchise in London. I remember the names we came up with a while back: London Redcoats or London Fog.
I'll have to adopt a team based primarily on which emblem I like. I'm edging towards Tampa Bay or Miami.
Please don't become a "Dolfan" please
And personally I feel a London franchise would be too costly and doesn't have the base for it. Austria would genuinely get better crowds etcetera
Austria? Better crowds?
For local American football teams they have a much better foundation and draw better crowds (www.raiders.tv shows the Innsbrucks Raiders home games, go have a look )
Urlacher went but this past year he was pretty poor aside from his pick six against Tennessee and perhaps a couple of sacks, no east/west movements and was missing easy openfield tackles. We also lost Nick Roach (OLB) to Oakland and Idonije (DL) to Detroit, but brought in DJ Williams (LB) from Denver, Turk McBride (DE), Tom Zibkowski (S), James Anderson (LB) as well as Drafting Jon Bostic (LB), Cornelius Washington (DE) and Khaseem Greene (LB). Even is it isn't as good this year it will return to it's form in a couple of years.
That and Cortland Finnegan is more of an ass than Cutler
Currently debating whether to study for my exams or paint some Deathwing
That and Cortland Finnegan is more of an ass than Cutler
Finnegan is definitely one of those guys you'd LOVE to have on your team, but would absolutely HATE playing against him. I still can't believe how he gets away from his cheap act.
That and Cortland Finnegan is more of an ass than Cutler
Finnegan is definitely one of those guys you'd LOVE to have on your team, but would absolutely HATE playing against him. I still can't believe how he gets away from his cheap act.
Off the field... the man is all class act.
Like hockey players!
Hopefully this year Cutler can shake his persona that the media has given him, you'd be pissed off all the time to if you got sacked every down. Finally an offensive line, a tight end, plus you got brandon marshall and up and coming Ashlon Jeffery. Urlacher did retire because he wanted too much, the bears knew what they were doing, in the last two seasons urlacher had only played enough games to fit one season, he's old and dusted he made the right decision to retire. Urlacher lives in AZ I've met him a few times at best buy. Also with him retiring I was able to get his new nike jersey at 75% off. WOOOOO
@whembly I think your dead on about bailey. I wanted the patriots to draft him so bad. He's gonna be really good I think.
I'm super interested to see how Armond Armstead works out for the patriots. If he can be half the star Cameron Wake is It'll be a HUGE boon for our defense. Coming from the CFL is always an interesting transition. But usually the stats perform in the nfl too.
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Chancetragedy wrote: Yah I just tried checking who ran it and that's the only past league I can't view for some reason. I'm totally down to run leagues this year if no one else wants to.
And gorgon how much does BIG Ben weigh now? ;p He was huge last pic I saw, like seriously entering Jamarcus level of overweight. And how do you think losing Wallace is gonna effect the stealers?
Huh? He seemed to be in decent shape in the last pic I saw. His "Fat Ben" stage probably peaked around 2009, so maybe the pic you saw was from that time. Seems like ever since he got married, the wifey has kept him fairly lean. Did a search and found a vid from June. You can get a pretty good look at him about a minute in, and he looks pretty trim to me. Note that he has that double chin thing no matter how fat or skinny he is.
I think Wallace is more of a loss than some Steelers fans want to admit, but the person who makes the offense go is Roethlisberger. He won a SB with Hines Ward and Antaawn Randal-El as his WRs, which has to be the smallest, slowest set of WRs in the modern SB era, LOL. Still, with Heath Miller still injured, his receiving corps is very thin. I expect that they'll be running the ball more this year.
A lot rests upon the o-line. It's finally a younger bunch with some real talent, and they'll be doing more zone blocking this year which should suit the more mobile young players. But will it come together? I'm not worried about the defense. Pundits are talking about their age, but they have young players there that they're starting to phase in. They'll be okay. The offense scares me a little.
Which is why I have no idea what to expect for the first time in a while. If they won the division, I won't be shocked. If they finish third, I won't be shocked.
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I wish the NFL would pull the finger out and create a franchise in London. I remember the names we came up with a while back: London Redcoats or London Fog.
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