NFL 2014

[MasterOLightning]

Even when the Bears offense looks pretty competent, they still only score 21 points. Green Bay and New England with Gronk are capable of putting up 50+ on quite a few teams. I could see another 8-8 Bears finish, which hopefully is enough of a disappointment to bring about coaching/front office changes.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

gay ass minnesota
was really hoping the Bears would lose

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

The Eagles were playing like when you're losing so bad at Mario Kart that you just drive in the wrong direction.

Cardinals win again. You believe yet Jimmy?

You, the Lions and the Browns are the Dangerfields of the NFL.

and the Rams are mind boggling.

 

[Matt]

I don't think Stanton can do the job overall, but they'll still probably make the playoffs.

 

[Dak]

Fuckin homer refs.

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

 

[rms]

my favorite but cant link

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd...._=1426790478_b3b369dffabd37ff4d2d3f64db21493d

 

[Dak]

I'm pretty sure if the NFL still resembles anything I want to still watch in 10 years, I will tell my son I was watching when that catch occurred. This ranks right up there with witnessing, via television, the Elway Spin, the Titans 1-foot-too-short-SB, the Music City Miracle, Emmitt Smith breaking the all-time rushing record, and Romo throwing 5 picks and still leading the Cowboys to a win against the Bills.

 

[rms]

the Music City Miracle

Brah.

Forward pass

Neverforget

 

[Dak]

I'm no Flaming Thumbtacks fan - and I say it was not a forward pass.

 

[Dak]

Well Philly's defense has impressed me, Dallas miscues not withstanding. I figured Philly was going to put up points. Honestly they should have had more. So disgusted with the punts on 4th on short in this game.

 

[Matt]

Dallas is starting to fold again lol.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Dallas is going to run over the Eagles on both sides of the ball.

...the Eagles absolutely annihilated both your O and D lines.

In the future, learn about your opponents before talking trash.

 

[Dak]

...the Eagles absolutely annihilated both your O and D lines.

I thought the Dallas lines weren't playing all that bad. Murray was fairly effective until Dallas was just too far behind to hand him the ball, and the d-line improved as the game wore on. The primary difference was in secondary play. The Dallas secondary was letting the Eagle receivers get wide open and missing tackles all over the place, and the generally maligned Eagle secondary was locking down the Dallas receivers.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

December came early

 

[crimsonfloyd]

I thought the Dallas lines weren't playing all that bad. Murray was fairly effective until Dallas was just too far behind to hand him the ball, and the d-line improved as the game wore on. The primary difference was in secondary play. The Dallas secondary was letting the Eagle receivers get wide open and missing tackles all over the place, and the generally maligned Eagle secondary was locking down the Dallas receivers.

Did you miss the part where Murray was held under 4 ypc for the first time all year? Did you miss Cox abusing your linemen all night? Did you miss the Eagles o-line blowing your defenders off the line of scrimmage for the entire game? The Eagles dominated the trenches on both sides...

 

[Dak]

If the oline was "blowing defenders off the ball", why did Philly have to kick 1000 field goals? Cox has 4 tackles and a sack, and for all I know it was one of the sacks where Romo went down untouched to avoid getting hurt. There were plenty of times Romo had all day to throw and then still had to drop or dump it off because no one was open.

Running backs don't go over 4yds per carry because they never get stuffed at the line. They have to hit a couple of big runs. Murray got in the open a couple of times for what could have been big runs, but was tackled, whereas McCoy was making people miss in the open field.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

If the oline was "blowing defenders off the ball", why did Philly have to kick 1000 field goals? Cox has 4 tackles and a sack, and for all I know it was one of the sacks where Romo went down untouched to avoid getting hurt. There were plenty of times Romo had all day to throw and then still had to drop or dump it off because no one was open.

Running backs don't go over 4yds per carry because they never get stuffed at the line. They have to hit a couple of big runs. Murray got in the open a couple of times for what could have been big runs, but was tackled, whereas McCoy was making people miss in the open field.

Re- redzone: I'll give you the redzone. Your D stepped it up down there and the Eagles offense tends to bog down there.

Re- Cox: That's hilarious. "For all I Know": were you watching the game? The broadcasters kept highlighting him. Watch the video in the link if you want to see Cox's sack (comes about 20 seconds in). He was dominant for stretches of this game.

http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/article-1/D-Line-Earns-Respect-With-Dominant-Effort/224e5cdc-8bce-439b-940e-b408d73c5608

And I'm not saying the Eagles won every single battle, but I am saying that they on the whole outplayed a very good O-line.

Re- Murray: The reason running backs tend to get longer runs is because their o-linemen are getting to the second level and taking out blockers. Look at some of McCoy's big runs. The linemen were blowing open massive holes and/or getting to the second level. So it still comes back to the o-line.

 

[Dak]

the Eagles offense tends to bog down there.

Because they can't just blow people off the ball. The Eagles offensive design forces people to play the whole field and play reactive defense. That edge goes away as the field shrinks. Philly doesn't blow people off the line, they redirect, as in let them come - and go right past where they needed to be. It's a solid strategy between the 20s.

Re- Cox: That's hilarious. "For all I Know": were you watching the game? The broadcasters kept highlighting him. Watch the video in the link if you want to see Cox's sack (comes about 20 seconds in). He was dominant for stretches of this game.[/QUOTE]

I'm sorry I don't have every jersey number on the Eagles memorized. One sack doesn't warrant some sort of special attention, and Cox had been considered a potential bust before this year. IIRC the broadcasters spent much more time talking about Barwin and Cole.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

49ers offense is really bad. Kaep doesn't look like a good qb at all.