The NFL Thread

[BillyDee]

The NFL returns to the BBC in a two year deal. They will show the Super Bowl and all three Wembley games live, and there will be a weekly highlights show.

 

[t3ch]

The Panthers were going to be crap even if he was healthy, they'll be awful now.

The NFC South is such shit. Thinking my Saints may be the least shit of the bunch.

:icon_mad::santamoon:

 

[The Bear]

Good god. Even the NFL Network are doing the Football Manager thing.

They've run the game simulation on Madden 16 which tells them that the Steelers win by 21-17.

FFS.

 

[Alan]

We've been doing Madden simulations like that for years. No one really takes it very seriously, it's more like a bit of fun.

 

[The Bear]

Gronk with the first TD of the season. Some poor defence there.

 

[The Bear]

Scobee not having a good start.

 

[The Bear]

Colts getting mashed up by the Bills. Not a single point yet.

 

[big mean bunny]

Watched the Bills vs Colts first half, Bill offense looked decent, the trick will be if they can maintain that sort of production once all the teams get 3 or 4 games worth of Taylor into their defensive co-ordinators and game planners.

Just watching the Raiders, this is the most hope I have had in ages for them and they are currently continually to be dreadful so far. Ran the same play for the first play of each drive so far with the same non result each time.

Very impressed with NFL network gamepass, signed up for the free trial. It pisses on the shitty coverage you get here. I still don't know why you can't watch all league football games in full, even after the event.

 

[The Bear]

I'm also using the free Gamepass trial this week as I have no Sky Sports at the minute.

It's very good. Only restriction is you can't watch the Sunday Sky games as they are blocked if you're in the UK. Though I can get round that easily enough with my Unblock.us VPN. Not that I will though as I'm a Redzone watcher.

 

[Carrotdude]

I've been hooked on red zone since 6 o'clock, it's been a good night so far . The highlight was that Miami play fumble that took about 5 attempts to recover

 

[The Bear]

Like a fool I put Bernard in over Hill for the Bengals RB in my fantasy team.

Hill is just rubbing my nose in it now with two TDs already.

 

[Alan]

Glad to see y'all enjoying the old handegg.

 

[The Bear]

I'll be enjoying it even more in October and November when they come to Wembley. We've got plum seats this year on the halfway line right at the top of the first tier.

Plus we're staying at the Edgware Premier Inn that has Sky Sports in the bar and keeps it open all night for the NFL fans staying there to watch the late games. Only four tube stops away from Wembley too. Perfect hotel for it.

 

[Alan]

"Halfway line" :icon_lol: :icon_wink:

Have fun, mate, sounds like a great day out.

Out of curiosity, how much are those tickets?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Fucking Redskins....

 

[Carrotdude]

Mariota having the debut to end all debuts. 4 TDs in his first ever half.

 

[The Bear]

"Halfway line" :icon_lol: :icon_wink:

Have fun, mate, sounds like a great day out.

Out of curiosity, how much are those tickets?

What's wrong with Halfway Line. Should I have said 50 yard line?

Tickets were £287 with booking fees for the three games. Works out at £95 per game which is expensive, but we'd bought the cheap £40 seats up high in the top tier for the previous two years and wanted to try out the better ones closer to the action to see if it's worth the difference.

Plus it's three and a half hours of entertainment compared to 90 mins for a football match. So I don't mind paying a bit more for NFL.

 

[Alan]

Nah, nothing wrong with "halfway line", it's what you're used to, after all. But yes, you'd never hear it called that over here, it's always just "the 50" or "50 yard line". I'm just ribbing you.

Think that's comparable to the prices we pay, which is kind of surprising.

 

[Alan]

Mariota having the debut to end all debuts. 4 TDs in his first ever half.

Tampa Bay is an awful measuring stick. They are terrible. They haven't won a home game in something like 14 attempts (nearly two seasons)!

 

[Carrotdude]

Tampa Bay is an awful measuring stick. They are terrible. They haven't won a home game in something like 14 attempts (nearly two seasons)!

They are bad but still impressive for a rookie debut. Titans aren't exactly great and Winston has had a pretty horrible day