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TB:Update: Martin tested positive for Adderall
PIT:Ladarius (concussion) returns to practice
TB:Doug Martin hit with four-game suspension
FA:Jaguars interviewing Coughlin on Wednesday
NYJ:Bilal Powell, Matt Forte absent on Wednesday
NYJ:Report: Bowles unlikely to be fired by Jets
SD:Antonio Gates plans to return for 15th season
CAR:Olsen, Stewart, Funchess DNP on Wednesday
HOU:Lamar Miller (ankle) sits out on Wednesday
MIN:Peterson and Diggs sit out practice Wednesday
TB:Charles Sims sent to IR, out Week 17 vs. CAR
SD:Melvin Gordon returns to practice Wednesday

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>leading the league in rushing TDs
how does that make you feel?

>New thread has a winner as OP

Much fucking better.

Even though Philly doesn't isn't even top-10 in U.S. cities for shootings per capita, and shotguns aren't great murder weapons ..... how about some situational awareness, moron? I know North Dakota academics are probably on-par with Bangladesh, but seriously? There's nobody in the Eagles organization to vet these ideas? Try asking the bathroom custodian next time if there's a question.

I'm shocked tbqh, although I've always rated him as Marshawn-lite.

>You're in the club with your gf and this guy runs 200+ yards on her.

What do?

have him play a good team

Go for the knees

Not too hard when they all come from the 1 yard line. He is such a shitty running back

PHILADELPHIA -- Take care of the offensive line, and the offensive line will take care of you. That's the time-tested quarterback mantra. And now, the Eagles' offensive line can take care of themselves thanks to the gift given by Carson Wentz.

The rookie quarterback endeared himself to the men up front by buying each of them a Beretta shotgun for Christmas. Each is personalized with the player's number engraved on the butt of the gun.

"This is an awesome gun. I'm excited about it," said Allen Barbre, a fellow hunter. Barbre believes the Beretta model is a Silver Pigeon, which retails around $2,000 a pop. "I don't know if I'll shoot it, though. It's pretty nice."

>reminder that Dak Prescott is having one of the top 3 rookie QB seasons of all time

inb4 muh oline muh zeke

Colts fan detecterino'd

kek lil bitch boi act like he don kno my man LGBT got 1110 yds and lead the TD race

le poach goal line TDs from Brady man

Now if only he could fix his throwing motion

The AFC is a fucking joke this year. The Falcons are basically just a better version of the Pats that actually had to play a hard schedule, and they're probably only the second best team in the NFC behind the Cowboys.

Look at the common opponents between the Falcons and Pats:

Falcons @ Seahawks 26-24 L
Seahawks @ Pats 31-24 L

49ers @ Falcons 41-13 W
Pats @ 49ers 30-17 W

Falcons @ Rams 42-14 W
Rams @ Pats 26-10 W

Cards @ Falcons 38-19 W
Pats @ Cards 23-21 W (No Brady)

Falcons @ Broncos 23-16 W
Pats @ Broncos 16-3 W

Falcons basically outperformed the Pats in every single common game besides maybe @ the Broncos which is a push, and Denver was 4-0 and hot as shit prior to playing the Falcons, while limping in to the game vs the Pats.

The Pats also performed worse than the Cowboys vs common opponents they shared.

The Pats this year are probably the biggest schedule babbies of all time

Yeah. Such a good RB. Rushing 20 times for like 50 or 60 yards. Fucking garbage.

>The Pats this year are probably the biggest schedule babbies of all time
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> Anonymous 12/28/16(Wed)18:34:15 No.73316682 ▶
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>Yeah. Such a good RB. Rushing 20 times for like 50 or 60 yards. Fucking garbage.

b-but spee told me the Cowboys are the schedule babbies, they got to play the Browns!!

So you're admitting that the Falcons are schedule babbies too since they played all those teams but then also just the dumpster fire that is the NFC South

Kek. What a fag. Niggas dont like shotguns. They would much prefer some automatic weapon, or some other thug ass object. Like rims.

packers have outscored opponents 154-88 in the past 5 weeks with Aaron Rodgers putting up a 120 passer rating and Jordy Nelson catching 76% of passes in his direction for over 100 yards a game and 5 TDs.

how would you feel if your team had to play this elite af duo in the postseason?

Other than the Seahawks, those were the easy opponents the Falcons got to play. The rest of their schedule was much harder.

The Falcons have had at the very least an average schedule, or possibly difficult, depending on which metrics you use

>the biggest schedule babbies of all time
no that's the 1972 Dolphins. Pats got it pretty easy though, doesn't mean they're bad just extremely lucky like what are the odds of the Cardinals and Broncos sucking ass this season and Big Ben getting injured right before the Patriots game?

You play with the cards you're dealt with. Keep in mind at this time last season the Patriots were on a 2-3 skid with injuries up the ass. They haven't faced enough good competition to have full faith in them and the one they did face (Seahawks) they ended up losing to. This team just reeks of potential owl loss due to how weak the AFC is.

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>Chorgers
>Packers at home
>Raiders
>Chiefs at home (Which they lost)
>The NFC South

So they played 2 good teams, and lost one but won the other

>Beretta model is a Silver Pigeon

Nice looking gun

Four more days till Chokeland coughs up the West and 2nd seed to da Chiefs

execute all raidniggers

so you are saying you will pray for divine intervention?
probably your best bet

Times have changed.

I remember in 2012 Sup Forums called the Falcons frauds. Now the debate is if they're better than the Pats. Can't wait to buy my NFC championship tickets and see the Falcons play their last game in the Dome against the Packers or Giants.

They still are frauds, they're not gonna make it past the second round of the playoffs dude

>You play with the cards you're dealt with

The problem is, they have not looked nearly as good as the Falcons or Cowboys when playing the same opponents. Cowboys cakewalked vs the Bengals, Browns, and Ravens much more so than the Pats. Pats only did better vs the Steelers because they didn't have to play Big Ben, and against the 49ers, they just barely did better catching them later in the season when they had given up, while the Cowboys played them early in the seasom when their last home game was a 28-0 win over the Rams.

Barring some huge misfortune, the Falcons will play Seattle in the divisional round. They should have beat the Seattle in Seattle. That missed pass interference cost them the winning field goal - which pro bowl kicker Matt Bryant would have made with ease.

But now, they'll be playing a busted up Seahawks team at home. The Falcons are gonna sauté that ass.

Personally I think blacked porn is pretty hot....

Anywho. What are the Lions olayoff chances going into this week? 50-50?

What went wrong?

You're correct now that I realize it, they'll manage to play a completely dead Seattle team and no matter how bad Matt "9 TDs and 7 INTs in my career in the playoffs" plays they'll probably win

>muh gunz
typical pennsylvanian

He was vorn with black fucking skin

50.1% a tie gets them in if i am not mistaken.

All I, as a Cowboys fan, ask of the Falcons is that they beat the Giants if they face them in the wild card round.

Calm down Sup Forums

I think they are in if redskins lose VS Giants who probably want a little momentum going into the offs

all 3 cowboys losses will come to the giants. the 1999 jags have a champagne toast

Just got back from picking up my wife from her trainer's house, any news concerning my Cowboys that I missed while I was away?

Yeah but the giants are resting their starters.

inb4 Beckham, Eli, or someone important on the defense gets injured by a cheap shot from a Redskins player.

The Falcons won't play the Giants. Seahawks at home will slaughter the Lions or Redskins at home. It would take the Giants and Lions winning in week 17 AND a Packers victory over Seattle in the Wild Card round AND a Giants win in the Wild Card round to get the Giants to Atlanta.

>tfw not only do the Jags let me down, but my wife lets me down by fucking other men

Oh well. Maybe next year. The team is actually looking stacked with talent... I mean surely they are on the upswing...right?

Have you ever considered ending your unhealthy, abusive relationship?

Or at the very least ending the relationship with your wife

Hey guys, just had to drop off my wife's son at her place, go Seahawks!

As someone who virulently hates cucks and cheaters, this trolling is pretty disconcerting.

Jealousy breeds contempt.

even if this isnt true, all the men need to know here that as soon as you find your wife being adulterous, file for divorce as soon as possible and so the judge wont be so harsh with alimony. If you wait and consider/try to patch things up you'll still have to pay out half per usual.

I thought they said they were not?
resting starters week 17 is a meme imo

The Falcons still aren't as good as the Cowboys, and the Packers and Giants are good enough to pull off an upset.

Cowboys have an offense which is just slightly worse than the Falcons, but a defense which is way better.

Well started watching football about 3 years ago. My wife really wanted to move to Atlanta for some reason... Naturally I started rooting for the Falcons.

Go Falcons!

>tfw sinking feeling that the raiders will lose but we will too

meme man rivers will probably find a way with it being the likely last game ever in sandy eggo. but then again you never know what to expect from that team

Haha no way dude, my wife started liking them because of her coworker Deshaun, they watch football together all the time but I'm usually out with her kid on Sundays so I just tape the games

That was such a boring ass game until the last few minutes of the 4th quarter

The Cowboys offense is NO WHERE near the Falcons offense. Don't even fucking fool yourself with that bullshit.

They're putting up WORSE numbers against a WORSE schedule.

The falcooons had an easy schedule just like Dallas. Only difference is Dallas won their close games. Hopefully home field helps because it's between Atlanta and Dallas. Atalantas offense is really explosive and your kidding yourself otherwise but their defense is limited. I think the Cowpogs and the new 3-2-6 will give Ryan fits. Expect a lot of check downs and hopefully our linebackers make plays.

So wait, who ARE the Giants going to play in the first round?

The Packers in Green Bay.

You mean we actaully run the ball and use clock actaully, which is how you win in the playoffs. Fun and gun never really beats pounding the rock. Give me our offensive line any day of the week.

Posted this in the wrong fucking thread.

How will >we fuck up >our playoff chances Redskins bros?

Post ending in:

1: Giants play starters whole game and beat us
2: Giants play backups whole game and beat us
3-4: Giants play starters for half a game and dominate the first half and beat us
5: Giants play starters for half a game and keep it close for the first half and the back ups beat us
6: Giants play starters for half a game, get crushed, but the back ups beat us.
7-9: We beat the Giants
0: We beat the Giants, but Green Bay and Detroit troll us and tie.

>Giants play starters for half a game, get crushed, but the back ups beat us

This should be good

>Just lost to
>THE BROWNS

chiefsbro, rivers is dead on the inside. The chiefs are 10-1 in the division.since the start of last season. They'll be 6-0 against the division and win the west/

That's either going to be a Packers blowout or a complete shitshow of a game.

>implying Matt Ryan is gonna be clutch in the playoffs.

I promise you that Dallas won't be running the ball once Atlanta gets a 2 score lead in the second half.

Your only hope is to stay within one score or ahead. That's the only way Elliot stays relevant.

And we didn't have a problem torching that defense last year.

>Packers ever beating the Giants in the playoffs

lmao

Why are giant packers games always so hilarious to watch? That match up just feels right.

the chargers are literally a roulette wheel though lad. they beat the falcons and broncos and texans and almost beat the raiders both times along with having a 99.9% chance of beating us before our comeback

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Eli's run out of autism, you'd better hope that defense is 2000 Ravens tier.

Not too scared desu. Yeah Green Bay is better but so is our defense and our fun game will be no match for Green Bay. Aaron won't have many chances to drive the ball because Zeke will feast on that defense. Screen cap it I don't care.

Reminder that Ezekiel Elliott is having one of the top 3 rookie RB seasons of all time

>inb4 muh oline muh Dak

The last 2 times they met in the playoffs the Packers had already beaten them that same regular season and they played at Lambeau in the playoffs


Sounds like it's gonna happen again senpai

This is why the Giants aren't going to win the Owl again. Coughlin is an elite coach who knows how to manage a game and make crucial decisions in crunch time. I do not expect goofy-ass Ben McAdoo to do as well in the playoffs.

Holy shit that's uncanny

It's also coinciding with a Pats team that seems like a lock to leave the AFC

Can't wait until us pats pick him up in the off season

I honestly want to see Eli-Brady III just to see how McAdoo coaches against Belichick.

Falcons are 1st in the league with 3.06 points per drive. Cowboys are 3rd with 2.53 points per drive, and they've played more good defenses. That's not a massive difference.

He doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence. He's made some questionable decisions in game management this season. Not to mention that he's supposed to be offensive-minded but the offense is total trash. The reason the Giants are good again is that Spagnuolo FINALLY got elite players for his only-works-with-elite-players defensive scheme.

Frankly, it all pisses me off. They fire Coughlin and THEN Jerry Reese goes out and spends money in free agency. It's total bullshit. If they'd kept Coughlin the team would probably have won the division. It's bullshit.

2 out of 2 is not a statistically sufficient sample size, especially since one of those was with favre

Cowboys didn't have a problem keeping up with the Redskins, Steelers, Packers, or Lions. They can go toe to toe with teams in scoring.

It's the Falcons that need to worry that the Cowboys defense has recently found out how to pressure the QB, and is killing teams in the 2 minute offense.

It'll happen again, that's how meme magic works, book it

And the other one was after McCarthy made the dumbass decision to rest Rodgers for THREE WEEKS, and meanwhile Eli was having the absolute best season of his career.

If Rodgers carves up the Lions this Sunday, he'll go into the playoffs white hot, like he was in 2010. That should make every other team's fans shit their pants.

not to mention that those were different teams and coaches
eli is the most turnover prone qb in the league right now, and the packers have been averaging almost 3 turnovers a game in the last 5 games
also the giant's defense is no way good enough to keep rodgers under 20, and the giant's can't seem to score more than 20 points on anybody

the chargers are much worse off since game 1 of the season. they've lost almost all of their star players and the starting left side of their o-line won't play this weekend. Hali is going to have a feeding frenzy on Rivers like usual.

You've played the Giants twice, and lost both times, and Pittsburgh. Those are the two top 10 defenses you played.

Well fucking done.

The Falcons have played Seattle, Kansas City, Denver, etc. They've had the hardest schedule in the NFL.

Don't even start that shit. You're the 2010 Atlanta Falcons - a paper champion. It's time to play the real teams - the Packers, Giants, Falcons, Seahawks. Your fandom isn't so strong to disbelieve the obvious: your shits about to get fucked up.

Seattle is a literal fucking meme team, one of the least consistent and most fraudulent playoff teams of the past 10 years

Kansas City is a good defense

Denver isn't hard to beat when you can just jam your RB into them, Dallas would have easily beat them

>The Cowboys offense is NO WHERE near the Falcons offense.
You're right, it's miles ahead. The Falcons couldn't keep up in a shootout. The Falcons defense isn't nearly as good as the Cowboys either.

You fags will argue over anything

Eli > Peyton

I'm so sick of these fucking falcon faggots.

You're team will never be a legitimate contender, holy fuck

>Your*

Holy shit

Seattle still has a top 10 defense. Top 5 by most metrics.

The Falcons lost to both teams in the final minute. Had they elected to kick field goals instead of going for it on 4th and 1s, they'd be 3-0 against them but that's here nor there. The Cowboys didn't have those chances, they couldn't even get into Giants territory in the final drives of the game.

I don't know who will win between the Packers and Giants. I do know that the winner will be playing in Atlanta, however, for the NFC Championship. They're going to raw dog Dallas so hard that they'll all need to take Z-Packs the next morning.

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>Pittsburgh

Lmao what the fuck? They are like the 4th best defense we've played.

Giants twice, Vikings, and Ravens are better and all in the top 10. And then Bengals, Eagles, and Lions are 11th, 12th, and 13th in yards allowed per game respectively. Not to mention we played the Bucs defense when they were starting to dominate, while you got them 2 times early in the season before they gelled.