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"Free agency started last night and was pretty crazy some huge money being spent. Osweiler getting £18m a year for the Texans, leaving the Broncos without a QB, Giants have spent a fortune on good but not great players, Oliver Vernon has more guaranteed money than JJ Watt. lots more deals but cant be bothered to list them all."

Chris Grier finally gone not that he was all that was wrong. One look at the state our backfield shows it certainly is a big problem.
Last night's Ravens match was a pretty ugly watch all round. It was weird as we were actually moving the ball pretty easily before finding new and interesting ways to balls it up. The tripping penalty was pretty harsh as Ollie Gordon slipped over and the "trip" was a complete accident. Tua would still have got the pass off easily even if the trip hadn't happened either.

How the fuck did I end up a West Ham and Raiders fan. 0-2 to Brentford and 0-31 to the Chiefs in less than 24 hours. Soul destroying ! Our last 3 QBs , Noodle arm Jimmy G, mincing Minshew and now the walking pick Gino Smith. Pete needs to retire.

That line with Mangold at centre, and Ferguson and (later) Colon either side of him, was outstanding. They created the time and space for runners like Thomas Jones, Shonn Greene, Ladainian Tomlinson and Chris Ivory to consistently top 1,000 yards.

They had to, of course, because our QBs were always quite poor!

Proper player, Nick Mangold.

Takashi Miike" wrote: ↑27 Oct 2025, 22:35

Doris Day ag ag ag

“Joe Flacco, Boomer Esiason, Steven Spielberg, Roy Rogers, Jerry Springer, Charles Manson, IshowSpeed, Roger Staubach, we have beaten them all, we have beaten them all! Doris Day can you hear me? Doris Day ... your boys took a hell of a beating!”

Can we still make the playoffs?!

WE WON A FUCKING GAME!

The Jets match was superb white knuckle stufff as well.
Tua picking the Falcons to bits and our defence suffocating the Falcons is not what I was expecting and a nice surprise.

Jets get their first W. Well done South. You ain’t getting that record.!

GO G MEN.

Ouch!
Those injuries are horrendous.

I did try to watch the superbowl once but it was so boring. The English commentator was an idiot who kept referring to DEEfence and OFFence. Cheerleaders, people with big foam gloves, a bloke playing a banjo dressed as a cowboy, and the inane jargon of the commentary team all irritated me. The last straw was when the Washington Redskins scored a touchdown the team started doing a dance like the Okey Kokey. I said to myself fuck this and went to bed. It was so long and boring when watched live. Maybe the quarter back needs a little bit of skill but most of the rest only need to be big fuckers. In the paper the next day the reporter referred to the half time entertainment as "barbaric."  Let's face it, it is a shit sport. 

 

F 129 Row66" wrote: ↑25 Oct 2025, 18:34 American football is played  in Central and South America and is played under FIFA rules.It is also played in the US to a moderate standard in the MLS  This thread is about a parochial game played almost exclusively in the USA. It is a  contrived Rugby variant without the excitement It should be called US Rugby. It is long winded , taking forever, with a couple of seconds activity every few minutes. No skill is required other than catching the spheroid object and running with it. It is played mostly by big, steroid fueled blokes.

I loved watching Barry Sanders and Sweetness. But my favourite old school player is Dick Butkus the human demolition man.

no skill

no skill? go and watch compilation videos of walter payton, barry sanders, deion sanders or any of the legend qbs like elway, marino, montana, manning. you're talking nonsense

American football is played  in Central and South America and is played under FIFA rules.It is also played in the US to a moderate standard in the MLS  This thread is about a parochial game played almost exclusively in the USA. It is a  contrived Rugby variant without the excitement It should be called US Rugby. It is long winded , taking forever, with a couple of seconds activity every few minutes. No skill is required other than catching the spheroid object and running with it. It is played mostly by big, steroid fueled blokes.

Fuck, lost again.

Watching both West Ham and the Jets right now is like hammering giant nails into your own eyes - twice every weekend. 

There’s just no escape from relentless misery. This could be the longest season in all of sport.

The whisky stock must be high.

 

 Niners getting it done. Shanahan has to be a coach of the year candidate.

CMC looks unstoppable all of a sudden and the Defwnse hasn’t missed a step even with Bosa and Warner out.

As Kittle gets healthy and Pearsall and Aiyuk return we will have enough of an offense to play a more balanced style of offense.

Question is will Purdy get back up to speed quick enough when he returns cos Mac Jones is playing lights out.

Vikes fell to a predictable defeat albeit a fairly close one considering our injury list.

Takashi Miike" wrote: ↑20 Oct 2025, 11:26 I think we're getting what we deserve this year, and the football gods have spoken. If you have a player like Mclaurin who wildly exceeds their draft status, has five consecutive 1000 yard seasons (only 81 yards short of six consecutive, with 919 in his rookie year) and fuck him around, a model professional that hasn't given us an ounce of problems since we signed him. It's no shock it's imploding

Of course, the injury situation throughout the roster is abysmal but there's an old saying about knowing the price of everything, but the value of nothing. You reward consistency and leadership, and the front office dropped a bollock

On The Ball" wrote: ↑20 Oct 2025, 00:04 I'm at the Cowboys-Washington game now. Deeply, deeply irritating. Although the availability of beer makes me think there may actually be a God.

I think we're getting what we deserve this year, and the football gods have spoken. If you have a player like Mclaurin who wildly exceeds their draft status, has five consecutive 1000 yard seasons (only 81 yards short of six consecutive, with 919 in his rookie year) and fuck him around, a model professional that hasn't given us an ounce of problems since we signed him. It's no shock it's imploding

Of course, the injury situation throughout the roster is abysmal but there's an old saying about knowing the price of everything, but the value of nothing. You reward consistency and leadership, and the front office dropped a bollock