NFL Stuff

[Leech~~]

Get ready. Any bets in a few years the average Joe NFL fans aren't going to be able to watch their local teams, unless it's pay for view!  Sounds like their greasing the wheels now.  There are 5 international games this year! ☹️

"The NFL will play a regular season game in Madrid, Spain in 2025, as the NFL prioritizes global growth and expands the International Games to new cities and markets around the world."   

[LPS]

Been worried about that coming for a few years.  It is starting with the Peacock BS.

[Jerkbiat]

X2. I will just stop watching  then.

[LPS]

Yup me too.  As big of a fan as I am if they don't let me watch it free I won't.  I won't buy anymore shirts and hats neither. 

[dutchboy]

Hard to stay indoors and watch football with weather like this.

[LPS]

Glad we have a lot of windows and a great view.  I go down to the river at halftime.  You are right.  Hard to miss this nice day.

[dutchboy]

This NBC half time show is pathetic. Other than a pair of long legs there isn't anything worth seeing there. I caught glimpses of the pregame and I'm not sure thats much better.

[glenn57]

This NBC half time show is pathetic. Other than a pair of long legs there isn't anything worth seeing there. I caught glimpses of the pregame and I'm not sure thats much better.

yea i seen them legs too.

[LPS]

We like the Fox pregame show.  Did I say this already?  This is the first time since 2016 that the Vikes have started 2-0.  That is hard to believe. 

[Steve-o]

Fox pregame is fine, but Terry is getting a little long-in-the-tooth to be a hype-man.  Just sayin.

As far as new-comer's go, I prefer Jason Kelce to Gronk.  It seems to me Gronk struggles delivering the key points the the producers give to him to say.   Kelce is a natural and seems more at ease being himself.  He reminds me of Tony Siragusa.

[LPS]

I was reading a book and stayed awake to watch Kirk manage a game winning drive to beat Philly last night.   Funny as heck.  Always fun to see Philly lose.  Good for Kirk.

[glenn57]

  enjoying watching Baltimore layin it to the cowpokes!!!!! 

[Steve-o]

Yep..  Jerry Jones payin CeeDee Lam and Dak all that money...  Terrible offense two weeks in a row at home.

Plus, it kinda feels good to see Zim's defense get gashed 2 weeks in a row too (especially after Zim went scorched earth on the Vikings in the press when he took the Cowboys job).

[Gunner55]

Especially with Zim's D inability to stop the run. They're dead last in the league against the run with 185.7 yds/game & 557 total run yds allowed.  It's hard to score if you don't have the ball!! The Vikes #'s are 71.3/gm & 214 total, which is good for a tie for 2nd best with the Steelers, & behind only the Ravens.

[Steve-o]

Its going to be really fun to contrast Zim's success (or lack thereof) with Brian Flores'. 

Zim does really good with a defense when he has a GM that gives him all players he asks for.  But that wasn't Rick Spielman at the tail end of their Vikings tenure, and it ain't ever goona be Jerry Jones either.      Prove me wrong, Mike.

[Steve-o]

Kapt. Kirk Cousins and his Falcons were jobbed by the officials last night and lost the game to the Chiefs 22-17.  Cousins let the team on a 15-play drive down to the 6 yard line.  On 3rd and 5 he threw a pass to Kyle Pitts.

This, according to the officials on the field, did not warrant a pass interference call.   



And Taylor Swift wasn't even at the game.    

[Jerkbiat]

Wasn't it stuff like that that made pass interference challengeable? Or did that go away and I missed it?

[Steve-o]

This is what I found...

Goodbye, pass interference replay review: Lessons learned from the NFL's failed officiating experiment

Why the NFL Scrapped Pass Interference Replay Review for 2020