NFL 2014 - Official Thread

Lorenzzo wrote:

Poe4soul wrote:

Mongrel wrote:

Lorenzzo wrote:As long as the fans HB referred to are allowed to reproduce, there will be a steady supply of concussion victims.  Since this is a golf discussion forum we should take pride in the fact that it's the only concussion free sport, save for Elins with 5 irons and accidents with Escalades.

It's all overblown though...I've had concussions close together in ski racing.  The other thing is I've had concussions in ski racing that weren't that far apart. You lose a week of training and it's almost like starting from scratch.

The Ahi here is great this year.

Do you use spinners or worms to catch the Ahi?

I'd guess a yuppie food stamps, maybe two.

Zo, do they make a hawaiian to english translation guide for the fish varieties you see at the market.  Nothing has an english name. It's confusing to us mainlanders.

Let me help you with that:

Ahi = Red maguro tuna

Butterfish = Northern Cod

Opah = Opah

Ono = Wahoo

Mahi Mahi = Dorado

Poke = Diced Ahi mixed with oil & spice

Baitfish for angling, M

Those are all easy. How about some of these?

Hapu`upu`u
`Opakapaka
`O`io
Enenue

Poe4soul wrote:

Lorenzzo wrote:

Poe4soul wrote:

Mongrel wrote:

Lorenzzo wrote:As long as the fans HB referred to are allowed to reproduce, there will be a steady supply of concussion victims.  Since this is a golf discussion forum we should take pride in the fact that it's the only concussion free sport, save for Elins with 5 irons and accidents with Escalades.

It's all overblown though...I've had concussions close together in ski racing.  The other thing is I've had concussions in ski racing that weren't that far apart. You lose a week of training and it's almost like starting from scratch.

The Ahi here is great this year.

Do you use spinners or worms to catch the Ahi?

I'd guess a yuppie food stamps, maybe two.

Zo, do they make a hawaiian to english translation guide for the fish varieties you see at the market.  Nothing has an english name. It's confusing to us mainlanders.

Let me help you with that:

Ahi = Red maguro tuna

Butterfish = Northern Cod

Opah = Opah

Ono = Wahoo

Mahi Mahi = Dorado

Poke = Diced Ahi mixed with oil & spice

Baitfish for angling, M

Those are all easy.  How about some of these?

Hapu`upu`u
`Opakapaka
`O`io
Enenue

Hapu`upu`u = Local Snapper species

`Opakapaka = Canned Tuna

`O`io = Surplus Bait

Enenue = Road Kill

Lorenzzo wrote:

Poe4soul wrote:

Lorenzzo wrote:

Poe4soul wrote:

Mongrel wrote:

Lorenzzo wrote:As long as the fans HB referred to are allowed to reproduce, there will be a steady supply of concussion victims.  Since this is a golf discussion forum we should take pride in the fact that it's the only concussion free sport, save for Elins with 5 irons and accidents with Escalades.

It's all overblown though...I've had concussions close together in ski racing.  The other thing is I've had concussions in ski racing that weren't that far apart. You lose a week of training and it's almost like starting from scratch.

The Ahi here is great this year.

Do you use spinners or worms to catch the Ahi?

I'd guess a yuppie food stamps, maybe two.

Zo, do they make a hawaiian to english translation guide for the fish varieties you see at the market.  Nothing has an english name. It's confusing to us mainlanders.

Let me help you with that:

Ahi = Red maguro tuna

Butterfish = Northern Cod

Opah = Opah

Ono = Wahoo

Mahi Mahi = Dorado

Poke = Diced Ahi mixed with oil & spice

Baitfish for angling, M

Those are all easy.  How about some of these?

Hapu`upu`u
`Opakapaka
`O`io
Enenue

Hapu`upu`u =  Local Snapper species

`Opakapaka  =  Canned Tuna

`O`io  =  Surplus Bait

Enenue  =  Road Kill

Then chicken in Kauai is Enenue?

Couple of observations from watching a couple of preseason games.

1. Can they possibly make it easier for the offense?

2. Had to laugh, the announcers stated that the Vikings nose guard is out because of a leg injury. They didn't mention that he was shot at a night club. LMFAO.

By the way, not to sound like a racist but guess what the nose tackles race was?

That's a tough one. When I visualize a nose tackle right now, I see thousands of potentials in the small Missouri 'burb known as Feguson. I mean all an NT has to do is occupy space and resist being moved. What's a couple of grams of lead, a few litres of whiskey, and fifty bucks worth of Big Mac's, Big Breakfasts, and quadruple hash browns got to do with anything?

Opening weekend is upon us. Mongrel and I will both be rooting for the Bengals to humiliate the Ravens in Baltimore. I wouldn't bet on it though. Marvin Lewis is an awful coach. It's not always obvious, because the season gets to be routine and reactive. However, IMO, there are a few proven indicators that reveal whether a head coach is any good, and Marvin Lewis fails at all of them.

1) How does the team perform in the first game of the season? You've essentially got a couple months to come up with a game plan. Bengals usually lose the first game, sometimes embarrassingly so.

2) How does the team perform after the bye week? Same basic concept, same result for Marvin.

3) How does the team perform in close games? Bengals are not good in close games, and in fact fail to put away teams after getting leads. I've seen them trying to kill the clock when up by a score in the third quarter. This loser mentality puts way to much pressure on the team to close out teams they should dominate.

4) How well does a team manage the clock? Marvin is the king of wasting timeouts on challenges with little upside, or using timeouts early in the half, only to miss them late in the game.

5) How well does the team play in away games? Bengals = not great, even against shitty teams like the Browns.

So, while I am cautiously optimistic that the Bengals have made some strides forward, I don't like their chances in week 1. I will say that I am hoping the new DC and OC can inject some enthusiasm, maybe even reverse some of their historic loser ways. Beating either Pittsburgh or Baltimore away would be a good start.

Why were there no games this past weekend?  I was a little disappointed there wasn't NFL background noise available.

Usually when a franchise collects talent but doesn't progress due to an ineffective coach a frontline guy emerges looking to capitalize and build his resume. Is Cincinnati so bad that a frontline coach won't go there?

There were college games this past weekend. College is the minor leagues for the NFL. So by watching college games, you see NFL players somewhere in the future. How cool is that?

I watched some parts of some college games. Any team that has an Indian (Cochise, not curry) nickname seems to have the same four or five measure Indian style musical riff that the college's marching band plays ad nauseum ad infinitum like the Atlanta Braves baseball team. After maybe ten minute's worth of this cuntish dirge, I had the urge to assemble my .30 caliber sniper rifle and find some be-headdressed targets and file for national office on the platform that the sonsabitches are really ungrateful and their casinos should be turned over to worthy round eyes.

Cincinatti will win their division. The San Francisco Team will not and may end up signing the glory hole defensive end cut by the Saint Louis Rams just to keep the seats filled in the new stadium. All those rainbow tee shirts in the stadium would look pretty cool on TV.

ISIS has apparently beheaded another journalist. Maybe ISIS should be invited to gather a team to compete in the upcoming Ryder Cup in a new tri-partite competition of the U.S.A. vs. the U.K. vs. The Caliphate. The winning team would get to behead the members of the losing team whilst the second place team would have to sharpen the blades and bag the heads. That would be a ratings bonanza to the Al Jazeera Sports Department.

Lorenzzo wrote:Why were there no games this past weekend?  I was a little disappointed there wasn't NFL background noise available.

Usually when a franchise collects talent but doesn't progress due to an ineffective coach a frontline guy emerges looking to capitalize and build his resume. Is Cincinnati so bad that a frontline coach won't go there?

The owner has probably never even looked at replacing Marvin. It would truly be a golden opportunity to coach such a young, talented team. John Gruden grew up in Dayton and still has some roots in the area. I'm wondering if Mike Brown even knows that.

Horseballs wrote:

Lorenzzo wrote:Why were there no games this past weekend?  I was a little disappointed there wasn't NFL background noise available.

Usually when a franchise collects talent but doesn't progress due to an ineffective coach a frontline guy emerges looking to capitalize and build his resume. Is Cincinnati so bad that a frontline coach won't go there?

The owner has probably never even looked at replacing Marvin.  It would truly be a golden opportunity to coach such a young, talented team.  John Gruden grew up in Dayton and still has some roots in the area.  I'm wondering if Mike Brown even knows that.  

Well after spending time in Tampa, Gruden ought to be willing to go anywhere.

After Red inevitably fails to perform at his pay grade and your checklist is once again realized, begin a draft Gruden campaign. The guy will go back to coaching at some point, they all do. What better opportunity then the Bengals?

Be prepared though for Al Sharpton and Rev. Jackson to pay a visit.

Gruden now has the ultimate NFL job where he is a winner no matter which teams win or lose. He got his Ring thanks to Tony's team and any NFL head coach job would be too big a risk for him with the state of relative NFL parity. I think the Bengals are fine the way they are. Go, Vontaze!!

Mongrel wrote:There were college games this past weekend. College is the minor leagues for the NFL. So by watching college games, you see NFL players somewhere in the future. How cool is that?

I watched some parts of some college games. Any team that has an Indian (Cochise, not curry) nickname seems to have the same four or five measure Indian style musical riff that the college's marching band plays ad nauseum ad infinitum like the Atlanta Braves baseball team. After maybe ten minute's worth of this cuntish dirge, I had the urge to assemble my .30 caliber sniper rifle and find some be-headdressed targets and file for national office on the platform that the sonsabitches are really ungrateful and their casinos should be turned over to worthy round eyes.

Cincinatti will win their division. The San Francisco Team will not and may end up signing the glory hole defensive end cut by the Saint Louis Rams just to keep the seats filled in the new stadium. All those rainbow tee shirts in the stadium would look pretty cool on TV.

ISIS has apparently beheaded another journalist. Maybe ISIS should be invited to gather a team to compete in the upcoming Ryder Cup in a new tri-partite competition of the U.S.A. vs. the U.K. vs. The Caliphate. The winning team would get to behead the members of the losing team whilst the second place team would have to sharpen the blades and bag the heads. That would be a ratings bonanza to the Al Jazeera Sports Department.

My only agenda for the college season is to see Alabama's offense fail miserably once again exposing Kiffin as the douchebag he is.  

Oh… and also to see the Big Ten humiliated in every way possible. I have a friend who blindly routes for Ohio State and is intolerable. He sees guilt in violations of other programs and not Ohio State's which is a laugh considering what they did and the slight slap on the wrist they got.

When Urban Meyer fails there their recruiting power will have fully evaporated.

Mongrel wrote:Gruden now has the ultimate NFL job where he is a winner no matter which teams win or lose. He got his Ring thanks to Tony's team and any NFL head coach job would be too big a risk for him with the state of relative NFL parity. I think the Bengals are fine the way they are. Go, Vontaze!!

Yeah but it's like guys that have ultimate p#ssy… they eventually look for strange.

Mongrel wrote:Gruden now has the ultimate NFL job where he is a winner no matter which teams win or lose. He got his Ring thanks to Tony's team and any NFL head coach job would be too big a risk for him with the state of relative NFL parity. I think the Bengals are fine the way they are. Go, Vontaze!!

I kind of agree about Gruden and his probable mindset, but he did a pretty good job in Oakland and was able to get TB over the hump. Dungy is a cerebral type of coach, whereas Gruden was all energy. Dungy was also a career underachiever with Indy. Marvin Lewis is a poor man's Dungy.

Lorenzzo wrote:

Mongrel wrote:There were college games this past weekend. College is the minor leagues for the NFL. So by watching college games, you see NFL players somewhere in the future. How cool is that?

I watched some parts of some college games. Any team that has an Indian (Cochise, not curry) nickname seems to have the same four or five measure Indian style musical riff that the college's marching band plays ad nauseum ad infinitum like the Atlanta Braves baseball team. After maybe ten minute's worth of this cuntish dirge, I had the urge to assemble my .30 caliber sniper rifle and find some be-headdressed targets and file for national office on the platform that the sonsabitches are really ungrateful and their casinos should be turned over to worthy round eyes.

Cincinatti will win their division. The San Francisco Team will not and may end up signing the glory hole defensive end cut by the Saint Louis Rams just to keep the seats filled in the new stadium. All those rainbow tee shirts in the stadium would look pretty cool on TV.

ISIS has apparently beheaded another journalist. Maybe ISIS should be invited to gather a team to compete in the upcoming Ryder Cup in a new tri-partite competition of the U.S.A. vs. the U.K. vs. The Caliphate. The winning team would get to behead the members of the losing team whilst the second place team would have to sharpen the blades and bag the heads. That would be a ratings bonanza to the Al Jazeera Sports Department.

My only agenda for the college season is to see Alabama's offense fail miserably once again exposing Kiffin as the douchebag he is.  

Oh… and also to see the Big Ten humiliated in every way possible. I have a friend who blindly routes for Ohio State and is intolerable. He sees guilt in violations of other programs and not Ohio State's which is a laugh considering what they did and the slight slap on the wrist they got.

When Urban Meyer fails there their recruiting power will have fully evaporated.

Your Big 10 hatred parallels my SEC hatred. The Kentucky fans glom onto whoever is doing well in the SEC. I see Alabama flags and bumper stickers all over the place down here. My SEC hatred is basically just reserved for the UK supporters. I have nothing against Alabama, LSU, Florida, etc.
We do get quite a few OSU honks in Cincinnati, but they seem to have become relatively humbled in recent years.

Big Ten hatred?
SEC hatred?

I've got you both trumped. I've got an FBS hatred.

I watch the Harvard games on our internet feed.

My quaint little belief is that there shouldn't be a single person playing intercollegiate sports who's not a legitimate baccalaureate degree candidate.
When I hear a college athlete interviewed on TV and demonstrating no familiarity with the Queen's English, that person did not do the preparation required to be admitted to college. I don't care about individual circumstances. Public school was for free, and that person couldn't be bothered to learn anything.

Perhaps the best thing would be to have athletics divorced from education at every level. Americans are clearly the most poorly educated people in the developed world. (For example, almost every foreigner we meet is at least bi-lingual while people in Mississippi and other red states are lost with English.) Our schools have more important things to address without taking part in the sports entertainment industry.

trombettista_vecchio wrote:Big Ten hatred?
SEC hatred?

I've got you both trumped.  I've got an FBS hatred.

I watch the Harvard games on our internet feed.

My quaint little belief is that there shouldn't be a single person playing intercollegiate sports who's not a legitimate baccalaureate degree candidate.
When I hear a college athlete interviewed on TV and demonstrating no familiarity with the Queen's English, that person did not do the preparation required to be admitted to college.  I don't care about individual circumstances. Public school was for free, and that person couldn't be bothered to learn anything.

Perhaps the best thing would be to have athletics divorced from education at every level.  Americans are clearly the most poorly educated people in the developed world. (For example, almost every foreigner we meet is at least bi-lingual while people in Mississippi and other red states are lost with English.) Our schools have more important things to address without taking part in the sports entertainment industry.

Americans as a whole are pretty stupid. There is no arguing with that. I don't have too much of an issue with collegiate "athletes" and their varying levels of education. Then again, I also don't pretend that the football factory schools are producing the great thinkers of our time. The worst fans are Notre Dame football honks. They delude themselves into believing that their football players are somehow above the noise of academic corruption. Well, they aren't. I can let a lot of things roll off my back because my worldview is shaped by my own experience, but hypocrisy isn't one of them.

Nothing comes close to the incredible hypocrisy in college sports. Well, save for religion.  Nothing compares to the hypocrisy of religion and college sports.   Except maybe politics. Ok... Nothing approaches the hypocrisy of religion, sports and politics.

Notre Dame combines all three. They, their fans and their program are completely full of shit. To have reasonable integrity, college sports programs would have to eliminate religion and rely on the free market. Politics is nothing more than human selfishness and so will never disappear.

If people were honest and admitted it's all just a game involving getting what they themselves want It would eliminate so much of the annoying bullshit.

The forgoing is my attempt at explaining why Notre Dame is so damn annoying.

I wholly agree about Notre Dame.

I used to be Catholic, but to me, Catholic ritual was merely a tradition of my ethnicity.  It accompanied good food and company, and nobody to my knowledge took the religious superstition part too seriously.  By the time my generation started their own families and the original family (immigrants and first generation
American born) started to die away (long a fully completed process), we just didn't bother with that sort of stuff.  Ethnicity lasts for two American born generations, the second one is half and half, and after that the newer generations may as well as been fucking native Mohawks.  

Which is why I find Red State religious fundamentalism shocking.  These people are born with different eyes.  They see a deliberate design where I see the random confluence of sub-atomic particles.  Within the perspective of infinity, every physically possible manifestation will occur, possible an infinite number of times.  The particles may have had a source, but not a source with an interest or plan.  Even if one takes the human species completely out of the equation, there is enough horror and suffering in nature that if a god existed, he must have been one of those ISIS slugs.

I'd root for a team whose school taught that.

Lorenzzo wrote:

Mongrel wrote:There were college games this past weekend. College is the minor leagues for the NFL. So by watching college games, you see NFL players somewhere in the future. How cool is that?

I watched some parts of some college games. Any team that has an Indian (Cochise, not curry) nickname seems to have the same four or five measure Indian style musical riff that the college's marching band plays ad nauseum ad infinitum like the Atlanta Braves baseball team. After maybe ten minute's worth of this cuntish dirge, I had the urge to assemble my .30 caliber sniper rifle and find some be-headdressed targets and file for national office on the platform that the sonsabitches are really ungrateful and their casinos should be turned over to worthy round eyes.

Cincinatti will win their division. The San Francisco Team will not and may end up signing the glory hole defensive end cut by the Saint Louis Rams just to keep the seats filled in the new stadium. All those rainbow tee shirts in the stadium would look pretty cool on TV.

ISIS has apparently beheaded another journalist. Maybe ISIS should be invited to gather a team to compete in the upcoming Ryder Cup in a new tri-partite competition of the U.S.A. vs. the U.K. vs. The Caliphate. The winning team would get to behead the members of the losing team whilst the second place team would have to sharpen the blades and bag the heads. That would be a ratings bonanza to the Al Jazeera Sports Department.

My only agenda for the college season is to see Alabama's offense fail miserably once again exposing Kiffin as the douchebag he is.  

Oh… and also to see the Big Ten humiliated in every way possible. I have a friend who blindly routes for Ohio State and is intolerable. He sees guilt in violations of other programs and not Ohio State's which is a laugh considering what they did and the slight slap on the wrist they got.

When Urban Meyer fails there their recruiting power will have fully evaporated.

Well this past week of college football turned out pretty well for me with Ohio State and the Little 10 getting their dicks kicked up into their throats by the other conferences.

Congrats to the Bengals for their stoic win over my hometown Ravens. Hope my main man Vontaze is OK for next game. Its really going to quiet next week at work. A loss generally shuts up most of my co-workers and I can get work done. Of course the Orioles are having a once-every-twenty year season so it won't be totally quiet.

My Vikes have done well this year so far. Waiting for the other shoe to drop but till then I'll enjoy the asskicking the gave the Rams today

I saw that your Vikes put a whuppin' on the Sam-less Rams. I guess having a bugger on your team isn't that much of a help.
Witness the Cowgirls' splendid home opener against the Frisco team whose QB struggles with the English language suggest he possesses more tattoos than IQ points. My Eagles overcame a first half 17-0 deficit to beat the mighty Jacksonville Jaguars. All in all, a good opening NFL Sunday for some of us.

I was sad to see Zimmer leave to the Vikes, but it was inevitable he'd go somewhere. Jay Gruden's departure was a welcome change. Just glad Zimmer didn't go anywhere in the AFCN, so I'll be rooting for him to do well.

Bengals really played a great first half. 5 scores, though all field goals. Then, as is typical with all Marvin Lewis led teams, he played conservatively on offense and defense and let the Ravens get back in it. It took a miracle play by AJ Green to take the lead, and the defense had two sacks to end the game with the Ravens on the Bengals 20. Nail biter for sure, but a win on the road in Baltimore is tremendous no matter how it happens.

It must suck to be a Cowboys fan. Good to see the Patriots lose. Sorry Nifty, but that team is very hate-able for everyone outside of New England.

I didn't see what happened in the second half with the Eagles, but I saw they were down 17 at half, then won by 3 scores or something.