NFL Observations before Chicago MNF game

[StickierBuns]

Stress free Sunday yesterday as Scott Hanson and I watched 7 hours of commercial free football:

• The bottom teams in the NFL are absolute garbage. Just pathetically bad. When you keep making a sport league about one position (QB) with rules change, etc. and you as a NFL team don't have a good one, you are beyond screwed (see below)*
  
• Bryce Young ISN'T back, as much as the national media wants you to think everything is peachy in Carolina. 
  
• Anthony Richardson is a very bad QB, Indy has a big problem. 
  
• Bo Nix is going to be what he is: a decent QB at times that has a below average arm with a brain that wants to be a gunslinger. 3 INTs yesterday....and 3 TDs. The ceiling is low. 
  
• Not sure what to make of Drake Maye. He loves running and that's going to catch up with him. Inconsistent, which is what rookies do. More to be learned.
  
• This is why Dolphins' fans either love or hate Tua: 3 INTs in a game they had to win. He usually doesn't throw picks, but he usually does something to hurt the team in important situations. 
  
• I was waiting for Pittsburgh to come back to earth a bit, albeit against a very good team in Philadelphia. I don't trust Russ. 
  
• Mac Jones is a nutbag. Why that dude is so cocky playing backup on a shit team like Jacksonville amazes me. They should have beaten the Jets, but 2 horrible INTs sunk them. 
  
• Wild ending in the Washington-New Orleans game. I applaud them going for the win and 2 points. 
  
• Meathead Dan Campbell's bravado will be his undoing, watch and see. So you know that you have to notify the other team now when you are going to do an onside kick? They know its coming, there's zero element of surprise. LMAO at Campbell.
  

Our Vikings have clinched a playoff spot and all that remains is who and where. Gross that a team with as many wins as Minnesota will have is forced to go on the road, but that's the current set up.

* https://www.si.com/nfl/2024-nfl-product-...-than-ever

[MaroonBells]

• The bottom teams in the NFL are absolute garbage. Just pathetically bad. When you keep making a sport league about one position (QB) with rules change, etc. and you as a NFL team don't have a good one, you are beyond screwed (see below)*
  

I was thinking the same thing. So many stupid penalities, false starts, illegal motions, delays of games, wide open receivers missed, receivers dropping balls, PI after PI after PI, offensive lines that can't block anyone, unbelievably bad QBs in Cleveland, New Orleans, Miami, Tennessee and New York, batshit stupid coaching decisions, etc., etc., etc.

[purplefaithful]

The Campbell on-side kick was dumb.
The Lions need to get healthy quickly on D or their post-season will be filled with 47/48 shoot-outs and no trip to the promised land

Vikings have an embarrassment of riches at qb - vs just about any team. When could we last say that???!
I'm not sure I agree with N.O. going for the 2 - gutsy move.
I dont want to have to play GB again and dont want to face the Rams at all.

I think MAye/Daniels/Caleb all have bright futures

Lets just beat the Bears please.

[MAD GAINZ]

The Campbell on-side kick was dumb.
The Lions need to get healthy quickly on D or their post-season will be filled with 47/48 shoot-outs and no trip to the promised land

Vikings have an embarrassment of riches at qb - vs just about any team. When could we last say that???!
I'm not sure I agree with N.O. going for the 2 - gutsy move.
I dont want to have to play GB again and dont want to face the Rams at all.

I think MAye/Daniels/Caleb all have bright futures

Lets just beat the Bears please.

From the sounds of it, McNeill and Carlton Davis might be out for the rest of the season.  Those would be two huge blows to an already depleted Lions defense.

[Montana Tom]

[*]Bo Nix is going to be what he is: a decent QB at times that has a below average arm with a brain that wants to be a gunslinger. 3 INTs yesterday....and 3 TDs. The ceiling is low. 

[*]
Just a reminder Stickier...Peyton Manning's first five seasons, his TD/INT ratio was:
26/28 (rookie season)
26/15
33/15
26/23
27/19

Bo Nix is 20/11 in his rookie season with 4 games to play.

[StickierBuns]

[*]
Just a reminder Stickier...Peyton Manning's first five seasons, his TD/INT ratio was:
26/28 (rookie season)
26/15
33/15
26/23
27/19

Bo Nix is 20/11 in his rookie season with 4 games to play.

[*]
No doubt, Tom. Lots of story to be told yet with Nix. I'm just not a huge fan, but he's a good kid and leader.

[medaille]

I no longer think it’s all about the QB. I’m more on the it’s all about the front office and coaching staff. I think this league, while it is certainly about the QB and you need to have one, I think it’s more about how does your team deal with parity, and in particular, how do develop a team where each of your players performs at a high level with minimal experience in your system. There’s so much roster and coaching turnover in the league now that it puts an incredible amount of pressure on teams to deal with it, and bad teams can’t. Bad teams have QB-Receiver miscommunications where guys are running the wrong routes, OLine miscommunications where guys come unblocked, undisciplined behavior, schemes that players don’t really understand, schemes that only work against some teams, etc. It really seems to me, that good teams seem to end up with good QBs, and I don’t think they are magically better at finding talent, but that they are better at developing talent and making the chaos seem more understandable and more manageable to the players. I think good teams have good front offices that help to mitigate some of the problems that happen when coaches leave and are replaced. You’re no longer expecting a rookie HC to come in and develop a whole organizational structure and culture.

This league is about the QB, and it’s about getting your low cost players to overperform their contracts, and I don’t think it’s lucky talent acquisition that makes the same teams consistently performing well, and the same teams ruining QB after QB.

[StickierBuns]

Big Cat at Bar Stools agrees with me: