2025-2026 NFL Season Thread

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

The Cowboys-Jets game got a 27 share and 16.9 TV rating, the best opening-week rating for a Sunday or Monday game in 15 years and the best Sunday night football rating since the package moved to NBC in 2006.

http://www.profootballweekly.com/201...eat-tv-ratings

Dang it, thought we would get the all-time record, especially once things heated up in the 4th but I guess we still did pretty good.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by Darth Anakin

Dang it, thought we would get the all-time record, especially once things heated up in the 4th but I guess we still did pretty good.

Good deal... Considering the Pack-Saints game was down 3%

[fatediesel]

According to CNBC's Darren Rovell on Sportsbook.com 94% of the money is on the Patriots at -7 tonight. That's just crazy considering the goal is to get even money on both sides of the line. As a Patriots fan I'm a little scared of the game. It just seems like it will be too easy.

[kpkelley]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

According to CNBC's Darren Rovell on Sportsbook.com 94% of the money is on the Patriots at -7 tonight. That's just crazy considering the goal is to get even money on both sides of the line. As a Patriots fan I'm a little scared of the game. It just seems like it will be too easy.

There is only one way I see the Pats losing, Cameron Wake knocks Brady's head off in the first quarter. In all seriousness, if the Pats protect Brady, then the game will be one-sided, IMO.

[ran94]

Originally Posted by DVDFreaker

the Vikings defense has not been stout for many years

The last time they were stout was on the boat cruise

[DVDFreaker]

Originally Posted by ran94

The last time they were stout was on the boat cruise

[R3P0]

Colts could be targeting Andrew Luck...

For Colts, Peyton Manning could give way to Andrew Luck
Posted by Michael David Smith on September 12, 2011, 11:08 AM EDT

Getty ImagesIf the Colts are as bad without Peyton Manning as they looked on Sunday, there’s a good chance they’ll have the first pick in next year’s NFL draft. Which means they’d have the opportunity to take Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, regarded by many as the best pro prospect to enter the NFL since, well, Peyton Manning.

It sounds crazy to suggest that the Colts could take a quarterback with the first pick in the draft nine months after giving Manning the biggest contract in NFL history. But it also sounds crazy to suggest that a team with a 36-year-old quarterback coming off a major injury would pass on a quarterback as talented as Luck.

We’re getting way ahead of ourselves even talking about it, of course. We don’t know whether the Colts will actually have the first pick in the draft, and we don’t know what Manning’s health status will be at the time that next year’s draft rolls around. But if Manning’s neck injury keeps him out for this entire season or — cover your eyes, Colts fans — his condition worsens, then the Colts drafting Luck something worth considering.

One person apparently considering it is Colts president Bill Polian, who was scouting Luck at Stanford’s game against Duke on Saturday. Polian scouts lots of players, and the Colts don’t actually end up drafting most of them, but there are a lot of college football games he could have gone to on Saturday, and the fact that he chose Stanford-Duke suggests that he’s intrigued by Luck and wanted to get a look at him in person.

Pro Football Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw said Sunday on FOX that Manning’s situation reminds him of his own situation late in his career with the Steelers. After Bradshaw had offseason elbow surgery in 1983, he told the Steelers that he’d be ready to go even though, he now says, “I knew I could not play.” Bradshaw’s elbow injury was so severe that he was able to play in just one more NFL game before it forced him to retire, but the Steelers believed Bradshaw when he said he was healthy and decided to pass on Dan Marino in the 1983 NFL draft.

Based on his own experience, Bradshaw urged Manning to be “brutally honest” with the Colts about whether he can keep playing. But the truth is, Manning is too much of a competitor to be brutally honest: He’s going to say he can play until he can’t walk anymore. That’s just the way he is.

And so the Colts are going to have to be brutally honest with themselves, and decide what’s best for the franchise going forward. They’ve already sunk a lot of money into Manning’s new contract, but that’s in the past. If they’re not certain Manning can be healthy enough to lead them for years to come, they’d be foolish to pass up Luck.

[DVDFreaker]

Originally Posted by R3P0

Colts could be targeting Andrew Luck...

No suprise

[Moviefan1203]

Andrew Luck is a stud and will be the number one pick in the draft if he stays healthy. I don't see the Colts being the worst team in the NFL.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

Andrew Luck is a stud and will be the number one pick in the draft if he stays healthy. I don't see the Colts being the worst team in the NFL.

lol awww monday already bye, bye TERPS

[DVDFreaker]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

Andrew Luck is a stud and will be the number one pick in the draft if he stays healthy. I don't see the Colts being the worst team in the NFL.

Then who?

[Moviefan1203]

Originally Posted by supersix4

lol awww monday already bye, bye TERPS

We'll get you next time!

Originally Posted by DVDFreaker

Then who?

I'm putting my money on Seattle. The only thing stopping them from having the worst record is being in a lousy division, but I still don't see them winning very many football games. Miami, Tennessee, Carolina, Cincinnati, and Cleveland are also going to have very long seasons although not all of them will need to draft a quarterback.

[DVDFreaker]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

We'll get you next time!





I'm putting my money on Seattle. The only thing stopping them from having the worst record is being in a lousy division, but I still don't see them winning very many football games. Miami, Tennessee, Carolina, Cincinnati, and Cleveland are also going to have very long seasons although not all of them will need to draft a quarterback.

Very true

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

We'll get you next time!





I'm putting my money on Seattle. The only thing stopping them from having the worst record is being in a lousy division, but I still don't see them winning very many football games. Miami, Tennessee, Carolina, Cincinnati, and Cleveland are also going to have very long seasons although not all of them will need to draft a quarterback.

Some people already seem to be willing to put the Cowboys in that spot but I think they'll be just fine. Assuming Garrett's play-calling and clock management improve as the season goes on, I still think we'll win 8-12 games.

[DVDFreaker]

Originally Posted by Darth Anakin

Some people already seem to be willing to put the Cowboys in that spot but I think they'll be just fine. Assuming Garrett's play-calling and clock management improve as the season goes on, I still think we'll win 8-12 games.

8 games, maybe but 12 games is pushing it

[Moviefan1203]

Originally Posted by Darth Anakin

Some people already seem to be willing to put the Cowboys in that spot but I think they'll be just fine. Assuming Garrett's play-calling and clock management improve as the season goes on, I still think we'll win 8-12 games.

Garrett isn't the problem in Dallas.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

Garrett isn't the problem in Dallas.

We'll just have to disagree. Did Romo screw up? Yup. However, when you throw way too much, defenses can key on it a lot easier. Oh and the Jets have one of the best defenses in the NFL, Romo still carved them up pretty good. He played in his first game since last October and behind an inexperienced line and took numerous hits, I thought he held up well, mistakes aside. The fumble was a bonehead move, he should've thrown it away or slid down. The interception is absolutely inexcusable, Dez was little more than a decoy at that point and the ball should've gone elsewhere.

[DVDFreaker]

Originally Posted by Darth Anakin

We'll just have to disagree. Did Romo screw up? Yup. However, when you throw way too much, defenses can key on it a lot easier. Oh and the Jets have one of the best defenses in the NFL, Romo still carved them up pretty good. He played in his first game since last October and behind an inexperienced line and took numerous hits, I thought he held up well, mistakes aside. The fumble was a bonehead move, he should've thrown it away or slid down. The interception is absolutely inexcusable, Dez was little more than a decoy at that point and the ball should've gone elsewhere.

Garrett and Romo are both the problem, Garrett's playcalling sucks and Romo fumbled at the 1 yard line and threw a costly inception and also special teams is the problem too

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by Darth Anakin

We'll just have to disagree. Did Romo screw up? Yup. However, when you throw way too much, defenses can key on it a lot easier. Oh and the Jets have one of the best defenses in the NFL, Romo still carved them up pretty good. He played in his first game since last October and behind an inexperienced line and took numerous hits, I thought he held up well, mistakes aside. The fumble was a bonehead move, he should've thrown it away or slid down. The interception is absolutely inexcusable, Dez was little more than a decoy at that point and the ball should've gone elsewhere.

Romo's the man!

Funny to see Plax come back and do better than Bryant, and almost as good as Austin

[DVDFreaker]

Originally Posted by supersix4

Romo's the man!

Funny to see Plax come back and do better than Bryant, and almost as good as Austin

How is it funny? Plaxico always has been a good player so it is not suprising to see him play well last night