NFL Week 7 - Around the NFL - Gameday thread (Bills have bye)

[Solomon Grundy]

1 hour ago, newcam2012 said:

No I wasn't impressed. Miami looked pretty bad. The Chargers, Jets, and Balt didn't look great either. Also, it's more important how you look going into the playoffs not week 7. Thus far,  KC and Buffalo look like they are in a league of their own. 

I hear you but there's something to the team wins when Tua is under center. No one is focusing on Tua's poor play so long as the Dolphins win. 

Teams will follow Pittsburgh's blueprint. They held Miami "explosive" offense in check. Should've had 4 INTs

[Sestak4ever]

Rooting hard for Fields to have the game of his life tonight.

[billsfan1959]

1 hour ago, Dr. K said:

Watch out for Cincinnati. They are going to be hard to beat for the rest of the season. 

 

Atlanta has the worst pass defense in the NFL and the second worst pass rush. Cincinatti lives and dies by the big pass play. When Burrow gets pressure and when they are forced to win without the big play, they struggle.

[Nextmanup]

2 hours ago, Greg S said:

How embarrassing was it for Jacksonville yesterday. I realize there are many people from NY/NJ who move to Florida but that game yesterday was a Giants home game from a fans perspective. Had to be at least 75% Giants fans.

I'm in West Palm Beach area, and this is effectively NYC South.  There are ENORMOUS numbers of New Yorkers living here either full time, or during "Season" starting around now.  The snow birds.  The Jets/Yankees/Giants hats and those brutal accents start showing up. 

 

Anyway, Jacksonville isn't like that so much; it's much the "true" FL up there and red neck land.  People speak with southern accents and what not.  New Yorkers aren't going into that atmosphere so much.

 

Which makes the crowd situation all the funnier.  I suspect NYers from all over the state who care about football made the drive to enjoy the game, and I suspect tickets are cheap and easy to get.

 

 

1 hour ago, Coffeesforclosers said:

 

It was a travesty. Jacksonville arent there to build a successful NFL franchise. They're there so people pay the NFL to watch their team beat the ***** out of Jacksonville. 

In all fairness, all sports leagues are FILLED with franchises that are just happy to be there, and are NOT really concerned with winning.

 

The Sabres and Bills are two good examples of such franchises, for MOST of their history.

 

Buffalo sports fans should know what I'm writing about.

 

 

[newcam2012]

12 minutes ago, Solomon Grundy said:

Teams will follow Pittsburgh's blueprint. They held Miami "explosive" offense in check. Should've had 4 INTs

The blueprint is already out. Pitt didn't do anything special. Tua is limited in what he can do. Other teams know their offensive system is quick passes primarily between the numbers. The real issue is stopping Hill and Waddle. Both are very explosive. Tua's passes were off for the most part and didn't hit them in stride. 

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

1 hour ago, Dr. K said:

Watch out for Cincinnati. They are going to be hard to beat for the rest of the season. 

 

Keep stoking that panic baby

 

[Solomon Grundy]

7 minutes ago, newcam2012 said:

The blueprint is already out. Pitt didn't do anything special. Tua is limited in what he can do. Other teams know their offensive system is quick passes primarily between the numbers. The real issue is stopping Hill and Waddle. Both are very explosive. Tua's passes were off for the most part and didn't hit them in stride. 

Pittsburgh LBs restricted their between the hashes passes. Strung them out more toward the sideline eliminating much of the YAC. 

[billsfan1959]

1 minute ago, newcam2012 said:

The blueprint is already out. Pitt didn't do anything special. Tua is limited in what he can do. Other teams know their offensive system is quick passes primarily between the numbers. The real issue is stopping Hill and Waddle. Both are very explosive. Tua's passes were off for the most part and didn't hit them in stride. 

 

Yep. Tua has played 18 quarters of football. 30% of the total points scored,  36% of total TDs, and 45% of his passing TDs came in one quarter....

 

That is with Hill and Waddle both playing great and putting up big numbers.

 

You could put up a highlight reel just of dropped interceptions by opposing teams.

 

This is still a team that, with or without Tua, has managed to put up over 21 points in a game just once, and it took a complete 4th quarter meltdown by the Ravens for that to happen.

[Rocky Landing]

I didn't really watch this game too closely, but I don't think I saw Tua take a second read.

[billsfan1959]

3 minutes ago, Rocky Landing said:

I didn't really watch this game too closely, but I don't think I saw Tua take a second read.

 

Only because he forgot what his first read was and started with his second read...

[LABILLBACKER]

4 minutes ago, Rocky Landing said:

I didn't really watch this game too closely, but I don't think I saw Tua take a second read.

Tua should've thrown 5 int's last night. He's fools gold.

[billsfan1959]

Just now, LABILLBACKER said:

Tua should've thrown 5 int's last night. He's fools gold.

 

Yep...

 

 

[Motorin']

33 minutes ago, billsfan1959 said:

 

Yep. Tua has played 18 quarters of football. 30% of the total points scored,  36% of total TDs, and 45% of his passing TDs came in one quarter....

 

That is with Hill and Waddle both playing great and putting up big numbers.

 

You could put up a highlight reel just of dropped interceptions by opposing teams.

 

This is still a team that, with or without Tua, has managed to put up over 21 points in a game just once, and it took a complete 4th quarter meltdown by the Ravens for that to happen.

 

Can't wait to see Tua's arm talent in late December in the elements. 

[Beck Water]

2 minutes ago, billsfan1959 said:

 

Yep...

 

 

 

First of all, that's pretty well inexcusable for the Pitts DBs.  No one expects a DB to have WR hands (or he'd play WR) but 0 for 5 is super-dilute Weak Sauce.

 

Cost Pitt the game.

 

Second, drove me NUTS that I didn't hear one single solitary simple little drop of criticism for this from Collinsworth & crony.

 

Not.  A. Drop.  WTF is up with that?  Also inexcusable IMO.

[Roundybout]

So going back and watching highlights, I couldn't believe how the Dolphins seemed to have one play - the deep slant or in route - that they ran repeatedly. To his credit, Tua is very good at hitting them. But it was so predictable after a while and I think Pittsburgh was finally able to take it away. Tua simply can't make quick reads past that. 

[Warcodered]

3 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

 

First of all, that's pretty well inexcusable for the Pitts DBs.  No one expects a DB to have WR hands (or he'd play WR) but 0 for 5 is super-dilute Weak Sauce.

 

Cost Pitt the game.

 

Second, drove me NUTS that I didn't hear one single solitary simple little drop of criticism for this from Collinsworth & crony.

 

Not.  A. Drop.  WTF is up with that?  Also inexcusable IMO.

By the 5th one they did kind of have to talk about it a bit.

[blacklabel]

I hadn't seen that video of all of Pitt's dropped INTs, sheesh. 

 

Yeah, I don't really see it with Tua. He's fairly accurate with the short and intermediate stuff, doesn't have the strongest arm, has a little mobility and seems to still need a lot of work with pre and post snap reads. 

 

But the media wants so badly to make this kid a superstar. The hype all off-season was insane. It reached a point where I was like, if this kid throws for any less than 6000 yards and 60 TDs everyone will label him a bust. 

[newcam2012]

52 minutes ago, billsfan1959 said:

 

Yep. Tua has played 18 quarters of football. 30% of the total points scored,  36% of total TDs, and 45% of his passing TDs came in one quarter....

 

That is with Hill and Waddle both playing great and putting up big numbers.

 

You could put up a highlight reel just of dropped interceptions by opposing teams.

 

This is still a team that, with or without Tua, has managed to put up over 21 points in a game just once, and it took a complete 4th quarter meltdown by the Ravens for that to happen.

True but the team is 4-0 with Tua starting. Not sure what it's worth but they win when he's in. 

[Big Turk]

20 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

 

First of all, that's pretty well inexcusable for the Pitts DBs.  No one expects a DB to have WR hands (or he'd play WR) but 0 for 5 is super-dilute Weak Sauce.

 

Cost Pitt the game.

 

Second, drove me NUTS that I didn't hear one single solitary simple little drop of criticism for this from Collinsworth & crony.

 

Not.  A. Drop.  WTF is up with that?  Also inexcusable IMO.

 

LMAO! Wallace had a rough night catching the ball...then hurt himself after hitting the ground hard on the last one...

 

 

"Almost Intercepted" is heard repeatedly in that clip...

[Beck Water]

18 minutes ago, Warcodered said:

By the 5th one they did kind of have to talk about it a bit.

 

OK, but did they actually talk about it from the point of view of Tua making risky or off target throws, or was it all about he Pitt DBs dropping them?  'Cuz I heard the latter and not the former but I will admit that I'm not the most careful listener when Collinsworth is talking

 

2 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

LMAO! Wallace had a rough night catching the ball...then hurt himself after hitting the ground hard on the last one...

"Almost Intercepted" is heard repeatedly in that clip...

 

Right, but see above.

Edited October 24, 2022 by Beck Water