Around the NFL Week 17

[Sierra Foothills]

40 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

Announcers couldn’t ball wash Cousins enough about taking the benching in stride, great mentor blah blah blah…

 

If this is true, what was he doing with his helmet on and chin strap buckled every time the camera was on him?

 

What message does that send to Penix every time he came to the sideline looking at Cousins like he was ready to come in?

 

I call BS…Cousins came across as a sulking multi-millionaire.  

 

9 minutes ago, jayg said:

The message it sends is that Kirk Cousins likes to wear his helmet.  🤣

 

https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2023/08/11/kirk-cousins-helmet-meme-vikings-seahawks-preseason

 

 

 

Funny stuff.

 

The one fair thing to say about Cousins wearing his helmet is that he was keeping track of the play calls, which is what you'd want him to do under the circumstances.

 

[LabattBlue]

16 minutes ago, Sierra Foothills said:

 

 

Funny stuff.

 

The one fair thing to say about Cousins wearing his helmet is that he was keeping track of the play calls, which is what you'd want him to do under the circumstances.

 

Except teams have the little earpiece the  2 and 3 qb’s can use to listen to the playcall if they choose to. 😂

[Billznut]

Schefter on ESPN today is so 100% adamant that Barkley won’t play Sunday and they won’t go for the rushing record. I really find that extremely hard to believe. He’s having an historic season and is so close to breaking the record, and he has the ability to break the record against his old team. Maybe I’m totally wrong here, but if was loaded with money I would absolutely bet a huge amount that Barkley will play and they absolutely will go for the record. I understand apparently Barkley and the Eagles are claiming they won’t go for the record, I just don’t believe that for a second. 

[Sierra Foothills]

3 minutes ago, Billznut said:

Schefter on ESPN today is so 100% adamant that Barkley won’t play Sunday and they won’t go for the rushing record. I really find that extremely hard to believe. He’s having an historic season and is so close to breaking the record, and he has the ability to break the record against his old team. Maybe I’m totally wrong here, but if was loaded with money I would absolutely bet a huge amount that Barkley will play and they absolutely will go for the record. I understand apparently Barkley and the Eagles are claiming they won’t go for the record, I just don’t believe that for a second. 

 

Would you settle for making a small bet?

 

[Big Blitz]

17 hours ago, Sierra Foothills said:

 

 

I can't imagine what goes through the mind of Josh Rosen these days.

 

 

 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

5 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:

 

 

Once he goes into finance, he'll be able to advise on the nine mistakes unsuccessful people make. 🙁

[Sierra Foothills]

25 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:

 

 

 

Well Wharton is often ranked as the top MBA program in the US... and FWIW that's where Trump got his MBA...

 

Rosen is most likely to have a good life as his NFL career earnings were almost $19 million and one would assume he'll be able to avoid going bankrupt.

 

It would be kind of interesting to look back 30 years from now and see who has the most wealth among all the Class of 2018 QBs.

 

 

Edited December 30, 2024 by Sierra Foothills

[Ralonzo]

The chippiness of the Bills-Jets game is revived in the Lions-Niners game.

[I'mBuff]

Catch didn’t survive the ground, lost the ball for a second.

[BRH]

Thing is, the Lions don’t even need this win.  Even if they lose, next week is still for the division and the 1 seed because they have the tiebreaker (H2H) over Minnesota.

 

Won’t stop Campbell from putting more players in harm’s way and more plays on film than he needs to, though.  We’ll see how this plays out.

[Doc Brown]

It would be so funny if the Jets hire Rex Ryan over Ben Johnson.

[Ralonzo]

The XP block looks a lot like the punt block against Martin a few weeks back against the Rams, the blocker just got steamrolled

[Harold Jackson]

Going for 2 for no reason= point shaving 

[dave mcbride]

3 hours ago, Billznut said:

Schefter on ESPN today is so 100% adamant that Barkley won’t play Sunday and they won’t go for the rushing record. I really find that extremely hard to believe. He’s having an historic season and is so close to breaking the record, and he has the ability to break the record against his old team. Maybe I’m totally wrong here, but if was loaded with money I would absolutely bet a huge amount that Barkley will play and they absolutely will go for the record. I understand apparently Barkley and the Eagles are claiming they won’t go for the record, I just don’t believe that for a second. 

But it’s not even really a record anyway. OJ had 2003 in 14 games and Dickerson 2105 in 16 games. Giving a guy an extra game makes it a false stat. It should be rushing yards per game based on the number of games in a season. Which says OJ holds the record.

[dave mcbride]

3 hours ago, Big Blitz said:

 

 

Hmm … I wonder how he got in:

 

”Rosen is the maternal great-great-great-grandson of Joseph Wharton, the co-founder of Bethlehem Steel and founder of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which was named in his honor,[9] and a descendant of Thomas Cornell, progenitor of the Cornell family. Rosen is named after another ancestor, Joseph Ballinger Lippincott, who founded publishing house J. B. Lippincott & Co.”

[Billznut]

2 hours ago, dave mcbride said:

But it’s not even really a record anyway. OJ had 2003 in 14 games and Dickerson 2105 in 16 games. Giving a guy an extra game makes it a false stat. It should be rushing yards per game based on the number of games in a season. Which says OJ holds the record.

Yep I’m aware. OJ is a top 5 all time RB in my opinion and his record is by far the most impressive of all these rushing “records” since and to come. But since the league and the world will consider this a new record, that’s why the conversation is happening and I shared my two cents that I’m really hoping Schefter’s prediction is wrong and he looks dumb come Sunday because I think he’s a tool and I want the world the acknowledge it. 

[dave mcbride]

15 hours ago, Sierra Foothills said:

 

Well Wharton is often ranked as the top MBA program in the US... and FWIW that's where Trump got his MBA...

 

Rosen is most likely to have a good life as his NFL career earnings were almost $19 million and one would assume he'll be able to avoid going bankrupt.

 

It would be kind of interesting to look back 30 years from now and see who has the most wealth among all the Class of 2018 QBs.

 

 

Trump doesn't have an MBA. He has a BA from the Wharton School. He spent two years at Fordham and transferred to Penn for his final two years. He was an econ major, hence the Wharton affiliation.