NFL Thread - 2018

[BuffOrange]

Not taking a bye team would be lighting $ on fire.

 

[bpo57]

Not taking a bye team would be lighting $ on fire.

This year is different. The AFC is wide open. KC and NE are very beatable.

 

[BuffOrange]

This year is different. The AFC is wide open. KC and NE are very beatable.

Unless there's bonus points for lower seeds you don't take a team that's barely 50/50 just to get to a round 2 game where they're an underdog.

 

[Alsacs]

I really think the Colts-Chiefs winner is going to the AFC title game.
Colts at Chiefs or Texans at Patriots are good matchups for both teams.

Colts own the Chiefs in the postseason.
Texans DL is hot right now and they will score some points on offense.

Ravens-Chargers winner is going to get all the hype divisional round but the Ravens won’t beat the Chiefs or Patriots without postseason Flacco.
Chargers are good but I just hate their matchup at Baltimore.

 

[Ryand877]

I really think the Colts-Chiefs winner is going to the AFC title game.
Colts at Chiefs or Texans at Patriots are good matchups for both teams.

Colts own the Chiefs in the postseason.
Texans DL is hot right now and they will score some points on offense.

Ravens-Chargers winner is going to get all the hype divisional round but the Ravens won’t beat the Chiefs or Patriots without postseason Flacco.
Chargers are good but I just hate their matchup at Baltimore.

You didn't mention the Steelers in the title game. Oh wait...nevermind LOL

 

[bpo57]

Unless there's bonus points for lower seeds you don't take a team that's barely 50/50 just to get to a round 2 game where they're an underdog.

I get it. But if ever a team without a bye is going to get to the Super Bowl it's this year in the AFC. KC and NE are a lonnnggg way from being automatic entrants into the SB. My point is the winner of that Balt/LAC game is a dangerous team very capable of getting to the SB.

 

[Cusefan0307]

I get it. But if ever a team without a bye is going to get to the Super Bowl it's this year in the AFC. KC and NE are a lonnnggg way from being automatic entrants into the SB. My point is the winner of that Balt/LAC game is a dangerous team very capable of getting to the SB.

At some point Baltimore is going to need a passing game unless they plan on being ahead the entire postseason. The Chargers and Chiefs will be seeing Jackson a 2nd time if it gets to that. Big difference than seeing an offense just once.

 

[Alsacs]

I get it. But if ever a team without a bye is going to get to the Super Bowl it's this year in the AFC. KC and NE are a lonnnggg way from being automatic entrants into the SB. My point is the winner of that Balt/LAC game is a dangerous team very capable of getting to the SB.

If the Chargers didn’t have the Ravens they would be scary. I just hate that matchup for Los Angeles.
Baltimore D matches up with their weapons and Chargers D is pass rush heavy not geared up for the run. Plus Chargers secondary outside of James aren’t good run defenders.

I don’t see Ravens winning 3 games to get to a SB unless the Colts beat Houston and Kansas City.

Kansas City should want Baltimore or Los Angeles though as that Indianapolis matchup is bad for them.
Colts can pass block with an elite OL and all the Chiefs can do defensively is rush the passer.

 

[Alsacs]

At some point Baltimore is going to need a passing game unless they plan on being ahead the entire postseason. The Chargers and Chiefs will be seeing Jackson a 2nd time if it gets to that. Big difference than seeing an offense just once.

This is why I don’t think Dallas has a chance against New Orleans in a rematch.
I think the only way New Orleans doesn’t get to the SB is if the LT is out and Chicago pass rush goes crazy.

The Rams aren’t the same without Kupp. Eagles look different but the Saints completely shredded their D so Foles could score more I don’t see the Eagles holding the Saints under 30.

 

[BuffOrange]

I get it. But if ever a team without a bye is going to get to the Super Bowl it's this year in the AFC. KC and NE are a lonnnggg way from being automatic entrants into the SB. My point is the winner of that Balt/LAC game is a dangerous team very capable of getting to the SB.

Just no upside in that format. It's not like a March Madness pool where you want to differentiate from others.
Also I would like the chances of upsets better if the homefields were flipped this week. The Colts or Chargers would be playing their 4th road game in a row in the title game. That's tough.

 

[bpo57]

If the Chargers didn’t have the Ravens they would be scary. I just hate that matchup for Los Angeles.
Baltimore D matches up with their weapons and Chargers D is pass rush heavy not geared up for the run. Plus Chargers secondary outside of James aren’t good run defenders.

I don’t see Ravens winning 3 games to get to a SB unless the Colts beat Houston and Kansas City.

Kansas City should want Baltimore or Los Angeles though as that Indianapolis matchup is bad for them.
Colts can pass block with an elite OL and all the Chiefs can do defensively is rush the passer.

KC already lost to LAC in Arrowhead and were taken to OT by Baltimore in KC as well. All of these matchups are very tough for KC and given their playoff history at home it's going to be tough for them.

 

[Cusefan0307]

The Bucs are interested in Brian Kelly as head coach LOL. Please do this Tampa!!!

 

[kirbivore]

Chargers +2.5 this weekend is my lock of the NFL season.

NFL really boned the Chargers over by making them play 10:00 AM PST. I know Houston is the traditional Saturday playoff game but no reason they couldn't have make Chargers/Ravens the Saturday 4:30 game and Indy/Houston Sunday 1:00 game.

 

[bpo57]

The Bucs are interested in Brian Kelly as head coach LOL. Please do this Tampa!!!

I can see Fitzgerald of NW getting a look and obviously Riley of Oklahoma. Might as well go that route as opposed to recycling the McCarthy's and Gase's of the world.

 

[Cusefan0307]

I can see Fitzgerald of NW getting a look and obviously Riley of Oklahoma. Might as well go that route as opposed to recycling the McCarthy's and Gase's of the world.

Totally different types of candidates. Kelly's personality doesn't fit the NFL. He's a slightly more successful version of Schiano.

 

[bpo57]

Totally different types of candidates. Kelly's personality doesn't fit the NFL. He's a slightly more successful version of Schiano.

Kelly's track record is slightly more impressive than Schiano's. He's won everywhere he's coached.

 

[Alsacs]

Kelly's track record is slightly more impressive than Schiano's. He's won everywhere he's coached.

Kelly doesn’t scheme well. You can tell when Marrone was here he prepared an excellent game plan and knew how to prepare his team.
Kelly uses the talent advantage in college something Doug Marrone never had outside of tomato cans. Clark Lea fixed ND’s defense and that isn’t Brian Kelly. Kelly’s offense doesn’t scream pro offense.

Brian Kelly probably wants out of ND and will take the NFL paycheck and then if he wants to come back to college after flaming out look for a Boston College type job.

 

[bpo57]

Kelly doesn’t scheme well. You can tell when Marrone was here he prepared an excellent game plan and knew how to prepare his team.
Kelly uses the talent advantage in college something Doug Marrone never had outside of tomato cans. Clark Lea fixed ND’s defense and that isn’t Brian Kelly. Kelly’s offense doesn’t scream pro offense.

Brian Kelly probably wants out of ND and will take the NFL paycheck and then if he wants to come back to college after flaming out look for a Boston College type job.

First off it's all a bunch of BS. Amazing how people believe bogus headlines. Tampa has no interest in Kelly and Kelly is unlikely to want to leave. ND has 14 of 22 starters scheduled to return and has just had another top ten recruiting class. Who in their right mind would be in a hurry to work for the Glazer family and that clown show?

Doug Marrone lost that squad this year. That was a clusterfok.

You can ridicule Kelly all u want - not saying he's top shelf - but he's much better than you make him out. Go back and look at his track record - Grand Valley State, CMU, Cinci and now ND. He's won at some places not easy to win and ND is not necessarily easy to win at as can be seen by what happened to Kelly's predecessors.

 

[HOFCeluck]

Let’s not kid ourselves. It’s not easy to win at a small(ish) private school in b.. Indiana. This isn’t 1967.

 

[bpo57]

Let’s not kid ourselves. It’s not easy to win at a small(ish) private school in b.. Indiana. This isn’t 1967.

Not to mention that there are players at several schools in the SEC, Clemson, OU etc. that aren't going to be playing at ND either because they'd be in over their heads academically or they're not interested in putting in that kind of work when their main focus is the NFL.

 

[Cusefan0307]

Kelly's track record is slightly more impressive than Schiano's. He's won everywhere he's coached.

I said he was more successful. I can't see his drill sergeant style working in the NFL, but that is me.

I also think Winston is terrible and if management is saying you are tied to him I'm not sure you are going to get good candidates.

 

[Alsacs]

First off it's all a bunch of BS. Amazing how people believe bogus headlines. Tampa has no interest in Kelly and Kelly is unlikely to want to leave. ND has 14 of 22 starters scheduled to return and has just had another top ten recruiting class. Who in their right mind would be in a hurry to work for the Glazer family and that clown show?

Doug Marrone lost that squad this year. That was a clusterfok.

You can ridicule Kelly all u want - not saying he's top shelf - but he's much better than you make him out. Go back and look at his track record - Grand Valley State, CMU, Cinci and now ND. He's won at some places not easy to win and ND is not necessarily easy to win at as can be seen by what happened to Kelly's predecessors.

Brian Kelly is a solid college football coach.
His style isn’t pro style. You can’t win with a duel threat QB long term in the NFL. It will work in cycles but Kelly’s offense hasn’t really developed NFL QBs.
Kiser was a second round pick.
At Cincinnati he had Tony Pike.
I think Kelly is a good college football coach but he doesn’t scream NFL coach.

 

[bpo57]

I said he was more successful. I can't see his drill sergeant style working in the NFL, but that is me.

I also think Winston is terrible and if management is saying you are tied to him I'm not sure you are going to get good candidates.

I def agree on Winston. Not sure how Kelly would do in the NFL, just saying he's better than many think. A lot better than Schiano, for sure. Nice job coughing up that cover last night, Greg. Up 28-3 in the 4Q and they barely hang on.

 

[bpo57]

Brian Kelly is a solid college football coach.
His style isn’t pro style. You can’t win with a duel threat QB long term in the NFL. It will work in cycles but Kelly’s offense hasn’t really developed NFL QBs.
Kiser was a second round pick.
At Cincinnati he had Tony Pike.
I think Kelly is a good college football coach but he doesn’t scream NFL coach.

I hear ya. Vance Joseph and Steve Wilks didn't exactly scream NFL HC either. I'm just saying he's better than some of these turkeys that have recently been HCs in the NFL.

 

[Melancer46]

The Bucs are interested in Brian Kelly as head coach LOL. Please do this Tampa!!!

Bucs writers have already said that their sources with the Bucs said they will not be granting him an interview.