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Wow... what a day so far!

 

The Dolphins are gonna be so much fucking fun this season.

 

Cowboys just looked better on that drive than any last week

 

Trey Lance went down... cue Jimmy G, wow

May not be Jimmy G, tho.

 

Ok... It is Jimmy G in for Lance.

 

And now the 49ers just became favorites to win the NFCW.

 

Frank Reich: We were pathetic Sunday, but we aren’t that far off



The Colts have been one of the most disappointing teams in the league through the first two weeks of the regular season and there wasn’t much mincing of words after Sunday’s 24-0 loss to the Jaguars onSunday afternoon.

Defensive tackle DeForest Buckner called it an “embarrassing” performance and quarterback Matt Ryan said that “brutal honesty” is needed after an 0-1-1 start for a team that had much higher expectations coming into the year.

Colts head coach Frank Reich’s version of that brutal honesty was to acknowledge how bad things were on Sunday while trying to look forward to Week Three and beyond.

“As pathetic as that was today, where this is and where we need to be, the distance is not that far,” Reich said, via Stephen Holder of ESPN.com. “We have the players and coaches to do it. I know that doesn’t play in the outside world and I’m fine with that. We’ll take our medicine and I’ll take my medicine and we’ll just keep doing what we do.”

Reich’s probably correct about how his view will play to the general public, but the Colts don’t have much choice to look to the future given the way things have started this year.

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Im a bit shocked at the start for the Colts. Thought they'd be better.

 

Check this out!




Sunday’s game between the Buccaneers and Saints included a fracas sparked by some verbal jousting between Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady and Saints defensive back Marshon Lattimore.

Brady took exception. Lattimore turned back toward Brady. Bucs running back Leonard Fournette intervened. Lattimore shoved Fournette. Then, Evans entered the fray and shoved Lattimore.



More players gathered together, and the officials eventually separated the bodies. The league office made the decision to eject Evans and Lattimore because, per the NFL, their actions were deemed flagrant.

Next comes the question of whether either or both of those players will receive further discipline, whether a fine or a suspension. Whenever players are disqualified, the league reviews the situation for a potential suspension.

That would happen tomorrow, not today. And if there’s a suspension for either Lattimore or Evans or both, it would need to happen quickly, so that any appeal could be heard on an expedited basis.

In some cases, a player is less likely to be suspended if he was ejected. Whether that saves Evans and/or Lattimore remains to be seen.

Per; PFT

 

Bengals have tied the Cowboys... im impressed.

 

Come on Will hardley surprising considering other leads blown today

 

I can’t believe that the Browns and Ravens both blew big leads to lose.

 

Raiders blew a big lead as well.

 

Falcons looked like the traditional Falcons today. Bad. Laughably bad at times, and I do mean butt fumble bad. (They actually had one play where the center snapped the ball into the guy going in motion.)

But somehow they nearly won anyway. And even when they effed up and blew it on the final drive (interception), somehow the Rams gave them yet another chance for a final Hail Mary.



I'm taking this as a huge sign that the Rams are seriously overrated.

 

You had the chance to break the curse. The Rams had a 28-3 lead and Mariota just smh.

 

Cardinals beat Raiders on Byron Murphy fumble return in OT



The Cardinals were down 20-0 at halftime of Sunday’s game in Las Vegas and they were down 23-7 in the fourth quarter, but they won’t be leaving Nevada with an 0-2 record.

Kyler Murray played a terrific fourth quarter to force overtime with the score tied 23-23 and they wound up winning the game with their defense. Linebacker Isaiah Simmons forced Raiders wide receiver Hunter Renfrow to fumble the ball and cornerback Byron Murphy returned the ball 59 yards for a game-winning touchdown.


There was a lengthy review of whether Murphy let go of the ball before crossing the goal line, but officials eventually confirmed that the Cardinals are heading home with a 29-23 win. The score allows them to join the Dolphins and Jets in authoring improbable comeback wins in Week Two.

Murray was just 6-of-9 for 53 yards at halftime, but he went 25-of-40 for 224 yards and a touchdown after the break. He also ran for a touchdown, scrambled for eons to convert a two-point conversion with his legs and hit A.J. Green in the back of the end zone for the game-tying two-pointer at the end of regulation.

The three Cardinals touchdown drives in the second half helped keep the Raiders off the field and they had a pair of three and outs when they did have the ball in their possession. They were still in position to win the game in overtime after safety Duron Harmon broke up a pass to Hollywood Brown on fourth down to kill the first Cardinals drive of the extra session.

Derek Carr hit Renfrow to move the team into field goal range, but the wideout nearly lost a fumble at the end of the play. Carr still went back to him two plays later and Simmons knocked the ball loose as Renfrow tried to pick up a few more yards for Daniel Carlson to use for an attempt to win the game with a field goal.

The Raiders are now 0-2 and they’ll try to win on the road against the Titans next weekend. The Cardinals will host the 1-1 Rams in an NFC West matchup.

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Sunday Night Football: Packers roll over Bears 27-10 as Aaron Jones, Preston Smith star



Aaron Rodgers continued his domination of the Bears, winning 21 of the past 22 games he has started and finished against Chicago. After Sunday night, he is 23-5 record against the Bears.

Aaron Jones rushed for more than 100 yards and scored two touchdowns, and Preston Smith made seven tackles and two sacks as the Packers defeated the Bears 27-10. Chicago now has lost seven games in a row to their longtime rivals.


Rodgers completed 19 of 25 passes for 234 yards and two touchdowns. He threw an 8-yard touchdown pass to Jones and a 5-yarder to Allen Lazard, who was playing his first game of the season.

Jones also had a 15-yard touchdown run as he rushed for 132 yards on 15 carries and caught three passes for 38 yards.

The Packers had 414 yards to 228 for the Bears.

Bears quarterback Justin Fields was only 7-of-11 for 70 yards with an interception. He also had eight carries for 20 yards and a touchdown.

Fields was stopped short of the goal line on two runs midway through the fourth quarter, which would have drawn the Bears within seven points. The first, ruled a touchdown on the field, was overturned by replay. The second Chicago challenged after officials ruled Smith and Jarran Reed kept Fields out of the end zone, and replay upheld it.

The Packers could have put the game away much sooner, but Mike Pennel recovered an aborted snap with Green Bay driving at the Chicago 28. The Bears converted with a 43-yard, field-goal drive to close to 24-10.

The Packers’ next drive was blown up by another aborted snap with Green Bay facing a second-and-nine at its own 46. A.J. Dillon recovered but for a 13-yard loss, and after a short completion, the Packers were forced to punt.

The Packers then tacked on a Mason Crosby field goal with 2:28 remaining.

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