The Official 2014-2015 Football Season Thread

[Sgt. Dick]

I still have no idea how good FLA is.   I know they are not great. 
I think Kentucky is a much improved team (or did they just look that way, because they were playing FLA)

FLA has to play Alabama next week in ALA.  I expect FLA to lose.  How bad they lose will give me a better idea of where FLA is at.

You would think any major school could find a decent kicker, FLA does not have one 
The FLA kicker is 4 of 13 with a long of 33 yards   

In a totally unrelated subject - tearing or pulling an abnominal muscle really sucks.  I can't do a freaking thing without it hurting 

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Holy shit. That's bad haha

Also, Stephen it was the biggest surprise to me also, but not by a huge margin. I almost picked it lol, bc never has a good qb, but runs the ball extremely well and has above average D. Shit, ga tech Friggin murdered usc in their bowl game 20 months ago. Pac is the 2nd best conference but overrated

[adz1La]

Matt Ryan

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I profited $100 today so far, should've parlayed the Bengals with someone else.. if kc wins, then I'll have made $250 today.

[|iR|Focalor]

Matt Ryan

Matt Ryan's fine, it's the rest of the team that sucks. All his passes were pretty smart and totally on target with the exception of one that might've been a little too high, but still, Harry Douglas could've and SHOULD'VE caught it without having it knocked loose. Biggest thing is Atlanta's offensive line, both the tackles are pretty bad at their jobs. LT Sam Baker went down in preseason, then the #2 LT Jake Matthews went down last week, so now they're at the #3 guy at LT with Gabe Carimi. He did a "little" better this week, but the RT on the other side was getting bitch-slapped even worse than last week. For the most part it seems like everyone's probably studying Atlanta's O line and seeing how completely awful they are and attacking the living shit out of the 2 tackles cuz they're the weakest links. Fucking blood in the water.

Then you've got Atlanta's defense, which seems to be perfectly content to throw hits at people as if they're offense players throwing themselves as blocks rather than getting their hands out in front them, grabbing people, wrapping up, and bringing them down.

And don't talk too much shit about Atlanta, buddy. Because the only reason last weeks game with New Orleans and Atlanta was so close was because both teams suffer from pretty much the exact same problems. You take two terrible teams and field them against each other, and it's gonna look like an exciting close game even though in reality it's pathetic to watch two teams of supposed PROFESSIONAL athletes who suck at their jobs. Both teams got over 30 points because their offenses were facing horrible defenses.

Problem for Atlanta started in the off-season two years ago when they started releasing a lot of D players who were doing their jobs well but had been in the league several years and thus commanded higher salaries. Atlanta HAD the money to pay these players, but instead opted to release them and tried filling half their spots with no-namers who would've been unemployed if Atlanta hadn't picked them up, or aging used-to-be's like Osi Umenyora and Steven Jackson. Dunno why they thought it would be best NOT to resign so many of these play makers they had, I guess maybe they were trying to watch the budget since they're building a brand new stadium.

[|iR|Focalor]

Here's a suicidal but fun drinking game to play: When watching any 49ers game and they pan over to coach Jim Harbaugh on the sideline, do a shot every time he's got a “WTF!?!” look on his face.

Been playin this since about 2 minutes into the 1st quarter and I'm nice n toasted. I swear, he's only got one facial expression.

[|iR|Focalor]

Haha, how bad would it be for the 49ers to lose the 1st game ever in their brand new stadium?

Chicago coming back and running the cho-cho train on the Niners mommas. Bears leading 28 to 20, less than 7mins to go.

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I parlayed the bears winning with the eagles tomorrow, 20 into 180 if it happens lol

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Put 50 in my account yesterday morning, now have 254

[|iR|Focalor]

HA! Bears stole their cookies!

Kaepernigro looks pissed, hahahaha! Niners lose the first game ever in their new digs.

I called Chicago to win it anyway. Niners D is slipping a bit getting fatigued a good bit late in games and slacking off their coverage.

I'm not putting money on NFL games until later in the season when I have a better idea of how these more strict receiver holding penalties are gonna possibly gonna increase certain teams passing yard numbers. So far, it looks like most teams are getting more passing opportunities, but I still can't tell if its gonna impact any outcomes. Seems like it helped Chicago tonight though, San Diego earlier today too. Seattle CB Richard Sherman can't glue himself to wideouts asses anymore w/o drawing a penalty like he did last year.

[Sgt. Dick]

The new rule has changed who will be a better cover player.
Players who use physical pressure are going to get penalized a lot.
Players who have better speed and agility will come out looking better under these rules.
Sherman will be average at best if he can't get physical with the receivers.

[adz1La]

Also, Stephen it was the biggest surprise to me also, but not by a huge margin. I almost picked it lol, bc never has a good qb, but runs the ball extremely well and has above average D

matt ryan.

[|iR|Focalor]

 

I parlayed the bears winning with the eagles tomorrow, 20 into 180 if it happens lol

Eagles might end up fucking you. Honestly, its who I'd pick, but this ones pretty unpredictable. Both teams HB's ain't getting much production this year (Ahmad Bradshaw, Trent Richardson for Indy, LeSean McCoy for Phil, all 3 getting consistently stuck for .5 to 1.5 yds per carry), Phillys D is pretty banged up, but on the other hand they constantly go up-tempo on offense and seem to reap better results which kinda balances that out.

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Yeah, looks like the newbie linebackers are out of juice. I bet a lot on games and it will always be a learning process. This is a crazy 4th quarter.

Both were underdogs, was more confident in yogi than the eagles to be honest even though they had far worse odds than the eagles had. Parlaying two underdogs together is how I get good odds, and I parlay underdogs with favorites to cover my ass/lessen my losses sort of.

[|iR|Focalor]

Looks like my hunch was right. Also forgot to mention that Indy lost their best pass rusher which is why I was thinking Phillys Chip Kelly fast-tempo offense would be too much for Indy to handle. Couple that with Indys inability to get decent gains with their 2 main RB's and that makes them have to rely on longer lower percentage passes too much. Meanwhile Philly's RB McCoy was getting just enough to be effective, and then Sproles came through with some big time plays.

Man, I like that Vick ain't the QB in Philly anymore. Nice to be able to root for Philly again. And Foles ain't the best QB around, but they could certainly do worse.