Week 1 NFL Game Thread

loshjott

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I'd say so, those fans travel in good and bad times. Pats fans are top ten but don't challenge those 2, probably more due to wasting our favors to family to travel to big games during the first like 10 years of the dynasty(!)

Giants and the bay area teams (49ers and Raiders) fans can be big travelers but only on a fairweather basis it seems.
Steelers and Packers are 1 and 1a in any order for traveling fans. Better than Cowboys.
 

Ralphwiggum

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As someone who has been to every Pitt game in NE in the last ten years as well as dozens of other games Pitt fans do indeed travel better than any other fan base.
 

scott bankheadcase

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Who lasts longer with the Jets, Saleh or Zack Wilson?
I feel like everyone saying this must not be watching that game.

Wilson has clear talent and has made some plays. Saleh doesn’t look overmatched at all. The jets have no talent on the o-line. They’re not a playoff team but nothing looks bad for either of those two in their first game.
 

johnmd20

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I feel like everyone saying this must not be watching that game.

Wilson has clear talent and has made some plays. Saleh doesn’t look overmatched at all. The jets have no talent on the o-line. They’re not a playoff team but nothing looks bad for either of those two in their first game.
And they lost one of their best O linemen today. It did not look good for the knee.

The Jets just don't have a ton of talent. Saleh is fine.
 

scott bankheadcase

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And they lost one of their best O linemen today. It did not look good for the knee.

The Jets just don't have a ton of talent. Saleh is fine.
In fact Saleh just made an amazing head coach call and the Jets still have some slim hope in this game (two great throws by Wilson too).
 

Dan Murfman

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I will be sleeping outside tonight. My wife picked Houston in our survivor pool back on Wednesday.Yesterday I asked her are you sure of that Houston pick. She changed it to Tennessee.
 

johnmd20

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I will be sleeping outside tonight. My wife picked Houston in our survivor pool back on Wednesday.Yesterday I asked her are you sure of that Houston pick. She changed it to Tennessee.
Tennessee was a pretty bad pick, tho. Did you talk her into Tennessee or just out of Houston?
 

Mugsy's Jock

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The xxx66.ir stream is pretty jumpy — reasonable to assume it’ll cleanup when there are fewer games going in the 430 slot?
 

Euclis20

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that’s fair - if he doesn’t learn to protect himself better, he won’t have a long career
They keep calling designed inside runs for him, which is asinine considering he's 25, it's week 1, and they've got him signed long-term. Saved the designed runs for the playoffs, it's not worth the risk now.
 

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I was 3 when the patriots won their first super bowl and until last year Brady is the only qb I’ve seen start for the Patriots. I’ll be in absolute pain rooting against him when he plays the pats, but I have to. Other than that, go Brady. And if the Pats don’t win it all, I will always hope he does
You missed all the Cassel, Jimmy G and Brisset games?
 

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I feel like everyone saying this must not be watching that game.

Wilson has clear talent and has made some plays. Saleh doesn’t look overmatched at all. The jets have no talent on the o-line. They’re not a playoff team but nothing looks bad for either of those two in their first game.
I feel like the answer is Saleh, because this O-line could get Wilson killed.
 

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Trevor Lawrence looks thoroughly unprepared for NFL football.
Urban Meyer is the one who looks overmatched to me. I just watched on RedZone, so I’ll defer to anyone who paid close attention, but it seemed to me the Jags lacked a game plan on both offense or defense.

Lawrence has thrown the ball 51 times. That’s not a recipe for success.
 

KiltedFool

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The Steelers fans do travel well, but one hidden big portion of that is a shitload of Steelers fans moved out of the Pittsburgh area in the 80s when the town was in an economic crunch due to manufacturing downturn. Google Pittsburgh diaspora. So a really rabid fanbase had a lot of people scatter across the country but hold to their roots, through new generations as well. So while they do travel really well, just about every major city has an embedded fanbase already there from the diaspora.
 

Marciano490

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Houston is 1-0 and every other team in the division is 0-1.

The Texans stand alone in first. Wonderful.
On the one hand, fuck Deshaun Watson. On the other, fuck the Texans. Life can really hand you some moral quandaries.