Week 7 NFL Game Thread

E5 Yaz

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Too many carts on the field this season. Makes it harder to keep tuning in
 

Kliq

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James Conner. Derrick Henry. Aaron Jones.

Teams think nothing of handing out $15 million for mid wide receivers but run away from veteran running backs that can win games.

Good for Ryland, he's done well in Arizona.
 

Auger34

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Cart coming out, brutal loss for Tampa. They can’t afford to lose both Evans and Godwin and remain a viable threat.
I am a Bucs fan and Todd Bowles just cost them their season.

Evans was clearly hurt. I was stunned that they kept him in after he caught that TD. He could barely get up and was clearly limping around. Of course Bowles keeps him in and then he clearly aggravates it further.

Keeping Godwin in at the end was fucking malpractice. That game was over. The Ravens pulled Lamar. You have the ball at your own 18 with like 1:15 left and no timeouts. It just wasn’t happening.

What’s even more ridiculous is that AFTER the Godwin injury, Bowlzo keeps Baker in for the remainder of the game and continues to run plays instead of kneeling. Just shocking incompetence. This is the same guy that didn’t take a timeout in a fucking playoff game last year because he thought it was over and then pulls this shit today.

The guy is a terrible head coach
 

DJnVa

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Every week. It’s a plague in this league now.
Penalties/game:

2024: 13.0
2023: 11.3
2022: 11.1
2021: 11.7
2020: 11.1
2019: 13.4
2018: 13.4
2017: 13.2
2016: 13.3

So what happened from 2020 through 2023 for the drop and subsequent rise back to pre-2020 numbers?
 

cornwalls@6

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Penalties/game:

2024: 13.0
2023: 11.3
2022: 11.1
2021: 11.7
2020: 11.1
2019: 13.4
2018: 13.4
2017: 13.2
2016: 13.3

So what happened from 2020 through 2023 for the drop and subsequent rise back to pre-2020 numbers?
No idea why the modest dip for a few years, but double digit penalties per game over a full schedule reinforces my view that the game is over-legislated, and has been for years.
 

Deathofthebambino

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Penalties/game:

2024: 13.0
2023: 11.3
2022: 11.1
2021: 11.7
2020: 11.1
2019: 13.4
2018: 13.4
2017: 13.2
2016: 13.3

So what happened from 2020 through 2023 for the drop and subsequent rise back to pre-2020 numbers?
Pretty sure the uptick this year can be solely attributed to the new "focus" on the illegal formation penalty.
 

Van Everyman

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This sounds like a winning answer from Roger Goodell at his annual press conference before the Super Bowl, if he’s even still doing them.

The trend toward moving national games to streaming only platforms is so shortsighted. The only “research” implication I can really think of is how they might compare to other subscription packages like Sunday Ticket which has always seemed way too expensive and, when it was with DirectTV, inaccessible. Otherwise it is really just a pure money grab.

Also, ESPN+ is stupid.
Update:
View: https://twitter.com/profootballtalk/status/1848871850253975783?s=46&t=4DK5sD-8gsSKFExcsnEJqg
 

DanoooME

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Seahawks trade LB Jerome Baker and a 4th to Tennessee for LB Ernest Jones IV. Pretty big upgrade, especially in the run game. A 4th rounder was more than I would have expected, but it'll be worth it if he can help plug that huge hole in the run game.

Rams were never going to trade him to the Seahawks, so this is the next best thing.
 
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the NFL got what it deserved. To serve up two games like that before we have an easy way to switch between games on streamers is inviting the lesser game to be ignored.
This was exactly my issue. Jumping between the cable feed and the app is awful and it forced me to pick one game or the other, or have the games on on different TV’s.

Putting games on a dozen different streaming services is inevitable and fine with me. Being unable to quickly flip back and forth makes it unbearable though. It’s the same problem I have with college football games which are stream exclusive. College football is the ultimate “flip between games to avoid commercials” sport and if a game is on a 3rd party app, there’s no way I’m jumping to it (and those games are never good enough matchups to warrant exclusively viewing that game)