NFL Week 1

[mhuber92211]

[expletive] the seahawks and [expletive] russell wilson. embarrassing for everyone involved.

 

Huh? How? What is this all about?

 

they're basically coming out with all lives matter shirts

 

wait huh? Read Doug Baldwin's twitter. This is so such the wrong response. How ridiculous. Do you hate everything?

[sneakypower]

so i guess it's a 15 yard penalty for "2 players in a choreographed demonstration"

 

Roger Goodell is a parent from Footloose

[sneakypower]

the Bo Jackson Tecmo Bowl commercial gonna overshadow the game now

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Huh? How? What is this all about?

 

they're basically coming out with all lives matter shirts

 

wait huh? Read Doug Baldwin's twitter. This is so such the wrong response. How ridiculous. Do you hate everything?

 

it's kind of hard to gauge the meaning/intent when it's also about 9/11, but as a response to kaepernick, it's horsefeathering stupid. kaepernick is kneeling to say "hey, this is a problem. let's do something about it". the fact that he's ruffling so many feathers is why it's meaningful. the seahawks are singing kumbaya and saying "nah, it's fine. look at our togetherness!". it's meaningless [expletive] that does absolutely nothing. it's the exact kind of thing that racist people love because they can point to it and say "see, THIS is how you protest!" and because they know how nonthreatening it is. it helps pretend everything is fine.

 

i'll admit that i haven't followed it all that closely, so i'm sure there are honest intentions from a lot of the people involved, but it absolutely flies in the face of what kaepernick is doing, and the NFL probably couldn't be happier about it.

[SpongeWorthy]

jimmy garoppolo has a riz ahmed thing kinda going on

[Transmogrified Tiger]

A Seahawks player took a knee in the last preseason game in solidarity with Kaepernick, and per the team a large group of them wanted to take a knee with hand over their heart, but some players with military family/backgrounds weren't on board and they wanted every player to do the same thing. It's a pretty big stretch to say that they're sending the opposite message as Kaepernick, maybe a less effective one but that's up for debate.

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A Seahawks player took a knee in the last preseason game in solidarity with Kaepernick, and per the team a large group of them wanted to take a knee with hand over their heart, but some players with military family/backgrounds weren't on board and they wanted every player to do the same thing. It's a pretty big stretch to say that they're sending the opposite message as Kaepernick, maybe a less effective one but that's up for debate.

 

so they wanted to do an actual thing but caved and did something meaningless. good for them. it's absolutely the opposite of what kaepernick is doing, whether those are their intentions or not. it gives the people who disagree with kaepernick a perfect thing to endorse, because it does nothing and will be immediately forgotten.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

A Seahawks player took a knee in the last preseason game in solidarity with Kaepernick, and per the team a large group of them wanted to take a knee with hand over their heart, but some players with military family/backgrounds weren't on board and they wanted every player to do the same thing. It's a pretty big stretch to say that they're sending the opposite message as Kaepernick, maybe a less effective one but that's up for debate.

 

so they wanted to do an actual thing but caved and did something meaningless. good for them. it's absolutely the opposite of what kaepernick is doing, whether those are their intentions or not. it gives the people who disagree with kaepernick a perfect thing to endorse, because it does nothing and will be immediately forgotten.

 

Yes, that is the cynical interpretation. I agree it's less effective than Kaepernick(or the few Dolphins players that kneeled on the same field today), but the anger comes across as anger for anger's sake. The topic isn't going away, and maybe they're doing a more muted demonstration because it's 9/11(speculation on my part).

[Careless]

Tom Brady backup has 106 rating. Made me some money.

 

Apparently people will never figure out that Brady is the most overrated player of the past, I don't know, 15 years

[mhuber92211]

 

they're basically coming out with all lives matter shirts

 

wait huh? Read Doug Baldwin's twitter. This is so such the wrong response. How ridiculous. Do you hate everything?

 

it's kind of hard to gauge the meaning/intent when it's also about 9/11, but as a response to kaepernick, it's [expletive] stupid. kaepernick is kneeling to say "hey, this is a problem. let's do something about it". the fact that he's ruffling so many feathers is why it's meaningful. the seahawks are singing kumbaya and saying "nah, it's fine. look at our togetherness!". it's meaningless [expletive] that does absolutely nothing. it's the exact kind of thing that racist people love because they can point to it and say "see, THIS is how you protest!" and because they know how nonthreatening it is. it helps pretend everything is fine.

 

i'll admit that i haven't followed it all that closely, so i'm sure there are honest intentions from a lot of the people involved, but it absolutely flies in the face of what kaepernick is doing, and the NFL probably couldn't be happier about it.

 

So your theory is one person protesting is better than 75+ coming together in an attempt to do the same thing - effect change and start a conversation? I don't see it.

[jersey cubs fan]

 

wait huh? Read Doug Baldwin's twitter. This is so such the wrong response. How ridiculous. Do you hate everything?

 

it's kind of hard to gauge the meaning/intent when it's also about 9/11, but as a response to kaepernick, it's [expletive] stupid. kaepernick is kneeling to say "hey, this is a problem. let's do something about it". the fact that he's ruffling so many feathers is why it's meaningful. the seahawks are singing kumbaya and saying "nah, it's fine. look at our togetherness!". it's meaningless [expletive] that does absolutely nothing. it's the exact kind of thing that racist people love because they can point to it and say "see, THIS is how you protest!" and because they know how nonthreatening it is. it helps pretend everything is fine.

 

i'll admit that i haven't followed it all that closely, so i'm sure there are honest intentions from a lot of the people involved, but it absolutely flies in the face of what kaepernick is doing, and the NFL probably couldn't be happier about it.

 

So your theory is one person protesting is better than 75+ coming together in an attempt to do the same thing - effect change and start a conversation? I don't see it.

There is absolutely no question that kap has done far more to affect change and start a conversation than seattles little kumbaya status quo nothingness.

[Rex Buckingham]

Tom Brady backup has 106 rating. Made me some money.

 

Apparently people will never figure out that Brady is the most overrated player of the past, I don't know, 15 years

 

Or maybe Jimmy G just has a good amount of talent himself, and when surrounded by good talent and good coaching, it looks that much better. Brady is probably one of the top 2 or 3 QBs to ever play the game.

[jersey cubs fan]

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[Andy]

Tom Brady backup has 106 rating. Made me some money.

 

Apparently people will never figure out that Brady is the most overrated player of the past, I don't know, 15 years

He's earned the title of best QB of all time by making so many Super Bowls, but after Belichick won 11 games with Matt freaking Cassel and now inevitably goes 4-0 with Garoppolo, those two things do deserve mention as well.

[ConstableRabbit]

Brady's WAORR (Wins Above On Roster Replacement) is... not good.

[CubInOK]

How do the Patriots find and develop good OLs?

[Derwood]

RGIII on IR with a fractured shoulder

[chuckywang]

Aaron Rodgers is amazing

 

Reminds me of this (called back due to penalty):

[Careless]

Tom Brady backup has 106 rating. Made me some money.

 

Apparently people will never figure out that Brady is the most overrated player of the past, I don't know, 15 years

 

Or maybe Jimmy G just has a good amount of talent himself, and when surrounded by good talent and good coaching, it looks that much better. Brady is probably one of the top 2 or 3 QBs to ever play the game.

Yeah, I'm sure he'll be a huge success after he leaves the Patriots

[Transmogrified Tiger]

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[Omar]

RGIII on IR with a fractured shoulder

 

Derrick Rose of the NFL

[jersey cubs fan]

RGIII on IR with a fractured shoulder

 

Derrick Rose of the NFL

wait, what? no

 

 

Didn't Derrick Rose win the MVP? RGIII is the (injured QB who keeps getting injured) of the NFL just like a lot of other guys.

[CubColtPacer]

RGIII on IR with a fractured shoulder

 

Derrick Rose of the NFL

wait, what? no

 

 

Didn't Derrick Rose win the MVP? RGIII is the (injured QB who keeps getting injured) of the NFL just like a lot of other guys.

 

RGIII's rookie season by some statistical measures was considered one of the best 40 seasons ever by a QB. It's not an exact comparison, but it's fairly close.

[Sammy Sofa]

Trent Dilfer is just magnificently stupid:

 

http://deadspin.com/trent-dilfer-should-consider-sitting-this-one-out-1786605611

 

Former NFL QB Trent Dilfer has jumped into the conversation about San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick’s protests during the national anthem, and it’s been a rough couple of days for him.

 

Dilfer performed an elaborate rendition of “stick to sports” on Sunday’s edition of NFL Countdown, as he called protesting players “irresponsible” for expressing their beliefs, “because people aren’t tuning in to us to hear about what we feel about all these social issues.” He acknowledged that his thoughts weren’t as important as Kaepernick’s, because of their different backgrounds, but he said he believed that a team could not succeed on the field if its players were distracted by issues off of it.

 

“My wife and I had been introduced to some really disturbing stuff and other social injustices: Childhood slavery in our country. And I’d gone to a couple seminars and presentations where we got really deep in the weeds about this issue. It became a passion of ours to help fight this battle of childhood slavery around the country and I had a very big platform in Seattle and I could have leveraged being a Seattle Seahawk, being an NFL quarterback, done a lot to get that message out there, but I chose not to at the sake of not wanting to disrupt the team and I never want to draw attention to myself, and take it away from Matt, the rest of our team and our preparation to win.”

 

Hey, Trent Dilfer’s no hero, but he avoided imploding his team by speaking out against child slavery and attracting all those proponents of child slavery to harass him and call for boycotts of the Seahawks. Imagine those intense media scrums where Dilfer would have to face question after question about why he doesn’t support child slavery. It’s a good thing he stayed quiet so Seattle could achieve its 9-7 record in peace.

 

http://deadspin.com/trent-dilfer-should-consider-sitting-this-one-out-1786605611