2024 NFL Thread

[Mdot21]

Lions are winning the division going away this year imo. Which is a crazy thing to say considering their history. They finally got Aidan some help up front on defense with DJ Reader and Marcus Davenport and they addressed the weakest link on their entire team last year- CB- by trading for Carlton Davis and drafting Terrion Arnold and Ennis Rakestraw Jr. in the 1st and 2nd round of the draft. Offense should be top notch- and anything they get out of Jameson Williams will just take it to another level, defense should be much improved and Hutch could be in for a DPOY kind of season- this is probably the best Lions team I can ever remember heading into a season. 

[ELA]

Depends on which Jordan Love we get.  If we get the second half one, Packers should battle for the division.  Either way both should get in again

[847badgerfan]

The Bears are going to be just as bad.

The good news is I don't care. The better news is the Queenies suck.

[Abba]

ankle sprain

supposedly, not serious

That's good news.  I heard he was carted off the field, so usually not a good sign.

[Mdot21]

Depends on which Jordan Love we get.  If we get the second half one, Packers should battle for the division.  Either way both should get in again

Agreed. Lions and Packers are clear cut #1 and #2 in the division, and after that there's a pretty big drop off. Both are playoff teams. While I definitely think Love has a higher ceiling than Goff does, he also has a lower floor and Detroit has a better overall roster than Green Bay. Jameson Williams needs to have a breakout season this year, and if he does Detroit is going to be special on offense because they have everything else already set in place with Amon-Ra, LaPorta at TE, the RB duo of Gibbs & Montgomery, and probably the best OL in the NFL.

[CatsbyAZ]

There’s a growing preseason consensus that the NFL’s worst team is likely the New England Patriots.

Their options at QB are career backups and an inexperienced rookie who’s played poorly in two preseason games thus far. Worse, the OL is underwhelming, even after the Patriots spent recent draft capital beefing it up; they were destroyed by the Eagles backup DL in both a joint practice and preseason game this past week. They’ve lost their two best DL in short order, trading pass rusher Matthew Judon to Atlanta after a contract dispute and losing DT Barmore indefinitely due to blood clots.

And new head coach Jared Mayo is a bit in over his head and only brings a one-dimensional background after coming up through the ranks of coaching linebackers, a hire mirroring UCLA promoting DeShaun Foster, also a career positional coach, to head coach.

New England’s schedule opens with @Cincinnati, Vs Seattle, @NY Jets, @San Francisco, continues into October with four more likely playoff contenders, and doesn’t get a BYE until the second Sunday in December. 

I’m looking forward to what should be a terrible season for the Patriots. Belichick’s last half-decade of poor drafts have thinned the roster.

Oh well – at least Mac Jones is gone:


https://twitter.com/BOSSportsGordo/status/1723748195912581432

[MrNubbz]

There’s a growing preseason consensus that the NFL’s worst team is likely the New England Patriots.

That's just terrible - if they're looking for sympathy it's between shit and syphilis in Webster's

[betarhoalphadelta]

What do you all think the Chargers offense will look like this year? 

I'm working on my fantasy draft prep, and it seems like Chargers players are being WOEFULLY undervalued. Herbert's one of the top pure passers in the league, and we all know Jeem, for all his faults, is a quality coach. 

In fantasy drafts, their top WR is the 43rd WR off the board and second is 58th, their top two RBs are the 37th and 42nd RBs off the board, top TE is 43rd off the board at that position. Heck, even Justin Herbert is being valued as the 16th QB off the board. 

Literally fantasy is drafting these players like the Chargers are going to have the Patriots' offense this year. 

What do you folks see?

[Mdot21]

There’s a growing preseason consensus that the NFL’s worst team is likely the New England Patriots.

Their options at QB are career backups and an inexperienced rookie who’s played poorly in two preseason games thus far. Worse, the OL is underwhelming, even after the Patriots spent recent draft capital beefing it up; they were destroyed by the Eagles backup DL in both a joint practice and preseason game this past week. They’ve lost their two best DL in short order, trading pass rusher Matthew Judon to Atlanta after a contract dispute and losing DT Barmore indefinitely due to blood clots.

And new head coach Jared Mayo is a bit in over his head and only brings a one-dimensional background after coming up through the ranks of coaching linebackers, a hire mirroring UCLA promoting DeShaun Foster, also a career positional coach, to head coach.

New England’s schedule opens with @Cincinnati, Vs Seattle, @NY Jets, @San Francisco, continues into October with four more likely playoff contenders, and doesn’t get a BYE until the second Sunday in December. 

I’m looking forward to what should be a terrible season for the Patriots. Belichick’s last half-decade of poor drafts have thinned the roster.

you don't hire Jerod Mayo as your head coach and expect to win. Pats are going to be truly awful, and I think the Kraft's knew they were going to suck this year.

Belichik has always been pretty awful at the draft. He took over a team that Parcells and Pete Carroll (two guys excellent at drafting) had stocked up and he sort of kind of lucked into Tom Brady falling out of the heavens into his lap in the 6th round and then blossoming into the greatest QB ever- and that's something no one on earth could've predicted not even Belichik. Belichik was great at getting undervalued F/A's and turning them into better players. And of course he had Tom Brady- who was the ultimate wart coverer. 

[Mdot21]

What do you all think the Chargers offense will look like this year?

I'm working on my fantasy draft prep, and it seems like Chargers players are being WOEFULLY undervalued. Herbert's one of the top pure passers in the league, and we all know Jeem, for all his faults, is a quality coach.

In fantasy drafts, their top WR is the 43rd WR off the board and second is 58th, their top two RBs are the 37th and 42nd RBs off the board, top TE is 43rd off the board at that position. Heck, even Justin Herbert is being valued as the 16th QB off the board.

Literally fantasy is drafting these players like the Chargers are going to have the Patriots' offense this year.

What do you folks see?

they are for sure being slept on. they already had one of the best young tackles in football in Rashawn Slater and they just drafted Joe Alt in the top 5. Jeem is going to build that OL into a monster. Herbert has real life coaching for the first time in his career, he's just going to get better imo.

I'm more excited to see their defense with Jesse Minter DC'ing. That defense should be nasty. And I think Junior Colson is going to slot right into a starting ILB spot because he knows that staff and that defense and he'll vie for Defensive Rookie of the Year. Joey Bosa, Khalil Mack, Derwin James, and Asante Samuel Jr are a great core to build a defense around. Joey Bosa has to stay healthy this year and that defense will be lit. 

[Mdot21]

Danny Dimes already in mid-season form. feel terrible for Malik Nabers. Giants should've took Michael Penix or JJ McCarthy.


https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1824860216308990064

[betarhoalphadelta]

That Caleb Williams dude might be pretty good at football. 

[Mdot21]

Danny Dimes out there killing it in pre-season...this was his 2nd of 3 INT's of his pre-season debut....


https://twitter.com/iam_johnw/status/1824863651615908106

[Mdot21]

That Caleb Williams dude might be pretty good at football.

https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1824876960612503743


https://twitter.com/JustinFieldsFC_/status/1824896059585282289