The NFL Thread (with added College Football)

[ADVILLAFAN]

I can see us losing the next 3 games, then after that there are 5 winnable games. However, 8-8 is terrible. Better to be 4-12 and get a better draft pick, than in no mans land.

Luck being injured makes the AFC South interesting; which dreadful team will make the play-offs?

[ADVILLAFAN]

Stolen from the NFL UK forum; this made me laugh regarding the NFL unbeaten teams:-

http://www.goodmeme.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/aS4j1Ue.jpg

[Villa in Denmark]

I had to look twice, but very good.

Anyway, I can't bad mouth the New England too much.

1. I can remember when they had Doug Flutie as QB. That was comedy value.

2. I won a shitload betting on them to win be less than 7 at halftime in the Superbowl.

[OCD]

I thought only Villa could blow a game like the Packers did last night. Quite a crazy end to a game.

[DaveD]

Fantastic finish to the Giants v Patriots game last night.

The Pats were very lucky to win that, and the injury list is approaching crisis point - good job we've got 9 in the bag 'cos I reckon we'll be hard pushed to get more than a couple more, we've got no OLine left, and the squad is looking thin all over. Hopefully the likes of Edelman and Collins will be back before the play-offs too.

The Giants look dangerous. Eli looks much better in the West Coast offence and that defence is starting to look formidable again. If they were more experienced, they'd have won that game. I would not want to play them in the Superbowl again.

[Toronto Villa]

How about Big Ben? Coming back from an injury way before time, not expected to play at all yesterday and then entering the game in the first and just crushing the Browns. Apparently the greatest performance by a "back up" QB ever. And Antonio Brown is a monster with Roethlisberger at QB.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Bears were very impressive against the Rams. If Forte and Bennett do go it looks like Langford and Miller can step up, which would free us up to strengthen in other areas.

We're doing well with the talent we have (which isn't great).

Packers and Lions didn't seem to want to win , in spite of Prater and Megatron's best efforts, the Lions squeak through.

Vikings continue to rack up wins.

[UK Redsox]

Foot injuries of the week brought to you in part by Rex Ryan's shoe sniffing emporium..................

Peyton has aggravated a tear in his foot http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14143938/peyton-manning-denver-broncos-torn-plantar-fascia-right-foot

Edelman needs foot surgery but may return later in the season http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14142157/julian-edelman-new-england-patriots-surgery-repair-broken-left-foot

[cdbearsfan]

I thought only Villa could blow a game like the Packers did last night. Quite a crazy end to a game.

I didn't watch it all, just watched on Redzone, but seems to me Green Bay should never have been in any position to win the game had Detroit not tried every trick from the Kevin Keegan school of bottling. They missed TWO extra points, and lost an onside kick. FFS! That's got to be about a one-in-a-thousand shot at the most.

Pleased Da Bears won. Shame we play in a good division, if we played in a shite one we'd have a chance of a Wildcard.

Annoyed by the Cheatriots' win. Why did Eli keep throwing the sodding ball rather than running it to take loads of time off the clock? They were guaranteed a field goal and the lead. New England should've had no more than a minute remaining when they got the ball and, in the end, they had virtually the whole two minute drill to play with.

[usav]

I thought only Villa could blow a game like the Packers did last night. Quite a crazy end to a game.

I didn't watch it all, just watched on Redzone, but seems to me Green Bay should never have been in any position to win the game had Detroit not tried every trick from the Kevin Keegan school of bottling. They missed TWO extra points, and lost an onside kick. FFS! That's got to be about a one-in-a-thousand shot at the most.

Pleased Da Bears won. Shame we play in a good division, if we played in a shite one we'd have a chance of a Wildcard.

Annoyed by the Cheatriots' win. Why did Eli keep throwing the sodding ball rather than running it to take loads of time off the clock? They were guaranteed a field goal and the lead. New England should've had no more than a minute remaining when they got the ball and, in the end, they had virtually the whole two minute drill to play with.

Agreed.  I think they thought their defence would bail them out - and to be fair, they had up to that point.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Playing in an NFL Fantasy League for the first time this year. At the end of the season are there playoffs for the top however many team (10 teams in my league)?

Also, does that mean that it's worth trying to get players into my line-up who are likely to be in the playoffs?

[UK Redsox]

Playing in an NFL Fantasy League for the first time this year. At the end of the season are there playoffs for the top however many team (10 teams in my league)?

Also, does that mean that it's worth trying to get players into my line-up who are likely to be in the playoffs?

The playoffs for Fantasy Leagues are normally the last couple of weeks of the regular season

I don't think that the actual real-life playoffs are used

[ADVILLAFAN]

Thanks Chap.

Looks like it goes to week 14, then the playoffs are weeks 15 and 16.

Would have been quite complicated otherwise; 4 people trying to pick loads of Patriots players....

[UK Redsox]

It makes sense to miss Week 17 as well because lots of players are rested that week

[ADVILLAFAN]

Aaron Rodgers and Adrian Peterson both limited in practice ahead of the NFC North matchup.