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The Random Thought Thread
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Davesta
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The year is 2027, the world is on covid Omega Delta Phi..
NFL: “Hey Benny Ben, I know this your first year and all.. congrats by the way.. but due to this pandemic, we’re only allowed certain number of seats. Unfortunately, your ceremony must be done through a zoom call.”
Ben: “what?! Why?”
NFL: “it’s mother father Tom Brady bro.”
just seen this
nfc south is a mess
saints are in cap hell and dont have a qb
bucs are going to have to rebuild and dont have a qb
panthers suck and dont have a qb
falcons are in cap hell
Tank
Hall of Famer
Good year to play the NFC South.
SepticeyePoe
Hall of Famer
Kind of crazy that 2022 will be the first NFL season of my life without Brady
I have only been alive for 4 months and 3 days of Tom Brady not being a starting qb in the nfl lol
more importantly Brady retires without ever finding a way to beat the true GOAT - Lamar Jackson
BoredMarine13
Ravens Ring of Honor
Jensen could be in ply for the Ravens now. Said publicly he would be back in Tampa if Brady came back.
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lots of people saying it's not a decision that's been made - my guess is brady had a plan for how he wanted to announce it and having it get leaked has screwed with that slightly
if we are going to pay a C, he would be THE option for me
BoredMarine13
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Would love to have ole red back in Baltimore. Pricing would be and issue though
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ill put it this way - if we're trying to keep bozeman and he wants top 5 money, id rather pay a bit extra and bring jensen back
if we're paying top dollar for a C, might as well make it slightly more expensive and get maybe the best guy in the league
it's a little arbitrary given that we had multiple 40+ yard plays...
we had the highest average depth of target and yards per attempt early in the year - explosive plays in the passing game wasnt really our issue at all this year - just happened to be that the deepest bomb we hit came from the 49 yard line...
the other issue is that all those bombs happened with lamar at QB and he didnt play for the basically 6 games which limits opportunities
through 5 or 6 weeks hollywood was leading the league in 20+ yard plays iirc (which is what most of the NFL use as their explosive plays measure)
for reference:
our ranking in explosive runs per sharpfootball was pretty unchanged with and without lamar but
our ranking in explosive pass plays was massively impacted also - without lamar in those 6 games we had only 13 total big pass plays at a rate of 5% which put us bottom 5 in the NFL...
our ranking with lamar as the passer... 10th in the NFL and that's even including "the slump" with a 10% rate
and just because i wanted to see - i looked at our ranking with lamar before the dolphins game... 3rd in the NFL at 12% (and again because i was curious - if you take out the chargers game where we just ran the ball then we're 1st - now obviously that's just me massaging stats but it's an indcator of just how explosive this passing game was before it broke)
TL;DR - dont worry about not having 50 yard plays... we were among the top 3 most explosive offences for the first half of the season - just so happened that none of our long bombs went 50 yards (mostly because the ball was snapped inside the opposing half)
SepticeyePoe
Hall of Famer
This reads like you just found out Chancellor Palpatine is the Sith lord we've been looking for
I'd imagine it's exactly that. It's incredibly shitty to not be able to announce your own retirement yourself, let alone when you're viewed the way Brady is.
At my job, a supervisor told the team I was working with that a coworker had gotten a promotion and the girl who got the promotion looked really pissed.
Later, a different girl on the same team made sure at her first opportunity to announce she was moving on so that her supervisor couldn't announce it.
People like to share their own personal news and victories. Brady is absolutely pissed.
Tank
Hall of Famer
too bad they don’t play the tournament during the first half of the season. lol
It’s not just about the QB, it’s also about not getting YAC turning those 20 -30 yard passes into big plays. Also no explosive RB last year.
More good news on that same show;
Save the Chiefs, all of our wins came against teams that failed to make the playoffs. Those teams had a combined record of 42 - 59.
I think it was cool that we were at least in the game for most of the late season losses, but the better teams hold on to those late game leads. Of course we had a huge number of injuries, stating the obvious we have a lot of work to do on defense too.
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Tank
Hall of Famer
Haha!