NFL Week 6 -- A Monday night troll job

[Liut]

I'd completely forgotten about McCoy's time in San Diego.

 

[HanSenSE]

Good news, bad news out of 49ers Monday newser:
Good - George Kittle expected to play this week.
Bad - Fred Warner to have ankle surgery tomorrow. Out for the season.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Dan Campbell got ahead of that, acknowledging that Branch was out of line in the postgame presser.

 

[outofplace]

He deserves it, but his actions were not unprovoked. It was years ago and in a different uniform, but Smith-Schuster has been suspended for hits that weren't quite as dirty as this one.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

You mean changes.

He was the best scout team defensive end the Panthers ever had.

The media has had a field day - and justifiably so - that the Panthers once had Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold on the same quarterback depth chart.

But no ... Scott Fitterer had to hand the Bears D.J. Moore and a pair of No. 1s for the right to go find another quarterback. Whoops.

 

[tapintoamerica]

According to ESPN, the past four quarterbacks taken No. 1 overall and six of the past eight saw their coaches fired during their rookie seasons.

One of the great all-time stats.
Why does a team have the top overall pick? Probably not because it made a prescient trade. It’s probably because it sucked beyond immediate repair.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Bills defense just isn't good enough to win a Super Bowl. Same as the last three seasons. Nothing they do seems to make it get better.

 

[DanOregon]

This is such an f-ked up fb season. I don't know if I've seen a "dominant" team in the NFL or college, just some very good teams and a whole lot of teams getting gutted by injuries.

 

[BTExpress]

"If we can get healthy by . . . " in a sport where you only get more unhealthy as the season goes on.

 

[Batman]

I was about to say FLOLcons, who should probably be up 31-14 right now, but the Bills' habit of playing with their food is about to bite them for the second week in a row.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

According to ESPN, the past four quarterbacks taken No. 1 overall and six of the past eight saw their coaches fired during their rookie seasons.

And the only two to keep their coaches beyond the QB's rookie year were the Cardinals & Bengals. How bad off do you have to be to make two of the losingest franchises in the sport look competent?

 

[dixiehack]

Whatever the next step was supposed to be for the Commandskins this year, it doesn’t feel like they are taking it.

 

[HanSenSE]

Da Bears are trusting this one to Jake Moody?

 

[HanSenSE]

Da Bears are trusting this one to Jake Moody?

Not my most brilliant post here.

 

[Chet Lemon]

At that distance in the rain I was more worried about the snap and hold.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Bears win 25-24 two games in a row?

 

[I Should Coco]

Obligatory “why not be under center for third and short” post.

But hey, it worked out well for the Bears!

 

[Chet Lemon]

Obligatory “why not be under center for third and short” post.

But hey, it worked out well for the Bears!

The Bears receiver’s drop in the rain turned out to be foreshadowing.

 

[DanOregon]

It's probably moot since the Falcons don't play on natural grass anymore, but I would have loved to have seen them go with the old red jerseys and gray pants with red helmets.

 

[Cosmo]

Whatever the next step was supposed to be for the Commandskins this year, it doesn’t feel like they are taking it.

I was expecting a regression, simply due to the schedule and the fact that a few of those wins last year were really fluky. Only positive I can take from last night is that Washington flat gave that game away with terrible turnovers yet only lost by one. But it's also the sort of game that's going to keep them out of the playoffs. Like last year, it's going to take 10 wins to get to the postseason in the NFC, meaning the Commanders will need to go 7-4 the rest of the way at the minimum.

Remaining schedule: at Dallas, at KC, Seattle, Detroit, Miami in Madrid, Denver, at Minnesota, at Giants, Philly, Dallas, at Philly.

Not seeing it. Would require sweeping the home schedule (plus Miami) and picking off a road win somewhere. Not to mention two of the teams they'll likely be fighting with (Atlanta and Chicago) have already beaten Washington.