OFFICIAL NFL Discussion Thread: 2015-16 Season - Congrats to the Denver Broncos and their fans! SB 5

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That's honestly gotta be the first time I've ever heard anyone praising his OLines :lol:

Earlier on in his career I could see it but definitely not for most of his career
 
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One of the best backups :rofl:

Sanchez went 1-4 last year while killing any chance at a playoff berth after your starter went down.

He's terrible

Sanchez went 1-4? Recheck those stats, he went 4-4

Your boy Cousins went 1-4 though

Tyrod Taylor has played two seconds in the NFL so he's TBD
 
Chris Mortensen had awesome quote about bad Patriots reporting in 2008
August 20, 2015by Steve DelVecchio

I’m not usually one to take something a person did or said eight years ago and throw it in his or her face, but this is just too good to pass up.

Early Thursday morning, ESPN apologized to the New England Patriots after its employees made multiple references to a report about the Patriots cheating by filming the St. Louis Rams’ walkthrough before the Super Bowl in 2002. The report turned out to be false. In digging up past stories about the walkthrough tape that never was, I came across an unbelievably ironic quote from ESPN’s Chris Mortensen.

As many of you know, Mortensen helped the Deflategate scandal erupt early on when he incorrectly reported that 11 of the 12 game balls the Patriots used in the AFC Championship game were underinflated by a full two pounds per square inch each. It took Mortensen more than six months to address his false report and slightly longer to delete the initial tweet.

What’s your point, Del? Check out what Chris Mortensen said back in 2008 about the Boston Herald’s false report regarding the Patriots filming the Rams’ walkthrough.

“Other media outlets including ESPN, had this allegation and pursued this allegation for months, and it just didn’t meet the standard in terms of what you needed to report it, and the Boston Herald evidently felt they had met the standard to report it. They need to come out and say, ‘We stand by our story’ or they need to have a retraction and apology and deal with the consequences of it, but certainly it’s damaging to the Boston Herald at this point, especially if they stay silent on the subject.”

That’s almost too easy.

I have never blamed Mortensen for running the story about the Patriots’ balls being two pounds underinflated. He obviously got information from a source he felt was reliable (was it this NFL employee?), which is essentially what reporting is. However, he completely ignored his own seven-year-old advice by staying silent for months and neither retracting nor standing by his initial report.

Practice what you preach, Chris.
 
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that is true. but both regarded as higher then they actually were, by fans. same way people loved his image and attitude , i felt randy was that in the nfl. both great but overrated . 
true him and vick were probably the most influential to fans but most overrated players of the early 2000s
 
How in the hell was Randy over rated ...yall got some crazy definitions of that word

Do his stats not say he's one of the greatest of all time
 
Just because he didn't use all that talent to get to 200 TDs doesn't mean he's overrated but I digress...
 
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stats arent everything... is emmitt smith the best running back of all time. is peyton manning the goat. peyton manning overrated as well. you can be great and overrated . randy the greatest one trick pony /deep threat  in nfl history. a freak athlete more then actual football skills. he couldnt go over the middle , went half as and gave up on plays constantly. lot of flaws in his game. hes overrated when people say hes goat. 
 
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That's honestly gotta be the first time I've ever heard anyone praising his OLines :lol:

Earlier on in his career I could see it but definitely not for most of his career

Same



Montana was over thrown? I must have missed this memo.....:nerd:
 
we put rings on a pedestal but not one person would call eli top tier 
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too many double standards in sports debates
 
Same with Big Ben up until recently...never too late :nerd:

Dude has some damn weapons too :smh:
 
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