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

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RG3 and Luck is another example. I've seen Luck in more commercials this year then ever before. It's also his worst NFL season. Not once was his brand brought up. Cam has the best season of his pro career. All we hear constantly is letters being sent in complaining about his celebrations, family situation not being married and so on.

Dan said Saturday nights game gave those who still see color a reason to pile on the Bengals coaches and players. How many times was Mike Shanahan blamed for Bill Romanowski or BB for Hernandez, constant cheating allegations by team staff. Never hear he lacks control.
 
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The Collector said:
RG3 and Luck is another example. I've seen Luck in more commercials this year then ever before. It's also his worst NFL season. Not once was his brand brought up. Cam has the best season of his pro career. All we hear constantly is letters being sent in complaining about his celebrations, family situation not being married and so on.

Dan said Saturday nights game gave those who still see color a reason to pile on the Bengals coaches and players. How many times was Mike Shanahan blamed for Bill Romanowski or BB for Hernandez, constant cheating allegations by team staff. Never hear he lacks control.
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Don't even need to go that far back. Just look at Rex Ryan. He had a guy make a penalty at the end of the game I think last season that cost them a game.

Let's not forget about Greg Williams either..... Dude would have a sterling lifetime ban if he was black.
 
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Cam has the best season of his pro career. All we hear constantly is letters being sent in complaining about his celebrations, family situation not being married and so on.
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Actually Cam is in a lot of commercials this year too
But he does get the unnecessary hate from *ahem white folks :lol:
 
macbk said:
Big Ben has a sprained AC joint and torn ligaments in right shoulder :x .
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Had that in my left shoulder. Can't fathom throwing a football or getting tackled with it.

But, I assume Ben will have the best aspirin he can find to dull the pain....................


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Look Out! Tom Brady Wants to Play Catch

The Patriots quarterback has turned the simple act of tossing a football back and forth into a rigorous workout

KEVIN CLARK
Updated Jan. 12, 2016 10:57 a.m. ET
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Tom Brady, one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history, intimidates defenses. He intimidates opposing coaches. And he can intimidate teammates and friends with just one simple question: “Wanna have a catch?”

Having a “catch” is typically one of the simpler transactions in sports. It’s so easy it’s performed by tailgaters in parking lots and kids on kindergarten playgrounds. You throw the ball, the other person catches it and throws it back. This is how most people in Brady’s inner circle assumed their games of catch would go. They were wrong.

“I’d never seen anything like it in my life,” former Patriots receiver Donte Stallworth said. “And I’ve seen nothing like it since.”

Brandon LaFell was only two weeks into his first offseason workout period with the Patriots last summer when Brady approached him and asked: “Catch with me a few times?” LaFell jumped at the opportunity and readied himself for a simple game of catch with his new quarterback.

[COLOR=#red]“We’re five yards apart, in the locker room, so I’m thinking this will be some soft-touch stuff,” LaFell said. “Then he starts doing his footwork, flicking his hips, just zipping the ball, all in the locker room.”[/COLOR]

LaFell was stunned. “I’m just looking around saying: ‘Why didn’t anyone warn me about this?’” he said, adding that he wasn’t wearing gloves to soften the speed of Brady’s fastballs. “That’s when I knew this was a whole different approach.”

Brady, who declined comment for this story, has become famous for his work ethic since rising from the 199th pick in the 2000 draft to a superstar of the game. He is the reigning Super Bowl champion quarterback and has his team in the divisional round of the playoffs once again this week. His Patriots will play the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday.

But for all the stories we’ve heard down the years about his preparation and attention to detail, among the least-known is how obsessive he is about the simple game of catch.

Nearly everyone who has played catch with Brady has a story. Last summer, Brady called Tony Gonzalez, a 14-time Pro Bowl tight end, out of nowhere “to have a catch.”

Gonzalez, like most people, assumed it would be a straightforward workout. When he arrived on a college campus in California, Brady was there with “a slew of people” including his throwing coach, former major league pitcher Tom House, nutritionists and “all of the things that make the Brady machine,” said Gonzalez, who is now an analyst with CBS Sports. House declined to comment.

Brady proceeded to deliver his signature pinpoint passes to Gonzalez. But in between throws, Brady grew more and more frustrated if his pass missed its target by even an inch.

[COLOR=#red]After one pass hit Gonzalez squarely in the chest, Brady chided himself for not getting the ball a little further in front of his target. Gonzalez was confused—the pass was perfect. But Brady explained that if the ball had been a foot and a half in front of the receiver’s body, it would mean an extra three yards gained after the catch. (To be clear, this was in the dead of summer, with no defenders around and months before any meaningful games.)
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“I joked ‘Tom, if you’d seen some of the quarterbacks I played with, you’d know I’m just glad you got it to me,’” Gonzalez said. “I was blown away.”

While Brady’s warm-up routine can be intense, players say Brady uses these summer games of catch as his laboratory.

When the Patriots signed Danny Amendola, Brady called him for a workout in California. Amendola quickly realized that Brady was determined to correct his splits--the distance between the quarterback and receiver—by a matter of inches. Around the same time[COLOR=#red], Amendola realized that Brady’s “catches” were not normal. “He’s looking at inches, making sure that you are lined up in your splits, getting your depth on routes, the speed coming in out of your brakes, he tries to emulate a game at all times,” Amendola said of their first game of catch. “We weren’t even going against any defenders and it was that detail-oriented.”[/COLOR]

These are the sort of small, incremental tricks Brady is known for. [COLOR=#red]LaFell said that before 1 p.m. games on Sunday, Brady holds his throwing sessions with receivers at the exact spot on the field where the sun will be in the receivers’ eyes when they look back for the ball--and intentionally throws it to a spot that forces them to look into the sun so their eyes are used to locating the ball in such situations come game time.[/COLOR]

“There’s a constant bombardment of ideas, of things that could potentially happen,” said former Patriots fullback Heath Evans, now an analyst on NFL Network. “He was constantly challenging us to find the potential hiccups.”

Stallworth, who played on the 2007 Patriots team that went 16-0 during the regular season, said he’s never seen anyone as prepared as Brady. During one of Stallworth’s first offseason workouts with the team, Brady threw a perfect pass, one that the receiver simply had to cradle to catch. Stallworth dropped it. Disappointed, he ran back towards Brady, who profusely apologized.

“He was pissed off at himself, he figured out he was an inch or two off” said Stallworth. “That’s when I realized: ‘Wow, this dude is crazy.’”
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it's gonna take a miracle for the Steelers to beat the Broncos this weekend IMO

I don't know how Ben will be effective at all
 
macbk said:
Big Ben has a sprained AC joint and torn ligaments in right shoulder
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Unless Ben inject an entire 5-gal Homer Bucket worth of Cortisone into his shoulder Sunday, I can't see the Steelers beating the Broncos. Looks like we'll see Denver in the AFC title game.
 
macbk said:
Big Ben has a sprained AC joint and torn ligaments in right shoulder :x .
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TimidTebow said:
No one in this thread made a big deal about the coach who pulled the players dreads. The only coaches most people fussed about were Marvin, Tomlin, and Porter. I actually forgot that happened until you mentioned it..
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It seemed more like a case of him turning him around and pushing Reggie back into the field and his hand got caught in his hair as opposed to grabbing and pulling it (from what I recall). Someone post a vid, still shouldn't have done it. But if it was a straight hair pull I feel like Nelson would've reacted stronger.

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Still can't believe how Ben beat the Bungles on one arm :lol:
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Prevent defense on a QB that couldn't throw 10 yards
 
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I played with a separated shoulder in my high school hockey playoffs and it was some of the most pain that I have ever dealt with
 
Post Gazette reporting that Tomlin confirmed that Porter didn't get a game ball
 
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Rolaholic said:
"RGme"
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“He was a constant professional and didn’t become a distraction,” said sixth-year defensive lineman Chris Baker. “It’s gotta be hard for a guy of his stature to go from being the guy to a bench player, but he handled it with class.”

Lot of teammates had good things to say about RG3's attitude.  But that will be ignored here and by the media since he's in the crosshairs.
 
Hank Scorpio said:
Unless Ben inject an entire 5-gal Homer Bucket worth of Cortisone into his shoulder Sunday, I can't see the Steelers beating the Broncos. Looks like we'll see Denver in the AFC title game.
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Of all the years I've Big Ben play, he plays much better injured come playoff time. srs
 
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