Other AFC Teams

[meatface]

Baltimore looked very unprepared today.

 

[JMC00]

Oh look at that the Big Bad Donkeys went into Buffalo and LOST to Tyrod Taylor

 

[Wordsmyth]

Ratbirds, Donkeys, Steelturds lose. A good day indeed.

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

The NFL is...weird this year

 

[supafly]

Seahawks lost too. Packers and Falcons came damn close to losing.

 

[Pessimistic Pete]

IMO, the only team that will be battling us for the #1 seed is whoever wins the AFC South.

AFC North winner ceiling is 11 games, AFC South 10 games, maaaybe 11.

It will then come down to the Raiders/Chiefs/Broncos, who hopefully beat up on each-other.

 

[Bruins29]

The NFL is...weird this year

Looked like a lot of empty seats today. What do you think it was?

 

[SalemPats]

Looked like a lot of empty seats today. What do you think it was?

Since Goodell has become a dictator it has been negative press for the past 5 years for the NFL. It's now cool for journalists to bash them.

The pub is so bad that no one will write an article that Colin Kaepernick has been one of the worst QBs over the past 4 years, has a completion percentage of under 60% and averages under 8 yards per completion. With the defenses going for speed it's tougher for a running QB nowadays. He's not good enough to be a starter and probably not even a backup. Instead you have donkeys pointing out a bad game saying Kaep couldn't be worse.

 

[supafly]

IMO, the only team that will be battling us for the #1 seed is whoever wins the AFC South.

AFC North winner ceiling is 11 games, AFC South 10 games, maaaybe 11.

It will then come down to the Raiders/Chiefs/Broncos, who hopefully beat up on each-other.

Hard to imagine someone from the West failing to step up and finish at 12-4 or so. Even Pittsburgh in the North has a pretty easy schedule. It's certainly not the South that I'd be worried about.

 

[chumpchange]

Looked like a lot of empty seats today. What do you think it was?

"National anthem protests were the top reason that NFL fans watched fewer games last season, according to a new survey released by J.D. Power.

The pollster said it asked more than 9,200 people who attended either one football, basketball or hockey game whether they tuned into fewer games and why. Twenty-six percent of those who watched fewer games last season said that national anthem protests, some of which were led by Colin Kaepernick, were the reason.

After that, 24 percent of those surveyed who said they watched fewer games said they did so either because of the league's off-the-field image issues with domestic violence or with game delays, including penalties.

One in five (20 percent) listed excessive commercials and advertising as a reason, something the NFL is seeking to address by moving around traditional ad blocks."
-espn.com; July 27, 2017

 

[Simpelton]

I suppose this is as good a thread as any to put this. Jacoby Brissett just absolutely abused a bad Browns defense today. Showed good eyes and a good head as well as some quick moves with his feet that we haven't seen before from him in live action.

Sure, it was a bad defnese but good quarterbacks abuse bad defenses and that's exactly what Brissett did today. All the more evidence that the kid belongs.

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

Looked like a lot of empty seats today. What do you think it was?

Half the people in our section left beginning of 4th due to heat...our entire row was almost empty for GW

 

[Bruins29]

Half the people in our section left beginning of 4th due to heat...our entire row was almost empty for GW

I figured it was hot there. but it looked as if there were more open seats than usual. Could it have been the protests?

Also, how many 4th Q comebacks have Pats fans missed because they left early? There has to be several of them

 

[Brick27]

Half the people in our section left beginning of 4th due to heat...our entire row was almost empty for GW

Absolutely brutal in the seats. Lost interest in drinking beer because of saving room for water

 

[TB_Helmet]

"National anthem protests were the top reason that NFL fans watched fewer games last season, according to a new survey released by J.D. Power.

The pollster said it asked more than 9,200 people who attended either one football, basketball or hockey game whether they tuned into fewer games and why. Twenty-six percent of those who watched fewer games last season said that national anthem protests, some of which were led by Colin Kaepernick, were the reason.

After that, 24 percent of those surveyed who said they watched fewer games said they did so either because of the league's off-the-field image issues with domestic violence or with game delays, including penalties.

One in five (20 percent) listed excessive commercials and advertising as a reason, something the NFL is seeking to address by moving around traditional ad blocks."
-espn.com; July 27, 2017

Yeah except people are lying in that survey. If you look at the raw data, the total number of people watching the NFL hasn't really changed. It's just the amount of time they watch per game that's down. That reflects a distracted society (many more options competing for our attention) much more than a boycott or anything related to protests.

Source:

Ratings dipped again on Sunday. Sunday Night Football’s Packers-Falcons game was down 8 percent from last season and 23 percent from 2015. The curious thing about these dips is that the number of people viewing games is not down, but the amount of time they’re watching for is. Unless “only watching part of a game” is a new form of political boycott, that reasoning for the ratings drop doesn’t hold much water. (Yes, we have a year’s worth of data noting that people say they are tuning out because of boycotts. But we have roughly 200,000 years of data suggesting that what people say and what they do are often two entirely different things.)

How Football Stopped Being Fun

More references in that link. People love to say that the protests are leading to ratings being down but that's just wishful, politically motivated thinking.

 

[mgteich]

Packers and Falcons came damn close to losing.

as we did

 

[TB_Helmet]

Oh and I went off on a tangent in that previous post, but sticking to the OP, I think Chiefs look great and are easily the number one threat to the Pats.

 

[SHOWTIME15]

Cross the ravens off the list.

Cross the Steelers and Raiders off the list.

 

[Deus Irae]

Yeah except people are lying in that survey. If you look at the raw data, the total number of people watching the NFL hasn't really changed. It's just the amount of time they watch per game that's down.

My personal experience and observation tells a different story.

 

[PatsDeb]

Looked like a lot of empty seats today. What do you think it was?

If you are talking about Gillette, it was the heat. It was unbearable. A lot of folks were in the shaded concourse or the clubs just to get out of the sun, but it was full.