NFL

[grunthy]

It looks improved because they have faced terrible offenses.

[Dickie Dunn]

I mean, you can only beat the teams in front of you. Most of the league sucks as it is. More than half of the league averages less than 22 points per game.

[dodint]

It looks improved because they have faced terrible offenses.

So I’m calling bullshit on this claim.

[columbia]

There's a lot of that going around.

[mikey]

I wouldn't rate the majority of those offenses as terrible either...

[willeyeam]

I wouldn't rate the majority of those offenses as terrible either...

Fake news. You thought the Chiefs were good

[mikey]

They are. What they did yesterday against New York, I don't know...but that's a good team.

[skullman80]

If there is any year the Steelers should be able to take down the Pats.. this is the year.

[RonnieFranchise]

I damn sure don’t want the Eagles to win the Super Bowl but anytime anyone beats those dirtbags 37-9 it’s gonna put a smile on my face.

[dodint]

If the season ended today the Ravens would be a wildcard team at .500. Yuck. The AFCN should not have two teams in the playoffs.

[NailedPenguin]

Georgia Dome was only 25 years old? Geez

[DigitalGypsy66]

Yep, and Turner Field was just over 20 years old when it closed a couple of years ago.

[robbiestoupe]

If there is any year the Steelers should be able to take down the Pats.. this is the year.

I think they would have beat them in 2008/9 if they had met in the playoffs. Not sure this is the year. Somehow I tricked myself into believing last year they had a chance, but not again.

The thing that sucks is even if they beat the Pats in week 15, I would still put money on the Pats if they were to meet again in the playoffs. And if the Steelers lose to them in week 15, you think they would beat them in Foxboro? Plus, there's a good chance the Steelers lose a bye if they lose in week 15.

[NTP66]

I don’t care about what happens in the regular season. I think we finally have a defense capable of stopping them, or at least containing them.

[robbiestoupe]

The Lions game soured me on their pass defense. Are they better? Sure. Is it enough to stop the Pats? Don't think so. The teams that have beaten the Pats in the playoffs either 1) beat them in a shootout, which isn't very easy, or 2) have a defense that can get pressure with 4 guys and have CBs that can play tight coverage. The Steelers aren't there in either category, unless last week against the Titans was the offense's coming out party.

[Dickie Dunn]

For the Steelers to beat the Pats they need a healthy and able Joe Haden.

[blackjack68]

Can't find the Steelers generic thread, so...

Marcus Gilbert suspended 4 games for performance enhancing drugs.

[Dickie Dunn]

**** idiot. I don't think Chris Hubbard is enough to get it done.

[tifosi77]

[NTP66]

At least they’re regular season games.

[mikey]

Fake field goal with seven seconds left in the half with the ball not even near the end zone...? But why...? One of the stranger play calls I have seen...Seattle is just mentally horrendous with a yard to go...

[Kaiser]

And it's a toss to a fcking TE. What exactly was the best result from that supposed to be?

[tifosi77]

Interesting play call to end the game from SEA. There were 7 seconds on the clock, 52 yd field goal range. They sent out their offense as if they were running a play, inducing ATL to take a time out..... which meant they couldn't burn a TO to ice the SEA kicker, whom they sent out on to the field to not make a game-tying field goal immediately after. (So did it end up just being an elaborate way to ice your own kicker? Pete Carroll may have out-Pete Carrolled himself)

All I know is that game looked like a sht show after five minutes, and it ended up being a fun watch in the final five minutes.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Matt Ryan and his wife announce they are having twins...and Twitter gets to work:

https://twitter.com/i/moments/933104842448429057

[dodint]

Brutal.