We are one week away from honest to god NFL football

[Jeremy Igo]

Chiefs play the Texans next Thursday night in the season opener. 

 

We are almost there, folks. Just hang on a little bit longer. 

[Jeremy Igo]

Just now, richASINspirit said:

Can't wait to watch some Patriots games

[Shocker]

[Mr. Scot]

Let's also set the expectation that it's going to be really really bad football.

Week 1 is typically sloppy anyway, but with no preseason it's probably gonna be a whole new level of ugly.

I won't even talk about the officiating.

[Jeremy Igo]

5 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Let's also set the expectation that it's going to be really really bad football.

Week 1 is typically sloppy anyway, but with no preseason it's probably gonna be a whole new level of ugly.

I won't even talk about the officiating.

If the Chiefs and Texans are bad, I shudder to think what the Panthers will be. 

 

Yikes. 

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, Jeremy Igo said:

If the Chiefs and Texans are bad, I shudder to think what the Panthers will be. 

Yikes. 

I plan to keep a puke bucket next to the couch.

[CRA]

28 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Let's also set the expectation that it's going to be really really bad football.

Week 1 is typically sloppy anyway, but with no preseason it's probably gonna be a whole new level of ugly.

I won't even talk about the officiating.

well, college football pulls it off pretty consistently.  Not sure why the NFL can't function without preseason games. 

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, CRA said:

well, college football pulls it off pretty consistently.  Not sure why the NFL can't function without preseason games. 

College football isn't pro level.

And as mentioned, even with preseason games, Week 1 pro football is frequently sloppy as hell.

Throw in that the roster decisions will have been made without benefit of seeing guys in actual game situations, so there will likely be at least a few guys on every roster who probably shouldn't be there.

[Harbingers]

41 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Let's also set the expectation that it's going to be really really bad football.

What do you mean let’s set, I was already set for some really bad football early this season since January 7th. Anything better than really bad football will be a pleasant surprise. 

[Harbingers]

If there’s one good thing out of this whole situation. There is absolutely zero tape on the “new” panthers. So any really bad football can’t be blamed on the coaches. It’s all on the GM/Players until there’s tape out. 
 

That is unless the entire scheme is dogshit and we get trounced. Which when you think about game 1-3/4 is basically going to be preseason except for really well built teams coming out of last year without much turnover who will have a huge leg up on the rest of the competition this year. 

[Basbear]

We're going to make it, this is the greatest feeling in the world!!!

 

 

[Davidson Deac II]

4 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Let's also set the expectation that it's going to be really really bad football.

Week 1 is typically sloppy anyway, but with no preseason it's probably gonna be a whole new level of ugly.

I won't even talk about the officiating.

bad could be fun.  Could end up looking like the first couple of weeks of 2011 where two games each had a 1000 yards of passing and Tom Brady had almost 1000 yards after two weeks.  

And bad football is still better than no football.

[ThPantherFan]

4 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

I plan to keep a puke bucket next to the couch.

I've got to kill a hog to get that thought out of my mind.

[ForJimmy]