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NFL 2016 Season Thread

Rumors are that Kubiak may retire after this season for health reasons.

I expect Elway will make some roster moves. No playoffs isn't good enough.
 
It's been forever since I've posted in this thread mainly because talking about my beloved Miami Dolphins is just too painful. What's currently going on in South Beach is nothing short of amazing. Adam Gase has won 9 of 10 games with an extremely below average, injury-riddled roster. This team making the playoffs is nothing short of a miracle. Pittsburg is going to bounce them hard in the 1st round but for the first time in literally decades, Miami's on the cusp of becoming contenders. I can't wait to see where Gase takes this team moving forward.
 
jazzman12 said:
It's been forever since I've posted in this thread mainly because talking about my beloved Miami Dolphins is just too painful. What's currently going on in South Beach is nothing short of amazing. Adam Gase has won 9 of 10 games with an extremely below average, injury-riddled roster. This team making the playoffs is nothing short of a miracle. Pittsburg is going to bounce them hard in the 1st round but for the first time in literally decades, Miami's on the cusp of becoming contenders. I can't wait to see where Gase takes this team moving forward.
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Don't count them out against pittsburg.
 
fishonjazz said:
Don't count them out against pittsburg.
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They might surprise me but with our 2 starting Safeties on IR, 2 of the 3 starting LB's on IR, our Pro Bowl Center on IR, our QB out indefinitely and almost no quality roster depth, at some point it's just too much.

I'm still over the moon. When they hired Gase, the organization felt like they needed 3 years to fill all the roster holes and get quality depth. The fact that they are a playoff team right now makes Gase the unquestioned Coach Of The Year, IMO. If this team makes the right moves in the draft and free agency, they are a legit 12 win team next year. Our time has finally come Fish!
 
jazzman12 said:
They might surprise me but with our 2 starting Safeties on IR, 2 of the 3 starting LB's on IR, our Pro Bowl Center on IR, our QB out indefinitely and almost no quality roster depth, at some point it's just too much.

I'm still over the moon. When they hired Gase, the organization felt like they needed 3 years to fill all the roster holes and get quality depth. The fact that they are a playoff team right now makes Gase the unquestioned Coach Of The Year, IMO. If this team makes the right moves in the draft and free agency, they are a legit 12 win team next year. Our time has finally come Fish!
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Damn, I didn't know about all those injuries. I knew about tannehill obviously and I knew about the safeties.

Damn, that's rough. Hope the weather is ugly as hell and we can get a fluky win.


I hated the previous coach by the way.... that tall skinny old *** dude (drawing a blank on the name)
 
Wes Mantooth said:
If Bridgewater is healthy, are the Vikes gonna keep Bradford next year?
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They;re tight-lipped about it but I don't think Teddy will be ready. His injury was truly one of the most devastating leg injuries possible. Bradford was by-far the best player on the offense this year in the face of some horrific conditions with the O-line and running game. I'll be livid if he isn't back.
 
Heres the 2017 NFL draft order

1 Cleveland Browns
2 San Francisco 49ers
3 Chicago Bears
4 Jacksonville Jaguars
5 Los Angeles Rams (pick belong to Titans)
6 New York Jets
7 San Diego Chargers
8 Carolina Panthers
9 Cincinnati Bengals
10 Buffalo Bills
11 New Orleans Saints
12 Philadelphia Eagles (pick belong to Browns)
13 Arizona Cardinals
14 Minnesota Vikings (pick belongs to Eagles)
15 Indianapolis Colts
16 Baltimore Ravens
17 Washington Redskins
18 Tennessee Titans
19 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
20 Denver Broncos

Eagles & Colts pick will be decided by coin flip

Playoff teams tbd:
Packers
Lions
Giants
Seahawks
Falcons
Cowboys
Patriots
Chiefs
Raiders
Steelers
Dolphins
Texans
 
My Super Bowl prediction is the Falcons vs Pats with the Pats victorious. My backup matchup is Dallas vs KC with KC winning.

Assuming Pitt wins at home vs Miami, the Pats road is so easy. They'll play either the Raiders with their backup qb or a ****ty Houston team in the Divisional Round as basically a gift into AFC Championship game.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
My Super Bowl prediction is the Falcons vs Pats with the Pats victorious. My backup matchup is Dallas vs KC with KC winning.

Assuming Pitt wins at home vs Miami, the Pats road is so easy. They'll play either the Raiders with their backup qb or a ****ty Houston team in the Divisional Round as basically a gift into AFC Championship game.
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It's the Patriots Superbowl to lose. The combination of their offensive weapons and #1 ranked defense puts them ahead of everyone else.

Anything less than a SB win is a failure in my opinion.
 
Beantown said:
It's the Patriots Superbowl to lose. The combination of their offensive weapons and #1 ranked defense puts them ahead of everyone else.

Anything less than a SB win is a failure in my opinion.
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At a certain point this is correct. For a few teams this is the reality every year.
 
https://dailysnark.com/espn-reportedly-lose-upwards-75-million-texansraiders-game/

The Houston Texans will take on the Oakland Raiders in a Wild Card playoff game Saturday during inarguably the worst matchup this postseason.

With an uber-intriguing Matt McGloin/Brock Osweiler quarterback matchup, the game will likely be an offensive struggle reminiscent of something we would see on a midseason Thursday Night rather than a playoff game.

ESPN has television rights to the game, and will reportedly lose out big based on the circumstances.

According to Outkick, the network will lose $75 million televising the likely awful football game –

“This year ESPN will be televising the worst wild card game of the bunch in the worst time slot on the worst day for NFL football, the Oakland Raiders at the Houston Texans on Saturday afternoon.

It’s a battle between Matt McGloin/Connor Cook and Tom Savage/Brock Osweiler for the right to advance to play the New England Patriots and be executed on live television.

But until today I thought that at least ESPN was getting this wild card game as part of the $1.9 billion a year it pays for Monday Night Football and assorted other NFL studio shows. That Monday Night Football package just hit the lowest ratings in nearly a decade and narrowly avoided becoming the worst rated package of games in over forty years of Monday Night Football. But I was wrong about this game being included in that deal.

It turns out, and this is positively mind boggling, that ESPN pays $100 million dollars just to air this single wild card game.

Seriously, ESPN is paying $100 million to televise Raiders at Texans on Saturday.

Every other network that carries the NFL — NBC, CBS, and Fox — has their playoff games or the Super Bowl, which rotates between NBC, CBS and Fox each three years, included within their yearly rights fee. Except for ESPN, which pays an extra $100 million for one crappy wild card game.

But, wait, it gets worse.

ESPN can only make around $25 million airing this wild card game.

So ESPN will lose $75 million televising one playoff football game.”
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jazzman12 said:
They might surprise me but with our 2 starting Safeties on IR, 2 of the 3 starting LB's on IR, our Pro Bowl Center on IR, our QB out indefinitely and almost no quality roster depth, at some point it's just too much.

I'm still over the moon. When they hired Gase, the organization felt like they needed 3 years to fill all the roster holes and get quality depth. The fact that they are a playoff team right now makes Gase the unquestioned Coach Of The Year, IMO. If this team makes the right moves in the draft and free agency, they are a legit 12 win team next year. Our time has finally come Fish!
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OK but do the Dolphins even need Ryan Tannehill? Matt Moore has a better quarterback rating (over 100) and a wayyyyy better touchdown-to-interception ratio.
 
Man, if the Texans are going to win, they're going to have to do it with the run game and defense.


But it's going to be sooooo interesting seeing the Texans' super bad passing offense take on Oakland's super bad passing defense!
 
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