It's not really officially called an extra point.

Point After Touchdown (PAT)

Point After Touchdown seems like a free point instead of kicking a 40 yard field goal for it.

Hate Droford so much in this thread.

Still seems totally pointless (no pun intended). Should just give them 7 points per TD, and give them a really long kick to try and tack on an extra 1 to make it 8.

NFL brought the hammer down on the Browns and Falcons with their shenanigans.

Falcons fined $350k and lose a draft pick in 2016 for their fake crowd noise over the last 2 seasons.

Browns fined $250k and the GM suspended the first 4 games for sending text messages to sideline personnel during games.

seem like such stupid trivial things but I guess they "have to" do something about it

meh

When will the Colts and Seahawks be punished for the same thing (fake noise)? Seems like they are punishing a jobber team to send a message.

Roger Goodell is a fucking joke.

Colts were investigated and the allegations were proven to be false. CBS took responsibility for the crowd noise issue years ago when this rumor started. Something to do with their audio fucked up and caused a feedback sensation. It only existed on their channel's broadcast, and couldn't be heard in the stadium. That one event sparked rumors that they were doing it on purpose until they were investigated and cleared of it.

Harbaugh saying it again recently doesn't make it true.

Still Seahawks?

<font color=goldenrod>A couple of weeks after Jameis Winston said he won't attend the draft, Marcus Mariota won't be either.

Nice job moving the draft away from New York, Goodell.</font> :y:

Would not take any news you hear today seriously Vito. A die hard Philly fan just blew up when he read a article that the Vikings traded Peterson to Dallas for a draft pick.

<font color=goldenrod>It's being reported by CBS Sports, NBC Sports, and the Chicago Tribune. He's going to watch the draft from Hawaii with family. Not exactly an April Fool's Day-worthy story.</font>

Okay. My bad then. I checked ESPN and NFL.com and did not see anything related to it. Which I could have missed on those site also.

:lol: Bengals April Fool prank ended up making fun of the Browns.

http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=...11_300x200.jpg

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12...wns-logo-prank

The Ravens signed Matt Schaub for backup QB. Flacco hasn't missed a start in 7 years, I guess it doesn't matter much. They should have just drafted another backup. Seems like waste to pay him to sit on the bench and hold a clipboard the whole year, and if Flacco gets hurt they're fucked anyway cause he sucks.

Former Bucs kicker, Lawrence Tynes, is currently suing the team over the MRSA mini-pandemic a few years ago.

Jets signed Steven Ridley to a 1-year deal according to ESPN. Expected to be more of a backup than starter role for the Jets. Redskins and Dolphins were also interested in getting him.

Preseason schedules have been released.

Interested to see Droford's picks.

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Saints- win since they've never lost to Brees and I assume he at least starts 1 drive
@Eagles -depends on the draft
Redskins- win
@Falcons-win

Ravens are going 23-0 this year

Droford, I will make a 9ers/Ravens bet with you when the season starts if you's like.

I'm not that crazy
49ers are like The California Ravens with Smith and Boldin..you probably wish you had Flacco too

I absolutely do not wish that in any way, shape, or form.

lol Droford does not disappoint.

Didn't Bell from the Steelers get suspended for three games for pot? So funny. Hate Bengals are taking that division and losing in the wild card game. Beating the Bengals in the wild card game will start becoming a tradition.

<font color=goldenrod>Aaron Hernandez found guilty of first degree murder, which carries a maximum life sentence in Massachusetts.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Scratch that, life without parole is the ONLY sentence available for first degree murder in Massachusetts. He's done.</font>

Wild. They didn't have a murder weapon or anything, but I guess in Mass that doesn't matter or something. Idk. He obviously did it though. Still can't process this.

They probably destroyed it. They destroyed alot stuff trying to cover it up.

I have not followed this at all so I don't know all the facts but he admitted to being there and witnessing the crime right? And then running away and not calling the cops? Like really? Why would you admit that.

Desperate attempt to say he didn't actually kill him.

Show some respect he's innocent he didn't pull the trigger. An innocent man will be in prison for his life only 25

Walking through the airport terminal before I went home today, one of the bars I walked passed had ESPN on and I had stopped and watched for a bit.

Stopped and watched for a bit and said out loud, "holy shit, they found him guilty."

Surprised this took about 5 days and change for a verdict. Was the Marathon Bomber verdict faster?

Awesome

15 years ago today Tom Brady was drafted.

And 2 days ago a man was falsely acquitted of killing someone. Sad to the Tom Brady, Bill, and the patriots not back there guy. So classless.

This dude put a Star Wars twist on the NFL
NFC

https://www.behance.net/gallery/9234...ootball-League

AFC

https://www.behance.net/gallery/9233...ootball-League

Courscant Vaders is the only really cool one of the bunch.

Oakland should cut a deal with Disney and capitalize on it somehow.

the Hoth Wampas one looks p. badass

Tim Tebow just signed with the Eagles

Chip Kelly ladies and gentleman!

TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Oh my sweet mother of fuck.

Chip Kelly is trolling the entire NFL.

Wait what

This should stop all the Mariota talk. Don't see him wasting a whole draft to get another QB.

Tim Tebow is the 3rd string QB. They will get rid of Barkley.

Eagles need to start tebow to win division. Dual threat with the read option him and Murray will dominate

Probably not... However I would rather have Tebow be the QB for an extended period of time then Mark Sanchez.

I know without a doubt that Sanchez blows as with Tebow I'm a little less sure.

Mark Sanchez seems infinitely better than Tim Tebow to me.

[insert quarterback here, literally any single quarterback who has played professionally except maybe like... Josh Freeman circa 2015] does as well

I would go with Josh Freeman over Tim Tebow.

I probably would too, really.

I lived with Mark Sanchez for 7 games last year, and I don't want to live with him again.

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Think 2005 was the last time Pats played the Steelers for their opener.


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Bears vs. Packers is the Thanksgiving Night game.

They're gonna retire Favre's #4 that night, too.

AND, it's the first Thanksgiving home game for the Packers since 1923. A good 92 years since.

Giants @ Dallas on SNF in week one is a little strange considering the other options available. Kinda makes me think they're saving Philly for Thanksgiving again now. Dallas @ Washington seems like a lock for a Monday night at some point, too.

<font color=goldenrod>Yeah it seems weird. Giants/Dallas are a lock for a night game once a year but Giants @ Dallas was the SNF opener just 2 years ago. And the 3rd time in 4 years that those 2 teams play each other week 1.

Also for the Giants it's the 4th year in a row they open in a night game. Obv one of them was the customary night opener for winning the SB but still seems odd.

Pretty much abhor night games cause they're extra stressful.</font>

Why the hell have the Bears playing the Packers on Thanksgiving? At least have it Detroit and Green Bay. The Bears will be blown out by 50 points.

<font color=goldenrod>lol 4 of the first 6 Giants games are night games. Bollocks. oh well at least they'll be over and done with early.

Plus they play the Dolphins on MNF in the second half and Eagles/Giants week 17 is always a flex possibility depending on how the playoff picture looks then.</font>

Instanalysis

Sep. 13 at Denver Broncos 4:05 L
Sep. 20 at Oakland Raiders 4:05p W
Sep. 27 Cincinnati Bengals 1:00p W
Oct. 1 at Pittsburgh Steelers (Thu) W
Oct. 11 Cleveland Browns 1:00p W
Oct. 18 at San Francisco 49ers 4:25p W
Oct. 26 at Arizona Cardinals (Mon) W
Nov. 1 San Diego Chargers 1:00p L
Nov. 8 BYE
Nov. 15 Jacksonville Jaguars 1:00p W
Nov. 22 St. Louis Rams 1:00p W
Nov. 30 at Cleveland Browns (Mon) W
Dec. 6 at Miami Dolphins 1:00p W
Dec. 13 Seattle Seahawks 8:30p L
Dec. 20 Kansas City Chiefs 1:00p W
Dec. 27 Pittsburgh Steelers 8:30p W
Jan. 3 at Cincinnati Bengals 1:00p L

12-4

5 prime time games is pretty crazy though, although not as crazy as 4 west coast games plus 5 of first 7 on the road

23-0, DROFORD

Losing to the Chargers at home but beating the Steelers in Pittsburgh? Interesting.

As bad as Droford with his Ravens locks last year, any prediction less than 23-0 makes me think they won't be making the playoffs.

Carson city council approves the construction of a $1.7 billion NFL stadium for... whoever is about to become the "LA" somethings.

really hope Tebow is on the roster still for the Thanksgiving game so I can see him in person

What the heck were they thinking putting 3 crap games on in a row for MNF? Sure everyone wants to see the Eagles but to go against the mighty Falcons? Ew. That game will prove nothing. At least put them against a .500 team.

Yeah. 9ers vs Vikings? Seems like a fairly lackluster game for MNF.

Winnable game though.

Week 6, Driford. We are betting.

If the Ravens can get through the tough road stretch to start, the back end with all the home games looks promising. I could even see them beating the Seahawks since it's a prime time game at home.

Plus the Steelers play 4 of their last 6 on the road including @ Seattle and the two home games are Denver and Indianapolis.

Cincinnati has a favorable schedule but they get the same 4 west coast game treatment. They also have to play Houston from the AFC South where the Ravens play the Jaguars. I also should have factored the Bengals playing in Denver week 16 on MNF before the week 17 game, that might work against them.

<font color=goldenrod>Feel like making predictions any earlier than after the 3rd week of preseason games has been played is a bit silly. Rosters are going to change a ton between the draft, undrafted rookie signings, and the inevitable training camp/preseason injuries.</font>

Any predictions Droford makes are a bit silly. Last year killed any credibility he has/had when he would pick really idiotic wins.

Falcons could be a suprise team this year. NFC South can't be as bad as it was last year. Ryan has weapons just needs an O line and the D to step up.

Last year's prediction

I like how I was wrong about the Panthers and Saints games which were actually 2 of their best performsnces. I was also wrong about the Texans game which was probably their 2nd worst loss behind the drubbing they took in Pittsburgh (which was made up for in the playoffs)

They went 10-6 but they disn't split with the Bengals for 11 like I thought they would, and I totally blame that on the bullshit offensive PI call in the week 1 game at home. And technically with the 1 playoff win they did win 11 games.

So I like to think I was about as close as anyone in predicting their season. I did predict it in July, so I will probably go back an adjust if anything happens in the draft but for now this is how I see it:

Jaguars, Browns (x2), Raiders, 49ers, Rams, Cardinals =7 wins they should be able to dominate the NFC West like they did the south last year with exception of Seattle.

Toss ups: Miami, Kansas City and San Diego my prediction had them winning vs KC and Miami and losing to SD, but I think they'll go 2-1 in these 3 one way or another

Outside of the Division games vs Pittsburgh and Cincinnati they only have two really tough games vs Denver an Seattle. The Denver game is especially tough since Kubiak is there. I'd like to think they could beat Seattle at home in prime time. A split of these 6 games somehow would get them to 12 wins.

I'm not as pessimistic about the wins this year, I think they could go 11-5 or even 10-6 and still win the division.

Wasn't it like halfway through the season you predicted the Ravens would be 12-4 or some insane crap?

Droford did pretty well in his Shoe In/Lock of the week if I remember. He didn't do well predicting Ravens wins/losses.

The Ravens will not defeat the 49ers.

y'all love to hammer droford because lololhomer drostat* etc...but the guy isn't laughably bad or anything...I bet he picks above 50% but below 52.8% ATS. That's good I guess. Better than what most of yall would pick

Greg Hardy suspended for first 10 games for conduct detrimental to the league.

Real smart signing, Jerry.

Weeks 13-16 either the Steelers, Ravens, or both are playing the NBC night game on Sunday. Unless it gets flexed out somehow.

Broncos schedule ain't that bad for this season. Harder teams we get to play at home, yet we to play the Patriots yet again as a strength of schedule game. NFL just won't let the Manning/Brady rivalry go.

<font color=goldenrod>Seattle also gets 2 straight SNF games at home. Just really weird scheduling.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Thinking about it, the schedule makers almost surely make the NBC games the first thing they "book". The season opening game is a standalone game but it's obviously defending SB champion vs. the most marquee same-conference team on their schedule.

In general the Cowboys, Eagles, Giants, Packers, Seahawks, Niners, Pats, Colts, Steelers, Ravens, and Broncos are pretty much guaranteed to be on SNF twice each at absolute minimum. So after you get the guaranteed ones we see every year out of the way (Steelers/Ravens, Giants/Cowboys, Cowboys/Eagles, etc.) you're just left cherry picking games that feature the other teams, matching them up against teams that should be decent, etc.

Obv it makes sense that NBC would want "over" teams. On the downside though the MNF schedule has been fucking terrible ever since NBC got dibs on games.</font>

Ravens have won the last 3 regular season games vs SF (03,07,11) plus the Super Bowl.

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<font color=goldenrod>Hilarious conspiracy e-mail Eagles lineman Evan Mathis received regarding the Tim Tebow signing.</font>

Cracked up at the Lord's QB

Let's not forget other Dro-picks as the season went on last year. There were at least 7 or 8 that I quoted at some point that were incredibly "sure". I'm pretty sure he gave a LED PIPE LOCK on every game Baltimore lost. Including guaranteeing that they'd beat Cincy at home. Then they lost to them at home. Without AJ Green. Lols followed.

Maybe it's selective memory but I remember Droford going on like a 7 week run with his lock of the week, so idk that's pretty good to me

No one is arguing (I don't believe) that Droford picks the correct team to win/lose with the spread UNLESS he is talking about the Ravens. When he talks Raven football everything that even makes remote sense goes out the window.

But you are correct RDD, Droford seems to be REALLY good when it comes his bets.

That's why I try to avoid betting on Lions games at all costs

It's a lose-lose scenario... even if I think they are going to lose/not cover, I'd feel like a shithead to gamble against them. If I win, I'm triumphing over my team's defeat. If I lose, well I just lost money. Best to just avoid the situation altogether

<font color=goldenrod>Tom Brady's blowing off the White House visit to attend a family BBQ. Wonder if it was his call or Gisele's.</font>

Yeah. I don't know how well he does picking the games. I just remember how incredibly cocky he got repeatedly last year when it came to calling certain Ravens and Steelers games only for him to be wrong and leave himself open for ridicule.

I understand that. All of San Francisco understands that.

The 9ers are fairly tired of get thrashed by Baltimore. I think we take this one at home.

Not certain. But like I said, I'll take that bet if youre game.

Oh yeah. Droford likes to use stuff that happened 12 years ago and during preseason games as reasons teams will win games, too. Also silly.

Drew Brees has never beaten the Ravens, the only team in the NFL he hasn't beaten I think.

The Ravens have never lost to the Cowboys.

Those are my favorite two at the moment.

See

Oh and Joe Flacco has the same number of SB rings (1) ad Peyton Manning and 1 fewer win (10-5 vs 11-13)

I can't wait for the draft. It's going to be so exciting.