The Longest Yard (American Football Discussion Thread)

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CHARGERS 'CHARGERED'. AT LEAST THEY DIDNT BLOW A 27-POINT LEAD THIS TIME. HERBERT REMAINS PERHAPS THE MOST OVERRATED QB IN THE LEAGUE - THE AFC VERSION OF DAK PRESCOTT.

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Nick Bosa cursed the whole west coast with his MAGA moment

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Nick Bosa cursed the whole west coast with his MAGA moment

Purdy's expression in that moment was hilarious. 



I hope the whole west coast is cursed this season, because that means Darnold and the Vikings will light up the Rams.

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Idk he hasn't been as hot the past few weeks, but I have no faith or loyalty to LA at all. I'm gonna be in fucking Stats class during Monday's game, so annoyed.

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Idk he hasn't been as hot the past few weeks, but I have no faith or loyalty to LA at all. I'm gonna be in fucking Stats class during Monday's game, so annoyed.

I think he was in his head a little too much during the Lions game, but I've always believed in Darnold, and it's been so great to see him finally succeed when he has good coaching and good personnel (for the first time in his career). And damn I really love the underdog story, so I'm rooting for him the entire way (unless/until he plays in the Super Bowl against the Chiefs, and even then, if he won, I couldn't even be mad - what a fucking story it'd be).

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I feel you, but if we're talking underdogs Goff certainly has that going for him

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I feel you, but if we're talking underdogs Goff certainly has that going for him

I mean, to an extent he does - but nowhere near the level of underdog status as Darnold has. I mean, Goff has already been to a Super Bowl and the Lions have the 1 seed, while Monday will mark Darnold's first playoff game ever and he was drafted back in 2018. Imagine being 14-3 and being a goddamn wildcard team  I've never seen that before.

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A 14 win 5-seed is wild, I'll give you that lol buuut it's also not unheard of.

The Goff-Stafford trade made him the ultimate underdog imo, and look at him now. MVP of my heart.

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Also I know I'm late to this party but how hilarious the Pats and the Raiders both blew their chance at first pick with those wins 

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Idk he hasn't been as hot the past few weeks, but I have no faith or loyalty to LA at all. I'm gonna be in fucking Stats class during Monday's game, so annoyed.

I skipped math class for this

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Bullshit call, that was a fumble

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Bullshit call, that was a fumble

Definitely was, but it's starting to look like it wouldn't have made a difference. Damn.

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Bruh. No is happy to see this. What happened?

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NINE sacks bro. Woof.

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Darnold has a rough time dealing with reading pressure - that old bit about 'seeing ghosts'. Sometimes, after he's been rattled enough, he gets jittery and nervous in clean pockets, but other times, he gets absolutely blindsided. He took some seriously questionable sacks too, like bro, come on, you gotta throw it away. Didn't help that the Vikings o-line was porous either. KOC with some seriously questionable play calls too. Like, the run game has basically not worked all game, there's nothing there - why are you running the ball with less than 6 mins to go in the third quarter when you're down 3 scores? It's almost like he just gave up.

Sad to see - Darnold probably lost himself a good chunk of change with just these last two games.

Minnesota is fucking cursed. Cursed, I tell you!