I have no idea how it works, but in that first Ravens game that would have given the Chargers home field advantage, there were twice as many calls against the Chargers who kicked their ass in the next meeting.

All I know is you wave a hand near Brady and don't even touch him, and it's 15 yards. Put Rivers on his ass almost every play he goes back, and it's one consolation penalty at the end of the game.

Did pretty good in the games he missed last year. But with the zebras, we probably won't anyway.

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He'll be back by week one hopefully. I've watched some of the new guys in preseason and although fast, buttery fingers for sure.

Which Phyllis did do in your crib when it mattered most. That was a great game!

Nope.

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Yeah we all got screwed playing the Patriots last year.

Again, how did they end up with another first round bye? Thank the Jets and the Bills for that. At least the Dolphins did their part by whooping them once.

Think the Rams will be able to muster up another field goal?

Class of 79. Cowboys = losers.

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I'm super stoked for Sunday Night FootBall Thursday Night Edition.

I think when I first joined up here I was watching a playoff game on my game room TV and Colin Kaepernick was leading the 49rs to a victory.

We've come a long way since then....

My DirecTV just hooked me back up with Sunday Ticket for free. Also DVR Genie upgrade no charge and $40 off per month for a year for being a loyal customer.

You have to be persistent though and get through the first few levels of representatives that want to give you shit you don't care about or want instead.

Then you have to be super persistent when the next bill doesn't reflect those changes.

Well cable here is worse. Capcom or whatever they call themselves now I tried for a weekend and the remotes they issued totally sucked. You had to be right in front of the TV pointing it right at it. Carpal tunnel for sure. I took their junk back the next Monday. Fortunately I hadn't quit DirecTV yet.

AT+T counts on the ratty 60 year old phone lines for their u-verse that can't even keep a landline or internet alive so they are out too. Or any other company that uses the phone lines.

Here, DirecTV has been most reliable and in the last 10 years the only temporary outage came during one of the serious downpours we had last winter but came quickly back up.

No doubt! Now I not only get to watch the Chargers on the regular channel, but the Dolphins lose all their games except their annual shellacking of the Patriots!

Life is good.

I'm very interested in the Steelers first game myself. Got a feeling the Bears might beat the Pack. But I'm not sure how either team compares to last year's.

I'm not quite as confident this year as in years past, but they sure spanked them hard last year.

I got a take that I agree with your whole statement there.

I agree with Levi though.

Let's keep the fantasy football talk to the fantasy football threads. It's like talking virtual pinball on a real pinball forum.

Honestly, if history repeats itself, the Patriots usually melt in south Florida.

But I haven't paid attention to either team in the off season or preseason and learned a long time ago, don't ever bet on the Dolphins. So I don't.

I do however enjoy watching them hold the Pats to almost no yards and no first downs in a half, something that no other team seems to be able to do.

Your old remotes will still work if you have them, but I have quickly acclimated to the new ones.The ones they gave me work great pointed any direction. That was one of the holdups of me changing over. There was always a slight delay though.

My buddy with u-verse, his is super fast, but our phone lines suck so I won't ever get that.

Like I said it's dependent on your phone lines. Some they care about, others not so much.

ROFL!

That's what happens when you play pretend football.

Or if you look even further back at a guy like Larry Csonka, he was a running back and offensive line all in one. He'd knock his own guys out of the way. Anything that got in his way.

It's official now.

After the first score they played a clip from the song 3 Nights by Dominic Fike going to commercial. I've been saying for months that is the song of the summer. But hadn't cracked the underground....till now.

I gotta wonder of all the internet forums out there if we are the only one that has made the noone connection.

You can thank RobT and Noone's boat ride for senior citizen rockers TV ad for giving me that inspiration.

No doubt. I wasn't paying much attention to most teams off season moves but they made some good ones.

They bolstered their defense really well which is necessary to compete when the QB and offense are past their prime and in decline.

It'll take me a few weeks to size up each team. Long gone are the days before free agency where the team was basically the same as where they left off the year before. And it takes a while to see how well all the new players fit in and make an impact.

Yeah, he wasn't very good. Just throwing the ball out there counting on the receivers to make plays. Not the guy I'd want leading my team for sure. Maybe he was just having a bad night, but the great ones rarely do.

That's part of it too. Frustrate the young QB until he starts making errant throws. Both teams need work to make the playoffs. At least it's not a super tough division.

And it lasted all the way until noon today.

It's not over for the Dolphins yet either. So far they have a perfect record.

So far, Melvin Gordon is not.

But it looks like he is not going to Philadelphia either.

I never really noticed but all that fantasy football crap is downright annoying.

It's like they think everybody knows or should know what they are talking about and are interested in their team or whatever, but it is usually just complaining.

This thread is about real football I thought.

I could spam the heck out of it with talk of Sega Madden 93, as that is something I am kind of an expert on. But I won't.

Here's a good place. And since I am still banned from hobbies without flippers, you won't see me there. I however snuck one in by default.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/fantasy-football-2019-

I way respect centerflank who started this thread and miss him very much. Some times I feel like he kind of handed me a torch.

He used to mention fantasy football and invited me to join. I was little busy with other things to do at the time so I passed.

But he made it sound like class. If he brings it up again, I guess it is OK.

Goddamn. This directv shit better work.

What good is Sunday ticket when you wake up and your alternate team is already losing by 40 points?

Go Chargers!!

Dolphins I've always supported unless they are playing the Chargers.

Looks like they are going to need a lot more help than that.

With teams like that you have to have two or you might as well give up. I may anyway.

I was watching the Chargers give away their lead in the 4th quarter and when the Colts tied it I said fk this game! I got shit to do. I guess they won it after all.

It's looking like it won't be the Steelers to dethrone the Pats this year.

I mean the Pats have frustrated a lot of other teams be it by winning outright or getting help by the officials in close ones. I know it sounds a little morbid, but I'm surprised noone has put a helmet to Brady's knee to gain an edge that way. I mean it wouldn't be the first time that had happened.

I give Belichick credit though for having the team run up a hill in practice. So the whole game they look like they are running downhill.

I don't see why this year should be any different than last year in that regard. Worst case we get a split.

17 points is the spread. I've always had faith the fish will beat the Pats in south Florida, but with this year's Dolphins, 37 might not be enough.

But another stat is Ravens smoked another AFC east team last year opening day as well.

So if AB raped this woman three times, why didn't she report it the first time, and allowed it to happen two more times?

The one that will though is " Everybody is full of shit, and I don't believe anything unless I see it myself"

True, but say that as a prospective juror and see what happens.

I've never gotten to that stage. Judges are making 6 figures. Lawyers are making 7 figures. Court case is over millions. They want to pay me $15 a day. fk that!

Righteous bucks! I may have to give this jury duty thing another look.

California is still at $15 a day and $.34 a mile. Cheap mofos.

They make you really want to do this shit, don't they?

I suppose if the boss was still paying, it wouldn't be that bad. But that's never happened.

At least jury duty isn't on Sunday.

Talk about twelve angry men!

I like that "Give Hilton a nut punch" is still available in the poll.

Seems like it already did.

Heck if I know!

I bet even the Dolphins have a better quarterback even though I still don't know who that is.

Reality is I didn't watch the game and during the highlights, I don't believe they showed the Dolphin's QB once. And I care so little, I haven't bothered to research it.

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Well, the Dolphins have been looking for a journeyman. Last guy was a wide receiver who actually wasn't half bad as a QB.

Chad Pennington I think was the last one that took them to the playoffs. No they lost to the Steelers a couple years ago.

It's been so long now since Jay Fiedler.

The Ravens have always been a thorn in Miami's side, knocking them out of the playoffs two of the last three times they made it and almost every time during the regular season.

The one they sent to the Dolphins a couple years ago was the best one they had seen in years.

All done now. The Dolphins put on a really big show too.

DirecTV is allowing us to watch the Raiders/Chiefs game.

Dolphin's management "We need a QB like Brady to compete"

"Well this guy's 40 years old too, will he do?"

The Bears gave me today why I subscribe to Sunday Ticket.

If nothing else, hopefully the Rams put an end to the Saints and their fans complaining yesterday.

I wonder if the Chargers have learned their lesson by letting a punter do place kicks.

As I wasn't overly paying attention while the game was on, I was sure their placekicker woes of a few years ago were back.

But when your guy gets hurt, go get somebody that actually does that for a living.

Well, October 28th should be a pretty even matchup.

Unless I'm missing something, for the first time in a long time there are only two or three teams in the whole league that really look worth a shit this year so far.

And you can't have them play each other every week.

But I'm really surprised they didn't schedule a Super Bowl rematch sometime during the season. Or even some of the other playoff matches from last year.

I wouldn't let them snip at my gonads any more than I'd let them stick me with that nasty flu shot.

Are refs being extra protective of Brady? No way!

They would never throw flags just because somebody breathed on him.

Of course when the Pats slam your QB to the ground after the ball is gone, that's fair play and part of the game.

Perhaps.

Maybe the Bolts were road weary and didn't deserve to win that playoff game last year, but Rivers taking so many hits with no flags til the end sure didn't help their cause.

It gets frustrating to watch sometimes, when just waving an arm near Brady without even touching him can cost you 15 yards.

It's all history now. But if the Bolts had gotten their deserved bye and a home game with a win in the first game against the Ravens, it might have been a different story. That was another way unbalanced penalty game.

Besides that Pats game they won every game on the road last year including KC near the end of the season. Quite an accomplishment.

No changing history though, so it is what it is.

I just get the feeling somebody didn't want the playoffs to go through Carson.

I saw them throw Rosen in in the fourth quarter last week.

My first impression was he is the second coming of..... nobody.

With DirecTV you get that eight times each Sunday.They guarantee at least one game close as it's winding down.

Just curious, what did AB end up costing the Pats?

Did they lose any players or draft picks bringing him in?

Haha. That guy's a money eating machine.

A lot of that is Belichick's ego for sure. He is trying to prove he can make any player with any problem fit his system. Great winning coach, but he is no Don Shula.

Good point, but he sure brings in guys with some heavy baggage sometimes.

I'm hoping the Chargers can get their kicking situation in order because the rest of the team is ready to rumble again.
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I'm just hoping he can make it thru half the season without fumbling again.

So cheap, the stadium they play in can only hold 27,000 people.

The place is packed today, and I'm not seeing very many Texans fans. Chargers dominating... so far.

I watched the Cowboys/Dolphins earlier while trying to mow the lawn, and the fish were actually dominating in the first half with Rosen looking pretty good.

It was settling for field goals and fumbling at the goal line as they were about to take the lead right before halftime that started the wheels falling off.

He may turn out to be quite a player after all. He must have been pumped after watching UCLA's amazing comeback last night. That was something to behold.

Considering the Dolphins are all but a dismantled team at the moment, they came together and put up quite an effort despite the final score. Early on the O line was doing it's job. I wouldn't be surprised if they actually win a game or two this year.

Same old Chargers. Just another Sunday where I got other shit done.

Jets scored twice on NE today. I'm sensing a crack in the armour.

The Rams showed Cleveland who their home team really is.
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85 Bears had 6 games where they did not give up a touchdown, including four shutouts, two of which were in the playoffs on their way to their shellacking of the hapless Patriots who were lucky to make it out of that Super Bowl with any points at all.

No doubt! He was good.

I was all set for a rematch of the Dolphins and the Bears that year, as the Dolphins were the only team to beat them. And beat them good following two of the Bears shutouts.

But in the AFC Championship game in Miami, the Patriots had other plans. It's been all down hill ever since then.

That AFC title game was one of the most frustrating games I ever watched.

It was a sad footnote in a season where Marino played one of his best games ever demolishing the then undefeated Bears on a Monday night. Still maybe the highest rated Monday night game ever. All history now.

Chris Collinsworth might be like listening to nails on a chalkboard, but at least it isn't the drone duo of Aikman and Buck.

At the end of that game one of the commentators said "The Dolphins opened the refrigerator, and found it empty"

One of the best parts of that game was about 15 minutes worth where the Dolphins kept sacking whoever was playing QB that night and it was like 3rd and a mile and the crowd was so loud they asked Shula to calm them down which he did reluctantly. When they finally resumed play, another sack. lol.

I was going to bring him up, but out of sight, out of mind. He was terrible.

That's what I thought, but it wouldn't have made any difference that night.

Wasn't there a while when the home team got penalized if their fans were too loud and wouldn't quiet down? Maybe it's still a rule?

The lady announcer that did the UCLA game the other night and sometimes does the Rams games. She's too much!

Not sure it would be sexist to say that lady sounds like she wears the pants in her family.

My buddy says he wants Miami and 16 1/2 points.

To quote Vince Lombardi-

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He's back!

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Commercial I'm over is "Cooper, did you eat all your treats?"

I used to like the Beatles song "Help" until Google started using it.

They really should have done a second take on that ad. You can clearly hear the lady is going to say snacks before she changes it to treats, but the whole thing is definitely annoying.

The ones they think we didn't see the first time, so they show them again immediately after.

I tend to watch a game until it is well in the bag, then switch to another game I'm interested in, then watch the endings of whatever games are close until they are all over.

Did you hear Tampa and Seattle will be getting expansion teams?

And now that the World Football League is dissolving, will Miami get all it's great players back?

We had our own favorite.

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Let's ask the OP.

Me too! At least I was trying to get it going.

When I found out last night Melvin Gordon had ended his holdout and was rejoining the team, I figured everybody here would be super excited so I posted right away.

When I checked this morning. Crickets.