Being hurt will not stop Rodgers from saying something stupid. I expect him to interject exactly when the Jets need him to STFU.
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Maybe we get to find out if crystals and incense are an effective treatment for a snapped achilles.
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Kinda glad I went to bed early last night. Although I was up long enough to see middle finger guy. 
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Trent Green/Kurt Warner (obv Warner was phenomenal and nobody knew it. But the Rams were immediately written off)
2000 Baltimore Ravens
The Jets have a very good team. They are built to win with “anyone” at QB.
If I were the Bills, I would have challenged the Garrett Wilson catch in the red zone with 5 minutes left on 3rd and 7(?). It looked like he caught it, but I never saw a replay. It would have been worth losing a TO in that situation.
The OC & Offensive Play Called Luke Getsy is getting smeared in the local media for poor play calling: only runs and screen passes. Perhaps the public doesn’t realize that nobody in a headset here trusts Fields to throw the ball farther than 5 yards.
The season is over. Start tanking now, And now the McCaskey family can keep an eye out for an OC elsewhere in the league who is cheap but promotable enough to replace Eberflus.
disagree. TOs are very valuable at that point of the game. Not just for a chance to overturn.
the turf has a higher rate of achilles ruptures. which are kind of rare for athletes in their prime.
a 39yo athlete…blends in with the wheelhouse of who the leading candidates to have an achilles rupture anyway.
i blame 39 a lot more than the turf.
Let’s not forget that Rodgers is the oldest player in the NFL at the moment.
I heard that he was immunized against Achilles injuries.
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I decided we could use a fantasy football thread this year, so I carved out a few posts from this thread and moved them there.
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Undefeated as a starter for the NY Jets!
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some might’ve missed this: but the moderators have split off discussion around fantasy leagues to a separate thread.
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I understand, but having all 3 timeouts remaining is much less important when the team is up by 7 near the end of the game. I would definitely have used my first challenge if my team was up by 14 points at that point in the game.
Actually if it was this play:
3rd & 5 at BUF 23
(6:16 - 4th) (Shotgun) Z.Wilson pass short right to G.Wilson to BUF 9 for 14 yards (C.Benford).
They did show a replay from the Jets’ endzone and it was an obvious catch where he got both arms under the ball and cradled it as he rolled. So that was probably why they didn’t challenge.
Just rewatched that on my DVR.
Yes, that was the play. Wilson did catch it, but I wasn’t certain at the time in the heat of making a challenge or not.
Looks like i nailed this one prediction.
I doubt i will get anything else right about the 2023 season.
NFLPA begs to differ (though, of course the owners have their own studies):
The major problem with replacing turf for grass is the scheduled overuse of the turf, which is required to maximize revenue for the “stadium company,” which is often owned/managed by the owner.
I mean, MetLife Stadium is the classic example, as it will be used 17 times in 18 weeks minimum for NFL Football, probably twice a week several times. Guessing there other events scheduled. Same for SoFi. Lumen Field will be played by two soccer teams and the Seahawks for a few months. Alternative is to build more stadiums, because the grass will not hold up.
Not defending the use of turf, since I’d like to see it eliminated, merely providing financial greed issues and alternatives.
Interesting point in the article:
Howell said in his statement Wednesday that the union acknowledges the “investment” required to convert all stadiums to grass but also questioned why NFL team owners are planning to make those changes for the 2026 World Cup but not for their own players.
“While we know there is an investment to making this change, there is a bigger cost to everyone in our business if we keep losing our best players to unnecessary injuries,” Howell said. “It makes no sense that stadiums can flip over to superior grass surfaces when the World Cup comes, or soccer clubs come to visit for exhibition games in the summer, but inferior artificial surfaces are acceptable for our own players. This is worth the investment and it simply needs to change now.”
Well, FIFA and the Soccer Clubs care about their investments (players), which are generally longer-termed than NFL Footballs players’, who are replaceable.
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I was getting annoyed that this only became an issue after Rodgers got hurt (ignoring all previous injuries), but I have to confess that the Bears fan in me is happy that it only became an issue after Rodgers got hurt.