Thursday Night Football Thread

Holy shit. Atkins just DESTROYED Watson.

Watson just got knocked back into the next zip code. Atkins had a ten yard running start before he hit him. Nobody picked him up.

Never goes down on the first hit, and is average almost 4.5 yds per carry

nice run

really have a big advantage.

looked like Atkins was stunting, and the guard and tackle were confused about who was supposed to pick him up.

WOW. Watson with a great run for a TD. About 50 yards. Bad tackling, but that was impressive.

Watson looking like he's back at Clemson. That's demoralizing for a defense. Have them in a 3rd and 15, have pressure on the guy.. can't grab him.

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That was some play.

Watson has the makeup to hack it as a dropback passer alone; the fact that he can do that when he needs to pull it down gives him crazy upside IMO.

Nice throw by Dalton finally.

throw by Dalton, but Fisher was again beaten.

pressure right in Dalton's fact. Watt is abusing Fisher.

JJ Watt is destroying him

One can't help but wonder if their internal clock is beyond fixing

He's got defenders in the backfield quickly on every play

tackled by the turf monster.

is throwing a lot of quick hitting passes and screens to negate the Texans's pass rush. Twenty yard dig routes are out. They are moving the ball, but it's not surprisingly taken them a lot of plays to get to the twenty.

Its like looking in a mirror

nothing downfield. No time.

What an idiot

I think this has been a good game actually, love low scoring games

Lewis has to cut the crap with this RB carousel. Let this kid play an entire drive. Stop taking him off the field every 3rd down. It's fine to mix Bernard in on some passing downs but Mixon is without a doubt the most talented back they have. Let him rock for a while. What he's doing is so stupid.

You're not letting any RB get into any sort of rhythm by doing this. And they wonder why they still haven't scored a TD this year.

Audibleing on these 3rd and shorts?

He sucks the big white mint.

In comment 13599146 UConn4523 said:

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Audibleing on these 3rd and shorts?

He's just a rookie. He is running what they tell him too.

The Bengals must really suck.

Watt against Bobby Hart? Good Lord, they'd call the game before halftime.

Pure ass suckage

2 full games without a TD now. I hope we aren't joining this shitty club after Monday.

And how does Marvin Lewis have a job? Still?

LOL, that lineman getting leveled to end the game made me laugh pretty hard. I have no idea what the point was of even throwing him the ball. He wasn't going to get anywhere.

In comment 13599156 santacruzom said:

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Watt against Bobby Hart? Good Lord, they'd call the game before halftime.

Huh?

One of the best DEnds vs the best RT in the league. It would be a great matchup.

Question does that last play count as a catch for aj green

In comment 13599166 jamesmichaelworm said:

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Question does that last play count as a catch for aj green

Nope.

But the 2nd half was almost fun to watch

Almost

In comment 13599168 arcarsenal said:

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In comment 13599166 jamesmichaelworm said: Quote: Question does that last play count as a catch for aj green Nope.

I take that back - it looks like he was credited with a catch for 3 yards on that last play.

football game. TNF sucks.

killed fantasy football for me, now it's sucking the life out of the whole league. Football was meant for Sundays and Monday nights.

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worse as the season tracks on with the inevitable fatigue and injuries that come with it. The players hate them. The coaches hate them. It was an awful game . Undoubtedly it will be topped in overall suckiness. Watson's run was spectacular . Show that a thousand times .

In comment 13599144 arcarsenal said:

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Lewis has to cut the crap with this RB carousel. Let this kid play an entire drive. Stop taking him off the field every 3rd down. It's fine to mix Bernard in on some passing downs but Mixon is without a doubt the most talented back they have. Let him rock for a while. What he's doing is so stupid. You're not letting any RB get into any sort of rhythm by doing this. And they wonder why they still haven't scored a TD this year.

So... you drafted Mixon for your fantasy team.

Lamar Miller with his usual 3 yards and a cloud of dust performance. Fantasy football the literal only reason i watched some of that stinkfest last night.

As i've said before, TNF is fine.. but the teams need to be coming off byes. So bizarre they give London teams the next week off on 7 days, but no one says 'hey maybe the teams with 3 days rest should have their bye before this game'. How this league hasnt gone back to the 2 bye weeks per team to satisfy this... and give players the rest that medically we know more now than we did 20 years ago is absolutely necessary... is beyond me.

i did not know this game was played at all

usually i will see some sort of advertising or news story about upcoming thursday night game

this time NOTHING

In comment 13599278 MetsAreBack said:

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In comment 13599144 arcarsenal said: Quote: Lewis has to cut the crap with this RB carousel. Let this kid play an entire drive. Stop taking him off the field every 3rd down. It's fine to mix Bernard in on some passing downs but Mixon is without a doubt the most talented back they have. Let him rock for a while. What he's doing is so stupid. You're not letting any RB get into any sort of rhythm by doing this. And they wonder why they still haven't scored a TD this year. So... you drafted Mixon for your fantasy team. Lamar Miller with his usual 3 yards and a cloud of dust performance. Fantasy football the literal only reason i watched some of that stinkfest last night. As i've said before, TNF is fine.. but the teams need to be coming off byes. So bizarre they give London teams the next week off on 7 days, but no one says 'hey maybe the teams with 3 days rest should have their bye before this game'. How this league hasnt gone back to the 2 bye weeks per team to satisfy this... and give players the rest that medically we know more now than we did 20 years ago is absolutely necessary... is beyond me.

Definitely agree with the TNF and the byes, 3 days is not enough for these guys to recover and probably leads to more injuries.

In comment 13599278 MetsAreBack said:

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In comment 13599144 arcarsenal said: Quote: Lewis has to cut the crap with this RB carousel. Let this kid play an entire drive. Stop taking him off the field every 3rd down. It's fine to mix Bernard in on some passing downs but Mixon is without a doubt the most talented back they have. Let him rock for a while. What he's doing is so stupid. You're not letting any RB get into any sort of rhythm by doing this. And they wonder why they still haven't scored a TD this year. So... you drafted Mixon for your fantasy team. Lamar Miller with his usual 3 yards and a cloud of dust performance. Fantasy football the literal only reason i watched some of that stinkfest last night. As i've said before, TNF is fine.. but the teams need to be coming off byes. So bizarre they give London teams the next week off on 7 days, but no one says 'hey maybe the teams with 3 days rest should have their bye before this game'. How this league hasnt gone back to the 2 bye weeks per team to satisfy this... and give players the rest that medically we know more now than we did 20 years ago is absolutely necessary... is beyond me.

I do have Mixon on 1 of 3 teams but didn't start him this week and really don't need to (I have other options) - I just don't understand why a team that has now gone 8 quarters without scoring a touchdown this season keeps forcing this rotation.

Faulk said it himself before the game - RB's generally don't respond well to situations like this. You have to name a starter and he's got to be your guy. That doesn't mean he plays every single snap, but the way Lewis is using these guys is ridiculous. None of them have a chance to get into a rhythm.

Same thing is going on in New Orleans with those 3 RB's. Regardless of how much Adrian Peterson wants to bitch and moan - Payton needs to make either he or Ingram the guy and mix in Kamara.

Side note - Beckham would be getting killed if he said what Green said after the game. And Green is always the guy people want Beckham to be more like.

fantasy. Mixon is an all world athlete and incredible runner. He should be playing basically every snap, except for Gio on a few. Which let's face it...Gio is a cute little back, but c'mon. He takes a wheel route and hops over a defender every once in awhile. What else does he do?

Give it to Mixon and let him run the fucking ball 20+ times per game and see what happens. Vikings and Jags are doing that with their guys, and look at the results.

draft a dynamic playmaking WR at #9 in the draft, and he fumbles, and then they BENCH him. No wonder this team can never get anywhere. It starts with the coach, and he is perfectly OK with mediocrity. Which is why they have 17 running backs.

about it. They drafted 2 dynamic playmakers with their first two picks, and are perfectly OK with them NOT playing. That's the Bengals, in a nutshell.

In comment 13599162 B in ALB said:

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And how does Marvin Lewis have a job? Still?

Still surviving off of the 2000 Raven's D

In comment 13599634 ryanmkeane said:

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draft a dynamic playmaking WR at #9 in the draft, and he fumbles, and then they BENCH him. No wonder this team can never get anywhere. It starts with the coach, and he is perfectly OK with mediocrity. Which is why they have 17 running backs.

Well, i drafted Ross... he's hurt. They werent sure he'd play on thursday night. So not sure what the "benching" was all about - i do know Ross has barely practiced in a month.