NFL 2018

[Piece]

Patriots again?! How on Earth do they do it year after year? Cheating?

 

[Pathetic Shark]

Does help when the opposing defense decides to run the same 7 DB scheme they did the previous week even though the New England offense was totally different to that of the Patriots. If you play Cover 3 all day against any decent QB, he will pick it apart. The original Tampa-2 defense only worked because the Bucs had a great front four and could afford to drop the other seven into coverage. Teams soon found the way to beat it just as the original Bears 46 defense was obsolete within two years.

I dislike the Patriots as much as anyone and yes they have been caught cheating in the past but they do deserve to be there. They have no competition in their division and Belichick is the best coach in the NFL, quite possibly of all-time although supporters of Paul Brown of the 1940s/1950s Browns might have something to say about that.

 

[Kellfire]

the New England offense was totally different to that of the Patriots.

Pretty damn similar, I'd say!

 

[Kellfire]

I love the NFL but as I don't have any real affinity to a team I only seem to get interested around the Divisional play offs each year.

 

[FuzzyDuck]

I worked for a company that was based in California from the 70's into the 90's and even worked over there for a few years in the late 80's. So I'm a 49ers fan for the best part of 40 years and watched them at their height (Montana/Rice/Young etc), however the current incarnation just doesn't excite me.

 

[Pathetic Shark]

Pretty damn similar, I'd say!

Yeah good point, I did mean the Baltimore offense that was last seen in about 1983 being run by the Nebraska Cornhuskers in the college game.

 

[Tashyboy]

Yeah good point, I did mean the Baltimore offense that was last seen in about 1983 being run by the Nebraska Cornhuskers in the college game.

PS, when I played AF, the team I choose were the Patriots. The same year they got mullered by the Fridge, Walter Payton and S McMahon? After that followed quite a few wilderness years. How do they keep doing it. Why is AFL so weak with the Pats being so strong. The idea behind the trade at the end of every season is to make it fairer. What are the Pats doing for a generation that others are not. Last question, will they be able to replace Brady and when. He is not like a Ferrari, more like a BMW that just keeps going on and on and on.

 

[Pathetic Shark]

S McMahon? Steve? Trying to imagine him behind center. It was Jim McMahon, a totally headcase who I once saw up at St.Andrews. I have a couple of friends who played on that 1985 Super Bowl Bears team and the stories they have told about the players, the characters and just how they good they were. I presented part of Channel 4's live coverage of that game from the Video Café in London and was predicting Chicago by 30+ in the pre-game and getting ridiculed when the Pats went 3-0 up early. Then Tony Eason wet his bed and the game was over by the middle of the second quarter.

 

[Tashyboy]

Jim 😂 I got him mixed up with his brother. Trying to think of the pats back up QB that day, Grogan rings a bell. I liked him. He had a Open day at Notts Forest ground Trent Bridge. Gutted I could not get a rest day to go and see him.

 

[Pathetic Shark]

Grogan's Run! Steve Grogan was a Patriot legend in the late 70s and early 80s.

 

[Piece]

S McMahon? Steve? Trying to imagine him behind center. It was Jim McMahon, a totally headcase who I once saw up at St.Andrews. I have a couple of friends who played on that 1985 Super Bowl Bears team and the stories they have told about the players, the characters and just how they good they were. I presented part of Channel 4's live coverage of that game from the Video Café in London and was predicting Chicago by 30+ in the pre-game and getting ridiculed when the Pats went 3-0 up early. Then Tony Eason wet his bed and the game was over by the middle of the second quarter.

I remember a presenter call Mick Luckhurst. Wasn't he a kicker?

 

[Big_G]

I remember a presenter call Mick Luckhurst. Wasn't he a kicker?

Yes Atlanta Falcons if I remember correctly

 

[Pathetic Shark]

I've not spoken to Mick in a couple of years but yes he played for the Falcons from 1981-87 and then retired to run the NFL merchandising operation in the UK and present Channel 4's coverage for four years. He is a really top bloke. He was honoured at Wembley when the Falcons played one of the international series games and invited to do the coin toss. He was in tears at how much it meant to him having grown up a massive "soccer" fan here in the UK. He lives in the States and has a successful business organising golf events and corporate days.

 

[Pathetic Shark]

Heard a great line today talking about the properties Tom Brady has. He has a mansion in Boston, a ranch in Montana, an apartment in New York and of course he owns Philip Rivers.

 

[Tashyboy]

Heard a great line today talking about the properties Tom Brady has. He has a mansion in Boston, a ranch in Montana, an apartment in New York and of course he owns Philip Rivers.

Think I saw a piece one day where Brady was having his/a house built. Lordy flippin Lordy. It was mahoosively impressive.

 

[Captainron]

Saints to beat the Rams
Chiefs to beat the Pats

 

[Norrin Radd]

PATS ALL THE WAY

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Would like to see a Chiefs - Rams Super Bowl but think Saints will sneak past the Rams - as long as the cheats aren’t there

 

[Deleted member 1147]

I’d like a Brady/Brees SB.
With Brees winning his 2nd SB.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Saints to beat the Rams
Chiefs to beat the Pats

Think you're right about Saints but got a feeling Pats will beat the Chiefs and go on to win superbowl