Titans are whatever but I never thought Cincy and Jacksonville would be the other 0-3 teams 3 weeks in.

I know Cincy got dicked on the Pats game with a lousy call but still that's 2 home losses on the year to two bottom 3 teams last season.

It’s 3 weeks in and the only people left in the PW Survival Pool are Blindy and myself. What a wild season so far.

Wowee Jayden Daniels was incredible tonight. You pretty much couldn't have played a better game than he did (well maybe Josh Allen did but I saw the half time score and didn't bother with that game) he looked more like a 10 year veteran than someone starting their third game. I drafted him in fantasy because I thought he'd be a valuable rusher but never mind that, he looks like he has true superstar potential. Might it be the third straight year that the #2 pick ends up being better than the #1?

Kliff Kingsbury deserves a lot of credit for tonight too, I think he was pretty unfairly written off as a failure because things never crescendoed in Arizona, he wasn't in the "doesn't deserve a second chance" basket that the football cognoscenti put him in. Zero turnovers through three games shows that he's encouraging Daniels to be safe with the ball, despite trusting him in a number of key spots in this game when other OCs would hide their rookie.

Sept 24, 2024 6:19:48 GMT @admin said:

Wowee Jayden Daniels was incredible tonight. You pretty much couldn't have played a better game than he did (well maybe Josh Allen did but I saw the half time score and didn't bother with that game) he looked more like a 10 year veteran than someone starting their third game. I drafted him in fantasy because I thought he'd be a valuable rusher but never mind that, he looks like he has true superstar potential. Might it be the third straight year that the #2 pick ends up being better than the #1?

Kliff Kingsbury deserves a lot of credit for tonight too, I think he was pretty unfairly written off as a failure because things never crescendoed in Arizona, he wasn't in the "doesn't deserve a second chance" basket that the football cognoscenti put him in. Zero turnovers through three games shows that he's encouraging Daniels to be safe with the ball, despite trusting him in a number of key spots in this game when other OCs would hide their rookie.

Say what you will about Kliff the head coach, but he still has a knack for bringing out the best in his QBs.

Sept 24, 2024 13:33:35 GMT CM Punk'd said:

Sept 24, 2024 6:19:48 GMT @admin said:

Wowee Jayden Daniels was incredible tonight. You pretty much couldn't have played a better game than he did (well maybe Josh Allen did but I saw the half time score and didn't bother with that game) he looked more like a 10 year veteran than someone starting their third game. I drafted him in fantasy because I thought he'd be a valuable rusher but never mind that, he looks like he has true superstar potential. Might it be the third straight year that the #2 pick ends up being better than the #1?

Kliff Kingsbury deserves a lot of credit for tonight too, I think he was pretty unfairly written off as a failure because things never crescendoed in Arizona, he wasn't in the "doesn't deserve a second chance" basket that the football cognoscenti put him in. Zero turnovers through three games shows that he's encouraging Daniels to be safe with the ball, despite trusting him in a number of key spots in this game when other OCs would hide their rookie.

Say what you will about Kliff the head coach, but he still has a knack for bringing out the best in his QBs.

Unless it's Baker Mayfield, who probably enjoyed the week 1 beatdown a little bit more due to that. I am surprised Maholmes didn't fight for him to replace Bienenmy but I know Nagy & Reid have that cohesion so that probably ruled supreme. 

Kingsbury turning down NFL offers right away to vacay in Bangkok probably soured some GMs a little bit on him(He was burnt out so it was reasonable). I know the Jets were interested in him after letting LeFleur go before they got the good word of Rodgers being interested in them. 

I think he's a good signal caller for a young QB out of college due to his familiarity with connecting with younger guys. However, his time in Arizona ended bad because he could not mesh well with veteran players and because Steve Keim sort of bombed some personnel moves with him. He also had some really bad calls IIRC and refused to get involved in the defensive part of the team(Vance Joseph who is still a DC in the league was his guy I believe?). 

He's in the right spot in the NFL, allowed to do his thing under a proven HC. 

I just saw a side by side comparison of Trevor Lawrence and Daniel Jones career stats so far in the NFL and Daniel Jones has better numbers which is wild considering T-Law always had a better team.

I guess UT was right about long haired QBs.

Technically better but it’s all pretty negligible, which is still alarming for him.

Not sure where I’d land on the talent argument as I again would consider it pretty negligible.

Yeah they both kind of suck and robbed franchises of millions.

Washington and Cincinnati was the first NFL Game since 1940 to go without a punt or turnover.

Sept 24, 2024 13:33:35 GMT CM Punk'd said:

Sept 24, 2024 6:19:48 GMT @admin said:

Wowee Jayden Daniels was incredible tonight. You pretty much couldn't have played a better game than he did (well maybe Josh Allen did but I saw the half time score and didn't bother with that game) he looked more like a 10 year veteran than someone starting their third game. I drafted him in fantasy because I thought he'd be a valuable rusher but never mind that, he looks like he has true superstar potential. Might it be the third straight year that the #2 pick ends up being better than the #1?

Kliff Kingsbury deserves a lot of credit for tonight too, I think he was pretty unfairly written off as a failure because things never crescendoed in Arizona, he wasn't in the "doesn't deserve a second chance" basket that the football cognoscenti put him in. Zero turnovers through three games shows that he's encouraging Daniels to be safe with the ball, despite trusting him in a number of key spots in this game when other OCs would hide their rookie.

Say what you will about Kliff the head coach, but he still has a knack for bringing out the best in his QBs.

It must be down to the power dynamic of having a hotter girlfriend than any of them.

Sept 24, 2024 21:40:02 GMT @admin said:

Sept 24, 2024 13:33:35 GMT CM Punk'd said:

Say what you will about Kliff the head coach, but he still has a knack for bringing out the best in his QBs.

It must be down to the power dynamic of having a hotter girlfriend than any of them.

Wonder what would happen if he coached Daniel Jones then….

Sept 24, 2024 21:40:02 GMT @admin said:

Sept 24, 2024 13:33:35 GMT CM Punk'd said:

Say what you will about Kliff the head coach, but he still has a knack for bringing out the best in his QBs.

It must be down to the power dynamic of having a hotter girlfriend than any of them.

Speaking of girlfriends.

Bryce Young’s girl leaving him the same week he was benched for Tyrese Maxey has to be a career ender.

He dodged a bullet there, obvious correlation that probably speaks to her character.

lol apparently the screaming heads' TV talking point today was that Joe Burrow is the problem for Cincinnati. How does anyone watch this shit? Absolute drivel.

Sept 24, 2024 23:57:25 GMT @admin said:

lol apparently the screaming heads' TV talking point today was that Joe Burrow is the problem for Cincinnati. How does anyone watch this shit? Absolute drivel.

Chris Canty trying to earn that pay with ESPN. 

Jets are winning so they're the usual punchlines around this time, a crushing loss vs Denver with the undefeated gauntlet incoming(London with Minnesota, vsBuffalo, @pittsburgh), ESPN is salivating some Mike Greenberg shitty rants. 

Boys I need help.

My starting WR are Lamb & Aiyuk. They have been major disappointments so far.

I have Lockett, Smith-Njigba & Shakir on my bench.

I am up against Hill & Rice this week.

What the fuck do I do? Do I ride the ones that should be good and hope they finally break through? Or do I hope the Seahawks have a big game against the Lions? Shakir I think can stay out because he’s against Baltimore’s defence this week and doesn’t get a ton of targets anyway.

I dunno I’m stuck here.

Just stick it out. Regression can work both ways , especially for receivers with guaranteed targets. Shakir is the only one I’d even consider and that’s in PPR.

Sept 25, 2024 20:59:31 GMT RT said:

Boys I need help.

My starting WR are Lamb & Aiyuk. They have been major disappointments so far.

I have Lockett, Smith-Njigba & Shakir on my bench.

I am up against Hill & Rice this week.

What the fuck do I do? Do I ride the ones that should be good and hope they finally break through? Or do I hope the Seahawks have a big game against the Lions? Shakir I think can stay out because he’s against Baltimore’s defence this week and doesn’t get a ton of targets anyway.

I dunno I’m stuck here.

Lamb and Aiyuk are going to be fine. They both have solid match ups this week too. I also like JSN this week against the Lions on Primetime. 

I’m considering JSN over Flowers in the PW League just because I like JSNs potential ceiling. I’d start Aiyuk though even though he might have to deal with Gonzalez this week. 

Josh Allen on the Bills hot start.

“It’s a wonderful thing when you got guys that don’t care about the stats.”

Oh the shade.

Sept 24, 2024 23:57:25 GMT @admin said:

lol apparently the screaming heads' TV talking point today was that Joe Burrow is the problem for Cincinnati. How does anyone watch this shit? Absolute drivel.

It’s awful. And even despite the Pats game the Bengals have a Top 5 offense in most metrics, Burrow is not the problem.

Sept 25, 2024 21:30:20 GMT UT said:

Sept 24, 2024 23:57:25 GMT @admin said:

lol apparently the screaming heads' TV talking point today was that Joe Burrow is the problem for Cincinnati. How does anyone watch this shit? Absolute drivel.

It’s awful. And even despite the Pats game the Bengals have a Top 5 offense in most metrics, Burrow is not the problem.

They didn't even punt in that game! 

And you know they are the same guys throwing out platitudes like "Burrow is just a winner" when the Bengals were at their peak. 

Sept 25, 2024 21:22:57 GMT KING KID said:

Josh Allen on the Bills hot start.

“It’s a wonderful thing when you got guys that don’t care about the stats.”

Oh the shade.

I always thought him and Diggs were only bros for the cameras and I hate being right all the time.

Thanks for the tips gents. I’ll ride it out and if I lose this week it’s your faults not mine.

Sept 25, 2024 22:02:34 GMT @admin said:

Sept 25, 2024 21:30:20 GMT UT said:

It’s awful. And even despite the Pats game the Bengals have a Top 5 offense in most metrics, Burrow is not the problem.

They didn't even punt in that game! 

And you know they are the same guys throwing out platitudes like "Burrow is just a winner" when the Bengals were at their peak. 

They did stall quite a bit early but that was just dumb penalties and mistakes independent of Burrow.

I’ll still take Burrow over like 28 other quarterbacks. When healthy…

Idk if anyone shared this, but my absolute favorite tweet after Week 3 was “Joe Burrow is 0-3 since becoming a lesbian.”

Somebody wake up @admin to start the week 4 thread before CM Punk'd does it.

Sept 26, 2024 15:12:49 GMT KING KID said:

Somebody wake up @admin to start the week 4 thread before CM Punk'd does it.

It’s a GIANT game for the COWBOYS

Sept 26, 2024 17:07:26 GMT UT said:

Sept 26, 2024 15:12:49 GMT KING KID said:

Somebody wake up @admin to start the week 4 thread before CM Punk'd does it.

It’s a GIANT game for the COWBOYS

Lesbianest about Burrow

Meet the Nabers

Urkels Revenge to Allen’s dig(g)s

It’s funny how so much of life is just about people seeing you or not. Growing up, and wanting to make it as a football player, I had all these people basically telling me I wasn’t anything special. Coming out of high school I only had two college offers. Going into the draft I waited almost 200 picks for my name to be called. So when I finally did get drafted, I think there’s a part of me that figured it’s about to be the same in the NFL: more people who just see right past me, or who see me as nothing worth investing in.
Then I became a Green Bay Packer.
I remember this one moment early on in camp my rookie season. The Packers had drafted three running backs in 2017, and the receivers started taking “bets” on which of us was going to come out on top. Obviously a lot of guys had Jamaal since he was drafted the highest. Then one day in camp, Davante walks up to me. He’s the No. 1 receiver, right? Fourth year and about to make a Pro Bowl. He’s the dude in that room — and he comes over to me on the sideline, I don’t even know why, and he says, “I got you as my dog in this race.” I can’t even tell you what that did for me, honestly. It was like, OK, Davante Adams believes in me?? It meant a lot.
I also remember the very first time I played an offensive snap — it was Week 4 at home against Chicago. Both our main running backs had gone down, so it’s only me and our fullback left. I run onto the field, and when I get into the huddle it’s crazy: A-Rod, he just looks at me and he says, “Hey. I am one of your biggest fans in this entire organization. It’s your time. Yours, right now.” I ended up scoring and we won that game.
The next few weeks, both main backs were still out and I played really well. Pretty soon they got healthy though and I went back to not being out there as much. In my head I’m thinking, I had a nice moment. Maybe it’s over. But then I’ll never forget there was this one drive, later in the season — and out of nowhere, A-Rod calls timeout, turns to the sideline and yells: “I WANT 33 IN THE GAME!!! I WANT 33 IN THE GAME!!! 33!!! NOW!!!” I’m standing there, I’m looking down at my jersey … and suddenly I’m like, Oh wait. I’m 33. That’s ME. I don’t even remember what the play was, or what happened on it, but I just know how good that felt. It was this reminder that I was there for a reason, you know what I mean? One of the best QBs who’s ever lived is actually seeing something in me.

It wasn’t just my teammates who made me feel seen in Green Bay — it was our fans, too. Especially in those first few years when I was trying to make my name in the league, I think people started to notice that good things would happen when I had the ball, and they wanted me to be more involved. So they started tweeting with the hashtag #FREEAARONJONES. I know it’s just a hashtag, but I won’t lie, that was cool. Every time I saw it in my mentions, it reassured me I wasn’t going unnoticed. Our fans understood how hard I was working to make things happen, and I fed off of that.
I’m also very grateful for the Packers organization, and the way they had faith in me as a person. One of the biggest mistakes I ever made was as a rookie: I got cited for driving with marijuana in my system, and suspended by the league for the start of my second year. I was so embarrassed after it happened. They say you represent the G at all times, and I hadn’t held up my part of that. I felt like I’d let everyone down who gave me a chance as a fifth-round pick — and for a guy like me who wasn’t established yet, a lot of teams might’ve said “let’s just cut him.” It definitely could have gone either way … but the Packers had my back. Their mentality was, This mistake isn’t you. It’s only you if you don’t learn from it. They made sure I walked around our building with my head held high, even when I was feeling really low.

Then in the spring of 2021, two very different events happened — and they both changed my life forever.
The first one happened on March 26th: I signed a second contract with the Packers. Four years for $48 million. I’d been on my rookie contract until then, and I hadn’t grown up with money, so it was a big moment. It was the feeling of security for my family, and knowing they’ll always be taken care of. It was also the feeling of validation for the work I’d put in — that all those people who’d doubted me had been proven wrong.

At the center of both of those feelings was my dad. He was the single biggest influence in my life, by far, in terms of who I became both as a football player and as a man. He was the one who made me fall in love with football, he was my coach, my trainer, my biggest supporter, my best friend, and of course he was also just my dad. He was a diehard Cowboys fan (you know the kind) ... but as soon as I got drafted by Green Bay, none of that mattered. You weren’t going to see a Cowboys color in our house ever again. It was dark green, cheese gold, Packers everything. He came to every game — every single one. During pregame, he’d make sure he was in the end zone where we were warming up. I’d go find him before kickoff and shake his hand, then he’d kiss me on the forehead and tell me how proud he was. “Go rip it up, go have a day.” That’s how he’d leave it.
So it’s hard to put into words the emotions I was going through when, less than two weeks after I signed my new deal, my dad passed away. It pretty much came out of nowhere: He got COVID, and there were complications, and it just happened very fast. One day I was with my family in El Paso to celebrate that the contract terms had been agreed to … and by the time I was in Green Bay to actually sign, he was at the hospital. Eleven days later, on April 6th, he was gone.

He passed away at home, which is what he wanted and something I took a lot of comfort in. My parents both served in the military, and they’d been off to war multiple times. Whenever my dad would be away, he’d know that Alvin, Chelsirae and I were worried about him — so he’d tell us, “I’m coming home to you guys. I’m coming home.” I’m glad he could come home for us one last time.

I guess that’s a heavy story to put in a letter like this…… Maybe it’s too heavy, I don’t know. I wanted to share it with you all though. Because when I think about my seven years in Green Bay, the thing that probably will stay with me most is the way that the Packers were there for me when I lost my dad.
That’s the toughest thing I’ve been through in my whole life, and I went through it while we were preparing for a season where the goal was the Super Bowl. I knew that everyone was counting on me to be at my best — which is a lot to carry when you’re grieving a loved one. The Packers helped me carry that grief as much as they could. So many of my teammates reached out, and made me feel that fraternity. At the funeral, I honestly couldn’t believe it, Coach LaFleur flew all the way down to Texas. Brian Gutekunst (our GM) and Ben Sirmans (our running backs coach) also flew down. To say they didn’t have to do that is an understatement … and I know I could never repay them on a football field. So I’ll just say, “Thank you.”

That’s the biggest thing I want to write here, not just to the Packers organization but really to all of Green Bay. Thank you. It’s going to feel strange being on that visiting sideline for the first time, and being on the other side of this NFC North thing in general — but it’s ALL love, and it’s so much gratitude. Thanks for “betting” on me, riding with me, hashtagging for me, and everything else.

Thanks for SEEING me.

No G on the helmet Sunday, always one in my heart.
-Aaron



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There’s a reason why Jones will be the one Packer to go to the Bears or Vikings that I just can’t hate. Dude really understood and took to heart what it meant to be a Packer and watching his come up from his first training camps to what he became will always be special to me. Doesnt hurt that he was my daughter’s first favorite player.

Such a genuine real dude. Incredibly hard worker and one of the most fun running backs to watch when he was on.

I saw that earlier too. I was very happy with the hashtagging. The “Free Aaron Jones” times were fun. Who was standing in his way again? I don’t remember.

Ty Montgomery and Jamal Williams. Nothing against Jamal who proved to be a valuable teammate and 2nd running back but it was insane even back then.

Jones was averaging well over 5YPC while Williams and Montgomery were well under 4.

Gotta love McCarthy.