Dead Zone of the NFL Season Thread

[joemcrugby]

[chargerfreak]

Jun 30, 2019 22:11:40 GMT -7 joemcrugby said:

Just a great memorable play by Uchenna. I need way more starting this year from our second round pick. 

Bring it. 

[totallybolted]

Jun 28, 2019 8:51:20 GMT -7 sonorajim said:

Jun 26, 2019 18:40:31 GMT -7 xenos said:

Don't be ridiculous. He should have drafted a corner

You mean safeties don't count in pass defense ?

If he drafts a safety, we have no one we can move there.

[chargerfreak]

Jul 1, 2019 5:38:57 GMT -7 totallybolted said:

Jun 28, 2019 8:51:20 GMT -7 sonorajim said:

You mean safeties don't count in pass defense ?

If he drafts a safety, we have no one we can move there.

On this defense, Rivers' days of playing safety are over.

[sonorajim]

Jul 1, 2019 5:38:57 GMT -7 totallybolted said:

Jun 28, 2019 8:51:20 GMT -7 sonorajim said:

You mean safeties don't count in pass defense ?

If he drafts a safety, we have no one we can move there.

Gotcha.

I'm more excited for our DB group this year than ever. LBs & DL ain't too shabby either. This D?? Wow!

Stay healthy guys.

[totallybolted]

Jul 1, 2019 7:51:37 GMT -7 chargerfreak said:

Jul 1, 2019 5:38:57 GMT -7 totallybolted said:

If he drafts a safety, we have no one we can move there.

On this defense, Rivers' days of playing safety are over.

Rivers days of playing with safeties isn't over

[chargerfreak]

Jul 1, 2019 9:59:38 GMT -7 totallybolted said:

Jul 1, 2019 7:51:37 GMT -7 chargerfreak said:

On this defense, Rivers' days of playing safety are over.

Rivers days of playing with safeties isn't over

Post Reported to the Association of Goalies.

[joemcrugby]

[chargerfreak]

Jul 2, 2019 8:54:25 GMT -7 joemcrugby said:

Highpoint that stuff !!!!!!!!!!!

Too Tall Williams !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[xenos]

Don't know why but I enjoy these article about the NFL in small towns:

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/07/01/idaho-small-town-nfl-fmia-guest-peter-king/

We like keeping Idaho a secret. I am sure I will get some mail calling me bad names for letting the world know what a gem Idaho is. We are much more than just potatoes. But we’re small, and we make no apologies for it. The Richfield High School Senior class numbered 11 students this year. Nine graduated. Out of the nine, eight are going to college. Once you leave the township, your nearest neighbor is usually a mile or more away. It is quiet. Real quiet.

We don’t really have an NFL home team in Richfield. It’s difficult to call a team a “home” team and take it to heart when the closest league market is nine-and-a-half hours away by car. Think of our geography: We’re 630 miles southeast of Seattle, 700 miles from both Denver and Oakland, 840 miles from Phoenix, and don’t even think about making a car trip to see the Vikings in Minneapolis. They’re 1,300 miles east of us, and Montana’s pretty wide.

So in Richfield, there are fans who pledge allegiance to Seattle, Pittsburgh, Oakland, Arizona, San Francisco, Denver, Green Bay, Dallas, and the L.A. Rams—a veritable potpourri of NFL fandom.

Much of NFL life in Richfield happens around the bar named the Little Wood Saloon. The official bar motto is: Where the beer is cold and the BS is free. The saloon was originally a hardware store built in the early 1900’s. The original ceiling, hardwood floor and some doors are still in place. There are pictures on the wall of cowboys and their activities. There is a chandelier from a Nevada whorehouse on the ceiling. There are no NFL team pennants on the wall, no autographed football pictures or helmets. Quite a few people in the bar, and those “interviewed” for this column, are related either by blood or by marriage. That’s just the way it is in a small town.During the NFL season, after a Sunday or Monday night game, or after the Super Bowl, the economy does not improve or get worse. No one calls in sick, no fights occur, and a baby boom does not happen nine months later. The season schedule is on the wall and people use it to see when their team is playing. We don’t know what a Cover 2 is. We can probably tell the difference between a 4-3 and a 3-4 defense by watching the game, but we don’t try and identify it as such.

We don’t watch the draft. We do track trades. Some play fantasy football. I don’t think any of us have actually watched an NFL game on our phones.

We know when someone throws for 400 yards or runs for 200 yards. We know when upsets occur, especially if New England gets beat. But the NFL isn’t exactly an obsession in Richfield.

[totallybolted]

Really enjoy your "finds" Xenos.
Thanks.

[chargerfreak]

Jul 2, 2019 19:00:12 GMT -7 xenos said:

Don't know why but I enjoy these article about the NFL in small towns:

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/07/01/idaho-small-town-nfl-fmia-guest-peter-king/

We like keeping Idaho a secret. I am sure I will get some mail calling me bad names for letting the world know what a gem Idaho is. We are much more than just potatoes. But we’re small, and we make no apologies for it. The Richfield High School Senior class numbered 11 students this year. Nine graduated. Out of the nine, eight are going to college. Once you leave the township, your nearest neighbor is usually a mile or more away. It is quiet. Real quiet.

We don’t really have an NFL home team in Richfield. It’s difficult to call a team a “home” team and take it to heart when the closest league market is nine-and-a-half hours away by car. Think of our geography: We’re 630 miles southeast of Seattle, 700 miles from both Denver and Oakland, 840 miles from Phoenix, and don’t even think about making a car trip to see the Vikings in Minneapolis. They’re 1,300 miles east of us, and Montana’s pretty wide.

So in Richfield, there are fans who pledge allegiance to Seattle, Pittsburgh, Oakland, Arizona, San Francisco, Denver, Green Bay, Dallas, and the L.A. Rams—a veritable potpourri of NFL fandom.

Much of NFL life in Richfield happens around the bar named the Little Wood Saloon. The official bar motto is: Where the beer is cold and the BS is free. The saloon was originally a hardware store built in the early 1900’s. The original ceiling, hardwood floor and some doors are still in place. There are pictures on the wall of cowboys and their activities. There is a chandelier from a Nevada whorehouse on the ceiling. There are no NFL team pennants on the wall, no autographed football pictures or helmets. Quite a few people in the bar, and those “interviewed” for this column, are related either by blood or by marriage. That’s just the way it is in a small town.During the NFL season, after a Sunday or Monday night game, or after the Super Bowl, the economy does not improve or get worse. No one calls in sick, no fights occur, and a baby boom does not happen nine months later. The season schedule is on the wall and people use it to see when their team is playing. We don’t know what a Cover 2 is. We can probably tell the difference between a 4-3 and a 3-4 defense by watching the game, but we don’t try and identify it as such.

We don’t watch the draft. We do track trades. Some play fantasy football. I don’t think any of us have actually watched an NFL game on our phones.

We know when someone throws for 400 yards or runs for 200 yards. We know when upsets occur, especially if New England gets beat. But the NFL isn’t exactly an obsession in Richfield.

All 8 of them are going to Sioux Falls......................

[totallybolted]

I thought it a bit lame that only 9 of 11 graduated. How do you have a ~20% failure rate at that small of a population.

[joemcrugby]

Jul 2, 2019 19:00:12 GMT -7 xenos said:

Don't know why but I enjoy these article about the NFL in small towns:

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/07/01/idaho-small-town-nfl-fmia-guest-peter-king/

We like keeping Idaho a secret. I am sure I will get some mail calling me bad names for letting the world know what a gem Idaho is. We are much more than just potatoes. But we’re small, and we make no apologies for it. The Richfield High School Senior class numbered 11 students this year. Nine graduated. Out of the nine, eight are going to college. Once you leave the township, your nearest neighbor is usually a mile or more away. It is quiet. Real quiet.

We don’t really have an NFL home team in Richfield. It’s difficult to call a team a “home” team and take it to heart when the closest league market is nine-and-a-half hours away by car. Think of our geography: We’re 630 miles southeast of Seattle, 700 miles from both Denver and Oakland, 840 miles from Phoenix, and don’t even think about making a car trip to see the Vikings in Minneapolis. They’re 1,300 miles east of us, and Montana’s pretty wide.

So in Richfield, there are fans who pledge allegiance to Seattle, Pittsburgh, Oakland, Arizona, San Francisco, Denver, Green Bay, Dallas, and the L.A. Rams—a veritable potpourri of NFL fandom.

Much of NFL life in Richfield happens around the bar named the Little Wood Saloon. The official bar motto is: Where the beer is cold and the BS is free. The saloon was originally a hardware store built in the early 1900’s. The original ceiling, hardwood floor and some doors are still in place. There are pictures on the wall of cowboys and their activities. There is a chandelier from a Nevada whorehouse on the ceiling. There are no NFL team pennants on the wall, no autographed football pictures or helmets. Quite a few people in the bar, and those “interviewed” for this column, are related either by blood or by marriage. That’s just the way it is in a small town.During the NFL season, after a Sunday or Monday night game, or after the Super Bowl, the economy does not improve or get worse. No one calls in sick, no fights occur, and a baby boom does not happen nine months later. The season schedule is on the wall and people use it to see when their team is playing. We don’t know what a Cover 2 is. We can probably tell the difference between a 4-3 and a 3-4 defense by watching the game, but we don’t try and identify it as such.

We don’t watch the draft. We do track trades. Some play fantasy football. I don’t think any of us have actually watched an NFL game on our phones.

We know when someone throws for 400 yards or runs for 200 yards. We know when upsets occur, especially if New England gets beat. But the NFL isn’t exactly an obsession in Richfield.

Even though I lived on an Air Force Base on the outskirts of a "big" city (Great Falls, population 60,000 in 1978), this reminds me a lot of Montana which is where I graduated from high school and played my last football at the same high school that later produced "He whose name shall not be spoken". The author of the article is the same age as me, so he must have been at Richfield HS at the same time that our defending Montana state championship team traveled to play the defending Idaho state championship team in an August 1977 game played at the Boise State stadium.

Since the Broncos had appeared in their first Super Bowl recently with the Orange Crush defense and the Seahawks were a recent expansion team, most of the townies in Great Falls were split between those two franchises. On the base, allegiances were more widely split since people were from all over the US.

In reference to characters in the article who inhabit the Little Woods Saloon, I like Donny ... a lot!!

Donny

He’s 65, and recently retired from the Glanbia Nutritionals Plant. He owns Chariot Racing Horses and used to race himself. Yes, chariot racing is exactly what it sounds like: two horses pulling a person in a chariot not much bigger than a wheelbarrow that sits on two large bicycle tires.

Donny is a New England, Bill Belichick and Tom Brady hater. “They are cheating SOBs,” he likes to say. “Only way they can win.” He’ll go on a tirade for a good 10 minutes about New England, and sometimes when things are too quiet, we’ll ask him a question about Brady just so there is some noise.

[xenos]

Jul 3, 2019 5:16:48 GMT -7 totallybolted said:

I thought it a bit lame that only 9 of 11 graduated. How do you have a ~20% failure rate at that small of a population.

Yeah that is weird.