Kalli posted:

Oh wow, I was going to make a joke about the Falcons getting off to a hot start again this year, but the next 3 weeks they play the panthers, then @Broncos and @Seahawks.

Gonna guess those offensive stats won't be so pretty soon enough.

Ross Angeles posted:

Eli is going to the HoF and Rivers won't despite putting up better numbers across the board than Eli and never having a #1 WR to throw to and I'm gonna be salty about it forever

Kalli posted:

Oh my god you guys.

I just realized we're going to get to watch the Falcons pass rush vs the Seahawks offensive line for an entire game.

Kalli posted:

That play where Trufant blew up Brees last night, I was utterly shocked until I saw the jersey number.

Bort Bortles posted:

Hail Satan.

sam bradford lmao posted:

lol

a neat cape posted:

ice cold horchata posted:

Fine, next week I will find a god damned restaurant downtown with horchata.

Chichevache posted:

All Mexican restaurants do horchata the same way all American restaurants do lemonade.

Forever_Peace posted:

guys pls

I don't know who the gently caress any of you are now.

Blowjob Overtime posted:

Oh. Oh no.

Vertical Lime posted:

https://twitter.com/AdamRubinESPN/status/781164971308650496

tebowns

Febreeze posted:

look at him trying to squeeze the air outta that ball

kiimo posted:

I also named my penis The Deflator what a coincidence.

Chilichimp posted:

Matt Ryan's current stat line is loving nuts.

119 passer rating on the season.

Grittybeard posted:

Which of you two was all upset that someone called Matt Ryan good in the QB thread?

Chichevache posted:

Your upcoming schedule is... unfriendly.

mastershakeman posted:

the bears being that low is hilarious

Athanatos posted:

Matt Ryan is good in the same way plain white bread is good.

GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:

I just realized that this is the week TNF isn't on CBS or Twitter Thanks a loving Lot NFL

Kalli posted:

Players of the Month for September:

NFC:
O: Matt Ryan - 7 TD's to 1 int, 71% completion percentage while torching the Saints and Raiders secondaries *cough*

D: Deion Jones - LB for the Falcons

Kalli posted:

Seems kind of obvious that cable is hemorrhaging subscribers and once you decide to cut cable, there's just a natural number of people who never bother to put up an antenna and then just wander away or are happy with reddit streams.

Not sure if they're counted in viewership or even what they cost, but the cheapest online options are ESPN at $20 a month on Sling or NFLN + ESPN for like $30 on Playstation Vue, so if you're cutting cable and just want football, those aren't great prices either.

Chilichimp posted:

It was me.

Also, his stat line against the Raiders, Buccs and Saints is about to count for gently caress-all.

Chilichimp posted:

Matt Ryan makes super lovely throws, although he seemed like an unstoppable monster against the Saints. I guess his ability varies like most people. He had a super good night on Monday.

Against the Buccs, passes were behind receivers constantly, and he didn't see wide-open guys. He was clearly the reason we lost that game.

Chilichimp posted:

I'm not trying to be sarcastic.

The guy has hit or miss performances, and he was real real bad against the Buccs. He had SO MANY loving throws end up behind guys.

Chilichimp posted:

No excuse not to hang at least 30 points on the loving Buccs. Our defense was shaky, sure, but the Buccs defense is hot garbage. Matt Ryan played a defense that was tailored to exploit his weaknesses. His former head coach and offensive coordinator on the other side of the field.

Edit:

They basically stayed in Tampa 2 all day, taking away his already pretty lovely deep-game. He was off-timing or inaccurate on the crossing routes and we ended up only scoring 24.

FizFashizzle posted:

Panthers are probably going to overcompensate their lack of KB targets last week and just feed the Falcons best player.

adaz posted:

One of them is coached by a real football coach as opposed to whatever it is we call Mularkey.

Spoeank posted:

https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/782740274929958913

FizFashizzle posted:

Weatherspoon blew out his achilles yesterday too.

Chilichimp posted:

He was looking good though, and it makes me sad that he was twice injured out for the year in garbage time.

go go go go ROSCOE! posted:

Quinn would be a huge idiot to let Coleman play considering there's precedence with Clark

go go go go ROSCOE! posted:

that was Dan Campbell

swickles posted:

Couple things, first he doesn't have sickle cell anemia, he has the sickle cell trait. If you remember high school biology, you inherit half your genes from mom and the other from dad. Inheriting two genes that are recessive, confers sickle cell anemia. Only inheriting one gene for it gives you the sickle cell trait.

So what is the difference? People with sickle cell trait can and often do live perfectly normal lives. In fact, having the traits tends to confer some resistance to malaria, so if you live on a country where its endemic, then its actually an advantage. However, in a small percent of people with sickle cell trait, they will react very poorly to high altitude. Ryan Clark was in that small percentage and lost his spleen and gall bladder due to them becoming infarcted (blood flow was blocked) and dying. It is unknown how Tevin Coleman will react, but simply going by the statistics, there is a 99% chance he will be perfectly fine.

That's basically it, but if you want to know a little more about why this happens I will continue. If you don't then skip this. Sickle cell anemia is a disease where the hemoglobin (the thing that transports oxygen) is slightly defective. This causes the blood cells to become misshaped (they actually form crescents, or sickles hence the name). The problem is that they then clump together and essentially form tiny clots all of the body. If they get large and/or numerous enough, they can block bloodflow to a whole organ (the spleen almost always gets hit first). In the sickle cell trait, only half (and often way less because of the bodies other mechanisms for dealing with this sort of thing) of the cells have this problematic hemoglobin. One thing you have to know about hemoglobin, is that its shape is dependent on how much oxygen its carrying. As the oxygen leaves, it becomes mishaped. Not a problem for most people, but in the sickle trait along with hypoxia that little problem tends to ramp up and you go from being a sickle trait person, to having identical blood as a full sickle cell anemia person.

a neat cape posted:

Can someone explain to me how the Rams are 3-1