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NFL Thread: 2025-26 Season

This is the first post I’ve made on this thread in some time, I recently took another break from posting, but I’m just going to get straight to the point.

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Okay, first of all, why is this screenshot so huge? And more importantly, good God who hurt this man? I wasn’t able to watch the first half live like I wanted to tonight, but rest assured I was still following the game in the background as I was watching YouTube, and… wow. This might be the greatest first half stat line I’ve ever seen from a football player in my entire life. And I’ve seen a lot of crazy stat lines. I have no other words. Sam Darnold, you absolute mad man.

What makes this even funnier is that my gut instinct told me to bench Jayden Daniels in favor of him for one of fantasy teams this week and Jayden’s having a terrible game
 
This is honestly the most frustrating Packers team in recent memory. This situation sucks lol. They have all the pieces to become an easy top 5 team, and more than that too, but they so rarely put it all together on one night. Right now, it's less than the sum of its (as-of-now-uninjured) parts. It's a long season, and anything can change come playoff time, but man. It sucks!
 
Adeleine said:
This is honestly the most frustrating Packers team in recent memory. This situation sucks lol. They have all the pieces to become an easy top 5 team, and more than that too, but they so rarely put it all together on one night. Right now, it's less than the sum of its (as-of-now-uninjured) parts. It's a long season, and anything can change come playoff time, but man. It sucks!
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The thing I don't get is how you don't have a league-average offense. Jordan Love is a quality starting quarterback! You have quality pieces for him! MLF has historically been a competent coach! It's baffling to me that these meltdowns keep happening. You'd be like 8-1 if your offense was adequate.
 
Rams/Seahawks next week should be incredible (and I'm not a fan of either), I chose the wrong weekend to take an extra day lol.

Edit* that should be a SNF/MNF game not a 4pm game.
 
yureion said:
Rams/Seahawks next week should be incredible (and I'm not a fan of either), I chose the wrong weekend to take an extra day lol.

Edit* that should be a SNF/MNF game not a 4pm game.
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Realistically speaking, yes, but as a Seahawks fan that lives on the opposite side of the country I’m selfishly going to say I’d prefer this over a different window because 10:30 or so for a night game is crazy work. As for the game itself, yeah this should be peak. I could see either of us winning the division and to the Rams’ credit Stafford’s been playing out of his mind the past few weeks. I think this is going to come down to ball control and if our offense can make the most of the looks we’re given- we’ve been having problems with stacked boxes slowing down our run game for a while now and there’s also a certain Anthony Bradford who’s about to get absolutely bullied by the Ram’s defensive line. Dude’s either the worst offensive lineman in the league or in contention for that spot.
 
my uncle who's a Vikings fans (and yes I know I spoke to growing up in a Bills v Jets family -- he just lived in Minne and took me to some games when I'd see him sometimes) if I believed in JJ and I was like Tbh I got no idea cus he's always hurt, but rn I still think Darnold or Jones wouldve been the better bet to take advantage of that roster.

Edit: I added Jones as a pre-Colts run thought cus I think Kevin O'Connell is a legit solid coach esp for QBs to help him kinda like Darnold had with Shanahan for that year lol. Darnold was just lucky/smart and doubled up on good offensive/QB coaches lol

Tbh nowadays it seems harder to write people off, cus there's a few coaches out there that can dust them off and get them right, Geno, Baker, Darnold, D. Jones, looks like Mac Jones too now, etc.

My question is does Shanahan fall in love with Mac and trade Brock, or risk pulling a move that Minne will be like "We been here" trading Mac cus everyone knows Shanahan wanted Mac OG lol.
 
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Injuries have frustrated me more in this season than in almost any other pro sport I've watched besides maybe a few nba playoff runs

lions defense keeps hitting the bowser space
joe burrow injured and we had multiple weeks of unwatchable bengals games before flacco started
giants were fun to watch until skattebo was injured and the way they handle dart's concussion risk is unacceptable even when considering that this is the league that desperately pretends CTE doesn't exist

on the more positive side we've had some historic performances we get to watch. jaxson smith njgiba has been having a historic season, broncos might beat all time sacks/season record, and colts offense is incredible to watch
 
Sijih said:
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Don't forget our offensive line! Ragnow retired after playing through injuries for years, and now the rest of the unit is getting cooked.

I can't present a rigorous defense of this take, but I think the injuries are getting worse in part as a consequence of the longer seasons. NFL games are such brutal affairs that making the regular season even a game bigger (especially without additional off time to compensate) probably compounds long-term wear on the bodies of players, and the season is still short enough for every game to be a big deal, so players are pressured to play through injuries despite the regular season becoming more of a marathon. TNF compounds this issue by forcing almost every team into at least one brutal stretch per season where they have to play on only three or four days of rest. The inevitable move to 18 games is probably going to be accompanied by a second bye week, so we'll see if that helps, but it won't surprise me if many players with primes in this era of NFL scheduling have premature retirements because their bodies just can't take the wear anymore.
 
adjectivenoun said:
Don't forget our offensive line! Ragnow retired after playing through injuries for years, and now the rest of the unit is getting cooked.

I can't present a rigorous defense of this take, but I think the injuries are getting worse in part as a consequence of the longer seasons. NFL games are such brutal affairs that making the regular season even a game bigger (especially without additional off time to compensate) probably compounds long-term wear on the bodies of players, and the season is still short enough for every game to be a big deal, so players are pressured to play through injuries despite the regular season becoming more of a marathon. TNF compounds this issue by forcing almost every team into at least one brutal stretch per season where they have to play on only three or four days of rest. The inevitable move to 18 games is probably going to be accompanied by a second bye week, so we'll see if that helps, but it won't surprise me if many players with primes in this era of NFL scheduling have premature retirements because their bodies just can't take the wear anymore.
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yeah agreed. I think there's a confluence of a bunch of things. to tell you the truth, this might just be a random chance thing though. I'd be very interested in seeing whether we are within normal variance or if there is evidence that injury rates actually have increased. anecdotally it certainly feels like it, but anecdotal evdence is useless. I tried to look it up but the only injury type nfl self reports is concussions which have gone down. dissapointing but also expected that the self reporting from them would be useless

I think the reasons are probably
- more games
- shorter rests between games
- sports specialization from an early age (this is ruining nba stars left and right)
- poorly maintained turf and synthetic turf
- pressure to play through injury

I wonder if there are any other hidden reasons (more aggresive ped usage, owners cost cutting medical teams, etc.).
I also wonder if the NFL will pick up on the NBA's "load management" trend. If you're guaranteed playoffs will every starter just be benched?
 
I agree that this season has been terrible for injuries, to the point where I’m starting to wonder if something’s up with all these teams’ training and rehab facilities. I can think of about four different reasons just off the top of my head why there’s a ton of injuries going around, but ignoring the blatant suspicious nature of how injuries can affect things like fantasy football and prop bets that often have actual money on the line, I really think the turf fields have to go and I also want to know more about the facilities of teams that are more frequently getting hit with the Injury Bug in recent seasons than other teams. Looking at you, San Francisco.


In other news, it pains me to say this but I think I’m going to place my Seahawks on at least temporary Fraud Watch for the time being. We’ll see what happens in a couple days against the Rams, but in spite of the mainstream media’s recent surge in Seattle stock, I don’t know if I’m ready to call us Super Bowl contenders just yet. The obvious culprit remains Sam Darnold and his overall lack of playoff experience and success, but as I mention in my last post I still have concerns about our running efficiency and I also have concerns about the schedule we’ve played up to this point. Yes, we were technically seven from starting 9-0 but the box scores don’t tell the whole story. I would argue our two best wins so far have been at Pittsburgh and at Jacksonville, both AFC teams by the way, and most of our other wins have come against terrible defensive play or were a bit fluky for my liking (yes, that is a word).

Looking just at the standings alone, our 7-2 start through nine regular season games is the best mark we’ve had since 2019-20. That team would finish 12-6 including playoff games with a loss in the divisional round, but this team has advantages and disadvantages over that specific season. I may need to take a look at our defensive efficiency ratings again and possibly watch some earlier games this season again for the sake of the eye test and play recognition. For now, I do worry about the Rams exposing our weak spots here soon.
 
bdt2002 said:
I also want to know more about the facilities of teams that are more frequently getting hit with the Injury Bug in recent seasons than other teams. Looking at you, San Francisco.
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In this particular case, I've heard that Kyle Shanahan has a pretty extreme "If you can stand, you're playing" kind of attitude, and it leads him to push a lot of his starters towards getting hurt. That's hearsay that I don't have a source for, but it supports the idea that a lot of the teams that seem persistently bitten by the "injury bug" might actually have deeper systemic issues than just bad luck.
 
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