NFL 2015-16 season

[MizzouRah]

A video with our St. Louis sportscaster, Steve Savard.

Funny how they don't show one of the best teams ever, the 1999 St. Louis Rams.

[XXXIV]

A video with our St. Louis sportscaster, Steve Savard.

Funny how they don't show one of the best teams ever, the 1999 St. Louis Rams.

Stan has never heard of the greatest show on turf.

[pk500]

A sports homecoming video featuring Diddy's "Coming Home" as the soundtrack? How original. Never heard that before.

[XXXIV]

Bingo!

[Brando70]

I think Patriots win this weekend. Manning has so little on his throws he makes Teddy Bridgewater look like he has a cannon. As good as the Broncos defense can be, giving up 300 to a half-armed Big Ben plus a number of big plays doesn't bode well. This feels like a game that stays close into the fourth quarter, and I have to go with the BELIBOT 3000, Gronk!, and the QB with a blinding amount of bling on his fingers.

[wco81]

If the conditions are windy or cold, yeah that will limit Manning, unless they somehow run like crazy on the Pats.

How did they beat the Pats a couple of years ago in the playoffs? Seems like the Broncos shut down the Pats running game and generated a lot of pressure up the middle to get in Brady's face.

As for the NFC, both defenses are susceptible because they both lost key cornerbacks late in the season -- Seattle really blew a key opportunity here because they got back a lot of key players late in the season and was relatively healthy, maybe the most healthy except for the Broncos.

[10spro]

I didn't expect Beast mode to do much really. As good as he is when you only played 3 games during the regular season, you can't ask him to be the difference maker. I'll miss him, when you have a young stud like Rawls that run very well in his absence, Lynch won't be back.

Go for it Cowboys, Raiders. He's expensive but he's worth it.

Yeah having Graham would have helped, but let's be frank here going 0-31 against a team like CAR won't get you far even when you have everyone healthy.

I wish it isn't so but with key players coming back for hoodie, it's all set for a repeat.

[pk500]

I think Patriots win this weekend. Manning has so little on his throws he makes Teddy Bridgewater look like he has a cannon. As good as the Broncos defense can be, giving up 300 to a half-armed Big Ben plus a number of big plays doesn't bode well. This feels like a game that stays close into the fourth quarter, and I have to go with the BELIBOT 3000, Gronk!, and the QB with a blinding amount of bling on his fingers.

Patriots -3 is my lock of this weekend.

[pk500]

If the conditions are windy or cold, yeah that will limit Manning, unless they somehow run like crazy on the Pats.

Manning looks like he's throwing into a headwind even when it's calm. If Manning was forced to make the same Hail Mary throw as Rodgers at the end of regulation Saturday night, it would have fallen to Earth like a mortally wounded duck at the 10-yard line.

The guy is completely shot unless he can get a nice HGH shipment from OMAHA! this week.

[Diablo25]

Just watched Doug Pederson's intro press conference and I liked what I heard.

Jeff Lurie (Eagles owner) confirmed that control of personnel decisions has yet to be determined. In fact they are currently looking to hire a player personnel guy to add to there front office. ALL of the media who have been bashing the Eagles for "allowing" Howie Roseman to be put back in charge of personnel should now retract all of their stories and statements that spoke contrary to that point. Irresponsible media drives me out of my mind. Everyone wants the damn story before the story is complete. Sorry for the rant but social media might be the worst thing that has ever been invented.

For the record I don't dislike Roseman. He made good and bad moves like most. I just wish the Philly media would stop beating that dead horse.

[vader29]

The guy is completely shot unless he can get a nice HGH shipment from OMAHA! this week.

[MizzouRah]

Patriots and Panthers.. and if that did happen, I hope the Panthers win 45-0.

[pk500]

I don't have a huge problem with Manning using HGH even though it's illegal.

He probably was using it to regrow nerves in his neck and rebuild his base arm strength just so he could return to the field. He wasn't trying to bulk up so he could throw 80-yard missiles running against his body off his back foot.

There's no doubt in my mind Tiger Woods used HGH or other illegal substances at the peak of his career so he could get jacked and launch bombs from the tee and fairways. Just look at how quickly he bulked up around 1999, 2000. And look at all the connective tissue problems he has suffered in the last 10 years, a telltale sign of steroid or HGH abuse.

Tiger wasn't caught because he could afford the most cutting-edge, boutique stuff, wasn't naive enough to have his wife order it and because the creampuff golf media licked his spikes every chance it could, trying to curry favor for access. It's amazing no golf media member still hasn't investigated this. I think Woods is almost as dirty as Armstrong. Both share the "win at all costs, f*ck the world, I'm the king of the Earth" prick DNA strand, complete with the veil of silence from intimidated PGA Tour players during his reign of terror.

I don't think Manning used HGH to gain a competitive advantage. He just wanted to get back on the field again, and I don't see HGH any different than cortisone, creatine or any other legal drug or supplement in that context.

What's worse, Peyton Manning using HGH to regrow nerves in his neck or Ben Roethlisberger being shot up with so much cortisone in the Cincinnati game that he probably couldn't feel his damaged shoulder or arm when he returned to the field in the fourth quarter?

[Aristo]

I'm all for letting players use HGH in some manner, even if it is to maintain and prevent injuries. And if HGH will help repair one, then it reasonable to expect guys getting paid to take the soundings they do to have access to those treatments.

The problem is, it's against the rules. And other teams may have had players that followed the rules, so they lost their services. The Broncos made out like bandits on their investment in Manning when most assumed he could not fulfill the contract he signed. That's cheating, and an unfair advantage.

I have no problem using his case to make an argument for allowing it. But the Broncos and Manning ought to be punished if he was using HGH on the side.

[pk500]

I have no problem using his case to make an argument for allowing it. But the Broncos and Manning ought to be punished if he was using HGH on the side.

Agree. My above post wasn't an ode to skirting the rules. It was more about changing the rules. But even that would be tricky. Teams and players would invent injuries so guys could take HGH to get bigger, stronger and faster. A giant black hole of enforcement.

I also think we can agree the NFL, at least until the last two seasons, was far more concerned about substances like steroids and HGH than concussion and concussion management.

Football never will die. Its too great of a game and far too woven into the fabric of American society. But there will come a point within the next few decades where football will be like boxing, the domain of lower-class and minority kids looking for a way out of their hardships.

In other words: You're not going to see many upper-middle and upper-class white kids from the 'burbs playing football in 2050. The more parents and the general public learn, the more they deter their offspring from putting on the pads and helmet.

The New York Times reported last September high school football participation was down 2.5 percent this year, with Pop Warner seeing greater declines. Those numbers are just a trickle. But the pace will increase.

[dbdynsty25]

In other words: You're not going to see many upper-middle and upper-class white kids from the 'burbs playing football in 2050. The more parents and the general public learn, the more they deter their offspring from putting on the pads and helmet.

The New York Times reported last September high school football participation was down 2.5 percent this year, with Pop Warner seeing greater declines. Those numbers are just a trickle. But the pace will increase.

Given that my son is just now starting to get into playing sports, there's no way in hell he's playing football. There are too many other options out there that can be physical competitions without crashing your head into things on purpose every time. Playing other sports will likely result in concussions too (I got one playing soccer for F's sake) but it's just about minimizing that risk.

Football is going to continue to decline until it's something that is done in certain areas of the country. Kind of like Lacrosse back East. Football will be dominant in the Texas and southern region (like it is now) and that will be that. It'll still exist, just not nearly at the level it currently sits (financially and the amount of participants).

[wco81]

Yeah football in Texas is something else.

Friday Night Tykes show on Esquire network just started a new season. Snoop Dog is trying to put together a national league for 10-11 year olds playing football.

The parents on the show are getting their children into football for themselves as much as the kids, who are probably interested but don't know about the dangers.

[Rodster]

Given that my son is just now starting to get into playing sports, there's no way in hell he's playing football.

Smart move and it's going to have a knock on effect at the College and Pro level in 10-20 yrs. A few years ago Terry Bradshaw said that the NFL will be totally different in 10-15 yrs. And that's why the NFL is trying to expand out in Europe. They're seeing all the concussion lawsuits flying and Soccer expanding in the US. A lot of athletes like LeBron have said they wouldn't let their kids play football.

[Diablo25]

In other words: You're not going to see many upper-middle and upper-class white kids from the 'burbs playing football in 2050. The more parents and the general public learn, the more they deter their offspring from putting on the pads and helmet.

The New York Times reported last September high school football participation was down 2.5 percent this year, with Pop Warner seeing greater declines. Those numbers are just a trickle. But the pace will increase.

Given that my son is just now starting to get into playing sports, there's no way in hell he's playing football.

I agree. I just cannot see allowing your kid to play a sport where the odds of a debilitating injury are much higher than any other sport. Add in all the concussion data and its a (no pun intended) no brainer.

[pk500]

Football is going to continue to decline until it's something that is done in certain areas of the country. Kind of like Lacrosse back East. Football will be dominant in the Texas and southern region (like it is now) and that will be that. It'll still exist, just not nearly at the level it currently sits (financially and the amount of participants).

Great point about the regional appeal of football, too. Add that to the demographic evolution of the sport, and football will look more like boxing than we think in 50 years.

Lower-class and minority kids will use football as a springboard from hardship. And there always will be pockets of the country -- Texas, Ohio and western Pennsylvania -- where football will remain the youth sports emperor. No different than boxing, which still attracts young, poor Latinos and blacks in urban areas of the United States and tiny participation elsewhere.

Find me a proper boxing gym in the suburbs or rural areas of the United States, and I guarantee you it's either teaching women and white-collar men boxing aerobics or is a nice enclave for elite professional trainers and fighters, much like Big Bear Lake, California, has become.

[XXXIV]

Great start for the Broncos!

Already copping pleas shady brady and the ass clowns...

[XXXIV]

Lazy play Broncos!

s*** pass then just pathetic lack of effort and knowledge of rules.

Lead to TD scumbags...

[DivotMaker]

LOL.....

[XXXIV]

LOL.....

Enjoy!

The day is young yet.

I will make asshole history!

[XXXIV]

Denver up 8 at half but out played the scum by far more...

One stupid play may send the assholes to the super bowl...

LETS GO BRONCOS!