NFL 2018 Season Thread

[Ben Kenobi]

I was wondering why he was sitting atop our waiver pools in Fantasy.

[-Jrabbit]

Just 4 weeks. He'll be back for the playoffs!

[rah]

I remember you complaining that he kept falling to you and you "had to" take him...

Sigh, if that had been by only issues in the draft, I would have been happy. Many other worse decisions.

[Demonbinder]

http://www.csnchicago.com/chicago-bears/virginia-mccaskey-bears-will-remain-family-until-second-coming?p=ya5nbcs&ocid=yahoo&yptr=yahoo

[-Jrabbit]

That's actually a pretty good interview with Virginia McCaskey. When I saw the frown/no emoticon, I was afraid she had died.

Frankly, I'm fine with the Bears remaining a family business. It might hold them back a bit, but the NFL's revenue sharing pretty much guarantees a relatively (compared to most other pro sports) level playing field to compete. Selling the team is not going to get them a QB.

[Ming]

Well... they wanted to make the extra point kick more interesting. Mission Accomplished.

NFL kickers missed like never before Sunday, setting a record with 12 failed extra point attempts.

Kickers missed left, right, had kicks blocked and hit the uprights. Kickers missed in the wind and indoors. It's the most misses in one week since the NFL merger.

The NFL moved extra-point attempts back before last season because the kicks had become routine, and professionals almost never missed. The 20-yard attempt became a 33-yarder. In Week 13 of last season, kickers missed eight. That mark was eclipsed by mid-afternoon Sunday.

Cincinnati's Mike Nugent and Robbie Gould of the New York Giants each missed two extra-point attempts.

Chicago's Connor Barth, Minnesota's Kai Forbath, Jacksonville's Jason Myers, Cleveland's Cody Parkey and New England's Stephen Gostkowski each missed one. Seattle's Steven Hauschka and Detroit's Matt Prater had kicks blocked.

At night, Dustin Hopkins of Washington clanged one off the upright, in windy conditions.

Barth and Gould also were kicking in gusty winds, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Forbath, Myers and Prater all missed despite being indoors.

"It was much windier than it usually is," Giants long snapper Zak DeOssie said. "It was a cross-wind from our bench to theirs, then it switched toward the end of the game diagonal from our tunnel to the opposite tunnel."

Forbath had just replaced the ineffective Blair Walsh as Minnesota's kicker this week.

In the early-afternoon games, Nugent's misses arguably had the biggest impact. The Bengals lost 16-12 to the Buffalo Bills and drove all the way to Buffalo's 27-yard line in the closing seconds. If Nugent hadn't missed those two extra-point attempts, the Bengals could have attempted a winning field goal at the end of the game rather than unsuccessfully trying to score a touchdown.

[-Jrabbit]

I think that's awesome.

[Ming]

So do I.
The talking heads this morning were saying that weeks like this may make the NFL rethink the rule, but my response would be ****em.

I love it. And for the NFL, it keeps all the people glued to the TV instead of having them all leave the room for more food or bathroom breaks

[rah]

I'd have to look it up but this morning on the radio they were saying that last year the 2 point conversion was under 50% so the points per 10 attempts between 1 and 2 was like 9.3 to 9.4 but this year the 2 point conversion rate is closer to 57% so the odds favor going for two.

That and my favorite that on the PGA tour the percentage for making a 5 foot put (or less) is higher than making an extra point. (that's how good they are)

[Zopperoni]

The average 2PT success rate is 53.7% (36 of 67) so far. The average PAT success rate is 93.6% (701 of 749).

Eight teams have not missed a PAT (2PT % in parentheses):
DAL (0%, 0/2)
IND (50%, 1/2)
OAK (75%, 3/4)
LA (0%, 0/1)
MIA (100%, 1/1)
PIT (43%, 3/7)
SF (100%, 1/1)
BAL (75%, 3/4)

[rah]

The average 2PT success rate is 53.7% (36 of 67) so far.

Yeah, that jives with what I heard. So percentages say go for 2.

[Demonbinder]

The Bears lose another player to PED's. This seems to be getting more widespread around the league. Some times it is the players fault but not all the time. I watched some reporters talking about it on Sports Talk Live and one said it is the players responsibility to know what he is putting in his system. But they also said that sometimes there is cross contamination from other products made in same plant. Furthermore, the website the NFL sets up for players to check what is banned isn't even recommended by NFL. So what is a player to do? There should be someone on each team or the NFL should have someone who knows all the ins and outs and can give players good information. They really need to re-think their policies.

[-Jrabbit]

It's pretty simple: Don't take anything you didn't get from your team's doctor or trainer.

Most OTC supplements are just marketing BS, and the ones that can actually help an NFL player are highly likely to result in a suspension.

[rah]

I'm not buying into the fantasy that nobody knows what they're taking. Listening to the players this seems to be the answer almost 100% of the time. What are the odds of that?

[-Jrabbit]

To quote you directly, "almost 100%."