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NFL 2013 Week 1 |OT| - A new season dawns with champs vs chokes

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Mr.Swag

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Fantomex said:
My phins need to either be great or horrible tomorrow no in between. I need to set my mind early this season.
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Problem is out defense is great, and our offense is yet to be known.
I'm hoping great as well.
Shit. If our offense is just a tad better than last year, then I'll be happy enough.
10-6 here we come!
 
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LJ11

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Futurevoid said:
So I've been kind of off and on for the past day or so and there's a reason why.

My mother was diagnosed with Intraductal carcinoma (breast cancer) yesterday. I've spent the majority of the past two days with her just trying to keep her spirits up and helping her prepare for what's to come. Thankfully, it appears that the tumor she noticed and had checked out was discovered early and the prognosis will hopefully be good moving forward (we find out more on Monday after an MRI).

So yeah, it's been both great to spend time with my mom but shitty to have to do it under these circumstances. If you don't notice me around as much over the next few days, you'll know why.
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Saddened by the news, wish you and your family the best.

yankeehater said:
Bills Pats, EJ is going to start his career off with a bang.
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Tomorrow marks a turning point. The Pat reign of terror comes to a motherfucking end. Mark your calendars, 9/8/2013, the day it all came crashing down for the Patsies. Enjoy being bottoms from here on out, Brady will feel right at home.
 
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yankeehater

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LJ11 said:
Saddened by the news, wish you and your family the best.



Tomorrow marks a turning point. The Pat reign of terror comes to a motherfucking end. Mark your calendars, 9/8/2013, the day it all came crashing down for the Patsies. Enjoy being bottoms from here on out, Brady will feel right at home.
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Fuck yes man! You have no idea how much I will be pulling for you guys.
 
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Elfforkusu

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LJ11 said:
Tomorrow marks a turning point. The Pat reign of terror comes to a motherfucking end. Mark your calendars, 9/8/2013, the day it all came crashing down for the Patsies. Enjoy being bottoms from here on out, Brady will feel right at home.
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jakncoke

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Yeah fuck cancer, 2 months ago had a relative find out she had some cancer in her lady region and on the 12th my aunt finds out if the mass on her kidneys is cancerous or not. Which even if it isnt cancerous, something really wrong after losing like 40-50 pds and down to like 100 pounds
 
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lastflowers

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My senior year had the best football setup on sundays: 4 people. 2 36 packs chilling in the fridge. 2 TVs to watch the games, one additional dedicated TV. 4 laptops, where each laptop had a stream on it plus fantasy football setup. Pizza ordered like clockwork during the first halftime.
 
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-Mostly just an excuse to show how awesome HD coaches film will be, even with smaller resolution GIFs

-Not on the safeties on this play, but Cosell was saying BAL had to stay way too basic to cover for their bad safety play. Lots of Cover 2, can't really blitz, and Elam isn't even a backup yet
 
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chuckddd

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squicken said:
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-Mostly just an excuse to show how awesome HD coaches film will be, even with smaller resolution GIFs

-Not on the safeties on this play, but Cosell was saying BAL had to stay way too basic to cover for their bad safety play. Lots of Cover 2, can't really blitz, and Elam isn't even a backup yet
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Hard to place blame because I have no idea what they're trying to do in coverage there. None.
 
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FrenchMovieTheme

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squicken said:
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-Mostly just an excuse to show how awesome HD coaches film will be, even with smaller resolution GIFs

-Not on the safeties on this play, but Cosell was saying BAL had to stay way too basic to cover for their bad safety play. Lots of Cover 2, can't really blitz, and Elam isn't even a backup yet
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their first round pick isn't even a backup yet? trash!
 
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squicken

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chuckddd said:
Hard to place blame because I have no idea what they're trying to do in coverage there. None.
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https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2013/09/06/analysis-notebook-opening-day-edition/

PFF had a blog on it

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It all starts on the right side of the Denver formation with a simple bubble-screen fake. The Broncos fake the quick pass to RWR Eric Decker which starts the dominoes tumbling on the Ravens’ defense. When teams run this kind of screen pass the defensive secondary usually has to orchestrate a quick switch between the outside corner and the slot corner to his inside. The offense will usually try to block the guy lined up over the intended receiver with the slot receiver, leaving the inside corner as the man with the unblocked path to the ball. When Denver shows this fake, both corners make for the football, with LCB Lardarius Webb shooting at speed to try and beat the anticipated block from Wes Welker, and slot corner Corey Graham coming up to shut it down from the inside.

The problem is that Welker isn’t planning to throw a block at all, he’s running his own route. He takes a path towards Webb as if to block but then breaks deep towards the end zone. This topples another domino.

With both corners now out of the picture, the safety to that side of the field, Michael Huff, sees the danger immediately and knowing he has help to his inside, takes off to try and prevent an easy pitch and catch to Welker by the pylon. Unfortunately, doing this takes him out of his zone, and opens up a huge hole to the middle of the field, just waiting for a Denver receiver to break into. The deep is supposed to be covered by two deep safeties splitting the field in half, but there is no way the backside safety can know Huff has been dragged out of position and move across to fill the gap. The play is designed to pull just one side of the defense out of alignment, because that’s all it needs to do.

For this play to work, Denver still needs one more domino to fall, and it comes in the form of the underneath man coverage of LB Daryl Smith, a perennial PFF favorite.

Smith reads the out pattern by the TE Julius Thomas, but doesn’t react well enough when he turns the route into an out-and-up. Just as the pressure gets to Manning he delivers the perfect pass into a huge area of space in the middle of the Ravens’ defense. The touchdown ends up right in the center of the field, and the player with the biggest portion of blame on that defense is Smith, who was beaten by his man in coverage. However, the elegance of the play design has taken at least three other defenders out of position and caused that huge area of uncovered space in the middle of the field making it an easy throw for Manning to make, even with an imminent hit coming right at him.
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Cloudy

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I tried throwing 7 TDs with Peyton vs. the Ravens in Madden. Ended up with 5 (should have been 6 but the game scores WR screen receptions as rushes for some reason) and 4 INTs. Just shows how ridiculous that game was lol
 
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Cloudy said:
I tried throwing 7 TDs with Peyton vs. the Ravens in Madden. Ended up with 5 (should have been 6 but the game scores WR screen receptions as rushes for some reason) and 4 INTs. Just shows how ridiculous that game was lol
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Sounds like a backward pass, which happens sometimes with those screens.

What difficulty were you playing on?
 
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