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Week 1... what's it mean?

thunderkyss

thunderkyss

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Is it just me, or do you think others (mainly the media) people are putting too much stock in week 1?

The media is expecting this Buffalo/Patriots game to be something special. Is that just because of Rex?

I know we're two games in for Denver, but even before the game.... sounds like they were counting Denver out.

Minnesota, to me it was just one "bad" game. Similar to ours, the coaches guessed wrong too many times about what the San Francisco was going to do.. & that's another thing. Did Kaepernick prove to be a better QB than he was last year?

I understand there's meaning in everything... but it's a 16 week season & we're barely into week 2. I think some folks are just rushing to conclusions without enough information just yet.
 
Last season, Game 1, the Titans beat the Chiefs 26-10. And proceeded to only win 1 more game, against the Jaguars, the rest of the season.

It's 1 game. First game of the season. One of Sixteen. There's a long way to go and there's not enough information to really know what's what.
 
The Pencil Neck said:
Last season, Game 1, the Titans beat the Chiefs 26-10. And proceeded to only win 1 more game, against the Jaguars, the rest of the season.

It's 1 game. First game of the season. One of Sixteen. There's a long way to go and there's not enough information to really know what's what.
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I think we have a worse example. 2013 we started 2-0 with a win over the 9-7 Chargers and then never won again.
 
The Pencil Neck said:
Last season, Game 1, the Titans beat the Chiefs 26-10. And proceeded to only win 1 more game, against the Jaguars, the rest of the season.

It's 1 game. First game of the season. One of Sixteen. There's a long way to go and there's not enough information to really know what's what.
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lol exactly..lest i remind everyone of our thrilling victory against SD a couple of years ago in week 1..& then we officially blew our wad out on a garbage Tennessee team in week 2 in OT before reeling off that hot 14 game losing streak that ultimately netted us Clowney.
 
Week 1 isn't that important because SEA & IND lost so it's not.

Had NE lost also, Week 1 would be meaningless.

Had GB & NE lost along with SEA & IND, Week 1 would have been declared Week 5 of preseason games, the games tapes would've been destroyed by the league office, and yesterday deemed the first week of the season. :truck:
 
Mollywhopper said:
De-sensationalizing doesn't make money.
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I know they do this every year, but it feels like even more so now. Usually they wait until a team is 0-2 before they declare someone dead, bit the Broncos were done & they were 1-0.

The Bills & Jets are fighting for first place in the East & The Pats are 1-0

Is it just me?
 
thunderkyss said:
I know they do this every year, but it feels like even more so now. Usually they wait until a team is 0-2 before they declare someone dead, bit the Broncos were done & they were 1-0.

The Bills & Jets are fighting for first place in the East & The Pats are 1-0

Is it just me?
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I don't think it's just you, not in the sense of you just making it up. The business of sports is more profitable than it's ever been. Whether that's networks/stations fighting over viewers/listeners, and from that advertisers wooing networks/stations, the Draftkings & Fanduels of the world propping up legal gambling from coast to coast like never before, all of this stirs up the business of stirring up stories to get our attention. It's nothing new, but I'd agree that the intesity may be cranked up more than ever.

According to Nielsen, the NFL saw its largest-ever Week 1 tune-in with an average audience of 19.9 million viewers for games last Thursday, Sunday and Monday. And for the sixth consecutive year, more than 105 million viewers watched at least some of the Kickoff Weekend game across CBS, ESPN, Fox and NBC. Thursday’s opener on NBC between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Super Bowl champion New England Patriots was the week’s most-watched program with 27.4 million viewers. And according to same-day Nielsen estimates, it was also the second most-watched Kickoff game ever.
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http://finance.yahoo.com/video/nfl-...vbG8DYmYxBHBvcwM1BHZ0aWQDQjA4NTRfMQRzZWMDc3I-

Everyone wants of piece of the disposable income that comes with what's the most coveted audience in advertising. And with that will come every effort to keep our attention no matter the lengths of the drama that needs be created.

What does week 1 mean? To us, nothing different than any other year. To all the talking heads, it's their chance to make their pitch at our most vulnerable.
 
thunderkyss said:
I know they do this every year, but it feels like even more so now. Usually they wait until a team is 0-2 before they declare someone dead, bit the Broncos were done & they were 1-0.

The Bills & Jets are fighting for first place in the East & The Pats are 1-0

Is it just me?
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I assume people are saying the Broncos are done because Peyton Manning looks like he's going down the Matt Schaub road and Osweiler might be a better option at QB.
 
Playoffs said:
Week 1 isn't that important because SEA & IND lost so it's not.

Had NE lost also, Week 1 would be meaningless.

Had GB & NE lost along with SEA & IND, Week 1 would have been declared Week 5 of preseason games, the games tapes would've been destroyed by the league office, and yesterday deemed the first week of the season. :truck:
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I'm waiting for the lawsuit demanding that the first two scheduled season games be counted as PS games to see if the NFLPA will demand one of them be dropped instead of both as a modification of the penalty.

ps I know this doesn't make any sense as I try to incorporate too many pet peeves into one comment.
 
Playoffs said:
Week 1 isn't that important because SEA & IND lost so it's not.

Had NE lost also, Week 1 would be meaningless.

Had GB & NE lost along with SEA & IND, Week 1 would have been declared Week 5 of preseason games, the games tapes would've been destroyed by the league office, and yesterday deemed the first week of the season. :truck:
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Unfortunately, since KC beat us in Week 1, it could have implications in playoffs...........as we've seen in head-to-head elimination in the past.
 
It means dick. It's one of 16 games with some tiebreaker none of which has to do with when you did it. Hippie $tuff sure you can debate. Otherwise it's one of 16 doesn't matter the order.
 
It means the teams that won are 1-0 and the ones that lost are 0-1.
Outside of that, like most weeks, it's just another game.
That being said, I'd rather be 1-0 than 0-1. Hard to argue that part of it.

Hope everyone here is doing well.
Go Bengals !!!
 
Evidently, Dez Bryant's Jones fracture was not a clean fracture.........rather it was a comminuted (splintered) fracture.............and required bone grafting. As his original return to play was estimated at 4-6 weeks, I doubt he can make it back functionally by 12 weeks, if at all.........a long time to keep an open roster spot "hoping." This makes complications short-term, and long-term more common and his long-term outlook less predictable.
 
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I want to start a new thread. The "week 1" thing is going to throw some people off, but the point is the same, it's too early.

When I started this thread, I pointed at the mediots & talking heads. But I was really talking about several posters here.

Certain players have come out of the gate looking good. Some haven't. Some teams seem to have it together, some don't.

We started last season 2-0, the Colts started 0-2. We watched the Colts in the AFC Championships game.

What we know now, is that every team has issues. The question is can they work through them.

Can we work through ours?
 
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I'm not optimistic but the division title is not out of reach. Indy looks as bad as we do. The Jags are the Jags. The Titans just lost to Manziel and the Browns.

Hell, maybe we can be that 7-9 team that sneaks in and gets a home playoff game that they don't deserve.
 
bah007 said:
I'm not optimistic but the division title is not out of reach. Indy looks as bad as we do. The Jags are the Jags. The Titans just lost to Manziel and the Browns.

Hell, maybe we can be that 7-9 team that sneaks in and gets a home playoff game that they don't deserve.
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The way they do the schedule now, where 14 games are based on your division & only two based on how you placed the year before, I don't buy the "don't deserve" thing. You won more games than the other teams against a schedule that is practically identical.

The old way, teams with the easiest schedules had an advantage to making the play offs. I don't know that it ever played out that way, but they had an advantage.

Now, even if you're in a weak division your division opponents only account for 6 out of 16 games. You still have to play well against 10 other teams. A 7-8-1 team may very well be better than a 9-7 or 10-6 team even.
 
thunderkyss said:
The way they do the schedule now, where 14 games are based on your division & only two based on how you placed the year before, I don't buy the "don't deserve" thing. You won more games than the other teams against a schedule that is practically identical.

The old way, teams with the easiest schedules had an advantage to making the play offs. I don't know that it ever played out that way, but they had an advantage.

Now, even if you're in a weak division your division opponents only account for 6 out of 16 games. You still have to play well against 10 other teams. A 7-8-1 team may very well be better than a 9-7 or 10-6 team even.
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For the record, I do believe that all division winners should get automatic bids to the playoffs. But I do not believe they should automatically get home games. Home team should be decided by record, division winner can be a tie-breaker in this case.
 
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