2021 season thread

hermes · Post #1 » by **hermes** » Wed Sep 8, 2021 10:56 pm

alright, new (longer, 17 games!) season is here. and its an odd year so hopefully the pattern holds and we'll be good

schedule:
Sunday, Sep. 12
at Cincinnati Bengals
1:00pm ET
FOX

Sunday, Sep. 19
at Arizona Cardinals
4:05pm ET
FOX

Sunday, Sep. 26
Seattle Seahawks
4:25pm ET
FOX

Sunday, Oct. 3
Cleveland Browns
1:00pm ET
CBS

Sunday, Oct. 10
Detroit Lions
1:00pm ET
FOX

Sunday, Oct. 17
at Carolina Panthers
1:00pm ET
FOX

Oct. 24
BYE

Sunday, Oct. 31
Dallas Cowboys
8:20pm ET
NBC

Sunday, Nov. 7
at Baltimore Ravens
1:00pm ET
FOX

Sunday, Nov. 14
at Los Angeles Chargers
4:05pm ET
FOX

Sunday, Nov. 21
Green Bay Packers
1:00pm ET
FOX

Sunday, Nov. 28
at San Francisco 49ers
4:25pm ET
FOX

Sunday, Dec. 5
at Detroit Lions
1:00pm ET
CBS

Thursday, Dec. 9
Pittsburgh Steelers
8:20pm ET
FOX/NFLN/AMAZON

Monday, Dec. 20
at Chicago Bears
8:15pm ET
ESPN

Sunday, Dec. 26
Los Angeles Rams
1:00pm ET
FOX

Sunday, Jan. 2
at Green Bay Packers
8:20pm ET
NBC

Sunday, Jan. 9
Chicago Bears
1:00pm ET
FOX

Post #2 » by **Worm Guts** » Thu Sep 9, 2021 12:50 pm

I kind of think if the Vikings are going to be good, they have to win this first game. The Bengals have some young talent, but Burrow is still pretty inexperienced and coming off a significant injury.

Post #3 » by **Worm Guts** » Sun Sep 12, 2021 6:40 pm

We look brutal.

Post #4 » by **Duke4life831** » Sun Sep 12, 2021 8:37 pm

Who’s ready for another season of mediocrity.

hermes · Post #5 » by **hermes** » Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:06 pm

well that was rough, way too many penalties. really sluggish start. nice to fight back from down two scores to tie it - and were driving for the win in overtime

but couldn't get it done

Post #6 » by **Worm Guts** » Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:58 pm

If you want to positive, you could say we had a lot of self inflicted mistakes and still almost won, but I thought Cincinnati got super conservative at times which helped us out. It feels like the type of game you need to win if you want to be good.
At least Green Bay is getting crushed.

hermes · Post #7 » by **hermes** » Sun Sep 12, 2021 11:59 pm

yeah the bengals did pack it in at times, after a burrow sack. i wonder if he got banged up or they were aiming to prevent getting banged up in a multi score game.

cleaning up mistakes is a must to get on the winning track, also stopping the run

hermes · Post #8 » by **hermes** » Mon Sep 13, 2021 1:05 am

michael pierce was really good and with kj osborn doing well, dare i say we might have finally found a 3rd wr?

Post #9 » by **Worm Guts** » Mon Sep 13, 2021 1:22 pm

Tied for first place! I don't know what to expect, but everyone in our division looked pretty awful this week.

hermes · Post #10 » by **hermes** » Mon Sep 13, 2021 5:43 pm

the whole north just might be a struggle this year

Post #11 » by **Duke4life831** » Mon Sep 13, 2021 5:45 pm

The only hope to the season is if the NFC North has turned into the NFC East and around a .500 record is good enough to win the division. Only reason that became a game was because Cincy panicked after the Burrow sack and packed it in on the offensive side after that.

Sadly the next 3 weeks look extremely rough. An 0-4 start looks pretty likely.

Post #12 » by **Worm Guts** » Sun Sep 19, 2021 11:06 pm

Holding call, Dalvin trips over his own feet, then Kirk throws an incomplete 4 yard pass on 3rd and 7. What are we doing?

Post #13 » by **Worm Guts** » Sun Sep 19, 2021 11:08 pm

I’m not sure why we’re so anxious to use our timeouts. We have the time.

hermes · Post #14 » by **hermes** » Sun Sep 19, 2021 11:26 pm

worm, what the heck man. ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh

do we need to make some kind of sacrifice to the football gods?

hermes · Post #15 » by **hermes** » Sun Sep 19, 2021 11:27 pm

we looked good. offense was great in the first half, lackluster for most of the second but they moved down the field when they needed to. defense let too much go but the cardinals seem pretty loaded on offense - and even the defense got the stop when they needed to (hunter had a phenomenal game)

Post #16 » by **Worm Guts** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 12:46 am

Time is a flat circle. History repeating itself over and over again.

hermes · Post #17 » by **hermes** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:04 pm

its a bummer they didn't want to try one play into the endzone before the kick, instead of just letting time rundown

hindsight and all, there is risk in a turnover if you do that but take at least one chance at avoiding a kick right?

Post #18 » by **Worm Guts** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:34 pm

hermes wrote:its a bummer they didn't want to try one play into the endzone before the kick, instead of just letting time rundown

hindsight and all, there is risk in a turnover if you do that but take at least one chance at avoiding a kick right?

I don't even know if I would have gone to the end zone, but I probably would have tried to get it closer. Of course just last week, we fumbled while trying to set up a game winning field goal. Not much you can do if bad luck is just going to chase you down.

hermes · Post #19 » by **hermes** » Sun Sep 26, 2021 1:04 pm

cook is questionable, so that isn't good

i'm not expecting much from this game

Post #20 » by **Worm Guts** » Sun Sep 26, 2021 9:06 pm

Zimmer should be ashamed of this defense.