2023-2024 NFL Season Thread • Page 2685

hes gonna thank god for sending him to the commanders?

 

Corny mf to the end

 

My Picks:
Julius Peppers
Antonio Gates
Patrick Willis
Reggie Wayne
Torry Holt

Should Get In Soon Hopefully, Fine If This Year:
Andre Johnson
Devin Hester
Dwight Freeney

Borderline, Lean Yes:
Jared Allen
Jahri Evans

Borderline, Lean No/Hall Of Very Good:
Darren Woodson
Fred Taylor
Eric Allen
Rodney Harrison
Willie Anderson

(realistically, if you’re a finalist, it’s a matter of when, not if, you’re inducted, so I’d imagine they’ll all get their jackets eventually and the order will be stupid and in favor of the less good olds)

 

not cars but i know a forklift racer who said theyd burn the shit out of anyone in the nfl thread

 

Should-Be Locks:

Julius Peppers
Antonio Gates
Devin Hester

My Remaining Two Picks:

Jared Allen
Willie Anderson

 

only the madden bros will remember the HB Streak audible

Jamaal was my king for 3-4 years in the AP Madden league

 

based on the above

My Picks:

Devin Hester
Julius Peppers
Patrick Willis
Andre Johnson
Antonio Gates

Fine This Year:

Dwight Freeney
Reggie Wayne
Torry Holt

Lean Yes:

Jahri Evans
Jared Allen
Eric Allen
Willie Anderson

Lean No:

Darren Woodson
Rodney Harrison
Fred Taylor

 

Peppers, Willis, Andre, Freeney, Gates, Harrison, Allen should get in over him so that’s already 7

Wayne and Holt probably will as well, even though I think they weren’t as rare talents for the WR position as Fred was for the RB position they’re both more famous, played longer, won / accomplished more with their teams. So.

 

Yes. I don’t like NASCAR but I do like the idea of A) winding tracks that challenge the driver to judge speed, g forces, angles and the way inertia behaves at different gears / RPMs, B) leagues where every car responds differently, and it’s not aggressively standardized other than keeping their general speed & horsepower in the same range.

Indy Car racing is aight cause it has A while also being even faster than NASCAR. But what I really wish was on TV more (because of B) is like, German and Japanese regional racing leagues. Heck even the UK / Australian ones you can find on ESPN2 occasionally are pretty thrilling. I love seeing drivers leverage different behaving cars with different driving styles and some of them being amazing on certain tracks and terrible on others etc

I hate American style oval tracks and drag racing. I think it’s so dumb to put 1000 horsepower into a car just so it can go straight, that takes most the impressiveness out of driving fast to me. I get more excited about a nimble, sleek looking car that can accelerate and take corners extremely well, than like a long ass Chevy Camaro that’s tuned to go 200 mph but can’t handle an S curve past 50. (the new Corvette is aight but still.)

NASCAR is all about drafting and trying to go like 1 mph faster at a 0.1 degree sharper angle around turns than the next guy and that’s so boring. Even when they do have those few races on curvy tracks, those cars are just not built for that. I prefer variety in racing and drivers being so good that they can slide the weight of their car around tough hills and slalom curves. It’s more fun when like, a third place driver takes big gambles trying to pass around corners, and tears up their tires for a lap or two, to try to overtake first place by taking 60 mph corners at 82 mph and wrestling the car

 

That last comment happens more in NASCAR than other forms of racing lol drafting in NASCAR is only a thing at 3 tracks

there is an incredibly technical side to all racing that’s extremely interesting, so much goes into setups and getting the car right.

 

man i was just making fun of @JRShoenberger lol

 

Happy Joe has a hobby but I’d personally prefer to watch forklift races lol

 

@JoshIsMediocre would you partake in forklift races?

 

hell yeah big Willie a finalist

 

absolutely not. I know my limits.

 

humble man

 

my mom LOVED NASCAR growing up. like I very strongly remember my mom crying her eyes out when Dale died. I think I had a lot of Bobby Labonte and Rusty Wallace stuff too

 

I went to the Indianapolis 500 but for the snake pit and not the race and it's wild you could be at the race in the infield and not even know a race was going on.

 

Yeah my dad was a huge Rusty Wallace fan. My uncle lived in a trailer park by Watkins Glenn so I got to go to that race a few times and it was fun but I always hated watching the races, they were too long. Dick Trickle is still an all time name though. The other thing I remember is a ton of homophobia around Jeff Gordan who I don’t even think was gay but he drove a rainbow car and wasn’t a total redneck so it sparked a lot of stupid people

 

nascar has its HQ here and they do the all star race and everything and i’ve never heard one person talk about it

im excited to see the ferrari movie

 

me a pats fan was also a jimmie johnson fan starting in 2002. i dont make the rules just how the cookie crumbled

 

@xbrokendownx - Is Waddle playing this week?