Game Thread: Tua vs. The Chargers...

[TIDE-HSV]

Usually no NFL threads, but this is about the close we can come to Bama football this weekend. I think the next time the center centers the ball between Tua's legs, if I'm the HC, I tell Tua not to chase the ball down and tackle the carrier...

 

[Saban4Ever]

Usually no NFL threads, but this is about the close we can come to Bama football this weekend. I think the next time the center centers the ball between Tua's legs, if I'm the HC, I tell Tua not to chase the ball down and tackle the carrier...

I wish I could watch the game. In my area near Atlanta CBS is showing the Bills v Cardinals. This is the 2nd or 3rd time they have not shown the Dolphins this year. I miss watching Tua! I am watching the espn.com game cast that just shows a few things. Not sure what else I can do. I am not great at figuring out how to watch it elsewhere. lol

 

[TIDE-HSV]

I wish I could watch the game. In my area near Atlanta CBS is showing the Bills v Cardinals. This is the 2nd or 3rd time they have not shown the Dolphins this year. I miss watching Tua! I am watching the espn.com game cast that just shows a few things. Not sure what else I can do. I am not great at figuring out how to watch it elsewhere. lol

You might be able to DL the Dolphins app. In this case, the center put the ball on the ground short of Tua's hands. No one knew where the ball was. A charger DB scooped it up and took off. Tua ran him down and tackled him. Not really what you want your starting QB doing, particularly not with medical problems...

 

[DzynKingRTR]

We may look back on this QB class as one of the best ever. Tua playing well. Herbert playing well. Burrow playing well. Am I missing anyone?

 

[JustNeedMe81]

Tua 8/5 for 105 yards with TD. not bad start for him.

 

[B1GTide]

We may look back on this QB class as one of the best ever. Tua playing well. Herbert playing well. Burrow playing well. Am I missing anyone?

1983 says hello. Elway, Marino, Kelly - 3 HOF QBs.

The 2004 class could also produce 3 HOFers. Rivers, Roethlisberger, Eli Manning

 

[DzynKingRTR]

1983 says hello. Elway, Marino, Kelly - 3 HOF QBs.

I said one of the best ever.

 

[B1GTide]

I said one of the best ever.

I don't think it will be top 10, but time will tell.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I don't think it will be top 10, but time will tell.

It is a bit early to judge now. They could all fail next year.

 

[rolltide_21]

Hard me to get used to the “LA Chargers.” My wife asked who the Dolphins were playing and without thinking said “San Diego.”

 

[rolltide_21]

Herbert telegraphed that one

 

[cubzwin]

I don't think it will be top 10, but time will tell.

Tom Brady was drafted 199th. Joe Montana was drafted at the end of the third round. There must have been a lot of great quarterbacks in those drafts. ;

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Hard me to get used to the “LA Chargers.” My wife asked who the Dolphins were playing and without thinking said “San Diego.”

Until I read your post, I had forgotten.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Tom Brady was drafted 199th. Joe Montana was drafted at the end of the third round. There must have been a lot of great quarterbacks in those drafts. ;

Yep. The rarity is the QB drafted in the first round that was actually great. Bart Star was in a round that doesn't even exist anymore. Todd Blackledge, Tony Eason, and Ken O'Brien were all drafted before Marino.

 

[CHATTBRIT]

Just an FYI for anyone wanting to watch out of area NFL games: Download Kodi on Amazon Firestick and then download Rising Tides. It is primarily for European football (the real football) but under Extra Live Sports they show NFL games and they start televising 5 minutes before game time.

 

[seebell]

Hard me to get used to the “LA Chargers.” My wife asked who the Dolphins were playing and without thinking said “San Diego.”

Like Las Vegas Raiders.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Tom Brady was drafted 199th. Joe Montana was drafted at the end of the third round. There must have been a lot of great quarterbacks in those drafts. ;

Amazingly enough, a guy named Jack Thompson (aka "The Throwin' Samoan) went #3 as the highest QB pick in the Montana draft.

Phil Simms went at #7 - nobody had heard of him before Ray Perkins picked him.
Steve Fuller (Clemson) went to the Chiefs at 23 (and filled in for McMahon on the 85 Bears team)

Btw - the 49ers had traded their first overall pick to the Bills for a washed up grade B actor and grade A murderer named OJ Simpson.


The top QB in the Brady draft was Chad Pennington out of Marshall. The real idiot was whomever with the 49ers decided to draft Giovanni Carmazi (???) out of Hofstra or Chris Redman out of Louisville (the Ravens, who needed a QB badly).

2000 was not a QB heavy draft the way 1983 or last year was.

 

[TideEngineer08]

So in his starts, Tua has now faced two of the guys he was most directly compared to in college and beaten both of them. Not bad.

 

[AlexanderFan]

So in his starts, Tua has now faced two of the guys he was most directly compared to in college and beaten both of them. Not bad.

He’s playing team ball. They are bringing him along slowly and he’s smart enough to let them do it. He flashes some brilliance, but he’s throwing a little high right now. One of his receivers is 5’7” , so he’s gonna have to bring it down some. There was at least one drop on a pass that hit a receiver in the hands. Tua also had a deflection that should’ve been intercepted, and a pass that LITERALLY went between the linebacker’s cupped hands. I don’t even know how he didn’t disrupt the rotation or how the receiver maintained concentration to catch it.

 

[rolltide_21]

Like Las Vegas Raiders.

Yep. Although this is their third city so I am somewhat used to them moving around.