Bill Needle

I don't know about the repeats but there was uncensored profanity in the premiere.

MrX

Sad that people will probably be cheering for a scumbag like Prince Shembo after this episode.

JeffTheAlpaca

Brian Cox should get more screen time

Is it me or is it hard to understand what the players are saying most of the time?

badlieut

So when the players say "you know what I'm sayin'", you don't know what they are saying.

DVD Josh

Is it just me or does this season of HK seem far more boring and tedious than previous ones? Both episodes I had to stop in the middle and watch later because it was really uninteresting and the production value, especially the camera work, was really bad.

Goat3001

Matt Ryan seems like the kind of guy that only gets riled up when someone brings up Firefly.

dex14

johnnysd

Thing I noticed is that the coaches and players talk in almost continuous cliches. Mike Smith is the dullest head coach ever, he is not coming across well at all.

Goat3001

Him telling his players they need to get tougher is cringeworthy. Yes, the recent Falcon teams have been called soft because, well, they're soft. But that's because they have a soft head coach. So him telling his players they need harden up doesn't fit.

Also, if you need to teach a bunch of pros about being tough and protecting their teammates then you know you have a more fundamental problem. That's not the kind of thing that gets solved with a lecture. That's something that's solved with a change in attitude.

HN

it was recently pointed out to me that the falcon logo is an 'F'. slapped my forehead in a "fck, why didn't i ever notice that before" moment.

DVD Josh

Nothing like being told to act harder by a guy in shorts and sandals.

boogieman03

Holy shit, you're right!

Never noticed it before. Now I can't unsee it, like the arrow in the FedEx logo.

stevevt

Not football, but here's the old Brewers logo:



See the M and the B?

aktick

It's their only logo.

Shannon Nutt

I think that's the biggest problem with this season - the people just aren't all that interesting. You know HBO is shooting dozens of hours each week and giving us the best stuff they have - it's just not that entertaining. Maybe it will get more interesting the next couple of weeks as more players get cut.

Thrush

This past episode was easily the best of the season. They got back to what makes the show compelling, the players. Less head coach speeches.

My Other Self

Yeah, that's when the show gets more compelling. I like the behind the scenes of the pre-season games.

Shannon Nutt

Ahh...another week with the most uninspiring coach in the NFL.

You know you're in trouble when the most interesting personalities are the assistants...not the players...not the head coach...but the assistants.

JeffTheAlpaca

The scenes with Matthews trying to block JJ Watt was epic.

D.J. Swearinger never shuts up.

Maybe the Texans do Hard Knocks in 2015 and this was a preview?

I thought the 3rd episode was the best one of the season except with the opening with the ACL surgery

Brian Cox saying he started ****ing when he was 10 years old lol

aktick

Between Blank marching around the sidelines and their hipster GM, I completely expect and hope they repeat last year's performance for years to come.

ddrknghtrtns

Or they will have a decent regular season and maybe even make the playoffs, but then revert back to incompetence hosting the wild card game against the Giants or Eagles. This will be just enough to get Smitty and Matty Ice another lengthy contract extension and keep the Falcons irrelevant for the forseable future.

aktick

Or the Packers. C'mon! I guess that wasn't the wild card...

Sgtsnake

Wasn't that the same hipster gm that helped NE win all those super bowls?

Thrush

Bellichick's been the defacto GM for NE for as long as I can remember.

Shannon Nutt

It's hard to judge from HARD KNOCKS exactly how well a team will do...I remember the one featuring the Bengals a few years back (the 2009 series, not the 2013 one) and they just looked horrible - and then wound up winning the division and going to the playoffs that season.