NFL 2010

[Muffled]

Let me spell out the rest of the way this season will go...

3-13 is a best case scenario. 2-14 is much more likely...

God, I want to ass-rape Jerry Jones...

2-14 may be a bit pessimistic, but they will definitely be scraping the bottom of the league.  I'm rooting for Houston this football season, and possibly this basketball season as well.

[HaemishM]

Dallas should be able to beat Arizona - they are in just as much disarray yet somehow have more wins. Detroit, I don't think so. They have really shown me something recently.

I will gleefully cheer as Green Bay rapes you in the eyeballs Sunday night, though. 

[Paelos]

I used to hold out hopes that the Cowboys could ruin Green Bay fans' day any given week. Now... 

[01101010]

So Moss is now gone, Favre is looking every bit of the 63 year old man he is  , and Brad Childress is running around like Nicholson in The Shining. I think they can win the North by a game. 

[HaemishM]

At least Moss didn't have to hit a traffic cop with his car to get kicked out of Minnesota this time. What a fucking trainwreck. I think Childress has got to be to blame for all this. I did not expect this much craziness and drama to come out of that locker room this year, but I guess they want to compete with the Cowboys in the only way they have left - hissy fits.

[JWIV]

Since apparently Snyder can't let the Cowboys beat him anything including drama and implosion


http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/sports/nfl/101102-jamarcus-russell-washington-redskins

 

[HaemishM]

 

First Rex Grossman, now JaMarcus 'PURPLE DRANK!' Russell to replace McNabb? Does he just engender some kind of hateful reaction by not throwing that many INT's and winning games? WTF?

[Nebu]

When you take a coach that lives and breathes preparation and marry them to a QB that likes to "wing it", you're bound to end up in a rocky relationship.

[Trippy]

First Rex Grossman, now JaMarcus 'PURPLE DRANK!' Russell to replace McNabb? Does he just engender some kind of hateful reaction by not throwing that many INT's and winning games? WTF?

This year he's thrown more INTs and TDs and he's also no longer the least intercepted QB per pass attempt in NFL history. With his current QB rating he's in the bottom quartile barely ahead of such luminaries as Alex Smith.

[Paelos]

such luminaries as Alex Smith.

 

[Trippy]

When you take a coach that lives and breathes preparation and marry them to a QB that likes to "wing it", you're bound to end up in a rocky relationship.

Elway liked to wing it too and that worked out okay for the two of them.

[Cyrrex]

To be fair, isn't his number one receiver Santana Fucking Moss?  Might as well just throw it to the other team, if that's all the talent you have on your side.

I've never thought McNabb was great, but neither should he be benched for the likes of Sexy Rexy, or JaMarcus Russell, for crying out loud.  Mayhap Shanahan is just trying to put a scare into him.

[Nebu]

Elway liked to wing it too and that worked out okay for the two of them.

1) Shanahan was much younger and at an earlier stage in his career (read: less set in his ways).

2) Elway was a Hall of Fame QB.

[naum]

Even in the twilight of his career, McNab is infinitely greater than Rex Grossman.

If Rex Grossman is your starting QB, it's an admission that your squad is relegated to "competing" for a high draft selection next April.

[Sauced]

Elway liked to wing it too and that worked out okay for the two of them.

1) Shanahan was much younger and at an earlier stage in his career (read: less set in his ways).

2) Elway was a Hall of Fame QB.

3) The offense was built around Terrell Davis.

[HaemishM]

What Cyrrex and naum said. McNabb could be on crutches and still be a better choice than Grossman or Russell. And keep in mind that when McNabb was winning in Philly, it was with such hall of fame talent as James Thrash and Todd Pinkston, which is only slightly worse than the choices he has now in Washington. No, he ain't the dynamic guy he once was, but he's doing pretty well on a bad team. Without him, that team would be at least 2 wins down.

[ghost]

This is a pretty cool article-  the 10 worst long tenured coaches of the past 20 years. 

Rich Kotite makes me laugh. 

[HaemishM]

That article was full of win.

[Paelos]

Holy shit, the part about the cheap beer of the week had me rolling.

[Brogarn]

Holy shit that was hilarious.

[Sjofn]

I was happy to see Norvelous Norv get his due. 

[JWIV]

The Onion has weighed in now about the tragedy of the Dallas Season.  It's like they've been reading this thread. 

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-taking-no-joy-in-cowboys-pathetic-collapse,18405/


"It's really been tough to watch, especially for a team that had so much potential heading into the season," Appleton, WI shopkeeper and longtime Packers fan Erik Hoyer said. "Ha! I was almost able to say that with a straight face. Honestly, this Cowboys team has made watching football more fun than it's been in years. They can't run the ball, they can't defend anything, and they're imploding so bad that their owner doesn't even know how many games they've played."

[Paelos]

Yep, that's right, just pile it on. If we ever get a real coach for more than 3 years when Jerry finally gets so pissed at losing, everyone in the league is going to only have these days to look back at fondly when they get their asses kicked by America's Team. 

[01101010]

Yep, that's right, just pile it on. If we ever get a real coach for more than 3 years when Jerry finally gets so pissed at losing, everyone in the league is going to only have these days to look back at fondly when they get their asses kicked by America's Team. 

Jerry Jones bought the Steelers?  (and yes this was a huge debate in Pittsburgh while I lived there. Moving away to the heart of the confederacy, I thought I'd be away from them, but Steeler fans are everywhere and more numerous than the Star - so Pittsburgh fans may have a point)

[Paelos]

Steelers fans congeal in your gutters and then multiply across your state like a plague.

[Zetleft]

I've gone to many random sports bars across texas and the oddest sight was finding one a few years ago with only steelers fans, since then it has actually been a more frequent occurrence the longer we huddle in mediocrity and below .  Weird to see but as long as they have a TV showing the Cowboys game and the beer is cold I'll make myself at home.  Never mind the haters and the fair weather fans I'll be sporting my Cowboys jersey regardless. 

[Sjofn]

I honestly don't get the Steelers thing. But I suppose there are just some things in this world I am not meant to get.

[01101010]

I honestly don't get the Steelers thing. But I suppose there are just some things in this world I am not meant to get.

I would say they are like zombies in that eventually everyone will be susceptible to becoming one, but zombies are at least cool.

[ghost]

I honestly don't get the Steelers thing. But I suppose there are just some things in this world I am not meant to get.

 

The Iron Curtain, baby!  The Immaculate Reception!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xMDIcsUMmA

[Sjofn]

Yeah I know about all that, but I still don't really get the Steelers thing. It's probably partly because my Giants fan-ness has been PASSED DOWN THROUGH THE GENERATIONS, but I know people who decided to just like football one day and they randomly pick the Steelers, even though they've never even been to Pittsburgh or whatever. I don't get why you'd do that instead of picking the local team. Even if the local team is, say, the Cowboys.

[ghost]

The Steelers have a hell of a good history, and there are large chunks of the country, particularly in the midwest, that either have no pro team or a supremely shitty home team-  see Rams, Bengals and Browns.  Plus they have a good ownership that tends to stick by its coaches and seems to care about its fans, as opposed to shitheels like Al Davis.  It doesn't surprise me that folks like them at all. 

[Nevermore]

The Steelers seem to have the reputation as the 'Blue Collar' team.

[Paelos]

The Steelers seem to have the reputation as the 'Blue Collar' team.

And as rapists.

[Chimpy]

And the Cowboys of the 1990s were a bunch of coke freaks.

[Paelos]

And the Cowboys of the 1990s were a bunch of coke freaks.

And they ran hookers.