NFL 2011

[Rasix]

My question is, does Tebow need the entire game to charge up his powers, or can the Bronco's find an actual QB for the first 3 quarters and just put Tebow in the fourth? 

God hates the Broncos, so he doesn't tune in until the fourth quarter.

[murdoc]

Yay! My home team won the cup in that other Football league!

First time the host city's team has won in about 18 years, which is suprising with a league of only 10 teams. You and your silly sub 50 year old championships, that was the 99th Grey Cup.

But 75% of the league makes the playoffs!

edit: ...and it's only 8 teams.

[ghost]

They should just include all the teams in the playoffs with only 10 teams.  Hell, that wouldn't even touch the number of playoff teams that most US sports have.  

Edit:  What kind of wonky league only has 8 teams? 

[Bunk]

To be fair, I haven't been much of a fan since the league had ten teams. Went to 14 straight games in the Flutie era.

[Chimpy]

Canadian football league: where even with less than a dozen teams, they had two teams with effectively the same name!

[Stewie]

The whole cfl name issue always reminds me of this segment from almost live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVeMI9nBb0k
start about 40 seconds in....

Anyways this is an NFL thread so I need to point out how much I hate the Steelers.
Last night watching the game, with 2 minutes left and me up by half a point my GF says "you are going to win this week in the pool, as long as pitt's offense doesn't get back on the field"

I then point out that my opponent also has the Steelers def (he is a big Steelers fan so he has Mendenhall, Wallace and their def)   
with 20 seconds to go pitt gets a pick. I lose by 1.5 points.

I hate the Steelers.

[Paelos]

Thanks Saints! The gift basket is the in the mail. 

[ghost]

Somebody's figuring out what it's like to be on the wrong side of god........

We should all be scared when little "timmy" gets involved in politics. 

[Ingmar]

Choke it down, you Stanford weasel! 

[Montague]

Ingram's 35 yard TD run at the end of the game got me a .7 point victory that clinched the playoffs. I didnt have Ingram, I had John Kasay - the extra point put me over. 

[Rasix]

Manning's garbage time toss to Jake Ballard lost me the game in the JV league.  Thanks, dick.

edit: ohh shit, I'll be in first in the main league now.  Thanks, Nebu.

[Paelos]

Some early season quotes and predictions that may give you a good laugh from earlier in the thread.

[HaemishM]

To be fair, NO ONE picked the 49ers to be anything but awful, at least not that I can think of. And I did say that Arizona and St. Louis would fight it out to be 7-9. At the time, I didn't realize the Rams had hired Josh "I wish I was Mike Martz" McDaniels to end Sam Bradford's career early or that Kolb would really stink that bad on a really bad Arizona team. As for Baltimore, I still am not convinced by them. Flacco is a slightly more accurate version of Sanchez but at least he has a premier back in Ray Rice to hand off/throw to.

Oh shit, Suh got a 2-game suspension. One of those games is Minnesota so that won't be a big deal, but the other is New Orleans. Both Detroit and Chicago look like they might be trying to piss a wildcard spot away. The Giants are praying for that now, but the schedule is really fucking them hard the next month. Atlanta may be in the best position to swoop in and steal it, but at least the Giants will have the two winnable games against Dallas to make a serious run for the East title.

[ghost]

Suh has got to be on some special roid concoction that they can't detect.  That guy has some serious issues.

[shiznitz]

Some early season quotes and predictions that may give you a good laugh from earlier in the thread.

Love it!

[ghost]

Hey, the Eagles can still win the Superbowl....   

[Paelos]

I think it's funny how much we bought into the Rams, and how I believed Kolb would be THE ANSWER!

[WayAbvPar]

I missed on SF (along with the rest of the English speaking world). The rest is pretty close, although the Rams are worse than I thought. I was definitely right about Andy Reid 

[Nebu]

Hey, the Eagles can still win the Superbowl....   

 

[Bungee]

With the way this season unfolded up to now, we know 2 things for certain:
Mike Singletary is a bad Head Coach.
Peyton Manning should be voted League MVP

Also, Del Rio fired, Jaguars to be sold. And the new owner promised to keep the franchise in Jacksonville  

[Bungee]

Quoted myself...
Well, I'll just throw it out here then: even though I'm a Steelers fan, I think they'll be 1-and-done in the Playoffs this year. Ben can't do everything and he's really beat up.

[01101010]

With the way this season unfolded up to now, we know 2 things for certain:
Mike Singletary is a bad Head Coach.
Peyton Manning should be voted League MVP

Also, Del Rio fired, Jaguars to be sold. And the new owner promised to keep the franchise in Jacksonville  

There is a Burrough in LA named Jacksonville? That is so cool.... 

[Paelos]

I stand by my prediction that the NFC West would be the hardest division to pick this year.


Even though I picked the Cards to go to the Super Bowl 

[ghost]

Kolb was a steaming pile of shit. 

[Johny Cee]

After last night's game, I've concluded that (surprisingly) the problem with the Giants is everything but Eli Manning.... which has been made more apparent by injuries to the few other good players they have.  Eli is putting up good numbers despite only having Nicks/Manningham (they count as one person, as one or the other is always hurt) and a crowd of rookies to throw to and a pitiful running game.

If they lose out, Coughlin won't get credit for overachieving with what he had to work with.


If Tuck and the rest on injured reserve can get healthy, they can still make the playoffs...  and I don't think that collection of players has any reasonable right to be in the playoffs.

[Sjofn]

I suspect Coughlin will be gone, yeah, which makes me a little sad. I really like that old coot.


As for the "lawl predictions," Kerry Collins managed to disappoint me one final time. Go in peace, you fucking bastard.

[HaemishM]

I think Coughlin stays unless the Giants TOTALLY collapse and only win like 1 more game. Their injuries have really killed them this year, especially at RB and WR, but their defense has been suspect for years. Suspect in that if they don't get pressure from the front 4, their defense will give up lots of big plays. Their depth at RB comes down to "Is Brandon Jacobs awake enough to see the hole when Bradshaw goes down?" They really need to draft a running back #1, someone that can be a marquee back for the next five years.

[Trippy]

I hear Tiki Barber is available.

[HaemishM]

I said 5 years not 5 snaps.

[Paelos]

They've been trying to fire Coughlin even before he ended up winning a Super Bowl.

[JWIV]

They've been trying to fire Coughlin even before he ended up winning a Super Bowl.

I'm pretty sure Norv gets the boot first befor Coughlin.

[01101010]

So now that the Coughlin rumors are flying, I assume they'll make the super bowl again. 

[Paelos]

They've been trying to fire Coughlin even before he ended up winning a Super Bowl.

I'm pretty sure Norv gets the boot first befor Coughlin.

Better yet, here's a fun game. Put these coaches in order of who gets fired first. Tony Sparano, Norv Turner, Tom Coughlin, Jim Caldwell, Andy Reid, Mike Shanahan, Leslie Frazar, Raheem Morris.

[HaemishM]

I think Reid, Shanahan, Morris and Caldwell (despite how bad Indy is) don't get fired. Frazier probably not either because he hasn't really had any time to make enough changes for anything to have turned around. Sporano and Turner are gone, but Turner will be after the season I think. Coughlin is on the bubble but likely not gone. He hasn't spent a day in New York when there wasn't someone saying he was about to be gone, including the day after the Super Bowl.

[Paelos]

I think Caldwell is doomed. There's no way he makes it out of this year when they can't even compete because one guy went down.

Shanahan has done nothing he promised for the Redskins. Washington was a 6-10 team when he showed up and they will probably be a 6-10 team again this year. That's not good enough in a division that produced 11 playoff teams over the last five years, with a shot at 2 more this year.