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« Last Edit: January 12, 2014, 06:11:44 PM by Trippy »
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Yeah, I watched Newton flop at least three times that game. Swear to christ if it starts catching on...
That said, Carolina got jobbed on a few calls, well, non-calls all game. The Boldin headbutt not 10 minutes after they flagged 15 on Carolina for the same exact thing angered me something fierce. I am completely in agreement with Troy Aikman when he commented about all the shit talk Boldin does... Utmost respect for his play, but fucking stop the shit talking already...it is annoying.
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New Orleans... when will you learn to STOP THROWING SCREEN PASSES AGAINST FAST DEFENSES? 3rd and 15 with 2 TD's down? FUCK IT THROW A SCREEN PASS. Even though it hasn't worked ALL FUCKING GAME. Almost Belicheat levels of arrogance in the playcalling there, especially when you consider their offense worked best when they tried passes of 10-15 yards. Seattle won on defense and I don't see San Fran beating them.
Indy also had stupid playcalling decisions. 8 minutes left, 4th and FUCKING 1, down by multiple touchdowns and you don't go for it? Against a team that has been running the ball down your throat ALL GAME? Yep, time to go home. You're just asking to get ground down.
The refs in the San Fran/Carolina game were awful, but they were following the league's edict of "let them play even though we don't do that the entire fucking regular season." Fuck you, NFL. Call it the same all year or shut the fuck up about player safety. Also, Cam Newton is not ready to win a Super Bowl yet, nor is Ron Rivera's coaching. 4 straight runs on the goal line the first time, 3 runs and 1 pass the second time = 2 failed red zone attempts.
Denver's pass defense is almost as bad as the Packers was. Good thing they got Peyton Manning. Please let him beat the shit out of Tom Brady.
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Huh, the number one defense is playing in the NFC Championship. Go figure.
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Huh, the number one defense is playing in the NFC Championship. Go figure.
NE is top 5 in the AFC in points against. Denver...eeeeeeeeeh not so much. |
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Denver's pass defense is almost as bad as the Packers was. Good thing they got Peyton Manning. Please let him beat the shit out of Tom Brady.
Pass D in the first half was great! But then Harris went down and Jammer is terrible. If it turns out to be a foot race, Manning wins. Brady does not trust his receiving corps. |
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I believe NE's run plan was specifically tailored to the fact that Indy is shittastic against the run. I think Brady is flinging it come Sunday against Peyton. (see - 50 attempts passing against Denver in the regular season)
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Denver's pass defense is almost as bad as the Packers was. Good thing they got Peyton Manning. Please let him beat the shit out of Tom Brady.
Pass D in the first half was great! But then Harris went down and Jammer is terrible. If it turns out to be a foot race, Manning wins. Brady does not trust his receiving corps. Harris out for season :( :( :( Jammer so terrible. |
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sickrubik
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I believe NE's run plan was specifically tailored to the fact that Indy is shittastic against the run. I think Brady is flinging it come Sunday against Peyton. (see - 50 attempts passing against Denver in the regular season)
Since then they've lost Gronk as well as other injuries. This is not the same Pats team that was there in November. In addition, like most of the season, a lot of those passes came in the second half of the game when they were down and had to make up ground. And definitely do not forget the massive mistakes the Broncos ST made to help the Pats along their way. They've turned into a running team, which passes when it needs to. Match the Broncos receivers against the Patriots receivers and tell me who would rather have. |
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I wouldn't keep Tom Brady under wraps when he was flinging the ball just three weeks prior to the end of the season. Edelman and Amendola are good to go, which with a screen game and a semi-fuctional TE safety valve in Hoomajoobs or whatever his name is.
I mean Denver's 27th against the pass and 8th against the rush, they would be complete fools not to throw more. And Belichick isn't a fool. He may be limited by injuries, but I don't see any way they rotate that same gameplan from the Colts game into this week.
There's no doubt that Denver has better receivers. The Pats "shockingly" have the better pass defense. If anything I'd try to beat the Pats to death with Knowshon, as they are just as bad against the run as the Colts.
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I still stand by my statements of the ranking for the broncos has a lot to do with garbage time stats. As long as we don't stick Jammer on Edelman, we'll be fine.
Broncos have a great running game. On Sunday, 40% of our runs were for first downs, which is around 2x the league average. So, yeah.
I'll miss Moreno a lot when he walks in this offseason.
Edit: OH BY THE WAY. FUCKING FIRE OMAR BOLDEN, NOW, ELWAY. Holy fuck that was one of the worst mistakes I've seen in a long time.
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There's no doubt that Denver has better receivers. The Pats "shockingly" have the better pass defense. If anything I'd try to beat the Pats to death with Knowshon, as they are just as bad against the run as the Colts.
This. The Pats run defense is not good. Without Wilfork and some others, they just don't defend the run. But that rookie linebacker Collins is like a taller safety in coverage - he's just good. If Denver doesn't run Moreno/Ball first, they are fools. Of course, Collins wasn't matched up against Thomas/Moreno/Ball in the short-mid game so he may not show up as well against real first stringers. New England would be crazy not to pass heavily. Edelman and Amendola are good enough to carry a pass game against that terrible secondary. |
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Not to mention Vereen.
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The Pats do not have a deep guy, say like Thomas, is the main issue. There's no real threat of a deep game, which is the biggest fear for the Broncos at the moment. The short game is fine. We'll give up some yards but don't break, and still have one of the best red-zone defenses.
I'm getting talked into a corner saying that the Pats won't pass or aren't good. That's not my point. This is just Brady's worst collection of receivers, but they are playing an amazing game all the same. There's a lot to be said that Belichick is coaching his best season given the duck-tape team that he has at the moment.
That being said, it can't be stated too much what the loss of Chris Harris means. Before he went out with the injury we had managed to hold them the Chargers to less than 70 yards.
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I am a bit surprised nobody mentioned it here, but San Diego was let down big time by their coaching staff. I have rarely seen such disorganization and ineptitude on offense, and it was probably not the fault of the players specifically. I wonder where Whisenhunt's head was all week...focused on his playoff game, or his myriad job interviews? Had I been the Titan's owner, I may have withdrawn my job offer after seeing that disaster. It was happening on the other side of the ball as well. There were at least 5 neutral zone infractions? I know Peyton is trickier than average, but it wasn't that hard to figure out what he was doing...it was practically the same cadence every time, he just changed up when the ball was actually snapped. Inexcusable, and several of them where on key plays that gave first downs. I feel bad for Rivers.
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Yeah, I watched Newton flop at least three times that game. Swear to christ if it starts catching on...
That said, Carolina got jobbed on a few calls, well, non-calls all game. The Boldin headbutt not 10 minutes after they flagged 15 on Carolina for the same exact thing angered me something fierce. I am completely in agreement with Troy Aikman when he commented about all the shit talk Boldin does... Utmost respect for his play, but fucking stop the shit talking already...it is annoying.
Meh, Carolina started that shit a lot earlier than Boldin. As bad as he was that game, the Panthers were shit talking and getting extracurricular within the first five minutes of play. |
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Yeah, I watched Newton flop at least three times that game. Swear to christ if it starts catching on...
That said, Carolina got jobbed on a few calls, well, non-calls all game. The Boldin headbutt not 10 minutes after they flagged 15 on Carolina for the same exact thing angered me something fierce. I am completely in agreement with Troy Aikman when he commented about all the shit talk Boldin does... Utmost respect for his play, but fucking stop the shit talking already...it is annoying.
Meh, Carolina started that shit a lot earlier than Boldin. As bad as he was that game, the Panthers were shit talking and getting extracurricular within the first five minutes of play. I agree and I am not excusing the Panthers, but Boldin does it every single game to everyone. And since he is a really good receiver, you see him more on the cameras after catches. Can't stand that style of play I guess. |
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The Pats do not have a deep guy, say like Thomas, is the main issue. There's no real threat of a deep game, which is the biggest fear for the Broncos at the moment. The short game is fine. We'll give up some yards but don't break, and still have one of the best red-zone defenses.
Uh, why do you say that about the red zone? http://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/opponent-red-zone-scoring-pctTeams are scoring TDs 60% of the time and you're 25th in the NFL by that metric. I would say the red zone defense is more of a liability. |
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Yeouch. Earlier in the season it was much higher, or at least as I recall at any rate. Now I wish I could dig down to the individual weeks and see rankings of opponenet total trips to redzone, etc.
Well, I like the way we play in the shortgame at least I guess, especially inside the numbers. The reason I state that was because our short game has been more or less fine (baring, apparently, red zone), and it's just giving up big plays. Mind you, nothing I'm saying is meant to sound like we have a great defense. We've been okay with a splash of good, especially given the losses of Von Miller and Champ Bailey for most of the season and now Wolfe and Harris. I've been the one talking down our defense all year, including when I said we had a good chance to lose against Indy.
(Thank you for the link.)
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I am a bit surprised nobody mentioned it here, but San Diego was let down big time by their coaching staff. I have rarely seen such disorganization and ineptitude on offense, and it was probably not the fault of the players specifically. I wonder where Whisenhunt's head was all week...focused on his playoff game, or his myriad job interviews? Had I been the Titan's owner, I may have withdrawn my job offer after seeing that disaster. It was happening on the other side of the ball as well. There were at least 5 neutral zone infractions? I know Peyton is trickier than average, but it wasn't that hard to figure out what he was doing...it was practically the same cadence every time, he just changed up when the ball was actually snapped. Inexcusable, and several of them where on key plays that gave first downs. I feel bad for Rivers.
Yeah, that whole thing had disaster written all over it. I was thinking it would be close until I saw the thing about Wisenhunt interviewing three times in the last bit of the week. As for OMAHA, http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/01/14/omaha-can-mean-a-lot-of-things-and-ultimately-nothing/ I think the most NZIs we had in one game prior to this was 2, maybe 3. FIVE was hilarious. |
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Harvin officially out. Also water is reportedly wet.
At least I won't have to watch between my fingers every time a defender enters his zip code for fear of him shattering into flinders. Ricardo Lockette NFC Championship MVP?
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And the Lions get as head coach Jim Caldwell. Good, our team desperately needs a calm, level-headed and slightly befuddled coach to keep us from accidentally falling into any playoffs.
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And the Lions get as head coach Jim Caldwell. Good, our team desperately needs a calm, level-headed and slightly befuddled coach to keep us from accidentally falling into any playoffs.
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Damn dude, that's harsh (but funny)
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In other news, The Browns will forego the head coaching position and will be lead next year by both the offensive and defensive coordinators on their respective sides of the ball. I mean why not right? Not like it could get worse...  This is what happens when your team doesn't have a logo. |
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Kellen Winslow getting arrested for masturbating in a parking lot is still the best american football-related legal story of the year so far.
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Norv Turner's moving to Minnesota; so now the Browns are short a HC and an OC.
I wonder if they've considered giving Rob Chudzynski his old job back yet...
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I think deep down I don't want anybody to actually take the job, and owners have to hire a high school coach.
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