NFL 2009

What the holy hell?! Who replaced the Seahawks with the 85' bears? 41-0 and they burned the last 2 minutes of the 4th qtr. Only games Seattle has won have been shut outs, almost reaching Lofa Tatupu's 5 shut out bet from 2 years ago.
 
41-0 is fucking nasty.

Also fuck fuck fucking fuck Bucs, again.
At least Josh Johnson is looking like a decent QB now, and Kellen Winslow can catch some passes unlike Michael Clayton.
 
Is it just me, or are there more really, really bad teams than usual this year, and are they not worse than the bad teams tend to be?

I watched some of the Vikings/Rams game. The Rams are comically bad. They look worse than Detroit did last year. They don't even put up a fight. Oakland? :roll:
 
Yeah, big mismatches this week too. Or just shit teams on both sides - Cleveland Vs. Bills 6 to 3. That had to be painful to watch. Anderson threw 2 for 17 or something and won??? Ugly.
There seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel for Detroit, but they're still Detroit, so the bar has been low for the last 50 years.

And Oakland, they actually have a semi-decent D, and they looked passable against weak-ass AFC West teams (attrocious division). But JaMarcus Russel is quite simply an embarassment to the NFL. I watched the first 5 minutes of that Giants game, it was 21-0, I had to turn it off. And the Giants are all kinds of banged up on D. Oakland has just unraveled since that SB they were in. Poor Richard Seymour, well you wanted your money dude, now you got it.
If Raiders fans are half the bad-asses they pretend to be when they play dress up, then one of them would've euthanized/assasinated Al Davis already.

Pats lose in Denver...again, to perhaps the worst throwback unis ever. Rather they lose early games, learn from their fuckups and peak later in the season, that's been they're recipe for postseason gold in the past. Merriweather was a calculated risk as a 1st rounder after he got suspended from the U for stomping on some dude in a bench clearing brawl. Anger issues? No way.
(#19)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVMAnrZmZZA&feature=PlayList&p=35C30E6FA33B0837&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=78[/youtube]I think Denver would've coverted/scored on a subsequent 3rd&3 anyway.
So I guess now Merriweather really has filled Rodney Harrison's shoes.
 
Green Bay has a bye said:
what a boring, boring, boring fucking Sunday of football.
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You're way too much of a homer dude. You can't even enjoy the sport when your team's not playing?

Also

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That is how this game is played!
 
Brother None said:
You're way too much of a homer dude. You can't even enjoy the sport when your team's not playing?
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oh shit! i totally forgot having that conversation with you where i said "man, i can't even enjoy football when my team isn't playing and that's why this week is boring! no, no. it's not because nearly all the match-ups this week were a shitty team vs a good team. it's because i can't enjoy the sport when my team isn't playing. which is strange, because i've always watched every game i can for as long as i can remember."

that's the conversation you're referencing, right? yeah, i'm such a homer. :roll:

UniversalWolf said:
Is it just me, or are there more really, really bad teams than usual this year, and are they not worse than the bad teams tend to be?
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was just talkin' about that yesterday. it's insane.
 
Brother None said:
That is how this game is played!
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If by game you mean garbage wrestling then yeah. Somebody call Cactus Jack and Terry Funk, maybe we can get some exploding barbed wire and flaming tables too.

That's actually dumber than Gus Ferotte, at least he actually scored, what'd this hillbilly do?
 
Best moment from the Bucs game, he almost got more yardage there than supposed stud WR Michael "can't hang on to a ball" Clayton got all game:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV9X5g3RLcU&feature=related[/youtube]
 
Cimmerian Nights said:
That's actually dumber than Gus Ferotte, at least he actually scored, what'd this hillbilly do?
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Dunno. Dude's just nuts. We knew that when we drafted him, really.

Sander said:
Best moment from the Bucs game, he almost got more yardage there than supposed stud WR Michael "can't hang on to a ball" Clayton got all game:
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I love seeing him run through tacklers. Hard to bring down, those tackles.

TwinkieGorilla said:
oh shit! i totally forgot having that conversation with you where i said "man, i can't even enjoy football when my team isn't playing and that's why this week is boring! no, no. it's not because nearly all the match-ups this week were a shitty team vs a good team. it's because i can't enjoy the sport when my team isn't playing. which is strange, because i've always watched every game i can for as long as i can remember."

that's the conversation you're referencing, right? yeah, i'm such a homer. :roll:
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Heh. Good thing for you you're so adorable when you get all pissy, otherwise you'd have long since been banned.
 
Brother None said:
Heh. Good thing for you you're so adorable when you get all pissy, otherwise you'd have long since been banned.
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and you. you're so charming with your assumptions and perpetual veil of empty threats. if i was banned a long time ago i wouldn't have established "friends" here and prob'ly wouldn't care, eh?

anyway, goddammit. i just had to get into an argument with the ball n' chain last night and miss the fucking entire second half of that game. fuck! :roll:
 
That game was balls to the wall crazy. I've never seen so many lead changes late in a game. Both, essentially rookie QBs were on fire. Henne looked like the franchise QB Miami has been grooming him to be. He gives the deep threat that Pennington never could, that blows the wildcat wide open. 130 QB rating from Henne - nuts!
Ronnie Brown is a bonafide stud.

And you have to have major balls, with 2 minutes left, down 3, on the last drive to take the lead. Out of the blue, take Pat White cold, off the bench and give him snaps. That's insanity.
 
TwinkieGorilla said:
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
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Indeed.

That said, even though there's still good games every week (Ravens-Bengals was pretty good, Pats-Broncos was great and apparently the MNF game was good too, though I missed it as usual (too late to watch here) I enjoyed the Hawks blowout myself but that's the homer speaking), this has been a shockingly lop-sided year. 4 teams are 0-5, 2 teams 1-4, 1 team 1-3, 1 team 4-1, 1 team 4-0, and 4 teams 5-0. It's football so you never know what happens, but some divisions look like they can be called by week 8.

The NFC East powerhouse is probably the most amusing division. Eagles and Giants are legit, obv, but the Cowboys have done nothing but stomp on inferior teams (their opponents are a combined 1-13, the Panthers owning the sole win), the Redskins are even more hilarious, being the first team in history to play six straight winless teams. And they still look terrible.

Amusing year. And man, all those pro-passer rules and passer-protection rules (including the Brady Rule, obviously, Cimm) are really helping the QBs. Maybe that's why we're starting down the barrel of the greatest QB era in history. I wonder how many people will realise how much of that is due to the coddywoddling. I'm all pro-coddywoddling tho', it makes the game more fun.

PS: speaking of short-term thinking, amusing how Miles Austin's (awesome) run-after-catch plays makes people forget he dropped multiple passes, including one for a TD, earlier in the game.
 
PS: speaking of short-term thinking, amusing how Miles Austin's (awesome) run-after-catch plays makes people forget he dropped multiple passes, including one for a TD, earlier in the game.
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or how hilariously terrible Romo's been playing lately.
 
Brother None said:
PS: speaking of short-term thinking, amusing how Miles Austin's (awesome) run-after-catch plays makes people forget he dropped multiple passes, including one for a TD, earlier in the game.
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Says the guy who picked him up in fantasy football.
Still, those two plays are the only reason Romo's stats look halfway presentable this week. Romo's having one hell of a terrible year, and they're still 3-2.

What with all the QB coddling and QB-focus (as logical as it is), Miami is a really fun team to watch. Lots and lots of running, unusual formations, three or four different people taking snap, and they look like they're going to be contending for the playoffs.The AFC East looks like the most exciting division anyway (Jets, Dolphins and Pats all have potential but aren't as dominant as some other teams), with only the Bills looking slightly pathetic.
 
Brother None said:
Amusing year. And man, all those pro-passer rules and passer-protection rules (including the Brady Rule, obviously, Cimm) are really helping the QBs. Maybe that's why we're starting down the barrel of the greatest QB era in history. I wonder how many people will realise how much of that is due to the coddywoddling. I'm all pro-coddywoddling tho', it makes the game more fun.
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Neither Brady nor the anybody with the Pats petitioned for any changes, unlike Colts GM Bill Polian, Competition comitee member who put through the biggest QB and WR protection rules. Gee, reall fucking magnanimous to change the rules to protect pussy finesse teams, no conflict of interest there.

I'm against maiming QBs and headhunting, but Jesus man, when you hit somebody, you hit them to hurt.

QBs aren't proving or earning anything when they get bailed out of 3rd and longs because of roughing and interferences penalties, it's bullshit. How many times do you see weak teams take shots downfield, knowing they have no chance but to draw a flag? That's not good football, that's good loophole exploitation.
Watch the phantom interference call on Braylon last night - 1st and goal on the one - giftwrapped TD. A 50 yard phantom penalty that can't be reviewed? That's chintzy.
College players are tougher than NFL players at this point.

It's not fun if you're a fan of pass rushing or smashmouth football.

edit: If defenders couldn't slam QBs Brady wouldn't even have a starting job. He's a pussy, I saw a virtual rookie in only his second start stand tall against the very same, vaunted Ryan pass rush last night. I saw him go under center, 8 guys rush into the box pre-snap. Henne's in a freakin' spread formation. I'm thinking "OK rookie, call your max protect audible now unless you want your head surgically removed from your ass". He doesn't, he stands in the pocket and launches a 60 yard TD pass.
60 yards.
In the air.
(as opposed to those Romo to Austin TDs).
Brady's gunshy now.

Parcells knows how to pick 'em, you can start to see him put his stamp on Miami. How stupid could Dallas be to run him off in favor of TO.
And I'm bowled over by Sporano and Henning. They called a sick, sick game last night.
This is the downside of the Ryan defense on display, a good underneath receiver will shred that 8-in-the-box blitz every time. Can't wait for the Pats-Jets rematch with Welker running the underneath.
 
Are we over or under 15 years since the Lions have won in Green Bay? I forget.

:mrgreen:


P.S. What on earth happened to the Titans? I can't remember seeing a team go from being as good as they were last year to being as bad as they are this year.
 
They never won in GB even during the Barry Sanders era?

Ya know,
Snow is falling.
Gorgeous throwback unis.
Typical Belichik mid-season defensive overhaul back to the 3-4, pitching a shutout.
Brady on fire, making up for lost time.
Another pussy southern team that didn't even bother to show up.
Bucs next week then the BYE.
Good times.
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