Little late for predictions now, but heading into the weekend I'm picking Green Bay, New York, Patriots (big), and Colts (big).
Printable View
Little late for predictions now, but heading into the weekend I'm picking Green Bay, New York, Patriots (big), and Colts (big).
Im going with Green Bay, Dallas, Jags, and Chargers.Quote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
Just thought I would bring this post back up real quick. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Harbinger
Was that 200+ yards on the ground I saw for the Pack today?:pQuote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
I'm still waiting to be able to bring back my Colts SB prediction from about 4 months ago :DQuote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
Why yes, that was 201 yds and 3 TDs for the "shaky" Ryan Grant and the "nonexistant" Packers run. Brandon Jackson rushed for more yards than Seattle did btw :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff
Just have to wait till tomorrow to see who they play, lets go Giants! :D
Did anyone else notice this?
Josh Scobey, RB for the Seahawks, broke his left leg in the first quarter of the game, making him the 3rd RB the Packers have put out of commision this year.
Scobee is a return specialist, his accident on the cover team is kind of a freak thing. Not to take anything away from the pack, they really destroyed the seahawks tonight, even after a 2 touchdown deficit.Quote:
Originally Posted by [PinPals]Apu
Anyway, I thnk that TO being a little injured is a big advantage for the Giants. Sure he's a freak, but him at 90% is great for the Giants;. A high ankle sprain is different from a broken leg like he played with for the eagles in the superbowl. BUT HE PLAYED WITH A BROKEN LEG FOR THE EAGLES, so I'm obviously pretty biased towards the giants, hopefully a high ankle sprain slows him down a little. That's all I can ask for. Obviously I hope the Giants kill romo.
On a side note, I can't believe how much of a stud Strahan still is. Also, anyone who wasn't a giants fan didn't believe when I said that Mathias Kiwanuka and Justin Tuck would be able to start as D-Ends on any other team besides the Giants. Sure Kiwanuka is hurt, but if ytou watched him last year and this year you'd know how good he is, but you can't deny Justin Tuck's numbers. He barely started any games this season and he put up numbers any starting DE would kill to have. He's really the next torchbearer when strahan is gone, he plays the run and the pass so well.
Enough of me being a biased giants fan.
Let's go giants tomorrow
P.S. Ryan Grant is an Ex-Giant :P
high ankle sprains are like slight tears in the calf, it wont affect his straight like speed bc the way he runs (its sorta weird tbh) means most of his energy is in toe-heel action (whilst most sprinters use toe-calf) thought, TO wont be able to run a fake post, corner to save his life (glenn is back though isnt he? hes a damn good threat tho!)
first cowboys play should be a twin go route and max protect, and the giant should go with the 8 man blitz....either way, someone will start dominating...
the seahawks lost bc holgrem is a girl, he couldnt go for the neck youd think after 2 minutes and 14-0 he'd sit on his quarrels? moron, you come out and go straight for the neck, favre threw ....well.... a favre pass today, and thats what they couldnt stop..
im a ravens fan...wait, a Ogden fan actually - so im just wishing to see the pack take out NE in the superbowl, favre would retire then for sure which would be going out the same way as... cowher, the 'bus' (i loved watching his 10tds for 11yards off 10 carries for the season...lol)
I think that's bang on. I know Holmgren is a top football mind or whatever but coaching has held Seattle back all year, on both sides of the ball. They have the players to be better than this.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajwest
And defense? I don't know what the deal is here. They've injured some qb's this year and everyone knows Seattle wins when they get to the qb. So I have no idea why Marshall (the dc) didn't call plays that used his players well when it mattered most.
GB showed a lot of heart and played a hell of a game; too bad the hawks decided to embarrass themselves instead of rising to the task of beating a good team in Lambeau.
other notes now that I'm over it:
--NE, can we please get a do over with the Branch trade? We could have used that first rounder on a mangler like Grubbs last year.
--Holmgren has sold his house and moved into a condo. Allen / Ruskell won't fire him, but he seems burned out. If he quits, I fully expect them to lure Jason Garrett away from Dallas to coach this team.
Geez. Is this the year of the idiot rookie DB or what?!?
Quote:
Jag on Brady: 'He ain't all that'
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports
January 12, 2008
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Perhaps you were impressed with Tom Brady's record-setting performance in beating Jacksonville on Saturday.
If so, you weren't Jaguars rookie safety Reggie Nelson.
"He ain't all that … He's all right," Nelson said.
Ah, Reggie, are you sure he ain't more than all that? Brady did, after all, set an NFL record by completing 92.9 percent of his passes (26 for 28 for 262 yards and three touchdowns) to lead New England to a 31-20 playoff victory.
It was the near-perfect game for the quarterback of the perfect team.
"It was a check down game," Nelson said, suggesting that most of Brady's completions were short and underneath the pass coverage. "Anybody can go 26-of-28 in a dump-down game."
Down the hall, "he ain't all that" dumbfounded Randy Moss.
"What?" Moss said. "It wasn't impressive? When you lose you're going to say things that (are) really inappropriate. You're talking about the MVP, that's Tom Brady.
"I'm not even going to respond to that."
Nelson's opinion might stem from the sheer frustration of having Brady carve up his Jags despite their almost perfect execution of the game plan.
Jacksonville focused on shutting down the deep threat – especially Moss (just one reception) – and, as Nelson noted, make Brady check down, or throw to short, underneath patterns.
It might have worked, too, if Brady hadn't completed nearly every throw.
"It was a little disappointing he missed two," smiled coach Bill Belichick.
And one of them was a drop by Wes Welker.
That's what makes Brady not just the MVP of the league this season, but the pure championship winner of this generation. He has the Patriots at 17-0 and barreling toward their fourth Super Bowl title not because he always makes the flashiest plays – although he does that, too – but because he almost always makes the right one.
"He doesn't force anything," said Jags safety Sammie Knight. "He's going to take what you give him. He's made a living throwing to backs and underneath."
If the Jaguars were going to stop the long ball, Brady had no problem nickel and diming them with short, smart passes.
"If you're taking two guys every play and putting them on Randy, then you leave a lot of guys one-on-one," Brady said.
Brady almost sounded like Nelson by calling it "easy." But that's his normal way of deflecting praise onto his teammates. He may be the supermodel-dating playboy, but he loves shrugging it all off and going with the aw-shucks routine.
"Those guys, when they are open like that, that's my job to hit them," Brady said. "They were open every time. It's easy when you have receivers that are open all the time and an offensive line that never lets anyone touch you."
None of his teammates would let him get away with that. Each told of Nelson's comments reacted with a bit of anger "I can't say what I want to say," said wide receiver Donte Stallworth.
Underneath passes or not, 26-of-28 is a record for a reason.
"This is the NFL. If this was high school, yeah (it might not be 'all that')," Stallworth said.
Brady had already conducted his postgame interview by the time Nelson spoke. His play said enough, though.
The Pats had five scoring drives (with a missed field goal on a sixth). The team's other two offensive possessions were a one-play kneel down to finish the first half and an attempt to wind down the clock late in the fourth.
Big play or not, they couldn't have operated much better with Brady serving as the game-plan buster, laying waste to Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio's defensive plot.
"Unfortunately, Tom didn't slip on the way to work today," Del Rio said.
Back in the Jags locker room, there wasn't much to say. The secondary that allowed a record performance had done exactly what they were told to do and still couldn't stop New England.
So all four starters stood in front of their lockers, conveniently lined up in a row, and all four just shrugged at what had happened, although the other three were more gracious than Nelson.
"He's good," Nelson finally conceded before packing his bag and heading for the offseason. "He's a good quarterback."
Yeah, for an unbeaten MVP, Tom Brady's not too bad.
Not really. If he's an emotional player and just lost, asking a question like that will get that kind of response. He's frustrated, disappointed, and upset. He did cool down at the end giving Brady some credit. "He's good."Quote:
Originally Posted by Spank_Me_Hard
Did not see a Colts loss coming at all. Honestly, I thought they were the least likely team to get upset this weekend.
Neither did I. Manning had a great game but the defense let the Colts down. I can't wait for the game next week. LT has still has a grudge and Rivers is still running his mouth. If the Chargers have any chance LT and Rivers will have to play like MVPs for the entire game or it will be a blow out.Quote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
Nor I.Quote:
Originally Posted by hongsc
The Colt's D of old showed up today. The Cgargers beating them without Tomlinson, or Rivers for a large part of the day. If you would have told me that the Chargers would have finished the game with neither of those players playing, and won... I'd have not believed you.
And yea... Rivers was being a punk.