I don’t care about his stats, Vince Young just wins. 3 ints? Fuck that, scoreboard!
Why are the Eagles the only team the Giants can’t beat?
49ers win, but only have a couple days to recuperate and travel to the other side of the country to play Baltimore. That doesn’t strike me as exactly a fair schedule. The Jets had to deal with something similar when the Broncos beat them. The schedule makers had to be able to come up with something better than this.
They really should make certain rules regarding scheduling - no team can have more than X teams coming off their bye weeks as opponents, no team can travel Y miles on a short week, etc. Some teams can get hosed by factors entirely outside of their control. Later this year the Browns play Pittsburgh and Baltimore twice each over the course of 3 days while having to travel to the bottom of the ocean every night to sleep in bathyspheres or something like that.
I noticed somthing funny on the Sunday night game. Al Micheals was doing on on-air promo for the upcoming revival of Fear Factor. And right as he finished you could hear Cris Collinsworth very quietly say “No, thanks.”
Now there was no mention of Collinsworth’s comment. Maybe he had been offered a cup of coffee in the booth. Maybe he was saying he didn’t want to eat a scorpion or do one of the other stunts they had shown in the promo. But it sounded like he was expressing his lack of interest in watching Fear Factor.
I know it’s dumb to worry about it, but I’m watching sportscenter and Berman just said “the soon-to-be-frozen tundra of Lambeau Field” … IF IT WAS TUNDRA THERE WOULD BE NO “SOON TO BE” BECAUSE IT WOULD ALWAYS BE FROZEN DIPSHIT
All the stupid shit football commentators say and that is what gets you worked up???
OMG Jay Culter is out for the season with a broken thumb!!! NNNNOOOOOO!!!
You can’t always point to one unit of a football team and pin a loss entirely on them, but 98% of the blame for the Giants loss to the Eagles is on the offensive line. No holes for the running game, no protection for Eli, and no time. Blech. The drops by the receivers were the other 2%.
The only bright side? Prince Amukamara and Mark Herzlich looked really promising in their debuts.
I blew up on Kenny Johnston calling something a “mute” point. Sometimes it doesn’t take much to get a reaction.
As a Chargers fan I am required to hate him, but this really is too bad. Really bad luck; it only happened because the receiver slipped causing the INT. I was actually complimenting Cutler during the game on getting back to defend the return on that play, too.
I guess I can save my Chargers credibility by saying the injury is bad because Chicago’s next three games are the rest of the AFCW.
Actually, looking at the schedule, all the AFCW have at least a few tough games remaining:
Oak: Chi, Mia, GB, Det, KC, SD
Den: SD, Min, Chi, NE, Buf, KC
KC: NE, Pit, Chi, NYJ, GB, Oak, Den
SD: Den, Jax, Buf, Bal, Det, Oak
Couldn’t have happened to a bigger asshole.
Don’t ever listen to Lavar Arrington butcher the English language on his radio show then. My head wants to explode every time he says that some player is “setting a president”. Not to mention his long rambling monologues that he parks right in the middle of any decent conversation, immediately taking the wind out of it.
On the earlier point about the unusual offsetting penalties in the Eagles-Giants game. Rich Gannon (I think) read from the NFL rulebook on the air that said something to the effect that if a personal foul happens immediately after the play ends then it should be counted as happening during the play, or something like that. I don’t remember the exact wording, but it was pretty clear in the rules that the refs got it right. Dumb rule though.
Statistical categories in which the 49ers lead the league:
Scoring Defense (14.5/gm)
Rushing Defense (73.9/gm)
Defensive Takeaways (26)
Offensive Giveaways (9)
Turnover Differential (+17)
Average Starting Field Position (32.5)
Average Opponent Starting Field Position (24.5)
Number of Opponent 100-Yard Rushers (0, 32-game streak)
Number of Opponent Rushing TDs (0, 11-game streak)
Field Goals Made (26)
Individual Scoring (Akers, 102)
Net Punting Average (45.9)
Defensive Yards Per Point (22.3)
Team Passes Defensed (77)
Division Lead (5 gms)
and finally:
Thanksgiving Evening Game Hype ([sub]∞[/sub])
I’d include categories that we’re top-5, but I’d run out of room.
Some interesting stuff from PFT this morning.
Report: Norv Turner needs “drastic turnaround” to save job
Gronkowski: I didn’t suffer a concussion, wouldn’t admit it if I did
Elway’s comments enrage Tebowmaniacs
Cooley thinks Haynesworth hates football
We’ve heard this about Norv before, but I suspect this will be the final straw. If they miss the playoffs he’s gone, but I still think I like their chances over everyone else in that division. Chargers fans must feel like Sisyphus. I still think Norv has an awesome offensive mind and I’d dump Martz for him in an instant for the Bears OC. As a head coach, no thanks.
This Gronk comment isn’t remotely surprising since I suspect most NFL players think that way, but saying it publicly is a really bad idea in this climate. We’ll have to see if the league reacts at all. Between that and the Kris Dielman incident earlier this year you have to wonder if further protections will be implemented this offseason.
The Tebow loons’ comments aren’t really the interesting part, but Elway coming out and saying that Tebow isn’t even in consideration as the QB of the future is pretty telling and remarkably candid/foolish. It’s certainly the right minded approach for Elway, but you simply can’t announce that at this point under these circumstances.
Cooley’s take on Haynesworth is probably spot on. Reminds me of the Ricky being Ricky saga from a few years back. This is a guy hates football but knows that he needs it to get paid. Ricky got paid and eventually flamed out, when the money dried up he came crawling back and worked hard to get paid again. Haynesworth’s money might not run out so quickly absent a lawsuit but the disgrace might just get him playing better in the short term, but it probably won’t last. It’s not a issue a head coach can motivate away and it’s not about a scheme.
I think it may be the right move. On the one hand, yes, you don’t want the GM talking his own QB down. On the other hand, in terms of damage control, coming out and saying now that Tebow is very unlikely to get the job probably tamps down an inevitable backlash. The alternative is grinning and nodding for another two months and then “surprising” people in the offseason by drafting a QB prospect up high or signing a free agent and letting him compete for a starting job when you haven’t come out and said that Tebow isn’t getting the job done.
Some Cowboys fans are eager to get Norv back as OC.
Tebow just won 3 straight games and is at an all time high. I suspect the backlash in Denver is as severe as it can be right now. The smart thing would have been to smile and nod and not say anything either way. Let Tebow either hang himself down the stretch or go into the offseason with a legitimate QB competition between Tebow, Quinn and whoever the draft pick is. Alternatively, he might have been able to trade Tebow for a bag of chips (long shot I know) if Tebow ends up winning 6 or 7 games before the year is up. Now that hope is out the window.
It’s a dicey situation. The team could lose most of the remaining games and then Elway wouldn’t really need to say anything, and it’s possible some people will even blame him for being unsupportive. But we don’t know if they’ll crash like that. If the team keeps winning, the fervor is only going to build no matter how badly Tebow plays. If Elway says nothing and the team finishes 8-8 or 9-7, what happens when he announces Tebow’s probably not the starter?
Who cares if he’s cost himself a bag of chips?