Good day for the Texans. They’re dominating the field again and the Ravens lost, putting Houston 2 ahead in the race for home field advantage. Six turnovers and six sacks; defense comes back to life.
Softer opponent, clearly.
But it wasn’t a “defensive chess match”. I don’t mind “defensive chess matches”; they’re just as interesting to watch as shootouts are. I enjoy great football, whether by offensive or defensive players.
But that game was not a “chess match” it was more of a “7th generation inbred hillibillies playing tiddly winks match”. Both Batch and Flacco were less than adequate, Sanders’ untouched fumble was a joke, Brown’s interception was pathetic, and Wallace’s drop and Batch’s piss poor pass cost the Steelers what should have been easy points. Ugly game.
wow I can’t believe Bob Costas is taking advantage of a tragedy to promote his liberal propaganda
not appropriate in a football broadcast
Bengals won a tight won against San Diego, which I knew was going to be tough out. So now they sit at 7-5, and goddammit, the Colts and Steelers somehow both managed to win. Unreal. Especially the Colts. There isn’t a more hard luck team that can actually play than the Lions. Jesus Christ, Thanksgiving debacle and now this game. Poor Lions.
How about Russell Fucking Wilson?
Both of them made some Mark Sanchez-grade embarrassing underthrows, that was for sure.
So Bob Costas uses his time at halftime to troll a huge portion of America by quoting Jason Whitlock on gun control, thus dividing by zero.
I had no idea football could be so political, or that a totally ripped athlete needed a gun to kill his family and then himself.
In other words, STFU Costas. Stick to football.
Is there a link to this Costas travesty?
I didn’t realize Jason Whitlock wrote about anything other than Serena Williams’ ass. There’s nothing wrong with discussing the issue, but he’s about the last person I would quote on the subject. I don’t want to argue about guns in here, but if we can blame the murder-suicide on steroids and head injuries suffered playing football (as some people are ready to do), we can ask if guns had anything to do with it. Which doesn’t mean I want to have that argument during Sunday Night Football, but it’s not some horrible hijacking of the tragedy in that sense.
It is time for the Cardinals to fire Ken Whisenhut and hopefully bring in Andy Reid. Sorry Whiz, your QB decisions have been horrible since Warner retired. Cards would have been better off keeping Leinart rather than the Anderson/Hall/Skelton/Kolb/Lindley/Bartel debacle of the past 3 years.
Cleveland Browns employee Eric Eucker committed suicide on Saturday, by hanging himself in the team’s equipment shed.
With 1 game to go this week:
We’re down to 4-for-3 in the AFC
We’re down to 9-for-5 in the NFC
And if NY can beat WASH it’ll be 8-for-5.
I couldn’t agree more. The sad thing is that, in the Super Bowl era, Whisenhunt is (by far) the most successful Cardinals coach. I guess this says more about the team, coaching and management prior to Whisenhunt than anything exceptional about him though. Basically, he lucked into Warner too - he was willing to sit him down as Leinart’s back up.
They’re in a tough spot now though - any new QB is going to have a porous line in front of him, so I’d go the whole hog and clean house. Fire the coach and trade Fitzgerald for more picks and try and improve both the QB and the O-line all in one go. Absent a trade of this type, there is a damn good chance that whomever is drafted at QB by the Cards (and they surely must go for a QB) is going to spend 16 games getting the crap kicked out of him before they can get players of quality to stop it happening.
Wow the Eagles are terrible. I almost thought they might pull out a win last night. Guess not.
And now they’ve fired Jim Washburn.
Today was the first game in the last 2 years where I sat back and thought “we got this” - every other game, even with late leads, I expect them to blow. Not sure how much is the team maturing or Oakland playing really bad, but the defense is solidly pounding bad offenses, which is nice to see.
I was wrong about Brandon Weeden. I said before the season started that he was going to make a lot of dumb throws, but he was going to put the ball in the perfect place so that some would work out anyway, Favre style. Well, his accuracy in live game action is massively worse than in practice or preseason. He misses the sort of balls he should be really good at on a regular basis. I’m not sure if it’s jitters or what. Conversely, I think Shurmur, to a fault, has encouraged him to be way too careful with the ball and trained the gunslinger out of him. Overall, not happy with him. Thought there was clear improvement mid-season, followed by a few stinkers. Today was ok.
I’m dissapointed/scared by Trent Richardson. His raw numbers look okay simply due to workload, his efficiency numbers are not impressive. Often he’s getting hit in the backfield, so you have to wonder how much is the o-line, but Hardesty is hitting the holes faster and more consistently. It’s especially weird since the Browns probably have a top 3 pass blocking line in the league, but sometimes it looks like they have bottom 3 run blocking.
Richardson is really incredibly strong and he’s a fighter. Almost every play he takes on several defenders are kicks their ass. Unfortunately, that seems to be his main skill, and that doesn’t get you far in the NFL. You need vision, burst, change of direction, and Richardson hasn’t been too impressive in that regard. I really hope the performance was some combination of bad run blocking, needing to learn that NFL holes are smaller and have tighter windows, and nagging injuries and that he’ll be better next year, because as of now no way he was worth the #3 overall pick.
Josh Gordon, at least, is a bright spot. Dude is just flat out beating DBs on every play. He was very raw early on and basically only ran go routes for the first few games, but he’s been getting more polished as the season goes on. I think he’s going to be a very good one, probably top 10 receiver. At least skill wise - he’ll need a QB to get there.
NYG @ WAS tonight, 8:30pm on ESPN. Giants are 2½-point favorites.
I for one am scared shitless of RG3. The Skins are hungry, and this is guaranteed to be an ugly game. If the G-Men win, our only worry left in the division will be the Cowboys, who are far less worrisome than the momentous Redskins. Yet I can’t shake the feeling that this isn’t going to turn out well for us. I predict the usual fair-to-good first half for New York, going into halftime tied or a field goal up. But I see collapse coming in the 2nd half.
Someone please assuage my fears.
Go Giants.
I think the Browns will win next week vs. KC and then possibly one more out of WAS, DEN or PIT. I sincerely hope 6 wins is not enough to keep Shurmur. Do I want Andy Reid? Absolutely not.
I listened to the game on the radio again yesterday, but is it possible defenses are stacking the box much more when Richardson is in the backfield as opposed to Hardesty? I’m pretty pleased with both of them, to be honest.
The AFC North division race isn’t over yet. Baltimore looked like ass against a team that they should have beaten without Rothlisberger. Plus Baltimore has the hardest schedule out of the three teams in contention over the last four games.
As a Bengals fan I originally was rooting for Baltimore to just win out as that would have meant a valuable defeat of Pittsburgh, but that didn’t happen. Right now the Colts and the Steelers own the two wildcards as the Steelers, although tied with the Bengals at 7-5, own the tiebreakers.
I was thinking that the Bengals v Ravens game on December 30th was going to be meaningless for the Ravens and would give the Bengals a “gimme” win by resting starters. Now I am not so sure about that.
It is possible that all three teams end up at 10-6. That would be weird. The Bengals screwed themselves early in the year by losing to both Cleveland and Miami, as one of those being an AFC win would really help their resume right now.
So now the road for the Bengals is clear: unless the Steelers drop one and the Bengals win out, the Bengals are pretty much going to HAVE to beat the Steelers, as well as possibly the Ravens (unless the Ravens win out, then they may yet rest starters, but they don’t look all that good to me right now) to get at least a wildcard. Unless Indy obliges and drops a couple games.
This is all assuming the Bengals can beat both Dallas at home and Philly away in consecutive games coming up. I like our chances the way the team is playing right now.
Is there a better DT in the league than Geno Atkins this season?