One of my hard-and-fast rules is “Tragic Team Wins”. When a key player or coach suffers some personal tragedy in the week leading up to a game, that team gets the win 99% of the time. It’s unreal how often it holds true.
Sure as hell didn’t work this week…
That was great.
When i first moved to San Diego, i thought that the Chargers might become my “second team,” just because i live here now and it’s nice to follow the locals.
But after a few years listening to the Spanos family alternately threatening and begging the city in an effort to get taxpayers to fork over for a new stadium, and a whole bunch of fans whining the same tune, i decided that i was going to take special pleasure in every Chargers loss. That one today was a beauty!
De-fense…De-fense.
It’s INCONCEIVABLE that Cincinnati could win, but…there you go.
The Bears defense is looking like their defense of last year. Julius Peppers just had a rediculous return for a TD.
looks like the Steelers will have to win their next three games in order to achieve mediocrity
Holy shit the Bears, whom should be 2-1, are now suddenly 3-0! Fucking Bears!
I don’t know why the Giants fans in this thread seem so down. They put up a solid 108 inches of offense in the first quarter, and then shattered that already-impressive mark six times over for the first half. It takes quite a bit of doing to manage that many yards in the first half.
sob
Go Jets? Geno Smith throws some bad rookie picks – nowhere near as well as Eli throws em – but he kind of looks legit.
So the Chiefs and Dolphins are 3-0 while the Steelers, Vikings, Giants and Redskins are 0-3.
Looks like all our pre-season predictions are spot on, just like they are every year.
And Cutler clobbered a Steelers defender on a scramble. And someone somewhere said he was a quitter. That stupid someone.
To steal a line from For You a few posts back:
Ain’t parity wonderful? 
Speaking for myself, I do love the parity in the NFL, but this is exactly the reason I never bet on NFL games. I can usually pick college. Won a hundred bucks on Auburn beating the spread.
This is the most tentative I’ve ever felt about a 3-0 Bears team.
The writer then went on to say “Undefeated in regards to playing other teams. The only team to beat the Giants are the Giants.”
He may have a point there. But I don’t see how this is a cause for hope. The Giants still have to play thirteen more games where the Giants will be on the field.
I’ll bet the NFL wasn’t planning on sending two 0-3 teams to London.
One-way tickets most likely.
Apparently this is the new meme for this season, we didn’t lose! The other team was just lucky.
Well, i think the meme is a bit dumb, but it’s not quite what you suggest.
A better translation, i think, would be: They didn’t beat us; we were so awful we beat ourselves."
At least, that’s what i get from the “Giants beating the Giants” comment.
Kind of like what my friend said about his 17 y/o siamese cat: she could not move fast enough to get out of her own way.
That’s what I’ve always hated about “we beat ourselves”. It’s self serving and weaselly. You just know that if the roles were reversed the same people wouldn’t say “they beat themselves”. Rather, they would say, “we found a way to win”.
I don’t find it weaselly at all. The Bengals SHOULD be 3-0 and riding high, instead they are 2-1 and giving themselves the stink eye over what SHOULD have been a win against the Bears, much like they COULD have been 1-2 and giving themselves the same stinkeye after almost fumbling the game away to the Packers!
Ugh, that was pathetic. The (main) problem was that both the o-line and the d-line were atrocious, and that’s hard to fix. Pass protection hasn’t been a huge problem until this game, so it’s *possible *that that had more to do with the Panthers than with the Giants. I don’t know what the fuck has happened to the Giants’ pass rush, however.
Yeah, I’m kinda bullish on Geno. Probably not a star, but I think he turns into a serviceable starting QB. He’s accurate, and accuracy hides a lot of warts.