NFL Week #14

[mrpackerguy]

Pack playing well. But I don't care who you are or what your record is, when 2 NFC Norris division foes mix it up. ANything can happen and it usually does.

Pack 28
Bears 24

 

[MJ5150]

We got the short week this week, Browns on Thursday.

Hines is also out now, so who knows what is going to happen in Cleveland.

-Mike

 

[modulusman]

Hopefully the Vikings just had a bad game against Arizona and they get back on track this week. At 9-3 the bengals will be tough. E.J. Henderson is out for the year with a broken leg. That is a major blow to the Viking defense.

 

[mrpackerguy]

Hopefully the Vikings just had a bad game against Arizona and they get back on track this week. At 9-3 the bengals will be tough. E.J. Henderson is out for the year with a broken leg. That is a major blow to the Viking defense.

Guys have to step up (I hope they won't of course). Packer are keeping #1 D ranking without 2 pro-bowlers on D for rest of year - Kampman and Al Harris

 

[Number27]

weeee!

Pittsburgh @ Cleveland: i mean.. i don't want to say something preemptively but it seems-seems- like clevelands offense has finally found 1st gear. they still got like 4 gears to go, but at least they can roll down to the gas station to buy milk. meanwhile, i'm wondering how much all that locker room chat following the kansas city debacle affected the steelers. i mean they seem to have the same problem that the pats do at the moment: lack of concentration at critical times. of course they're a better team than KC, or oakland, or cleveland, but they're giving up 4th quarter leads and big plays left and right. how many 3 and longs did gradkowsky complete in that game? not a good track that they're on right now... PIT 24 CLE 17

New Orleans @ Atlanta: i don't know if matt ryan is starting for this game or not, but i don't think it matters. he wasn't playing amazingly before he got injured, and he sure as hell isn't going to coming back from turf toe. NO 31 ATL 16

Detroit @ Baltimore: i don't like flacco... he's like matt schaub the second. still... it's detroit, which is exactly the type of team matt schaub destroys. DET 9 BAL 28

Green Bay @ Chicago: this old school rivalry is so old that everybody that doesn't live on the shores of lake michigan is completely bored by it. anyway this seems like a 3 pick game for cutler easy.. GB 26 CHI 20

Seattle @ Houston: i need seattle to win 2 more games so that i win my "most improved team" bet with my roomate (he picked DET). SEA 27 HOU 24

Miami @ Jacksonville: i'm gonna be pulling for the jags in this one big time. infact, since there will be noone there at the game they'll probably be able to hear me... MIA 20 JAC 23

New York (green type) @ Tampa: isn't mark sanchez due for another multi interception game? NYJ 13 TB 14

Carolina @ New England: i'm not ready to say that the wheels have fallen off of anything yet.. afterall they've only lost 2 in a row (and one of those was to the best team in the league), but if they can't take care of a very mediocre team at home... well then i'll be chasing those wheels down the road like cuba goodin jr in rat race. CAR 13 NE 27

Cincinnati @ Minnesota: as i said in the vikings thread, i think that minnesota is vastly overrated, due to their incredibly weak schedule thus far. sunday night was part one of the "realworld: minnesota", and this weekend will be part two. Cincy grinds out another one on the road: CIN 22 MIN 14

Buffalo @ Kansas City: Matt Cassel should be good for one more win this season right? BUF 20 KC 26

Denver @ Indianapolis: the colts are ruining everything... everything!! DEN 23 IND 28

St. Louis @ Tennesee: ssssuuuch a shame that tennesee couldn't pull off the 10 in a row.. but hey if they can finish with a winning record that will still be something. STL 13 TEN 21

Washington @ Oakland: come on oakland! WAS 15 OAK 17

San Diego @ Dallas: if your team is looking for a way into the playoffs, seeing the cowboys on your schedule is like christmas.. they've always got just the right present you were looking for. SD 31 DAL 27

Philadelphia @ New York (blue kind): that's it... i'm looking this up! i'm almost certain that the NFC east, specifically the eagles, have more night games than anyone else, and it's BS. we'll see...

Arizona @ San Francisco: i'd really like san fran to win this and make the playoffs some how... but i don't see it happening. AZ are playing some nice football, and they're game planning against the vikings was some of the best i've seen in a while. having said that, these two always seem to play close games. ARI 30 SF 28

 

[Kelly Lee]

Denver @ Indianapolis: the colts are ruining everything... everything!! DEN 23 IND 28

I think the Colts will crank it up another notch this week. Indy for the win. 34-24.

 

[Number27]

Philadelphia @ New York (blue kind): that's it... i'm looking this up! i'm almost certain that the NFC east, specifically the eagles, have more night games than anyone else, and it's BS. we'll see...

so i looked it up (yea i have nothing to do, big whoop, you wanna fight about it?) and it breaks down like this:

number of appearances in night games by teams in divisions
AFC east: 7
AFC north: 7
AFC south: 7
AFC west: 6
NFC east: 15
NFC north: 11
NFC south: 7
NFC west: 6

this is assuming that they don't flex-schedule some of the games in the next 3 weeks. so as you can see the NFC east and north have way more games than the other divisions. especially the poor west divisions. the nfc west, interestingly, is only represented by the cardinals 5 times and only once by the 49ers.

 

[Jimmy Bones]

Jags over Miami.

28 - 21

 

[Lunarfall]

Pack: 24
Da Bears: 13

Agree with mrpackerguy, but I just don't think Jay Cutler has what it takes to beat the Packer's defensive game. If the o-line and special teams do ok I don't think the Pack will have a problem. Although for some reason I half expect the scores to be flipped if the Bears do pull it together somehow.

 

[Ed Goode]

There is every good possibility that the Chargers can smack down the Cowboys, not a guarantee of course, but a good possibility. And that would mean that if, and that's a really BIG IF, the Giants can beat up on Philly a little bit we're looking at a 3-way tie in the NFC East

Regardless of how it all plays out, I can't really see any of the NFC East teams making it too far in post season. Thanks to the 'Boys and Eagles being somewhat less than dominating, Big Blue has a chance to still take the division, but a loss here will make that almost impossible.

I'm not expecting Philly to give up the ball the way Dallas did last week, so the Giants have to earn it the hard way. Always tough games, I don't expect this to be any different. Last chance for New York .... PHI 24, NYG 28

 

[Eric Perry]

I hope Cleveland kicks Pittsburgh's tail. For serious.

I mean, they already lost to the other worst teams in the league, why not make it a hat trick?

This year is done for Pittsburgh. They are incredibly sloppy and lazy, post-SB. Just like the season following their LAST SB win. They need a full season of disgusting embarrassment to become a laughing stock. That will help in having them come back with any kind of fire and drive next season. What I see this year is a team with no commitment, drive, and mental toughness. A losing season will do wonders in getting those attributes back, IMO.

 

[MJ5150]

I hope Cleveland kicks Pittsburgh's tail. For serious.

You are over the edge bro. Take a break from football.

I don't know that embarassment necessarily works for guys making millions and millions of dollars a season. Respect is where it starts. When guys stop buying into the system and sacrificing for the team, you get what we see here in Pittsburgh.

Tomlin proved his system can win a SB. Time to move out the guys who aren't buying into it anymore. I have a list of those guys, but I'll keep it to myself.

-Mike

 

[Eric Perry]

...I don't know that embarassment necessarily works for guys making millions and millions of dollars a season...

Oh I think it certainly does. Guys that make that much are arrogant A-holes (whether they are on *my* team or not), and their fragile little egos are easily fractured.

I was telling Gard earlier, despite my all but wishing season ending injury on Favre for his making a mockery of the game and all the media crap that followed his antics, I am fascinated by his level of play. Second to that, I have always been a Vikings fan. I find myself rooting for Minnesota to take it all at this point.

Minnesota or Green Bay. I have always been a Green Bay fan too. They, in terms of team values, are very similar to Pittsburgh, me thinks.

I cannot root for an AFC team. Just can't do it. I am hoping for a Packers or Viking Superbowl. I couldn't care less who makes it from the AFC. I just hope it's not the spoiled cheating Patriots (the irony in that statement literally makes me laugh) or the cryass Colts.

 

[MJ5150]

I cannot root for an AFC team. Just can't do it.

I hear ya.

Troy wondered aloud today if he would even come back this season. We have 10 days off after the game in Cleveland Thursday night. If he isn't ready by then, maybe he should go ahead and sit out the rest of the year.

I really wouldn't mind seeing Favre win another SB. Not to spite GB, just because it would be cool to see him do it again. He does play with a level of passion that is rare in todays NFL.

-Mike

 

[Kelly Lee]

...or the cryass Colts.

I would really like to know what you base that view of the Colts on?

 

[Eric Perry]

I would really like to know what you base that view of the Colts on?

C'mon Kelly, we've talked about this, and we have disagreed with each other. You've always seem to take it rather personally too, and I simply have no desire to argue. It's a game, and nothing more. People can slander my favorite teams until they are blue in the face, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. You are apparently not so forgiving however, which is fine. Please don't try and bait me though.

 

[mrpackerguy]

so i looked it up (yea i have nothing to do, big whoop, you wanna fight about it?) and it breaks down like this:

number of appearances in night games by teams in divisions
AFC east: 7
AFC north: 7
AFC south: 7
AFC west: 6
NFC east: 15
NFC north: 11
NFC south: 7
NFC west: 6

this is assuming that they don't flex-schedule some of the games in the next 3 weeks. so as you can see the NFC east and north have way more games than the other divisions. especially the poor west divisions. the nfc west, interestingly, is only represented by the cardinals 5 times and only once by the 49ers.

Might have sumpin to do with the fact that by the time it's night on the west coast, most of us in the midwest or east coast are in bed!

 

[mrpackerguy]

I hear ya.

Troy wondered aloud today if he would even come back this season. We have 10 days off after the game in Cleveland Thursday night. If he isn't ready by then, maybe he should go ahead and sit out the rest of the year.

I really wouldn't mind seeing Favre win another SB. Not to spite GB, just because it would be cool to see him do it again. He does play with a level of passion that is rare in todays NFL.

-Mike

Favre is evil and he deserves to get his clock cleaned. Nothing else. That is all.

 

[Bassman316]

Hopefully the theory that the Cowgirls drop off in December holds true again this year. Seeing Dallas in first place in our division has been a pain in the @$$. Big game this week for my Eagles vs. New York. Hopefully with Vick showing last week that he still has something, we'll be able to get past the Giants- but the Giants ain't the Falcons, and that's what scares me. I still think my boys will pull it off I'm feeling 24 PHI 21 NYG.

 

[Kelly Lee]

C'mon Kelly, we've talked about this, and we have disagreed with each other. You've always seem to take it rather personally too, and I simply have no desire to argue. It's a game, and nothing more. People can slander my favorite teams until they are blue in the face, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. You are apparently not so forgiving however, which is fine. Please don't try and bait me though.

Ah, yes, now I remember. Hating for the sake of hating. Good luck with that!