Bengals v. Steelers is the best game of the week. It’s a toss up, but I think the Steelers pull it out.
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Mike J
Can Russell Wilson have another 5 TD game? 6?
3.
? Martin
Gronk returning for the Pats. Edelman practiced but doesn’t look like he’s playing. NE may have a bit of offense back.
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Yutsano
@Mike J: Hard to say with Graham out. If Willson gets over having stone hands, then it’s possible.
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Corner Stone
I think the Browns and Jets both win at home. The Jets are laying 7.5 which I think is about right, and the Browns are a slight home favorite giving 2.5.
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Mike J
@Yutsano: Doug Baldwin has been a reliable target.
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benw
The Chargers are rolling into KC and going to kick some… oh fuck it.
@Yutsano: What does Jimmy Graham have to do with RW throwing multiple TD’s? He has 2 TD’s in 11 games played this season.
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donnah
Bengals fan here, but knowing that my team chokes under pressure, not all that confident.
Still hoping for the win! Go, Bengals!
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Corner Stone
Texans have been flexed into Sunday night so I get to watch the ATL and CAR game and continue to be absolutely befuddled by what the hell kind of team the Falcons are this season.
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ThresherK
Liverpool grabbed a bit of a miracle there.
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oldgold
Speaking of crappy picks/ decisions, 15 years ago today, a day that should live in infamy, the Bush v Gore decision was ‘handed down.’
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Corner Stone
The NFL really needs to figure out what the hell constitutes a catch these days.
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Kathleen
@donnah: They seemed to have moved that mojo this year (but my brother, who is an ardent Bengal fan, criticized them for that for the past several years). I plan to drive across the river to shop at Kroger in Newport, KY, in the hope that it’s deserted because of the game. The streets in the city are usually dead when the Bengals play, especially if it’s a home game with the Steelers. Being football agnostic, I enjoy the break in traffic and crowds during the games.
It’s not complicated. One guy throws the ball and another guy catches it.
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p.a.
Cool: with Pats 8pm I’d normally have to suffer through Jets or Bills, but have Steelers/Bengals!
John Cole, consensus here in NE is NO ONE wants to see Steelers again this year.
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Doug R
‘hawks should be a lock, but they do tend to get overconfident. I guess that’s why they play the game.
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Doug R
@Davebo: You have obviously not watched many Seahawks games.
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max
7-4, then 8-5, then 9-6 last week (ugh). 24-15 (.625 total).
Eagles over Bills. Seahawks over Ravens (since saltwater dirty birds have gotten it together). 49ers over Browns (Holiday Depression bowl, sponsored by Lexapro). Lions over Rams (because mass suicide is not an option). Jets over Titans. Colts over Jaguars. Chiefs over Chargers (again? Didn’t they play like 5 minutes ago?). Bears over Washington (because yes, better, but no, they lost to the Cowboys and they’re playing in Chicago). Panthers over Falcons. Bucs over Saints. Broncos over Raiders (so near to adequate and yet so very very far away from good). Packers over Cowboys (I’m trying not to giggle). Ooo. Texans over Pats.
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Corner Stone
Falcons DB just gave up on that play. Wonder what his coach is going to say about him stopping running after Ginn caught the ball.
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benw
Jerry Attaochu (Ga Tech alum!) forces the KC punt returner to fumble! Charger ball!
I wonder if Gronk will just be a decoy. He’d still be pretty effective.
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D58826
OT but it seems that Marco Rubio wants to roll back the 21st, 20th and 19th centuries and reestablish the 3/5s compromise and slavery
Marco Rubio Suggests His Supreme Court Would Roll Back Marriage Equality
“I will appoint Supreme Court justices that will interpret the Constitution as originally constructed.”
Oh and ladies forget but voting after 2016.
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p.a.
@efgoldman: Steelers>Bengals, Steelers>Broncos, Bengals>Broncos would be the Pat’s xMas list. I can see Pats losing at NYJ. At Miami is like at Denver for them, but the fish are in freefall.
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p.a.
@efgoldman: McCarron’s a 5th round pick. Means he’s better than Brady ;-) Wally Pipp. Drew Bledsoe. Andy Dalton.
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benw
@efgoldman: “Gesundheit!”? Not “God bless you”? What is this, the War on Sneezes!?
ETA and the damn Chargers miss the FG. Dammit, Chargers!
@efgoldman: I take is back somewhat – he’s questionable. So we’ll see.
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benw
Chargers intercept Alex Smith! First interception on Smith since September. Brady’s record is safe. (Screw you, Brady!)
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Corner Stone
“Here we go Jag-uars, here we go!”
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Schlemazel
@redshirt:
There was a wide receiver, lance rentzel, who played for the Vikings Rams and Cowboys who had some problems with the law for pulling it out.
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p.a.
@Schlemazel: Lots of players have had issues for not pulling it out*. :-o
*Please note any youngsters on this site this is Not an effective means of birth control.
@efgoldman: The Bengals have a back up quarterback who looked pretty good in the preseason. Well, that’s what my brother told me anyway.
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Schlemazel
@p.a.:
A few years later there was a former North Star player, Dino Ciccarelli, that went to Washington (I think) and got busted in DC for exposing himself. His team wanted to trade him and the joke was his response was “No, that’s OK, I’ll stick it out here.”
And let me second your tip to the youngsters about prevention.
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Pete Mack
BUTT FUMBLE! Baltimore loses ball on own 18 yard line, with less than a minute in the half. Seattle touchdown!
His team wanted to trade him and the joke was his response was “No, that’s OK, I’ll stick it out here.”
Cringe.
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benw
Chargers that was a very bad end to the half. Your mother and I are very disappointed in you right now. We are going to talk about this at halftime, mister!
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Schlemazel
@Amir Khalid:
There was probably 15-20 years between the Rentzel case & the Chiccarelli one and it shows some, small a slow but some, progress . Lance was busted in MN as the charges went away and he was traded, same in Dallas and San Diego but he did finally face a court (very fuzzy memory of this but it did happen) The belief is he was a serial flasher & many people worked to shield him. Dino does not appear to have been so protected and I’d like to think that is because we have lower tolerance for the bad behavior of our sports stars, although there is ample evidence this is not 100% across the board.
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p.a.
@Schlemazel: no hard info, but my impression of the BJ demographic is that we’re closer to Medicare concerns than family planning issues. Would love for the site to run a demo questionnaire.
Also, doesn’t my Christian pharmacist’s advice on pulling out outweigh my doctor’s Rx, 1-1, making “pulling it out” effective? Or is that only if believe in its efficacy?
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Bill Murray
Lance Rentzel was also famous for marrying Joey Heatherton and for being hired by Dick Schaap (along with Fred Dryer) to essentially prank the Steelers and Vikings at the Super Bowl.
@ThresherK (GPad): Well they think you can pray teh gay away, maybe you can pray the baby away! Just pray fast, before fertilization.
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Germy
@debbie: She had a crisis when doctors stole her singing voice, but I think she’s in a better place now emotionally.
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GoBlue72
@efgoldman: Panthers pissing all over the Falcon’s corpse.
Carolina looking to easily finish regular season 16-0.
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p.a.
@efgoldman: Had a extra credit question in HS: Who was Ponsonby Britt. No one got it.
Ponsonby Britt was the credited—but fictional—executive producer of the television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Fractured Flickers, Hoppity Hooper, and George of the Jungle.
In 1959, Jay Ward and Bill Scott invented the name “Ponsonby Britt, Limited” as the new title of their corporation. Britt eventually supposedly became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and was retained in the cartoon’s closing credits as an in-joke.
This info was originally told to me by Prof. Josiah S Carberry.
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Corner Stone
@GoBlue72: Giants, Falcons, Bucs.
Not sure how they do not go undefeated unless Cam gets injured. Any bets on CAR sitting Cam the last game v Bucs? I say no.
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max
On the one hand, Chicago is apparently bad, but not quite that bad. On the other hand, maybe mass suicide in Detroit IS an option.
max
[‘Thinking the Colts have packed it in for the year.’]
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p.a.
@efgoldman: Good stuff. The last time I checked out a WB cartoon on a network the violence was edited out: you might hear the explosion but not see it, and the next scene would be Daffy with his bill on backwards & upside down, smoke rising from his head. Sad.
Int. Just waiting for 4pm game now.
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p.a.
@Corner Stone: Not being in the area, can anyone in the Carolinas comment on whether PerfectSeason pr is ramping up as it did here in NE in 2007? Pro football is tough enough without that bs to deal with.
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benw
Well, Chargers, that was a very Charger way to lose a game.
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NeutronFlux
@benw: Credit to the Chargers for not giving up. That was a helluva drive. Had us on the edge of the seat here.
@NeutronFlux: yeah, the Chargers haven’t quit all season even though they’re not, you know, good.
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Johnny Coelacanth
“Tell me how wrong I am in comments!”
You’re wrong to care about football.
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? Martin
@benw: Well, you give up when you think next year’s team will be a winner and you can just stay healthy and wait. You keep fighting when you think next year’s team will suck and you’re trying to get the attention of another team.
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Yutsano
@efgoldman: Side note: June Foray is still very much alive and still working.
Too bad about Rawls, he was having another amazing game, but the Seahawks probably won’t need a running game the next couple of weeks, and then the final game in Arizona will probably be meaningless, so Beast Mode can rest until the first playoff game.
Nobody without a monetary interest cares about either game. And anyone that actually bets on either game might as well burn the money in the fireplace. Two-hundred players already looking for tee times.
And WTS, both won as predicted, and both covered. So, meh to you, sir. Meh.
And now Denver loses too, giving New England a clear path if they can beat noted loser Cornerstone’s Houston Texans.
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jeer9
Denver holds the Raiders to 126 yards of offense and lose. Pretty amazing.
And yeah, the drops were bad – but Osweiler and Gang are a NotReadyForPrimeTime group.
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p.a.
@Bill Murray: I looked at the stats of the Oak/Den game and except for D’s 2 lost fumbles it’s like how the frak did they lose? Were both lost fumbles inside their own 20? I’ll have to actually watch the NBC pregame show now to see.
So a New England win tonight gives them a huge advantage in Home Field.
Go Pats!
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p.a.
Except for the win v the Pats Osweiler hasn’t got the Bronc’s O more than 17 pts a game. Still better than Paytoon; no to’s, but you have to take some pressure off your D.
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max
What the fuck?
max
[‘This is the week Oakland delivers a functioning defense? Holy shit!’]
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Suezboo
Wheee ! My Packers done did it again! Crushed those Texas punks into the ground. Oh, sorry, is that overly aggressive ? Pbfft ! Small victory dance ! Yeah !
Whut ? Oakland has a defense ? Damn, we get them next week.
What happens when they have played all the teams in this league and, please FSM, won it. What’s the next step to glory?
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redshirt
Bengals v. Steelers is the best game of the week. It’s a toss up, but I think the Steelers pull it out.
Mike J
Can Russell Wilson have another 5 TD game? 6?
? Martin
Gronk returning for the Pats. Edelman practiced but doesn’t look like he’s playing. NE may have a bit of offense back.
Yutsano
@Mike J: Hard to say with Graham out. If Willson gets over having stone hands, then it’s possible.
Corner Stone
I think the Browns and Jets both win at home. The Jets are laying 7.5 which I think is about right, and the Browns are a slight home favorite giving 2.5.
Mike J
@Yutsano: Doug Baldwin has been a reliable target.
benw
The Chargers are rolling into KC and going to kick some… oh fuck it.
John Cole
Go Steelers!
Corner Stone
@Yutsano: What does Jimmy Graham have to do with RW throwing multiple TD’s? He has 2 TD’s in 11 games played this season.
donnah
Bengals fan here, but knowing that my team chokes under pressure, not all that confident.
Still hoping for the win! Go, Bengals!
Corner Stone
Texans have been flexed into Sunday night so I get to watch the ATL and CAR game and continue to be absolutely befuddled by what the hell kind of team the Falcons are this season.
ThresherK
Liverpool grabbed a bit of a miracle there.
oldgold
Speaking of crappy picks/ decisions, 15 years ago today, a day that should live in infamy, the Bush v Gore decision was ‘handed down.’
Corner Stone
The NFL really needs to figure out what the hell constitutes a catch these days.
Kathleen
@donnah: They seemed to have moved that mojo this year (but my brother, who is an ardent Bengal fan, criticized them for that for the past several years). I plan to drive across the river to shop at Kroger in Newport, KY, in the hope that it’s deserted because of the game. The streets in the city are usually dead when the Bengals play, especially if it’s a home game with the Steelers. Being football agnostic, I enjoy the break in traffic and crowds during the games.
Amir Khalid
@ThresherK:
You can say that again.
Davebo
@Corner Stone:
It’s not complicated. One guy throws the ball and another guy catches it.
p.a.
Cool: with Pats 8pm I’d normally have to suffer through Jets or Bills, but have Steelers/Bengals!
John Cole, consensus here in NE is NO ONE wants to see Steelers again this year.
Doug R
‘hawks should be a lock, but they do tend to get overconfident. I guess that’s why they play the game.
Doug R
@Davebo: You have obviously not watched many Seahawks games.
max
7-4, then 8-5, then 9-6 last week (ugh). 24-15 (.625 total).
Eagles over Bills. Seahawks over Ravens (since saltwater dirty birds have gotten it together). 49ers over Browns (Holiday Depression bowl, sponsored by Lexapro). Lions over Rams (because mass suicide is not an option). Jets over Titans. Colts over Jaguars. Chiefs over Chargers (again? Didn’t they play like 5 minutes ago?). Bears over Washington (because yes, better, but no, they lost to the Cowboys and they’re playing in Chicago). Panthers over Falcons. Bucs over Saints. Broncos over Raiders (so near to adequate and yet so very very far away from good). Packers over Cowboys (I’m trying not to giggle). Ooo. Texans over Pats.
Corner Stone
Falcons DB just gave up on that play. Wonder what his coach is going to say about him stopping running after Ginn caught the ball.
benw
Jerry Attaochu (Ga Tech alum!) forces the KC punt returner to fumble! Charger ball!
redshirt
I wonder if Gronk will just be a decoy. He’d still be pretty effective.
D58826
OT but it seems that Marco Rubio wants to roll back the 21st, 20th and 19th centuries and reestablish the 3/5s compromise and slavery
Oh and ladies forget but voting after 2016.
p.a.
@efgoldman: Steelers>Bengals, Steelers>Broncos, Bengals>Broncos would be the Pat’s xMas list. I can see Pats losing at NYJ. At Miami is like at Denver for them, but the fish are in freefall.
p.a.
@efgoldman: McCarron’s a 5th round pick. Means he’s better than Brady ;-) Wally Pipp. Drew Bledsoe. Andy Dalton.
benw
@efgoldman: “Gesundheit!”? Not “God bless you”? What is this, the War on Sneezes!?
ETA and the damn Chargers miss the FG. Dammit, Chargers!
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: Make that 21 – 0 CAR.
? Martin
@efgoldman: I take is back somewhat – he’s questionable. So we’ll see.
benw
Chargers intercept Alex Smith! First interception on Smith since September. Brady’s record is safe. (Screw you, Brady!)
Corner Stone
“Here we go Jag-uars, here we go!”
Schlemazel
@redshirt:
There was a wide receiver, lance rentzel, who played for the Vikings Rams and Cowboys who had some problems with the law for pulling it out.
p.a.
@Schlemazel: Lots of players have had issues for not pulling it out*. :-o
*Please note any youngsters on this site this is Not an effective means of birth control.
Davebo
Atlanta 2nd and 36! You don’t see that often.
Yutsano
@Mike J: Eh. It looks like they’ll do okay.
mikej
@Yutsano: Wish we had Rawls. They’ll survive,even after that fumble, but I don’t expect a blow out now.
redshirt
@efgoldman: Yeah, if Dalton is done for the year, that just changed the playoff picture in the AFC big time.
Also gives the Pats a ton of breathing room.
NeutronFlux
You picked the Chiefs! Nooooooo!
redshirt
@redshirt: Or maybe not!
Kathleen
@efgoldman: The Bengals have a back up quarterback who looked pretty good in the preseason. Well, that’s what my brother told me anyway.
Schlemazel
@p.a.:
A few years later there was a former North Star player, Dino Ciccarelli, that went to Washington (I think) and got busted in DC for exposing himself. His team wanted to trade him and the joke was his response was “No, that’s OK, I’ll stick it out here.”
And let me second your tip to the youngsters about prevention.
Pete Mack
BUTT FUMBLE! Baltimore loses ball on own 18 yard line, with less than a minute in the half. Seattle touchdown!
Amir Khalid
@Schlemazel:
Cringe.
benw
Chargers that was a very bad end to the half. Your mother and I are very disappointed in you right now. We are going to talk about this at halftime, mister!
Schlemazel
@Amir Khalid:
There was probably 15-20 years between the Rentzel case & the Chiccarelli one and it shows some, small a slow but some, progress . Lance was busted in MN as the charges went away and he was traded, same in Dallas and San Diego but he did finally face a court (very fuzzy memory of this but it did happen) The belief is he was a serial flasher & many people worked to shield him. Dino does not appear to have been so protected and I’d like to think that is because we have lower tolerance for the bad behavior of our sports stars, although there is ample evidence this is not 100% across the board.
p.a.
@Schlemazel: no hard info, but my impression of the BJ demographic is that we’re closer to Medicare concerns than family planning issues. Would love for the site to run a demo questionnaire.
Germy
Julie Andrews at the age of twelve
NeutronFlux
@benw: Bad for you, good for me. As I understand it, it is impossible for the Chargers to practice in the rain.
Howard Beale IV
Loos like France’s National Front took a drubbing.
Lamh36
The new Independence Day sequel trailer dropped today. No Will Smith, but hey I luvs me some Jeff Goldblum!
Independence Day: Resurgence Trailer Released
debbie
@Germy:
She never lost that smile, huh?
ThresherK (GPad)
Some cartoonists, including the adorkable Abby Howard, have devised a solution to the War on Christmas.
Get your Christmachrist cards here.
Also, doesn’t my Christian pharmacist’s advice on pulling out outweigh my doctor’s Rx, 1-1, making “pulling it out” effective? Or is that only if believe in its efficacy?
Bill Murray
Lance Rentzel was also famous for marrying Joey Heatherton and for being hired by Dick Schaap (along with Fred Dryer) to essentially prank the Steelers and Vikings at the Super Bowl.
benw
@NeutronFlux: rain freaks San Diegans right out.
Ryan
Finally, a pick in favor of the Patriots!
p.a.
@ThresherK (GPad): Well they think you can pray teh gay away, maybe you can pray the baby away! Just pray fast, before fertilization.
Germy
@debbie: She had a crisis when doctors stole her singing voice, but I think she’s in a better place now emotionally.
GoBlue72
@efgoldman: Panthers pissing all over the Falcon’s corpse.
Carolina looking to easily finish regular season 16-0.
p.a.
@efgoldman: Had a extra credit question in HS: Who was Ponsonby Britt. No one got it.
This info was originally told to me by Prof. Josiah S Carberry.
Corner Stone
@GoBlue72: Giants, Falcons, Bucs.
Not sure how they do not go undefeated unless Cam gets injured. Any bets on CAR sitting Cam the last game v Bucs? I say no.
max
On the one hand, Chicago is apparently bad, but not quite that bad. On the other hand, maybe mass suicide in Detroit IS an option.
max
[‘Thinking the Colts have packed it in for the year.’]
p.a.
@efgoldman: Good stuff. The last time I checked out a WB cartoon on a network the violence was edited out: you might hear the explosion but not see it, and the next scene would be Daffy with his bill on backwards & upside down, smoke rising from his head. Sad.
Int. Just waiting for 4pm game now.
p.a.
@Corner Stone: Not being in the area, can anyone in the Carolinas comment on whether PerfectSeason pr is ramping up as it did here in NE in 2007? Pro football is tough enough without that bs to deal with.
benw
Well, Chargers, that was a very Charger way to lose a game.
NeutronFlux
@benw: Credit to the Chargers for not giving up. That was a helluva drive. Had us on the edge of the seat here.
Mike J
Disappointing. Wilson held to a mere five TDs.
scav
Allez La France, or, at least, Allez Les Exit Polls.
Quandmême, pas assez net.
benw
@NeutronFlux: yeah, the Chargers haven’t quit all season even though they’re not, you know, good.
Johnny Coelacanth
You’re wrong to care about football.
? Martin
@benw: Well, you give up when you think next year’s team will be a winner and you can just stay healthy and wait. You keep fighting when you think next year’s team will suck and you’re trying to get the attention of another team.
Yutsano
@efgoldman: Side note: June Foray is still very much alive and still working.
redshirt
Seattle’s Rawls out for the rest of the season. So Wilson will have to keep throwing 4-5 TD’s per game, as he’s been doing the last month.
Heliopause
@redshirt:
Too bad about Rawls, he was having another amazing game, but the Seahawks probably won’t need a running game the next couple of weeks, and then the final game in Arizona will probably be meaningless, so Beast Mode can rest until the first playoff game.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman:
And WTS, both won as predicted, and both covered. So, meh to you, sir. Meh.
Bill Murray
you evidently can’t spell Denver without drop
redshirt
And now Denver loses too, giving New England a clear path if they can beat noted loser Cornerstone’s Houston Texans.
jeer9
Denver holds the Raiders to 126 yards of offense and lose. Pretty amazing.
And yeah, the drops were bad – but Osweiler and Gang are a NotReadyForPrimeTime group.
p.a.
@Bill Murray: I looked at the stats of the Oak/Den game and except for D’s 2 lost fumbles it’s like how the frak did they lose? Were both lost fumbles inside their own 20? I’ll have to actually watch the NBC pregame show now to see.
redshirt
So a New England win tonight gives them a huge advantage in Home Field.
Go Pats!
p.a.
Except for the win v the Pats Osweiler hasn’t got the Bronc’s O more than 17 pts a game. Still better than Paytoon; no to’s, but you have to take some pressure off your D.
max
What the fuck?
max
[‘This is the week Oakland delivers a functioning defense? Holy shit!’]
Suezboo
Wheee ! My Packers done did it again! Crushed those Texas punks into the ground. Oh, sorry, is that overly aggressive ? Pbfft ! Small victory dance ! Yeah !
Whut ? Oakland has a defense ? Damn, we get them next week.
What happens when they have played all the teams in this league and, please FSM, won it. What’s the next step to glory?