NFL '09/'10 Season Thread
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Big Poppa Pump
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The Patriots are a LOCK for the Super Bowl!.....Brady, Bellichick and Moss have been laying in the weeds for a while now, now they step on the pedal!
Pats v. Eagles looks awful good every week. If the Pats get by the Chargers, they are golden. :thumbsup:
Alex, you're a legend! I see the Pats winning it too!
I sort of feel the same way. There just aren't too many people out there that have an ability to underachieve and do less with more than Norv does.
I didn't like the decision either. For one, there just isn't a lot of evidence that it even helps teams. Two, if they were going to do that why even start them in the first place? Why even pretend they’re trying to win? Third, the chance of Peyton Manning, who has never missed any time, is good about avoiding injury, and is second only behind Favre in consecutive games played at his position getting injured by playing an extra 20 minutes is a pretty small gamble considering you have a chance to make history. The forth and maybe the most important thing I have against it is that it hurts the integrity of the game. It's in almost all competitive people to try to win, and it sucks as a player or a fan when you have to sit and watch as your team does worse than it can do. Even beyond that it has to suck for teams like the Titans and Texans that had to play a good Indianapolis team and loose to them and have their playoff chances significantly hurt while the Jets got a gift wrapped victory just because of the time they faced them on the schedule and because Indianapolis choose to play worse than they could have against them.
Lets put it another way. If a team is having a really lousy year and is close to other teams at the bottom for the worst record in the league with only a few games to go is it all right for that team to put in it's backups when it will probably loose, and knows it will cause them an almost assured lost so it can get the number one draft position? I don't see most people going for that. I don't really see that is too much different than what happened above. They're intentionally putting themselves in a worse position where they're probably going to loose for a perceived future benefit. Heck it might even be more justified, as bad as it is, if you consider a top draft position as being more easy to prove to give you a real advantage than resting some starters. Yet if a team did that there would be an uproar, and maybe even a call for investigations or some rule changes.
Chris Johnson > Ray Rice > Adrian Peterson
I agree.
jasonk282
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True... and I noticed, but I would never right them off. If any team can defeat the two teams you listed from this past decade it would be the Patriots.
Just like my Raiders. In the last 4 weeks we won @ Pittsburgh, lost to Washington at home, won @ Denver, lost @ Cleveland. We also beat Philly and Cincy but lost to KC earlier in the season.
Peterson may have let Farve down in overtime but, Farve fumbled in the first half & the placekicker had his extra point blocked. Can't blame it all on Peterson.
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Um no at least my team is the defending champs and suppose to be good this season not average.
Yes you can. he fumbled like he always does, and his team lost. If he does not fumble the Vikings go on to win the game.
It isn't all Peterson's fault, but he really hast to get that fumbling crap under control. It has gone beyond the point of being ridiculous.
I feel sorry for Indy fans. Caldwell has pretty much become the modern day version of Ara Parseghian. To try and not win in such a gutless way for a sad perceived advantage when history is on the line violates pretty much the whole spirit of sports and competition since humans have engaged in it.
I don't have anything against the Indy players. I've had a grudging respect for the organization for a while now. They usually make good decisions and the amount of wins they have the last decade speaks for itself. Manning could probably make an augment between himself and maybe only Jim Brown as the best players ever, but after the organization pulled something like that I'm pretty much honor bound to route for them to loose for the rest of my life (similar to the way that's one of the reasons I will route for Notre Dame to loose for the rest of my life) unless they do something drastic to redeem themselves in the spirit and integrity of what's sports are about.
I feel sorry for Indy fans. Caldwell has pretty much become the modern day version of Ara Parseghian. To try and not win in such a gutless way for a sad perceived advantage when history is on the line violates pretty much the whole spirit of sports and competition since humans have engaged in it.
I don't have anything against the Indy players. I've had a grudging respect for the organization for a while now. They usually make good decisions and the amount of wins they have the last decade speaks for itself. Manning could probably make an augment between himself and maybe only Jim Brown as the best players ever, but after the organization pulled something like that I'm pretty much honor bound to route for them to loose for the rest of my life (similar to the way that's one of the reasons I will route for Notre Dame to loose for the rest of my life) unless they do something drastic to redeem themselves in the spirit and integrity of what's sports are about.
Big Poppa Pump
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What has happened to the Colts and the Saints. A few weeks ago both were invincible but now they both are struggling against Bills and Panthers respectively.
Skyraider22
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Yeah i have the NFL Redzone Live I saw it but I can't see the game just the highlights:thumbsup:
They've sat a bunch of starters, which is stupid because just watch they'll get knocked out in the first round of the playoffs due to it.
Big Poppa Pump
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Yeah, I have faith in neither team to make super bowl. I think the way Cowboys keep improving they might surprise this year.
