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Posted: November 29 2015 at 23:49

Brock Osweiller, a fellow Montanan! Glad to see him playing well!

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Posted: November 29 2015 at 23:08

WHAT A FU..ING GAME BY THE BRONCOS

Brock Osweiler will take Manning place, the guy is really good.

Sorry about Gronk.

Go Broncos

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Posted: November 29 2015 at 23:07

Why Gronk? One of the most dominant players of all time being cut down in his prime.

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Posted: November 29 2015 at 19:21

Yeah, as soon as I saw all the experts jumping on the giants bandwagon I knew they'd f**k it up. Oh well. With there ass defense and average offsense the gmen don't deserve the playoffs.

At least the Steelers lost. Though, somehow the Chargers won?!

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Posted: November 29 2015 at 19:20

I hate the Giants... how could you lose to us. We want the ..whatever they should be called to lose. We are on Snyder boycott here. Devalue that franchise so he'll sell it. Not to mention if the skins actually do win this sorry division our idiot owner might actually think we are good and not continue to tear down this trainwreck of a team.

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Posted: November 29 2015 at 19:13

Go Seahawks!!

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Posted: November 29 2015 at 15:59

Well, I said I was worried because this is exactly the type of situation the Giants blow...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand

Pathetic. f**kin pathetic.

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Posted: November 29 2015 at 02:39

Realistically, I was hoping for a winning season.

The Dallas injuries had me up my highest bar to sneaking into the playoffs, and as of now that looks very possible, with the Giants controlling their own destiny.

Just praying they don't f**k up this Washington game.

Yeah it'll be nice when Brady and Belichick are gone!

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Posted: November 27 2015 at 22:48

Cowboys losing is always a wonderful treat.

Not invested in this season at all. That's what happens sometimes when you're a lifelong Houston Oilers fan that got dragged along to Tennessee who still clings onto the ghosts of the past. Then again, as an Oilers fan, I appreciate the chaos they are always trying to control. Big smile

It can amount to some pretty entertaining football at times.

But I am looking forward to the Panthers playing a team that's actually good. They'll be toast at that point, crumble city. People will flip out.
I also hope this is the last season we see Brady and Belichick on the field. I'm really tired of sameness, how boring.

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Posted: November 27 2015 at 22:33

This Thanksgiving I was very very thankful.

Eagles and Cowboys both lost Smile

Dallas was toast even before Romo got hurt.

All the Giants need to do is beat Washington (Im actually nervous...an "easy" game, Giants could be in a good position...this is when they tend to f**k it up LOL

) and they will be up 2 games in the division, and have a pretty path ahead with Dallas now clearly done, and Philly looking worse and worse.

Speaking of being thankful, I am beyond thankful for Chip Kelly. For taking a good time on the upswing, blowing it up to try and recreate Oregon and failing. But really though, I wonder if he's done already.

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Posted: November 16 2015 at 23:08

Lol Cincy...you ass.

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Posted: November 16 2015 at 22:50

rushfan4 wrote:

JJLehto wrote:

Well I know Lions fans are forbidden by law to express anything other than misery and depression LOL

but what actually happened Scott? I'm guessing from PFF (I can only get the very brief "highlights" analysis for free) that the Lions secondary really shutdown the Packers. Which is quite an unexpected performance.

Apparently, the Lions got away with a number of pass interference calls. I happened to turn it on with about 5 minutes left and the Lions leading 12 to 3. From that point out it was just the same ol' Lions. Packers marched down the field to make it 12 to 10. The Lions surprisingly marched down the field and scored to make it 18 to 10. The extra point would have clinched it, but instead Prater missed his 2nd extra point of the game. Packers marched down field and scored a touchdown to make it 18 to 16. On the two point conversion, Rodgers hit his receiver with the pass and the Lions' defensive back, who had just been signed to the roster on Friday and apparently didn't understand that he was supposed to let the Packer catch the ball, knocked the ball out of his hands. 32 seconds left game over. Right? Wrong! Onside kick bounces to all people, Calvin Johnson, who proceeds to toss it over his shoulder and on to the ground. Packers ball at midfield with 1/2 minute to play. Leads to a 52-yard field goal attempt for the win. Lo and behold, the kicker went off script, and mis-kicked the ball and it only went about 40 yards.

I had to listen to the last two minutes of the game on the radio as I drove to work, and it was the most stressful thing I've had to listen to. My range of emotions went from pure joy and excitement to feeling completely drained and depressed right before the botched Crosby field goal, back to joy and excitement once they yelled that he missed it and that no flags were thrown. It was great in the end, but it sucked to have to go through that to be able to cheer something that hasn't happened since 1991.

And the other thing, I love how everyone is talking more about how bad the Packers are playing as opposed to how well the Lions actually played overall, barring the last two minutes. Give them credit!

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Posted: November 16 2015 at 14:12

Kinda shocking to me how well the Steelers defense has been, the run D in particular. I fully expected them to be and hoped they would be a dumpster fire.

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Posted: November 16 2015 at 14:05

Lot of crazy games yesterday, Packers and Lions. That field goal looked like a knuckle ball, strange. Pats and Giants was another, the Giants do seem to know how to play them well and Eli was on fire for most of it and then they shoot themselves in the foot. Never understood their clock management (or lack of) at the end. Dallas blows another one, the Ravens give one away too.

Steelers are hanging on and appear to be in somewhat descent shape. Ben comes off the bench to get a win as our 2nd backup got hurt and Vick is still out it seems. Good time for the bye week up next.

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Posted: November 16 2015 at 12:25

JJLehto wrote:

Well I know Lions fans are forbidden by law to express anything other than misery and depression LOL

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Posted: November 16 2015 at 12:04

Well I know Lions fans are forbidden by law to express anything other than misery and depression LOL

Equality 7-2521 wrote:

I'm too depressed to talk about the Eagles, but I want to complain about a semi-political thing.

It was great that the NFL did a moment of silence for the victims of the Paris attacks. But several of these moments of silence were done with gigantic American flags occupying the entirety of the field. Can we at least tone down the rampant USA worship of the NFL when we're paying respect to those from another country? Seems like a time where we shouldn't be drawing nation boundaries.

Being one of the extremely few threads untainted with politics, I wont go tooooo into but I will say I had a similar feeling. Being at the game I was a little...uncomfortable with it.

On a semi related note, at the Giants game someone yelled "ISIS SUCKS" during the moment of silence, which not only defeats the intent of a moment of silence...couldn't help but feel it was a bit of a cliche American response, in the bad way.

Yeah yeah I know Snow Pat LOL

Just ugh...it was, more or less, our Super Bowl, (even beating Dallas which was great wouldn't have had the same feel especially with them being so inept without Romo) so it almost felt like a SB loss, but oh well. I just hope they actually use this to their advantage, easy schedule remaining overall, making the playoffs would be a huge boost.

Oh, JPP had some good pressure and a sack that was negated by a roughing the passer call, hate to be this guy but I didn't see how (the Pats fan behind me even said "We all know you're not allowed to sack Brady!" which got him largely fingered ha that's just too far a line to joke about) but still a good sign, and there was more pressure that game than I've seen all year. With an opportunistic defense, praying maybe they can turn the ship around a bit.

Well, I don't think it's paying Wilson too much per se (though I do think the $ concentration on QBs while understandable does hurt many teams) but it seems the legion of boom was greater than the sum of its parts, just a special unit that was built and with some of them moved on, seems Sherman and co weren't quite the elite level we thought.

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Posted: November 16 2015 at 11:07

JJLehto wrote:

I said I wanted a close, good game against the Pats...because I never actually expected that LOL

Now that it happened, it just hurts. So damn close. Hold on one second longer and ODB has that TD, or Collins holds on to that almost interception, either and game over.

So many missed opportunities.

Now imagine this was the Super Bowl and you know how I feel. LOL

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Posted: November 16 2015 at 09:32

I'm too depressed to talk about the Eagles, but I want to complain about a semi-political thing.

It was great that the NFL did a moment of silence for the victims of the Paris attacks. But several of these moments of silence were done with gigantic American flags occupying the entirety of the field. Can we at least tone down the rampant USA worship of the NFL when we're paying respect to those from another country? Seems like a time where we shouldn't be drawing nation boundaries.

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Posted: November 16 2015 at 06:10

JJLehto wrote:

Well, that was also a good defensive play, but I'm not excuse making or anything. Quite the opposite, and there were still some glaringly huge holes like our safety that not only missed a tackle on Gronk, but in the process wiped out another Giant eliminating any hope of a tackle being made LOL

and yet again a heinous penalty that killed us, and a general failure to capitalize when it was there. The huge return (that wasnt a TD only because a Pat took accidentally took out his own returner) killed any momentum and emotion, and cushion. Very frustrating game.

Arizona is the real deal. Seattle is on a bit of a decline, but beyond that..Palmer is on fire, defense damn good. Really liking them

EDIT: By the way...what the hell happened with Detroit/Green Bay??

Detroit tried everything they could to be the same ol' Lions and grab defeat from the jaws of victory but the Packers decided not to finish the job.

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Posted: November 15 2015 at 21:44

I've come to the conclusion that my Seahawks aren't that good this year & unsurprisingly we paid Wilson too much but didn't have an option. Repeatable excellence is elusive and only the Pats seem to have the formula.

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