Hey doody, the Panthers suck.
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I totally agree with you about Steve Smith. However, that tends to be the case with all receivers these days. He is actually a great guy outside of football. He helps coach the soccer team that a lot of our friends' kids play on, and his wife (Angie) is very nice as well. We corresponded with her for a bit after they had their first child, and they both seem to be genuinely nice people. He's just an @$$hole at work, I guess. I can relate to that
The Giants and Coughlin are on one quarter away from a total meltdown.
The Eagles make the Giants look emotionally stable.
The Panthers' defense, while good, is still very (VERY) overrated, and has been since 2005.
The Cardinals' defense, while bad, seems to have figured a thing or two out in stopping the run. Plus, they've gotten a little traction in their own run game. They also feature one of the two quarterbacks left in the NFC to win a Super Bowl. They are not to be counted out.
Prediction: Giants over Cardinals (WTF!!???). As long as they don't let Burress travel with the team.
Now, on to the AFC:
The Titans have gone from looking invincible to looking very fragile.
The Steelers have looked impressive against the formidable AFC North. They also feature a quarterback who has been here before and knows how to distribute the ball fairly (i.e. to both teams) in big games.
The Chargers have looked good lately, and they are much better than their record would indicate.
The Ravens are very strong on both sides of the ball, but they feature a very talented rookie quarterback in Joe Flacco. Rookie quarterbacks don't win championships. Period. Ask Big Ben.
Prediction: Steelers over Ravens
Congratulations, Luko. Looks like the Steelers just won the Super Bowl over the Giants.
If the Panthers can figure out the defense this weekend (they get their starting tackles back, which has been a major gap for us lately), we could very well blow out the Cards. If that happens, I put the Panthers in the Super Bowl against the Steelers. Sorry Luko, but the Panthers win that one. Polamalu, Schmolamalu. Big Ben, meet Juilus Peppers.
The Eagles and Chargers absolutely suck it, especially the Chargers. Do you know the last time a team won a division with an 8-8 record? 1943. That's before football was even invented. The Eagles were horrendous pretty much all year (except for when they demolished the Steelers) and lucked their way in cause Romo is the biggest choke artist of the decade. The Cardinals were the hot pick early, but they limped into the playoffs like doody during his xmas party. Despite his luck last year, Eli Manning is only the third best quarterback in his family, the run game breaks down and they go nowhere fast.
The Panthers?? Quietly pretty good all year. But Jake The Man is their quarterback. You only go so far with Jake. The Ravens - pretty good D, offense doesn't stink. All and all, pretty uninspiring. Titans kicked butt all year and played a couple of down games...dunno, but I wouldn't count them out.
The Steelers - I have to admit...they're defense can keep them in and potentially win them any game. Their offense could lose any game for them. Ugh.
If my team has the ball with less than 3 minutes to play, and the score is either tied, or we are within one score, Jake Delhomme would be my second choice among all active NFL quarterbacks to lead my team on the next drive (Tom Brady is the first)
Jake doesn't put up flashy numbers, and for the first 3 quarters, he is a moderately serviceable average QB. But nobody wins games like Jake. This is especially true in big games. When the Giants tied the game with about 2:30 to play, my first reaction was dismay. This was quickly followed with the statement, "That's OK. We're going to win. This is Jake's time. I'm not even worried. He'll get us within field goal range, and Kasay will boot us home." Of course, Kasay missed the 50-yarder for only his second miss of the season, and we lost. Jake also engineered the drive to beat the Pats in the Super Bowl, but a muffed kickoff by Kasay and a lousy defensive stand against the NFL's best QB sealed our fate. If/when the Panthers lose, it will be on the shoulders of their defense (except the LBs), not Jake.
Interestingly, there is a new kid in town who, in my opinion, will eclipse both Brady and Delhomme in this regard. I think Matt Ryan will prove to be the ultimate gamer of his generation.
I know it sounds laughable to people who are only familiar with Jake's stats. But trust me. In the most important situations, almost nobody performs at his level.
As far as this being a "pukey year".... I dunno.. The NFL returns an incredibly large percentage of its starters from year-to-year. Seems to me it's mostly the same guys playing this year as were playing last year. Better parity doesn't necessarily mean that the product is of a lower quality.
From MSN...
The game-winning drive must be a fourth-quarter drive that either wins the game or ties it for an ultimate victory. It's not an official NFL stat, but unofficially Elway has the most at 47 and that's never been disputed.
It may never be approached either, but there's one fellow who is off to a good start. He, too, wears No. 7, mainly because he loved John Elway. Ben Roethlisberger, the quarterback fastest to win 50 NFL games, has 18 winning touc hdown drives (including one in the playoffs), five of them this season.
Elway's rate of GWTDs during his 16-year career was 2.9 per season. Roethlisberger, with at least three games left in this season, has a rate of 3.6.
The Chargers are one of the most talented teams in the NFL but as long as Norv Turner is at the helm they're destined for mediocrity. Making the playoffs is one of the worst things that could have happened to the Chargers, it means at least one more year of Smith and Turner. One more year of watching one of the greatest NFL RBs not getting any closer to that ring that he deserves.
2 min drill, I'm going Brady, Manning, Ben in that order. After that, I can't rank them beyond saying I'd want Brees, Rivers, Delhomme, maybe Eli, McNabb, I dunno? Shoot, I might want to go with Rodgers or Matt Ryan.
On a positive note, Eli went out and proved my point. When it came down to it and they needed him to dig deep and go down and score, he chokes.
LOL yea he did. The Steelers all the way!
I really have no clue as to what the heck we are doing next season, we got LT injured, hopefully not bad, Merriman's back but is he going to be as effective as he was last season? Most likely not. Frankly, as long as Sproles gets more playing time as a back, I'm happy.
As for the teams left, I'm rooting for anyone who isn't in an Eagles uniform.