NFL 2012 Week 7 "Why am I here? Oh yeah, 90 million dollars."

Seattle @ San Francisco
Baltimore @ Houston
Green Bay @ St. Louis
New Orleans @ Tampa Bay
Dallas @ Carolina
Arizona @ Minnesota
Tennessee @ Buffalo
Washington @ NY Giants
Cleveland @ Indianapolis
Jacksonville @ Oakland
NY Jets @ New England
Pittsburgh @ Cincinnati
Detroit @ Chicago

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hou
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minn
buff
nyg
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Seattle Houston
Green Bay
New Orleans
Dallas
Arizona
Buffalo
Washington
Indianapolis
Oakland (ugh what a terrible game)
New England
Cincinnati
Chicago

Jacksonville @ Oakland
NY Jets @ New England

^the only 4 o'clock games btw

i wonder who will be a starting QB first: foles or tebow

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/10/paul_ryan_visits_cleveland_bro.html

Paul Ryan visits Cleveland Browns practice, mistakes Colt McCoy for Brandon Weeden

Jacksonville @ Oakland
NY Jets @ New England

^the only 4 o'clock games btw

Good god, it's almost enough to make me want to watch baseball or soccer.

Then again, no.

NY Jets @ New England

TEE-BOW! TEE-BOW!TEE-BOW! TEE-BOW!TEE-BOW! TEE-BOW!TEE-BOW! TEE-BOW!TEE-BOW! TEE-BOW!TEE-BOW! TEE-BOW!TEE-BOW! TEE-BOW!TEE-BOW! TEE-BOW!TEE-BOW! TEE-BOW!TEE-BOW! TEE-BOW!TEE-BOW! TEE-BOW!

Weak Ass 6-8 last week, for the year a dull 49-42. There really isn't anyone that's great this season as all of the teams sans ATL have gotten beat by someone and some of those losses are pretty stinky (I'm looking at you this week Houston).

Seattle @ San Francisco- I'm gonna go Niners, but they definitely looked off on offense last week. Seattle proved me wrong coming back on NE, but the Niners defense is way more than the Pats has been in years.
Baltimore @ Houston- Bmore is a shell at this point. Never know, some were saying a week before Lewis got hurt he was being exploited in the run game in one thing I saw. Don't watch them, so I don't know. Houston should bounce back and win this one, but anytime someone drops that much offense, you look stupid. Good news is that Joe Flacco is not Aaron Rogers. Go Houston.
Green Bay @ St. Louis- I got to Packers, but the Rams defense might keep it close for a while.
New Orleans @ Tampa Bay- This might be a decent game. I'm going to go Saints, but I would believe it being close.
Dallas @ Carolina- I'm going to take Dallas on this one in a shootout coming off the bye.
Arizona @ Minnesota- Will the real team please stand up? I guess Vikings, but I have no idea.
Tennessee @ Buffalo- Will the real team please stand up II? Bills can score big, but man their defense gives up points by the bucket load. I'm going Titans as they got Hasselbeck in there and Johnson seems to be running again.
Washington @ NY Giants- I guess Giants, as they looked good last week, but I figure its close.
Cleveland @ Indianapolis- Indy let me down last week, but I did call Cleveland's win. Gimmy Indy in a close game, but that's because I'm kind of a homer.
Jacksonville @ Oakland- Who the heck wants to watch this game? I guess Raiders.
NY Jets @ New England- Pats should win.
Pittsburgh @ Cincinnati- Cincy laying eggs around is kind of sad, as the Steelers and Ravens are weak sauce this year. Bengals need the win and I'll take 'em but it's more on hope than anything, as they just have problems historically with Pittsburgh.
Detroit @ Chicago- I'm going Bears but I figure this is a game.

alex smith throwing a lot of uncatchable shit

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/tebow-could-step-rb-short-165804596--nfl.html

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) -- Tim Tebow might add a new job title to an already-lengthy list.

The do-it-all backup quarterback could see time at running back in the New York Jets' banged-up backfield Sunday against the New England Patriots on Sunday.

''That's a possibility,'' coach Rex Ryan said Thursday. ''The thing about Tim - with him being a football player like we've always talked about - by playing quarterback, he knows all the positions. So, can you plug him in at running back? Can you plug him in at tight end or whatever?

''I think the answer is yes.''

The Jets are a bit short-handed at the position with backups Joe McKnight (sprained left ankle) and Bilal Powell (separated right shoulder) likely out for the game - although McKnight insisted, ''It's for first place, I'm in there.'' That leaves only starter Shonn Greene and rookie Jonathan Grimes, who has yet to play, as the team's only completely healthy running backs. Lex Hilliard is the remaining fullback after the Jets waived John Conner on Wednesday.

Offensive coordinator Tony Sparano echoed Ryan's comments on Tebow, and was just as vague.

''There's a possibility,'' he said. ''There's a possibility for a lot of things. We'll see.''

But could Tebow actually make a good running back?

''I think Tim Tebow could be good at whatever he wants to be good at,'' Sparano said.

uh tony...

9ers fans getting antsy

spread in this one was 7.5 fwiw

They definitely know their business.

chargers PR staff tells their fans to take a chill pill:

http://www.chargers.com/news/article-1/Take-a-Chill-Pill/2ac2453b-53de-4bc5-a5de-6de3bd0c1c74

San Francisco
Baltimore
St. Louis
Tampa Bay
Dallas
Minnesota
Buffalo
Washington
Cleveland
Oakland
New England
Pittsburgh
Chicago

great pink background

classic dbag style
http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/8533017/new-york-jets-contact-nfl-new-england-patriots-hurry-up

http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/7/176/full/1041.gif

most welcome throwbacks

RGIII still has that pink sleeve on today <3

city paper renamed our team. 'histrionic revolutionary peoples' wasn't on the ballot but i accept the outcome of this election

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2012/10/18/hail-to-the-pigskins/

GO PIGSKINS BEAT GIANTS

that's really not actually bad

definitely a smart idea for flacco to hold the ball at his own goal line

it really looked like he had no idea where on the field he was

hey look, chris johnson

oh no fred davis is hurt oh no

wonder if this means cooooooooley gets a call soon

wonder if they play melo at the 4

whoops

i am pleased for houston but i reflexively do not enjoying watching wade phillips celebrate

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TOUCHDOWN WASHINGTON PIGSKINS

i don't understand how new orleans is about to go 2 scores up in that game

omg how are the bills winning? why are they doing this to me?

close up of giants rb coach tearing bradshaw a new one was superb

risky 4th and 3 there pigskins but they make it!

omg this skins/giants game has gotten absurd

wow, aaron rodgers to randall cobb

arodg throw 2 cobb there was beautiful

eli back in classic mode

skins go for it (successfully) on 4th down twice in a drive
RGIII loses the football
eli throws it right back on the next play

giants will win this game 23-20

rodgers has kind of gone nuclear in these last two weeks

poor browns :-[

oh horrible drop

oh wow the redskins really fell for that screen huh

oh man that 4th down play

RGIII RGIII RGIII

omg robert griffin

amazing

sick td rg3!

OMG

fuck

killing it

you guys

that was an incredible pass

ooft

aw skins

are you kidding me

sigh

oh fucks' sake

SALSAAAA

okay RGIII just throw it to moss again right

right

there was no way washington could have guessed that eli would go for cruz deep

Refs handing this game to the cowboys, pretty gross

I got to this game late, has the whole thing been like this? Because lol bananas

btw I think it's safe to say now that Eli is better than Peyton right

god, i love victor cruz

bills losing on a fitz interception again. totally inexcusable at that stage in the game too.

god, buffalo

oh, santana

live by the moss, die by the moss

i could really do without pats/jets today

great play josh freeman

oh nm

poor creamsicles, so close

I was gonna say

okay pats i know the secondary is a mess today but you can't let TEBOW run on you ffs

mccourty?!!!! holy sh!t

worst kick return team in the league vs best return defense fyi

Now if only McCourty could make some defensive plays too...

they've got him playing safety today since chung is hurt

idk otherwise - bedard @ boston globe wrote a long piece a week or two ago about pats issues in the secondary w/strong implication that coaching is a far bigger issue than personnel

happy pat patriot throwback day ilnfl

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:D

'sa beauty

GRONK

laron landry is such a choad

How many times will Phil say "size is a talent" today?

nice uni's on the pats

GAME WINNING BROWNS TOUCHDOWN DROPPED

calgon, take me away

This week is a good example why buying any cable/satillite NFL TV package is a waste of time.

Your 4pm choices for games are just Jets/NE and Oaktown/J-ville. Yea haw...what a choice, yet they had 8 games at 1pm.

Dumb.

lol @ J E T S

OMG WILFORK

that's pretty funny

safety, jesus

wilfork wanted that ball, y'all

vince is the best

some bonus jp losman footage

wow sanchez is just terrible

terrible pass by sanchez

lo

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nice, sanchez

Oh dear

wow hernandez

wtf at that? weird

why didn't brady throw that?

really impressive win for the Texans today, but Cris Collinsworth wasn't there so it has an asterisk

I could never be a Jets fan. They pretty much push NE's defense around running the ball up the gut the whole way down the field then they got a 3rd and 1 on the 3 yard line and go into a shotgun and try to run slants.

I don't get it.

Beyond that, that's the exact situation you brought in the bowling ball QB Tebow to play. That guy was a monster at Florida running that exact play. He might suck at any other part of playing QB, but in a short yardage set, the guy's pretty good.

wow nice throw brady

why has NE thrown a challenge there when all turnovers are automatically reviewed this year? refs seem to be erring in the favour of the turnover call this season because they have that review safety net

exact same goalline throw as last week, hernandez misses the high throw this time

there u go, keep it simple folks

pats offense switches off when they've had the lead this year

spikes, man
boom

where is your pass rush new england

jets are sometimes keeping 7 in to pass block. but still making plays.

sanchez in the zone that drive

i honestly don't think he was trying to throw that to keller

um pats i've seen this happen EVERY WEEK

stephen hill everybody

that's fucking terrible

didn't look like it took much to knock it out

dolphins are gonna win the AFC east

haha sanchize

wow that was almost the worst possible play on that jets

phew!

triplette really brought the funk w/ that overtime rules explanation

it was like someone told him the rules for the first time right before the game started

official FURIOUS that the other official didn't give PI

brady's throws to the outside have been poor

oh right forgot about the new rules! i should've listened to the ref

Amazed that goskowski made it

seems harsh

the ol' run out at the 15 return

secondary penalties man. omfgg

woah

BOOM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

yeah wait for review ppl

that's got it

i think that was actually the best possible ending

buh bye

ahahaha don't even try it with the tuck rule that would be the best

he wasn't tucking tho

obviously not tuck rule, arm never moving forward

That was a great ending

wow, raiders made hard work of it vs henne w/out mjd??

the raiders are so, so bad

patriots valiantly trying to find new ways to lose outclassed by jets

Vontaze Burfict working out for the Bengals is so great

that is quite a name

yeah let's give him more than 5 games

5 games for an undrafted guy is pretty good!

fuck the steelers

scummiest team in the league by a country mile

Are Mike Wallace's hands anti-magnetically repelling the ball tonight? Jeezus.

the Titans are 3-4 with a point differential of -89!

"scummiest team in the league by a country mile"

Yeah that fake injury the Steelers did to avoid using a time out was really classy tonight.

I am not gonna lie, the fake injury made me laugh out loud

I was like, is this a football game or a basketball game?

http://i.imgur.com/HBJWc.png

loool

really, the top 4 comments here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir2IXt9PVPc

The asshole Giants pulled that shit last year against San Fran in the playoffs. Their Super Bowl should have an asterisk.

you mad, doggie?

Marty Hurney fired. hopefully this doesn't mean the panthers hire someone competent

you mad, doggie?

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Monday, October 22, 2012 10:42 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

asterisk city. san fran was the better team.

and the giants with their fucking whiny-bitch grandpa of a coach playing like pussies and faking injuries to get the clock stopped both in that game and the GB game suck

ahaha

otm

*[i didn't like it]

@SportsCenter: Romeo Crennel names Brady Quinn the @kcchiefs starting quarterback, replacing Matt Cassel.

Wheeeeee

and scott pioli still somehow has a job

Well at least for a few more weeks. I got a feeling KC is settin up to have a barn burning at the end of the season and start from scratch.

wonder which staffer has to go tell pres. obama to turn off the bears game now

smh lions

lol @ texans lineman "i've eaten burritos bigger than you"

the lions are so bad

they need a complete overhaul of their offensive personnel outside of stafford and megatron IMO

wtf happened to them in the off season exactly? They were a trendy pick to go deep in the playoffs.

their defense is just average and i think offenses have figured out how to stop an offense that can only move the ball by throwing it to one receiver

they can legitimately barely complete a pass tonight

here is detroit's W-L chart since the beginning of last year, including tonight

W-W-W-W-W-L-L-W-L-W-L-L-W-W-W-L-L-W-L-L-L-W-L

they were essentially good for 1/3 of the season last year, and have been shit since then

the lions have kind of dominated this game!

this shouldn't be that complicated, you have a good QB and the best WR, get it in the fucking end zone

I literally got flushed with embarrassment for the lions organization when they fumbled at the 1

this shouldn't be that complicated, you have a good QB and the best WR, get it in the fucking end zone

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, October 22, 2012 11:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

actually this kind of makes it a bit complicated

especially against a good defense

wtf happened to them in the off season exactly? They were a trendy pick to go deep in the playoffs.

they benefitted from more than a few 4th quarter collapses and really have just the one offensive weapon. imo they were really like an 8-8 team that got some lucky breaks. this year, Stafford looks noticeably worse, outside of the 4th quarter obv

Haven't looked at Lions, but being as bad as they were, they might looked a bit better from strength of schedule last year. They made the playoffs this year, so I am sure the schedule is a notch better. Y

You also got to remember when they went 6-0 was after all teams started with about no training camp, the offensive stats were totally wacko during that time too. Teams defenses got better and are better somewhat this year and I think people go their book. They really can't run the ball, so you double team Johnson, rush the passer and say to Stafford to beat you with their other dudes.

Never know, you might look back at Stafford throwing for 5k yards like people do looking at Scott Mitchell for 4k yards. It happened, but the dude wasn't Tom Brady.

Their defense also gives up a ton of points and Suh has turned out to not be the second coming of Reggie White like some thought he might be after his rookie season.

Considering that plus the fact that the Lions A) do not really have a running game and B) seemed to always be down by 10+ points, Stafford's 5k isn't really all that impressive. Brees has a shot at 5k this year too under similar circumstances.

To be honest I'm not sure I really believe this "team of the future" narrative for Detroit; they seem to be more than just a few pieces away and the more I watch them the more I realize that Stafford to Megatron is really all they have right now. In my opinion it's more likely that they peaked last year!

the Lions are fucked....at 2-5...the Packers are 4-3, Vikings and Bears at 5-2

not saying they won't win more games, but the math really sucks when you're chasing not one but THREE teams...

basically you're banking on the hope that you play near perfect ball from here on out and three separate teams have meltdowns

Lions are 2-4. Bears are 5-1. Anyway both the Bears and the Pack are likely to finish around 10-11 wins right now (who knows about the Vikings, really), which means the Lions can afford to drop one more game, maybe two tops. Both their wins were 4th quarter comebacks; certainly that's something they had in 2011, but they haven't had a blowout victory yet (something the 2011 team was capable of). The Titans game could have been, but they gave up FIVE scoring plays of 60+ yards and lost. Safe to say a wildcard is their only hope but the field may be too crowded even for that, given how the NFC West has been lately.

You think the Bears are going to finish 5-5 or 6-4? I'd say 12 wins minimum, no surprise if they win 13-14. This is an all time great defense, up there with the Bucs or Ravens from 10 years ago. They'll win it all if Cutler doesn't screw up.

they'll be tested when they play Houston then go on the road to San Fran. 6-4 is entirely likely though I would agree now that I'm seeing their schedule, I had thought their game vs. Seattle was on the road. That said their victory over Detroit wasn't as commanding as it should have been; their offense went completely dead. The "if Cutler doesn't screw up" bit is what would worry me if I were a Bear fan. Not that he'll punt a game (I still believe he's a top 10 QB) but that he'll get hurt behind that weak OL he's got, again.

Packers are going to be interesting too. Their only real tough games left are @CHI and @NYG (I suppose @DET could be tough too). Their five home games all seem very winnable. I would imagine they could end up 11-5 as well. Realistically it seems as though the replacement refs may have cost them a shot at the division title.

The Bears defense didn't look that great vs. Detroit. Urlacher's washed up.

yeah urlacher prob shouldn't be playing... if they can stay healthy they're gonna get a bye tho

i don't think it's an all-time defense... it's hard to keep up that rate of turnovers. but def one of the best two or three in the NFL and their offense is seriously upgraded from the last few years

all I want is another Packers/Bears NFC championship