BILLS!!! JETS!!! ONLY ON CBS!!! -ILNFL Week 8 Thread

Indianapolis at Carolina - Carolina
Cleveland at St. Louis - Cleveland playoff run begins here, their cake schedule begins here. Romp.
NY Giants at Miami - Giants
Philadelphia at Minnesota - Philly. T. Jackson is the worst QB I've ever seen and I've seen every Browns QB play.
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati - Cinci
Detroit at Chicago - Chicago
Oakland at Tennessee - TN
Buffalo at NY Jets - Jets have the QB advantage but Bills have a better D. Bills.
Jacksonville at Tampa Bay - TB
Houston at San Diego - Chargers
New Orleans at San Francisco - NO
Washington at New England - if this game was in Wash I'd say it might be close, but since it's NE I'll go with the 'skins
Green Bay at Denver denver - Denver

THE LONG-AWAITED RETURN OF DUKE UMENYIORA TO HIS NATIVE ALBION

UMENYIORA IS MAD GANGSTA SON !!!!!

i think it's gonna wind up being a pats/giants superbowl this year.

the nfc is far from impressive.

I said that 8 weeks ago and cankles got all over my shit

NFC has been far from impressive since john elway got his rings though

on the other hand the AFC has the dolphins in it

where is the cankles we used to know?

Cowboys/Patriots rematch in the Super Bowl. This puts me in the position of rooting for the Patriots or building
an enormous crockpot and slow cooking myself to death on LOW for 8-10 hours.

although I may have to up the cooking time to 12 hours so that I'll miss the pregame show

you know historically ive always hated the cowboys - but ill admit to being pretty amused by the romo/to combo. and marion barber 3 is completely monsterous

Same here. That T.O. really cracks my funny bone.

yah i love romo the carefree gunslinger persona too

as well as romo the crying baby

yes where is Ade?

Marion Barber is badass and I wish he played for a different team.

WHERE MY MAN CANKEY GO @ ?

st. louis is by far the worst team in the nfl fwiw.

Cowboys/Patriots rematch in the Super Bowl.

dallas was lucky to get by minnesota, they've got to right their ship.

^^^this was my preseason pick but they've looked prety past few weeks. thing is, they'll probably coast to a first round bye + home game which should give them a pretty navigable road to the super bowl. i'll give eli another 2 years before i trust him in the playoffs.

they've looked pretty average past few weeks**

Indianapolis at Carolina INDAY
Cleveland at St. Louis CLEVELANG
NY Giants at Miami giants. GIANTESS
Philadelphia at Minnesota MIN
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati PIT
Detroit at Chicago CHI
Oakland at Tennessee TN
Buffalo at NY Jets BUFFALOS
Jacksonville at Tampa Bay TAMPA DO U C
Houston at San Diego SAN DIEGO IS ON FIRE WIN WILL BE DEDICATED TO PPLS WHO LOST HOMES ALL IS WELL
New Orleans at San Francisco NO
Washington at New England SAD TIMES IN WAS
Green Bay at Denver DENVER

(52-50 on thee season)

Guys, you think the Dolphins could win this weekend if they put in MEGATAYLOR?

http://deadspin.com/assets/resources/2007/10/jasontaylor.jpg

^^PLZ TO PUT ON EBAY

Buffalo is an enigmaz this year... two blowout losses on the road to good teams, but only four points shy of 4-2 after playing a slate of DEN, PIT, NE, LOLJETS, DAL and BAL. Not bad given that they're starting the 3rd-string D and have no quarterback throwing to a miniature WR1.

The question isn't so much how do these guys stay in games (let alone blow leads) as it is how does any other NFL team manage not to go 8-8.

^ Any other NFL team = any other team that is not Miami, obv.

marshawn is getting (righfully) overshadowed by peterson, but he's having a great year. dude's a fucking bruiser.

Week 9 lulz preview:

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/7164/belistophelesjf1.png

Belistopheles!

stealing signs = evil

fundie batshit homophobia = good

WHAAAAAAATEEEEVEEEEERRRRRRR

wheres that sweet jpg from tho?

espn page 2 today, header image for TMQ

fuck that anti-semite.

so, who's watching the new england game this week?

http://b2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00484/20/59/484769502_l.jpg

whoops, wrong link!

insert the link to the football maps site here.

awesome

much better!!

Redskins' receivers looking to snap scoreless streak By Adam Schefter

http://static.nfl.com/static/content//catch_all/nfl_image/Adam_Schefter_SH.jpg

evil will always triumph over good, because good is dumb

that was a holdover from the badass pizza thread on noizebored. this is me in my halloween costume for this year:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1075/1064279201_e42887ed39.jpg?v=0

i'm going as the best goddamn dog ever.

being awesome in a big ass back yard as usual

WAS has the top defense in the league according to DVOA (2nd in pass d, 4th in run d), and their secondary is HELLACIOUS. so this should be an interestin' matchup~~~

being awesome in a big ass back yard as usual

that dog is a fraud, the dog above (linus bucko jones) is the best goddamn dog ever. it's his birthday next week.

WAS has the top defense in the league according to DVOA (2nd in pass d, 4th in run d), and their secondary is HELLACIOUS. so this should be an interestin' matchup~~~

it still won't matter. pats will win by 14.

nyc i fucking hate living in youuuuu soooo much sometimes

http://the506.com/nflmaps/2007-08-FOX2.PNG

"I couldn't find London on a map if they didn't have the names of the countries. I swear to God. I don't know what nothing is. I know Italy looks like a boot. I learned that. I know London Fletcher. We did a football camp together. So I know him. That's the closest thing I know to London. He's black, so I'm sure he's not from London. I'm sure that's a coincidental name."

Channing Crowder - ambassador for the NFL to the wider world
http://www.thephinsider.com/story/2007/10/24/22552/399

ha!

One CBS game per week is not shown in HD so you'd think the hapless Jets /Toronto Bills game would be the odd man out but no, the playoff bound Browns are to be blacklisted this week.

nyc i fucking hate living in youuuuu soooo much sometimes

OTM, I'm skipping football this week i think.

I think my (irrational) Brady resentment goes back to when he won the job in the absence of Bledsoe. I've always liked Bledsoe, even if he was never more than a middle-of-the-pack qb. If he'd taken over for some other schlub, who knows what my opinion of Brady would be in 2007.

apropos of nothing, I love Deion Sanders and wish he would call games.

Yah! I was so disappointed when he left the CBS football desk and was replaced by marble-mouth Shannon Sharpe.

sometimes even I, with my high tolerance for douchiness, can't take NFL Gameday with all the pageantry and then all of a sudden Sanders gets serious and it's awesome.

i enjoyed the giants d article - but does anyone else think fo is the worstest site ever. like not just from a design nerd standpoint but from a more basic this site is unfucking usable or lookatable angle.

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:KlI_ANg5iBZEfM:http://www.olympus.net/personal/uvl/Tuco_01.JPG

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I've always liked Bledsoe, even if he was never more than a middle-of-the-pack qb.

Actually, he was a lot more than a middle-of-the-pack QB for most of his career, with a real-deal laser rocket arm and a gorgeous long ball.

He was also relatively immobile and susceptible to throwing dumb INTs when faced with a stiff rush up the middle. And this tendency did not go away as he grew older and even less mobile. And defenses grew wise to this. Is really all that happened. Give him protection and a downfield threat and he could torch you all day.

They even made Randy Moss a boring old team player.

this is exactly why they're awesome, it's like they're a secret society or something. you know randy is still randy.

Belichick's just put the fear of god in everyone. I saw an interview with Stallworth, I think? and the reporter was practically taunting him, trying to get him to get mad at the stuff people were saying about the Pats. and finally Stallworth was like, look, I don't want to end up on Belichick's list, so I'm not talking.

I've always liked Bledsoe, even if he was never more than a middle-of-the-pack qb.

hmmmmm, threw for over 4,000 yards 3 times (and 3,985 in 1999), four time pro-bowler, top 10 in the nfl in passing yards 7 times, top 10 in nfl in tds 7 times, number five in nfl history in pass attempts and pass completion, number 7 all time in the nfl in pass yards, number 13 all time in tds... not bad for a 14 year career where he was a part time player in two of them.

his second year with the pats (and esp. the 2nd half of that year after he learned how to play) he was ungodly. 400 completions on 691 (!) attempts (i'm not sure if marion butts was the running back that year or the year before) for 4,555 yards. everything changed for the franchise that year.

marble-mouth Shannon Sharpe.

^^makes me more uncomfortable then even bradshaw's lulz attempts.

heh-heh...butts.

there was a golden age of beastly backs: butts, rod bernstein, natrone means, the nigerian nightmare, barry word, barry foster, bam morris, ironhead...good times.

the last in that line was the bus i guess.

HEY IRONHEAD, WHAT'S WITH THAT THINGIE?

i heard ironhead's kid's name called on a college game i was watching this weekend, don't remember which one or what position he played but i'm guessing it was maybe the rutgers game (since i watched that one pretty much all the way through).

wikipedia tells me his son plays for ohio state. poor dead ironhead.

from bledsoe's wiki entry

At the age of 23, he became the youngest player in NFL history to surpass the 10,000-yard passing plateau when he connected with Ben Coates on a 6-yard completion just before the half vs. the Jets (12/10/95).

i was at that game, it got moved from a 1:00 to 4:00 start for nbc. the pats clinched their playoff spot with this game and sam gash blew out his knee. it went from really fucking cold to brutally fucking cold after the sun went down. it was so windy that we couldn't get our grill to light in the parking lot.

Belichick's just put the fear of god in everyone.

espn radio this morning - 'this team has just made all the nfl fans completely civil. because what are you going to say? they are just that good..' the guy kept going on and on. i just checked the schedule and yes, they are playing philadelphia

hmm, maybe i can get tickets to see them in b-more

If Belichick = 1972 Nixon, then I can't wait for 2009.

I'd completely forgotten all those things about Bledsoe. I retract my claim of him being middle-of-the-pack!

For MVP consideration, I want a player who is on a winning team that simply wouldn't be winning without that player on their team. LT is hurt by the presence of Gates, Dwight by the offensive Hall of Famers he's surrounded by on offense, Carson's got the Johnsons. Shaun's splitting MVP with Hass

But could Dallas be 6-3 without Drew Bledsoe? Highly unlikely. Considering how far he's come and his past and the fact that he has the highest QB rating in the league and the talent he's surrounded with and that dem Boys are number one in the division and I'm goin' with Bledsoe.
Guy needs a nickname. "Bedsore"?

-- Forksclovetofu

he had that one really good year in buffalo after he left NE. he's underrated. but his career is still a little disappointing, maybe.

if he was on a team with a superior line he could excel. if he'd been the qb of the bears last year it would have been interesting.

the bears would never do anything so wise as to bring in a proven starting qb

beldsoe had some lovely years w/parcells (pats ver) - but he's sooo cooked now - total sack and interception machine. which is not to say he cant be better than what the bears got.

I saw on the Jax game this sunday that Del Rio contacted Bledsoe after Garrard went down, but he declined to even come work out.

I know this is probably boo-worthy, but I'm pretty convinced that Deanna Favre is a tranny.

wow this new replay route arrow graphic is nice

there was an article about bledsoe in the sunday boston globe. i've got time, let me find it. may require registration. but worth it anyway since the globe sports page is one of if not the best in the country.

"its breast cancer awareness week. theres been a lot of... awareness."

OK, that Veronica Lake hair-over-the-eye look is pretty OK.

jay cutler is having a good time out there

have they showed the "this is football" commercial yet, for the love of god? I'm hanging on by a thread here.

am I supposed to care about Jay Cutler? I feel like the least he could do, if so, is be cuet.

Jay Cutler looks exactly like any number of dudes I knew growing up in Alabama, and they were all stupid.

whoa@jay cutler gis:

http://www.gabriellereillyweekly.com/gabrielle_reilly/fitness/fitness_health_diet_gabrielle_reilly/jay_cutler2.jpg

Weirdly enough, that looks like an unused idea for a Smiths album cover.

okay officially I hate the celebrity in the booth feature (except when it's Charles Barkeley <3 <3 <3) but Vince Vaughan seems sweet.

yow!

That was some pretty quick scrambling by special teams.

yow yow !!

Jennings, U MAD BRO!

that was pretty stylish.

just havin fun

Yay fun!

football is gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy

lol @ Greg Jennings on Brett Favre: "this dude is like 70 years old..."

I wuvved bledsoe.

he's underrated. but his career is still a little disappointing, maybe

gear hits the nail on the head