mike singletary is not going to take your BULLshit: WEEK 9!!!!! ZOMG!!

NYJ @ BUF buffalo
DET @ CHI chicago
JAC @ CIN rip cincinatti
BAL @ CLE b'more
TB @ KC kc
HOU @ MIN minnesota
ARI @ STL arizona
GB @ TEN gb!!
MIA @ DEN denver
DAL @ NYG giants
ATL @ OAK atlanta
PHI @ SEA philly
NE @ IND yeeesh. ne
PIT @ WAS pittsburgh?

NYJ @ BUF b.u.f.f.a.l.o.
DET @ CHI chi town
JAC @ CIN j ville
BAL @ CLE cleve land
TB @ KC tampa
HOU @ MIN texas
ARI @ STL ar-i zon-a super cardinals!
GB @ TEN !PACK!
MIA @ DEN port of miami
DAL @ NYG new york football giants
ATL @ OAK hotlanta
PHI @ SEA flying dawkins
NE @ IND flying elvii
PIT @ WAS god still loves jim zorn

lol @ ar-i zon-a super cardinals

san di-e-go super chargers
vs
at eastern motors, your job's your credit

I really can't decide

does the arizona dude have an animated gif for this week yet!? that is the real question

oh shit

http://s.azcentral.com/home/File-/picture/47934/1/0/258/1024/

i'm just going to allow this bro to make all my decisions for me from this point forward.

cardinals logo still looks like tweety bird to me.

NYJ @ BUF if we don't beat brett favre, i don't even know what
DET @ CHI chicago
JAC @ CIN poor carson palmer
BAL @ CLE Browns
TB @ KC ugh. tampa bay.
HOU @ MIN texans
ARI @ STL tweeties
GB @ TEN titans
MIA @ DEN dolphins; i find it impossible to hate chad pennington which is really fucking with my identity as a dolphins hater
DAL @ NYG giants! excited for this one!
ATL @ OAK falcons
PHI @ SEA philly
NE @ IND i will keep picking peyton even though it makes no sense.
PIT @ WAS huh. steelers

if the patsies were the lions and the colts were the titans i would still pick the pats, i'm superstitious that way

Out: Ted Cottrell
In: Ron Rivera

YAY

NYJ @ BUF buffalo
DET @ CHI chicago
JAC @ CIN rip cincinatti
BAL @ CLE b'more
TB @ KC Kansas City may be shut out
HOU @ MIN minnesota
ARI @ STL STL
GB @ TEN gb!!
MIA @ DEN denver
DAL @ NYG giants in an annoying unconvincing win
ATL @ OAK atlanta
PHI @ SEA philly
NE @ IND Indy in a meaningless (ultimately) game.
PIT @ WAS pittsburgh?

The Mod and Schef are once again lockstep in their anti-Browns falange. Schef's obsession with a Cardinals .gif has clouded her judgement.

LOCK OF THE WEEK: BROWNS OVER RAVEN SYMONES 35-10

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NYJ @ BUF buffalo
DET @ CHI chicago
JAC @ CIN jacksonville
BAL @ CLE cleveland
TB @ KC tampa bay
HOU @ MIN houston
ARI @ STL st louis
GB @ TEN tenn
MIA @ DEN miami
DAL @ NYG giants
ATL @ OAK oakland
PHI @ SEA philly
NE @ IND new england
PIT @ WAS pittsburgh

dude, brownie, there is nothing i'd like better than to see the browns whip the ravens, because i do not care for the ravens, not one bit. but unfortunately i do not think this will occur.

i like my theory better- that you are blinded by rage and hatred of elves and everything elvish

I picked the Browns to escape brownie's wrath.

i do hate elves, this is true.

NYJ @ BUF Bills
DET @ CHI Bears
JAC @ CIN Bengals
BAL @ CLE Browns
TB @ KC Bucs (wow, a lot of team names start with B)
HOU @ MIN Texans
ARI @ STL Cards
GB @ TEN Titans
MIA @ DEN Fins
DAL @ NYG NYFG
ATL @ OAK Matt Ryans
PHI @ SEA Eagles
NE @ IND Pats
PIT @ WAS 'Skins

NYJ @ BUF Jets are just plain bad but i don't think the steamroller will be out for this game
DET @ CHI if Chicago didn't turn up the Lions would lose 2-0 with an unfortunate fourth quarter safety
JAC @ CIN Jags weird this season, but not weird enough to commit suicice here
BAL @ CLE i haven't figured Baltimore out but they can keep this low scoring and Browns not enjoying low scoring games this year
TB @ KC this looks like one of those games where KC give a clearly superior teama scare before capitulating easily
HOU @ MIN oooooooh. Houston are the better team for sure but not much of a road team. i guess Vikes is the sensible pick.
ARI @ STL Rams resurgence is a myth - caught 'Skins sleeping, Brad Johnson killed 'Boys, NE game should've been a blow out
GB @ TEN this has potential to be a great game. don't understand exactly why Titans keep winning so difficult to argue against them.
MIA @ DEN i think smart teams will beast Denver and, weird as it is to say, Miami seem like a smart team under the new regime
DAL @ NYG best chance for Cowboys win is Sam Beckett leaping into Brad Johnson between now and the end of the game.
ATL @ OAK tho i can see this going either way
PHI @ SEA this looks closer to an upset game than a vicious beating, but can't rationally go against cheesesteaks here.
PIT @ WAS Roffles doesn't seem to like those NFC East defenses but i dunno. i am going against instinct here yet again.
NE @ IND you beat this Indy team by denying the deep pass. they can't run and their short game can be contained. Titans did a textbook job last time out, holding Peyton to something like 2 from 9 deep throws and letting Clark have the ball whenever he wanted except in the red. the problem for the Pats is that most of those deep incompletions were knock-downs. if NE take the obvious route and play the whole game in nickel and their 3 safety dime they will get burned because Peyton can still throw, he's in the dome, and NE's backs get beaten long as several QBs have shown. their best chance is to blitz the shit out of Manning and hope that that junior O line folds, especially with Seymour returning to monster status and Adalius getting sacks from OLB this season. with steady offense and a couple turnovers Pats will get something like 24 points in this game but i can't talk myself into believing Indy won't get more.

NYJ @ BUF Bills
DET @ CHI Bears
JAC @ CIN Jags
BAL @ CLE Ravens
TB @ KC Bucs
HOU @ MIN Vikings
ARI @ STL Cards
GB @ TEN Titans
MIA @ DEN Broncos, but I don't know
DAL @ NYG Dallas
ATL @ OAK Falcons, big
PHI @ SEA Eagles
NE @ IND Pats
PIT @ WAS Steelers

from the post's skins blog:

We all know that Jason Campbell has added a lot to his game and is having a breakout season. But this week he took it to another level, going public with his Pete Kendall impersonation. Kendall, the gregarious starting guard with a gruff New England accent, would seem like a difficult target for Campbell, with his Mississippi twang, to take on but I've got to say JC pulled it off.

Campbell was mimicking the way Kendall talks in the huddle.

"J, you might want to think about changing that cadence," Campbell mumbled, sounding a little bit like a baritone Jerry Remy. "They're getting a jump on it on this side."

rofflesburger on playing at fedex field:

I'm not a big fan of playing there because it is loud, they're really good at home and they try to make their cheerleaders stretch in our tunnel before we come out of the locker room. That's just not good," Roethlisberger said yesterday.

~~~~~~~~~BONERZ 4 BEN~~~~~~~~~~~

NYJ @ BUF buffalo
DET @ CHI chi
JAC @ CIN jax
BAL @ CLE BROWNIES
TB @ KC bucs
HOU @ MIN vikes
ARI @ STL zona
GB @ TEN tits
MIA @ DEN yaaaaowwwwwwwwwwwwww
DAL @ NYG nyg
ATL @ OAK falc
PHI @ SEA iggles
NE @ IND peyton
PIT @ WAS steelers

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3673441

^^ <3

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Picking the favorites across the board this week.

buf chi jax cle tenn tampa ariz minn den atl nyg phil indy wash

HI HATERS
http://redskins.torresa.com/audio/PaulC/2008Week_9_vs_Pittsburgh_-_Bye_Steelers.mp3

WPGC has a new one of these every week

IMHO "whoop on dallas bamas" was the best so far
http://redskins.torresa.com/audio/PaulC/2008Week_4_at_Dallas_Whoop_On.mp3

hahaha bamas

OMG TEXAS v TEXAS TECH !

lol tech fans have stormed the field twice and the game isnt over

the crowd was just penalized!

NYJ @ BUF - I'm going with the Bills. I don't get why people are so surprised that the Jets are not great, if they got to .500 that would have been an improvement over last years terrible club and that still seems somewhat possible.
DET @ CHI - I think it is a disappointment if the Bears just don't dismantle the Lions, let alone win.
JAC @ CIN - The Jags might run for 300 yards on the ground today, it is a total mismatch.
BAL @ CLE - This is a hard game to call, I'm going with the Browns but I don't have much confidence in the pick
TB @ KC - Tampa better not lose to KC.
HOU @ MIN - I want to take Houston, but I cannot pick them on the road, so it Vikings it is.
ARI @ STL - I'm going with the Cards, but they usually cannot win on the road.
GB @ TEN - This is a good match up. I figure Green Bay is a bit better than their record and Tennessee a bit worse than theirs. I'll take the Pack.
MIA @ DEN - I'll go Denver at home, but Miami is an interesting team and I could see them winning.
DAL @ NYG - Giants.
ATL @ OAK - This is a game Atlanta needs to win.
PHI @ SEA - Philly is getting healthy and SHOULD walk, but they seem to lose these kind of games in the past couple of years.
NE @ IND - I'm going Colts, but I don't feel good about it.
PIT @ WAS - This should be a good game. I'm going to take Washington, as I have a feeling that one of these games all of those hits that Big Ben is taking is going to catch up with him.

I like living in the Titans' local viewing area this year.

most of the nation is Titans' viewing area today! excellent, looking forward to this. i also get Cleveland/Bmore, and like nearly everyone Dallas/NYG this afternoon.

nice chill day of watching games while i clean up my apartment before I start STRESSING THE F*** OUT over pats and redskins in some tough games later on

Here in Ohio we're not getting ANYTHING opposite the Browns/Ravens game! WTF?? Will somebody please explain to me again the bullshit rule about interdivision games and TV?

I've got Jets-Bills on CBS, and Boys-Giants later on Fox. Decent week, at least on paper.

Here are my 1:00 viewing options:

Bucs @ Chiefs
Jags @ Bengals

THIS WOULD NOT HAPPEN UNDER AN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION!

Damn, that's crap plus crap.

Kansas City WTF?

there was some gadget play @ KC in which one of the wideouts threw a deep TD pass to the quarterback?

meanwhile Cincy is up by 14 on Jville? why is none of the wacky on my TV?? detroit leading chicago?

why didn't buffalo challenge the spot on that 4th an in. it looked like a 1st down live...

The 2008 season is making me hate football.

I pretty much love everything about this season so far *except* Tom Brady RIP (note, apparently he is getting better & will be in Boston in a week or so)

ohnoes, it's the return of REX GROSSMAN in Chicago

What? What happened to Orton?

ankle

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shit. where did all the other ILN pats fans go, anyway? did they all die after last year?!

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrandy university

i think jhoshea has repudiated football for basketball

sports message boards across the nation were decimated after the last super bowl

many in patriots nation were never heard from again

rip

free randy moss!!!!!!!

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LOL belichick

super disappointing that the Pats didn't lose that game because of any problems in the secondary, which for some reason Indy didn't test that much deep, but because Belichick had one of those games where he seems to lose his head late in a close game. i'd say if they played that game 10 times with the same play calling from the Colts, NE win 8 or 9 times and Dungy looks foolishly over-cautious. Cassel played fine but i'm concerned about the return of early season inability to get TDs from red zone ball. hopefully just a blip.

a big fat game full of who gives a shit

Cinci did play with some zing today with some improvement on both sides of the ball, but J-ville's game plan was really screwy. The Jags never really seemed that committed to trying to run the ball, which considering the Bengals problems stopping the run, is really weird. That seems to be Jacksonville's problem, they will play up with the good teams and then have let downs on clubs they should clobber. Cedric Benson looked pretty good for the Bengals today. It could have been a walk if Fitzgerald would have hit on one of the deep bombs, he had three chances with people way open and missed on all three.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3678734

son of a BITCH~@

ohno, sorry Bears!

cosign re: Belichick, I thought this one was on him, more than anyone. Cassel did fine. if that stupid personal foul hadn't moved them out of field goal range the one time.. and I think another where they went for it on 4th and 15 into Indy territory, late in the game.. why not let Gostkowski take a shot. game plan seemed hyper conservative, was it true that Indy's secondary is pretty well decimated & if so why weren't they throwing it to Moss more? even Welker? and Gaffney should NOT have dropped that TD.

Gaffney drop was pretty lame, it really did fall into his arms perfectly and he just let it slide through. with all of the scrutiny Cassel and his numbers are under, the receivers need to give him a break and catch some passes. that's 3 TD drops on two games from the 3 senior WRs. i wasn't too mad about the Thomas personal foul. he was making a block and hadn't realized the play was over. probably pretty easy to do in a noisy dome, especially for a younger player.

Wuz hammered last night watching Green Bay - Tennessee. That game was dope.

yeah, Cassel looked good to me! also madden quoted him as saying that he doesn't understand why people are always telling him playing qb in the NFL is all about having fun because he does not find it fun at all, so now i kind of love him. still, fuck the Pats etc.

also, that sucks about Orton, omar.

^yeah that was great re: cassel. who will start the matt cassel is not having fun thread?

the best QBs are the ones that are able to have fun, and the reason they are able to have fun doing an incredibly difficult job under intense scrutiny and pressure is because parts of their brains are missing or do not work properly. everything about Cassel screams "i am just some regular dude". even if i wasn't a Pats fan i would want this guy to succeed. although i would be glad for the Pats to retain him at the end of the season, as long as Brady gets fit he will go somewhere else and get more than minimum salary. if the fates conspire to put Cassel, Beast Mode and Jim Zorn on the same team, i would have to switch allegiance.

yeah cassel does seem like a totally regular guy and has dealt incredibly well with being asked condescendingly 'so are you learning and making progress?' & 'what would tom brady do?' like 10000 times a week. i am pretty impressed, especially given that the boston media is obnoxious, belichick is satan, and all of new england wanted to throw him out on his ass after that san diego game. (eg just get daunte culpepper and have him chuck it to randy moss on every play!) i dunno if belichick doesn't completely have confidence in him yet that they're not throwing deep passes, or if this is all part of some evil master plan.

At this point I think Cassel would be a better choice at QB for like half of the teams in the league.

they have given Cassel more deep options as the season has progressed. last night was different because Indy played 2 deep safeties all game long, and you aren't going to help a QB develop by encouraging him to throw into coverage. the game plan was right, but in such a tight game, all it took were a couple of errors and some coaching madness to mangle it.

against Buffalo it will be more of the same. the teams that have beaten the Bills this season have used a lot of short passes - have basically played the way the Pats have been most comfortable. they won't play as deep at Indy did, but they have a good secondary that NE don't have to roll the dice against to compete.

re: coaching madness. i was pretty stunned what with throwing the challenge flag over 12 men on the field? also, i didn't see it incredibly closely but when they used the last timeout on 4th and 1 when they'd lined up to go for it, then decided to send on gostkowski.. did the players not hear the whistle blow & the play went off & would've resulted in a first down? that's what i saw, but again, don't know if they heard the whistle or not. thinking back to other bouts of madness though I'm still wondering why they punted inside the NYG 35 yard line in the super bowl (it was close to the 30, wasn't it??)

lines to get into fedex field this at opening...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/steelersskins%20003.jpg

On November 3, 2008, ESPN reported that Brady Quinn will be named starter for the Cleveland Browns.

dudes I am stressing over this monday night game!

http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2008/11/02/giants-think-terrell-owens-sent-them-a-mocking-box-of-t-shirts/

^^^ well played, asshole

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i cant find a better pic but i just saw the highlights + after this hit dude essentially pins rodgers down in a wrestling/humping hold...oh if it could only be favre

ugh. skins are going w/ burgundy jerseys AND burgundy pants tonight.

WHAT ABOUT THE YELLOW AND BLACK?!

MAROON jerseys and MAROON pants

On November 3, 2008, ESPN reported that Brady Quinn will be named starter for the Cleveland Browns.

I feel bad for DA, the fans have been merciless in their treatment of him. Still he's one of the lowest rated QB's in the league right now and the offense has yet to show any consistency so I think this was the right move.

haha ok good job starting the game, steelers

this game is terrible. i blame dar1a and mookieproof.

nice job squeezing in a save by zero ad btwn obama and mccain

wait is this quantas ad playing a muzak version of "africa"?

Derek Anderson is going to be quarterbacking the 49ers next year, I bet.

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ha I have no idea, had it on mute but he looks pretty damn good.

i <3 byron leftwich

remember how like "west coast offense" meant "scoring" and not "whatever this shit is"

http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=2087

West Coast Offense cir 1981

i am voting for the heidi klum guitar hero commercial

this was some sad, depressed shit! ugh

and now I gotta get up butt-ass early to go vote @ cap hill and get to the office at 10 so I can work twelve+ hours tomorrow, dammit

also, taking a brief tour of redskins blogs.. how is it that so many folks can watch football for years and STILL have complete and utter bug outs aka 'bench the quarterback' 'our o-line completely sucks' 'rogers sucks' 'we're going 6-10' 'zorn play calling sucks' etc. after ONE game? against the #1 defense in the league? for crying out loud. a lot of bad stuff happened but it's not doomsday. jeez.

also, tony kornheiser. the point of playing football games is, in fact, to win football games. it is not to impress sportswriters.

[fixed]I feel bad for "Cleveland QB", the fans have been merciless in their treatment of him. [/fixed]

yeah, wow. in a sense, there's no shame in being stuffed by the number one defense in the league, but, man did they come out flat in the second half and the skins looked ferocious in the first. i'll also say that how could they have even prepared for leftwich? he hasn't really been healthy for years...he looked a lot better than roethlisberger, i thought.

...but, then, when a quarterback decides to actually throw the ball instead of holding on to it forever, it does tend to make the offense run more efficiently.

couple plays really killed them.
WHY must rogers keep dropping the easy INT + 6!?
did i see campbell doing that thing of locking onto one guy again? of course, w the pass rush in his face constantly.. glad he didn't get hurt at least. santana moss was still hurt AFAIK

i still <3 leftwich

Leftwich is a DC native actually & after the game was like "man I love the Redskins, I don't ever want to see the Redskins lose but today.. uh.."

actually just listening to leftwich postgame cracked me up because his accent is SO total dc-murrland & I'm not really used to hearing that from anyone on our team

rogers not catching that ball and taking it for six was huge. i mean, his path was clear as day. it was nice to se cornelius griffin get a pickle.

bye will be good for springs, betts, samuels...