Cutler Has Already Thrown One Million Interceptions: WEEK TWO 2009

HOUSTON @ TENNESSEE titans
NOLA @ PHILADELPHIA saints
ARIZONA @ JACKSONVILLE jags
OAKLAND @ KANSAS CITY raiders
CINCINATTI @ GREEN BAY packers
MINNESOTA @ DETROIT vikings
ST. LOUIS @ WASHINGTON skins
NEW ENGLAND @ NY JETS pats
CAROLINA @ ATLANTA panthers
TAMPA BAY @ BUFFALO bills
SEATTLE @ SAN FRANCISCO hawks
BALTIMORE @ SAN DIEGO ravens
PITTSBURGH @ CHICAGO steelers
CLEVELAND @ DENVER broncos
NY GIANTS @ DALLAS giants
INDIANAPOLIS @ MIAMI colts

lol@ thread title this week! love it.

credit to brownie obv he is a funny dude

HOUSTON @ TENNESSEE titans
NOLA @ PHILADELPHIA saints
ARIZONA @ JACKSONVILLE arizona
OAKLAND @ KANSAS CITY raiders
CINCINATTI @ GREEN BAY packers
MINNESOTA @ DETROIT vikings
ST. LOUIS @ WASHINGTON skins
NEW ENGLAND @ NY JETS jets
CAROLINA @ ATLANTA falcks
TAMPA BAY @ BUFFALO bills
SEATTLE @ SAN FRANCISCO hawks
BALTIMORE @ SAN DIEGO ravens
PITTSBURGH @ CHICAGO chicago
CLEVELAND @ DENVER cleveland
NY GIANTS @ DALLAS dallas
INDIANAPOLIS @ MIAMI colts

HOUSTON @ TENNESSEE tits
NOLA @ PHILADELPHIA no
ARIZONA @ JACKSONVILLE zona
OAKLAND @ KANSAS CITY raiders
CINCINATTI @ GREEN BAY bungles
MINNESOTA @ DETROIT vikes
ST. LOUIS @ WASHINGTON skins
NEW ENGLAND @ NY JETS pats
CAROLINA @ ATLANTA falcs
TAMPA BAY @ BUFFALO bills
SEATTLE @ SAN FRANCISCO seahawks
BALTIMORE @ SAN DIEGO ravens
PITTSBURGH @ CHICAGO bears
CLEVELAND @ DENVER browns
NY GIANTS @ DALLAS gints
INDIANAPOLIS @ MIAMI colts

HOUSTON @ TENNESSEE titans
NOLA @ PHILADELPHIA saints
ARIZONA @ JACKSONVILLE jags
OAKLAND @ KANSAS CITY raiders
CINCINATTI @ GREEN BAY packers
MINNESOTA @ DETROIT vikings
ST. LOUIS @ WASHINGTON skins
NEW ENGLAND @ NY JETS I'm gonna go out on a limb and say jetes
CAROLINA @ ATLANTA atlanta
TAMPA BAY @ BUFFALO bills
SEATTLE @ SAN FRANCISCO san fran
BALTIMORE @ SAN DIEGO ravens
PITTSBURGH @ CHICAGO steelers
CLEVELAND @ DENVER broncos
NY GIANTS @ DALLAS giants
INDIANAPOLIS @ MIAMI colts

Houston in a minor upset.
Philadelphia defense does what Detroit couldn't in Week 1. Stop Brees.
Jacksonville squeaks by Arizona in a game that could really go either way.
Kansas City almost took it to Baltimore in Week 1, will go all the way against Oakland.
Green Bay with home field advantage over a cursed Cincinnati team.
Minnesota, because Detroit is still Detroit even with a hot shit qb.
Washington was a mess at the Meadowlands, but should easily whoop on St. Louis.
New York Jets take advantage of the weakness in the New England defense that Buffalo could not.
Atlanta spots Carolina 14 and still wins big.
Buffalo will either make this no-huddle thing work or they won't, but Tampa will be a good test.
San Francisco surprised in Week 1, and will squeak by again over Seattle.
San Diego plays poor one week, plays awesome the next. Sorry, Baltimore.
Pittsburgh should prevail over Chicago, even w/o Polumalu to pick Cutler 3 times.
Denver, despite many problems, has fewer problems than Cleveland.
New York Giants over Dallas in a game that's really a toss-up. I credit the NYG defense.
Indianapolis will beat Miami, but I don't think Miami will play as poor as they did in Week 1.

Apparently, no-one has faith in my Dolphins.

(Neither do I, actually.)

ehh that's not the kind of game the colts have historically lost

I have some faith in them but not against the Colts in Indy.

I think they're way better than they showed on Sunday though.

Oh, it isn't in Indy. But still.

imna start playing this (and posting on iln more frequently)

HOUSTON @ TENNESSEE titans
NOLA @ PHILADELPHIA eagles
ARIZONA @ JACKSONVILLE cards
OAKLAND @ KANSAS CITY raiders
CINCINATTI @ GREEN BAY pack
MINNESOTA @ DETROIT vikings
ST. LOUIS @ WASHINGTON redskins
NEW ENGLAND @ NY JETS pats
CAROLINA @ ATLANTA atlanta
TAMPA BAY @ BUFFALO buffalo
SEATTLE @ SAN FRANCISCO niners
BALTIMORE @ SAN DIEGO ravens
PITTSBURGH @ CHICAGO steelers
CLEVELAND @ DENVER broncos
NY GIANTS @ DALLAS giants
INDIANAPOLIS @ MIAMI indy

welcome to the ilnfl team, iatee.

based on this past weekend i really like the jets against new england. i hope that vegas gives the jets points because it's new england. that would be real tempting.

did u see the jets game?

yeah it was like the bizarro jets. their d was all kinds of busy and effective. the pats were clearly not up to speed on offence and i don't think that will turn around in a week. did you notice how brady didn't even try to air it out once? he loved to pass deep to moss even against double coverage in 07. i know we've only seen them for one game, but i think this jets d will be able to take advantage of that kind of hesitancy and any off-timing. on the other side of the ball, sanchez had the confidence and presence of someone who's already played a few seasons. i thought the bills did a poor job of capitalizing on what the patriots were giving them underneath until they started getting passes to jackson. i think washington could kill the pats if the jets watch that tape.

i think sanchez is gonna be good but i expect a pretty different defensive gameplan this week. vs. the bills everything was geared to shutting down evans and t.o.--don't need to do that w/the jets their best offensive players are their backs imo.

loss of mayo for six weeks is concerning tho.

hmm that is a good point, new england totally killed the deep option for buffalo and the jets don't have anything like the same threat. without a decent mlb healthy i wonder if teams will try to pound it through the middle against the pats. i don't think the jets have the personnel for that. thomas jones was woeful. he got all of his yards on two carries where the texans fell to pieces, but the rest of the time he barely got a yard and a half.

he got all of his yards on two carries where the texans fell to pieces, but the rest of the time he barely got a yard and a half.

cf Sanders, Barry; Peterson, Adrian; all NFL running backs ever

i love thomas jones probably more than most but lol @ comparison.

HOUSTON @ TENNESSEE tenn
NOLA @ PHILADELPHIA philly
ARIZONA @ JACKSONVILLE super cardinals
OAKLAND @ KANSAS CITY kansas city
CINCINATTI @ GREEN BAY pack
ST. LOUIS @ WASHINGTON um, i want to say redskins but.. they did lose to these guys last season.. ok redskins. this is going to be ugly.
NEW ENGLAND @ NY JETS new england
CAROLINA @ ATLANTA atl
TAMPA BAY @ BUFFALO bills
SEATTLE @ SAN FRANCISCO niners
BALTIMORE @ SAN DIEGO chargers
PITTSBURGH @ CHICAGO pitt
CLEVELAND @ DENVER browns
NY GIANTS @ DALLAS giants
INDIANAPOLIS @ MIAMI fins

HOUSTON @ TENNESSEE Tennessee looked really solid on Monday until the fourth quarter and OT; Schaub looks a hot mess already. Titans
NOLA @ PHILADELPHIA Eagles QB situation + Saints starting on a tear makes me think this could be an upset. Saints
ARIZONA @ JACKSONVILLE Cardinals need to get in rhythm, Jacksonville is a good place to do it. Cards
OAKLAND @ KANSAS CITY Oakland almost looked like a football team in game one! Raiders
CINCINATTI @ GREEN BAY Packers
ST. LOUIS @ WASHINGTON this game will be shitty
NEW ENGLAND @ NY JETS Could be a serious definition game for the Jets, even with a loss. It's the "even with" part that makes me think it's a Pats win.
CAROLINA @ ATLANTA Falcons
TAMPA BAY @ BUFFALO Tampa
SEATTLE @ SAN FRANCISCO Seattle, but I bet this game will also be shitty
BALTIMORE @ SAN DIEGO Chargers looked really bored last night; I think Ravens band em up a bit.
PITTSBURGH @ CHICAGO Time to beat up on the underdog; Steelers
CLEVELAND @ DENVER Browns
NY GIANTS @ DALLAS This one feels like the biggest tossup of the week; I think a lot rests on the receiving corps for both teams. Gonna be a homer and GO Giants
INDIANAPOLIS @ MIAMI Indy, duh.

cf Sanders, Barry; Peterson, Adrian; all NFL running backs ever

first of all, jones's mom could have made big runs against the texans on those two downs. second of all, that's just bs. if you really expect that your running back will only ever get anything at all on 2 carries out of 28 you would never give him the ball. you gotta have some of those 3-4 yarders to chew up the 10.

san diego/baltimore is a v. compelling matchup for week 2

i am into Saints/Iggles, Boys/Gi'nts, Ravens/Bolts, Jets/Pats and the schadenfreude special Pitt/Bears

Baltimore D vs. San Diego's depleted offensive line is going to be the newest film in the Saw franchise.

if you really expect that your running back will only ever get anything at all on 2 carries out of 28 you would never give him the ball. you gotta have some of those 3-4 yarders to chew up the 10

Leroy "you need two yards? i'll get you three yards; you need four yards? i'll get you three yards" Hoard is a more valuable running back than Barry Sanders, QED.

Thomas Jones isn't anyone's second coming but when they're stacking the box and daring your rookie qb to beat you, blaming the RB for getting stuffed is just o_0

yeah, there's no beating that infamous houston run d. my point is, if the jets gameplan on running it up the middle against anyone, they will fail. i think there was plenty of evidence to support that on sunday. what is your point?

seriously?

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HOUSTON @ TENNESSEE Titans
NOLA @ PHILADELPHIA Peeps gonna still be challopski'ng? Ya'all know Iggles got this shit locked down tight.
ARIZONA @ JACKSONVILLE Cardinals
OAKLAND @ KANSAS CITY Raiders
CINCINATTI @ GREEN BAY Packers
MINNESOTA @ DETROIT Vikings
ST. LOUIS @ WASHINGTON Redskins
NEW ENGLAND @ NY JETS Patriots
CAROLINA @ ATLANTA Falcons
TAMPA BAY @ BUFFALO Bills
SEATTLE @ SAN FRANCISCO Seahawks
BALTIMORE @ SAN DIEGO Ravens
PITTSBURGH @ CHICAGO Steelers
CLEVELAND @ DENVER Broncos
NY GIANTS @ DALLAS Giants
INDIANAPOLIS @ MIAMI Colts

omg i have the nfl network now!

McKelvin's front lawn vandalized

could be worse. they shoot soccer players in columbia.

god buffalonians are totally disgusting sometimes. poor kid.

football is kind of bad for society, i think. :( /morbz

that makes me really sad.

yesterday if you'd told these fucknuts their team was going to play their hearts out, show more than anyone expected, and give New England all they could handle, they would called you an idiot and prepped you for the inevitable 34-6 drubbing.

the worst part is most of the fans (yes, i've been haunting buffalorumblings today) don't seem to actually know much about football except that you have to, you know, not accept mediocrity

funny when i heard about this i was like "oh figures probably impossible NOT to know where these dudes live up there" but apparently they have a history of being awesome to the players and giving them space and everything so this is def. fucked.

they used white paint to write the score and draw a giant cock, apparently. classy

man i cant remember the last thing i wanted 2 see pics of so badly

do hope ppl who did it get caught, punished etc

in fairness he should not have fumbled the ball.

The dudes who vandalized Leodis's lawn should be deported to Iran, but that was still an inexcusable fumble.

yeah, i mean it's a travesty of misplaced fandom and an utterly retarded example of the slow degradation of the meaning of personal freedom and expression and we are all slowly turning into manic animals but DID YOU SEE THAT PLAY?

Essentially the internet has allowed sociopaths to hide behind a mask of anonymity and in some cases has caused normal, well-adjusted people turn give in to their own sociopathic tendencies, and this has bled over into the real world. Respect, decorum, and basic decency have fallen away and been replaced with a single, vile mentality in which you don't need to show those aforementioned good qualities, because that would be weak. Having said that, that dipshit should have knelt in the endzone.

omar, what will Bill Plaschke say about this?

yes...maybe something in his next column....?

aww...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Still a little upset over having his lawn vandalized, Buffalo Bills cornerback Leodis McKelvin is willing to forgive and forget.

Referring to Bills fans as being great, McKelvin said Wednesday he doesn't want anyone arrested for painting an obscenity and the game's score on the front lawn of his home shortly after a 25-24 season-opening loss at New England on Monday.

"It's just one little incident. I hope it doesn't happen any more," McKelvin said following practice. "I was mad, I was kind of like angry in a way, but I was laughing a little bit for what they put on there."

McKelvin is being partly blamed for the loss after his fumble set up the Patriots' winning drive. He discovered the vandalism shortly after returning home from the game.

HOUSTON @ TENNESSEE titans probably tho houston has things comin for it this year, i'm certain
NOLA @ PHILADELPHIA i'd say eagles but the mcnabb situation is scaring me. i'm completely 50/50 on this? i'll think more.
ARIZONA @ JACKSONVILLE jags
OAKLAND @ KANSAS CITY raiders
CINCINATTI @ GREEN BAY packers
MINNESOTA @ DETROIT CHALLOPS: DETROIT LIONS WILL WIN THIS
ST. LOUIS @ WASHINGTON washington
NEW ENGLAND @ NY JETS pats
CAROLINA @ ATLANTA atlanta
TAMPA BAY @ BUFFALO bills
SEATTLE @ SAN FRANCISCO sf
BALTIMORE @ SAN DIEGO ravens
PITTSBURGH @ CHICAGO steelers
CLEVELAND @ DENVER broncos
NY GIANTS @ DALLAS giants
INDIANAPOLIS @ MIAMI colts

it's weird that the fans are vandalizing his lawn instead of vandalizing the defense's lawns being that they basically allowed the pats to get another touchdown 60 seconds later.

they should also just vandalize boston because their team got that catch call that went against the raiders. also hunt down ed hochules just because.

SMH at that two minute drill. how does a professional football team do that?!

haha peyton was asked by kolber how he got the win and then he just rambled about eli's win against the cowboys for about 40 secs...? amazing.

i like the dolphins later in the season though. they don't look bad, they just got owned in the last couple minutes by ppl who are geniuses at the last second drive. and, then, uh, didn't have their own to counter it so maybe they should work on that.

this game brought to you by Homer, Sophocles and the greek tragedians.

Manning's passer rating tonight = 133.9

I'll tell you, they have more trouble with teams like Miami that center around the run than a team that likes to throw like Dallas or say Arizona.

This game was pretty much like anytime the Colts play the Ravens, Steelers or Jags.

i'm sorry, any mention of the cowboys still makes me laugh.

yeah, it's not that the Colts won it...it's that Miami couldn't finish. Woe betide the colts against a team who can.

i'll forever be grateful to eli for ruining the opening game at the cowboy terrordome

i know you'll disagree with part of this, but surely you understand from an objective viewpoint: his ruining of the perfect season AND the terrordome probably makes him america's hero 4 all time. plus he has that sweet entertainment system.

eli manning: ruining shit for fancier teams since '07

cowboys will sell terrordome, giants will use it as practice facility and it will become ELI MANNING STADIUM

OR: jj will rewrite NFL season to remove last night's game from history books.

i can't help that my loyalties to teams are what they are, but they are, so i had to root for the evil patriots machine to defeat the underdog football giants led by adorable eli from ole miss. life's not fair.

i mean, do i want to root for the redskins? hells no! but i picked my team in 1986, so i can't help it now.

time of possession

IND 14:53
MIA 45:07

So glad I didn't grow up in an NFL market (the closest was Atlanta, but they were never a "home" team). Now I can root for whoever I want whenever I want.

(Eli's) ruining of the perfect season . . . makes him america's hero 4 all time.

Truth.

lol @ the whole "do you think i WANT to root for the redskins" thing...i was there with the kerry collins giants, trust me. DID I ASK FOR THIS GYPSY CURSE?

but even a pats fan can get behind the killing of the cowboys, you know? i feel like if eli manning would endorse the public option, we'd all have health care by now.

I moved to the US in 2002, husband took me to Raiders playoff game and that was it, I was in love. They lost at the Superbowl and have been FAIL ever since. And I haven't even made it through a decade yet. I have mad respect for you, Daria.

the raiders did basically give the world john madden.

our discussion while stuck in traffic at the fedex field yesterday was, basically as redskins fans we will root for ANYONE and ANYTHING vs the cowboys. kanye west vs the cowboys? go kanye!

xpost this experience is like me becoming a Styx fan AFTER Mr Roboto. I'm still standing around waiting for them to play stuff I like again.

lamest 2 minute drill EVAH

My least favorite part, and I'm not sure if it was even mentioned by the crew, was when Ginn needed 10 yards and just strolled out of bounds at the 9-yard mark, so they had to run another play just to get the first down, which of course was short and in-bounds. Just terrible.

raiders have the bad-assest uniforms in the league, also; i was sort of in awe of them as a kid.

Bad-assest or most budget-friendly?

i think my least favorite part was.. starting off the series when they still had 3+ minutes by wasting 30 seconds thinking about stuff, then using the second-to-last timeout to stop the clock and think about stuff for a while longer

haha the only thing i wouldn't root for against the cowboys would be a team made up of, like, sarah palin, brett favre, and glenn beck. in that instance, tony romo can have his moment in the sun.

xpost the raiders will come around again - it's just that it might not be til al davis gets murdered/dies/incapacitated? and yeah, their uniforms are universally flattering and cool.

my least favorite part was looking for andy reid on the sideline and not seeing him there, which was confusing.

I kept looking around to see if Andy Reid was running things.

They'll be practicing two-min offense ALL WEEK. Parcells will actually come down onto the field and eat people who perform badly.

schef and I on the same wavelength, obv.

put their heads on spikes

xpost

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/12/91032608_d0a222ab29.jpg
that two minute drill was horrible...the horror...

re palin/favre/beck vs cowboys, i'm gonna run that one by my fellow skins fans. that's a tough one. i mean, it's the fucking COWBOYS.

It'll be like Miracle where they're running the 2 minute drill til 3am, puking on the field and crying. And PArcells in his plaid pants won't let them leave til THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THEY MUST BEAT THE RUSSIANS.

hahahaha i love the idea that even anti-abortionist, racist psuedo-fascists still are just not enough. jerry jones: so much worse.

in fairness, i guess jerry jones is the epitome of a dude that probably gets glenn beck.

jerry jones is Al Davis with better on-camera personality and better skin. they're like Cain and Abel for realz.

when you get to hell, you will meet both Al and Jerry...little did we know the concept of 'Satan' was a double act.

Al Davis is an old school crooked as hell Dem. street boss.

hell is basically cowboys stadium except al davis now owns it.

the strippers, the hellmall, the giant tv looming over you, the ed hardy wearing dudes who paid $30 to stand in the parking lot, the tony romo crying...plus for some reason al davis is screaming at you to go find him lane kiffin.

i had a nightmare the other night that jay cutler kept hitting on me at a party and i could get him to go away and i feel like that'd probably figure in there too.

god jay cutler is totally that dude

schef, i thought about this scene and who would be most horrified by it and i realized i would root for the cowboys if they played against hipsters. cowboys win. that's all really

Oh, just saw Singletary post-game from yesterday.

Reporter: "You guys aren't really throwing it a lot. Do you even need Crabtree on this team?"

i have a weird sort of love/hate with the entire nfc east but have no issue w/saying that atm giants are my favorite squad from those four by far

I would root for this offense:

QB: Manning
RB1: Jacobs
RB2: Felix Jones
FB: LeJohn McCain
WR1: Desean Jackson
WR2: Mario Manningham (because of the name, honestly)
TE: Chris Cooley
O-Line: Giants

12-4 on the week

24-8 on the year

I went 15-1 the first week.

Was less impressive the second week.