SORRY BRETT, LOL! NFL Week Seven [2010]

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Cincinnati at Atlanta
Washington at Chicago
Philadelphia at Tennessee
Jacksonville at Kansas City
Pittsburgh at Miami
Cleveland at New Orleans
St. Louis at Tampa Bay
San Francisco at Carolina
Buffalo at Baltimore
Arizona at Seattle
Oakland at Denver
New England at San Diego
Minnesota at Green Bay
New York Giants at Dallas

Steve Young fighting with Matt Millen, Stuart Scott and Trent Dilfer over the upcoming helmet-to-helmet rule change on the post-game show right now is a) absolutely awesome and b) kind of weird that all these other dudes are like "BAH! QUIT MAKING FOOTBALL FOR PUSSIES!"

That's a pretty major rule change! I agree that "devastating hit" is pretty goddamn vague.

they need to start banning ppl before someone dies tho tbqh

"Devastating hit" is vague, but I think it's like that definition of pornography given a long time ago. "I know it when I see it."

Devastating hits make you horny?

Merril Hoge* was on earlier talking about how the fundamentals of tackling have become less emphasized over time, to the point where almost does it anymore. I agree, tbh. Dudes need to quit using their helmets as battering rams and go back to wrapping people up with arms and shoulders.

(*I normally don't give half a crap about anything Merril Hoge has to say, but I agree with him on this.)

^Agree

yeah, i've heard that from various ppl

"where almost >nobody< does it anymore." xp

I'm sure tackling fundamentals were well emphasized in the 60s and 70s when maniacs like Butkus and Tatum were trying to kill people with every hit.

Some of the biggest hits from yesterday were leading with the shoulder anyway. Is that gonna be illegal only when it's "devastating?" If that's really the new standard, then the NFL has the dumbest rules committee in pro sports.

(not that they don't already...)

7-7 last week, 47-43 for the year. Blech.

Cincinnati at Atlanta -- ATL. Bengals on the decline.
Washington at Chicago -- WAS. Whatever mojo the Bears had early on has been flushed down the toilet.
Philadelphia at Tennessee -- PHI. This is pretty much a toss-up, but I'll give the edge to Philly.
Jacksonville at Kansas City -- KC. Chiefs almost had the last game in the bag, and the Jags are no Texans.
Pittsburgh at Miami -- MIA. I'm legally bound to pick the Dolphins all season. It could happen!
Cleveland at New Orleans -- NO. Man, I'm SO GLAD I dropped Chris Ivory from my fantasy roster the week he fucking WENT OFF on Tampa Bay. I see him doing similar things to Cleveland.
St. Louis at Tampa Bay -- STL. When I pick the Rams, they lose. So the Bucs will probably win this one because the universe will make it so.
San Francisco at Carolina -- SF. This is Shitbowl 2010.
Buffalo at Baltimore -- BAL. I saw a Bills game on tv a couple weeks ago. They're not as bad as their record, but they stand no chance against the Ravens.
Arizona at Seattle -- SEA. No, wait. THIS is Shitbowl 2010.
Oakland at Denver -- DEN. Maybe another Tebow score? Sure, why not.
New England at San Diego -- NE. Because.
Minnesota at Green Bay -- MIN. I think it would be impossible for me to physically care less about this game.
New York Giants at Dallas -- NYG. See above.

11-3 (!) last week, +10 for the year.

Cincinnati at Atlanta -- Falcons.
Washington at Chicago -- Bears.
Philadelphia at Tennessee -- Eagles rollin'.
Jacksonville at Kansas City -- Chiefs. Jacksonville is... awful.
Pittsburgh at Miami -- Steelers.
Cleveland at New Orleans -- Saints in a laugher.
St. Louis at Tampa Bay -- Bucs, for whatever reason.
San Francisco at Carolina -- 49ers, as I'm allowed to pick them now.
Buffalo at Baltimore -- Ravens' bench could win this game.
Arizona at Seattle -- Seahawks are looking sorta almost okay lately! Seahawks.
Oakland at Denver -- Broncos.
New England at San Diego -- Patriots. Chargers are in the midst of a lost season.
Minnesota at Green Bay -- Packers.
New York Giants at Dallas -- Giants.

as a Packer fan here goes the biggest week of the season, please please please do not let Favre beat you in Lambeau again, I just wouldn't be able to take that

Yeah if Favre-Packers III: Sexting's Revenge ends in a horrible overtime loss for the Packers for the third straight week (which will completely kill me because that means the game will end at like midnight and I have to wake up at like 4:15 in the morning on Monday to get to the hospital) I do not know that I will be able to take it. I kinda need them to do this one for me, and for America.

However, Clay Matthews is apparently going to be back. And if the past two weeks have proved nothing else it is that the Packers are not doing such an awesome job of pressuring the quarterbacks when he is not there.

Sounds like the NFL is walking back the bit about "devastating hits," and focusing on helmet-to-helmet stuff.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Jeff-Fisher-was-asked-to-call-timeouts-for-MNF-c?urn=nfl-278323

oh man

http://deadspin.com/5667940/no-espn-did-not-tell-the-mnf-coaches-to-take-timeouts

deadspin commenters make me lol at a p high rate ~

03:04 PM
I can't wait to see how they weave this storyline into the next season of Playmakers.

Jeff Fisher is my favorite coach.

8-6 last week, 50-39 on the season

Cincinnati at Atlanta - atlanta, though maybe this will be a week where they don't show up
Washington at Chicago - BEARS
Philadelphia at Tennessee - feeling the eagles here
Jacksonville at Kansas City - KC
Pittsburgh at Miami - steelers
Cleveland at New Orleans - lolt mccoy morelike. saints.
St. Louis at Tampa Bay - rams
San Francisco at Carolina - niners
Buffalo at Baltimore - ravens : /
Arizona at Seattle - cards
Oakland at Denver - raiders
New England at San Diego - pats
Minnesota at Green Bay - vikes
New York Giants at Dallas - giants

The screwed up thing on these helmet plays is that they didn't even call penalties on all of them, but I think that second one by that Patriots safety right?

That second one by the Steelers Harrison was dirty as hell, he pretty much ducked his helmet and aimed for the side of the Browns' players head. One of these bozos is going to do that one time and kill someone. I can't believe they didn't call a flag on that play. Harrison did kind of aim his hit on that first one on Cribbs, but it was a bit more questionable. Harrison has been a cheap shot artist pretty much his whole career, so no surprise.

I think that one hit in the Eagles/Falcons game wasn't really dirty as they just ran into each other at full speed.

It looked like that guy from NE was definitely ducking his head down and aiming with his helmet on both hits.

i think they're going to have to take intent out of the discussion, at least for now. cause a helmet to helmet hit, get suspended a game. no debate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOfJfhoQgGc
holy shit at this

Ugh, that is absolutely vile.

the above aside and back to helmet to helmet, i don't think anyone would argue that we're going to see someone killed on the field in our lifetime. I'm kind of amazed it's never happened up till now; only exception is Chuck Hughes and that was a heart attack and basically non-football related.

that was gnarly until that guy got actually murdered

ur talking bout the utube jordan? The police report was only minor injuries but yeah, one guy does get knocked the fuck out.

I think that one hit in the Eagles/Falcons game wasn't really dirty as they just ran into each other at full speed.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 02:32 (5 hours ago)

not only that, it wasn't really helmet to helmet, more like shoulder to sternum. Admittedly it's CLOSE to helmet to helmet, but the complete lack of intentionality should have prevented it from being a fine.

But boy, it was SCARY, so he gets fined.

the above aside and back to helmet to helmet, i don't think anyone would argue that we're going to see someone killed on the field in our lifetime. I'm kind of amazed it's never happened up till now; only exception is Chuck Hughes and that was a heart attack and basically non-football related.

― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, October 20, 2010 6:15 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Paralysis is much more likely; it's very hard to hit someone in the head hard enough to kill them, but you can definitely break their neck/back. I wonder how they'd respond if something like the Tatum/Stingley hit happened today.

8-6 last week. Back to 50%
Cincinnati at Atlanta - Bengals
Washington at Chicago - Redskins
Philadelphia at Tennessee - Eagles
Jacksonville at Kansas City - Chiefs
Pittsburgh at Miami - I think it's gonna be a good game but i'll go with steelers
Cleveland at New Orleans - saints
St. Louis at Tampa Bay - Bucs
San Francisco at Carolina - niners
Buffalo at Baltimore - ravens
Arizona at Seattle - seahawks
Oakland at Denver - broncos
New England at San Diego - chargers
Minnesota at Green Bay - packers, please god
New York Giants at Dallas - giants

10-4 last wk; 54-36 so far

Cincinnati at Atlanta -- ATL cuz theyre at home, dont really love either of these teams tho
Washington at Chicago -- skins - bears pass protection is deplorable (good job martz & tice) & i think wash can stuff forte
Philadelphia at Tennessee -- eagles
Jacksonville at Kansas City -- hunch this might be a wacky one - jagz
Pittsburgh at Miami -- pitt
Cleveland at New Orleans -- NO.
St. Louis at Tampa Bay -- tampa
San Francisco at Carolina -- SF.
Buffalo at Baltimore -- BAL. i am so emo for buffalo ;_;
Arizona at Seattle -- zona, kinda h8 both these squads
Oakland at Denver -- DEN.
New England at San Diego -- chargers
Minnesota at Green Bay -- MIN.
New York Giants at Dallas -- dallas

Indianapolis police have arrested Colts punter Pat McAfee and charged him with public intoxication after he was found wet and shirtless near a downtown canal.

I wonder how they'd respond if something like the Tatum/Stingley hit happened today.

I wonder the same thing. As weird as it is to say we're becoming so much more aware of the effects of all these hits in today's world thanks to the internet, sooner or later people will start caring about the safety of these players and demand something be done. I read Stingley's article in SI just yesterday and it was so brutal...nobody should have to go through that. At this pace I do think somebody is going to get killed on the field - even Carson Palmer thinks so.

All this kind of makes me wonder what's going to happen if there's a lockout next season...how popular will the NFL be in 2012?

was talking to someone last night who works for a brain injury advocacy assn, they do some work on football stuff (youth & college mainly) so she was up on all the medical & political developments about this. her opinion was: the tipping point is going to be more and more ex-players living longer with obvious brain damage because of improvements in all their OTHER medical care. usually these guys just disappear and die at 50. but if/when it become common knowledge that dudes who play football (esp linemen) become gibbering wrecks for the last third of life because of football, that's it. that and getting their brains donated to look at post-mortem.

I love how everyone they're talking about is basically garbage except for Jeremy Shockey:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1025630/2/index.htm

lol @ coach dave campo

i really have a hard time believing there will be a lockout. there's just too much money and power involved. i suppose i should never underestimate the strength of greed and stupidity but MAN a LOT of people would have to be REALLY greedy and stupid to allow a lockout.

The narcissism and pathetic self-pity of this Jerome Harrison retirement "contemplation" puts anything in T.O.'s past to shame

james harrison is a piece of shit and may be retarded and/or insanse

yep

Yeah wtf with Harrison right now. I mean the players have a point - there are a lot of BS roughing flags being thrown when you can clearly tell the rusher either could not have possibly seen the ball being thrown/kicked or had no way of stopping his momentum. If a QB gets leveled a half second after tossing the ball it's not roughing, it's physics. Still Harrison is being such a little bitch about this.

the only players who are complaning are kamikaze linebackers and killshot safties--learn how to wrap and tackle you clowns.

the problem with a lot of these dudes is they're less concerned about just making a play and stopping someone and more into turning WRs/RBs/QBs into their slo-mo victims and most of 'em are kinda clowns and creeps probably, yeah.

Harrison was the guy who refused to go to the White House after the Steelers won the Super Bowl because "they should have asked before we won the Super Bowl" or something.

it needs to start with coaching staffs--i have little doubt that the present style of hitting is condoned by various coordinators and positions coaches and etc. if things change, it's because those guys will be instructed to make sure their players don't get suspended.

xp yes he was and i heard somewhere that that was a cover for his catatonic fear of flying that makes the regular season a struggle for him.

didn't they dress up last year???????

they actually could do that because that play literally lasted a minute

okay apparently not

Holy christ, I hope whoever has Dez in fantasy ball gets a win out of this.

chucky with joker mask dot jpeg was last year - I don't have a link here though! It was posted ..

didn't they dress up last year???????

Gruden wore a Joker mask for one game. Don't remember what one.

yes, exactly

this guy right here http://twitpic.com/o2pv5

this guy's got a plan.

http://www.espnregionalmedia.com/now/wp-content/uploads/20091103_mnf_joker1.jpg

I thought I remembered it being the Saints. Drew Brees = that guy, the Joker.

Lol

omg

well, time for cowboys to go back to the bar there, I guess.

good thing they have it there, you know? lotta sadness to drink away all the time

memo to stu scott: don't welcome your viewers to cowboys stadium by saying "from the land of big d." just... don't do it. don't/=.

did everyone get bitten by the gruden? what was this most interesting man in the world thing?

stu scott = tarheel

ahaha steve young so transparently hates the cowboys <3<3

hahaha this is all so great

matt millen jizzing over a first round wr

he must be getting meat sweats

lol wade phillips didn't know who they're playing next week

some 1-5 team who's worse than them, i'm sure

wade phillips seems like a kindly old gentleman who is purely in his position because of his famous father, and that position is to be screamed at by a Looney Toons character endlessly while a bunch of pretty ponies fall over on a field. i feel strangely sorry for him.

as sorry as one can feel for a coach of the dirtiest fucking team in the league and also they are the cowboys.

otm

xp otm again

"i believe we are as good as we wanna be right now" - hakeem nicks, that statement does not put love in my heart

as sorry as one can feel for a coach of the dirtiest fucking team in the league and also they are the cowboys.

― THIS GUY (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Tuesday, October 26, 2010 4:31 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

The Packers are dirtier for sure.

it's definitely a possibility - the cowboys might be too inept to be truly dirty now.

the postgame show is the art of pretend forgetfulness from a pregame???

how quickly you stop appropriately hating the redskins

the redskins are racist, which is different

Wade's a great DC! Also the Titans are hellaciously dirty.

The Titans have a reputation of being dirty, but except for that one time Haynesworth stepped on a guy's head with his cleat, I've seen no concrete evidence.

Cortland Finnegan is pretty dirty.

Or at least cheap

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG's ankles are basically loose bags of bone chips

Sorry... what an amusing filter... I was referring to Bert Favors of course

"First of all, there are 10 games left, and we know how many games those are." - Jerry Jones

tony romo and brett http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG felled in one weekend is an epic confluence.

oh dear

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

^^better than the alternative auto-replace for http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG imo

btw there is only one epic confluence -- that of the allegheny and monongahela, forming the ohio, where the steel curtain resides

btw speaking of the steelers i loved tomlin and sparano's hilariously different tones when talking about the "scrum" in their postgame press conferences. like tomlin was all "scrums are pretty cool imo" and sparano was like so disgusted at the existence of scrums.

btw i hate rooting for a "rapist"

what am i supposed to do

Just root for the team and hope he gets traded or replaced by a better player/human being

Or someone whose dick isn't grey

i actually think that trading him was a popular move last spring. he's well known as a dick in pgh, particularly compared to various penguins. but if it's football season and he's winning (and he's obviously v. important to the steelers' results) then all will be/is forgiven.

and of course he was never even charged, but whatevs. at the very least we know he's an asshole

I would've been impressed if they did trade him, but the Steelers (and the rest of the NFL) (and Tom Osborne) have a rich tradition of overlooking violence against women, especially when popular players are doing it.

(check) http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

yep