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If TO can somehow keep his mouth shut for the rest of the season the Eagles will be fine.His first play back, 66 yard catch for a TD...amazing...
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Watched the Bills game today. That defense is INSANE. Everytime a play needed to be made, they delivered. McGahee was in his full glory, practically juking the poor Houston corners into the turf. Even Losman was better than all the pundits expected. All that in the throwbackjerseys.
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So*, can someone tell me if my 49ers stand a chance of not getting creamed this year? I'm not asking for a championship, just a decent season, so that I can get my Colts-following boyfriend to stop laughing at me behind (and in front of) my back. Posts: 2409 | Registered: Sep 2003
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The Vikes are trying a new approach. Instead of starting out strong (6-0, 5-1) and then ending weak, they are going to start out weak and end weak.
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Almost guaranteed that the most overrated teams going into any season are going to be the Vikings, Broncos, and Cardinals.
Serious thought about Bledsoe for a sec... I think I see why he gets sacked so much-- he's careful. He holds on to the ball a long time and doesn't try to force it. After having a few seasons of young and old quarterbacks making bad decisions, I'll take a sack over an interception every time (Cowboys were the most intercepted team in the league last year... expect that to change significantly).
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Wow, what a weekend. Out of the sixteen games this week, the underdogs won what 10 of them? And that's before the Monday Night game?
The Saints played a really solid game and could be something special this year. Heck, over the past five seasons, they've been statistically better on the road than at home. Plus, this tragedy might be what pulls this team together. They've always had the right pieces, just missing something...
Heck, I'm a die-hard Carolina fan and I was pulling for them a little bit yesterday. Of course, we lost Kris Jenkins our DT yesterday to a torn ACL. Lost him last year with a shoulder injury. Sure hope we aren't going down the same path as last year.
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Keep Abusing Steve Smith like that and you might...
I was amazed to see the way they went to him yesterday, even after he'd been shaken up a couple of times... not just calling his number, but high, long throws that laid him open to some mean shots.
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He was uncoverable yesterday. I was praying they wouldn't go to him anymore, because he was beating McKenzie like a drum.
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Actually, Smith gets knocked around on a lot of his catches anyway. 5' 8" and about a buck and three-quarters in weight means any time he gets hit, he gets laid out pretty well.
But the hard part is catching him once he has the ball. And he is one mean lil cuss. Definitely not my favorite guy on the team.
I was surprised the Colbert was pretty silent yesterday. The Saints #2 cover man must be pretty good.
I was just happiest to see Stephen Davis back to his old self. He churns out a bunch of three yarders for three quarters of punishment, then whammo!
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Fakhir Brown, and yeah, he's pretty good. He's faster than Colbert, but not as strong.
Brown was actually covering Smith more in the second half, which left McKenzie on Colbert. That's a tough matchup for Keary (I love that guy).
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Re: Smith, I just meant that at some point, someone should have started calling quick outs or something instead of those deep jump balls... just to preserve the guy.
That was an enjoyable game, though, and a happy ending for the sentimental favorite, to boot.
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You're not like the poor guy on the Dallas Cowboy fanlist who had Culpepper and Bledsoe and played Culpepper, are you? Posts: 3846 | Registered: Apr 2004
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I like the attention that Steve Smith is getting. He's one of my boys from the University of Utah. He was awfully exciting to watch back then. His senior season, he actually played with a fractured neck (they didn't know until afterward).
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Me, my favorite is still Jake Delhomme. One year he's the back up quarterback for the Amsterdam Admirals after sitting on the Saints' bench for three years. He was actually loading trucks for UPS for a while.
Then he gets picked up by Carolina as Rodney Peete's backup and gets thrown into the first game of the year with Carolina down by three touchdowns at the half.
He pulled out a win and took over the starting position. Then he quietly missed beating the Patriots in the Super Bowl by one bad kick-off.
Gotta love a story like that.
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I live in Lafayette. You should hear the Delhomme worship around here. Same story in college. He was an unrecruited backup who came into the first or second game of the year trailing by 3 touchdowns in the 4th quarter, led them to victory, and started the rest of his career.
He's one of those guys who isn't physically imposing, but all he does is win. Has, ever since high school.
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Well, The Eagles are guaranteed to be at least tied for the basement for two weeks, even if they win and everyone else loses Posts: 3846 | Registered: Apr 2004
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Texans line from Sunday - Five turnovers, five sacks, 120 yards of total offense.
I'm sorry, but calling that clicking on all cylinders is a crime against nature.
The Bills D is top 5 in the league, for sure, but the Texans stunk it up. Gotta get Domanick Davis going early or Carr will get blitzed into oblivion.
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The Texans really need an offensive line rather than that set of turnstiles they have now. Poor Carr, it's going to be a loooong and painful year for him.
He's a good quarterback, but it's hard to do much laying on your back watching the pretty birdies.
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Okay, so does anyone want to start a survivor pool?
A survivor pool is basically where a set group all announce their one guaranteed winner for the week. If the team you say wins, you're in again next week. If your team loses, you're out.
The difficulty is that you can only use a team once during the season. If you pick the Steelers this week, and they win, you're safe but you can't use the Steelers again this season.
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Didn't Culpepper also have 5 INTs? That's crazy.
And another bad day for the NFC North. You know it's going to be a long season when the Bears take the early division lead...
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Well, I have to confess Mr. Warner is looking better than I thought he would... and I'm having a little trouble with the Denver game because either Denver is better than I want them to be, or the Chragers are not as solid a defense as I gave them credit for... and I'm not sure which pleases me less.
Props to Carolina.
I *do* think, though, that after tonight I'm gonna be up two games on you and I think that's gonna be a hard deficit for the Cards to overcome, even with the rest of the season to play.
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Carolina pulled that one out, but we really had some serious mistakes. The Pats, well, I'm not sure the Emperor is really wearing clothes. Their special teams are really bad.
I'm really surprised by the Bears, they might have a good shot at their division. I'm not sure that's a kudos to Da Bears as much as it is exasperation at their division mates.
And I believe Joey Harrington will get the hook about the time Jeff Garcia gets back from the broken leg. Or maybe sooner. Jeff George anyone? I hear he's available.
I'm picking the Cowboys and the Giants tonight (although the Saints are hard to pick against).
And I never thought I'd be saying, Wow! about the Bengals.
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I guess it's not like we didn't see this coming... Young and Rice, Manning and Harrison, Mark Brunnell and Santana Moss-- those all-time great touchdown combinations... </sarcasm>
I *will* give my team that even the announcers were mystified at the referee's 4th quarter decision that it was illegal for Flozell Adams to pancake his block...
But you have to win those. You don't give up the same deep TD play twice in 2 mins. You don't get a 48 yd kick return with the game on the line and come away with nothing. You don't control the game for 56 minutes and have less than two touchdowns to show for it -- not if you're a winning team. Hopefully an object lesson for them.
In the meantime, enjoy being undefeated, Dag
P.S. -- This is probably my payback for gloating at being at the big '79 comeback game with Redskins fans.
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