Comments for The NFL this week

The NFL this week

2008-09-26T15:04:07Z

Alright so a moratorium on dissing the Lions. So what are we looking at this week guys? While you think on that, check out this sick one-handed catch.

Comment from DougEFresh on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T15:15:48Z

Thank God Millen is gone, or that guy from Morgan St. would have been the Lion's first round pick.

Comment from KevDog on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T15:18:24Z

That ain't shit, I did that on blacktop back in middle school. Right after I swam the English Channel and invented the Internet.

Comment from Tyler on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T15:23:17Z

KevDog: Uh oh, now Al Gore is going to come and kick your ass!

Comment from KevDog on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T15:26:04Z

Uh oh, now Al Gore is going to come and kick your ass!

I love the man, but Al has gotten a little big to be chasing anyone these days. I think I can take him now.

Comment from Matt J on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T15:27:28Z

2 TDs for Felix Jones.

Comment from Elizabeth on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T15:28:55Z

That was sweet! Thanks for posting, TNC. I never would have seen it otherwise.

Comment from Curtis on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T15:56:09Z

The Chiefs are actually going to get a win this weekend and beat the Broncos.

Comment from SpottieOttieDopaliscious on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T16:32:47Z

Why the moratorium? After all, the Lions still employ Jon Kitna, who has predicted we would win ten games for the last two seasons. he's right- between last year's 7-9, and this year's 3-13, we have a decent shot at winning ten games. Total.

Comment from Deborah on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T17:27:28Z

So what are we looking at this week guys?
Something that will make a great analogy to whatever's happening in politics. Lord knows I was grateful to those who developed "It would be like the Patriots claiming that they won the Super Bowl because they had more first downs, when clearly the Giants would have played differently if someone had told them that halfway through points wouldn't count and first downs would."

Comment from ty on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T17:31:19Z

I'm looking forward to the Redskins beating TNC's Cowboys.

Comment from SeanH on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T17:43:00Z

Redskins-Cowboys looks like the big game Sunday and Steelers-Ravens should be good since the Ravens seem to have their mojo back on defense.

As a Bronco fan I'm nervous that Curtis could be right. KC always gives Denver fits at Arrowhead. Either KC will win or Dever's going to just crush them and hang nearly 60 points on them. Nothing in between.

Comment from SeanH on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T17:44:05Z

Oops. Forgot to say that catch was just sick.

Comment from blackink on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T18:19:36Z

I saw Morgan State roll through Howard for a serious ass-whipping about 10 years ago. Trust me, MSU didn't have anyone making catches like that on that day.

Speaking of Millen missteps, did you all see that Joey Harrington was released five days after signing with the Saints? Wow. What the hell happened to that guy?

Comment from Curtis on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T18:32:53Z

I agree back with SeanH that Denver could absolutely destroy KC. Maybe that would even be the expected outcome.

But while Huard is a piece of crap, he is actually a quarterback in 2008 as opposed to some clown they are hoping could be a piece of crap in time for the mid-term elections. I just have a suspicion about that game.

As for blackink's question, he was drafted by Millen, who has the same touch as Donald Sterling.

Comment from Adolphus on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T20:01:46Z

I have an NFL quandary for this group. I bring it up because I like this group and respect your opinion.

I grew up in Baltimore and one of my fondest childhood memories was my dad taking me to a Colts-Chiefs game. I watched each game religiously. Colts left town and I had no one to watch on TV. (Redskins are not an option for Colts fans, they aren't) When the Ravens started playing I was reticent at first cuz they did to Cleveland what the Colts did to Baltimore, but it was nice to have a team to watch each Sunday with some excitement and ultimately made room for them in my week. (Super Bowl win didn't hurt)

Now I live in Florida. I can't get Ravens games here. I still follow them and root for them. I love them no less. But there is something about having a team you can watch play on a weekly basis that is special. You get to know the players, the coaches, hell you even become familiar with the medics who rush onto the field during an injury. (fancy cable, TiVo, satellite or other TV packages are not an option. I am a graduate student with a very small stipend. Basic cable is all I can afford.)

So who would you root for if your choices were Jax, Mami, or Tampa Bay? That's what we get here. I am not looking for the winningest team here. That can ebb and flow from one year to the next. I am looking for the team that would be the most fun to root for and not have to hold my nose to do it. (Like with the Ravens at times)

And I will admit it is nice to go to a school with winning sports (go Gators). My undergrad was UMBC and we didn't even have a football team and our basketball team oft times couldn't even put a full team on the court.

So what do you think. Forcd to choose a team to root for each week between Miami, Tampa Bay, or Jacksonville which would you choose?

And remember winning isn't everything.

Comment from ty on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T20:55:27Z

Ado: Miami's gotta be it, right? Great history, and super low expectations, so you get to feel pleasantly surprised at each good game.

Comment from cd on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T20:55:44Z

I like Jets/Cards, steelers/ravens, boys/skins (though it will be a blow out, i have barber and jones on my fantasy team). Giants have a bye this week, then will win 3 straight against seahawks, browns, niners, and be 6-0 sitting undefeated atop the best division in football before going into Pittsburgh. Can you say repeat?

Comment from SeanH on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T20:59:08Z

Forcd to choose a team to root for each week between Miami, Tampa Bay, or Jacksonville which would you choose?

I'd go with the Jags. I'm from Nebraska so good D and a nice run game fits my notion of what good football looks like and makes me happy. Also, Maurice Jones-Drew is a freaking pinball so you'll have an individual player that's consistently fun to watch.

Comment from Andrew Fly on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T21:37:12Z

So who would you root for if your choices were Jax, Miami, or Tampa Bay?

Go with the Bucs. I used to live in Tampa, but was never a fan since I moved there from RI. Bucs fans are nuts; unlike Miami or Jax, Bucs games are always packed and partying. And that team was so bad for so long that the fans appreciate good football. And they play consistently good defense if that's what you are into.

Tampa . . . BAY!

Comment from Tiparillo on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T23:08:27Z

NFL? It's only Friday, man, lots of time before I start thinking about that.

Anyway here in Oregon we haven't stopped chanting "Quizz, Quizz, Quizz" yet.

Comment from Tom on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T23:20:05Z

One last note on the dissed Lions. The New York Times report on Millen's getting the boot says that the Lions have been in only one playoff game since Wm. Clay Ford bought the team.

No no no, dammit! He bought the club in '64, and since then the Lions have made to the postseason 10 times!

Okay, they've only WON a single playoff game, sure. But credit where it's due...

Comment from JoePo on 2008-09-26

2008-09-27T00:01:50Z

Curtis, bless your prognosticating heart. I've loved the Chiefs for years. I live in Wyoming, we actually got the Chiefs-Falcons game last week, and I found myself cursing whoever chose to broadcast the game up here. I remember the St. Louis Rams of Chris Miller, Tony Banks, Larry Phillips, and Craig Heyward, and it was never this bad. It's hard to take. It's not that they're rebuilding, it's that by playing guys like Tyler Thigpen, they were basically admitting they weren't even trying to win. Pull some of that Dolphins shit from last week, I don't care. This has me pining for even the darker days of the Schottenheimer era.

I know the record isn't entirely his fault, but they need to be rid of Herm Edwards. Let him fire up a high school or college team like Pete Carroll, he just does not belong in the NFL.

Comment from Raul Arotor on 2008-09-26

2008-09-27T00:42:19Z

The cathc was nice...but the WS Cheerleaders were better:)))) Wow!