Are You Ready for Some Football - Week 11

[-Jrabbit]

Bizarre stat of the week -- Krenzel and Roethlisberger win again.

Rookie QBs remain undefeated as starters in the NFL this year.

[Tassadar500]

Roethlisberger

[JohnT]

I don't like showboating all that much, but sometimes it's funny and it makes a point.

I'm watching the Cleveland Baltimore game, and it's

... d'oh! A 7 yard punt! Ravens ball on the Browns 8 yard line!

anyway, it's middle of the fourth quarter and the Ravens have the Browns backed up against

... Lewis just scored. 19-13.

their goal line. On 3rd and impossible Jeff Garcia is in the end zone and throws the ball away just as he's tackled for a near-safety.

The man who tackled him offered Garcia his hand, to help him off the field. Jeff, a bit shaken up, doesn't realize it for a split second but then reaches up, grabbing his opponents hand, and pulls himself upright.

Except it doesn't happen. As soon as the hands touched, the Baltimore player removed his hand, high-fiving an approaching teammate. Garcia rolled back onto the field as the expected support never materialized.

Now usually I would be thinking the guy is being a putz for removing his hand, but in this instance I think it was a smart thing to do: The QB is the leader of the opposing team. Anything you can do to shake his confidence (especially given that they are the 2nd most protected position in football) helps your team.

Now it could be counterargued that doing such a thing could inspire a team for having its quarterback so righteously dissed, that, newly inspired, Cleveland will roar back, erase the current 20-13 lead (4:18 left in the 4th), and show Baltimore what the Browns think of such cheap shots as that.

But they won't. Because it's the Cleveland Browns. Because it's Jeff Garcia. Just watch.

[JohnT]

Garcia throws 105 yard interception return for a TD!

Actually, it bounced off the receivers hands... it wasn't like he threw straight at the defender. Longest INT return in Ravens history, btw.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by JohnT
IThe man who tackled him offered Garcia his hand, to help him off the field. Jeff, a bit shaken up, doesn't realize it for a split second but then reaches up, grabbing his opponents hand, and pulls himself upright.

Except it doesn't happen. As soon as the hands touched, the Baltimore player removed his hand, high-fiving an approaching teammate. Garcia rolled back onto the field as the expected support never materialized.

Now usually I would be thinking the guy is being a putz for removing his hand, but in this instance I think it was a smart thing to do: The QB is the leader of the opposing team. Anything you can do to shake his confidence (especially given that they are the 2nd most protected position in football) helps your team.

He wasn't showing up Garcia, he wasn't even looking at Garcia and decided that Garcia wasn't going to take his hand so he went to celebrate wtih his teammates. He was looking at his teammates while holding out his hand.

ACK!

ACK!

[JohnT]

Naw, I disagree. Garcia touched his hand and the player pulled it away as soon as that happened.

[Tuberski]

He walked away from Garcia, it was lousy timing for Garcia, that's all.

ACK!

[JohnT]

Well... yeah. That's the point, to belittle your opponent.

[Tuberski]

He walked away because Garcia didn't put his hand up quickly enough. Not because he was trying to belittle him.

He was showing sportsmanship.....just wasn't paying attention to the person he was showing that sportsmanship to.

ACK!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yay... Pittsburgh! They looked very nice. Roethlisburger is throwing well and not making many mistakes. Cowher is out coaching EVERYONE and he's got the O-Line and RBs in order to run his power running attack that he loves to do.

[Ben Kenobi]

How 'bout dem

SUPER CHARGERS!

Looks like the AFC West is now a two team race.

[-Jrabbit]

Is the Poly Fantasy League falling by the wayside? At least 3, maybe 4 teams had players on bye weeks in their starting lineups this week.

WTF is up with that? Did everyone just stop caring?
Where's the comaraderie? Where's the trash-talking?
C'mon, guys!

This is my first year in this league. Is this how it normally goes???

[Ming]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
This is my first year in this league. Is this how it normally goes???

Yep...

The problem with most fantasy leagues is that some of the people that get off to a bad start just stop making changes and playing. And some people just don't realize that it's more effort than just the draft. While occassionaly somebody who is playing on a regular basis and does actually care, does end up not updating his team for a given week... it's usually more a matter of people just not playing anymore... which really sucks for the those who do care. It's really unfair when it's coming down to the end of the season, and you have to play somebody who is paying attention, while somebody you are fighting with for a playoff spot is playing some jerk who hasn't replaced his injured QB in weeks.

The best you can really do is just play in leagues where you know people. My daughter plays in random Yahoo leagues, and half way through the season, about 1/2 the teams have stopped making any changes....

It's typical for one person to just give up, or not be able to keep things up to date for personal reasons... but when you have a quarter of the league not interested this early in the season... you've got a problem.

[Japher]

I count of the slackers to get my wins

[Richelieu]

The Bills "D" has been there all year long and they finally have a ground attack to show for.

If they can just keep on giving Bledsoe a little time... [Dream mode] they could take a run at the Jets. [/Dream mode]

Bills!