NFL - Are you ready for some Football - Week 4

[-Jrabbit]

Snoopy, I apologize for the tone.

But your contention is purely laughable. "Gets them a little tired?"??
Come on!!! This is FOOTBALL!!!!

...the kicker is unaware of the timeout being taken. That causes the kick to take place, which tires out the kicker, the snapper, and the holder some, puts more stress on the kicker mentally, and for some reason seems to regularly work...

1. If the kicker is unaware, more fool him.
2. Tires them out?? HAHAHAHAHAHA! PLEASE. It's a physical sport. I would argue that the holder/kicker/long snapper (who admittedly must block) have perhaps the LEAST physically demanding jobs on the field. And they do them far less often than the offensive and defensive elevens. If they can't handle the physical demands of running the play an extra time and/or lack the mental toughness to execute it, they should not be playing pro sports for a living. It's SUPPOSED to be a physical and mental challenge.

I consider it a poor thing to allow - not necessarily unfair in the sense that it can certainly happen to either team, but bad for the game in that it is an out of game tactic that impacts the play on the field.

3. It's no more an "out of game tactic" than clock management. It's a strategic use of the timeout. It's called good coaching. Sounds to me like you hate the simple fact that it works. If a team's field goal unit is its achilles heel, it's the opposing coach's job to exploit/expose it.

[Ben Kenobi]

Playoffs? You mean the second round?

Chargers can't get past New England or Indianapolis from what I see.

It's a long season.

If the Bolts get the 2 seed, mighty hard to face each other in the second round.

Indy has 2 games against Houston, Jacksonville and Tennessee. We have Denver, KC and Oakland.

[Imran Siddiqui]

But the Bolts won't get the 2 seed, that's the thing .

You keep forgetting that you are head coached by Norv Turner.

[Ben Kenobi]

And LT is the worst RB in the league.

Right.

14 more games, and not everyone has Brady and Moss. Some teams rely on the run.

[-Jrabbit]

I don't see any real threat of a loss in the NE schedule for the first half of the season. Their division lloks weak. Dallas? Don't think so. In fact, if they get past Indy in week 9 and stay healthy, the Pats look like they could run the table. I hope I'm wrong. But after the supposedly tough openers against New Orleans and San Diego, I don't see much competition for them in the regular season.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Jesus Christ, the Pats are impressive... why did they need to violate the rules again (then again, you can probably ask the same of Sammy Sosa corking his bat, and scores of others)?

For the same reason I already said: he thought he could justify it using the letter of the rule. I suspect he'd have been right if Tags was still around. I mean really, they showed where it was legal to have cameras on the broadcast tonight...the only difference between what those cameras can be doing and what was deemed illegal by the league is where they were. The league doesn't care what you're taping as long as the tapes are somewhere that the team does not have access to them during the game. Belichick tried to stretch the point by having the cameraman down on the sidelines but just not analyzing the tapes during the same game they were recorded and he got smacked for it.

As for the game, the best line off a Pats board was: "NBC will be hearing from the FCC tomorrow as they just devoted three hours of national television time to 53 guys shouting **** YOU! at the top of their lungs." This defense might be pretty good when Seymour and Harrison come back. Gostkowski is a little scary, though.

[Ben Kenobi]

I don't see any real threat of a loss in the NE schedule for the first half of the season. Their division lloks weak. Dallas? Don't think so. In fact, if they get past Indy in week 9 and stay healthy, the Pats look like they could run the table. I hope I'm wrong. But after the supposedly tough openers against New Orleans and San Diego, I don't see much competition for them in the regular season.

NO?

You mean the NY Jets?

They looked good. However, you have to remember, is that they didn't run on us till garbage time and by then the game was out of hand.

What happens when they run into a strong secondary? They are a good team, I see them going 6-0 in the division, but they won't beat Manning and the Colts.

[Japher]

despite the fact that I had benched Jamal Lewis to start Barber and Rudi I still won my fantasy league so...

HAHAHA BENGALS!!!

My neighbor across the street is a big Bengals fan and he watches the games in his garage, with the door open, and blows an air horn whenever they score.

My neighbor to the left of me is a big Browns fan and would scream "Go Brownies" whenever they would score.

After the game one neighbor was quiet and the other was horse.

[-Jrabbit]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
NO?

You mean the NY Jets?

I stand corrected.

[SlowwHand]

Get your crying towels ready for next Monday.

[-Jrabbit]

It's a scary matchup. The Bears can make good offenses look bad and bad defenses look good -- so the game could be low-scoring or a shootout. I expect it to be close.

[Lord Avalon]

McNabb has thrown high more than a couple times, methinks.

[SlowwHand]

Eagles need to ride Westbrook, run and catch...more.

[Lord Avalon]

Skins drove down to 2, got out of bounds, 0:14 left. Then delay of game, false start, another false start. Then a TD pass. Go figure.

[b etor]

i can't watch. it's not on my tv