NFL - Are you Ready For Some Football?! - Six Weeks Till Playoffs!

[Jaguar]

Their must win was like three weeks ago, dude.

Fire Norv. He totally and singlehandedly dismantled the most talented team in football.

[Grandpa Troll]

The Interception Bowl

Well, about to bust on Sage, but now have to include Garrard





By the way, Sage, your killing us Houston fans

[Ben Kenobi]

Fire Norv. He totally and singlehandedly dismantled the most talented team in football.

It's pretty hard to take a superbowl contender and turn it into a 4-8 squad, but Norv Turner managed to do so.

All their troubles and suffering go back to that one decision, to fire Marty Schottenheimer after going 14-2. No good would come out of that decision, and they will continue to suffer until Norv goes.

I just hope they can get LT a ring.

[DirtyMartini]

chargers firing norv = cowboys firing parcells

disciplinarian coach brings discipline to team and leads them to brink of success. team fires disciplinarian for failure to close deal, brings in "players coach". 1st year under "players coach", team thrives under more lax management, but still benefits from previously instilled discipline. Team breaks through, making playoffs or getting past first round or whatever. 2nd year under "players coach", his ineptness overcomes discipline instilled under prior regime and team crumbles like a dried turd.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by DirtyMartini
chargers firing norv = cowboys firing parcells

disciplinarian coach brings discipline to team and leads them to brink of success. team fires disciplinarian for failure to close deal, brings in "players coach". 1st year under "players coach", team thrives under more lax management, but still benefits from previously instilled discipline. Team breaks through, making playoffs or getting past first round or whatever. 2nd year under "players coach", his ineptness overcomes discipline instilled under prior regime and team crumbles like a dried turd.

Cowboys didn't fire Parcells, he "retired".

The Cowboys also haven't imploded like the Bolts.

ACK!

[Ben Kenobi]

Yeah, thank the Chargers for getting you Wade.

[SlowwHand]

Browns may overtake Detroit for 1st pick in the draft yet.

BEREA, Ohio -- Derek Anderson's season is officially over, yet another slap for the down-on-their-luck Cleveland Browns.

Anderson, who lost his starting job to Brady Quinn several weeks ago, will miss the final four games after tearing a ligament in his left knee on Sunday against Indianapolis.

An MRI taken Monday revealed Anderson tore the medial collateral ligament when he was sacked in the final minutes of Cleveland's 10-6 loss to the Colts. Anderson, making his first start since Nov. 2 after being benched for Quinn, will not need surgery. He will be placed in a brace and will need four to six weeks to recover.

[Lord Avalon]

I can see firing Schottenheimer, if he didn't see eye-to-eye with the GM, but damn, you gotta hire a good replacement. He should have known Norv Turner was the wrong choice - he had already failed as a head coach.

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Browns may overtake Detroit for 1st pick in the draft yet.

Um, what? You do realize that Cleveland has won 4 games, and the Lions would have to win all the rest of their games just to get to 4?

Were you maybe thinking of Cincy? They're 1-10-1. So the Lions would have to win two games. I don't see it happening.

[Zopperoni]

The rise and fall of Michael Vick in numbers:

Amount jailed star quarterback Michael Vick spent from July '06 to July '08, according to recent bankruptcy papers: $17.7 million. Amount of that time he was in prison: 8 months.

Total amount of checks he wrote his mother, Brenda Boddie—not counting all her bills he paid—even while in prison: $21,400.

Amount he donated to her church: $327,900.

Amount he gave her for an Easter egg hunt: $700.

Number of Reese's Chocolate Easter Eggs that would buy: 5,259.

Amount of the check he wrote to Boddie labeled "chump change": $1,000.

Amount Vick was sentenced to pay to house and care for the 47 pit bulls he and his buddies didn't drown, strangle, hang, shoot, or electrocute for not winning fights: $928,073.

Average pay, per hour, of Vick's pit bulls' caregivers at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah: $14.

Pay, per hour, Vick gets for washing pots and pans at Leavenworth: 12 cents.

Cost of a bottle of Shelter Blend Flower Essence aromatherapy used for "anxious, worried or easily stressed" dogs at the sanctuary: $27.50.

Number of hours Vick would have to work to afford a bottle of Flower Essence: 230.

Cost of a bottle of "Vicktory" wine with a painting of one of the rescued dogs on the label: $40.

Cost of a tin of tuna at some federal prison commissaries: 23 cents.

Number of cars Vick owned at one time: 9, including the '07 Land Rover for his fiancée; the '07 Cadillac Escalade for his fiancée's mother; the '07 Land Rover for his brother Marcus; the '08 Mercedes Benz for his financial advisor, David Talbot; the '06 Cadillac DTS for his pal Rodney White; and the '07 Ford F-150 he drove himself.

Ironic name of the Lincoln Mercury dealership Vick continues to make car payments to, despite sitting in jail: Freedom.

Sticker price of the '07 Infiniti Vick bought for his fiancée to keep in Leavenworth so she has something to drive while visiting him in prison: $65,000.

Cost of a cab from the Kansas City airport to the prison: $60.

Odds of seeing this ad soon on eBay—Like new 2007 Infiniti truck. Only driven by girlfriend twice a month on prison visits. Honest!: 1-1.

Amount Charles Reamon, Jr., a friend Vick put in charge of his finances while in prison, went through: over $3 million.

Percent of that money accounted for: 0. Amount New York bankruptcy attorney Peter Ginsberg alleges Vick's business manager Mary Wong "wrongfully removed" from Vick's accounts: $900,000.

Percent of that money accounted for: 0.

Number of Vick's financial advisors who wound up being charged for fraud in unrelated cases: 1.

Number of boats Vick owned at one time: 2.

Number of racehorses he had an interest in at one time: 5.

Number of his racehorses that died of colic: 1.

Money invested in that horse: $60,000.

Name of man who takes care of his horses: Unknown to Vick.

Amount he's paid man who takes care of his horses: $0.

Amount mysteriously categorized as "miscellaneous" over two years: $3.5 million.

Number of fake Dasani water bottle "safes" with hidden compartments that would buy: 116,861.

Amount Vick took as "cash out": $1,112,664.

Number of $400 ATM withdraws, including $2.50 service charge, that would require: 2,764.

Number of ATMs in Leavenworth penitentiary: 0.

Amount of deal Vick signed with the Falcons in 2004, making him the highest paid player in the league at the time: $130 million.

Monthly average salary in the Arena Football League, where Vick will probably end up playing when he's released on July 20: $7,000.

Vick's ongoing cost to support his fiancée, their two daughters, his brother, his mother, a former girlfriend and his son with her, per month: $20,000.

Amount Vick still owes banks in Toronto, South Bend, and Charlotte, for loans he took to invest in a car rental franchise, a wine store/restaurant, and other businesses: $6 million.

Total amount listed as "loan payment" over two years: $33,523.

Amount of judgment against Vick that he still owes former agent Andrew Joel: $4.5 million.

Amount Vick still owes the Atlanta Falcons from his signing bonus: $3.75 million.

Amount the NFL attempted to recoup from Vick's bonus money: $16.25 million.

Useful name Vick might need when he's released: Ron Mexico.

Number of homes Vick owned at one time: 4.

Number he lives in now: 0.

Unfortunate name of the investment firm Vick sunk $245,000 into: Leake.

From: http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/st...ine&id=3726426

[Imran Siddiqui]

Just wanted to quote this

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
I don't see any reason why a Chargers team firing on all cylinders can't blow out such powerhouses like Oakland, KC and Atlanta.

[rah]

Don't worry, he'll argue the definition of "firing on all cylinders"

[Zopperoni]

We already went from "firing all cylinders" to "firing Norv Turner"...

[Lord Avalon]

Giants put Burress on non-football injury list, ending his season

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress is done for the year.

The Giants fined and suspended Burress on Tuesday after he accidentally shot himself in the right thigh over the weekend at a Manhattan nightclub.

The wide receiver was charged with illegal weapons possession Monday, and on Tuesday the Giants placed him on the reserve non-football injury list.

[Ben Kenobi]

I don't see any reason why a Chargers team firing on all cylinders can't blow out such powerhouses like Oakland, KC and Atlanta.

I stand by that statement. This should have been a statement game.

The fact that they lost despite 3 turnovers, means that Norv Turner is gone.

As for the choice, I wanted Rex Ryan as HC. He might still get it, since he's still a coordinator now.

Cam Cameron, Rex Ryan and Ron Rivera.