NFL - Are You Ready For Some Football?! - Off Season

[MOBIUS]

I saw this waiver order:

http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/30725/nfl-waiver-claim-order

What's interesting about it is it shows each team's schedule strength so far. I know the team in question's wins and losses have a strong effect on the opposition record this early in the year, but still interesting to note that the toughest schedule so far has been Buffalo's (.667) and the easiest was Kansas City (.380). KC's remaining schedule is a joke so I guess they're going to make the playoffs after all, even with their crappy QB and WR.

I have this feeling that Buffalo are going to explode out of the blocks in the 2nd half of the season.

[Al B. Sure!]

I have this feeling that Buffalo are going to explode out of the blocks in the 2nd half of the season.

You would think so but their schedule doesn't get any easier... Who in the League wanted to give Buffalo a hard way to go?
Their remaining opponents: Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Cleveland, Miami, New England, New York Jets

MAYBE they could beat Detroit and Cleveland... possibly even Chicago but I don't see them winning any of the other games.

[Tuberski]

I can see them winning 5 of the 8 remaining, maybe 6.

Buffalo, unlike some teams, Dallas (cough,cough), play their asses of for their coach.

ACK!

[Al B. Sure!]

Which 5? They're not going to beat Pittsburgh, New England, or the Jets. You really think they'll run the table on the rest of their opponents?

[MRT144]

Who was drafting every Chief he could find because of their easy schedule?

Chiefs aren't even your best players save Bowe who is your #2 reciever.

[Al B. Sure!]

Chiefs aren't even your best players save Bowe who is your #2 reciever.

He has Jamaal Charles.

Bowe has been fluky as hell. He's been scoring TD's which has skyrocketed his fantasy value but he is terrible otherwise.

I mean seriously, not to mention all the drops, here's his stats:

1-13
4-45
2-61
2-33
6-108 (against Houston)
3-81 (against Jacksonville)
3-16

It's just he has 6 TD's in only 7 games. He's averaging 3 catches for 51 yards per game.

[Al B. Sure!]

The Moss Saga just got stranger!

Randy Moss, who is expected to be waived by the Minnesota Vikings on Tuesday, may have alienated some teammates when he roundly criticized a post-practice meal in front of the local restaurant owners who catered it, Yahoo! Sports reported.

Every Friday, the Vikings invite a local establishment to cater the team's post-practice meal. Last Friday, it was a St. Paul restaurant -- a favorite of former Vikings center Matt Birk -- that served chicken, pasta, ribs and other dishes.

While his teammates lined up to dig in, Moss lashed out, according to the report.

Moss yelled "What the [expletive]? Who ordered this crap? I wouldn't feed this to my dog," a player who witnessed the incident said, according to Yahoo! Sports.

The player who witnessed Moss' food tirade called it "an uncomfortable moment," adding that he felt Moss deserved to be cut after the incident, Yahoo! Sports reported.

"This wasn't a chain -- it was a mom-and-pop restaurant, and you could tell it was their best stuff," the witness said, according to the report. "And [Moss] is at his locker saying, 'You know, I used to have to eat that crap -- but now I've got money.' You just felt so sad for them. I had never seen anyone treated like that.

"And by the way, the food was actually really good."

A source who was at a team meeting on Monday, in which Childress informed the Vikings that Moss would be leaving, said it was clear the coach was referring to Moss' criticism of the locker-room meal when he said "This just doesn't fit with how we treat people, how we talk to people and how we act," according to Yahoo! Sports.

HOLY ****

[MRT144]

Forte has been better than charles.

Edit:Actually, Charles has been more consistent in his scoring than Forte.

[Al B. Sure!]

That's a lesson... never criticize food. wow.

It's probably just an example of the fact that Moss really has been frustrated and didn't want to be in Minnesota. It sounds like someone taking out his frustrations on anything he can.

[Al B. Sure!]

Forte has been better than charles.

Edit:Actually, Charles has been more consistent in his scoring than Forte.

That's because Forte is all TD's. I'd rather have the steady 100+ all-purpose yards that Charles provides than the 50 yards and maybe a TD of Forte, even if in the end of the year, Forte would've given me more total points.

[MRT144]

That's because Forte is all TD's. I'd rather have the steady 100+ all-purpose yards that Charles provides than the 50 yards and maybe a TD of Forte, even if in the end of the year, Forte would've given me more total points.

Forte has been doing really well in the format we play in though.

[Al B. Sure!]

Forte has been doing really well in the format we play in though.

Yeah but Charles gets a lot of catches, too. The difference is Charles has only scored twice whereas as Forte has 6 TDs. Those 4 TDs (24 points) more than accounts for the 5.8 fantasy point difference between them.

[ColdWizard]

Quarterback JaMarcus Russell worked out for the Washington Redskins on Tuesday as he looks to resurrect his NFL career.

At the same time, the Redskins continued to try to explain why their incumbent starter, Donovan McNabb, was pulled in the fourth quarter of Sunday's game against Detroit. Offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan, the head coach's son, said that McNabb had been hampered by bad hamstrings and was told in advance that he could be pulled from the game.

Head coach Mike Shanahan has given a variety of explanations for why McNabb was pulled from the game, citing backup quarterback Rex Grossman's knowledge of the team's two-minute offense and McNabb's physical condition.

"The cardiovascular endurance that it takes to run a two-minute, going all the way down with no timeouts, calling plays, it's just not easy." Shanahan said on Monday.. "If I thought it was the best situation to do, then Donovan would have run the two-minute offense."

Tuesday, McNabb took the high road, saying: "Coach makes the decisions. I can only say how I feel and what I feel think is best for me."

Later, McNabb said: "I'm just ready to move on, focus on what I have to do after the bye week."[...]

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[Al B. Sure!]

So now McNabb doesn't have cardiovascular endurance?! First Shanahan questioned McNabb's mental abilities. Now, he's questioning his physical. McNabb actually is only on a 1-year contract, believe it or not. Is Minnesota in his future (with or without Childress)? Arizona?

Oh and this is my 450th post in this thread

[MRT144]

It kills me that Jawalrus is being considered over mcnabb. It's something I dont get.