Sunday football open thread
by JasonB on Dec 14, 2008 11:11 AM EST
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There's two major matchups of interest to Eagles fans today. The big one is Tampa Bay at the Atlanta Falcons. A Falcon loss today is all the Eagles need to regain full control over their own destiny. If Atlanta loses and the Eagles win out they absolutely will be in the playoffs.
So, go Bucs!
The other game of interest is of course the Sunday night division battle in Dallas between the Cowboys and Giants. The Eagles don't need Dallas to lose since a win over them in week 17 would vault them over the Cowboys if both teams win out, but still a little breathing room is always nice. A loss by Dallas would drop them to 8-6 and behind the Eagles in the wildcard race. The Eagles would also take over second place in the NFC east.
So, go Giants!
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Playoff Implications Create Strange Bedfellows
I can’t believe I have to root for the Bucs…
And I can’t wait to watch the post-game interviews if Dallas loses tonight.
I find it a little less distasteful to root for the Bucs than I used to because of Garcia.
And as for Giants-Cowboys, I think I Giants’ win, especially if TO only has a handful of catches, sets off the TO-plosion. Tick Tick Tick…BOOM.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
Around here...
They keep promoting this DC-Baltimore synergy in which the tv stations always air the other’s games. Hence, Baltimore’s Fox 45 will be showing Skins-Bungles instead of a good game like Tampa/Atlanta. Likewise, DC CBS Ch. 9 will always show Ravens instead of showing a better game. Luckily, Steelers/Ravens is a ‘good’ game – at least from a standpoint of records; I think it will be ugly. So I get to decide at 1 between Wsh/Cin or Buff/NYJ.
What a choice.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 12:27 PM EST reply actions
Cincy 7, Washington 0
On what I think was one of the best play-action bootleg sells I have ever seen. All 11 Redskins were going to the RB while the QB just ran around to the end zone untouched.
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14-0 Cincy
Skins give up a 79 yard screen pass and then a 15 yard fade pattern to The Criminal Chris Henry.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 1:33 PM EST up reply actions
since nobody's participating
over on Big Blue View, and I figure we share mutual dislike of the Redskins, allow me to say that they look awful. What the hell happened to Portis, who was carrying my fantasy team early on! Oh well, they’re gonna lose to the Bengals and be pretty much eliminated from playoff contention, and all those asses I go to school with (I’m in law school in DC) will finally be shut up.
Have lived around DC...
…for now about 20 years (although I am now technically closer to Baltimore in this little ‘vortex’ between the two cities). I loathe them and hope they lose every week. Zorn will be fired if the Skins don’t make it.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 1:44 PM EST up reply actions
Fuck
Doesn’t look like we’re going to be getting help from the Bucs today guys.
E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!!
We'll have to
Root for Philip Rivers and Tavaris next week methinks
by cavortingEagle on Dec 14, 2008 1:37 PM EST up reply actions
Bigger problem is that Atlanta’s only got Minnesota left away. They get a supersoft game for last game of the year against StL at home.
Yours wouldn’t be the only one. Their fans wouldn’t be able to handle it. ‘This is what a win feels like??’ -Explosion-
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 1:48 PM EST up reply actions
god dammit tampa!!!
why do they start to suck when we need them to be good??
i can’t see atlanta losing to minnesota, althought it could happen
I actually think tampa could lose to san diego next week if they keep this up…
GOD DAMNN ..Get in Damitt!
I hate having to rely on another teams charity to make it into the playoffs….
scenarios involving eagles winning out
Dallas and Wash are out of the Eagles’ way if Eagles win out no matter what, so things not under their control would be…
Carolina would have to lose all three remaining games (denver, at giants, at NO)
IF TB loses today, they would have to lose one to SD or Oakland.
IF Atl wins today, they would have to lose one to Minn or StL.
IF TB wins today/ATL loses today, the Eagles control their own destin
as an addendum to that, carolina would have to lose all three games left while TB or ATL (but not both) would have to go 11-5 and win the division. If both TB and ATL go 11-5, eagles are screwed
.....like i said
I hate having to rely on another teams charity to make it into the playoffs….
but,
What would December Eagles football be without it……
by E_A_G_L_E_S! on Dec 14, 2008 2:33 PM EST up reply actions
Well, charity case yes, but even if Atl wins today, there are 4 chances for the eagles to go ahead .of Atl or the Bucs, and the odds of them winning all 4 games isn’t that great in the NFL.
Atlanta’s been wildly inconsistent this year against better teams in the NFL, and TB will miss Garcia and Earnest Graham.
17-10 Cincy
The Bungles lapsed into prevent to allow DC back into the game.
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I’d like to point out that all of Washington’s wins were extremely close even against Detroit and Cleveland, and highly dependent on the run game to control the clock. Teams adjusted to Campbell and Portis and Washington hasn’t figured it out. Add coaching breakdown in the last week or so, and you have a recipe for disaster.
This team was overhyped.
I will certainly be slowing down to turn my head and stare.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 2:48 PM EST up reply actions
DAMMIT
brian greise sucks, after i heard the announcer say ‘play action’, i somehow knew it was gonna be picked without watching the TV in the other room
Crazy
I didn’t know that it also held cultural significance: it’s deeply disrespectful in Muslim culture to throw shoes at another person.
Man,
Who would think Bush could move that fast…..
by E_A_G_L_E_S! on Dec 14, 2008 3:09 PM EST up reply actions
Secret service is going to get a ass chewing
Thats a close call the shoe easily could have been something else…
by E_A_G_L_E_S! on Dec 14, 2008 3:12 PM EST up reply actions
That is wrong...
But I hear Tony Romo threw his shoes at TO. The first one was dropped by Owens and the second one was intercepted.
I bleed green and I piss silver and blue
Zing!
Reminds me of the joke about why T.O. didn’t die from his O.D.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 3:19 PM EST up reply actions
Cincy leading 17-10
Please hold on….I need my fix of the local radio trashing the Skins again, despite Dan Snyder’s ownership of the station.
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And Besides...
Listening to John Riggins trash Clinton Portis makes it all the more hilarious while Andy Polley smirks away and Sheehan pulls the butt-boy routine.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 3:37 PM EST up reply actions
freakin Matt Bryant
side note:
December 28, 1996 – Dallas’ last playoff win
February 10, 1997 – Mario Kart for Nintendo 64 is released
Of course Matt Bryant can hit a 60 yarder against the Eagles, but miss from 50+ indoors when you want him to make it.
by Baron Dainer Von Tresvant on Dec 14, 2008 3:40 PM EST reply actions
need a special teams miracle
Thats the only was the bucs are going to score…..
by E_A_G_L_E_S! on Dec 14, 2008 3:43 PM EST up reply actions
Ask and you shall receive
It is done, my son!!!!
by Baron Dainer Von Tresvant on Dec 14, 2008 3:44 PM EST up reply actions
And he's not a Falcons fan
If one of you guys slipped an extra fiver in the collection plate today, I thank you!
by Baron Dainer Von Tresvant on Dec 14, 2008 3:45 PM EST up reply actions
ouch -11
wish they just ran the blocked put in….
by E_A_G_L_E_S! on Dec 14, 2008 3:48 PM EST up reply actions
hard to be happy about that though
1st and 10 from the 12 and you end up kicking a 37 yard FG
side note:
December 28, 1996 – Dallas’ last playoff win
February 10, 1997 – Mario Kart for Nintendo 64 is released
A fond reminder of the Rich Kotite years.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 3:53 PM EST up reply actions
Agreed
Especially since Cadillac Williams seemed to be running well and you have Warrick Dunn.
Damn, the Bucs really suck
by Baron Dainer Von Tresvant on Dec 14, 2008 3:54 PM EST up reply actions
Very likely now….
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 3:56 PM EST up reply actions
How many overtime periods do we play again????
Does a tie even help us in the standings?
by Baron Dainer Von Tresvant on Dec 14, 2008 3:56 PM EST reply actions
It will if we are tied with Atlanta.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 3:56 PM EST up reply actions
Thank You
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 4:01 PM EST up reply actions
who won the toss?
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December 28, 1996 – Dallas’ last playoff win
February 10, 1997 – Mario Kart for Nintendo 64 is released
Griese sucks
This whole team sucks a bag of dicks
by Baron Dainer Von Tresvant on Dec 14, 2008 4:03 PM EST reply actions
GRIEISE SUCKS
side note:
December 28, 1996 – Dallas’ last playoff win
February 10, 1997 – Mario Kart for Nintendo 64 is released
how in the world is that team 9-4
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December 28, 1996 – Dallas’ last playoff win
February 10, 1997 – Mario Kart for Nintendo 64 is released
Agreed
The Bucs are really mediocre
by Baron Dainer Von Tresvant on Dec 14, 2008 4:09 PM EST up reply actions
you know a tie would be nice too!
side note:
December 28, 1996 – Dallas’ last playoff win
February 10, 1997 – Mario Kart for Nintendo 64 is released
Bonus coverage
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 4:10 PM EST up reply actions
our playoff chances just got more dim
side note:
December 28, 1996 – Dallas’ last playoff win
February 10, 1997 – Mario Kart for Nintendo 64 is released
Bucs = the Sucks
Guess we root like crazy for the Chargers to beat the Bucs next week
by Baron Dainer Von Tresvant on Dec 14, 2008 4:11 PM EST reply actions
chargers suck too
I’ve been watching that game they look horrid.
Slightly more realistic
But damn, if Atlanta and TB both win next week, it’s going to be grim — since Atlanta plays St. Louis and TB plays Oakland the last week.
I'm rooting for both
Hoping the Chargers beat the Bucs and the Vikes beat the Falcons
by Baron Dainer Von Tresvant on Dec 14, 2008 4:18 PM EST up reply actions
means that we will need Atl to shit the bed or TB too lose to SD
the latter could totally happen though
side note:
December 28, 1996 – Dallas’ last playoff win
February 10, 1997 – Mario Kart for Nintendo 64 is released
Do they ever blow!
They suck every dick in sight
by Baron Dainer Von Tresvant on Dec 14, 2008 4:15 PM EST up reply actions
we'll still be fine... where is that game against Minnesota
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December 28, 1996 – Dallas’ last playoff win
February 10, 1997 – Mario Kart for Nintendo 64 is released
After today, I don’t rule out Tampa Gay to lose to the Chargers.
Screw you Tampa Bay, I hope you lose out. Go Chargers and Raiders!
by Baron Dainer Von Tresvant on Dec 14, 2008 4:14 PM EST reply actions
i hate the buccs
all they do is fuck with us. If both these teams win out i’m gonna lose it
Norv Turner
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 4:15 PM EST up reply actions
Next week is our only hope
either the bucs or the falcons have to lose to the chargers or vikings, respectively
i think were fucked…
We aren't completely fucked
One of those teams needs to get to 6 losses while we win out – we’ll be 10-5-1, which gets over 10-6
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 4:18 PM EST up reply actions
yeah, if both TB and Atl win out.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 4:20 PM EST up reply actions
We do need to win out though, or else all this speculation is for shit.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 4:22 PM EST up reply actions
Also
At this rate, only one NFC East team might make it into the playoffs. That would be mucho surprising.
or 3 could still make it. it’ll be an interesting final couple of weeks
by GreenInBaltimore on Dec 14, 2008 4:24 PM EST up reply actions
We do know which team won’t be making the playoffs from the NFC East!
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 4:27 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah that last week
looks pretty bad right now.
Minnesota should/can beat Atlanta next week, but they’re still a team that could lay a stinker at any or all opportunities. San Diego has been a huge disappointment — but holy crap! they just scored two touchdowns in the last 1 1/2 min. against KC. Maybe that’ll wake them up?!? (Though I can just see the Bucs going back home and righting the ship over the last two weeks.)
Chargers
wow holy comeback they could win this game still, and if Den loses to CAR then SD is still alive for playoffs and thus that much more motivated next week.
To the 4 PM Game
It is obscenely loud at M&T Bank stadium. I could hear it from my house.
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sarcasm?
or do you live in Fed Hill?
by GreenInBaltimore on Dec 14, 2008 4:29 PM EST up reply actions
I live in A.A. County...
…but I could hear the neighbors screaming obscenities and so I turned the TV up. I live close enough to it though.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 4:32 PM EST up reply actions
gotcha....
i live in canton about 3 miles away. i can see the stadium from the roof top deck. Cant hear the crowd, but i can usually see the fireworks….
by GreenInBaltimore on Dec 14, 2008 4:34 PM EST reply actions
That’s the way it was for me growing up in College Park with Byrd Stadium at the U of MD. Of course, the only fireworks they had was the AD firing the coaches after another 3-8 season.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 4:35 PM EST up reply actions
true....
and unless theres a safety, there may not be any fireworks today at this stadium either!
by GreenInBaltimore on Dec 14, 2008 4:38 PM EST up reply actions
I shall be a fan of any team playing against the following teams:
NFC South teams (except New Orleans forget that, I still hate them from 2 years ago)
Dallas
Washington
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 4:46 PM EST up reply actions
he drinks water from the inner harbor. that man is baltimore football…..
by GreenInBaltimore on Dec 14, 2008 4:51 PM EST up reply actions
It turns Ray Lewis into the beast he his. For mortals like us, it just give us dysentery.
by Baron Dainer Von Tresvant on Dec 14, 2008 4:54 PM EST up reply actions
i would actually like to see lewis on offense sometime. in a fullback roll.
by GreenInBaltimore on Dec 14, 2008 4:54 PM EST up reply actions
yea...
its not more than 200 yards from my house. Its not my favorite, but we do like it. its one restaurant in balt that you KNOW there wont be a wait at. They arent doing so well…..
by GreenInBaltimore on Dec 14, 2008 4:58 PM EST up reply actions
i think...
….he stabs people. thats the preferred method
by GreenInBaltimore on Dec 14, 2008 5:00 PM EST up reply actions
3-0 Baltimore
This game’s as good as over….
by GreenInBaltimore on Dec 14, 2008 4:56 PM EST reply actions
Romo
took a blocked punt in OT for the win though
And it was blocked by former Eagles special teamer Sean Morey
by Baron Dainer Von Tresvant on Dec 14, 2008 5:13 PM EST up reply actions
at least
minnesota is looking good, hopefully they can carry this over to next week and beat the falcons :D:D
and shit...
they’re doing this on the road in Arizona… which was deemed to be a hard place to play..
Let's Go!!
Anyone else amused by the SNF/Faith Hill opening that has T.O., Romo, and Witten together in those little scenes?
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I wish they would've shown TO on the sidelines
after that drop.
I bleed green and I piss silver and blue
I think we are hoping too much!
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 8:34 PM EST up reply actions
I had thought they phased out running into like they did with the 5 yard facemask.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 8:37 PM EST up reply actions
Jesus, talk about feeding the monster
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 8:43 PM EST up reply actions
But of course
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 8:53 PM EST up reply actions
Should have been illegal contact
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 8:44 PM EST up reply actions
I hate listening to John Madden call a Cowboys game. “There’s not many QBs who could pick it up and make that throw.”
There aren’t many QBs who fumble as much as Tony Romo, either, John.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
Listening to Madden is something I am utterly incapable of doing. My favorite Madden line was from Madden NFL ’99:
He knew where he had to go, and he got there.
Such genius.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 8:58 PM EST up reply actions
"To pick up the first down, you have to get it past the first down marker"
REALLY?
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February 10, 1997 – Mario Kart for Nintendo 64 is released
The Cowboys look better on both sides of the ball.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
nevermind. spoke too soon.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
I loved the look of puzzlement on Phillips’ tubby face.
(Though Reid has had that look on his tubby face quite a bit too this year)
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
They're working on Romo on the sidelines
I think he sprained his vagina!
I bleed green and I piss silver and blue
this is like last week’s giants game. hopefully they figure things out this time, though.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
this does not look like the NY team from a month ago
or really from before plax shot himself
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December 28, 1996 – Dallas’ last playoff win
February 10, 1997 – Mario Kart for Nintendo 64 is released
man they're playing BAD
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February 10, 1997 – Mario Kart for Nintendo 64 is released
Dear God
Make Tony Romo morph into Ryan Leaf so we can see 2 pick sixes in the next hour.
Amen
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i have to give it romo... he's pretty good in those near the sack situations :)
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February 10, 1997 – Mario Kart for Nintendo 64 is released
Jason can we start a new thread? this page is loading really slow now
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December 28, 1996 – Dallas’ last playoff win
February 10, 1997 – Mario Kart for Nintendo 64 is released
I don’t think so. I think we were just assuming a giants win and the TO implosion.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
If I was a Giants fan I’d be starting to worry. Getting beat up by the Eagles one week can be written off as a fluke… getting shut down on offense 2 weeks in a row is a trend.
yeah, a defensive TD or a turnover early on this drive.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
ya know
What kills me is that we will play lights out football the last 3 games and still get shut out….
Momentum is everthing late in the season all we need is a shot…..
nice
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
come on romo, throw us an INT
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
I hope the Giants choke on their own shit
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 10:46 PM EST reply actions
We'd better win, then
I think the fans and the city would be distraught if we lost to the Browns
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 10:50 PM EST up reply actions
True
and all of those close losses come back to bite us in the ass and hard.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 10:53 PM EST up reply actions
How can this Giants O-Line suddenly looked so bad?
And our O-Line suddenly look really good for that matter?
When did the cowboys defense get this good?
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They threw Big Ben
like a ragdoll last week until the last 4 minutes
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 10:58 PM EST up reply actions
Great, everything’s all hunky dory in the cowboy locker room now. Thanks, Giants.
This is miserable.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
pick six pick six.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
Man, they have good RBs (Barber, Jones when healthy, choice).
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
Hmm
I wonder why the Cowboys spent a 1st and 4th rounder on a running back. That’s interesting. It’s obvious both are good, but still.
And that's the game.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
Good night, Gracie
Good Night All…
See you on the threads tomorrow night.
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by WanderingMoses on Dec 14, 2008 11:21 PM EST reply actions
I’ll tell you what guys, I am terrified of this team coming to the Linc in winner-take-all game on 12/28.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
Right now, who would be the SB favorite?
Can’t be the Giants.
Can’t be the Titans.
Carolina?
Steelers?
This is the most wide open I’ve seen the NFL in a long time.
If the Eagles make it as a 5 or 6 seed, they would have to win at places like Minnesota or Arizona in the first round and then NY or Carolina in the second. That’s not daunting at all.
Let’s just hope they get in because they’ll have a shot. I think the chances of Atlanta and TB going a combined 4-0 the rest of the way is highly unlikely.
Why not the Titans?
A loss to Houston is rough, but they’d be my favorite. But I agree with your more general point – the NFL is really wide open. And why not the Eagles?
The Titans have Kerry Collins at QB
And their best defensive player, Albert Haynesworth, got his knee rolled today.
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