NFL: Bizarro world?

[Shadows]

Are the Miami Dolphins that Bad???

old man Kurt Warner throws for 361 yds against them.

how about them Broncos had a 14 pt lead, blew it Chargers take the lead. Broncos come back at the end go for 2 and win the game. 39-38

Brandon Marshall and Eddie Royal looked superb, Cutler looks inpressive once again. i know its only week 2.

the problem there is that the broncos didnt come back. they lost when Jay Cutler fumbled.
its just too bad that the head ref admitted that he fucked up but couldn't 'undo' the whistle.

 

[Duke]

The NFL came down hard on that Hochuli guy. Not really his fault, is it? Inadvertent whislte or something, there's a lot of talk about rule changing now.

As a football(soccer) fan it's refreshing to see this made out to be such a big deal, since blown calls are rife in the soccer world.

 

[Duke]

lmao @ the Patriots. Wow.

Chargers pretty much walked over Favre and his Jets. Not a moment when they weren't really in control of the match. Facing the Cardinals tonight.

Chargers - Raiders should be interesting somehow. Eagles - Bears not a bad match-up either.

 

[Snowman]

:laugh: HOW BOUT DEM LIONS (0-16) YEAAAA BOY.

 

[dillaxx]

lmao @ the Patriots. Wow.

Chargers pretty much walked over Favre and his Jets. Not a moment when they weren't really in control of the match. Facing the Cardinals tonight.

Chargers - Raiders should be interesting somehow. Eagles - Bears not a bad match-up either.

How do you know so much about the NFL? Does it broadcast there every Sunday evening too? Because that's pretty cool.

:laugh: HOW BOUT DEM LIONS (0-16) YEAAAA BOY.

I dunno what's worse, the Bears failing to make the playoffs in a division where the winner was 10-6 and still a shitty-ass team, or the Lions who in that same division never won a game. The Lions have sucked for a long time, so this is just at new low, but not much lower than what they are accustomed to. But the Bears had a lot of hope riding on their shoulders in this game, against a mediocre team. Damn Andre Johnson is good.

 

[Shadows]

I feel bad for the Lions.

 

[SicC]

Pats 11-5 and not making the playoffs while and 8-8 team gets in....sometimes the system just doesnt work.

pz

 

[Shadows]

Pats 11-5 and not making the playoffs while and 8-8 team gets in....sometimes the system just doesnt work.

pz

thats true, but at the same time, the system never works.

Some people play different divisions each year.

Lets say an 8-8 team played Giants, Tennesse etc...

and an 11-5 team played Cinci, Lions...etc..

It will never be fair, and thats why they made it so u win your own division. PERIOD.

And pats got blown out 2 games this year (one by an 8-8 team), the other by their own division rival. You just cant hand over your division rival wins, especially a blow out @ your own house.

 

[SicC]

But they also beat Miami soundly in the second game, no one from the AFC west should have been allowed to step foot in the playoffs there all terriable teams. Fuck the Chargers completly overrated the last 3 seasons.

Still though Bill gets mad props for taking his team to 11-5 without Brady, critics can suck his balls, man is a god damn stud, you know you all wrote them off when Brady went down, but now we all know the truth its not the QB but the system that makes that offense so potent.

pz

 

[Shadows]

But they also beat Miami soundly in the second game, no one from the AFC west should have been allowed to step foot in the playoffs there all terriable teams. Fuck the Chargers completly overrated the last 3 seasons.

Still though Bill gets mad props for taking his team to 11-5 without Brady, critics can suck his balls, man is a god damn stud, you know you all wrote them off when Brady went down, but now we all know the truth its not the QB but the system that makes that offense so potent.

pz

Overrated the last 3 seasons?

Last playoffs the colts lost to their 2nd stringers due to injuries when the colts still had a chance. The same year the Colts almost beat the Pats.

Then the pats almost lost to them too, without or a limited gates, rivers, LT...etc...

They are not overrated, that's just hate.

With injuries and a fucked up defensive coordinator the first 8 games, the Chargers did good.

If u look @ their losses they are by 1pt, 2 pt, 3pts one fucked up ref call, etc...

Those games were to carolina, atlanta, and Pittsburgh, colts...

Overated? Not in SD....maybe some other teams, yes. But imho, not SD.

But i agree with NE's coach, the dude is just a GOD. I admittedly, wrote them off...and i was somewhat wrong, (good team, but no playoffs).

This makes me believe now that,
Manning > Brady....and i used to think otherwise...Now I believe what you just said, its just a system.

Better luck to NE next season. I like Colts vs Chargers Vs NE every year.

 

[SicC]

Almost lost means nothing they still lost, excluding the Denver game where they were clearly screwed. They still lost games that they should have won which leads me to believe they are overrated.

pz

 

[Snowman]

Man who ever seen this coming??

DENVER -- Mike Shanahan became the latest and most stunning victim of the NFL coaching purge, fired Tuesday by the Denver Broncos after a late-season collapse knocked the team out of the playoffs for the third straight year.

Shanahan joined Eric Mangini, Rod Marinelli and Romeo Crennel on the unemployment line after going 24-24 over the past three seasons, including three straight losses in 2008 that turned a three-game division lead to an 8-8 record.


Good Start, Rough Finish

In four years with John Elway, Mike Shanahan and the Broncos made the playoffs three times and won two Super Bowls. After Elway retired, the Broncos have no championships.

1995-98 1999-2008
W-L 47-17 91-69
Win pct. .734 .569
Division titles 2 1
Playoff W-L 7-1 1-4


Despite that, and the 52-21 loss to the Chargers that ended Denver's season Sunday, this was a shocker: the ouster of a 14-year coaching veteran who brought two Super Bowl titles to a city yearning for a championship and was considered by many in this town to be "coach for life."

In a statement, Broncos owner Pat Bowlen said: "After giving this careful consideration, I have concluded that a change in our football operations is in the best interests of the Denver Broncos. This is certainly a difficult decision, but one that I feel must be made and which will ultimately be in the best interests of all concerned."

Shanahan, 56, was 146-89, but the Broncos remained stuck at only one postseason victory since John Elway retired in 1999 after Denver's second championship.

This season was especially ugly. It included a historic collapse that saw Denver become the first team since divisional play started in 1967 to blow a three-game lead with three games left.

The Broncos' defense gave up 448 points, third worst in the NFL, including 112 during the three-game collapse at the end. It was ranked 29th in yards allowed and tied for last in the NFL with a minus-17 turnover margin.



In years past, Shanahan had relieved defensive coordinators -- Greg Robinson, Ray Rhodes, Larry Coyer and Jim Bates -- in almost revolving-door fashion.

This year, as the defense floundered, it became obvious it wasn't just a coaching problem. It was an issue of talent on the field, and in Denver, Shanahan makes all the personnel decisions.

His top two draft picks in 2007, Jarvis Moss and Channing Crowder, were barely a factor this season. Two of Denver's top veteran acquisitions from last year, Niko Koutouvides and Dewayne Robertson, also did very little.

Shanahan had three years left on his contract, worth about $20 million.

"I appreciate the 21 years that Mike Shanahan has given to the organization as an assistant and head coach, and the two Super Bowl wins in that time," Bowlen said in the statement. "His contributions hold a special place in Broncos history."

Bowlen said that the team will hold a news conference on Wednesday morning to make the announcement, and Shanahan will speak shortly thereafter

 

[Duke]

lawl @ lions.

I think I put the Pats on 10-6 and no playoffs at the start of the season. Not bad, huh?

Dolphins ran a great season. Well deserved.

Charges, well, in my rookie opinion, they are overrated a bit. Not a lot, but still a bit. Doesn't click as a team should.

Talking about not clicking as a team...how 'bout them Cowboys? I watched their game against Ravens (i think), it was almost pathetic how Ravens ran for 77 and 83 yards on their first first of those two drives. I expected much more from the Cowboys.


Defending champs Giants seem pretty solid so far. A few cock-ups, but which team hasn't made those this season?


So yeah, who do y'all pick for the Superbowl champ? I don't even understand the playing schedule (seriously, those NFL schedules are teh confuse), but to pick one out of the blue I'll go with the Colts. It's not an educated guess at all, just a guess. I'll say Peyton and the squad rises to the occasion.

How do you know so much about the NFL? Does it broadcast there every Sunday evening too? Because that's pretty cool.

Aye, I have NASN coverage. Love the sport. I usually catch the early sunday game (which is evening for me), sometimes late sunday game (starting @ 2:00 am). Sometimes Monday night football (2:00 am), sometimes the brand new thursday night football.
I got to have something to while smoking all that weed on the internet, eh?

 

[dillaxx]

Man who ever seen this coming??

I dunno, that shocked me as well. I used to be a bandwagon Broncos fan in the 3rd grade when they were beating the Packs and then the Falcons the next year and remember Shanahan. I think it was last season where I started to wonder where not doing so hot in the playoffs, or this year's not making them, was gonna land him. I didn't think they'd fire him though, I was hoping for him to resign or something.