NFL Week 14 - Dolphins? More like LOLphins! Amirite?

[Slayer]

Thanks to their fourth win in a row, Minnesota is currently sitting in the sixth potential playoff seed. Hopefully this success continues

 

As for the Pats, 13-0 is as far as the last two big undefeated teams reached ('98 Broncos and '05 Colts). Ironically, both of those teams dropped two straight after that week, and given the two teams coming up on the Pats schedule, combined with the football deities fucked sense of humor, who knows what might happen

[CanadianChris]

Neither of those two teams was playing a truly dreadful team the week they lost.

 

And, for anyone looking ahead to the Giants game, there's a pretty decent chance the Giants will have locked up the fifth seed by then, with no chance of moving up or down, and will have absolutely nothing to play for themselves.

[KingPK]

And people were picking San Francisco to make the playoffs this season.

 

Now they are heading towards a top 5 pick.

 

 

 

Oh, wait.......

 

Next week's game may not be safe for pregnant women, those with weak dispositions or with pacemakers.

[Steve J. Rogers]

Thanks to their fourth win in a row, Minnesota is currently sitting in the sixth potential playoff seed. Hopefully this success continues

 

As for the Pats, 13-0 is as far as the last two big undefeated teams reached ('98 Broncos and '05 Colts). Ironically, both of those teams dropped two straight after that week, and given the two teams coming up on the Pats schedule, combined with the football deities fucked sense of humor, who knows what might happen

 

Course the difference is most of America in terms of fans (except for division rival fans and Baltimore in the Colts case of course) and the media were rooting for both of those teams while the Pats are only beloved by their fans and media.

 

I haven't listened in a while, but this might be the first time Jim Rome is ROOTING for the 72 Fish to do their champagne popping ceremony when the Pats lose their first game of the year.

[MarvinisaLunatic]

Hey..its time for you know who to play.

 

 

[Brett Favre]

Voldemort?

[the max]

Voldemort?

 

He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named!

[MrRant]

Well, 4 division titles in a row. At least Seattle gets one home playoff game as I don't see GB/Dallas losing more than 1 game each during the last 3 weeks.

[Steve J. Rogers]

You have a problem with the Colts?

[KingPK]

5 minutes in and this game's a joke already.

[MarvinisaLunatic]

This is more like the Ravens!

[Hawk 34]

I thought the whole idea of the FLEX GAME was to guarantee that we get a quality game of significance late in the season.

[Ced]

Is there something in the turf tonight in Baltimore? People are going down left and right.

[2GOLD]

 

I'm going to start campaigning for the Ravens to start Troy Smith. Not like the offense can get much worse.

[MarvinisaLunatic]

Do they not call running into the kicker any more?

[CanadianChris]

I haven't listened in a while, but this might be the first time Jim Rome is ROOTING for the 72 Fish to do their champagne popping ceremony when the Pats lose their first game of the year.

Dunno about that, but I know he's salivating at the proepect of finally having a team sack up and finish off an 0-16 season.

[MarvinisaLunatic]

The Colts are going to have 40 before the 2 minute warning..

[DMann2003]

At this rate, I'm sure the Colts break 60, odds on them getting to 70?

[CanadianChris]

Nah, the Colts are just going to run it from here on out. I think they might not even make 55.

[DMann2003]

Given Baltimore shitty defense tonight, those could still turn into rushing TDs

[DMann2003]

Now Manning has time to the the TV Guide Crossword

[Mike wanna be]

By the logic of "The Patriots get worse as their opponents become more laughable" (as evidenced by sub-par performances against Philadelphia and Baltimore), if the Dolphins keep their mouths shut and don't invoke the "They challenged us, we must humiliate them" go-around, Miami should win by 30.

[Jaxxson Mayhem]

Do they not call running into the kicker any more?

 

 

Once the ball is touched, the kicker can be taken out.

[Jaxxson Mayhem]

Troy Smith debuts, and looks pretty good.

 

Got his 1st TD with him rushing. Not bad.

[cabbageboy]

Well, I think we all expected the Ravens to have nothing left for tonight after the Patriots game. It seems like a lot of these NBC games have been snoozers this year.

 

At this point I hope the Patriots do go 16-0, cause the pressure will be so unbelievable on them in the playoffs that they will blow it. I'm one of those people who thinks a loss helps a team in this sort of situation. A 16-0 team will have to keep winning to stay alive and maintain perfection, whereas a 15-1 team can relax and play football.

[KingPK]

I just don't get that line of thought. Even if they lose one game, there still is the pressure of winning in the playoffs where mistakes are amplified and it is all on the line. It's not like losing to the Jets will make them say "Ok, we couldn't beat a 4-win team, but at least the pressure is off to be perfect!"

 

The Philly and Baltimore games did more than enough to snap them out of whatever complacency they had. I think it was more the fact that they played three straight prime-time games against teams that were playing for nothing but to knock off the best in the league and just wore out a bit. That's why they didn't practice again until Thursday after last week.

Edited December 10, 2007 by KingPK

[JangoFett4Hire]

I thought the whole idea of the FLEX GAME was to guarantee that we get a quality game of significance late in the season.

 

Yeah, the Anthony Smith guarantee.

[The Robfather]

ESPN says Vick gets 23 months

[JaMarcus Russell's #1 Caucasian Fan]

And he will actually serve about half of that.

[Bruiser Chong]

And it will still be too much time.