Spaceman Spiff 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Rodney Harrison sure likes him some late hits. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RonL21 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Good Game.. Garrard was hurt by some drops... Especially by that one by NorthCutt inside the 5 on 3rd and Goal... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Niggardly King 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Man, it sucks that this Jags defense is built for nothing but the run, or a couple of better receivers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
snuffbox 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Fuck. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Tzar Lysergic Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Puke. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Tzar Lysergic Report post Posted January 13, 2008 If this works out to Green Bay vs. The Rotten Cocksuckers in the Superbowl, I'm not watching it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prophet of Mike Zagurski 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Please Peyton Manning, I'm in your hour of need. Please stop the Patriots. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Angle-plex 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 I think it's safe to say Jacksonville was WAY over hyped the last month or so. ESPN must have needed a new "threat" team to the Pats like they did with the Steelers beforehand. The Colts are the only team that have scarred me all season and next week will be no different. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
2GOLD 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 David Garrad looked outstanding on all but three throws the whole game. That drop inside the five KILLED them and those two passes on the final drive were looking way too much like desperation setting in. Still, he did fantastic with no running game working. I guess Maroney heard about that McFadden guy and started running for his job. Been looking good for the past couple of weeks. Tomorrow's games should be even better...well, if the Giants decide to cover that TO fella. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Exslade ZX 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 If this works out to Green Bay vs. The Rotten Cocksuckers in the Superbowl, I'm not watching it. The Colts? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 13, 2008 If only we had Marcus Stroud healthy. He could've knocked down a bunch of those checkdown throws by Brady. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Smartly Pretty 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Healthy Mike Peterson would have helped too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cabbageboy 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 I think it was mostly wishful thinking with Jacksonville since people are desperate for someone to either beat NE or give them a great game. Either way I nailed both of these games today, figuring the Jags would stay close for a half but the Pats would win comfortably in the end (I predicted it 34-17). Let's face it...it's going to take a great team to beat NE and Jacksonville simply isn't that great. The Jags are an 11-5 football team that has a good running game, good defense against weak teams, mediocre defense against excellent teams, and a boring dink and dunk pass attack regardless of whether it's Leftwich or Garrard. Now, Seattle/GB. I had the Packers winning it 35-14 and said it would be the rout of the weekend. Unless the Colts just assrape the Chargers tomorrow that will be the case. I think some people keep imagining that this is the 2005 Seahawks, but really that team wouldn't have won at Lambeau today much less this lesser 2007 team. The Colts better not fuck this up tomorrow. There is absolutely no reason why they shouldn't beat the piss out of San Diego, especially with Gates ailing. If the Colts don't win it is a flat out choke. I'd rather the Giants win tomorrow, since I'm bored with the Packers constantly having to go to Dallas. The amusing part of this is that the time Green Bay did win the Super Bowl with Favre they still never beat the Cowboys....the Panthers beat Dallas and then Green Bay beat Carolina. Maybe we'll see something similar here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Niggardly King 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 I will still maintain that the Cowboys Giants playoff game tomorrow might be the best playoff game of this decade. Two teams who can meltdown at any point as the game comes closer to an end = Ratings Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Baron 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Dear EA Sports: Please put Tom Brady on the cover of Madden. Yours truly, The Rest of the NFL. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
UZI Suicide 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 The only hope for the NFL is that someone on the Colts/Chargers has studied Vince Wilfork enough that they can learn how to "accidentally" dive elbow first into Tom Brady's knee. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cartman 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Ah, the old "He's too damn great, injure him please!" thing never gets old. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarvinisaLunatic 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Im jumping on the Packers bandwagon...they're the only team left that can beat the Patriots. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kahran Ramsus 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Im jumping on the Packers bandwagon...they're the only team left that can beat the Patriots. I still think the Colts can, but the bigger thing to me is that the Packers are the only team left that the Patriots haven't already beaten this year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kinetic 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 I want to believe that Indianapolis can beat them, but I think there's about a 75% chance that we're deluding ourselves by thinking that anyone but New England is winning the Super Bowl this year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kahran Ramsus 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 I want to believe that Indianapolis can beat them, but I think there's about a 75% chance that we're deluding ourselves by thinking that anyone but New England is winning the Super Bowl this year. Probably. But that 25% is why they actually play the game. The Patriots probably won't lose, but that doesn't mean they can't. The reason I like the Packers over them (besides being a deluded homer), is that Green Bay is the only team that has an offense that is good enough to keep up to them and a defense that is good enough that they shouldn't be able to score at will. They aren't as good as New England certainly, but the Packers don't have any obvious weaknesses either. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tominator89 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 The NFL is dreaming of a Favre/Brady SuperBowl. The potential storylines outweigh any of the other possible match-ups. ESPN probably has video packages already made in case this happens. Sean Salisbury probably got a boner just thinking about it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cabbageboy 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Well, either way between Favre vs. Brady or Favre vs. Manning it is a massive ratings bonanza for the NFL. Thing is, I think the Colts would simply beat the Packers in that game and it's not as romantic somehow as the notion of the old, nearly washed up Favre going up against the invincible New England machine. I'd rather see the Giants than the Cowboys in the Super Bowl at this point. Truthfully, Dallas needs to just lose today and go away. I seriously don't want 2 weeks of Romo and Jessica Simpson hype leading to a Pats/Colts beatdown of the Cowboys. We know the Cowboys can't beat the Patriots and likely can't beat the Colts....but we know the Giants can play with New England and could likely give the Colts a game. And the Packers are a fresh matchup for either NE or Indy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
USC Wuz Robbed! 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 The Colts better not fuck this up tomorrow. There is absolutely no reason why they shouldn't beat the piss out of San Diego, especially with Gates ailing. If the Colts don't win it is a flat out choke. Chargers have beaten the Colts just about every damned time (except for one game in like 2004 or 2005, a game the Chargers had won until a few errors in the end of the game pushed the Colts past them). But there's "NO" reason they shouldn't beat the piss out of the Chargers, right? The Chargers only win because of Gates, right? Not that speedy defense that magically appear in front of Manning passes, pickin' em off, right? Not those speedy blitzing linebackers to harass Manning, right? Yep, forget all about that and let's just foolishly pick Indianapolis just so I can nut in my shorts over Colts vs Pats Part 432498732498374. This is not to say the Colts will lose to Chargers (I do believe the Colts win here), but to say there is no reason the Colts shouldn't treat the Chargers like some scrub team like Miami is just really fucking stupid. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianChris 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Gates will start today for the Chargers. That should make it a bit more competitive, but it's still very difficult for me to imagine the Chargers staying with the Colts into the second half. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Tzar Lysergic Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Colts are going to win this one on Defense. San Diego has won 7 of the last 11 matchups between the two teams, but the last one involved the worst game I've ever seen Manning have, and I've seen a lot of Peyton Manning. If anything, I think the Colts have been sold short all season. They're 13 and friggin' 3. One loss to the best team I've ever seen take the field, one game I mentioned up there^, and one garbage game to a division rival that was playing to get into the postseason. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
naiwf 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Jag on Brady: 'He ain't all that' By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports January 12, 2008 FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Perhaps you were impressed with Tom Brady's record-setting performance in beating Jacksonville on Saturday. If so, you weren't Jaguars rookie safety Reggie Nelson. "He ain't all that … He's all right," Nelson said. Ah, Reggie, are you sure he ain't more than all that? Brady did, after all, set an NFL record by completing 92.9 percent of his passes (26 for 28 for 262 yards and three touchdowns) to lead New England to a 31-20 playoff victory. It was the near-perfect game for the quarterback of the perfect team. "It was a check down game," Nelson said, suggesting that most of Brady's completions were short and underneath the pass coverage. "Anybody can go 26-of-28 in a dump-down game." Down the hall, "he ain't all that" dumbfounded Randy Moss. "What?" Moss said. "It wasn't impressive? When you lose you're going to say things that (are) really inappropriate. You're talking about the MVP, that's Tom Brady. "I'm not even going to respond to that." Nelson's opinion might stem from the sheer frustration of having Brady carve up his Jags despite their almost perfect execution of the game plan. Jacksonville focused on shutting down the deep threat – especially Moss (just one reception) – and, as Nelson noted, make Brady check down, or throw to short, underneath patterns. It might have worked, too, if Brady hadn't completed nearly every throw. "It was a little disappointing he missed two," smiled coach Bill Belichick. And one of them was a drop by Wes Welker. That's what makes Brady not just the MVP of the league this season, but the pure championship winner of this generation. He has the Patriots at 17-0 and barreling toward their fourth Super Bowl title not because he always makes the flashiest plays – although he does that, too – but because he almost always makes the right one. "He doesn't force anything," said Jags safety Sammie Knight. "He's going to take what you give him. He's made a living throwing to backs and underneath." If the Jaguars were going to stop the long ball, Brady had no problem nickel and diming them with short, smart passes. "If you're taking two guys every play and putting them on Randy, then you leave a lot of guys one-on-one," Brady said. Brady almost sounded like Nelson by calling it "easy." But that's his normal way of deflecting praise onto his teammates. He may be the supermodel-dating playboy, but he loves shrugging it all off and going with the aw-shucks routine. "Those guys, when they are open like that, that's my job to hit them," Brady said. "They were open every time. It's easy when you have receivers that are open all the time and an offensive line that never lets anyone touch you." None of his teammates would let him get away with that. Each told of Nelson's comments reacted with a bit of anger "I can't say what I want to say," said wide receiver Donte Stallworth. Underneath passes or not, 26-of-28 is a record for a reason. "This is the NFL. If this was high school, yeah (it might not be 'all that')," Stallworth said. Brady had already conducted his postgame interview by the time Nelson spoke. His play said enough, though. The Pats had five scoring drives (with a missed field goal on a sixth). The team's other two offensive possessions were a one-play kneel down to finish the first half and an attempt to wind down the clock late in the fourth. Big play or not, they couldn't have operated much better with Brady serving as the game-plan buster, laying waste to Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio's defensive plot. "Unfortunately, Tom didn't slip on the way to work today," Del Rio said. Back in the Jags locker room, there wasn't much to say. The secondary that allowed a record performance had done exactly what they were told to do and still couldn't stop New England. So all four starters stood in front of their lockers, conveniently lined up in a row, and all four just shrugged at what had happened, although the other three were more gracious than Nelson. "He's good," Nelson finally conceded before packing his bag and heading for the offseason. "He's a good quarterback." Yeah, for an unbeaten MVP, Tom Brady's not too bad. I don't think this guy realizes how stupid he sounds. There's the "bulletin board material" the Pats need for next week's game I guess. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Broward83 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 You know, if you're going to stand there and bounce around, getting all hyped the fuck up for the opening kick off return... you had better take that shit to the house or nail a huge return.. not take it back to the 25 and get ridden out by four players. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slayer 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Well, either way between Favre vs. Brady or Favre vs. Manning it is a massive ratings bonanza for the NFL. Thing is, I think the Colts would simply beat the Packers in that game and it's not as romantic somehow as the notion of the old, nearly washed up Favre going up against the invincible New England machine. I'd rather see the Giants than the Cowboys in the Super Bowl at this point. Truthfully, Dallas needs to just lose today and go away. I seriously don't want 2 weeks of Romo and Jessica Simpson hype leading to a Pats/Colts beatdown of the Cowboys. We know the Cowboys can't beat the Patriots and likely can't beat the Colts....but we know the Giants can play with New England and could likely give the Colts a game. And the Packers are a fresh matchup for either NE or Indy. Face it, if one is a hater of media hype ("slobbering", I believe they call it), then this remaining postseason is just a nightmare, whether it be the Perfect Pats, AwShucks looking for a repeat, Farvah riding into the sunset, Romophelia or even Manning's Brother. The only inoffensive team remaining is the Chargers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Tzar Lysergic Report post Posted January 13, 2008 Oh man I love watching this offense finally being healthy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
