The NFL Preseason Thread.

[Guest Cal Moriarty]

The one thing that occurs to me watching the Jets/Browns game is that Bernie Kosar is a complete nitwit.

Bernie Kosar doing that Browns-Lions preseason game last year while (I'm guessing) completely blasted was a treasure trove of drops for sports radio stations.

 

"Onside kick for the happy ending and we all go home happyhappyhappy."

"He forgot to bring Touchdown Jeeeeeeeeeeeesus."

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Instead of the game vs Atlanta, Im going to the game next Saturday night vs the Vikings.

 

$50 for a ticket right on the 50 yard line (section 127, 9 rows back behind the Ravens bench) including Stubhubs rediculous $20 for Fedex Overnight even though Ive got a week to get the tickets, but at least I had a $20 coupon to knock off the shipping.

 

 

[CanadianChris 0]

Are you serious? Fifty bucks for a preseason game? I'd have trouble paying that much for a regular season game.

[Guest Cal Moriarty]

So, this "fan crackdown" that Goodell is implementing: I can't afford to go to Bears games and I wouldn't really want to, so have things really gotten that bad that there needs to be some "fan code of conduct" and added restrictions on tailgating (another thing in this world that I just don't get AT ALL) just to make going to a game somewhat safe and tolerable? Maybe Goodell just feels bad that he's been so hard on stupid black people the last few years, and needs to bring the hammer down on stupid white people to balance things out.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Are you serious? Fifty bucks for a preseason game? I'd have trouble paying that much for a regular season game.

 

A ticket in the same section for a regular season game directly through the Ravens costs $115, and on Stubhub its much more for such prime seats durring the regular season. Stubhub had some $9 tickets all the way up at the top of the stadium for the preseason games, but I didnt want to be sitting that high up. As it is, $50 for 50 yard line 9 rows back is a good deal to me even though its a preseason game, considering its my first football game EVER (I never even went to a HS game cause my HS team sucked really bad).

 

and WFJF fumbles on his second play and it leads to the Pats first TD...ugh. Pats went for 2 and didnt get it so its 16-15 Ravens.

[devo 0]

Jets/Browns was about as exciting as a preseason game gets. New York goes up 24-20 late in the fourth quarter but as the game winds down, Cleveland manages to drive from their own forty to the Jets' five where they get four shots at the end zone, the last play occurring as time expired.

 

Not a bad showing for the Jets, even if their offense was inconsistent (points came almost entirely on three plays - two 70+ yard touchdown passes and a punt return) and the defense was porous at best.

[MillenniumMan831 0]

Kosar trying to squeeze in a random Caddyshack reference just for the hell of it was my highlight.

 

And another gem . . . "Being a finance major, I know that the red on the map has to mean bad weather is on its way"

[Guest Cal Moriarty]

...WHAT? There's one for the ol' avatar, huh.

 

"Thish is what's gonna caaauuuuse a fullll-shcale quarterback....controvershy here."

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Bears first round draft pick OT Chris Williams had surgery for a herniated goddamn disc. No timeline for his recovery.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

[Kinetic 0]

Yeah, and some of the more optimistic predictions I've seen (other than those coming out of Chicago) have him just missing this season. But if the Bears did their homework, they knew he had a back problem when they drafted him.

[Guest Cal Moriarty]

Yeah, sounds like they're going to go with human turnstile Fred Miller in his stead. We come off the bus sucking.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Next season, the Bears should let every single fucking free agent they have walk right out the door, except for Robbie Gould.

 

Ortman, Grossman, Mike Brown, and Desmond Clark. Talk about dead weight.

 

 

[Guest Cal Moriarty]

I feel bad for Mike Brown. The rest of them can be dumped in the lake today, for all I care. Yeah. Even Orton.

 

I think they signed Gould to some absurdly long and large contract, so he's not going anywhere. Might as well build around your kicker and kick receiver when nobody else is capable of scoring points, I suppose. I don't really expect much out of this season beyond pleasant background noise during large Sunday meals or leaf-raking sessions.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Brown was good, but has Chicago learned nothing from Mark Prior?

 

 

[Guest Cal Moriarty]

Eric Daze was the original "this guy's gonna be awesome when he's healthy WE SWEAR TO GOD." The answer is no, by the way.

[HarleyQuinn 0]

Did Hanie look as good as his stats say?

 

9/16 (56%) for 101 yards and 1 TD. 2 carries for 21 yards.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Every now and then you come across a really funny name in sports. There was that Incognito guy some years back with the Rams I think, now check this guy out

 

Green Bay signed CB Scorpio Babers on Friday. Babers took the spot Favre vacated on the 80-man roster when he was traded.

We got rid of Brett Favre, and signed SCORPIO.

[Damaramu 0]

Too bad it's not Hank Scorpio.

 

Is AD not playing in the first preseason game?

[MFer 0]

Looks like Pennington's gonna start in Miami.

 

Link

[yankovic fan 0]

With Charlie Batch going down for the Steelers, the only depth at QB behind Ben is 2 rookies, Dixon from Oregon and Potts from William and Mary (and he's a Undrafted FA) so I'm wondering what they are going to do. It's not like in Green Bay where they have a 2nd rounder and a 7th rounder backing up Rogers. You have a 5th(?) rounder and a guy from an FCS school undrafted.

 

If I'm just throwing stuff at the wall, since they were late on the Chad Pennington thing, I say they go for one of the leftovers in Atlanta or Miami.

 

 

Is Leftwich and Culpepper still looking for work?

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

I'd rather take a flyer on the rookie, should worse come to worse.

 

That said, I'd take both Leftwich and Culpepper over any Chicago QB.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Teams staying away from those two make me wonder, quite a bit. So I guess that Trent Edwards, Kyle Boller, Brodie Croyle, Jason Campbell, Grossman/ORTMAN, Tarvaris Jackson, and Jon Kitna are better options? And that the teams starting Aaron Rodgers, Carson Palmer, Matt Schaub, David Gerrard, Vince Young, Jay Cutler, Donovan McNabb, Jake Delhomme, Alex Smith, Drew Brees, and Marc Bulger feel totally and completely comfortable with their backups if their starters struggle and/or get injured?

 

That's pretty much every NFL team off the top of my head that doesn't have 100% stability at quarterback. Culpepper was a great quarterback once, and Leftwich doesn't look like he's that bad, so seeing these guys have trouble finding new jobs is really quite something.

[The Ghost of bps21 0]

At some point when you've had quarterback problems you have to pick a kid and try and see if he can develop into what you want.

 

If you believe that your kid can do it...you stay with it until you know for sure.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

The worst thing a QB can be today is inconsistent, and that basically defines the careers of Leftwich and Culpepper. While Ort-Gross is the worst combination of QBs in the history of sports, those two FAs have injury histories to aggrivate their situtation.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I don't know, hasn't just about every combination of QBs Chicago has thrown out there since Sid Luckman, with the possible exception of Jim McMahon, been the worst combination of QBs in the history of sports?

 

I do know Culpepper's rushing abilities are severely limited now with all the times he's blown out his knee(s), but Leftwich looks like relatively undamaged goods that just got barely beaten out by a slightly better quarterback in Jacksonville, and needed to go because they couldn't handle the QB controversy any longer.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Did you not see him in Atlanta?

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

At some point when you've had quarterback problems you have to pick a kid and try and see if he can develop into what you want.

 

If you believe that your kid can do it...you stay with it until you know for sure.

 

Kyle Boller has had 5 years.

 

I cant see them trading him though. I have a feeling Harbaugh will go with Troy Smith as the starter and Boller at least provides an experienced backup for one more year.

[Mike wanna be 0]

Did you not see him in Atlanta?

What were you expecting out of a guy that had what, two weeks between joining the team & becoming the starting QB?

[Damaramu 0]

So, the AD played last night but the Vikings didn't give him the ball. Yet, he was effective because all eyes on defense were on him.

 

I wonder how long the Vikings can ride the "Fake to Peterson, throw to a wide open man" offense before defense catch on?