Are you ready for some Football?!? (NFL)

[Darth K'Trava]

That's more bad play calling. I go back to TMQ's law: sometimes the best thing a team can do is run up the middle for no-gain.

I've got friends who say they should get rid of Dan Henning (offensive coordinator) for the past couple of years.

They've got to do something to get the team back into playing mentality rather than whatever the heck mentality they've got going on now.

And from what I've heard, Weinke didn't do much better.... but then wonder how much of that was rustiness.... (didn't watch the game).

 

[Darth K'Trava]

And speaking of announcers, I'll take any booth team even with dumb special guests over John Madden any day of the week. Double bubble indeed.

I like John Madden. I'll take him over Dennis Miller any day. Miller got me to quit watching MNF until he got removed from it.

Madden, while he may have his "little rants", explains the game where people like me who's not a "Football Rules Lawyer" can understand it.

Just like those refs who explain the penalty to the audience. Makes it easier to tell what happened.

 

[Crothian]

Lots of playoff teams still have the dream in both conferences. Things are looking exciting!!

 

[DaveMage]

Lots of playoff teams still have the dream in both conferences. Things are looking exciting!!

Indy-Cincy this week should be quite a game.

Dallas-Atlanta & Philly-NYG should be a great ones too.

 

[scrubkai]

Hint to the Buccaneers, for next Sunday:

Don't kick to Devin Hester. Really.

Crikey, the guy got a TD on a kickoff when he didn't even have the regular blockers in front of him. Wow.

What the 108 yard missed field goal return against the Giants didn't clue you into that?

As a Bears fan, all I can say is it's a shame that had to happen on MNF. Now the whole country knows what Deven Hester can do... I was praying that someone missed that and gave us a few more gifts in the playoffs. After all, we need something to make up for the 3 missing pro bowlers on Defense and a Good/Bad play of Grossman

 

[kenobi65]

What the 108 yard missed field goal return against the Giants didn't clue you into that?

That one was impressive, too.

Hester is reminding me a lot of the impact that Desmond Howard (same initials, even ) had on the Super Bowl Packers in '96. IIRC, he returned 3 punts for TDs during the regular season, another one during the playoffs against San Francisco, and then sealed the Super Bowl win with a kickoff return. He could break one at any time, and he really turned games around.

 

[John Crichton]

Okay, folks - time to crack this one up again. Game tonight. Seattle actually needs this win pretty badly. A loss tonight will virtually eliminate them for a shot at being the 2 seed if the Saints win. I'll turn the game on in the 2nd quarter to see what is up.

As the regular season winds to a close (only 3 weeks left!) I try to soak in as many games as possible. It's just too bad that almost all the division races are wrapped up and so we are left with just wild card races.

I happy that the NFC East is still competitive and may have 3 playoff teams (Dallas, Philly, NY). It's too bad that none of them can be considered threats to win it all. But considering how much things change in a few weeks, the playoffs and even perceptions of these teams could be much different.

The AFC is very interesting. I want to see the Colts put up a big effort this week. I want to see if KC can take the fight to the Chargers who are the current favorite to win it all. How about the Pats? What happens if they lose to Houston? They should easily win this game at home. Can the Jets stay alive for a wild card spot?

Actually, there are only a few games that hold no interest for me right now as they have very little impact on the playoffs or no interesting sub-plots to speak of -

Miami @ Buffalo
St. Louis @ Oakland
Detroit @ Green Bay
Pittsburgh @ Carolina

And some of those I do have interest in but only for fantasy leagues.

Must watch (times EST):

Dallas @ Atlanta - 8pm Saturday
Washington @ New Orleans - 1pm Sunday
Philly @ NY - 4pm Sunday
Kansas City @ San Diego - 8:15pm Sunday
Cincinnati @ Indy - 8:30pm Monday

I picked one game for each of the Sunday slots and just about all of the night games are gonna be fun.

 

[DaveMage]

Must watch (times EST):

Dallas @ Atlanta - 8pm Saturday
Washington @ New Orleans - 1pm Sunday
Philly @ NY - 4pm Sunday
Kansas City @ San Diego - 8:15pm Sunday
Cincinnati @ Indy - 8:30pm Monday

I picked one game for each of the Sunday slots and just about all of the night games are gonna be fun.

Yeah, good stuff.

I'm pulling for San Diego and Cincinnati in their respective games, but the others I'll just watch for some good football.

 

[Crothian]

Looks like that losing the Super bowl curse might be catching on in Seattle.

 

[kenobi65]

Looks like that losing the Super bowl curse might be catching on in Seattle.

Nice fourth-quarter hairball there, Hawks.