Guest Froglet Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 yahoo id: 424312 pw: sack yahoo please join if seirous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest knockblock Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 With the season under way I think we should try to make things entertaining in here. How about being awarded with pos reps for making predictions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HERMIT Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 The Eagles look good on paper with the acquisitions they made. Whether they'll be as good as they look or don't will be found out when the players take field. I like what the Ravens are doing to counter the weakness of their nemesis the Steelers.I also like what the Chargers have done. Especially to show that they're serious about a Super Bowl run. They got Jackson signed and Floyd back. As well as many other returning players. They lost Sproles but it's not bad. The rookie they drafted Jordan Todman seems like he could be everything Sproles was and more.I'm going to say about the Seahawks that Tarvaris Jackson is not the answer for them as the starting QB. He isn't really worthy as a starter. Yeah, the Eagles look like the NFL version of the Miami Heat with the caliber of FAs that they picked up. But I guess it remains to be seen how team chemistry will pan out throughout the season. I'm of course hopeful that the Chargers finally have put it together this year. How many times have people been picking them as contenders now, but with nothing to show for it? But maybe last year's experience will serve as the wake-up call that they can't just sit on their laurels, start the season slow, and figure they'll make it to the post-season by virtue of being in a "weak" division. I'm thinking that's probably been the "missing ingredient": quality competition amongst their own ranks. I think with at least the Raiders and Chiefs seeming to get part, if not most, of their acts together, they'll be able to keep the Chargers on their toes and not so complacent throughout the season. Although they didn't quite make the big splash as the Eagles did in FA (not like they actually do anyway), I think they made some savvy moves that just plain made sense for the team. The pickup of Takeo Spikes and Bob Sanders gives the defense a very-much needed shot in the arm with veteran leadership. Hopefully, injuries don't prove to be a factor (in the case of Sanders, specifically). I think the pickup of OLB Travis Laboy alongside Spikes from San Francisco could be a sleeper FA pickup as well. Playing as a situational pass rusher will help fill the void left by Merriman. The Todman pickup in the 6th round of the draft, I agree, was a real steal. He's basically like a bigger Sproles. Now having just seem him perform in this recent game against the Cowboys, the team may not skip a beat in losing Sproles. Anyhow, the jury's still out as to how this year's Charger squad will fare, but at least I can say that I'm not discouraged. In regards to Jackson in Seattle, I have to agree about the wisdom in that acquisition. I know it probably has all to do with familiarity with the West Coast offense, but certainly some other pickup would have sufficed? Or maybe they just felt that their QB, whoever it be, will likely have to run for his life throughout the season so they may as well get one with some escapability skills hahaha, I don't know. Speaking of QBs, I just read the ESPN report that the Raiders picked up Terrelle Pryor in the supplemental draft. I'm actually not that familiar with this guy's skill set and background other than hearing that he's generally a good prospect - so I suppose this must be a nice acquisition for the Raiders ..... troubles/suspension notwithstanding. Hell, they've needed some kind of talent/stability at the QB position for some time now. With the season under way I think we should try to make things entertaining in here. How about being awarded with pos reps for making predictions? Haha, that is an interesting suggestion, though I don't know how we could "enforce" someone getting their due props. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest a-o Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Eagles got a lot of quality depth at some key positions. Should be fun to watch if it all comes together. Chargers at full strength with their new additions look promising. I like what the Ravens are doing to counter the weakness of their nemesis the Steelers. I didn't really notice the moves the Ravens were making to get better until you brought it up. At first when I saw the Ravens losing Mason, Heap, and McGahee, I kind of thought what was going to happen to their offense. But after seeing them acquire Leach, Ricky Williams, Lee Evans, Bryant McKinnie, and locking up Carr, they look like they can take on more physical teams along with stretching the field. With the season under way I think we should try to make things entertaining in here. How about being awarded with pos reps for making predictions? Haha, that is an interesting suggestion, though I don't know how we could "enforce" someone getting their due props. I'd be happy to +1, hopefully there'll be no monkey business with the reps afterward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest knockblock Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 It's okay Hermit, I just started to bring it up and wasn't clear on how I thought of where to go with this. I'll be more specific on what I was thinking of doing here. The season is about to begin so I'll get to this quickly. Here's what I think of doing. During each week everyone can make their prediction on who wins the games between teams. Give your reasons why you think the team in that game wins if you want. We can pos rep the poster any way we want. Such as if you thought a prediction they made was good. Or other ways, like you just like the predictions they're making or analysis. You can pos rep a poster just for playing/taking part in this. You can do this before or after the games are played, but not during the games. I come up with doing this to make it fun in here. Spark excitement in the thread. The thread was rarely active for last season so maybe in doing this there will be more life. a-o, I'll be glad to +1 as well. Hope I and anyone else does in return . With +1 given, hopefully they get theirs too. Don't worry about people messing with the reps. I trust that this section of the forums isn't like some other parts of the forums. These are my picks for division winners and wild card teams. AFC East: New York Jets I'm going with the Jets because they showed how formidabble they can be. One thing that comes down to with the Jets is, do you believe in Mark Sanchez? I think he'll improve. He has shown in the playoffs what he is capable of. If he can play the way he has in the postseason for the regular season, Sanchez puts the Jets over. He'll get a full year with Holmes as well as work with other receivers. Their defense should as good as they have been. Also, Revis wasn't quite playing to the best of his abilities last season. He looks to have a stronger performance this year. I didn't pick the New England Patriots. They made a lot of moves this offseason. A couple of the big ones could either turn out very good or pretty bad. Personally, I'm not sold on Haynesworth or Ochocinco. I still find their defense suspect. The youth on the roster is spotty. The book is out on what you need to do to get after Brady. AFC North: Baltimore Ravens Going on history with this one. Sometimes the Steelers and Ravens have finished ahead of the other the following season when one of them had a better record than the other prior. I believe that will also apply this time. The Steelers haven't fared as well in the season following when they make the Super Bowl. The funny thing is, I think Pittsburgh has a potent offensive firepower which makes them good. I like Baltimore to win the AFC North because they made moves that I think will help them more. The Ravens offense is what Baltimore needed work on and I think will be better. AFC South: Houston Texans You likely heard the news about Payton Manning. He will miss the opener against the Texans. Then he could also miss more time than that. How many games Peyton Manning will miss, it is unknown. Houston's chance of winning the AFC South increases because of this. The division looks good to be theirs and theirs for the taking. The Texans have a balanced offensive attack with the passing and running/rushing game. They are very explosive and it is apparent what they have with the offense. Defensively, they needed to improve big time. As the pass defense allowed a lot of points. Houston will be using the 3-4 D scheme now with Wade Phillips. If the defense shows any significant improvement, Houston will be a more complete team. AFC West: San Diego Chargers Last year the Chargers were number 1 in offense and defense statistically for a portion of the 2010 season. But they were terrible/horrible at special teams. Very bad at special teams coverage. San Diego looks to improve on special teams. That aside, they should come back stronger in 2011. San Diego is without question the class of this division. Still very talented in many areas and positions. They are a complete team. They have the experience to go further and make a deeper run. Philip Rivers is amazing. He'll continue to have the performance he's been having and do big things. Rivers will do as much as he can for his team and take them as far as he can. AFC Wild Cards: Pittsburgh Steelers, New England Patriots I don't see the Jets or Ravens being on the road as wild card teams too many times. NFC East: Philadelphia Eagles Usually the NFC East is a tough and competitive division. Except this year the Eagles appear as huge favorites. The Giants had quite a few big contributors go down to injury in the preseason while also losing other important players in free agency who went to other teams. The Cowboys look to continue to build on what they had going under Jason Garret and will get Romo back, but they still have some holes in certain areas or positions. The Eagles by far made the most offseason moves and brought in a lot of good talent to their roster. Whether if they are as good or not as they look on paper remains to be seen. They will gel at some point. Will Vick continue his performance he had last year or will he revert back to the old Michael Vick? It'll be interesting to see how that unfolds. NFC North: Green Bay Packers Defending Super Bowl Champs. They'll be getting Jermichael Finley and Ryan Grant back in their offense. Both who went down to injury for the season in 2010. With them back Green Bay should be even better. The Packers battled through the playoffs last season with some of their players on IR. Aaron Rodgers is superb. Definately an elite QB. I expect him to keep up what he was doing late last season. Clay Matthews is a playmaker. He makes things happen for their defense. The Packers are really talented. They kept most of the players from the Super Bowl run. NFC South: New Orleans Saints Close call between New Orleans and Atlanta. I went with New Orleans. I think of the history of the NFC South. The team that won this division hasn't repeated as the division champion. So with that, once more, I went on with history. I will say though that the Falcons have a promosing rookie in Julio Jones. Anyway, The Saints look to bounce back from that embarrassing defeat to the Seahawks in the playoffs. They acquired Shaun Rogers who I guess is going to help that Saints defense stop the run. They acquired Darren Sproles perhaps to take the role that Reggie Bush previously had with the Saints offense. NFC West: St. Louis Rams Any of the teams can win this division. The weakest division in the league. However, the team that has the best QB play shall win this division. So that's why I'm going with the Rams. The 49ers and Seahawks have to figure out their QB situation. The Cardinals acquired Kevin Kolb, he'll have to get familiar with that offense and it will take time. St. Louis has a bright future with Sam Bradford. He showed himself to be pretty good in his rookie season. With more talent at the wide receiver positions he will excel further when he has the targets to throw to that helps him. The Rams also have a defense that isn't bad. NFC Wild Cards: Atlanta Falcons, New York Giants I like what the Buccaneers and Lions have going on. But I don't think they are quite there yet. I got the Giants in the wild card despite the fact they have a lot of question marks. They are a veteran team. Eli had a lot of turnovers last year. Say what you want about him, but I find Eli underrated. I believe he'll turn his performance around. He has something to prove to people. The season is about to start shortly. The Saints vs Packers will be playing tonight. 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Guest knockblock Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Saints vs Packers. This should be a good game. With two great QBs Brees and Rodgers. The home team, the defending champions, usually wins the Thursday night opener. I like the Packers. They have a better defense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest knockblock Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 The rest of week 1 games. Pittsburgh at Baltimore Atlanta at Chicago Philadelphia at St. Louis Indianapolis at Houston Detroit at Tampa Bay Tennessee at Jacksonville Buffalo at Kansas City Cincinnati at Cleveland New York Giants at Washington Minnesota at San Diego Seattle at San Francisco Carolina at Arizona Dallas at New York Jets New England at Miami Oakland at Denver I like the Ravens at home. Their newest players come through for them. Flacco makes the leap forward and gets the not being able to beat the Steelers with Roethlisberger of Baltimore's back. Atlanta has better offensive firepower. They have a good matchup against the Bears secondary and if they can protect against the Bears defensive front. The Jets defense has an advantage against the Cowboys inexperienced offensive line. Their corners can also hold the Cowboys WRs in check. New York's offense can gash Dallas with their run game and pick on the Cowboys secondary who is weak there. The Raiders humiliated the Broncos last year. I say Denver gets Oakland back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HERMIT Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Good analysis, knockblock. You sound like the consummate football fan. I don't know if I can keep up with you in the commentary as I just don't really have the patience to really follow each team that in depth, aside from the what's the most obvious storylines. I give you a +1 rep just on effort alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest a-o Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 A lot of good stuff knockblock. I'll try to make some predictions too. For division winners: AFC North - Steelers, feel like Roeth. gives them the edge over the Ravens. AFC South - Texans, more to do with the recent news of Peyton Manning. AFC East - Pats, feel like the Jets are the better team, but the Pats will finish with a better record. AFC West - Chargers, just too good I think on the offensive side of the ball not to win the division. NFC North - Packers, too much depth and firepower. NFC South - Falcons, similar to the AFC East, feel like Saints are better, but Falcons will have a better record. NFC East - Eagles, not all too sure about Vick, but on talent alone, team should win the division. NFC West - 49ers, had the most trouble with this division, more of a gut feeling. Have no clue about wild-cards. Rest of Week 1: Pittsburgh at Baltimore - Like the home-field advantage too. Atlanta at Chicago - Feel good about Chicago, dunno why. Philadelphia at St. Louis Indianapolis at Houston Detroit at Tampa Bay - Feel like the Lions are going to go crazy, another gut feeling. Tennessee at Jacksonville Buffalo at Kansas City Cincinnati at Cleveland New York Giants at Washington Minnesota at San Diego Seattle at San Francisco Carolina at Arizona Dallas at New York Jets - Feel like the Jets are going to dominate the time-of-possession. New England at Miami Oakland at Denver This year, feel like I'm going to be more of a casual fan. Been without a TV and having less time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Srrvant Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 AFC North - Ravens as the '07 Pats found out it is defense that wins championships and that ravens D is ridiculous! AFC South - Texans, with Manning out it is their year AFC East - Patriots the high powered offense and the new acquisitions on D are going to make them formidable AFC West - Chargers, somebody has to win this sad division NFC North - Packers, too much depth and firepower. NFC South - Falcons, this one is hard though, but I think the Falcons running game is just a tad better than the saints NFC East - Eagles, NFC West - Seahawks, Pete Carroll can create magic in Seattle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest knockblock Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Upset Pick: San Diego at New England Philip Rivers can torch and light up NE's secondary badly. The Patriots center Dan Koppen is injured and that will create a favorable matchup for Antonio Garay. SD can also attack NE's rookie RT Solder with their OLBS. Philadelphia at Atlanta The Eagles own the Falcons. I think Philly continues their winning streak against Atlanta. Vick puts on a good performance in the place that he once played for. Chicago at New Orleans The Saints get their first win against the Bears with Brees. Houston at Miami Sidenote: The Texans have never lost to the Dolphins. Seattle at Pittsburgh Steelers bounce back from a humbling defeat to the Ravens. Arizona at Washington Green Bay at Carolina Tampa Bay at Minnesota Dallas at San Francisco Cowboys redeem themselves from last weeks meltdown to the Jets Jacksonville at New York Jets Baltimore at Tennessee Cleveland at Indianapolis Kansas City at Detroit Oakland at Buffalo Cincinnati at Denver St. Louis at New York Giants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest a-o Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Week 2 Dallas at San Francisco - Dallas should be able to make more plays. San Diego at New England - See the Pats outscoring the Chargers. Philadelphia at Atlanta - Don't think Falcons can contain Vick. St. Louis at New York Giants - Giants should be able to outscore Rams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Froglet Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 LOL AT THE TALK. The PATs were dominating as ever and their defense REALLY SURPRISED SAN DIEGO. Still, the PATs defense showed areas of concern. Regardless, the PATs offense is by far one of the best I've seen. If it weren't for PEYTON being out, I would not have been able to witness such great execution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest knockblock Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Houston at New Orleans New England at Buffalo Denver at Tennessee Jacksonville at Carolina Miami at Cleveland New York Giants at Philadelphia San Francisco at Cincinnati New York Jets at Oakland Baltimore at St. Louis Kansas City at San Diego Green Bay at Chicago Atlanta at Tampa Bay Arizona at Seattle Pittsburgh at Indianapolis Washington at Dallas Upset pick: Detroit at Minnesota The Vikings may be 0-2. But Minnesota isn't that terrible to remain winless. This is a divisional game. These games divisional rivals play each other tough. Which is the case with the Lions and Vikings. The Vikings are at home and their crowd at the dome will help them. Adrian Peterson has another 100+ rushing yards game. Minnesota will do good if the Vikings defense can get pressure on Stafford. The Bears defense can slow the Rodgers down. Julius Peppers against Chad Clifton will be a good matchup to watch. Green Bay is better offensively than Chicago though. So thus I pick Green Bay to win. The Packers stop Matt Forte they stop the Bears running game. Get after Cutler and make him make mistakes. New England has beaten Buffalo 15 consecutive games. Tom Brady is 17-1 all time against the Bills. Houston vs New Orleans should be a fun and exciting game with two explosive offensives. Giants have lost 6 straight against the Eagles including the postseason. Eagles will try to avoid losing 3 straight home openers for the first time since 1998-2001. Kerry Collins has had good games against the Steelers before. But Pittsburgh will still win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest a-o Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Week 3 New York Jets at Oakland Baltimore at St. Louis Kansas City at San Diego Green Bay at Chicago Atlanta at Tampa Bay Arizona at Seattle Pittsburgh at Indianapolis Washington at Dallas All of my picks for the second slate of games are the same too, except I have Atlanta winning over Tampa Bay. Both Falcons and Bucs usually play mistake-free football, but expecting Bucs' offense to suffer more three-and-outs. Bears have a pretty good defensive scheme against the Packers, but I ultimately expect Pack to find the endzone more. If the Redskins win, they'd be 3-0 and leading the NFC East. I think I'm losing it to say that I can actually see that happening, but I expect Rex Grossman to play more like his oldself on the road, giving the Cowboys more scoring opportunities with both Romo and Dez Bryant questionable. ------- EDIT: New England at Buffalo Great call on taking the Bills! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HERMIT Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 New England at Buffalo New England has beaten Buffalo 15 consecutive games. Tom Brady is 17-1 all time against the Bills. LOL, yeah - good call on the Bills win over the Pats. Although, your later commentary sounded more contradictory and indicative of the opposite result. The season thus far bodes for a real shakeup of what's been usually held as the customary hierarchy in the league. Teams like Buffalo, Detroit, Oakland, and Washington sure seem to be making an early impression thus far. Indianapolis, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, and Seattle - all playoff teams last year - have already found themselves behind the 8 ball in this year's playoff race, or are at least on the brink of falling further behind if their respective lackluster play doesn't pick up and improve anytime soon. By my quick estimation, it seems that only New England/NY Jets and Pittsburgh/Baltimore are somewhat keeping the status quo in their respective division as far as records are concerned. Green Bay and New Orleans also seem to be holding their own as well in their conference. But even after hearing about the Jets performance against Oakland and the Steelers' performance against Indy yesterday, it kind of makes me wonder if those two particular teams might just be getting by with mirrors. I don't know. It sounded like the Raiders exposed the Jets' weakness in their offensive line and sometimes I wonder if the Steelers are actually becoming that slow and aging team that I've been hearing about. Anyway, I'd have to say that this has been about as surprising and refreshing a start to the NFL season as I've seen in a while. Shoot, even my hometown team the Chargers are still starting out slow and looking horribly discombobulated in terms of execution. But instead of looking bad in what customarily have been early season losses, they've actually been winning ugly. And what's all the more surprising is that much of the ugliness has been coming from Philip Rivers' play. 6 INTs already to only 4 TD passes? Wow. But maybe that's more encouraging in terms of finding that light at the end of the tunnel because I'm more confident that Rivers will turn it around being the fiery competitor and his own worst critic as he is. Moreover, despite the many turnovers and poor execution, it looks like the Chargers are still a good enough team to win their matches against lesser opponents (Min, KC) and yet still manage to stay competitive in the games against better ones (NE). Just cut down on the turnovers and commit to better execution, and conceivably they could be amongst the upper echelon as some have thought them to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest knockblock Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Texans over Steelers Schaub spreads out Pittsburgh's defense and the offense has an effective day. Houston's D-line can win the trench battle against the Steelers O-line. Titans over Browns Bills over Bengals Buffalo has won 10 straight against Cincinnati. Lions over Cowboys Suh and the rest of the Lions D-line will overpower the Cowboys young O-line. Calvin Johnson will feast on the Cowboys secondary while opening room for the other WRs for catches. Bears over Panthers Defense will be the difference in this game. Chicago takes it to Cam Newton. Upset Pick: Jaguars over Saints New Orleans has never won in Jacksonville. Last year the Saints went on the road out in out in Arizona and laid an egg. I can the Saints losing to an inferior team again. New Orleans will be playing in the Florida sun where they'll be put in their black jerseys. That is an advantage for the home team Jaguars. A couple or so of the Saints key players are questionable to play in this game. Rams over Redskins Vikings over Chiefs Giants over Cardinals Falcons over Seahawks Packers over Broncos Raiders over Patriots Raiders running game will go wild against the Patriots defense. Then Oakland will pass on New England which other teams have had success against. Patriots are 5-9 all time at Oakland (including playoffs). Chargers over Dolphins Ravens over Jets Baltimore is looking to have another big game. Especially against their former defensive coordinator Rex Ryan. It should be a slugfest like last year when they met. A low scoring game. I'm going with the Ravens because they look more impressive so far this season and they are better on both sides of the ball. The Ravens lead the all time series 6-1. Buccaneers over Colts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest knockblock Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 Raiders owner Al Davis passes away. Week 5 predictions Titans over Steelers Texans over Raiders Colts over Chiefs Jaguars over Bengals Giants over Seahawks Bills over Eagles Saints over Panthers Vikings over Cardinals Patriots over Jets Chargers over Broncos 49ers over Buccaneers Lions over Bears Upset Pick: Falcons over Packers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest a-o Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 Sad to hear about Al Davis. Week 5 NO @ CAR KC @ IND PHI @ BUF SEA @ NYG CIN @ JAC TEN @ PIT OAK @ HOU - No Andre Johnson, and Raiders have been putting up points on the board. ARI @ MIN - Went with the home team on this one. TB @ SF - 49ers doing good, but expecting Josh Freeman to make the critical plays down the stretch. NYJ @ NE - Jets know the formula in beating the Pats. SD @ DEN GB @ ATL CHI @ DET Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest knockblock Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Week 6 Bills over Giants Steelers over Jaguars Colts over Bengals (upset pick) Lions over 49ers Eagles over Redskins Packers over Rams Panthers over Falcons Cowboys over Patriots Saints over Buccaneers Ravens over Texans Raiders over Browns Vikings over Bears Jets over Dolphins The Patriots with Brady have a winning streak at home during the regular season. It has to come to an end at some point. Dallas is coming off a bye week. They'll get some important players back from injury. Romo can't make mistakes if they are to pull it off. The 49ers and Lions should be a good game. Both teams are doing very good right now. The Lions have the better passing attack. The 49ers are better at running the ball. I'm going with the Lions in this game because I think they're just a bit better and talented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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