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  1. Donovan McNabb.

     

    Because its a black QB, then 3 white. The next should be a black QB.

     

     

    I don't know it that was meant as some sort of joke or not. But no.

     

    However, McNabb is the correct answer...rational is totally off base.

  2. The following quarterbacks are in sequence:

     

    Warren Moon

    Matt Ryan

    Derek Anderson

    Brett Favre

     

    Who comes next in this sequence?

     

    a) Tom Brady

    b) Donovan McNabb

    c) Ben Roethlisberger

    d) Chad Pennington

     

    And why?

  3. I am pissed that he didn't get fined. Fines come out on Friday and he didn't get one.

     

    No way was Wes Welker's snow angel more unsportsmanlike than McNabb's stunt, and Wes got fined.

     

    The NFL needs to be more consistent.

     

  4. t2.westbrook.gy.jpg

     

    You can't argue the NFL doesn't want to see the Dallas in the playoffs.

     

    The Cowboys are the league's most popular (and profitable) team in any year, one of a precious few franchises with a legitimate claim to a national fan base. They dominate the dot-coms from ESPN to TMZ, creating the kind of sport-transcending buzz commissioners crave. This season in particular, the swirling soap-operatic subplots have helped generate record-breaking ratings for a number of their national games.

     

    That Roger Goodell would rather see the Cowboys play into January -- as opposed to the Vikings, Buccaneers or even the Bears or Eagles -- is beyond question. So is the NFL abusing its power under the flex scheduling rules by shifting this weekend's Dallas-Philadelphia game to 4:15 p.m.?

     

    Nobody can deny the decision gives Dallas a potential competitive advantage, with Chicago, Minnesota and Tampa Bay playing at 1 o'clock. If the Bucs defeat the lowly Raiders -- or if the Bears and Vikings both win -- the Eagles would take the field knowing they've been eliminated.

     

    "To learn after you have warmed up and just before kickoff that you have been eliminated can be devastating," writes Dallas Morning News columnist Tim Cowlishaw, in his item on the controversial switch.

     

    Venerable Philadelphia Daily News scribe Bill Conlin says the decision may spoil a dramatic fight to the finish in the wild-card chase -- to the advantage of Dallas.

     

    It would have been dramatically correct for the Bucs, Bears, Vikings, Birds and Cowboys all simultaneously slugging away for that second NFC wild-card berth. Bucs win, it's over for Andy and the South Philly Air Force. Vikes and Bears both win, it's over. That's a lot of possible overs to overcome. And if the Bucs, Vikes and Bears all lose, the Eagles still have to beat the Cowboys.

     

    It appears the NFL liked the long odds against the Vikings and Bears both losing and went all-in on a dispirited Eagles team playing a so-what game at 4:15[.]

     

    Do you think the Cowboys would gain an advantage if the Eagles knew they were eliminated from playoff contention? Does the decision-making smell fishy to you? Should there be some kind of oversight for the NFL's flex scheduling ability?

     

    Dallas Cowboys-Eagles time change fuels conspiracy theory [Dallas Morning News]

    TV sends wrong signal to Eagles [Philadelphia Daily News]

     

     

    Pretty much same deal in the AFC, by flexing the Jets-Mia game to after NE-Bills, if NE wins it gives Jets less incentive to play MIA.

  5. Someone emailed this to me and I though you guys might find it funny....

     

     

    I quickly scanned the headlines to see if it was already posted, I didn't see that it was, if it is a repeat my apologies.

     

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    After last night I may hate the cowboys more than you guys do! F^*( A-holes should have won that game.

     

    Hopefully we will play game against each other sooner than 2011.

     

     

     

     

     

  6. Possible but unlikely.

     

    Possible because on any given Sunday any team can beat any team.

     

    Unlikely because the '07 Patriots is the most dominant team in the Superbowl era. Having a PPG difference of +19.7. The 86 Giants at +8.4, doesn't even make the top 20 list.

     

    The '07 Giants beating the '07 Patriots is an unlikely event. It happened in one of the two games in which the teams met, but it was still an unlikely event. I say that meaning no disrespect to the Superbowl champion New York Giants, the Giants played better football on the day it mattered.

     

     

    Edit to add: And there is no comparison between the '86 Broncos with a PPG of 3.2 and the '07 Patriots.

  7. Yeah, that was my weak attempt at humor. :rolleyes:

     

    Well, the thread is a weak attempt at humor. I posted the same on a Colts board and was told I was responsible for cardiac failure between the time they read the subject line and the body of the message.

  8. Maybe your team can get him to replace A Samuel. An average CB for an overrtaed one. :)

     

    Kraft might not be rushing to pickup someone with this guys history. Every team overlooks some off-field misbehavior, but beating a someone because they are Jewish is likely something Kraft won't accept.

     

     

  9. I still do not understand a few of the legalities involved here.

     

    1) How do you lease the same space twice. Jets and Giant fans should both have rights to that seat for anything that goes on in the stadium including concerts, soccer, college games, and Jets and giant games.

     

    You pay for the rights to the seats, you get the rights to the seats. You dont share the rights to the seats. The only thing comparable would be a time share type of thing. That would work if only Jets and Giants played at the stadium, what aboout concerts, soccer, and college games? Those tickets need to be offered to those with the Licences FIRST.

     

    2) How can the teams use the PSL money? If it is meant to go back to the fan if and when they decide not to buy the seasons tickets, then it needs to be kept as a security, meaning it goes into a non interest bearing account(escrow). If not then they owe the lincencee for the interest it would have gained for the years they held onto the money.

     

    There are already laws on the books that make this kind of thing illegal. Why in NY/NJ there arent a thousand lawyers trampling over each other to get these guys into court is beyond me.

     

    Ever heard of time sharing? With time sharing you the right to occupy a space for a certain period of time each year, eg third week in May. With the PSL you are buying the right to occupy space on days in which the Giants play football at home.

     

    The Jets/Giants PSLs are less valuable than those that give you the right to buy tickets to non-exempt event (concerts etc) but no PSL gives you the right to attend every event held in the stadium. Having a PSL in a stadium that hosts the superbowl will not secure you a ticket to the SB. What is exempt or not is largely in control of the stadium owners.

     

    In general offering PSL owners the first crack at buying tickets, helps the owner of the stadium sell tickets so making an event non-exempt is not done unless the performer insists.

     

    What the Jets/Giants should do for concerts is give PSL owners the right to buy half the tickets. Own a 4 pack you can buy 2 tickets to see concert.

     

    By and large as long as both parties are over 18 you can contract to do anything that is not illegal. And as this is a luxury item, if you don't like the pricing of PSLs your best recourse is not to buy it. This not price gouging of infant formula. If sufficient number of people refuse to purchase the seller will have to make adjustments.

     

  10. Brady actually told a Boston radio station the day after the AFCCG (this was before the boot photos came out) that is ankle was not bother him enough to keep him out of the SB, but he expected it would keep him out of the probowl and talked about a golf plans he had for the weekend of the pro-bowl. He was never going to go.

     

    Not sure if Moss made the decision before or after the SB. Moss probably would go if all he had to do is play football, he was getting really really tired of the media before the SB. If he went to the pro-bowl he would probably be the number one media draw and I don't think he wants to spend a week talking to the press about losing, if he is going to be a Patriots, why he hates the media, DV case, Rice etc.

     

    Good shot Osi will now be the number one media draw. Which is good. Osi should be the number one media draw at the probowl.

     

     

  11. How is that insulting them? Yankee fans are the BEST IN THE WORLD!!!!! Anyone who doesnt think so is just jealous. ;)

     

    Yankee fans are arrogant assholes, that have a sense of entitlement and declare any season which doesn't result in winning the WS an utter failure.

     

    Many Patriot fans are copying their worst characteristics.

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    That was sarcasm directed at the folks calling for cutting our Pro-bowl o-line, record breaking WR, and OC. Also a somewhat failed attempt to bring those folks who consider anything but a SB win a failure down to earth by insulting them the most horrible way possible...comparing them to Yankee fans.

  13. I will hold my opinion on Shockey until I see he and Eli together again. Shockey's absence didn't all the sudden fix Eli's accuracy issues. THAT is probably the biggest reason for Eli's breakout from Week 17 on.

     

    My two cent. Maybe, maybe not. If Shockey is such a cancer or so antagonistic that his presence makes Eli nervous.... then his absence could effect Eli's accuracy.

     

    One thing is for sure the team has played much better without him.

     

    Of all the areas where we fans fly dark in speculating is team chemistry is the worse. Sometimes it turns out that a person everyone on the outside thinks is a cancer, is sometimes really someone who holds the team together, and other times someone we think is a real team player is a problem maker.

  14. Not necessarily. First off its BELICHIK :P

     

    Seriously though, Torre did not have is team win it the last 4 of 6 years. When he did accomplish that, we kept him around. But now, he cant get out of the first round, or win the division for that matter. Dont get me wrong, I love Joe, but maybe it wa time for a change.

     

    Now thats funny you point out my typo :doh: and misspell his name Belichick. :LMAO:

  15. Yeah, next is the Yankees beatin the Sox.

     

    Stienbrenner is in free fall.. you fired one of the best coaches in the game.... Firing Torre for last season would be like firing Bilichick over yesterdays loss.

  16. ...or an extra minute or so on the clock. We were very lucky that our early clock-killing drive turned out in our favour an not their's.

     

    Its official. I am rooting for the Giants to win the NFC next year.

     

    I want a fucking rematch. You guys only had to wait 6 weeks for yours. I don't want to have to wait 4 years for a regular season game. Only way we rematch is in the SB before that.

     

     

     

  17. I am not an Eli hater. And Eli played very well. But I think the D-line was the superstar for the Giants. I think you need a really good reason to consider an offensive player for the MVP when the final score is 17-14. Likewise I would be a bit puzzled by awarding a defensive player such an award if the final score is 40-38.

     

    Here I don't see such a reason. The final drive was great. As was the opening drive. The defense line was freaking awesome the entire game. I am sure you have heard time and time again, that "Brady has all the time in the world to pass." The fact remains not withstanding yesterday, the Patriots has one the best pass protection offensive line if not the best on in the league.

     

    The Giants was the only team this year to break thru that o-line. They truly were the difference maker without the outstanding d-line, given what Brady, Welker, and Moss can do if there isn't pressure and given that the Giants secondary is not really great, without the outstanding play of the d-line, the offenses 17 points would have hung on the losing end of something in the neighborhood of 35-17.

     

    It is not unusual for a QB to get more credit than he deserves in a win, and it certainly is the norm for the QB to take an unfair quantity of blame for loses. So this it maybe only fair he receive the award to make up for all the bashing he took for the mistakes of others.

     

    But the real difference maker in this game was the D-line. When the 13 teams scheduled to play the Patriots next season sit down and get ready. The question is not going to be "what did Eli do differently against the Patriots to allow them to succeed where every else one failed?" No, the question will be, "how did the Giants d-line manage to get around the Pats o-line and hit Brady, and how can we emulate that."

     

    Once again, no knock on Eli. And he clearly came into his own this year. But the stars at tomorrow parade should be the front 4.

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