Football (NFL) 2009 Season
I'm the wrong person to start a thread on this as I really only follow my Giants and little else about the league.
The Giants look good this year. They have many option at WR and the running core should be as good as last year. The Defense is capable of swarming over any less than good O-line and pressuring a good one.
They looked good in their first pre-season game.
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I could not believe they pulled that one of of their collective ass last night in the dying seconds of the game. Helluva finish though, and a nice play to strip the ball, recover it and score.
There are a number of teams that I pull for depending on which of my guys are performing. I'm a big-time Bears fan, having discovered the NFL when Walter Payton was at the peak of his powers (that's the only football jersey I own), but I also like the Steelers, Colts, and 49ers. Looking forward to the season...
P.S. I don't depise the Giants. That's probably a bit of a disappointment for you, What Exit?, but if you'd like, I can still diss the hell out of them, just for fun. :D
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Originally posted by dread pirate jimbo
I could not believe they pulled that one of of their collective ass last night in the dying seconds of the game. Helluva finish though, and a nice play to strip the ball, recover it and score.
There are a number of teams that I pull for depending on which of my guys are performing. I'm a big-time Bears fan, having discovered the NFL when Walter Payton was at the peak of his powers (that's the only football jersey I own), but I also like the Steelers, Colts, and 49ers. Looking forward to the season...
P.S. I don't depise the Giants. That's probably a bit of a disappointment for you, What Exit?, but if you'd like, I can still diss the hell out of them, just for fun. :D
Bears are my #2 team. It is odd, but I am Yanks and Giants and then Cubs and Bears for my teams. But my 2s are a distant 2.
Dissing Yanks is expected, dissing Giants is odd unless you root for an NFC east team. Dissing the Cowboys is the proper thing to do in Football.
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I don't have the kind of hate for the Cowboys that many Americans harbor, maybe because I'm not living in the right country for it. I don't particulalrly love them either, though.
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I don't have the kind of hate for the Cowboys that many Americans harbor, maybe because I'm not living in the right country for it. I don't particulalrly love them either, though.
Makes sense, but though Yankees and Giants fans tend to overlap, I was just pointing out that the Cowboys are to Football what the Yanks are to Baseball. I mean, you could mock me for being a Rangers fan (NHL), but that would just be for them being pathetic, it would not make sense. There is little reason to resent the Giants.
We need some real die hard fans to check in and give us some analysis now.
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Valid point about the Cowboys. And the Rangers (although they did win the Cup not too long ago). And, as I said, I don't hate the Giants -- I just wouldn't want you thinking that I could have a discussion about sports without running a bunch of smack about your team, is all. :D
No die hard fans here yet... Maybe we should talk about the wonder that is Michael Vick?
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I'm an excited Giants fan.
I've been worried about the permanent loss of Plaxico, but it seems that our "step up" players can do the job.
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I'm an excited Giants fan.
I've been worried about the permanent loss of Plaxico, but it seems that our "step up" players can do the job.
I'm liking our young receivers. None of them are the players that Plax was, but I think they are enough to get us to the playoffs and in coming years grow into star players hopefully.
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Favre has signed with the Vikings.
You know, that guy had a reputation for being one of the best, classiest players in the NFL for a long time, with respect from everybody. But since he held the Packers hostage for however the hell many years it was, then retired, then unretired, then went to play with the Jets, then retired, then insisted as recently as three weeks ago that he was done for good, then unretired and signed with his former nemeses... well, let's just asy he's looking like a bigger narcissistic douche every day. Very disappointing.
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I never even paid attention to Favre until recently. I never thought he was an all time elite QB, just a very good Hall of Fame QB. But with his antics of the last several years, I am rooting for him to fall on his face and drag the Vikings down with him.
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I was quite a fan of his during his glory days in Green Bay, but he has taken himself several pegs down in my opinion over the last 3 or 4 years. Brett Favre seems to be all about Brett Favre, and you can't have that in a team sport where every cog in the wheel is so critical to the success of the machine.
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Screw Brett Favre. That's all I have to say about that one.
Ok, so I want to get in on this thread as I promised my wife I would teach her about football this year and since I normally only follow the Raiders (because I am a masochist) I am going to need you all to help me keep on top of the goings on in the rest of the NFL. She wants to follow the Steelers, her home town is Phily so she was going to root for the Eagles but then they signed Michael Vick...so the Steelers it is.
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Screw Brett Favre. That's all I have to say about that one.
Ok, so I want to get in on this thread as I promised my wife I would teach her about football this year and since I normally only follow the Raiders (because I am a masochist) I am going to need you all to help me keep on top of the goings on in the rest of the NFL. She wants to follow the Steelers, her home town is Phily so she was going to root for the Eagles but then they signed Michael Vick...so the Steelers it is.
Well, it is rarely a good thing to root for Philly anyway. So good choice. I can't help much with the Steelers though. I still have to come up to speed on the 4 NFC East teams and I am far from having a clue about the AFC yet.
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Screw Brett Favre. That's all I have to say about that one.
Ok, so I want to get in on this thread as I promised my wife I would teach her about football this year and since I normally only follow the Raiders (because I am a masochist) I am going to need you all to help me keep on top of the goings on in the rest of the NFL. She wants to follow the Steelers, her home town is Phily so she was going to root for the Eagles but then they signed Michael Vick...so the Steelers it is.
Well, it is rarely a good thing to root for Philly anyway. So good choice. I can't help much with the Steelers though. I still have to come up to speed on the 4 NFC East teams and I am far from having a clue about the AFC yet.
You make a good point, and I am more of an AFC person anyway, so the Steelers is a good choice all the way around. And they are looking good this year, so she might even get to root for a team that wins big. the only downside is it's going to be hard to catch steelers games in LA. This might be a good excuse to sign up for the DirecTV NFL ticket.
At least she didn't decide to root for the Broncos.
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I haven't heard a bunch of news about the Steelers yet, but I do know the big news over the summer has been Ben Rothlisberger's legal troubles and whether or not that will mess up the team's chemistry.
I'm a huge Willie Parker fan, mainly because I got him for next to nothing in a football draft a couple years back, when Jerome Bettis and Deuce Staley were both injured going into the regular season and Parker had a 200+ yard day to open the year and push me to the top of the pool. Sweet! I've been digging on that kid ever since. (I seem to have a thing for running backs -- all my favorite guys are running backs).
Hines Ward is one of the better possession receivers in the game. Troy Polumalu is scary good at strong safety. They've got a legitimate contender in Pittsburgh, definitely one worth watching.
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Philadelphia Eagles fan checking into your thread. That damn dog killer will be with us this year and that sucks, but maybe he'll get electrocuted like he did to those dogs so a guy can hope. I'd like to see it in a priest on the golfcourse Caddyshack way.
Football is the only sport I follow closely.
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I feel...cautiously optimistic about this Bears season, and that scares the everlovin' hell out of me.
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I feel...cautiously optimistic about this Bears season, and that scares the everlovin' hell out of me.
I'm not up to speed but you have a big upgrade at QB in my opinion. That always helps.
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I feel...cautiously optimistic about this Bears season, and that scares the everlovin' hell out of me.
I'm not up to speed but you have a big upgrade at QB in my opinion. That always helps.
Major, MAJOR upgrade at QB, which has been a problem for us for some time now.
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My biggest worry about Jay Cutler is that finally having a strong presence at the QB may only serve to highlight the other staggering weaknesses that our offense suffers under. For the last, well since Eric Kramer left, we’ve had a comfort zone that allowed us to rest all of our struggles on that one highly visible position. Without a Cade McNown or a Kordell Stewart or a Rex Grossman or other high profile flop running the show I’m just waiting to see how inadequate our wide receiver corps is, and how weak and aged our offensive line is as well. I’m afraid that Cutler, as huge as his potential is, is just another case of too little too late and that he’s just been added to a team whose post season window actually closed three years ago that honestly needs a complete rebuild to be any kind of contender outside of the laughably bad and equally poorly staffed NFC North.
I predict that we’ll easily take the division, unless St. Brett of Indecision puts up some sort of actual last hurrah in Minneapolis which is unlikely. The Lions continue to be almost a non-entity and Green Bay is just lost thanks to Brett’s waffling. As usual, we’ll be slaughtered in the first game where we play a team from the actually competitive NFC East.
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Maybe I should be a Bears fan. I miss Jay already :(