NFL Football Thread 2013

[PokerFace]

I may have to start wearing a paper bag on my head to games. Next year better be worth it.

Colts will have a chance at a superbowl season but I think they'll fall short in playoffs

Miami and KC looking like possible wild cards to me. IND and HOU gonna have to fight to get out of their division

[AGar]

I may have to start wearing a paper bag on my head to games. Next year better be worth it.

Colts will have a chance at a superbowl season but I think they'll fall short in playoffs

Miami and KC looking like possible wild cards to me. IND and HOU gonna have to fight to get out of their division

The fact that you're a Browns fan shouldn't impact your ability to make logical conclusions about the rest of the league...

[LlamaFluff]

I may have to start wearing a paper bag on my head to games. Next year better be worth it.

Its over a year old at this point, but they are still keeping it relevant.

Also Colts aren't even a playoff team, even now maybe just a WC if they get lucky (o/u at 8.5), what are you talking about? Really I could see the Colts being a 6-10 team this year, apart from JAX and maybe TEN, its all respectable teams left for them. Even then TEN could sneak out an 8-8 record. Rams and Cards would be winning teams if they weren't in the division of doom.

AFC sending BALT, DEN, NE, HOU with MIA and KC as wildcards looks like the very solid bet here.

[Jake from State Farm]

[AGar]

I may have to start wearing a paper bag on my head to games. Next year better be worth it.

Its over a year old at this point, but they are still keeping it relevant.

Also Colts aren't even a playoff team, even now maybe just a WC if they get lucky (o/u at 8.5), what are you talking about? Really I could see the Colts being a 6-10 team this year, apart from JAX and maybe TEN, its all respectable teams left for them. Even then TEN could sneak out an 8-8 record.

Rams and Cards would be winning teams

if they weren't in the division of doom.

AFC sending BALT

, DEN, NE, HOU with MIA and KC as wildcards looks like the very solid bet here.

Are you trolling the shit out of us?

[LlamaFluff]

Well Rams I could see ending up 8-8 this year, if they didn't have to play SF and SEA two times each I could easily see them with a winning record and a wild card, they have some talent. Cards a bit less but I can see them as a 8-8 team if they didn't play as many hard teams, realistically they are still going to be about a five or six win team this year having played five or six playoff bound teams.

You actually think Bengals are going to beat the Ravens though? Only way that is happening is if Rice misses quite a few games. Neither team is good, but I just cant see the Bengals winning that division.

[AGar]

If Cincy can hold serve and split that home-and-home against the Ravens, I think they have a better shot at the division. Their schedule is notably weaker than Baltimore's (even moreso depending on how you skew Indy). The Ravens already got shellacked by Denver, and they also take on Houston in addition to the similar schedule of NE/GB/DET/CHI (who probably would've been a decent sleeper for the NFC WC in retrospect). I don't like Baltimore this year, I think they have too many gaps.

[LlamaFluff]

But Dalton is still Dalton, not a great QB but good enough to where he isn't going to lose his job in the near future. I don't like BAL or CIN and I think the winner of that division will be 9-7 at best, but I think Ravens beat them out.

[Benmage]

Miami may be 2-0.. but I think you give them too much credit. I dont see them making playoffs.

[LlamaFluff]

Miami may be 2-0.. but I think you give them too much credit. I dont see them making playoffs.

They look like a nine or ten win team. They have a hard next three games that will show what type of team they are (ATL, @NO, BAL) especially if they had NE before Gronk comes back, I could see then going 5-1 in their division. They beat a bad CLE team and a wild card at best IND team already. ATL is hurt so I would pick them again this week if I was going to bet it would be on them (made a couple hundred off them beating the Colts last week).

Really though what other teams could possibly be WC? KC, Miami, loser of CIN/BAL, IND... I would take KC and Miami as the best two teams in that group. Colts maybe with Richardson but before that trade they had little hope, but 8-2 in one possession games last year with 2-4 in big wins... they are going to drop off.

[Thestatusquo]

They like like a 5 win team. Whether or not they get 9-10 because the NFL is random as hell is another story.

[Benmage]

I can see the next 9 games for Miami all being losses. (yes I stopped at the jets)

[LlamaFluff]

I can see the next 9 games for Miami all being losses. (yes I stopped at the jets)

They beat BUF and TB. ATL is banged up bad and think they win tomorrow, I can see CIN, SD and CAR being coinflips and then 1-2 against the NE/NO/BAL trio.

[Benmage]

I can see the next 9 games for Miami all being losses. (yes I stopped at the jets)

They beat BUF and TB. ATL is banged up bad and think they win tomorrow, I can see CIN, SD and CAR being coinflips and then 1-2 against the NE/NO/BAL trio.

They will not beat Atlanta, Saints, Ravens... so there's 3 losses in a row to bring you back down to earth.

Buffalo coin flip.
NE-Loss
Cin-loss
-At TB... coinflip, I lean to loss.
SD- lean loss
Car-lean loss

I'm not saying that can't get wins out of a couple.. but I wouldn't favor them, and can easily see all 9 of the next teams beating them.

[Antihero]

6 sacks and only 56 yards allowed in the first 2.5 quarters...

where was this panther's defense the first two games?

[hasdgfas]

6 sacks and only 56 yards allowed in the first 2.5 quarters...

where was this panther's defense the first two games?

Not playing the Giants.

[Antihero]

giant's offense is that bad?

i didn't know that

[SleepyKrew]

Drew Brees is da bessssst

[Trevor]

giant's offense is that bad?

i didn't know that

They were horrendous. No rushing game whatsoever, Eli got coverage sacked a lot and wasn't mobile enough to do much out of the pocket. They looked fairly alive after Wilson got a 30 yd TD immediately after a Panthers muffed punt, but it was called back on an iffy holding call. Giants pretty much did nothing after that.

[Nero Cain]

So...Washington and New York are both 0-3. The Eagles are a one win team whose offense isn't looking nearly as good as it was the first game. Meanwhile we have the two and one Cowboys who are playing really really good right now.

I accept your apology, Jake.

[Jake from State Farm]

I mean they beat the rams and the Giants, idk if I would call that "playing really well"

[Nero Cain]

So which NFC East team is better?

[Jake from State Farm]

Well obviously on paper the cowboys

[waynegg]

Schaub...

[kdowns]

Schaub...

Made me happy to watch his fuck ups.