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NFL Regular Season Thread 2010

So. Big question for Andrew Luck. How much do want to go to Carolina?

If Harbaugh stays at Stanford I can see Luck staying too.
 
[quote author=MC Golgotha link=topic=41376.msg1241922#msg1241922 date=1294065208]

Thank fuck the Packers are the sixth seed. Don't want to see them again for a bit. Think they're going to cause havoc in the playoffs. Lack of a run game would lame other teams, but their defense is a wall. Vick is going to have a long day, and they could mess with Matty Ice in the Dome.

Brees in the snow for us.
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Tough match-up. I predict the winners will go all the way to the Superbowl game. Whether they win that may depend on who else makes it that far.
 
I might be crazy, but I reckon Seattle could mess with the Saints. Any road game in the playoffs is a banana skin, and a 7-9 team is the exact type situation the Saints could make a right bungle of. Presumably Carroll will play Hasselbeck and not Charlie fucking Whitehurst. If Whitehurst starts then they have no chance. The Hassel might get it done though. Might.
 
[quote author=MC Golgotha link=topic=41376.msg1245244#msg1245244 date=1294343775]

I might be crazy, but I reckon Seattle could mess with the Saints. Any road game in the playoffs is a banana skin, and a 7-9 team is the exact type situation the Saints could make a right bungle of. Presumably Carroll will play Hasselbeck and not Charlie fucking Whitehurst. If Whitehurst starts then they have no chance. The Hassel might get it done though. Might.
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I could pretend to know what I'm talking about here but I'll be completely honest and say this is directly from a podcast I listened to recently - Aaron Schatz of Football Outsiders looks at all the research and found that Hasselbeck is particularly good at finding receivers when he's being blitzed, and also that the Saints blitz more often than any other defence. It could be give Seattle a chance.
 
It could, and playing in front of that crowd should also help the Shitehawks. The $64,000 question is whether they're good enough to use that to their advantage. I'm a Saints fan so I'm biased, but I'm going with "no".
 
Sounds good to me. That's good statwork, fella.

I think SCM should adopt Seattle as a joker playoff team. Everyone except Judge, obviously. And me the week after. But everyone else.
 
[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=41376.msg1245255#msg1245255 date=1294344353]
Andrew Luck staying in college.

So he'll get less money in 2012, then end up at Carolina anyway...
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Or do what Eli did.
 
Does anybody else think that, as Payton looks across the dinner table at Eli, he says to himself "Just how the f$%! do I only have the same number of rings as that cnut?!?!"?

Does anybody else think it's funny that I picture this family of multi-millionaires all living and eating in the same house as grown men with families..?
 
[quote author=Whaddapie link=topic=41376.msg1245268#msg1245268 date=1294345210]
Does anybody else think that, as Payton looks across the dinner table at Eli, he says to himself "Just how the f$%! do I only have the same number of rings as that cnut?!?!"?

Does anybody else think it's funny that I picture this family of multi-millionaires all living and eating in the same house as grown men with families..?
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I bet they fucking do. Them and their old man.

Peyton must be used to his singular ability to fuck up big matches by now. He's been doing it since college.
 
[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=41376.msg1245255#msg1245255 date=1294344353]
Andrew Luck staying in college.

So he'll get less money in 2012, then end up at Carolina anyway...
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I like that he's staying. Wonder if it'll make Harbaugh stay too.

The Cardinals are losing a few seniors, but Taylor, Wilkerson and Gaffney will return, so their running game is intact. Balwin is a seniors, so that's a blow as far as receivers go, but Fleener should return. He fucking smoked VA Tech in the Orange Bowl. Ty Montgomery has committed to them for next year. Never seen him play but reports suggest he runs good routes for a young player.

They have Oregon at home next season, so maybe he wants his degree, a national title, and a Heisman.

The money won't worry him. His old man had a few years as Warren Moon's back-up, so must have made a few quid. And he's currently AD for the Mountaineers. I don't think the Lucks are short a few pennies. The only real risk is the chances of injury are higher in college than in the pros. But if I had to choose between a broken neck and playing in Carolina...
 
Props to Miami (OH). Won a bowl against the Mid Tenn Blue Raiders last night. Miami were 1-11 last year, but ran 10-4 this year to win the MAC. Unprecedented turn-around. Good work, the-other-Miami fellas.

Also, saw an interview with Eric Legrand. He smashed his C3 & C4 vertebrae a few months ago making a tackle for Rutgers, leaving him on a ventilator and paralysed from the neck down. He's breathing on his own now and has movement in his shoulders and sensation in his arms. Always a horror seeing a kid go down like that.
 
Juggernaut. Head-on, open field tackle on an Army fella making a kickoff return. He lowered his head on contact and just dropped.
 
Zach Follett's career may be over after his injury.

He wasn't particularly good, but he did land a humdinger on danny amendola last season.
 
I remember the shot against the Rams.

So was the injury worse than they first thought? I know he was carted off and they put him on IR but I thought they were fairly sure he didn't have a fracture. He do a disc or summat?
 
Any heavy tap to the spine will have consequences I suppose. He's probably better off looking at it like "well, I got out of that one on my own legs, so..."
 
"If you ever wondered what it was like to be an Oakland Raiders fan you're in luck, because I'm about to give you some insight. First take an ice-pick and just ram it into your left testicle. If you can make it all the way through so it sticks into a table or chair, that is preferable. Next, headbutt the nearest immovable object (table, brick wall etc.) seven times or until you draw blood, whichever comes first. After that, put your left hand on a table and smach it with a hammer three times as hard as you can, then dip it in scalding hot water. After that wears off eat an Oreo cookie, because they actually look like they are going to score, but as soon as you eat the cookie wash it down with a quart of antifreeze because they found some way to screw it up. While you are still alive, slowly remove the ice-pick to make sure you achieve maximum torture, and then stab yourself in the temple." [From BJ of Syracuse]

As a Liverpool fan I know how he feels at times. As a Saints fan, I've forgotten. ;D
 
Jim Harbaugh to 49ers.

What's your take Golgotha?

TBH, it's the first I've ever heard of Harbaugh. Same journey as Walsh, same results?
 
I've followed him pretty closely as he was our QB for years.

He had to take the job, as much money as people were offering him. Probably the most wanted coach of the off-season after his job at Stanford. Thing is, I wonder if he isn't better suited to college ball than the pros. I could be wrong, but he seems to do really well with young players. He turned around the Toreros in the FCS and Stanford have been one of the best 1-A teams this year. Of course, he had Andrew Luck, so thems some nice blocks to be building with, but Harbaugh has to get credit for what Luck has become too.

What's great about this is he's in the NFC West, so he gets to fuck with Pete Carroll some. He and Carroll hated each other when Carroll was head coach for the Trojans. Stanford were pretty weak at the time Harbaugh took over, and USC were a college ball juggernaut. I remember Stanford beat them with a late TD when they were 40 point underdogs. They also completely torched USC in Carroll's final season. Put 50 odd points on them. Now, whilst USC have shipped a lot of points this season, it was something that did not happen in the Carroll era (or any era really). Going to be fun seeing them running up against each other twice a season. There was a lot of sparring in the papers between them in their Pac-10 rivalry, so expect this one to be played out in public.

Given their QB situation there, I wonder if Luck would think about holding out next year and demanding to play for the Niners. Then the Walsh-Montana comparisons will start getting out of hand.
 
Informative as always Golgotha. Thanks 🙂.

Can Harbaugh *turn* the Niners around, given the players he has now? Or do they have to do some trades and have a good draft?
 
That's the big question. All new coaches like their own players, so there will be changes (and the NFL is a constant turnover sport anyway). The 49ers have some good players though. Frank Gore is brill, obviously. He also has good hands, so even if Harbaugh's passion for the air game takes carries away from him, you could see him used as a receiver in the way the Saints use Bush. Vernon Davis is great, and had pretty public issues with the previous coach at times. The quarterback position is a big problem. Harbaugh was a QB and at college has shown he is an offensively minded coach, so he'll be looking for a QB to have a relationship with. None on their roster really stick out. So do they draft one early or try to sign a free agent veteran? They have a high pick (seven I think), so the draft conversation can include all of Newton, Locker, Gabbert, Mallet etc as at least some of them (and possibly all) will still be on the board (I usually tend to overestimate how many teams will take a quarterback - loads of them don't seem to want to win any games). Or will Andrew Luck be in the back of his mind? Vince Young is available. Could do a job for a year.

I have serious doubts about Singletary's tactical abilities. He is a brilliant motivator, but that only takes you so far if you have no plan. So I think you'll see a more cohesive unit taking the field as a matter of course.
 
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