NFL Season 2012

Urouge

Aww man. That game was so close to being a classic but then Julio had to go and get that first down and ruin it. I didn't even care who won, I just wanted to see it come down to the final drive. But I never thought I'd see the day when Peyton would throw 3 picks in a single quarter.

I just can't shake my image of the Falcons as a team that does great in the regular season and then gets stomped in each and every playoff game. And that opinion is derived from Mike Smith rather than Matt Ryan. I have no doubt that Matt Ryan can win a playoff game, but Smith? I'm not so sure.

Nex 0

@Sesshy:

Still upset you started RG3?

Not really. I still dominated Urouge. And RG3 only had 10 points less. Through two weeks though RG3 has scored consistently high, so I'm thinking about permanently starting him over Eli.

And I'm lovin that the Bolts are the only 2-0 team in the AFC West and are 1 of only 2 2-0 teams in the AFC.

I'm really looking forward to the game against the Falcons. If the Bolts can beat them, I honestly believe they could be 6-0 going into their bye, as the only other team that presents any sort of challenge is the Donkeys, and the Bolts have always beaten Manning.

Bobjr

In our leage Reggie Bush and Hakeem Nicks saved me this week.

Nex 0

I lost 76.16 - 76.30 in one of my money leagues this week.

Closest game I've ever had in my four years of playing Fantasy Football.

Urouge

RG3 helped me dominate one of my money leagues this week (along with Spiller and Lynch and others), so I'm totally fine with losing to him in this one. The guy looks like a fantasy monster this year if he can keep it up. His propensity for rushing touchdowns makes me think he can, much like Cam Newton did last year when defenses took away the deep ball to Steve Smith in the latter half of the season.

He's also one of the most accurate QB's I've ever seen come out of college in my entire life. The guy had a bunch of games in which he threw more touchdowns than incompletions, and a lot of his throws were deep.

Sesshy

@Nex:

I lost 76.16 - 76.30 in one of my money leagues this week.

Closest game I've ever had in my four years of playing Fantasy Football.

With Nfl.com's scoring system he was 10 points above Eli.

Jekkie

Pretty sweet Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in the Niners locker room after the game even participate in the who's got it better breakdown after the game lol, about halfway through.

http://www.49ers.com/media-gallery/videos/Locker-Room-Speech-Week-2/165af48a-0f15-4612-834d-aeb5b1f05a66

Urouge

"They're like fans, kind of though. I'll be honest, they're like fans. One of the refs was talking about his fantasy team, like 'McCoy, come on, I need you for my fantasy.' Ahhh, what?!"

LeSean McCoy

killerbee1000

Heh, LeSean also mentioned that Ray Lewis intimidated a replacement ref so bad that he started stuttering.

Anyway, 7-9 last week, 18-14 overall

New York Giants @ Carolina
St. Louis @ Chicago
Buffalo @ Cleveland
Tampa @ Dallas
Detroit @ Tennessee
Jacksonville @ Indianapolis
New York Jets @ Miami
San Francisco @ Minnesota
Kansas City @ New Orleans
Cincinnati @ Washington
Philadelphia @ Arizona
Atlanta @ San Diego
Houston @ Denver
Pittsburgh @ Oakland
New England @ Baltimore
Green Bay @ Seattle

Urouge

9-7 again. 18-14 overall.

New York Giants @ Carolina
St. Louis @ Chicago
Buffalo @ Cleveland
Tampa Bay @ Dallas
Detroit @ Tennessee
Jacksonville @ Indianapolis
New York Jets @ Miami
San Francisco @ Minnesota
Kansas City @ New Orleans
Cincinnati @ Washington
Philadelphia @ Arizona
Atlanta @ San Diego
Houston @ Denver
Pittsburgh @ Oakland
New England @ Baltimore
Green Bay @ Seattle (yes I'm actually picking against my Packers here and hoping I'm wrong)

Jekkie

@killerbee1000:

Heh, LeSean also mentioned that Ray Lewis intimidated a replacement ref so bad that he started stuttering.

Wow the NFL literally must of chose random people off the street lol -_-

Nex 0

@Urouge:

Atlanta @ San Diego

I am incredibly happy to see this.

I went 7-9 last week, so I'm 16-16 on the season.
So far I'm off to my worst start ever picking games. Gonna have to put a lot more thought into it this week…

New York Giants @ Carolina
St. Louis @ Chicago
Buffalo @ Cleveland
Tampa Bay @ Dallas
Detroit @ Tennessee
Jacksonville @ Indianapolis
New York Jets @ Miami
San Francisco @ Minnesota
Kansas City @ New Orleans
Cincinnati @ Washington
Philadelphia @ Arizona
Atlanta @ San Diego
Houston @ Denver
Pittsburgh @ Oakland
New England @ Baltimore
Green Bay @ Seattle

Urouge

@Nex:

I am incredibly happy to see this.

Did you see the home/away records last week? Only two teams lost at home, and one of them was New England! The replacement refs are influenced by the home crowd a bit, I think.

San Diego's defense looks legit, and they should have Mathews and Gates back this week. Also, Atlanta is coming off of a short week and flying across the country.

Still, it's hard for me to pick against Atlanta in the regular season, so I went back and forth a bit. They're consistently good until the playoffs start.

Wooden_Giraffe

8-8 last week, 18-14 overall

New York Giants @__Carolina__
St. Louis @ Chicago
Buffalo @ Cleveland
Tampa Bay @ Dallas
Detroit @ Tennessee
Jacksonville @ Indianapolis
New York Jets @ Miami
San Francisco @ Minnesota
Kansas City @ New Orleans
Cincinnati @ Washington
Philadelphia @ Arizona
Atlanta @ San Diego
Houston @ Denver
Pittsburgh @ Oakland
New England @ Baltimore
Green Bay @ Seattle

Nex 0

Because laughter is good for the soul: http://espn.go.com/blog/afcwest/post/_/id/48733/schefter-believes-in-oakland-in-week-3 Funniest part: "'If the Raiders hadn't lost their long-snapper in the first game of the season, they would have beaten San Diego.'"

Hahahahahahaha. No. The Raiders were losing well enough before any snapping problems occured, and he only reason those problems occurred was because they had to punt in the first place, because the only time their O could do anything was in garbage time against a prevent D and with a really bad roughing the passer call.

What the hell is Schefter smoking?

Urouge

Well, I think the point is that their backup longsnapper was San Diego's best offensive weapon, which was absolutely true on that night. I wouldn't go so far as to say they would have won the game, but it would have given them a chance. Oakland looked awful against Miami, though.

Carolina looked surprisingly bad last night. I wondered if Cam was ripe for a sophomore slump, but I never suspected it would hit the entire team like that. The reality is that they got run out of their own building. The Giants usually look good on the road (better than at home tbh), but I really expected Carolina to at least put up a fight.

killerbee1000

Rob Riggle sucks. It's like he tries so hard to be funny, but it just falls flat for me.

Urouge

Holy Charles the Saints are 0-3. 49ers lose to the Vikings? Lions lose to the Titans? Crazy day.

killerbee1000

Sean Payton being suspended is hurting the Saints more than I thought it would. They're losing to teams they shouldn't be losing too.

Urouge

At home, too. Since Payton got there, I've never seen them look as bad at home as they have in their two games so far this year.

Looking at these late games, my predictions for this week are looking sort of awful right now.

Kaze

Good bye manning, enjoy that 1-2 record. You thought you had a typical comeback game, but the Texans aren't your typical team.

ALTHOUGH I thought the Texans played horrible in the 4th :s

But damn, do we know how to put points on the board now or what? My only criticismis that I think Kubiak, once he gets a big lead, doesn't take risks and tries to play it safe, too safe. IMO I think that we could have made about two more Td's instead of trying to run the clock out, not to mention we almost had like 6 or 7 interceptions.

Schaub got his ass knocked down twice, I think the broncos started playing to rough.

The refs weren't to bad this game, which was nice.

Honestly I'm worried about next week, I don't want us getting a big head, but I'm still excited. xD

killerbee1000

How did Branch not get knocked out cold after that hit?

Sano

That was a insane ending for the Ravens game.

Wooden_Giraffe

Very similar to the AFC Championship game last year. Only the field goal was made….barely.

Urouge

Lol, another great game with awful officiating. How is it the NFL seems to get the worst officials for these prime time nationally televised games? I thought they were focused on putting the best refs out there for the major ones.

Tbh, I don't really like either of those teams much, but it was a fun game to watch nonetheless. Looking forward to seeing Belichick get slammed for grabbing an official after the game.

@Kaze:

But damn, do we know how to put points on the board now or what? My only criticismis that I think Kubiak, once he gets a big lead, doesn't take risks and tries to play it safe, too safe. IMO I think that we could have made about two more Td's instead of trying to run the clock out, not to mention we almost had like 6 or 7 interceptions.

The Texans should be as good at running the ball to kill clock as any team in the league. Such huge passing numbers seemed out of the norm for them today.

I still think (and hope) they'll win the AFC this year. They've got a great team. I'd rather see them win than either the Pats or Ravens 100 times out of 100.

Wooden_Giraffe

Yeah, I'm a Ravens fan and I agree that the Texans are the class of the AFC right now.

Autumncomet

Texans, you haven't failed me (yet)!

Nex 0

So I had to go to work at 1 PST, which meant I missed the Bolts game, and had no idea if Smith would be starting for tonight's game and sat him in my big money league.

I get home to see the Bolts got (typically – for the start of the season) trounced, and Smith had an amazing game.

Sigh...

R.I.P Tevin Jones.

GuetaMinute

Rams are going to win it all you guys!

Lol.

Jekkie

Niners were just sad. The defense which has been reliable for so long was bad too. Even when they had things gift wrapped they messed up lol. Whitner had the ball hit him in the chest…he catches that and it's an INT for a TD. Offense and defense were unlike how they usually are. Smith missed Moss a few times including he overthrew Moss in the endzone.

I guess the only decent thing was Williams 90 yard kick return....even then the offense got held to a field goal lol

The refs in the last two minutes were comical. Niners call their last timeout and then use a challenge which they couldn't do so the niners win the challenge and a minute later they use the timeout they shouldn't have and it took them 10 minutes to make the wrong and stupid decision lol

NateRich

Who would've thought the AFC east would look the way it does right now?

Everyone take a picture, this won't be lasting long

Urouge

Biggest story of the weekend is Revis being done for the year. Ouch. He's probably the single most important player on that entire team.

Typical overreaction monday for the media. The 49ers didn't lose their status as perhaps the hardest matchup in the NFL because they failed to show up for one road game, for example. They played a bad game, but that happens to everyone at some point. Teams like the Steelers and Patriots didn't lose their status as playoff quality teams because they fell to 1-2, either.

The Saints have backed up my suspicions that they're not a playoff team without Payton, and I can't help but downgrade the Jets after losing Revis. The Eagles offensive problems are starting to look more like a trend and less like an anomoly. Arizona's offense may not be as inept as I assumed. Other than those issues, I feel fine preserving a lot of the opinions I've had from the beginning. Namely that the 49ers, Packers, and Texans are the best teams in the NFL this year.

Really looking forward to the game tonight. I could see it going either way, too. The Packers are a great team, but they have some things that are definitely working against them tonight. For one, they're repeating their 2010 philosophy of using an expanded playbook on offense, which causes them to not look as sharp, and rely more on the defense to do its part. For another, Seattle is a good team that probably has the best home field advantage in the entire league when New Orleans isn't great. I think they were undefeated at home last year. It should make for a great game, that I figure will come down to the wire. Hopefully the refs don't steal the show again (and not by influencing the outcome, but rather just by being awful).

Kaze

@Urouge:

The Texans should be as good at running the ball to kill clock as any team in the league. Such huge passing numbers seemed out of the norm for them today.

I still think (and hope) they'll win the AFC this year. They've got a great team. I'd rather see them win than either the Pats or Ravens 100 times out of 100.

I couldn't agree with you more.

I miss being under the radar (cause it was what got our town so motivated in the past), but this isn't so bad either, hahaha. I don't think they'll get a big head either. They're pretty good at just focusing on who they're playing.

What gets me flustered are all the nfl analysts saying , "Oh, the Texans will make it to the playoffs, not because of there fast start or great talent, but because of thier weak schedule." How is our schedule weak?????????? O-o

killerbee1000

So…....did Jay Cutler and Aaron Rodgers switch bodies tonight along with their teams olines?

Kaze

@killerbee1000:

So…....did Jay Cutler and Aaron Rodgers switch bodies tonight along with their teams olines?

yeah man you didn't get the memo?

Urouge

@Kaze:

What gets me flustered are all the nfl analysts saying , "Oh, the Texans will make it to the playoffs, not because of there fast start or great talent, but because of thier weak schedule." How is our schedule weak?????????? O-o

Well, they drew the AFC West, which is fairly weak, and the rest of their division other than them is fairly weak. And that covers 10 of the 16 games, so it's not like the argument is totally groundless. Of course, they also drew the NFC North, which is no joke.

But strength of schedule in the NFL is greatly overrated. Nobody really knows how good a lot of teams are before the season starts, and there are very few teams that don't have enough talent to win on any given sunday.

@killerbee1000:

So…....did Jay Cutler and Aaron Rodgers switch bodies tonight along with their teams olines?

I hate to say this, but the Packers offensive line is not good, and hasn't been good. Rodgers has been sacked more than even Cutler since 2009 (only Roethlisberger has been sacked more than those two). You just don't notice it as much because he's so good at evading the pass rush and either running or throwing after he does so. But the beating he takes make us look sideways at Bears fans who use oline play as an excuse for Cutler.

Packer nation has had serious concerns about the tackles ever since Clifton and Tauscher retired two years ago. We were led to believe that at least Bulaga would be fine on the right, but he's been getting torched this year as much as anyone. They're just getting downright whipped tonight up front. Packer fans just generally believe that the coaching staff is good enough to get the protection fixed before too long, but this game is sure to start getting people anxious about it.

As you guys know, I'm a Packer fan and have them winning the Super Bowl this year, yet I also had them losing tonight. I didn't have them getting shut out and giving up 7 or 8 sacks in the first half though. I have little doubt they'll fix this and turn it around by the end of the year, but damn if I'm not starting to worry about Rodgers's health.

Herodadotus

Aaron Rodgers has hit the floor more than a girl in a Lil Jon video.

Also, the NFC West will have someone in the championship game at least.

killerbee1000

Well, whatever adjustments Green Bay made on offense it seems to be working. And I think that was an offensive pass interference on Seattle.

Sano

Oh man… This is insane!!!!!

Wooden_Giraffe

Whelp, it's happened. The officials have definitively cost a team the game.

Sano

Yep, this probably going get the real refs back now.

Wooden_Giraffe

Unfortunately, we're doomed to have them for two more weeks at least.

killerbee1000

The replacement refs fucked up ROYALLY on this one. They finally gave a game away, sooner or later, it was gonna happen.

Ubiq

Ladies and gentlemen, the worst call in the history of the game.

Sano

I'm still going what the hell is going with the ending of that game. I can't wait to hear the DP Show tomarrow, with Dan's thought of this crazy stuff.

Urouge

The Packers got. Fucking. Screwed. Nothing against Seattle. This is all on the officiating.

I have nothing else to say. Total BS.

killerbee1000

@Urouge:

The Packers got. Fucking. Screwed. Nothing against Seattle. This is all on the officiating.

I have nothing else to say. Total BS.

I know our teams are fierce rivals but damn, I feel for you and even the packers themselves man. Jennings clearly had that ball. You guys got fucked over badly. I feel you man, I really do.

Sano

I think the NFL is more fixed then wrestling now. But seriously these refs need to go.

Hinscher

@Wooden_Giraffe:

Whelp, it's happened. The officials have definitively cost a team the game.

So your going to ignore the other 60 minutes of football play time and say the entire game was all down to just 1 hail marry simultanious catch.

The packers had 60 minutes to do something but sucked all game. They have more to worry about than if a referee call was correct or not.

Also lets not forget we are watching a different angle than the ref's and in SLOW MOTION. They have to make a call in real time and didn't have our amazing angle to decide anything.

I'm not going to argue over whether call was right or not, but the Packers had as I said 60 minutes of play time and they only had 12 points. I think they need to figure out their offense before bitching about refs. And hey lets not forget the real refs being bitches. They want a pension and that is not going to happen. Get a raise and get back to work.

Bobjr

I swear Hinscher takes the opposite side of everything just to play devil's advocate. No one can be this wrong all the time.

I hope this finally gets the ball moving with this ref situation, or else I can't see another big mistake going by without some big action by players or even teams.