NFL 2011 Week 14

Wow wow wow

59 yards!? Crazy

Barber really screwed that game up. I need the bears to loose for wild card security.

Maybe Barber's just a Tebow fan.

49ers are going to lose. Still blame that horrible screwup by the refs. Whole different mindset having a team shutout and up 3 scores. Ugh.

And of course Alex Smith... when we actually desperately need a score and the defense doesn't win the game for us, he's not going to get it done.

Lololoooololoolololololololol

You can't make this stuff up

And Barber fumbles.

Elvis Dumervil... FROM LOUISVILLE... recovers.

Man I bet Dallas wishes they had Barber still.

EDIT: Denver wins. Football gods, or something. You have to believe.

garion333 wrote:

Good lord, is Barber trying to give the game away?

I'm gonna go with "yes".

I ... I'm stunned. Barber's gonna have so many death threats.

Are you f*cking kidding me.

Eventually, he's going to play a team without a sh*t quarterback that doesn't make a monumentally stupid mistake in the fourth quarter.

He almost got beat by Caleb Hanie. I don't have to believe sh*t.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

Eventually, he's going to play a team without a sh*t quarterback that doesn't make a monumentally stupid mistake in the fourth quarter.

He almost got beat by Caleb Hanie. I don't have to believe sh*t.

Have the teams the broncos beaten not won any more games after they lost to Denver?

I'm looking forward to next week's mix of excellent Pats offense vs. excellent Broncos defense, and lousy Pats defense vs. lousy Broncos offense.

I don't know what to tell you. There is some wierd stuff happening here in Denver, but it makes for some very fun home victories. I do nOt regret picking up those broncos season tix at all.

Xeknos wrote:

I don't know what to tell you. There is some wierd stuff happening here in Denver, but it makes for some very fun home victories. I do nOt regret picking up those broncos season tix at all.

Yeah, I bet this was a good one to be at.

sheared wrote:

Have the teams the broncos beaten not won any more games after they lost to Denver?

Dolphins - 0-5 going in and have since gone 4-3 beating some pretty bad teams; if I recall correctly, Miami did everything they could to piss this one away
Lions - got blown the f*ck out
Raiders - 3-2 since with wins against the Chargers, Vikings and Hanie Bears; Palmer's first start and they had something like 0 or -1 receivers
Chiefs - 1-3 since with a win against the Hanie Bears; I think this was the game where Cassel got hurt beginning the Palko era
Jets - 3-0 since (Bills, Redskins and Palko Chiefs); Sanchez falls under "sh*t QB", I didn't see this game so I don't know if there were any boners
Chargers - 2-0 since (Jags and Bills); Rivers played like balls and they still needed a missed FG to lose
Vikings - 0-2 since; some severe f*ck-ups by the Vikings secondary needed to beat a 2-9 team
Bears - Marion Barber show

I'm going to be interested to see what the Packers injury report looks like tomorrow. Brandon Saine, Greg Jennings and Ryan Pickett all left the game with injuries. Saine was reported as a head injury and Jennings is being reported as a knee sprain. I've heard nothing on Pickett.

HE JUST WINS

This is a real defensive showcase.

Forgot to say this earlier, but congrats to Houston. You guys are playing your hearts out and finally win the division and get into the playoffs. Bravo!

I love watching the Cowboys lose.

ESPN noted that Brees, Brady and Rodgers are in contention to break Marino's Single Season Passing Yards record. While Brees is probably going to crush it, we should now add Eli Manning's name to that list, since he is less than 1000 yards away with 3 games to go. Trent Dilfer proclaimed this week that Tony Romo was going to have a game that marked him amung the "elite QBs in NFL history". While Romo did have an awesome game for the Cowboys, Dilfer picked the wrong QB. Eli is now tied with his brother and Unitas for the most 4th quarter TDs in a season with 14.

As happy as I am that the Giants won last night, the bad news is that it technically keeps the Eagles' slim playoff chances alive.

garion333 wrote:

Forgot to say this earlier, but congrats to Houston. You guys are playing your hearts out and finally win the division and get into the playoffs. Bravo!

The Texans should feel free to take next Sunday off. THEY'VE EARNED IT.

To re-use a line I just grumbled out over on FO:

You know, this team last year was great, had loads of promise, then now this. It's like you're having a great night out at the bar and you meet this great chick and you go home and it's the best thing ever (last year), and then you wake up in the morning and you realize she looks like Phyllis Diller with scabies.

Enix wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Forgot to say this earlier, but congrats to Houston. You guys are playing your hearts out and finally win the division and get into the playoffs. Bravo!

The Texans should feel free to take next Sunday off. THEY'VE EARNED IT. :D

Thanks for the congrats, folks. I could not believe the end of that game. I was so mad at Kubiak for going for it on 4th and 3 (see earlier post). What an unbelievable finish!

People around here are seriously getting on the TJ Yates train (we discussed my boarding it last week). He was throwing high in the first quarter, but that final drive was something else. I think if we'd had Andre Johnson, the game wouldn't have been nearly as close. And admittedly, I was wishing for Schaub back during the first half. Second half, Yates had a couple scrambles that Schaub never would have considered let alone made.

Anyway, it's happy times here in Houston! I wish I was at work getting my water cooler on, but I puked about ten times last night (from illness, not drinking).

Todd Haley out. No surprise there.

Gumbie wrote:

Todd Haley out. No surprise there.

Called it. He should've been fired long ago, but after that first half performance and then the 15 yard penalty he got, I knew he was done.

The only reason he wasn't fired weeks ago was because they had won some games. Yesterday was embarrassing, though.

garion333 wrote:
Gumbie wrote:

Todd Haley out. No surprise there.

Called it. He should've been fired long ago, but after that first half performance and then the 15 yard penalty he got, I knew he was done.

The only reason he wasn't fired weeks ago was because they had won some games. Yesterday was embarrassing, though.

Thank God! I would have dumped him after the first season. But Weiss came in and saved his butt (in addition to a pathetically easy schedule) in the second year, which forced KC to endure a third season a clueless man that thinks he is smarter than everyone else.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

To re-use a line I just grumbled out over on FO:

You know, this team last year was great, had loads of promise, then now this. It's like you're having a great night out at the bar and you meet this great chick and you go home and it's the best thing ever (last year), and then you wake up in the morning and you realize she looks like Phyllis Diller with scabies.

We talked about this several weeks back. The only good team they beat last year was New Orleans in the finale.

The rest of their wins were against terrible NFC West teams, Car, Cle, Cincy, and Wash.

They lost to Atl, Pitt, Bal, NO, and Det, basically every "good" team they played.

This year has been a little bit of the same, but with a much harder schedule. 10 of their first 12 are against teams that are in the playoffs or at least have a winning record (Bears/Titans). They have managed a couple of division wins against Atl and NO. But every other good/playoff team they've played they have lost.

Oh, I never denied then ten wins last year weren't ten "real" wins; they had a very easy schedule, and there were a number of, for lack of a better term, "miracle" wins; a last-second FG after a freaking SPECTACULAR throw to beat Cincy, Washington flubbing an XP, lots of last-minute magic. I expected them to win 7, maybe 8 games this year, but didn't really care; it's a young team, built for the future. That being said, the issue this year is the team is playing terribly and stupidly. Loads of penalties at exactly the wrong times, turnovers constantly, the back seven on defense is just ridiculously bad, the o-line is in shambles (I'm pretty sure Donald Penn, the LT, caused Freeman's fumble that was recovered for a TD yesterday), weird play-calling (Freeman throws a really good deep ball, but none are being thrown at all). Last year, it was a young team playing hard, this year it's the exact opposite. Outside of Adrian Clayborn looking like an utter stud (he's in the backfield constantly) and Da'Quan Bowers really coming on, it's just been really ugly.

I don't mind sucking, I mind stupid. I expected a losing record, but the team isn't playing vaguely up to its potential. I'd kill for the All-22 film to really analyze things, but I'd love to count the number of times the WRs clearly go in the wrong direction (saw two in the first two drives yesterday).

Fun line from Sam Mellingers column on Haley's firing:

All that said, this is far from a dead-end situation. Pioli is still sitting on enough talent that the Chiefs can realistically win next year’s AFC West — assuming Tim Tebow doesn’t make it a sin to do so — with the right offseason moves.

Not really a good column overall, and Mellinger is kind lame. The Star sorely misses the days of Whitlock and Posnanski manning page one of sports. But hey, a Tebow shot is always good.

Tebow's pastor says the team is winning because God favors Tim Tebow.

Really? Really? War, famine, disease, violence, all sorts of global upheaval . . . and God makes running backs fumble and kickers hit long field goals?

GOD.
JUST.
WINS.