NFL 2012 Week 13 Thread

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Jaguars at Bills: The Chad Henne hype train is in full gear. He's playing better than ever, though the majority of his production has come off of YAC by Shorts and Blackmon, who have both started playing like the playmakers the team hoped they'd be. Henne has done well feeding them the ball - he's playing Andy Dalton football and doing it well. I'm taking the Jaguars, who are a better roster than their awful record says, and they'll poach a few wins against other losing teams to close out the year.

Browns at Raiders: IT'S COLT MCCOY TIME! .... oh, no, wait, it's concussed Brandon Weeden time. Oh, and Darren McFadden is back, much to the chagrin of those of us that were plugging in Marcel Reece as a surprisingly capable fantasy spot starter. I'll take the Raiders to snap their 4 game losing streak at home.

Giants at Redskins: Guru posited that perhaps only the Giants can beat the Giants. We'll put that idea to the test this week with a road pick'em against a Redskins team whose defense has slowed the bleeding a bit in recent weeks (although they did yield 31 to Romo and the Cowboys a week ago). Even with all of their tailback injuries, the Giants seem to be interested in giving the ball to anyone other than their first round pick, David Wilson. Remember on draft day, when the Bucs jumped up and took Doug Martin, and the Giants said that they were wanting to take Wilson anyway? That looks pretty laughable now. Still, though, while this would make a great upset special, and the Redskins desperately need it to sneak back into the playoff picture, I have to take the Giants.

Seahawks at Bears: Seattle keeps hanging in right above .500, coming up short in taking that next step. This would be a big win for the team's efforts to keep pace in the wildcard chase. They'll have to do it without their two awesome corners, Richard Sherman and Brandon Browner, who will miss the next four weeks with a suspension for Adderall. That puts the team's wildcard efforts in serious jeopardy, as few players have been as instrumental in the Seahawks stifling defense as those two. Without them, it will be hard to shut down Cutler to Marshall. Bears

And our wildcard game:
Eagles at Cowboys: A nice whopping 10 point spread. Philadelphia's 184 points scored on the season beat out only Kansas City and Arizona. They did have a spark last week when feeding the ball to Bryce Brown - the kind of give-him-the-rock offense that LeSean McCoy has so often been denied. And Dallas can implode at any time. Still, Cowboys.

Last Week's Results:
Jayhawker: 5-0

*Legion*: 4-1
Atras: 4-1
Fedaykin98: 4-1
garion333: 4-1
LeapingGnome: 4-1
lostlobster: 4-1
TheGameguru: 4-1
Zaque: 4-1

boogle: 3-2
Elliottx: 3-2
iaintgotnopants: 3-2
Jasonofindy: 3-2
kaostheory: 3-2
Kush15: 3-2
McFinn: 3-2
MilkmanDanimal: 3-2
mudbunny: 3-2
oldmanscene24: 3-2
Xeknos: 3-2
ODDSMAKERS: 3-2

Certis: 2-3
Gumbie: 2-3
karmajay: 2-3
peedmyself: 2-3
sheared: 2-3
sr_malo: 2-3
Stele: 2-3
tboon: 2-3
thejustinbot: 2-3

billt721: 1-4

AnimeJ: 0-5
bighoppa: 0-5
Enix: 0-5
fangblackbone: 0-5
Jolly Bill: 0-5
TempestBlayze: 0-5
ukickmydog: 0-5

Season to Date:
Jayhawker: 44-14

sheared: 41-17

TheGameguru: 40-18

Xeknos: 39-19

*Legion*: 38-20
Kush15: 38-20
McFinn: 38-20

LeapingGnome: 37-21
Jasonofindy: 37-21
Certis: 37-21
ODDSMAKERS: 37-21

kaostheory: 36-22
Gumbie: 36-22
karmajay: 36-22

Elliottx: 35-23
MilkmanDanimal: 35-23

Fedaykin98: 34-24
lostlobster: 34-24
oldmanscene24: 34-24
Stele: 34-24

iaintgotnopants: 33-25
tboon: 33-25
bighoppa: 33-25

thejustinbot: 32-26

Zaque: 31-27
peedmyself: 31-27
AnimeJ: 31-27
fangblackbone: 31-27

Atras: 30-28

boogle: 28-30
ukickmydog: 28-30

garion333: 27-31

mudbunny: 25-33

TempestBlayze: 24-34

sr_malo: 19-39
billt721: 19-39
Enix: 19-39
Jolly Bill: 19-39

Jaguars at Bills: The Chad Henne hype train involves the words "Chad" and "Henne", plus, importantly, it's Buffalo in December for a warm-weather team. Ryan Fitzpatrick rises to vague competence this week.

Browns at Raiders: The Browns have been surprisingly not-awful, Trent Richardson is no Doug Martin but is OK, and Carson Palmer should just change his name to "Herschel Walker" and get it over with.

Giants at Redskins: Giants are insanely inconsistent, but they can get to the passer, and RGIII is still a rookie (a really, really good rookie, but a rookie nonetheless). Plus, December + Giants.

Seahawks at Bears: I think maybe having neither of your starting corners is probably a bad thing for the Seahawks and probably a good thing for the Bears.

Eagles at Cowboys: If certain sects of Christianity are correct and Hell is a real place of afterlife torment, I will be condemned forever to watch this Nick Foles-led 2012 Eagles team play the 2011 Buccaneers in an epic competition of who can try the least to actually play football, and the post-death NFL will have abolished ties, leading to an endless series of horrible OT periods. The game will continue forever at 70-70, neither team scoring in any OT, and all 140 points being scored on safeties in the first quarter.

Bills
Browns
Giants
Bears
Cowboys

Jaguars
Raiders
Giants
Bears
Cowboys

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

If certain sects of Christianity are correct and Hell is a real place of afterlife torment, I will be condemned forever to watch this Nick Foles-led 2012 Eagles team play the 2011 Buccaneers in an epic competition of who can try the least to actually play football, and the post-death NFL will have abolished ties, leading to an endless series of horrible OT periods. The game will continue forever at 70-70, neither team scoring in any OT, and all 140 points being scored on safeties in the first quarter.

Apparently Hell has no cops, else roster attrition from arrests would eventually deplete the Buccaneers enough to break the tie.

Josh Freeman's Hell is similar. They put a bag of Taco Bell in the endzone, but every teammate of his that gets put on the field gets arrested and taken off, and Freeman can never break through and get to the Gorditas.

*Legion* wrote:

Josh Freeman's Hell is similar. They put a bag of Taco Bell in the endzone, but every teammate of his that gets put on the field gets arrested and taken off, and Freeman can never break through and get to the Gorditas.

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Hell, if I'm going to get an 0-5 record for not picking, I might as well just make sh!t up.

Herewith my picks:

Wildcats
Mud Dogs
Mean Machine
Sharks
Average Joes

Can't decide on a couple of these. Will check back later.

Bills
Raiders
Giants
Bears
Cowboys

Not going to miss this week!

Jaguars
Raiders
Giants
Bears
Cowboys

Bills
Raiders
Redskins
Bears
Cowboys

*Legion* wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:

If certain sects of Christianity are correct and Hell is a real place of afterlife torment, I will be condemned forever to watch this Nick Foles-led 2012 Eagles team play the 2011 Buccaneers in an epic competition of who can try the least to actually play football, and the post-death NFL will have abolished ties, leading to an endless series of horrible OT periods. The game will continue forever at 70-70, neither team scoring in any OT, and all 140 points being scored on safeties in the first quarter.

Apparently Hell has no cops, else roster attrition from arrests would eventually deplete the Buccaneers enough to break the tie.

Josh Freeman's Hell is similar. They put a bag of Taco Bell in the endzone, but every teammate of his that gets put on the field gets arrested and taken off, and Freeman can never break through and get to the Gorditas.

In Blaine Gabbert's Hell, he is forced to try to pathetically attempt to play quarterback for a terrible team like Jacksonville, where . . . hey, wait a minute . . .

Aren't you supposed to make fun of Chad Henne now? No "Chad Henne is a Joke" video? I can't post that video now that he's starting for the Jaguars. Someone else has to pick up that slack.

Jaguars
Browns
Giants
Bears
Cowboys

I don't want to sound like too much of a homer, but I think the Skins may actually surprise some folks this week. One reason is that the Giants are particularly good at stopping passing teams, but don't stack up terribly well against run-first teams. Alfred Morris is quietly putting together a breakout rookie year at halfback only because all the attention is on Washington's other rookie sensation. And RGIII has been in and out of the top 20 in rushing as well.

That and they are playing in FedEx.

Jaguars at Bills: I know that Henne just wins but Bills ain't bad. I have been enjoying the Jaguars games because anytime the announcer says "Chad Henne" my wife and I both sing "is a joke".

Browns at Raiders: Browns are the best bad team, stout defense.

Giants at Redskins: I believe in RG3.

Seahawks at Bears: I love my Seahawks too much to choose against them. I didn't realize how much the Seahawks had pulled me in this year until my whole Sunday was ruined by them blowing the Miami game.

Eagles at Cowboys: Eagles are done, what are they playing for?

Paleocon wrote:

I don't want to sound like too much of a homer, but I think the Skins may actually surprise some folks this week. One reason is that the Giants are particularly good at stopping passing teams, but don't stack up terribly well against run-first teams. Alfred Morris is quietly putting together a breakout rookie year at halfback only because all the attention is on Washington's other rookie sensation. And RGIII has been in and out of the top 20 in rushing as well.

That and they are playing in FedEx.

Then how do you explain the crushing of SF, who is definitely a run first team?

Anyway I agree with you if not for the same reasons.

Bills
Raiders
Redskins
Bears
Eagles
(I just hate the cowboys too much to choose them).

Zaque wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

I don't want to sound like too much of a homer, but I think the Skins may actually surprise some folks this week. One reason is that the Giants are particularly good at stopping passing teams, but don't stack up terribly well against run-first teams. Alfred Morris is quietly putting together a breakout rookie year at halfback only because all the attention is on Washington's other rookie sensation. And RGIII has been in and out of the top 20 in rushing as well.

That and they are playing in FedEx.

Then how do you explain the crushing of SF, who is definitely a run first team?

Anyway I agree with you if not for the same reasons.

Bills
Raiders
Redskins
Bears
Eagles
(I just hate the cowboys too much to choose them).

I think the difference is that, with SF, if you beat the run, all you had to do is deal with Alex Smith. As a result, there wasn't as big a price to pay stacking 8-9 in the box. With DC, you do that and RGIII will light you up.

I said I wouldn't over chat, but this is too good to not share.

boogle wrote:

I said I wouldn't over chat, but this is too good to not share.

Can't they just print Jaguars-themed toilet paper, alternating Gabbert and Henne's face on each sheet?

I imagine these being used in a strip club in Jacksonville.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
boogle wrote:

I said I wouldn't over chat, but this is too good to not share.

Can't they just print Jaguars-themed toilet paper, alternating Gabbert and Henne's face on each sheet?

That'd still be better than the blackouts Tampa hands out every week.

*Legion* wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:
boogle wrote:

I said I wouldn't over chat, but this is too good to not share.

Can't they just print Jaguars-themed toilet paper, alternating Gabbert and Henne's face on each sheet?

That'd still be better than the blackouts Tampa hands out every week.

All I can say is there appear to be a lot of comparably wealthy teal-colored tarps in the Jacksonville area, because it seems to me a great number of them have season tickets and show up every week, preventing blackouts.

Jaguars
Raiders
Giants
Bears
Cowboys

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
*Legion* wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:
boogle wrote:

I said I wouldn't over chat, but this is too good to not share.

Can't they just print Jaguars-themed toilet paper, alternating Gabbert and Henne's face on each sheet?

That'd still be better than the blackouts Tampa hands out every week.

All I can say is there appear to be a lot of comparably wealthy teal-colored tarps in the Jacksonville area, because it seems to me a great number of them have season tickets and show up every week, preventing blackouts.

And yet, even with tarps, Everbank holds ~1500 more than Raymond James and sells out.

Tampa needs to tarp down to about Fresno State capacity, then they can sell out.

It's funny just how badly Jacksonville is spanking the other Florida teams in ticket sales. Floridians would rather watch Gabbert lose than Freeman win.

*Legion* wrote:

Seahawks at Bears: Seattle keeps hanging in right above .500, coming up short in taking that next step. This would be a big win for the team's efforts to keep pace in the wildcard chase. They'll have to do it without their two awesome corners, Richard Sherman and Brandon Browner, who will miss the next four weeks with a suspension for Adderall. That puts the team's wildcard efforts in serious jeopardy, as few players have been as instrumental in the Seahawks stifling defense as those two. Without them, it will be hard to shut down Cutler to Marshall. Bears

The two corners are appealing, and thus are able to play Sunday. Not that it matters, this is a team that apparently can't win away from home.

Jaguars
Raiders
Redskins
Bears
Cowboys

billt721 wrote:

The two corners are appealing, and thus are able to play Sunday. Not that it matters, this is a team that apparently can't win away from home.

Interesting. I wonder if this is going to turn into a StarCaps situation again, where the appeal drags out forever and delays the suspensions into another season.

*Legion* wrote:

It's funny just how badly Jacksonville is spanking the other Florida teams in ticket sales. Floridians would rather watch Gabbert lose than Freeman win. :D

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Jaguars at Bills - I can't wait to see the Henne jerseys with jesus on the back
Browns at Raiders - mcfadden makes the difference?
Giants at Redskins I gotta believe. That 68 yard pass on Thanksgiving was something to behold. Wow, did they lay on the hurt early and quickly!
Seahawks at Bears - da bears
Eagles at Cowboys - The cowboys are not a bad team. They are just a self destructive team that lacks confidence. I chalk that up to a cookie cutter example of a coach's lack of ability to prepare his players. Garrett needs some seasoning as an assistant before joining the head coaching ranks again.

Jaguars at Bills: MJD? Nah, Henne all the way! Jaguars.

Browns at Raiders: Browns. Palmer turnovers all day long.

Giants at Redskins: I'm not sure if I can pick against Eli at this point. Never expected to start thinking like that. Giants.

Seahawks at Bears: Cutler and Marshall > Seahawks D. Bears.

Eagles at Cowboys: 1st and 10 qb sneaks ftw! Cowboys.

*Legion* wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:
*Legion* wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:
boogle wrote:

I said I wouldn't over chat, but this is too good to not share.

Can't they just print Jaguars-themed toilet paper, alternating Gabbert and Henne's face on each sheet?

That'd still be better than the blackouts Tampa hands out every week.

All I can say is there appear to be a lot of comparably wealthy teal-colored tarps in the Jacksonville area, because it seems to me a great number of them have season tickets and show up every week, preventing blackouts.

And yet, even with tarps, Everbank holds ~1500 more than Raymond James and sells out.

Tampa needs to tarp down to about Fresno State capacity, then they can sell out.

It's funny just how badly Jacksonville is spanking the other Florida teams in ticket sales. Floridians would rather watch Gabbert lose than Freeman win. :D

And there is what to do in Jacksonville other than watching Gabbert fail? Oh, sorry, Henne fail?

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