NFL Week 8: The League Strikes Back

[derspiess]

I'd just like to see Slaton have another big receiving game & eclipse his season rushing yard totals with receiving yards.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I'd just like to see Slaton have another big receiving game & eclipse his season rushing yard totals with receiving yards.

I haven't really looked, but the Bills rush D apparently sucks pretty badly, while their pass D isn't too bad.  This might actually be one where he can put up some numbers on the ground.  Might be nice for Schaub not to have to throw the ball 50 times for once (exaggerating of course...they continue to run the ball a fairly normal amount of times, it's just that they aren't getting any sort of yardage out of it).

[CountDeMoney]

GREEN BAY, Wis. - A future Hall of Fame quarterback donning the uniform of a bitter enemy and coming back to face his old team...

Can you imagine?

Troy Aikman can. Because it almost happened with him.

Seven years ago - when Brett Favre (right) was entrenched as the leader of the Packers - Aikman, a Cowboys icon, almost came out of retirement to play for the hated Eagles.

Aikman, who will be in the Fox booth for Sunday's Vikings-Packers game, said that in 2002 - after Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was injured - he was contacted while broadcasting a game and asked to replace him.

"All of a sudden a producer says in my ear, 'Hey, I need you to call somebody at halftime,' " Aikman, then 35, recalled. "He gave me a number and said, 'It's (Eagles coach) Andy Reid.'

"So I went to bed that night and said, 'I can wake up tomorrow and spend a nice couple of days in Santa Barbara. Or I can be in frigid Philadelphia getting my brains kicked in.' "

The next day, he called Reid and politely declined the offer.

[CountDeMoney]

6 1/2 fucking hours to wait before the Ravens take Orton and those upstart Broncos down a notch.

Some snow bunny niggas are going to get their caps twisted off today.

[Syt]

I'm getting Giants@Eagles and Minnessota@Green Bay today.

[katmai]

I am stuck with the Broncos-Ravens/Hawks-Cowgirls for 1st game and the Vikes-Pack for 2nd.

[sbr]

I have to watch the damn Seachickens again.  This is one of the very few times I will pull for the Cowgirls to win.

[MadBurgerMaker]

  Schaub is so slow.  When he has to take off and run it's like he's in slowmo, while everyone else is moving regular speed.  Don't know how he manages to get away so often.

[Neil]

Jared Gaither is back from that neck injury.

[Barrister]

I'm watching Winnipeg at Montreal. 

And Montreal fumbles on the opening kickoff.

[Neil]

And the refs still haven't forgiven the Ravens.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Hey look Steve Slaton fumbled the ball again.

[sbr]

Hey look Steve Slaton fumbled the ball again.

That guy is killing my fantasy team.

[Neil]

Ed Reed just killed a man.

[MadBurgerMaker]

That guy is killing my fantasy team.

Bench the dude.  Hopefully the Texans will do the same for a couple of games.  And whoever has Owen Daniels...welp....that's a pretty big wrap they have on that knee of his.

Edit: They've put Slaton on the bench, and have started giving Ryan Moats the ball.  Result: 6 rushes for 40 yards, 1 catch for 20 yards. vOv