NFL Week 7: Paul Ryan sets Big XII electorate aflame, jeopardizes TX, OK votes

[FunkMonk]

Lol Jets, poor Rams  , go Cowboys, etc.

Rams are having their best season season in years.  And they've only won three games.

yeah I know.

I have a soft spot for the Rams: The only NFL game I've ever been to was a Rams home game against Seattle.

[MadBurgerMaker]

And what the hell is with all the Clay Matthews commercials, anyway?  His old man never got this kind of love, and he was a much better linebacker.  Fuck, he was lucky to score Euclid Avenue auto dealership gigs on cable access. 

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Local stuff, I take it?  Only ones I've seen are for Fatheads (which are weird and I could never imagine myself buying one) and the one where he's in the airport and the people are watching the Saints game on a phone. 


TD Bungles. 

[CountDeMoney]

And what the hell is with all the Clay Matthews commercials, anyway?  His old man never got this kind of love, and he was a much better linebacker.  Fuck, he was lucky to score Euclid Avenue auto dealership gigs on cable access. 

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Local stuff, I take it?  Only ones I've seen are for Fatheads (which are weird and I could never imagine myself buying one) and the one where he's in the airport and the people are watching the Saints game on a phone.

He's the new Gillette Guy.

[CountDeMoney]

LOL, Pittsburgh.  I haven't seen acting like that since a European soccer match.  Or was it the Vikings?

[CountDeMoney]

Same old Steelers, same old Bengals.  Ugh.

[derspiess]

Same old Steelers, same old Bengals.  Ugh.

No shit.  Horrible game.  Bengals showed some spark early with the excellent opening drive and quick capitalization on Rapisberger's fumble.  They're in the same funk they've been in the past two weeks.

Highlight of my evening was during pre-game, watching the first couple innings of the Cardinals game with Costas. 

[Ed Anger]

I've given up on the Marvin Lewis bengals.

[sbr]

As long as Burleson, Marshall and Bush don't outscore Forte by 24 points I will go to 5-2.

I am pretty close to going 6-1 in my money league too, as long as Leshoure and Gould don't combine for 35 points.

[CountDeMoney]

 

Ravens Already Dreading Ray Lewis Constantly Being On Sideline For Rest Of Season

HOUSTON—With Ray Lewis on injured reserve after suffering a torn triceps, Baltimore Ravens players and coaches confirmed Sunday that they were dreading the loud, outspoken linebacker's constant presence on the sideline for the rest of the season. "Oh, God, that's going to be so awful when he's around all the time," said Ravens head coach John Harbaugh, adding that it made him cringe to think of Lewis incessantly screaming criticism, support, and advice at everyone on the sideline. "Knowing Ray, he'll be shouting nonstop and never shut the hell up. I like it when he's on the field, because then you get a nice break from him." At press time, a group of Ravens players had reportedly gathered to pray for Ray Lewis to die.

[Ed Anger]

 

[Neil]

The Onion still has it.  Between that one and the middebate drone strike, not bad.

[CountDeMoney]

Thanks for nothing, Megatron.

[CountDeMoney]

Can't say I'd miss it.  The players would, though.  Especially the free trip to Hawaii when it's there.

Roger Goodell: Pro Bowl may end

NEW YORK -- The NFL will consider dropping the Pro Bowl if the level of play doesn't improve, commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday night.

Appearing on SiriusXM NFL Radio's "Town Hall," Goodell agreed with host Michael Strahan that last January's Pro Bowl "was embarrassing."

"If we cannot accomplish that kind of standard (of high play), I am inclined to not play it," Goodell said. "It is really tough to force competition, and after a long season, to ask those guys to go out and play at the same level they played is really tough."

The league still would select a Pro Bowl team through voting by players, coaches and fans, because it is an honor, but "just not play the game," he said.

The Pro Bowl will take place in January, a week before the Super Bowl, after the players lobbied to keep it, promising to upgrade their performances. Goodell and others were disappointed in the quality of last year's Pro Bowl, won 59-41 by the AFC and missing any semblance of hard hitting.

More from Goodell:

• The league is working on scheduling more East Coast games involving West Coast teams in late-afternoon slots to avoid what amounts to a 10 a.m. kickoff for the western teams.

"Several of our teams on the West Coast have raised that and we have been studying it," he said. "We have tried to put as many of those games on the East Coast at 4 p.m. You can imagine the thousands of different issues you have to put into the schedule. But the 10 o'clock starts are pretty tough."

• He praised teams for making it possible for fans to text concerns about unruly behavior to stadium security.

"Allowing you to text to security personnel rather than having to get an usher, that is a plus to fans," said Goodell, who recently sat with his family in the stands at a Titans-Vikings game in Minneapolis. "The arrests are down and ejections are up. Our teams are ejecting fans who are unruly. And arrests (being) down is an indication that fans are getting the message."

• Explained the NFL's studies of potential developmental leagues for players and officials. He said if the schedule format ever drops two preseason games, there will be more discussions on the subject because teams will have a more difficult time determining the makeup of rosters.

He added the NFL is looking for more ways to train on-field officials and for them to have interaction with players, citing college football, Arena Football and the CFL as places that could happen.

Going to an 18-game regular season with two exhibition games remains a point of contention with the players' union. But Goodell admitted to having "an issue with the preseason."

"Our fans don't like watching the preseason games, attending the preseason games, so we have to evaluate the season format," he said, "and that is one way of looking at it: 18-2. Or go to 16-2 or some other alternative; take two of those (preseason) games and make them more developmental."

• Said three regular-season games abroad is not out of the realm of possibility. Next year, for the first time, the league will play two games in London.

As for a franchise abroad, he added: "I wouldn't at all be surprised some day to see us have a team in London."

[Kleves]

They should axe the pro bowl and just do some kind of skills competition thing.

[CountDeMoney]

They should axe the pro bowl and just do some kind of skills competition thing.

Back before the establishment of the Pro Bowl, the pros would have an exhibition match-up between the championship team and the College All-Stars, IIRC before and after the WW2 era.  How cool would it be to see, say, the Super Bowl champions play the BCS Champs in an exhibition game?  The New York Giants play Alabama in February?   

It would never happen, of course, but a kid could dream.