NFL Week 15: CdM MIA?

[Neil]

He's right tho. Does Peyton Manning even knows how to tackle?

Peyton Manning is a valuable player.  Tom Brady is just a cog in Belicheat's system.

[Grey Fox]

Don't be daft. Brady could a be cog in anybody's Cheat system.

[PDH]

Peyton can be run over by one of those amish bulldozers for all I care.  Tim is a Patsucker.

[Grey Fox]

He's from New England. That's the path you guys would advocate!

You are just mad that Bellicheat is outsmarting your cheaters.

[PDH]

I don't mind fans of a team, I don't mind support.  The "we," the apologizing, the Tom Brady spooge all over Tim is too much.  He is a moron.

[Grey Fox]

The we shit is annoying, I'll give you that one. Everything else is BS especially when compared to the fandom of your alma matters.

[derspiess]

The we shit is annoying, I'll give you that one. Everything else is BS especially when compared to the fandom of your alma matters.

I don't have a problem with the Brady worship, per se.  Beyond the "we" thing, my beef with him is over his stupid little cheerleading posts.  If you can't add something to the conversation, do us all a big favor & shut the hell up.

[Grey Fox]

We all have our schticks.

[derspiess]

We all have our schticks.

If only it were schtick.

[Grey Fox]

but it doesn't really matter. If he was doing this for, say the Jaguars, you guys wouldn't be on his case. You only hate because Bellicheat is better then your cheaters.

[derspiess]

but it doesn't really matter. If he was doing this for, say the Jaguars, you guys wouldn't be on his case. You only hate because Bellicheat is better then your cheaters.

I'd be about as annoyed.

[Neil]

but it doesn't really matter. If he was doing this for, say the Jaguars, you guys wouldn't be on his case. You only hate because Bellicheat is better then your cheaters.

They aren't better than the teams from Arizona, Baltimore, San Francisco or Seattle.

[derspiess]

The league has instructed the Bengals to begin sending invoices to season ticketholders for two home playoff games.  I know it's standard procedure, but

[Neil]

That's the sort of thing that can cause a snakebitten team to lose to Pittsburgh next week.

[derspiess]

That's the sort of thing that can cause a snakebitten team to lose to Pittsburgh next week.

Only if the full weight of history itself doesn't cause it.  Bengals haven't won in Pittsburgh since 2003 (I was there and it was glorious) and have not beaten them at all since 2009. 

Now what I keep telling myself is that those streaks have to end sometime and that given both teams' trajectory it might as well happen next Sunday.  But I'm too pessimistic to think the football gods will smile on the Bengals when a win is so critical.  Steelers are favored by 4 and I think that's about right.