Thursday and no thread?
The schedule:
Tennessee at Pittsburgh 1:00 PM CBS
Seattle at NY Giants 1:00 PM FOX
Cincinnati at Jacksonville 1:00 PM CBS
New Orleans at Carolina 1:00 PM FOX
Oakland at Houston 1:00 PM CBS
Philadelphia at Buffalo 1:00 PM FOX
Kansas City at Indianapolis 1:00 PM CBS
Arizona at Minnesota 1:00 PM FOX
Tampa Bay at San Francisco 4:05 PM FOX
NY Jets at New England 4:15 PM CBS
San Diego at Denver 4:15 PM CBS
Green Bay at Atlanta 8:20 PM NBC
MON, OCT 10
Chicago at Detroit 8:30 PM
More Texans news: Andre Johnson is going to miss a few weeks. Duane Brown broke James Harrison's face with this block: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-v2QPQBoOQ Harrison is also going to miss some time.
Edit: Also a poor quality, but still entertaining, video of Hines "Douchebag" Ward getting lit up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LfRBaQUk3s&NR=1
Thursday is the day for the thread.
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 06, 2011, 12:40:12 PM
Thursday is the day for the thread.
Monday night, approximately 3 hours after MNF kickoff, is when the new thread should be posted. :blurgh:
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on October 06, 2011, 12:41:55 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 06, 2011, 12:40:12 PM
Thursday is the day for the thread.
Monday night, approximately 3 hours after MNF kickoff, is when the new thread should be posted. :blurgh:
I will hold you to that schedule. When on tuesday morning I see no thread, I will own you responsible & annoy you until you make the thread. Deal?
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 06, 2011, 12:43:10 PM
I will hold you to that schedule. When on tuesday morning I see no thread, I will own you responsible & annoy you until you make the thread. Deal?
:lol: I GOT THIS
I get a free week to enjoy the Redskins being in first place.
Looks like Jacksonville is favored by 1 point over the Bengals. Jacksonville is bad, but I guess the oddsmakers are expecting the Bengals to be the Bengals :ph34r:
It's been a good year for Hines Ward getting lit up. Between that hit and JJ blowing him up in Week 1, I've been pleased with the impacts that the cheap-shot artist has been taking.
As sad as I am to see Johnson miss time, it's good that he won't be there when the Ravens play the Texans next week.
Quote from: derspiess on October 06, 2011, 01:04:00 PM
Looks like Jacksonville is favored by 1 point over the Bengals. Jacksonville is bad, but I guess the oddsmakers are expecting the Bengals to be the Bengals :ph34r:
That's a pretty bold line. The Bengals aren't a chump defence, and if you stop MJD, you stop the Jags.
Quote from: Neil on October 06, 2011, 01:54:00 PM
Quote from: derspiess on October 06, 2011, 01:04:00 PM
Looks like Jacksonville is favored by 1 point over the Bengals. Jacksonville is bad, but I guess the oddsmakers are expecting the Bengals to be the Bengals :ph34r:
That's a pretty bold line. The Bengals aren't a chump defence, and if you stop MJD, you stop the Jags.
I prefer it that way. We were the underdogs for both games we won.
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on October 06, 2011, 12:45:43 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 06, 2011, 12:43:10 PM
I will hold you to that schedule. When on tuesday morning I see no thread, I will own you responsible & annoy you until you make the thread. Deal?
:lol: I GOT THIS
Be sure not to make a thread.
Quote from: derspiess on October 06, 2011, 02:10:29 PM
Quote from: Neil on October 06, 2011, 01:54:00 PM
Quote from: derspiess on October 06, 2011, 01:04:00 PM
Looks like Jacksonville is favored by 1 point over the Bengals. Jacksonville is bad, but I guess the oddsmakers are expecting the Bengals to be the Bengals :ph34r:
That's a pretty bold line. The Bengals aren't a chump defence, and if you stop MJD, you stop the Jags.
I prefer it that way. We were the underdogs for both games we won.
Yeah, but I don't think that the Jags are overlooking the Bengals, and the underdog status of the Bengals vs the Browns was the result of people thinking that the Browns wouldn't be bad.
Quote from: derspiess on October 06, 2011, 01:04:00 PM
Looks like Jacksonville is favored by 1 point over the Bengals. Jacksonville is bad, but I guess the oddsmakers are expecting the Bengals to be the Bengals :ph34r:
Can you post the full set of lines?
Al Davis is dead.
Quote from: Neil on October 08, 2011, 09:43:17 AM
Al Davis is dead.
Raiders fans everywhere breath a sigh of relief, and then feel slightly dirty for it.
Quote from: Neil on October 08, 2011, 09:43:17 AM
Al Davis is dead.
Well, he was looking like a lich already, so . . .
Quote from: Neil on October 08, 2011, 09:43:17 AM
Al Davis is dead.
He's running a 4.24 forty yard dash somewhere :cry:
Jobs, Davis, I wonder who number 3 will be. We need to start a Dead Pool.
Quote from: Syt on October 08, 2011, 10:12:56 AM
Quote from: Neil on October 08, 2011, 09:43:17 AM
Al Davis is dead.
Well, he was looking like a lich already, so . . .
Well, his health was poor, but that party of 15th-level adventurers that looted his crypt last night was just too much for him.
Quote from: ulmont on October 06, 2011, 03:25:35 PM
Quote from: derspiess on October 06, 2011, 01:04:00 PM
Looks like Jacksonville is favored by 1 point over the Bengals. Jacksonville is bad, but I guess the oddsmakers are expecting the Bengals to be the Bengals :ph34r:
Can you post the full set of lines?
Best I can do right now is link you:
http://sportsdirect.usatoday.com/odds/usatoday/odds.aspx
Damn with Davis dead, the Raiders are probably a lock for the Super bowl.
10/9 1:00 ET At Indianapolis -2 Kansas City
10/9 1:00 ET At Minnesota -3 Arizona
10/9 1:00 ET Philadelphia -3 At Buffalo
10/9 1:00 ET At Houston -5 Oakland
10/9 1:00 ET New Orleans -6.5 At Carolina
10/9 1:00 ET Cincinnati -1 At Jacksonville
10/9 1:00 ET At Pittsburgh -3 Tennessee
10/9 1:00 ET At NY Giants -9.5 Seattle
10/9 4:05 ET At San Francisco -3 Tampa Bay
10/9 4:15 ET At New England -7.5 NY Jets
10/9 4:15 ET San Diego -3.5 At Denver
10/9 8:30 ET Green Bay -5.5 At Atlanta
Monday Night Football Point Spread
10/10 8:35 ET At Detroit -5 Chicago
Looks like the Bengalis are giving the point Speesh.
10/9 1:00 ET At Indianapolis -2 Kansas City
10/9 1:00 ET At Minnesota -3 Arizona
10/9 1:00 ET Philadelphia -3 At Buffalo
10/9 1:00 ET At Houston -5 Oakland
10/9 1:00 ET New Orleans -6.5 At Carolina
10/9 1:00 ET Cincinnati -1 At Jacksonville
10/9 1:00 ET At Pittsburgh -3 Tennessee
10/9 1:00 ET At NY Giants -9.5 Seattle
10/9 4:05 ET At San Francisco -3 Tampa Bay
10/9 4:15 ET At New England -7.5 NY Jets
10/9 4:15 ET San Diego -3.5 At Denver
10/9 8:30 ET Green Bay -5.5 At Atlanta
Monday Night Football Point Spread
10/10 8:35 ET At Detroit -5 Chicago
The Texans really need to win this one with games @Baltimore and @Tennessee coming up.
The San Diego and Green Bay lines look like easy money. I also think Shittsburg is going to bounce back and cover.
I feel sorry for my Dad. He's from St. Louis and he was overjoyed when the Rams came. He had pretty much given up on the NFL after the Cards went to Phoenix. And when the Ram first played, they weren't bad. They even won the Superbowl back in 1999. Now look at them. Every time they play it just tortures him. On Sunday I'll ask him, "Are the Rams playing?", and he responds, "Well, there's a game, and they are there, but they aren't really playing". I wonder if they will win more games then they lose this year. I wonder if they will win any games. There was that one season two years ago where they won only one game.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 08, 2011, 09:27:05 PM
The San Diego and Green Bay lines look like easy money. I also think Shittsburg is going to bounce back and cover.
I don't know. If the Steelers can't pressure the QB, they can't win. The Titans line is actually pretty good, and the Steelers are missing some firepower on defence lately.
Quote from: Neil on October 08, 2011, 10:53:52 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 08, 2011, 09:27:05 PM
The San Diego and Green Bay lines look like easy money. I also think Shittsburg is going to bounce back and cover.
I don't know. If the Steelers can't pressure the QB, they can't win. The Titans line is actually pretty good, and the Steelers are missing some firepower on defence lately.
The Steelers can't stop the run and are playing against Chris Johnson.
The Steelers' O-Line is horrible and the Titans are very good against the run. Also Mendenhall isn't supposed to play.
The rapist is going to have to win this one on his own.
Chris Johnson hasn't impressed me so far.
Quote from: Neil on October 08, 2011, 11:47:53 PM
Chris Johnson hasn't impressed me so far.
This year or in general? He hasn't done a whole lot this year outside of last week but he has shown that he is a very good back. I will be surprised if he doesn't go for 100 yards tomorrow.
Quote from: sbr on October 09, 2011, 12:55:25 AM
Quote from: Neil on October 08, 2011, 11:47:53 PM
Chris Johnson hasn't impressed me so far.
This year or in general? He hasn't done a whole lot this year outside of last week but he has shown that he is a very good back. I will be surprised if he doesn't go for 100 yards tomorrow.
This year, and I don't have high hopes for his future. Most backs go downhill after 2,000 yards.
On the other hand, he'll be alright this week because the Steelers run D are a bunch of bitches.
Who dat! First newton pass of the game...interception!
The Vikings might be the best first-half team ever. Just imagine how good they'd be if they had a real QB.
So, is Painter learning how to play, or are the Chiefs really that bad?
Chiefs are that bad.
Welp. Mario Williams got himself another sack, then left the game with a pectoral injury and won't return.
Oh sweet now Jacoby Jones is hurt. :bleeding: I think that makes Walter #1, Anderson #2, and.......uhhhhh.............
Nice 60 yard screen to Foster though. Schaub doesn't seem to be very comfortable without 80 in there though. No one to really bail him out when he's running for his life. Daniels is awesome, but not on the same level.
And Rackers misses the FG. Surprised he didn't hurt himself somehow.
Bungals 3-2? I seem to have arrived in one of those alternate Sliders universes.
Good lord. Panthers are going to be monstrous next year.
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 09, 2011, 03:06:40 PM
Bungals 3-2? I seem to have arrived in one of those alternate Sliders universes.
Quality defence and weak opposition are a recipe for victory.
:huh: Holy crapsicles. Ugly win Oakland, but I'll take it.
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 09, 2011, 03:06:40 PM
Bungals 3-2? I seem to have arrived in one of those alternate Sliders universes.
:punk:
Schaub should have trucked that little dude in his way instead of trying to toss it through Huff.
(Schaub can't truck anyone)
The Bayou mushmouth reffing the Pats-Jets made great strides with English language in the off season. Good work buddy.
I expect this game to play right to the spread.
CK's "Thank you notes"
Thank you Giants, for making the Seahawks look like a pro football team.
Anyone else think the NFL is having an off year? None of the up and coming QBs has really caught fire yet and it seems like there's a lot of mediocrity out there right now.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 09, 2011, 04:43:32 PM
Anyone else think the NFL is having an off year? None of the up and coming QBs has really caught fire yet and it seems like there's a lot of mediocrity out there right now.
Newton? Fitzpatrick? Stafford?
There's a lot of mediocrity every year in the NFL. The lockout has probably put some teams back, but a lot of things are trends that have been going from last year.
I'm no Patriots fan or anything, but I'm a little unsure why they didn't just call Branch down as soon as he was touched, being on his knees and all, and before he fumbled.
Tebow is playing, so I would say that the Broncos season is officially over.
Quote from: Neil on October 09, 2011, 05:28:55 PM
Tebow is playing, so I would say that the Broncos season is officially over.
Poor Orton. Hooray for the idiots in charge though. Now the Raiders are pretty much guaranteed another win. :cool:
Quote from: Benedict Arnold on October 09, 2011, 05:41:31 PM
Quote from: Neil on October 09, 2011, 05:28:55 PM
Tebow is playing, so I would say that the Broncos season is officially over.
Poor Orton. Hooray for the idiots in charge though. Now the Raiders are pretty much guaranteed another win. :cool:
It's not too late to trade Orton to the Dolphins.
If San Diego holds on I only need Green Bay to cover to hit my trifecta. :yeah:
Tebow scores a TD via a qb keeper. I'm loving it. Now all the Tebowtards will demand he stay in as qb, despite him only having one completion so far for 0 yards and numerous botched snaps and underthrown passes. Muahaha
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 09, 2011, 04:43:32 PM
Anyone else think the NFL is having an off year? None of the up and coming QBs has really caught fire yet and it seems like there's a lot of mediocrity out there right now.
I'm pretty happy with it so far. And to add to Neil's reply, there's more to football than QBs.
It looks like my brother may re-hire a guy he found a job for in Denver, so I'll retire with a winning (2-1) road record. I'll be happy to have some of my Saturdays-Sundays back, though I wouldn't mind making the Seattle trip.
I think I'll be doing the coaches box video printer for the next home game, but after that I'll be moving back to my cake job on the sideline.
I got to see The Duff today :worthy:
And I got to see what has to be the Jags punter's last game :lol:
Quote from: sbr on October 08, 2011, 09:17:56 PM
10/9 1:00 ET At Indianapolis -2 Kansas City
10/9 1:00 ET At Minnesota -3 Arizona
10/9 1:00 ET Philadelphia -3 At Buffalo
10/9 1:00 ET At Houston -5 Oakland
10/9 1:00 ET New Orleans -6.5 At Carolina
10/9 1:00 ET Cincinnati -1 At Jacksonville
10/9 1:00 ET At Pittsburgh -3 Tennessee
10/9 1:00 ET At NY Giants -9.5 Seattle
10/9 4:05 ET At San Francisco -3 Tampa Bay
10/9 4:15 ET At New England -7.5 NY Jets
10/9 4:15 ET San Diego -3.5 At Denver
Oops
Quote from: sbr on October 09, 2011, 06:32:03 PM
Oops
I don't know what you were thinking with that Indy pick. They're a really bad team right now.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 09, 2011, 06:35:32 PM
Quote from: sbr on October 09, 2011, 06:32:03 PM
Oops
I don't know what you were thinking with that Indy pick. They're a really bad team right now.
Have you seen KC play?
The Colts look decent last week, they were at home and I figured Painter would be able to pull it out with another week of experience.
Painter and Garcon both had great fantasy stats. Both are on my LFFL team-- but I benched both. Cost me a bunch of points.
Quote from: sbr on October 09, 2011, 06:37:12 PM
Have you seen KC play?
The Colts look decent last week, they were at home and I figured Painter would be able to pull it out with another week of experience.
I've seen a little bit of KC. They looked like a very standard bottom half of the league team to me.
Whereas the little bit of the Colts I saw last week made me think they have a decent recieving corps, two speed DEs that can't really stop the run, and absolutely nothing else. Painter was missing everything while I was watching.
When I first saw this thing on the sideline I got excited, thinking it was a modern day t-shirt nebelwerfer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNDh0v3xriU
Cool enough as a gatling gun but I wish it fired all barrels at once.
I think it's time to end the "Jacoby Jones as a WR" experiment. Dude just can't run good routes and doesn't know what to do when the QB is in trouble.
Edit: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Some pregame dude just said Mario Williams probably has a torn pectoral muscle and could miss a couple months. Maybe he's just making shit up? :(
Fuck. Williams missing time would really suck for an already banged up Houston. Especially with Baltimore next week.
Before the Packers game I was leading 70 to 22, now I'm losing 96 to 70.
Damn it.
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 10, 2011, 07:46:20 AM
Before the Packers game I was leading 70 to 22, now I'm losing 96 to 70.
Damn it.
:) :showoff:
Was even better last week when Rodgers put up 53 fantasy points.
OMG the Redskins have sole possession of first place! Thank you Seattle.
When they finish 3-13 I will remeber this week fondly.
The Bills?
For serious?
Quote from: Neil on October 09, 2011, 11:32:20 PM
Fuck. Williams missing time would really suck for an already banged up Houston. Especially with Baltimore next week.
Williams and Casey are both out indefinitely with torn pectorals. The Casey injury was why Vickers was out there to drop a sure TD pass late.
Quote from: Berkut on October 10, 2011, 09:19:31 AM
The Bills?
For serious?
:cool:
Don't forget the 49ers are also 4-1.
Quote from: derspiess on October 09, 2011, 06:56:17 PM
Cool enough as a gatling gun but I wish it fired all barrels at once.
That's not really how gatling guns work...
My LFFL team played for shit this weekend. Barring a shutout & 3 defensive TDs by the Lions defense, I'm dropping to 3-2.
Quote from: Razgovory on October 10, 2011, 10:11:23 AM
Quote from: derspiess on October 09, 2011, 06:56:17 PM
Cool enough as a gatling gun but I wish it fired all barrels at once.
That's not really how gatling guns work...
Correct. So I guess it's part nebelwerfer after all.
Mario Williams is out for the season it seems. Houston continues to be snakebit.
Quote from: Neil on October 10, 2011, 10:44:44 AM
Mario Williams is out for the season it seems. Houston continues to be snakebit.
Brooks Reed is the backup there. He looks pretty good for a rookie, but he's definitely no Mario Williams. When he went out, the pressure on the QB dropped off noticeably.
This game has been pretty shitty so far.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 10, 2011, 08:25:46 PM
This game has been pretty shitty so far.
Yeah. Well unless you like flags, wasted timeouts, dumb "GO FOR IT" decisions, and stupid challenges. Then it's probably pretty awesome.
Ten penalties in a quarter? Ridiculous.
That touchdown was pretty awesome.
Yeah that was definitely nice.
I can't believe the dumbshit Bears used all their timeouts like that.
Man Cutler can really get rid of the ball quickly (once he finds someone to throw it to, that is). He's like the anti-Tebow/Leftwich.
:bleeding:
Bears are dead.
Jahvid Best :cool:
5-0 in my fantasy league.
Poor bastard! :lol:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AuGB23CKh2Y1IFJwvpYQEZ85nYcB?slug=dw-wetzel_dominic_raiola_lions_misery_mnf_011011
QuoteLongtime Lion reflects on losses, embarrassments
Dan Wetzel
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports 9 hours, 11 minutes ago
DETROIT – Dominic Raiola has been the starting center of the Detroit Lions for most of the last 11 seasons. In 2001 he arrived from the University of Nebraska, an All-American set to join a 9-7 team that was one victory from the playoffs and still rumored to be getting Barry Sanders back.
"I was ecstatic," he said.
Instead he wound up snapping balls to Charlie Batch, Ty Detmer, Mike McMahon, Joey Harrington, Jeff Garcia, Dan Orlovsky, Jon Kitna, J.T. O'Sullivan, Drew Stanton, Drew Henson, Daunte Culpepper, Shaun Hill and Matthew Stafford.
"Man," Raiola laughed, "that's a lot of quarterbacks."
Did we miss any?
"I snapped to Jim Harbaugh in the preseason my rookie year," he said of the now coach of the San Francisco 49ers, the Lions' Week 6 opponent.
Fourteen quarterbacks is a number that speaks to a struggling team, yet it's hardly the ugliest stat of Raiola's less than dreamlike career. That would be 121, as in total losses – the worst in the NFL during that stretch.
There's been none this year, however. The Lions are, of course, 4-0 and hosting Chicago on Monday Night Football. Raiola was there for Detroit's last MNF appearance, a 35-0 shellacking by the St. Louis Rams in 2001 that left Lions fans chanting "Let's Go Red Wings."
You could say that was embarrassing but Raiola doesn't even remember it. You can hardly blame him. Until this season, his entire career has been a series of bizarre, depressing events as one of the few good players on the worst team in the league.
Raiola isn't bound for Canton but you can't play 11 seasons in the league unless you're a very good football player.
He just shrugs. This was his career and at this point, he isn't changing any of it. He could've left Detroit as a free agent following the 2009 season. But despite all the losing and all the heartbreak and all the frustrations and all the rebuilding plans, he told his agent he wanted a contract extension instead of hitting the open market.
"It was here or nowhere else," he said.
What's it like being a good player trapped in a bad franchise? Consider some of the "highlights" of his career.
Such as the time new coach Marty Mornhinweg (one of five Raiola's played for) decided to set the tone in training camp by throwing the team out of practice and then dramatically driving off on his Harley-Davidson.
"People said he did it because [Mike] Holmgren did it in Green Bay," Raiola said. "He was trying to send a message or something. I don't know."
Did it work?
"We started off 0-12 that year."
How about the Cleveland game his rookie year when Detmer threw a near-NFL record seven interceptions?
"I was just like, 'This can't be what the NFL is like,' " he said with a laugh.
How about the time Orlovsky earned a safety by running out of his own end zone despite not being pressured?
"At that time I was [blocking and was] like, 'What just happened?' They showed it [on the Jumbotron] and it was one of those moments where you're like, 'Wow, did that just happen?' "
Then there was the time that the Lions waived Tatum Bell and signed Rudi Johnson. When Johnson showed up in the locker room, he left his luggage unattended. When he returned it was gone. Security cameras showed Bell taking it (Bell returned it and said it was an innocent mistake. Johnson didn't believe him).
"That was where we were as an organization. It was sort of like, 'Yeah, that's how it is here.' "
The Matt Millen era produced no lack of embarrassment, famously highlighted by the Lions defying all logic and using a top 10 draft pick on a wide receiver three consecutive years: Charles Rogers (2003), Roy Williams (2004) and Mike Williams (2005).
"The three wide receivers? I actually trusted what was going on upstairs. You have to take the good out of it. Charles Rogers? That's the hometown guy. Yes, Andre Johnson was there, but hometown guy might work out.
"Then the next year was Roy. Then I was like, 'Well, Charles was hurt, maybe this will work.' We could get two guys healthy.
"Then Mike Williams. I still tried to take the good. 'OK, he sat out a year but still he was talented at USC.' Then when that didn't work out I think I was like, 'Wow, those were bad drafts.' "
Bad drafts were a Lions staple. Raiola recalls a time he and others decided to figure out how bad.
"One day, some of us sat down and looked at the rest of the NFL's drafts during those years. And we saw who would've been available. Wow. That was crazy."
All the losing, capped by the NFL's only 0-16 season ever in 2008, eventually ground down the normally positive Raiola. That year he said he was so sick of Lions fans heckling the team he flipped some off. He then said he'd give out his home address for anyone who wanted to come by and try to fight him but he was worried someone might show up with a gun.
"I'd do that, but you can't," he said at the time. "Nobody plays with fists. Everybody wants to play with metal."
"Frustration," Raiola recounted last week. "It was more because I don't think they felt where I was coming from. Obviously I don't want to fight any of my fans. I don't want to fight anyone in Detroit. I love this city. I've given 11 years of my work to it. I want to reward them with wins.
"It was just frustrating getting booed. How many years were we booed? Six years? It gets on you."
A year later he got into it again with fans who were all over then-rookie Stafford.
"Give this kid a chance," he said. "I saw what happened with Joey [Harrington] and I wasn't going to let that happen again and let that ride. I knew that kid was special."
There's more, of course. So many crazy losses, so many ridiculous moments, so much mayhem he can't even remember it all.
There was the time Mornhinweg won the coin toss in overtime and took the wind, not the ball (the Bears promptly drove down for the win). There were Millen's many antics, from using a slur to describe Johnnie Morton to various bizarre personnel moves. And of course, there was the assistant coach who got drunk and entered a Wendy's drive-thru naked.
There were, well, there was pretty much everything. Except Raiola never, ever, lost faith that it would work out. He laughs at himself.
"For me every year was: this could be the year. Every time. Every year. At the beginning of the season I always said, 'This could be it. We could be one of those teams that go from worst-to-first.'
"Every year I kept believing."
Raiola had grown up watching his father work as a lineman for the phone company, putting in long hours without complaint. His mother serviced loans for a bank. They were workers. He became a worker. He's been injured just once, starting 104 consecutive games during one stretch. And no matter how hopeless the seasons got, Raiola never stopped giving maximum effort.
"It's a bad feeling when you know the team has checked out," he said. "All I knew was make sure it's not me. Make sure I'm not the guy who has checked out."
Raiola is the first to remind folks that the Lions haven't accomplished much. A 4-0 start is just a start. After all these years, he wants to play in the playoffs. He wants to win a division, or a conference, or who knows. Maybe it's not too late.
That said this start has been something. Boos have turned to cheers. The pride has been restored. If nothing else, general manager Martin Mayhew and coach Jim Schwartz have brought a level of professionalism to the organization that Raiola always deserved – no one can imagine luggage theft, slurs or Harley gimmicks any more.
So now here comes Monday Night Football. Here come the Lions. Here comes one of those solid NFL soldiers, a long-deserved moment in the sun.
"It's going to be awesome," Raiola said.
Yes, yes it is.
Quote from: Alcibiades on October 10, 2011, 08:05:17 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 10, 2011, 07:46:20 AM
Before the Packers game I was leading 70 to 22, now I'm losing 96 to 70.
Damn it.
:) :showoff:
Was even better last week when Rodgers put up 53 fantasy points.
Woo! Victory snatch out of the jaws of Defeat. Thank you, Lions.
Forgot to mention that after the game in Jacksonville I also met this guy: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/9880532
:ph34r:
Quoteone for nude driving
I do that all the time. On my lawnmower.
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 11, 2011, 10:16:47 AM
Quoteone for nude driving
I do that all the time. On my lawnmower.
Apparently what happened was he went through the McDonalds drive-thru butt-naked and was told it would take a few minutes for his fries to be ready, so he pulled over into a parking space. The manager then called the cops, who swarmed the poor guy while he was waiting :lol:
The Texans apparently were also unhappy with the performance of Jacoby Jones, and have traded a conditional 7th rounder to the Jets for Derrick Mason. If the old man can still run a route and consistently catch a football, he's a big upgrade over Jones.
http://mike-freeman.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6264363/32671858
They're also supposedly looking at Juaquin Iglesias, and are expected to sign him (according to "sources" though, of course, so maybe BS). He's a returner type, right? Jacoby might be totally fucked.
Edit: They have released David Anderson to make room on the roster for Mason. Andre Johnson has been upgraded to "questionable" for Baltimore.
Well, that's good news for me in the LFFL.
Quote from: Neil on October 11, 2011, 11:15:20 PM
Well, that's good news for me in the LFFL.
Which one? Mason or Johnson?
It doesn't really matter as far as the B-more game goes, I don't think. I'm pretty sure the Texans are going to lose, I just hope Pollard isn't mad at Schaub for something. :( How's he been doing this season anyway?
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on October 11, 2011, 11:24:26 PM
Quote from: Neil on October 11, 2011, 11:15:20 PM
Well, that's good news for me in the LFFL.
Which one? Mason or Johnson?
It doesn't really matter as far as the B-more game goes, I don't think. I'm pretty sure the Texans are going to lose, I just hope Pollard isn't mad at Schaub for something. :( How's he been doing this season anyway?
Mason. He's gone from being #3 on the Jets with a shitty QB to being either #1 or #2 on the Texans with a good QB.
Pollard hasn't made a big impact on the stat sheet, but he's been an enforcer out there. He memorably was pushing Hines Ward around when Ward was trying to rough him up in Week 1, shortly before Ward got destroyed by JJ.
They lowered him below #3 against the patriots too it had seemed. He wasn't on the field much and the announcers were mentioning something about it.
Quote from: Alcibiades on October 12, 2011, 09:41:49 AM
They lowered him below #3 against the patriots too it had seemed. He wasn't on the field much and the announcers were mentioning something about it.
Yeah, and that doesn't make sense at all. You have a young QB who can't make a pass beyond 15 yards, so who would you rather have on the field? A guy who gets open by running perfect routes over a relatively short distance, or a deep threat that can't get deep before Sanchez is sacked?