2011 NFL Thread: The Lazarus Season - Part 7

[kane9321]

Yeah, looks like the Saints are sticking the fork into the Giants playoffs hopes.

i hope so

 

[Immortalfire]

Man the Giants are bad.

 

[SpideyInATree]

Giants are down by 25 points and they are just running the ball?

 

[enterthemadness]

Giants are down by 25 points and they are just running the ball?

Silly....

 

[SpideyInATree]

Well, there they go. Seems a little late for that but the Giants D needs to step up and get a big turnover...and why aren't they going for a 2 point conversion? You're playoff hopes are on the line you go for the throat, man!

 

[Rowsdower!]

This game is awesome. I'm killing in my fantasy game this week. The guy I'm playing against started Eli but I have Victor Cruz and Darren Sproles. I was already comfortably ahead after Sunday, but tonight I'm killing him.

If I hadn't left Ryan Fitzpatrick and James Jones on the bench this week, I'd really be murdering him.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Whoa... Gruden actually said something negative about somebody.

 

[SpideyInATree]

Whoa... Gruden actually said something negative about somebody.

I know. He was actually kind of brutal there, haha. Really put down the Giants and I'm guessing he was joking when he said he was going with the Redskins for the division.

And...I'm REALLY regretting having Victor Cruz on the bench in my league. I thought Jordy Nelson would light it up but Rodgers didn't go to him much at all. If I would have went with Cruz would have had this week wrapped up. Oh well, who knew.

 

[Rowsdower!]

LOL, yeah that Redskins crack was pretty good. Even I have to give him props for that. I'm glad the NFC East is so craptastic this year. After so many years of hearing about how it's "THE Toughest Division in Football," these guys are starting to look like the NFC West.

And Cruz was probably my luckiest pick-up off the waiver wire this season. After that first big game he had (I forget who the Giants were playing that day) I had a good feeling that he was going to be a breakout star this season.

 

[SpideyInATree]

I picked up Cruz off the waiver wire too weeks ago and he picked me up a win then and should have kept going with him. However, my main receivers are Jordy Nelson, Dez Bryant, and Roddy White...and normally they produce big for me and Nelson and Bryant sucked big time this week.

And, yeah, glad to see the NFC East in disarray. The "it" division this season is the AFC North! t: I'll continue to be happy about that as long as the Steelers keep putting up those wins!

 

[Rowsdower!]

Yeah, I like that the AFCN is one of the toughest divisions in football (and it might be THE toughest). Still, I do occasionally long for the days when the Steelers were the only good team there.

Also, damn. The Saints don't just deliver the dagger... they slash open your abdomen and eat your entrails for dinner.

 

[Rowsdower!]

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[Poeman]

I hope they draft Luck...

And trade Peyton...

And Luck turns out to be a bigger bust than JaMarcus...

That just wont happen. Luck is a field general out there...He is Stanford offense

 

[Trainwreck2100]

Giants aren't out of the playoff hunt yet, they just have to beat GB next week.

 

[enterthemadness]

Giants aren't out of the playoff hunt yet, they just have to beat GB next week.

Giants lose 49-24 on MNF to Saints...to Packers in NY...49-17 Packers.

 

[Raiden]

I picked up Cruz off the waiver wire too weeks ago and he picked me up a win then and should have kept going with him. However, my main receivers are Jordy Nelson, Dez Bryant, and Roddy White...and normally they produce big for me and Nelson and Bryant sucked big time this week.

And, yeah, glad to see the NFC East in disarray. The "it" division this season is the AFC North! t: I'll continue to be happy about that as long as the Steelers keep putting up those wins!

Unfortunately, I didn't pick up Cruz before he got popular on my teams, so I missed out. However, I did pick up Michael Bush and he's been one of the more consistent players on my fantasy teams.

Re: MNF, I thought Saints would win but I had no idea it would be this lopsided. Giants are one team where you cannot predict how they will perform week in and week out.

 

[Hound55]

It pains me to say it, but I don't think so. The AFC is basically up for grabs right now. No one can really be called overrated because the whole damn conference is so inconsistent.



Then you are sorely mistaken. Bill Polian is stupid enough to make the mistake he's already made once (draft a quarterback and hope that he can fix every other blaring problem with his franchise). Once they draft him (and Polian has already indicated that he will), Peyton has the franchise by the balls. They can either cut him and be on the hook for all of that guaranteed money in his contract (which is a **** load), let him ride the bench and collect 30 million dollars off of them, or most likely, play him. I'd guess that they do the latter considering that he has basically run the franchise for the past ten years and familiarity tends to be very comforting to the stupid (Jim Irsay and Bill Polian).

Damn Jacobs, at least wait until it is a one score game to start taunting your opponents like you are blowing them out.

Personally, I don't view it as stupid.

I can't think of too many quarterbacks who couldn't have benefited from a year to transition between the college game and the NFL... whether it's to spend that 12 months in the weights room to help with taking Pro-level hits, or to spend with coaching staff working on the theoretical, or time to get used to the difference in speed between the two levels.

I don't find it to be stupid to potentially "overpay" Luck for a year, possibly two (un-bloody-likely!) to prep him for the role, learning behind the best of the best, whilst acting as "insurance" for a guy who's starting to get the injury cloud hanging over him (yes, he had a great stretch of games played in there... but how many was he trying to overcome something just out of necessity and sheer desire to keep that streak going to threaten Favre's record?)

Manning plays a year, maybe two... jumps on the Colts staff (or they cut him loose if he refuses and doesn't want that, and only have to pay him the guaranteed coin) he's already their offensive coordinator, no big jump...

 

[Genesis 1.0]

Wow, had to work as usual during MNF but I'm going through the game via DVR now & I feel like I'm watching a televised ritual killing.

THIS is the Drew Brees that scares the shiz outta the League, it was this Brees that won a Super Bowl. Consistently playing at this level would make one hell of a match-up for Green Bay.

 

[Matt]

ESPN is reporting that Jack Del Rio has been fired.

That's a pity in my eyes. Del Rio is a good coach who got caught up with the smallest market in the NFL and ownership who wouldn't spend because of it. I hope he gets another shot one day.

 

[Poeman]

Del Rio should have taken that USC job when it was offered

 

[kane9321]

been a long time coming...by jack..peace out

should have got rid of david garrard

 

[Erzengel]

With all the injuries, I was reserved in hoping the Giants were going to finish 9-7 this year, then they got my hopes up.

Where's the defense that took out 3 QBs last year?

 

[kane9321]

that thug suh should get at least 3 games

 

[Rowsdower!]

Something about Del Rio always rubbed me the wrong way. But maybe it was just because he coached for Jacksonville, a team that I couldn't care less about.

 

[Matt]

Del Rio should have taken that USC job when it was offered

Yeah. He is a good coach but Jacksonville is a black hole for any head coach because you just don't have the market to warrant the owner investing much in the team. That being said, he is capable of getting either a head coach position at a top-tier school (Penn State, I'm looking in your direction) or would be a valuable DC with any pro-franchise. I'm not entirely sure that we've seen the last of him on the NFL sidelines as a head coach, at any rate.