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well, the colts are gonna win

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yup and i'm going with GANON

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Here we are. At the crossroads a mere couple of weeks before the biggest event of every year. We have three of our top seeds still in it as well as a team decked from head to toe in a sparkly dress and glass shoes that would make Cinderella weep in envy. Let the games begin. New York Jets at Indianapolis Colts Rex Ryan is an awesome coach. I’d play for that man any day of the week. He has his men as ready for battle this Sunday as he had them against San Diego last weekend and Cincinnati the weekend before that. He has them loose, confident and prepared. After all, two heavy favorites are down for the count; why not another? Because as good as Carson Palmer is and as much better as Philip Rivers is, Peyton Manning is an entirely different beast. It’s difficult to imagine New York’s formidable blitz packages and no-look defensive schemes throwing Peyton off as much as it has thrown the last two guys off. Rivers moved the ball on them enough to win the game, he just couldn’t make the scoring throws when it mattered – those just happen to be the exact scenarios in which Peyton does and that will be the difference. New York will bring the heat, no doubt and this game will be close, it won’t be any kind of a blowout. However, unless Curtis Painter suits up, I think the Colts are safe to win this game at home with their supreme confidence (mind you, this is real confidence… not that cocky “of course we’re going to win” bullshit some of the Chargers players were strutting about) and poise. The Jets will have to hope that running game gets the job done early and goes up by 2 or 3 scores by the half or there’s no way Mark Sanchez will keep up with Peyton when it matters… when Mathis and Freeney are chasing him around and forcing the rook to throw into good coverage by an underrated secondary. No, Thomas Jones and Shonn Greene are gonna have to run for 300 yards and 4 scores if they want to win this game. Sorry atmuh Colts Minnesota Vikings at New Orleans Saints Why is it such a big deal that the Superdome is loud and difficult to win in? Jared Allen brought up a perfectly good point: so is the Metrodome. While it’s true that home crowds usually get loud when the other team has the ball in critical down situations to disrupt offenses, I’ve yet to watch a single game at either dome that had, at any point, quieted down. It’s always going hardcore in there! And this is the biggest NFC game of the year! You think it’s going to be quiet for the Saints on offense? CHILD PLS. Simply put, too much is being made of this. Brett Favre has shown several times this season that when the lights are brightest, so is he. This is pretty much as bright as it gets outside of the Super Bowl itself. I’m pretty sure Drew Brees is going to light it up as well but the same folks that said Brett was going to throw 4 or 5 picks last week are saying it again and I again want y’all to know that if Brett makes any mistakes, it’ll be near the end of the game when it’s close and desperate and it will almost directly determine the outcome. And that’s, unfortunately, what I think is going to happen. This will be a very close game and it’ll go north of 30 points on both sides for sure. Vikes are 4 ½ dogs in this one and that sounds almost right. The Saints can win by as little as a field goal or as much as a TD. But not more than that. There are too many injury questions for the Vikings… primarily Jamie Kennedy, Ray Edwards and Percy Harvin… all very important keys to their game. If this turns into a slingfest for Brees and Favre, then missing a key receiver and two critical pass rush/run D guys will skew the result in favor of the Saints Yes. Colts vs. Saints. First time in 17 years that we have a 1 v 1

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My dude hot. EDIT: very hot. you bring it really hot on this, bro. i love the production values, too... hits hard. not to mention the cover art. you never cease to amaze me, brother but this is just knockout status. much love

nope. he hasn't. how good will he be? i'm not sure... he has some of the right tools... decent mobility, good arm, a little bit of grit... but we've never seen what he can do with a good offensive scheme maybe shanny can save him, i dunno

epic battle? I THINK SO

yeah well, technically, bad dudes get first dibs and we're taking villains...

you leave me with little choice... this bad dude chooses GANON

oh heheh and i thouyght you were just picking on my team yes, i agree on everything you said except for one thing... i think you'd make a fine GM if you are willing to trade him to carolina for peppers and a 2nd rounder (if they'd bite on that... maybe a 3rd). it's need-based trading and frankly, as much as moore was lighting shit up there late in the season for the panthers, they're a QB away from being some trouble too. but yeah. get something in return for him before he simply walks away and replaces (OMG NO) campbell in washington and gives the eagles fits!

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jam is absolutely correct. you can't put all that blame on mcnabb. sure, he's never won the big game but football is about schemes and andy reid is about as stubbornly narrowminded as they come. he has a prolific passing playbook but you almost need to bring in an OC who runs nothing but rushing plays to offset him. drafting lesean mccoy was a step in the right direction but even then, he was hardly ever utilized in a north to south downhill attack. at least, a consistent one, at any rate. they draft guys like desean jackson and jeremy maclin to run around the field and get open, hoping that their tank of a QB (and one of the very best at avoiding the rush and running around behind the line of scrimmage to buy time... while still looking down field for the pass) will find them. imagine mcnabb in a jets uniform with that defense and that running game (and more importantly, that coaching staff committed to the run .... go marty ball!). andy reid's strats are a shit scheme and it hasn't worked in winning a championship. mcnabb has the tools and skill set to have a lot of success in a balanced offense where the threat of the run is real, in turn making his ability to run or play action effective. furthermore, it's really the combination of mcnabb, reid and westbrook that are at fault here. why are we even trying to single out who is most at fault? that's pointless. the fact is: they're no different than the levy/kelly era only that the bills actually went to the superbowl four times and the eagles only once. and ralph, why did you suggest sending him to cleveland or oakland in that way? do you not realize that both of those teams are on the rise? hell, the raiders beat the eagles. the raiders would be lucky to get mcnabb. they're a QB away from contending in the AFC west. [/zyko]

exactly. which is why i want to hold off on making my pick. in truth, the jets have more to prove by winning this game than the colts and the worst thing the colts can do at this point is overlook the jets the same way the chargers did (i'm convinced that's precisely what happened... i'm not taking anything away from the jets because they played brilliantly but the chargers' demeanor and performance was that of a team who were sure they'd somehow pull off a win by the end). the colts won't make that mistake. but yes. rex is a smart man. he says what he needs to say (which is everything lol). his players believe and a football team that believes it can win is a dangerous football team. we all have heard the adage of "anything can happen on any given sunday" and i've experienced it myself on both sides of the coin... days i was on a team that should have won but didn't and days where i was on the team that didn't have a shot in hell and pulled it off somehow. it usually comes down to very small psychological differences between the two teams. we. will. see.

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it isn't so much straight up. the only thing that really sticks out for me is that, were it not for indy resting its guys (aka peyton), it's doubtful that the jets would even be in this situation right now. i think the colts are dying to prove that point. granted the jets also would love to prove that entire notion wrong but we'll have to see. i'm not ready to make my official pick but at this point, i have to give the edge to peyton. if anything, the colts saw how the jets shut down the chargers (the chargers couldn't challenge the jets deep because they don't have enough speed to get down field against them and couldn't run the ball) and will adjust. the colts have much faster receivers than the chargers and peyton is the king of short, accurate routes underneath... the only "weakness" (if there is such a thing) in the jets great wall of new york. not making my pick yet and don't hate me for saying it but i think the early advantage goes to indy. more later on that

agreed my bay area brother. agreed. i just can't take anything away from them in their moment of joy. the colts will do enough of that this weekend lol hahaha and i was just tellin my buddy that i thought the eagles were the buffalo bills of this decade lol agreed. i think the niners are close but (OMG) i think the raiders are closer. i grew up a raider fan but my dad never really forgave the raiders for going to LA so he called them the traitors and supported the niners. luckily for me, that meant i got to watch some quality fuckin football all those years in the 80s and 90s. i have quite a bit of adulation for the red n gold and i do think they're close. i dunno. kubiak is not a bad coach and unless his staff is whack, i don't think that's what it is. truth is, most of these guys have all been together over the past several years and i think they're just never used to winning... seeing as how this was their first winning season ever as a franchise. that said, their future is bright. after all, they are on the upswing, right? their offense is explosive (when healthy) and their defense is young and athletic. with a little more experience, they should start playing more consistently. i dont know if its coaching. i just think they're a young, inexperienced team. give em another year. i knew a girl from buffalo. traumatized like nobody's busines. you couldn't bring up the bills or marv levy or thurman thomas or jim kelly without her going into convulsions. she once wigged out on me for poking fun at her for having endured those years not realizing how seriously she took it it was terrifying. i never made that mistake again. scary situation up there in buffalo. and sad. yeah, they ain't too bad for a new york team. although i must admit, i have no beef with the islanders, i think they're just like the jets.... they're the "other" new york team. i love the ryans. yeah well saints v colts is likely what it's going to be. i'm giving the saints the edge (right now) over the vikes because of the home field. but the vikes have the better D. we'll see. but from where i'm sitting, it looks like colts v saints. we'll see what vegas says

i'm tellin ya guys, the score is as horrible as they come... parts of it are lifted, some of it is bland and punchless and some of the cues are FROM OTHER MOVIES very disappointing. about the only thing truly disappointing about the movie.

actually, fuck the chargers as a lifelong raider fan, i take great pleasure in seeing the chargers fail. i really do. however, this is one of those times when i am borderline empathetic with charger nation only because their team really are a bunch of chokers. i know a great deal of charger fans, great friends in fact, who have enjoyed the past 7 or 8 years of AFC west dominance while shitting on my raiders with disdain from their perch atop the division. i feel bad that they have to endure such repetitive, routine failure. their machine unplugs itself about this time of year. all that shitalking loses much of its edge when you already know they aren't going to the super bowl before the playoffs even begin. i proudly remind them that my team, unlike theirs, has at least played in a super bowl in the past decade today's meltdown caused me to have an imperfect weekend of 3-1. i didn't call the game in their favor because i disrespected the jets, i did because i excessively respected the chargers. unfortunately, they proved once again that they are coached by a pussy, their kicker is a choke artist, a majority of their players are immature and full of themselves and when it mattered most near the end of the game, only their super stud QB, rivers (whom i love btw, he's the man. end of story) had fire in his eyes, trying to rush his troops back to the line of scrimmage, trying to lead them down the field. what were his "troops?" doing? strutting, walking nonchalantly, still, in spite of trailing late, overlooking their opponents like the cocky underachieving team they've come to be known as. the jets came to play. boy, did they ever. the ryan family is blessed with great coaches and he had his men on point and ready to play some fucking football. they ran the ball hard and they committed to it. sanchez did what he needed to do and while he's no broadway joe, he's certainly DURTY SUNCHEZ. the defense is probably the best defense i've seen in a long time... i concede the title of top CB in the league on behalf of namdi asomugha to darrel revis. he's amazing. the jets didn't come into qualcomm thinking they were going to get smacked. they played the more disciplined game and deserved to win. so no. not fuck the jets. fuck the chargers for SUCKING on a WHOLE NEW LEVEL of SUCK. RRRRRAAAAAAIIIIDDERRRRSSSSSSS

i stand corrected, new york beautiful performance. J E T S jets jets jets

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