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lupi

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anyone get the plate number of that whaammmbulance

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Patriots receiver Deion Branch was asked following the game if he was embarrassed by the loss. His answer: "I'm not embarrassed, I'm just frustrated. The embarrassing part came from a few classless guys [on the Jets] after the game. There were a lot of classless things that went on after the game ended.''

When asked what he was referring to, Branch answered, "Didn't you see it? You've got to go back and watch it. Pretty classless stuff.''

Some of New England's players left the field when time ran out rather than shake hands with the Jets players. When asked if he was one of them Branch said, "I'm a champion. I'm always going to congratulate guys. They beat us today. The ones with class, I shook their hands. And the ones that didn't, I didn't [shake their hands]. You can tell they're not used to being in this position.''

 
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lupi

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As former Oakland Raiders coach Tom Cable was attempting to lead his team to the playoffs this season, owner Al Davis began deducting $20,000 from each of his head coach's paychecks until he had withheld $120,000 in fines, according to team sources.


In turn, Cable filed a grievance against his owner with the NFL, becoming the latest Raiders head coach to be embroiled in a financial dispute with his owner.


Now NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will appoint an arbitrator to whom the Raiders and Cable will have to submit legal arguments and witnesses. The arbitrator then will make the final ruling.


The NFL is doing its due diligence to ascertain the exact reasons for the fines.


Raiders senior executive John Herrera declined comment when contacted by The Associated Press.


The financial feud illustrates how much the relationship between Davis and Cable deteriorated and helps explain why the Raiders' owner declined to pick up the two-year option in Cable's contract. The ouster of Cable drew criticism from the Raiders' players, including punter Shane Lechler.


But what few players in the locker room realized was that, as Oakland was registering its best season since its AFC championship in 2002, the Raiders' owner and head coach were barely communicating -- other than through legal channels.


Davis was said to be upset with Cable over the fact that Oakland lost two days of organized team activities (OTAs) in June 2010, among other things. The Raiders also lost a week of their offseason program in 2007 because of the intensity of practices under then coach Lane Kiffin, whom Davis also battled.


Kiffin filed a grievance against the Raiders after he was fired when he felt that Davis owed him money, but the arbitrator ruled in Oakland's favor. Davis has a history of financial disputes with his head coaches dating back to Mike Shanahan. The NFL has had to help settle financial disputes with four of Davis' past five head coaches, according to a source.


It's not atypical for teams and coaches to have financial disputes. But usually they come after termination, not before.


Davis is now searching for a head coach, and many believe the favorite for the job is Oakland's offensive coordinator, Hue Jackson. A potential offensive coordinator if Jackson is hired as coach is Al Saunders, a coach Davis long has liked.


Cable also is looking for a job and his agent, Don Yee, told The Associated Press the night that his client was fired that other teams already had begun expressing interest.
 

Gibson486

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What does that have to do with anything? Jawing at what?

so maybe you missed the part about the coaching staff giving everyone the bird?

Get over yourself. The Jets won a huge game. That's great, but you do not have to mouth everyone off.
 

Jeffg010

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The Steelers just got a free ride to the Superbowl. Looking at the rest of the teams left I don't see anyone that can play smash mouth football with them. The Steeler's D is way above every Offense that is left. To beat the Steelers you have to have a top passer that can read the open man against the corners. Gay is weak as is the rest of the corners and that is how you beat the Steelers.
 

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The Steelers just got a free ride to the Superbowl. Looking at the rest of the teams left I don't see anyone that can play smash mouth football with them. The Steeler's D is way above every Offense that is left. To beat the Steelers you have to have a top passer that can read the open man against the corners. Gay is weak as is the rest of the corners and that is how you beat the Steelers.

Aaron Rodgers might have 31 out of 36 things to say about that.

Greenbay has a very good defense and when their offense is clicking they are devastating.
 

BUTCH1

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The Steelers just got a free ride to the Superbowl. Looking at the rest of the teams left I don't see anyone that can play smash mouth football with them. The Steeler's D is way above every Offense that is left. To beat the Steelers you have to have a top passer that can read the open man against the corners. Gay is weak as is the rest of the corners and that is how you beat the Steelers.

The Steelers D already lost to the Jets this year, at home. As for us our D got exposed today, in a lot of games the O put up points quickly so opposing teams were one-dimensional most of the time but our complete lack of pass rush showed today, I knew that signing defensive lineman from practice squads late in the year isn't a good thing, since Jets were ahead they had a very balanced attack and ran the ball well, the Pats also managed 0 sacks against Sanchez, hopefully this will be addressed in next years draft..
 

Blackjack200

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Found this pic of Edwards dragging Merriweather into the endzone

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IndyColtsFan

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You guys are overrating the Steelers. Sure, they might win, but I don't think it is going to be as easy as you think. If they get pressure on Sanchez and keep it up, the Jets are done. Even with no pressure, Sanchez was horrible for 1+ quarters in the game yesterday. Had he been a competent QB, the Pats would've lost by much more.

No one will beat the Packers if the Packers play like they did against Atlanta. That was the most dominating performance I've seen all year, far more so than the Pats embarrassing the Jets. Weird things have happened this season, so who knows what will happen. All I know is that I hate the Pats, hate the Steelers, and dislike Jets fans, so the AFC sucks this year in the playoffs.

Oh, and LOL at the Jets and Pats fans going at it. Jets fans should probably limit their trash talk until they actually win something worthwhile, like a Super Bowl. Their trash talk after the Colts game was especially humorous.
 
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bignateyk

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You guys are overrating the Steelers. Sure, they might win, but I don't think it is going to be as easy as you think. If they get pressure on Sanchez and keep it up, the Jets are done. Even with no pressure, Sanchez was horrible for 1+ quarters in the game yesterday. Had he been a competent QB, the Pats would've lost by much more.

No one will beat the Packers if the Packers play like they did against Atlanta. That was the most dominating performance I've seen all year, far more so than the Pats embarrassing the Jets. Weird things have happened this season, so who knows what will happen. All I know is that I hate the Pats, hate the Steelers, and dislike Jets fans, so the AFC sucks this year in the playoffs.

Oh, and LOL at the Jets and Pats fans going at it. Jets fans should probably limit their trash talk until they actually win something worthwhile, like a Super Bowl. Their trash talk after the Colts game was especially humorous.

GB could definitely beat the steelers. Our weakness is against teams that don't have any dependence on the run. Teams like NE and GB that have QB's that can just pick apart a defense really kill our zone defense.

The Bears and Jets really depend on getting the run going though to have offensive output. Offensively those two teams don't really stand a chance to put up big numbers on the steelers. It's not that they can't win. It's just that they have to hope their defense shows up like the last Jets vs Steelers game.

I could easily see GB destroying our defense though.
 

kranky

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After what's happened so far in the playoffs, I don't think I can predict anything. A team gets killed by 40 points in the regular season then beats that team in the playoffs on the road? The Seahawks look great one week, terrible the next?

I will predict that every team in the league will study what the Jets did on defense against the Pats and that's what every team will do next season against them. I think that's when we'll find out how much of the Jets success yesterday was good play by the Jets, how much was poor play by the Patriots, and how much was Jets game plan.

So here's my question - will either game this week be a brutal physical game like the Steelers-Ravens game was? If so, will it take enough of a toll to hurt someone's chances in the SB? The Steelers got quite banged up against the Ravens and had the bye coming in.
 

Blackjack200

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I will predict that every team in the league will study what the Jets did on defense against the Pats and that's what every team will do next season against them. I think that's when we'll find out how much of the Jets success yesterday was good play by the Jets, how much was poor play by the Patriots, and how much was Jets game plan.

Every team in the league is going to blanket NE's receivers with all-pro cornerbacks sack Brady five times?
 

MetalMat

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After what's happened so far in the playoffs, I don't think I can predict anything. A team gets killed by 40 points in the regular season then beats that team in the playoffs on the road? The Seahawks look great one week, terrible the next?

I will predict that every team in the league will study what the Jets did on defense against the Pats and that's what every team will do next season against them. I think that's when we'll find out how much of the Jets success yesterday was good play by the Jets, how much was poor play by the Patriots, and how much was Jets game plan.

So here's my question - will either game this week be a brutal physical game like the Steelers-Ravens game was? If so, will it take enough of a toll to hurt someone's chances in the SB? The Steelers got quite banged up against the Ravens and had the bye coming in.

The seahawks were already a terrible team. Its just that the saints defense decided to go out on Burbon Street instead of show up to the game week 1
 

PingSpike

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Brady's sacks don't really tell the whole story. He was standing out there for hours before he went down many times, he just didn't have anyone to throw to apparently. Brady is slow as shit but maybe he should have tried a couple Michael Vicks LOL.

Its too bad it happened against such a classless team with classless fans, but the Pats were just flat out beat yesterday. They found the answer to reduce the production of the offense. I don't really blame Pats D, I think they played better than usual and have really improved quick. They went from terrible to inconsistent to passable over the course of a season. Obviously they needed one of those fluke interceptions they have been getting but you can't count on something like that and expect to win. The Pats have been winning with big offense numbers though and that is where they were stopped.

I don't know what they were doing with all those runs in the second half though. Some one else said it, they needed to play with the 2 minute hurry up offense right then, they were taking their sweet ass time getting line up and doing running plays. That'd be great if you were only down one possession or winning, you weren't!

I give Crumpler a null on the dropped pass because he chased down that run away INT that would have been a touchdown and ended up as a missed field goal. His effort was there.
 
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spidey07

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Every team in the league is going to blanket NE's receivers with all-pro cornerbacks sack Brady five times?

The way you beat a great QB is you have to get after him, even if you get burned on a few big plays you have to get in his face. Remember how Giants beat them in SuperBowl? A great QB with too much time is deadly, somebody WILL get open and he'll find him.
 

IndyColtsFan

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The way you beat a great QB is you have to get after him, even if you get burned on a few big plays you have to get in his face. Remember how Giants beat them in SuperBowl? A great QB with too much time is deadly, somebody WILL get open and he'll find him.

Conversely, an approach like that doesn't work on Manning because he will beat the blitz 90% of the time. Rex wisely dropped extra backs in coverage and only the DL was left to apply pressure. I don't think they "stopped" Manning (his stats were still very good), but they stopped a few drives and that, in combination with them eating the clock with a dominant running game in the second half, beat the Colts. I don't even recall seeing a single blitz against Manning in the last game.
 

Gibson486

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Brady's sacks don't really tell the whole story. He was standing out there for hours before he went down many times, he just didn't have anyone to throw to apparently. Brady is slow as shit but maybe he should have tried a couple Michael Vicks LOL.

Its too bad it happened against such a classless team with classless fans, but the Pats were just flat out beat yesterday. They found the answer to reduce the production of the offense. I don't really blame Pats D, I think they played better than usual and have really improved quick. They went from terrible to inconsistent to passable over the course of a season. Obviously they needed one of those fluke interceptions they have been getting but you can't count on something like that and expect to win. The Pats have been winning with big offense numbers though and that is where they were stopped.

I don't know what they were doing with all those runs in the second half though. Some one else said it, they needed to play with the 2 minute hurry up offense right then, they were taking their sweet ass time getting line up and doing running plays. That'd be great if you were only down one possession or winning, you weren't!

I give Crumpler a null on the dropped pass because he chased down that run away INT that would have been a touchdown and ended up as a missed field goal. His effort was there.


Yeah, I was at the game. Our whole section was practically looking for blood when they just kept running the ball. I could not believe it. That whole drive took, what, 4 or 5 minutes off the clock? Woodhead is a situational running back like Faulk, he is not your go to running back for back to back plays. I am not sure who called those plays, but dam, it was bad play calling.
 

kranky

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Yeah, I was at the game. Our whole section was practically looking for blood when they just kept running the ball. I could not believe it. That whole drive took, what, 4 or 5 minutes off the clock? Woodhead is a situational running back like Faulk, he is not your go to running back for back to back plays. I am not sure who called those plays, but dam, it was bad play calling.

Does anyone know if Belichick addressed that in the post-game interview? Though I was rooting for the Jets, I also was baffled by the apparent lack of urgency shown by the Pats.
 

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Sore winner? Boston area fans once again proving why they're the worst fans in the country. Only Patriot fans are allowed to celebrate after wins, if anyone else does they're now a sore winner, which sounds like something a sore loser would come up with.

Oh, and maybe Branch should of showed some class instead of talking trash when his team was down by 10 in the 4th quarter.