official NFL week 1 thread

[lupi]

so, how's kolb doing?

 

[spidey07]

4 1st downs for the Eagles? ouch.

Total? Yeah, you're not gonna have a chance with stats like that.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Really glad I didn't get Sunday Ticket online now. Didn't realize the Eagles were going to be quite this bad. I get to spend my $350 on something else.

 

[Homerboy]

Total? Yeah, you're not gonna have a chance with stats like that.

Total. 17-4 on 1st downs.
I guess you could do well if you had 4 50+ TD plays.

 

[Gunslinger08]

so, how's kolb doing?

Bad before halftime. Out after that with a concussion.

 

[Homerboy]

so, how's kolb doing?

He got knocked the F out.
Before that though he was doing as well as expected.

 

[Regs]

Good news for big Blue this year. Philly looks like they will struggle to make 500. Boy did McNabb screw you over.

(prove me wrong)

 

[lupi]

thinkin all the people that took him as their first string QB hatin it about now.

 

[Homerboy]

That Kolb tackle is everything that is right in Football. Just awesome.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Vick completes a few passes. Looking not bad.

If he runs and gets hurt, Kafka will be our QB. That's scary.

 

[waggy]

so if guy dive across the GL and drops the ball on contact with the ground is that not a TD?

thats a touchdown. the problem is when it comes to a catch. a reciver has to keep control of the ball the whole time.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Vick smoked that linebacker on that run. He definitely wants it bad enough.

 

[Heller]

Vick's running like hes a fugitve. Hes gonna get tired soon. The eagles are looking worse then the dolphins.

 

[Gunslinger08]

McCoy runs it in from the 12. Awesome for my fantasy team.

 

[Chaotic42]

Probably trying to get more west coast viewership.

I'm surprised that the Raiders aren't back in LA yet. If not them, maybe they can move the Jaguars over.

 

[rcpratt]

no...no it's not even close

As a huge Tigers fan and mild Lions fan, I also think this was worse. The perfect game was simple human error, and it also didn't cost the Tigers a game...although it certainly sucked, a lot. A one game swing in the NFL is HUGE, and the refs made the wrong call (keep trying to convince me that it wasn't - he was making a football move after the catch) even with the benefit of replay. Pathetic.

 

[Gunslinger08]

As a huge Tigers fan and mild Lions fan, I also think this was worse. The perfect game was simple human error, and it also didn't cost the Tigers a game...although it certainly sucked, a lot. A one game swing in the NFL is HUGE, and the refs made the wrong call (keep trying to convince me that it wasn't - he was making a football move after the catch) even with the benefit of replay. Pathetic.

Dude, read the rulebook. They called it correctly based on the rules. I wouldn't be shocked if the rule gets changed in the off season.

 

[rcpratt]

Dude, read the rulebook. They called it correctly based on the rules. I wouldn't be shocked if the rule gets changed in the off season.

The rule is undoubtedly terrible. But he landed, spun and turned to get up. That wasn't part of the catch.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Has there been any word on Grant? Do I need to pick up Jackson to cover for him for a few weeks?

 

[Kyle]

As a huge Tigers fan and mild Lions fan, I also think this was worse. The perfect game was simple human error, and it also didn't cost the Tigers a game...although it certainly sucked, a lot. A one game swing in the NFL is HUGE, and the refs made the wrong call (keep trying to convince me that it wasn't - he was making a football move after the catch) even with the benefit of replay. Pathetic.

20 times....ever

perfect games are few and far between- and much "huge"'er than a loss in an nfl game

 

[Gunslinger08]

and that's why we got Hobbs for a 5th round pick.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Philly's defense sucks

 

[Homerboy]

Rodgers to Jennings is leathal

 

[rcpratt]

20 times....EVER

perfect games are few and far between

And also completely meaningless. The game will still be remembered by baseball fans, maybe more than Halladay's or Braden's.

Read this article (written by a Giants blogger) last night, and it was a good reminder of that:

We all saw the way Jim Joyce responded after his part in depriving Armando Galarraga’s perfect game – a heartbreaking and yet redemptive moment that became so much more important than a line in the record books. When we look back on this 2010 season that will be the moment that rings in our collective conscience.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Oh well, at least I can watch McNabb tonight and see what he can do in a city that appreciates him. As long as the Cowboys lose.