OFFICIAL NFL week 10 thread

[Miramonti]

If I were to rate how perfect that touchdown pass was, I'd probably give it a 98/100...an incredible throw with incredible timing.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

lmao "whatever"

 

[MotF Bane]

Wow, Patriots have really lit up the second half.

 

[CPA]

I have Brady and needed 30 pts out of him tonight. So far not happy at all. 3 Red zone trips and only 1 TD....

lol, I have Brady, but kept him on the bench in favor of....Tebow. Luckily, I didn't need him as I already won my game and still have Adrian Peterson tomorrow night.

 

[MotF Bane]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Pick six Ninkovich!

 

[Leon]

Well, that's the game right there. Thanks, Taco

 

[MotF Bane]

My god, what a crushing defensive stand by the Pats. Double sacks for Carter, and then Mayo just set up a freaking wall.

 

[SSSnail]

Where did this Patriots D come from?

 

[Gibson486]

now may be a good time to get ocho some reps

 

[MotF Bane]

Where did this Patriots D come from?

Carter and Ninkovich hulked out, and they're dragging the whole bunch along with them.

 

[a123456]

Brady ended up having a good game, especially the 2nd half but he still looks injured. Pats are known for hiding their injuries, unlike the Jets who disclose which body organ is injured.

Based on the past few weeks, especially the wrap on his elbow a month ago, he may have something like elbow tendinitis, which is affecting his accuracy. He missed a lot of throws, the most notable being that wide open reverse screen to Welker in the 1st half. I'm sure some of it is the reads but there's more and more accuracy issues recently.

 

[ElFenix]

wtf houston in first place in AFC?

co head coach wade phillips is worth his weight in bacon gold

 

[sactoking]

Tebow is so weird. He doesn't pass especially well but his team wins all the time. At the very least, he has good "leadership skills" as the defense is playing better than they used to.

The scary thing is that they play against crappy run defenses in the next 2 games so they could conceivable be tied for the division lead in a couple of games if the teams don't adjust to this 90% run/10% pass mix.

I have to admit the coaches are doing the right thing now. If he sucks at passing, just run the ball all the time.

Denver and Tebow are probably the biggest mirage in the NFL right now. With Tebow as the starter Denver is 3-1. They squeaked out a win against Miami, who sucks. That was unimpressive. They got mangled by Detroit, who is probably not as good as people thought. That was damning. They beat a bad Oakland team in an unconvincing manner, which isn't good considering what Oakland was going through. And the beat Kansas City, who also is a bad team.

Tebow's completion % is right at 45% and he's throwing for only 131 yards per game.

Denver has won a few, but they're really winning despite him and not because of him. Let's see how he does against the Jets, Patriots, Bills, and Bears.

 

[BUTCH1]

wtf houston in first place in AFC?

co head coach wade phillips is worth his weight in bacon gold

They could get home field advantage for the playoff's and the D has just been stifling and with a good ground game and a few mistakes QB they have a decent shot to get to the big show, this is a team no one wants to play right now..

 

[SunnyD]

Where did this Patriots D come from?

They cut Haynesworth... problem solved.

 

[Krazy4Real]

The win against Detroit was beautiful.

 

[AstroManLuca]

yeah--what happened to the Ravens? This is more surprising to me than Detroit's fall off. Their D was looking unbreakable early on in the season.

They're one of those weird teams that beats good teams but loses to bad ones, which just wreaks havoc on your typical sports journalists' power rankings. The teams the Ravens have beaten have a combined winning percentage of .544, while the ones they've lost to have a combined winning percentage of .407.

Denver and Tebow are probably the biggest mirage in the NFL right now. With Tebow as the starter Denver is 3-1. They squeaked out a win against Miami, who sucks. That was unimpressive. They got mangled by Detroit, who is probably not as good as people thought. That was damning. They beat a bad Oakland team in an unconvincing manner, which isn't good considering what Oakland was going through. And the beat Kansas City, who also is a bad team.

Tebow's completion % is right at 45% and he's throwing for only 131 yards per game.

Denver has won a few, but they're really winning despite him and not because of him. Let's see how he does against the Jets, Patriots, Bills, and Bears.

I agree. How do you win a game with 2 completions? The Broncos are using a college offense and while that may work against bad teams like the Chiefs, I doubt it'll do a lot against their much tougher upcoming opponents.

 

[Nemesis 1]

Where did this Patriots D come from?

Cocain

 

[AstroManLuca]

What were the Falcons thinking, going 4th &1 on own 30?

So typical for people to judge a decision based on its eventual outcome and not on whether it was a good decision or not.

Statistically, going for it on 4th and 1 in that situation was the right move. It gave the Falcons a better chance to win. Had they converted and gone on to win, everyone would be hailing him as a coaching genius.

If you want to criticize the play, go after the actual play they ran and not the decision to go for it. Handing it off to the RB with well under a yard to go is just a bad choice. They should have let Ryan keep it with a sneak. For 4th and inches plays, the QB sneak is more reliable than the RB dive.

 

[umbrella39]

Bull Shit.

Detroit is a dirty fucking team, end if story. That pansy Stafford tried to rip his head off.

LMAO... he was being grabbed by the jersey near his own neck by Moore the 20 yard preceding him ripping his helmet off... then got up and speared him. Who got tossed again?

 

[crashtestdummy]

If you want to criticize the play, go after the actual play they ran and not the decision to go for it. Handing it off to the RB with well under a yard to go is just a bad choice. They should have let Ryan keep it with a sneak. For 4th and inches plays, the QB sneak is more reliable than the RB dive.

That was my thought. I thought the play call was terrible, not the decision to go for it. I couldn't understand why they didn't do a sneak. Handing it off gave the defense too much time to penetrate.

 

[Via]

LMAO... he was being grabbed by the jersey near his own neck by Moore the 20 yard preceding him ripping his helmet off... then got up and speared him. Who got tossed again?

*shrug*

The retaliator always gets targeted. That doesn't mean a thing. Stafford is a pansy-ass fancyboy for doing what he did.

Detroit has severe emotional issues as a team, and it starts with that nutbag head coach of theirs.

This is not going to end well for the Lions, and I'll be laughing my ass off when they miss the playoffs.

 

[zinfamous]

They're one of those weird teams that beats good teams but loses to bad ones, which just wreaks havoc on your typical sports journalists' power rankings. The teams the Ravens have beaten have a combined winning percentage of .544, while the ones they've lost to have a combined winning percentage of .407.

heh. That's kind of funny.

Two teams that have not surprised me going in to this season:

Houston
San Francisco (well, I didn't expect them to be this good, but much better than previous 3 seasons)


Biggest surprise:

Detroit--actually I thought they would be well above .500--they still are, but now look like a much worse team than the one that opened the season. They demolished a Chicago team that was losing bad games early in the season, yet is now demolishing most people that they play.

 

[IAteYourMother]

heh. That's kind of funny.

Two teams that have not surprised me going in to this season:

Houston
San Francisco (well, I didn't expect them to be this good, but much better than previous 3 seasons)


Biggest surprise:

Detroit--actually I thought they would be well above .500--they still are, but now look like a much worse team than the one that opened the season. They demolished a Chicago team that was losing bad games early in the season, yet is now demolishing most people that they play.

Eh, Stafford and Best are made of glass, and CJ doesn't have a track record of durability either. I'm not surprised that injuries to those same players are again proving to be their downfall.

 

[AstroManLuca]

heh. That's kind of funny.

Two teams that have not surprised me going in to this season:

Houston
San Francisco (well, I didn't expect them to be this good, but much better than previous 3 seasons)


Biggest surprise:

Detroit--actually I thought they would be well above .500--they still are, but now look like a much worse team than the one that opened the season. They demolished a Chicago team that was losing bad games early in the season, yet is now demolishing most people that they play.

Houston is somewhat of a surprise, although you could say they are the best team in what is now a very weak division thanks to the Colts. To be fair to the Texans, they've only gotten to play Indy and Jacksonville once each so far, so their record too badly inflated.

San Francisco really is a huge surprise. From where they're sitting they could easily be looking at a #2 seed.

As for Detroit, remember that just a few seasons ago (2007) they started 6-2 and ended up with a 7-9 record, which then led to their 0-16 season. So if they wind up totally collapsing by the end of the season it wouldn't be at all unprecedented.