NFL Week 9 -- Did you know Aaron Rodgers will win the MVP?

[Atocep]

Bad Rex is better than good Orlovsky.

I'm fairly certain the Lions easily beat the bears with any other QB in the league starting for them today.

[Thomkal]

ugh Chiefs lead the entire game but let the Bucs get back into in the second half, tie the game late and now have the ball in OT. Chiefs have scored over 20 points in the last two Thigpen's starts

[GrantDawg]

Ryan hits Jenkins for a TD right over MeAngelo Hall. Gotta love it.

[Tigercat]

Oh God, this Fox team of Vasgersian and Pearson is the worst NFL announcing team I have heard in years. They are clueless and have no flow at all.

Falcons come out with a no huddle system allowing Ryan to make adjustments at the line of scrimmage, the announcers proceed to call those adjustments "confusion at the line of scrimmage." Meanwhile, Ryan in his "confusion" leads Atlanta down the field for a TD.

[Buccaneer]

Nice come from behind victory for the Bucs.

[Thomkal]

And the Bucs march down the field and kick the winning FG. What a shame for the Chiefs. Shame for the Lions too, both deserved to win after leading most of their games.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by saldana

which means the inevitable return of Good Rex/Bad Rex on TWIP

woo!

SI

[PackerFanatic]

Originally Posted by Radii

This Green Bay/Tennessee game is one where I cannot tell if each team is playing great defense, or each team is playing terrible on offense. Either way, its 16-16 with a minute left, Titans ball, they just completed a pass to get out to their own 40 yard line.

No kidding...I still feel that Green Bay could have easily won that game. So many chances for turnovers on defense and they couldn't get them. They needed more from their offense too and couldn't get anything moving. At least it is promising that they hung in there with one of the best in the league.

[SirFozzie]

LOLOakland

(edit: it's even worse then I thought! Oakland has NO YARDS total with 4:00 to play in the first half!!!!)

[Matthean]

Originally Posted by Atocep

Bad Rex is better than good Orlovsky.

I'm fairly certain the Lions easily beat the bears with any other QB in the league starting for them today.

The odd thing is that he has 5 TDs and 2 INTs, in his last four games and a decent QB rating, but if you watch him play, he's far from impressive. The lack of pass blocking really isn't helping either.

I did love how the announcers basically overly stated how well the Lions D played in the second half during a drive that the Bears basically drove down field with ease and used the same running play for huge gains three times.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

LOLOakland

(edit: it's even worse then I thought! Oakland has NO YARDS total with 4:00 to play in the first half!!!!)

Oakland did have something go their way. Ryan was stripped of the ball stepping up to throw. But then they have the ball with a few seconds left in the half, and Abraham gets his 3rd sack of the half. This is a really bad game.

[SirFozzie]

-7 yards in the first half. Can we please send the Raiders to the CFL?

[DeToxRox]

Culpepper is all but assured to play, if not start, next week vs Jax. Thankfully the Lions playbooks is all of 2 pages, one of which is all Rollouts, so that is one page Culpepper doesn't need to read.

Kudos to the Bengals, huge win.

Now get me Michael Oher.

[Eaglesfan27]

The Eagles finally get creative down near the goal line - TD pass to G Todd Herremans.

[hoopsguy]

Dolphins just put together a sustained march down the field, culminating in a Brown TD run to go up 9 on Broncos. Very impressive to see them do that on the road, in a tight game, even if it is against the Broncos D.

[MJ4H]

I see my boy Peyton Hillis is having a monster game for Denver? No TV for the game so I don't actually see it, unfortunately, though. Anyone watching can fill me in?

[hoopsguy]

I've been on and off the Denver/Miami game, but from what I can tell Dolphins have really taken away a lot of what Broncos want. No ground game to speak of, Marshall has one catch. The Hillis game seems, from what I've seen, to be a case of Cutler (sometimes) taking what the defense is giving him.

[st.cronin]

Its a little hard for me to believe, but if the Pats win tonight they'll be alone in first place in the AFC East.

[Buccaneer]

I love the Falcons victory over the pathetic Raiders.

[stevew]

I tell you what....it was too fucking cold in Cleveland today.

Derek Anderson's arena clearing interception to Suggs put a nice exclamation point on the Browns squandered day.

[Big Fo]

The Dolphins revival continues with another solid win. If Indy wins tonight we're just a game out of first with Seattle and Oakland at home the next two weeks, which could setup a big game vs. the Pats.

[DeToxRox]

Packers are 4-4 ... Aaron Rodgers for MVP!!!

Truthfully tho, midyear MVP has to be Portis or Warner.

[stevew]

Aaron Rodgers, the overwhelming favorite to win the 2008-09 NFL MVP, needs to figure out how to get the ball to Jennings in the endzone or my fantasy team is cooked.

[stevew]

dola-
Ray Rice broke some really good runs today. He definitely adds stuff to the Baltimore offense that Maghee doesn't.

Flacco played pretty well too, of course he's nowhere near as good as MVP Aaron Rodgers.

[stevew]

In hindsight, I guess picking up Fargas and starting him wasn't the best fantasy move this week. I wish the raiders would play with some pride once in awhile.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by stevew

In hindsight, I guess picking up Fargas and starting him wasn't the best fantasy move this week. I wish the raiders would play with some pride once in awhile.

Ew. Really bad move.

[Raiders Army]

It's hard being a fan

[Buccaneer]

Raiders are about as far down as an NFL franschise could be, of what I have seen since 1970. I remember those awful Oilers, Colts, Bengals, etc. teams, as well as recently with the Lions and last year's Falcons. At least all of those teams had some hope for the future (which proved out) but the Raiders probably have to change everything top to bottom.

[stevew]

Russell had one of the worst stat lines I've ever seen. 6-19, 30ish passing yards, 1 INT. His rating for the game was 19.0, because he managed to only throw one interception in 19 attempts. Small victories I guess.

[SirFozzie]

Damn. That was a long.. long punt.

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by Big Fo

The Dolphins revival continues with another solid win. If Indy wins tonight we're just a game out of first with Seattle and Oakland at home the next two weeks, which could setup a big game vs. the Pats.

4-4 at this point is an absolute though, pleasant shock.

[Big Fo]

Originally Posted by miami_fan

4-4 at this point is an absolute though, pleasant shock.

Most definitely, I was hoping for five or six wins all season.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by Big Fo

Most definitely, I was hoping for five or six wins all season.

With ya with the Falcons. I was just hoping we'd show some improvement. I don't how long we can keep this up, but I'm quite happy thus far.

[Thomkal]

Originally Posted by DeToxRox

Packers are 4-4 ... Aaron Rodgers for MVP!!!

Truthfully tho, midyear MVP has to be Portis or Warner.

Well I like the Warner talk since I'm a Cards fan, but I think Drew Brees should be a contender for that title too.

[SirFozzie]

If I see one more inside handoff from the shotgun from the Pats, I may scream.

[Thomkal]

And don't look now, but my beloved Cards have a 3 game lead in their division. Which blows my mind frankly.

[Buccaneer]

Originally Posted by Thomkal

And don't look now, but my beloved Cards have a 3 game lead in their division. Which blows my mind frankly.

Mrs Bucc's only rooting interest this season is Kurt and the Arizona Cardinals. She and I were out shopping today and our son was calling us every 15 minutes to give us Kurt updates.

[SirFozzie]

Wow. There's two mistakes you don't expect from the Colts.

[DaddyTorgo]

i don't think the NFL could have expected Pats-Colts to be 7-6 at the half when they first scheduled this game for SNF.

[SirFozzie]

Open up the damn offense, Pats!

[miami_fan]

Anyone see the Giants-Cowboys game? I am trying to figure out how the hell Justin Tuck was supposed to avoid that roughing the passer penalty when he sacked Bollinger.

[Thomkal]

Originally Posted by Buccaneer

Mrs Bucc's only rooting interest this season is Kurt and the Arizona Cardinals. She and I were out shopping today and our son was calling us every 15 minutes to give us Kurt updates.

You picked your wife wisely.

[SirFozzie]

See Matt? They won't throw a flag if you throw the ball more than 10 yards!

[Karlifornia]

Originally Posted by Thomkal

You picked your wife wisely.

If only you could say the same to Kurt Warner

[Thomkal]

heh Karl

[SirFozzie]

ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Gaffney!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Buccaneer]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

See Matt? They won't throw a flag if you throw the ball more than 10 yards!

Yeah, that's funny. According to Sportsline, the longs are:

11
11
10
9
11
11
8

[SirFozzie]

Billy just fucked us over. L) Shades of the Baltimore game last year.

[Radii]

what the hell?

Is going for it on 4th and 1 inside the 10 when only down 3 *really* a smart idea?

[SirFozzie]

Damn. Great kick by Vinatieri. Would have been good from 60.