2010 NFL Season

[infrared41]

I would pay good money to hang out with a drunken chimpanzee for an hour.

It's all fun and games until he pulls one of your arms off and beats you to death with it.

[Sodboy13]

I really shouldn't get an accelerated heartrate from a regular season NFL game but, good Lord. If he had made that touchdown pass after having that Michael Strahan flashback in the backfield, I may have sworn off the league permanently.

Anyway, Brett, thank you for clinching my win in this week's office pool. Now go hobble your way over to your steakhouse and try to scare up some 23-year-old strange.

[TopCat]

Can someone explain the Shiancoe non-touchdown ruling to me? I'm not bitching about the refs but it sure looked good to me. No Calvin Johnson jokes please this is personal now!!!

[Cujo]

VINTAGE BRETTFAVRE MAGIC!

[IceCap]

Another Lambeau classic.

Still love ya Favre, You almost did it.

Yeah. He would have had the game in the bag if he didn't throw three picks. He didn't "almost do it" he cost his team a win with a poor performance. The magic's gone. He's old, broken down. Accept the reality of the situation.

[rams80]

Another Lambeau classic.

Still love ya Favre, You almost did it.

Yeah. He would have had the game in the bag if he didn't throw three picks. He didn't "almost do it" he cost his team a win with a poor performance. The magic's gone. He's old, broken down. Accept the reality of the situation.

But I thought the INTs were part of the Brett Favre magic.

[TopCat]

I hope Brett tweaks on Chilly and just beats the out of him. Go home, Chilly. You talk in a monotone voice.

[IceCap]

Another Lambeau classic.

Still love ya Favre, You almost did it.

Yeah. He would have had the game in the bag if he didn't throw three picks. He didn't "almost do it" he cost his team a win with a poor performance. The magic's gone. He's old, broken down. Accept the reality of the situation.

But I thought the INTs were part of the Brett Favre magic.

This fact is evident to everyone except fans of whatever team Brett is hijacking playing for at the moment.

I hope Brett tweaks on Chilly and just beats the out of him. Go home, Chilly. You talk in a monotone voice.

Case in point.

How is it Brad Childress' fault that Brett Farve, despite being a limping, broken down shell of his former self, is still demanding the spotlight?

[infrared41]

Another Lambeau classic.

Still love ya Favre, You almost did it.

Yeah. He would have had the game in the bag if he didn't throw three picks. He didn't "almost do it" he cost his team a win with a poor performance. The magic's gone. He's old, broken down. Accept the reality of the situation.

But I thought the INTs were part of the Brett Favre magic.

Seriously guys, all that matters is Brett was having fun out there. Stop trying to read so much into it.

[Cujo]

Exactly. As long as the Vikings will have him, he'll be out there gunslingin' them INTs.

And is anyone really buying that this is Brett's FINAL game at Lambeau?....... Yeah. Didn't think so. Nice try, NBC!

[ninersdd]

My Niners are done(as if I didn't know that). When someone by the name of David Gettis of all people(anyone heard of him?) gets 120 and 2 TDs then you don't deserve to be considered legit. Apparaently Singletary also STILL believes the Niners can make the playoffs. Dude, stop digging the hole even more, you just lost to Carolina.

[FiddySicks]

I'm a bit late but, man, this has been an absolutely AWFUL season thus far. I've never seen so many terrible performances week in and week out. Every single team has had at least one game where they've looked just miserable, most teams have already had two What the hell happened to the quality of football? These are professionals out there playing, right? I can't be the only one who is shocked at how bad the league as a whole looks this season.

[NJTank]

Exactly. As long as the Vikings will have him, he'll be out there gunslingin' them INTs.

And is anyone really buying that this is Brett's FINAL game at Lambeau?....... Yeah. Didn't think so. Nice try, NBC!

If this aint his last season, than Favre is stupider than he looks.

[Chawls]

How do the Chargers have both the #1 offense and the #1 defense, yet they're only 2-5?

[IceCap]

How do the Chargers have both the #1 offense and the #1 defense, yet they're only 2-5?

Deal with the Devil?

[Audiodrama]

How do the Chargers have both the #1 offense and the #1 defense, yet they're only 2-5?

Deal with the Devil?

Nah. The Devil would be able to pull off a .500 record.

This is worse. It's a deal with Norv Turner.

[Jigga]

How do the Chargers have both the #1 offense and the #1 defense, yet they're only 2-5?

They probably have the #32 special teams and the #32 head coach.

[Chief.]

The Chiefs are first in the AFC West. I'm in some kind of euphoric state, the likes of which I haven't experienced since 2003.

[BBTV]

Michael Vick and Kevin Kolb are sure looking attractive to the Vikings (more specifically Brad Childress) right now. I can't imagine that they wouldn't be chasing Vick in the offseason (assuming the Eagles let him walk, which I hope and think that they will - or maybe resign him if they think they can get a 1 from MIN for Kolb.)

[BlueSky]

So I come home this afternoon, turn on the TV and it's Browns 20 Saints 3. 11:49 left in the game and the Browns are leading by ten. I almost feel like I owe BlueSky an apology for the Browns potentially ruining his day.

Am I dreaming or are my Browns about to knock off the Saints...in New Orleans? Browns just returned another Brees INT for a touchdown. 30-10 Browns with 3:33 remaining. Wow.

Seriously BlueSky, sorry about that.

Hey, no problem, though I appreciate the sentiment. I was in N.O. visiting family this weekend. Everywhere you look are Saints banners and signs and every store is full of Saints gear, which is quite a change from the bad years decades entire period 1967-2009. You can find just about anything with a Saints logo, and I'm thinking of going after the license to market a Saints version of these based on the stink coming off them yesterday:

Reality sometimes bites, and here's ours: the defending SB champs got blown out at home by a 1-5 team quarterbacked by a 3rd-string rookie. The game was not as close as the score, which is pretty sad when you lose by 13. That Browns LB with the 2 picks outscored the entire Saints offense. There's no way to spin it, excuse it, or to find anything good in it, all we Saints fans can do is accept that there is something seriously wrong with this team. I posted earlier about wondering if it's something we don't know about. They've had an assistant coach charged in some kind of scam, there was the Vicodin thing, their relationship with that shady guy who's now been convicted of federal crimes, Payton and others being scammed out of money by a former player with an investment scheme...just makes we wonder whether there's some radioactive elephant in the (locker) room that we don't know about yet. Either that or I was right, these are the 2007 Saints. After Sunday, they'll likely be like the '07 team in another way: 4-4.

Or maybe that other poster was right, they used up all their good mojo last year. In any case, it sure is depressing, and it really concerns me when a slow guy runs 60 yards with a pick and nobody even chases him, so he can spend the last 20 yards trotting and clowning around. What's with that?

I'm not caught up on much else 'cause we were traveling home last evening.

Time for my semi-weekly post about the NFL's mind-bottling happenings.

THE NFL IS SO BLEEPED UP WTF BROWNS.

Got a laugh out of that one. At least the 'g' key is reasonably close to the 't' key.

I'm a bit late but, man, this has been an absolutely AWFUL season thus far. I've never seen so many terrible performances week in and week out. Every single team has had at least one game where they've looked just miserable, most teams have already had two What the hell happened to the quality of football? These are professionals out there playing, right? I can't be the only one who is shocked at how bad the league as a whole looks this season.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to feel this way. The Chargers yesterday were like a one team edition of "C'mon, man." First a WR caught the ball, went to the ground, and let go of the ball and got up (this isn't college, son!)...Patriots' ball. Then on that swing pass to Hester, I immediately said, "You better get on that ball!" He didn't, the Pats did, though both teams' players failed to react at first.

So let's get this straight, fans with no playing experience watching on TV have more situational awareness than professional players involved in the actual play? That doesn't seem right and these brain-dead plays are happening again and again, not the tough catch a guy can't quite get but just boneheaded stuff you'd expect at your local junior high field, not in an NFL stadium. Then there's the officiating.

Same thing in college too, just one example being the fake FG in the LSU-Florida game. The FG team was out, then a stoppage occurred so the kicker went back to the sideline. Then he came back out and spoke fairly at length to the holder before they got set. I told my wife, "They must have decided on a fake, otherwise what was he telling the holder?" Yep, fake, which worked because Florida was still selling out to block it (and LSU got one of the luckiest bounces ever). How in the world did the Florida D and their coaches not see that?