Week 8 NFL Running Thread

[Rosie]

I don't work for ESPN, but I'm ready for Vikes-Pats. Anyone else?

As SportsJournalists.com's leading Looser Vikings Fangirl, I'm ready! (I'm even wearing my Vikings sweatshirt. ;D )

I just wish I didn't have to miss the first quarter. :'(

 

[Almost_Famous]

Day late, and perhaps a few dollars short ... but some game from Vick yesterday, huh?

Can't wait to read how you guys will want to downplay the win over the Steelers (since they're hurting, badly), and then the win at Cincinnati.

Spin away ...

 

[Oz]

Day late, and perhaps a few dollars short ... but some game from Vick yesterday, huh?

Can't wait to read how you guys will want to downplay the win over the Steelers (since they're hurting, badly), and then the win at Cincinnati.

Spin away ...

No spin here. It's about damn time Vick starting playing up to his potential. If it wasn't the Falcons misusing his talent, he simply failed to make throws and make plays when teams took away his legs. For at least the past two games, it looks like he's figured it out.

 

[Almost_Famous]

Watch: Everyone will say this is the best two-game stretch of his career (it's probably not - remember, he's had a few playoff wins), and he'll go out and lose next week.

If you're starting a team and choosing from the QBs in the NFC, i'd like to hear your first 3. And if you say Rex Grossman, you're kidding yourself. Remember - starting a team.

1. Vick
2. McNabb
3. Eli Manning
4. Hasselbeck
5. Leinart
6. Del Homme
7. Romo

 

[Chi City 81]

Watch: Everyone will say this is the best two-game stretch of his career (it's probably not - remember, he's had a few playoff wins), and he'll go out and lose next week.

If you're starting a team and choosing from the QBs in the NFC, i'd like to hear your first 3. And if you say Rex Grossman, you're kidding yourself. Remember - starting a team.

1. Vick
2. McNabb
3. Eli Manning
4. Hasselbeck
5. Leinart
6. Del Homme
7. Romo

Wow, so a guy with a 90 rating, 13 TDs and a 7-0 record doesn't make your top 7? Take another board hiatus -- you need it.

 

[Oz]

Yeah, why would Grossman, Brees or Bulger deserve to be on that list ahead of Tony Romo? :

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I know he's been in a motorcycle wreck, had an appendectomy and a second concussion, but how can you list Romo ahead of Roethlisberger?

 

[heyabbott]

I know he's been in a motorcycle wreck, had an appendectomy and a second concussion, but how can you list Romo ahead of Roethlisberger?

Cause He plays in the AFC and the premise of the question designed so A_F can publically felate Vick, is to rank the NFC QBs

McNabb is the ARod of QBs.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I know he's been in a motorcycle wreck, had an appendectomy and a second concussion, but how can you list Romo ahead of Roethlisberger?

Cause He plays in the AFC and the premise of the question designed so A_F can publically felate Vick, is to rank the NFC QBs

McNabb is the ARod of QBs.

Obviously, Hooked on Phonics didn't work for me. I completely skipped over the only NFC quarterbacks angle of his post.

 

[fever_dog]

why is rex grossman a joke? he was injury-prone and underachieving just like vick for most of his career.

for two games vick has figured out how to play. awesome. it only took six seasons. who's to say alex smith won't be awesome in six years?

1) mcnabb
2) manning
3) brees
4) bulger
5) hasselbeck
6) grossman
7) delhomme

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Inky, Ben doesn't deserve to be ranked ahead of Charlie Batch right now. He flat out sucks.

Yes, he's reeling after a second concussion in just a few months. But when he's healthy, he's better than Romo. He looked very sharp in Atlanta before the hit that knocked him out.

 

[pallister]

When did Michael Vick win two straight playoff games?

 

[21]

Tedy Bruschi had a stroke?? Is this true? And he came back to the NFL?!

Props to espn for reporting this story tonight. Get Berman a hanky.

 

[DisembodiedOwlHead]

Tedy Bruschi had a stroke?? Is this true? And he came back to the NFL?!

Props to espn for reporting this story tonight. Get Berman a hanky.

Maybe Tedy "ICE COLD" Bruschi will deliver a hanky via Hank(y PANKY) Williams !!! Woooooop !

 

[Songbird]

The Vikings defense surely likes it without KY.

1st drive of the game: Brady 5 for 5, 90 yards, TD.

Pats 7-0.

 

[Oz]

Tedy Bruschi had a stroke?? Is this true? And he came back to the NFL?!

Props to espn for reporting this story tonight. Get Berman a hanky.

I remember turning off ESPN when that Chris Connelly feature with Tedy Bruschi and some kid came on months ago, when the season began. I turned it off again tonight.

 

[Songbird]

Can Brad Johnson take a deeper drop? Man, that was like a 15-yard drop.

 

[Chuck~Taylor]

Can Brad Johnson take a deeper drop? Man, that was like a 15-yard drop.

I love how Johnson rocks those old school elbow pads.

 

[daemon]

Why do these ****ers in the booth talk so much? Shut the **** up and let me watch the damn game. that's why i like madden and michaels: madden really doesn't talk all that much, and when he does, it usually brings something to the broadcast. all three of these guys in the booth just spent three or four whole plays lionizing brad johnson without referencing anything that was oging on the field. shut the **** up.

 

[Chuck~Taylor]

Why do these ****ers in the booth talk so much? Shut the **** up and let me watch the damn game. that's why i like madden and michaels: madden really doesn't talk all that much, and when he does, it usually brings something to the broadcast. all three of these guys in the booth just spent three or four whole plays lionizing brad johnson without referencing anything that was oging on the field. shut the **** up.

I really feel bad for Kornheiser. I think it would be much better if it was Tirico,Kornheiser, and *drumroll please*.............Doug Flutie.