Week 8 NFL Thread

[heyabbott]

Best games on the board?
Jets @ Bengals (-6 1/2)
Cowboys (+3) @ Lions

****:
Steelers @ Raiders (the 1970's aren't walking through that door)
Panthers @ Bucs

 

[NDJournalist]

Finally we get a good Thursday night game.

 

[MileHigh]

Mike Shanahan returns to Denver. Don't know if he'll have dinner at Shanahan's or Elway's the night before.

 

[heyabbott]

Finally we get a good Thursday night game.

MNF is dy-no-mite
The Rams, staring Kellen Clemens (no relation to Clarence?) at home against the Seahawks

 

[Mark2010]

Mike Shanahan returns to Denver. Don't know if he'll have dinner at Shanahan's or Elway's the night before.

Are you referring to a restaurant or a home?

I am really curious to see what sort of reception he gets in Denver. He did, after all, win two Super Bowls, which Andy Reid never did in Philadelphia.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Sunday night is awful as well...

 

[LongTimeListener]

Finally we get a good Thursday night game.

MNF is dy-no-mite
The Rams, staring Kellen Clemens (no relation to Clarence?) at home against the Seahawks

My favorite betting number of the weekend would be actual head count of attendance at that game while the Cardinals play WS Game 5 at the same time. I'm saying football draws 6,200 max.

 

[NDJournalist]

If Carolina manages to win Thursday, the Panthers are 4-3. Chance at a Wild Card berth?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

By default, Redskins vs. Broncos is probably the most interesting matchup.

It's a remarkably bad week.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Rex being dumb might have helped him -- it sounds like he was playing dumb on his reaction to the FG penalty and everyone bought it.

http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/9862295/new-york-jets-tipped-refs-new-england-patriots-fg-push

In fact, the Jets' sideline alerted the officiating crew during the game to watch out for it, a person familiar with the situation told ESPN.com Monday.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

If Carolina manages to win Thursday, the Panthers are 4-3. Chance at a Wild Card berth?

After some of the injuries last week, it seems possible that Carolina could enter the mix for the last WC spot. I would have bet that the second place team in the NFC North would have been the favorite, but it now seems possible that Carolina could be in the mix.

 

[heyabbott]

Sunday night is awful as well...

Not a game that week that you'd stay home to watch on purpose

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I'm sure there has been one, but I can't remember a week where there is really no matchup that people will be excited to see.

 

[LongTimeListener]

By default, Redskins vs. Broncos is probably the most interesting matchup.

It's a remarkably bad week.

My goodness, this might be the least interesting week I have ever seen in the NFL. There isn't one game I would bother to watch.

 

[NDJournalist]

By default, Redskins vs. Broncos is probably the most interesting matchup.

It's a remarkably bad week.

My goodness, this might be the least interesting week I have ever seen in the NFL. There isn't one game I would bother to watch.

Six teams have byes. I believe it's the first mass bye week of the year, but correct me if I'm wrong.

A potential good game could be Dolphins-Pats, but Miami has struggled the last couple of weeks.

 

[Mark2010]

If Carolina manages to win Thursday, the Panthers are 4-3. Chance at a Wild Card berth?

Sure. There are 10 games left. Go 7-3 (maybe 6-4) and you'll be right in the mix.

 

[Mark2010]

I don't know what kind of dope does the scheduling.

You have 32 teams in eight divisions. Four teams per division. Take eight weeks in the middle of the schedule and assign one division per week as a bye week. Then take two of the teams coming OFF a bye and let them play the Thursday night game the following week.

You can still arrange the rest of the schedule with inter-conference games and such that both Sunday networks get a reasonably full slate of games on the weeks they want them (not FOX during the World Series).

One other pet peeve: Look at the schedule in advance and try not to schedule games in cities where there are other major events the same day (PGA Tour, NASCAR, baseball playoffs, etc.) While it's true you can't predict the World Series matchup in April, you can look at the schedule and dates involved and realize that putting a game in St. Louis (or Boston, Oakland, Detroit, Dallas, Pittsburgh, etc.) the last week in October really isn't such a good idea. Plenty of cities that don't have MLB teams that can have home games that week.

Really, guys, not that hard. If I can figure this out......

 

[heyabbott]

By default, Redskins vs. Broncos is probably the most interesting matchup.

It's a remarkably bad week.

My goodness, this might be the least interesting week I have ever seen in the NFL. There isn't one game I would bother to watch.

Has the NFL jumped the shark?
Parity down, the rising tide flooded all the boats.
No hard hitting.
Constant review of plays.
3 1/2 hours for 60 clock minutes of 11 minutes of action.
24/7 NFL news containing 40-60 former players telling you, in a language resembling English, nothing.

 

[Mark2010]

By default, Redskins vs. Broncos is probably the most interesting matchup.

It's a remarkably bad week.

My goodness, this might be the least interesting week I have ever seen in the NFL. There isn't one game I would bother to watch.

Has the NFL jumped the shark?
Parity down, the rising tide flooded all the boats.
No hard hitting.
Constant review of plays.
3 1/2 hours for 60 clock minutes of 11 minutes of action.
24/7 NFL news containing 40-60 former players telling you, in a language resembling English, nothing.

Yeah, gets you longing for the "good ole days" where "you mix the blood with the mud", as one commentator put it.

 

[heyabbott]

By default, Redskins vs. Broncos is probably the most interesting matchup.

It's a remarkably bad week.

My goodness, this might be the least interesting week I have ever seen in the NFL. There isn't one game I would bother to watch.

Has the NFL jumped the shark?
Parity down, the rising tide flooded all the boats.
No hard hitting.
Constant review of plays.
3 1/2 hours for 60 clock minutes of 11 minutes of action.
24/7 NFL news containing 40-60 former players telling you, in a language resembling English, nothing.

Yeah, gets you longing for the "good ole days" where "you mix the blood with the mud", as one commentator put it.

No mud either, turf field. They generally don't blow out their ACL, MCL, Meniscus ... on hard hits, they blow them out making cuts.