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Yah it was pretty huge. We got to rest our starting corners another week, and get Gronk a week of rest after his first game in 6 weeks.

And yah who's the other TE you guys have besides Daniels? Cause he played in the last game it was the other guy. Which was all the announcers kept talking about.

And I know that our defense isn't "as" good as the bengals, but you guys better be bringing TD's not field goals.

Garret Graham?

Yep! They brought him up like 5-6 times in the last game.

Ah. We had a company function that night and the boss man got us tickets to the Rockets after dinner with his boss.

So instead of watching the Texans on Monday night football, I got to see the Rockets lose in overtime to the Spurs.

On the up side, the seats were only 12 rows back and the "dancers" were stationed in front of us...

 kronk wrote:
Garret Graham?

Some one I know put him as a starter over Daniels on his fantasy team one week only for Daniels to play really well and everyone else watching the game to rip into him

I think that if Shaub can hit >80% the Texans stand a good chance of the Patriots, and if JJ Watt & Co. can get enough pressure and hits on Brady that would be huge boost.
I can't see the Ravens beating the Broncos minus Manning being forced to leave the game,
The Packers should be able to fight well and hard against the 49ers who are a bit erratic under Kaepernick, and the loss of Justin Smith has been hard for the 9ers' D to adjust fully to
The Seahawks could easily squeeze past the Falcons if they play as well as they did against the 49ers in week 16

I agree that there's a lot of "ifs" for the Texans to win.

But I don't care. Go Texans!

 kronk wrote:
I agree that there's a lot of "ifs" for the Texans to win.

But I don't care. Go Texans!

*whispers*Go Patriots

Don't make me quote Gailbraithe to you, Alf!

Go Ravens!

 kronk wrote:
Don't make me quote Gailbraithe to you, Alf!

Blame the victim!


I can't root for the pats, they traded me in Madden 10 to the Cowboys...

 Alfndrate wrote:

 kronk wrote:
Don't make me quote Gailbraithe to you, Alf!

Blame the victim!


I can't root for the pats, they traded me in Madden 10 to the Cowboys...

haha, I got traded to the Packers after winning the superbowl as a Saint

Madden 09 though, I'm really cheap

Have you guys seen the 2 articles of back and forth between patriots and texans writers? Dan shaughnessy is the Boston guy. And some dude from Galveston have been hilariously craptalking. What a joke.

Haven't seen that. Galveston is fun, though. I like The Strand and the restaurants on the Seawall. Sometimes, the water is clear enough to see your feet! Stupid Mississippi Delta depositing silt into the gulf...

Yah I've been meaning to visit a friend that lives there as a soon to be large ship captain. He just bought the most insane riverfront property for dirt cheap. But yah idiotic Dan shaughnessy wrote how the texans are a joke and this will be a cake walk. And then the Galveston herald writer wrote an article how the patriots are chokers and stuff: just rediculous back and forth.

So, Browns have a head coach. Former Browns Tight Ends Coach, and Offensive Coordinator for the Browns and the Carolina Panthers, Rob Chudzinski. Apparently it also means that we're getting Norv Turner as our offensive coordinator.

Norvell as your Offense coordinator is actually an awesome hire IMO. He sucks as a coach but he's a good-great offensive mind.

Chancetragedy wrote:
Norvell as your Offense coordinator is actually an awesome hire IMO. He sucks as a coach but he's a good-great offensive mind.

I think it's a miss on the part of the Browns, simply because it took them this long and they blundered with Chip Kelly. If Rob was the first or second interview, I could see it, but he has been interviewed twice this week, and I'm sure part of the thing was that Chud could get Norv here in Cleveland, for the exact reason that you said. Norv is a good offensive guy, I feel the two of them could help develop Trent into an actual running back and help Weeden we'll see. I'd like this to not turn into another Pat Shurmur, i.e. hiring a coordinator as an untested head coach. We'll see... the one thing that I hope they don't do is take our defense and make it a 3-4 defense

Also, thinking that the Seahawks are going to beat Atlanta... Which would be one amazing NFC championship game in the Packers/Seahawks at Lambeau Field, revenge for the stolen win. Oh man that would be a great game

The thing is the NFC games seem much harder to call than the AFC games this week, that being said the 6 Brady/Belichick playoff loses have been to teams they beat in the regular season, so fate may win it for the texan (Who with the ravens are 3/1 odds to win)

To be fair I don't think chip Kelly was going anywhere in the nfl this year. He seemed to just be testing the waters. And if anywhere fit his "scheme" it was Philly. So driving up the price if he chose to make the jump was a good idea.

Chancetragedy wrote:
To be fair I don't think chip Kelly was going anywhere in the nfl this year. He seemed to just be testing the waters. And if anywhere fit his "scheme" it was Philly. So driving up the price if he chose to make the jump was a good idea.

It's less that they lost Chip Kelly, and more of the fact that they went to Arizona and spent 7 hours in meetings with Chip, and it seemed like they were pressing hard to get him, and he leaves them at the dinner table like a bad blind date. If they had kept it secretive, if they had gotten him to come to Cleveland for the interview, I would feel less upset about it.

Listening to the press conference right now. He sound more excited than Pat did...

True that, unfortunately I this day and age of technology not much is secretive. I don't know much about chud to comment on whether he can do anything worth while or not. Just be glad your team is making decent moves.

You could be the jaguars that won't even get Tebow to stop their games from being blacked out ;p

Chancetragedy wrote:
True that, unfortunately I this day and age of technology not much is secretive. I don't know much about chud to comment on whether he can do anything worth while or not. Just be glad your team is making decent moves.

You could be the jaguars that won't even get Tebow to stop their games from being blacked out ;p

Local sports casters seem to think that Chud is at least a lateral move from Pat Shurmur, but we'll see...

Just bought some pepto.

I will be needing it nausea.

Haha piston I've been growing my nails out for 2 weeks! When my team plays in any format such as real life, fantasy, or pick em I end up biting them a ton. This texans pats game is gonna hurt I have a not so great feeling.

Chancetragedy wrote:
Haha piston I've been growing my nails out for 2 weeks! When my team plays in any format such as real life, fantasy, or pick em I end up biting them a ton. This texans pats game is gonna hurt I have a not so great feeling.

I get way too emotionally evolved with my sports teams, in particular my Denver Broncos.

I live and die with wins and loses. I get very depressed when they lose to the point people know not to talk to me for a while.

When my New Jersey Devils lost in the Stanley Cup I was depressed for days and missed work.

My Sacramento Kings are now moving to Seattle..... this is what it must feel like to be a fan of the Sonics, Browns, Colts...

 Piston Honda wrote:

My Sacramento Kings are now moving to Seattle..... this is what it must feel like to be a fan of the Sonics, Browns, Colts...

Except that the Browns got their browns back, the Colts got the Ravens (in a weird way), and now the Sonics fans get their "Sonics" back it's sort of win win, unless of course, you're in Sacremento

Wow 3 TDs and less than 6 minutes played, this games gonna be interesting

And a 4th TD... still in the first quarter!

Pretty wild so far. As good as the bronco's are I doubt balti goes away anytime soon. And how is Flacco so good just lofting jump balls all day, so frustrating


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And Jacob Hester getting some air time with his good blitz pick up!

For those who've been in the thread all year you'll understand that one ;p

So close, another TD to Smith burning Bailey...