FROM SUCH SMALL VICTORIES ARE SUPER BOWLS BORN
no, that isn’t going to happen :D
y u braek super bowl heart i will never kno
it’s not like the giants are going there either ;_;
TS: the lesser of three Mannings vs the lesser of two Winslows :-/
I can’t wait someone takes the Browns to the Super Bowl. It’ll be like that potty joke come to life!
I never knew until last night’s America’s Game rebroadcast that Kosar got his SB ring from playing backup to injury-prone 1993 Troy Aikman
It’s all true.
missed u guys
no kidding! i didn’t even stick around for the entire late game cause there was no one to chat with.
I didn’t see any of the Thursday games or anything yesterday. Guess I’ll have to get my fix tonight.
*sobs* *hugs u guys*
btw can I just say: TEBOW
This is a long thread! I wonder what exactly was going on with the Giants five years and two days ago for me to LOL at.
I am guessing it had something to do with them being the Giants
omg I’d forgotten about this: ILNFL sandbox thread, because you shouldn’t pass up a chance to LOL @ the NY Giants
i like how ppl 4 yrs ago bitching about norv. some things are immutable
oh hey, this is a good thread to talk about how brownie got PWNED in this week’s pick ’em
jerks
hey u guys
ilx goes down; tj yates is an nfl starter
what a world
I hope you guys saw bob costas’ excellent monologue on end zone celebrations last night.
u_u
that little factoid about Graham blows my mind—no high school football, one year of college
yo
thread title = prescient
New York Jets defensive tackle Sione Pouha said the touchdown celebration by Buffalo Bills wide receiver Steve Johnson was insensitive to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Pouha said Monday that Johnson putting his arms out and acting like a plane — something Santonio Holmesdoes after scoring — but then crashing into the turf in the Jets’ 28–24 winSunday was “kind of a dagger” because of the attacks that occurred 10 years ago in Manhattan, a few miles from MetLife Stadium.
Pouha said it was an “unprofessional” gesture by Johnson, whom he said didn’t take into account that 9/11 is a “sacred moment.”
wow that was a pretty terrible call
altho i would be fine with flags thrown at defensive backs who excessively celebrate a hit as the player they have laid out lies motionless or in pain on the ground—i know these are americans we are talking about but have at least a little class
yah agreed—the timing on that hit was perfect so it seemed much more vicious
nice 2 see jacobs flatten a db tbh
what the hell does Chucky mean by “line up” in that context just then?
like, the Saints all know how to stand in a line? what the hell
amazing performance by the Giants
gonna be sickening what arodg does 2 this secondary/lb core next week
oh my god this game
it was not good!
rip del rio
Kurt Warner: “For fuck’s sake, you’re making the rest of us look bad.”
looooooool
wow that is amazing
suh gets 2
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The winless Indianapolis Colts are making a change at quarterback, replacing Curtis Painter with veteran Dan Orlovsky.
It will be Orlovsky’s first start since the 2008 season when he played for the 0–16 Detroit Lions.
degenerate gamblor related: pats are ~ -20 vs indy
jake delhomme signs w/ texans
*ap cuetness meltdown*
also lol @ jake delhomme
damn i wish i knew the sandbox was kickin around last night
you guys, something was up with gruden last night. i think calling a game in front of an electric crowd really amps his adrenaline up cuz he was more insane than usual last night. obviously i was hanging on every word.
i basically lost it when they flashed to a shot of a guy in the crowd with half of his face and neck painted black and the other half painted gold and with a massive whistle on his head and gruden goes “ay jaws, i know that guy”
kinda bummed that AP dips
why LOL @ the giants? they stopped the hated patriots’ perfect-season.
love the giants forever. love you, eli manning. love you, tom what’s-yr-name.
Just caught the fact that the Jags were sold a couple hours after Del Rio was canned.
dude said ‘I’ll take the car but lose the air freshener hanging off the mirror’
so amazed the Jags got sold yet aren’t moving.
the jags are def moving at some point
are u J0rdan?
we need to ask something only J0rdan would know
or maybe Adrian. but i thought he hated gruden.
/ilnfl.xls
I want a teddybear that looks just like AP. Cuetest ever
do we have an ILNFL almanac that we can consult? I NEED TO KNOW
there used to be an faq, i think! but maybe it was a fever dream.
tell you what, if I’m the Chicago Bears, I’m puttin in a call to ol’ number four
Caleb Hanie and TJ Yates are why we should move the trade deadline to week 12 or 13.
hanie wasn’t terrible in the second half. he did some dumb shit in the first half but i think the combo of forte + bears d + schedule + marginal hanie improvements will get the bears just into the playoffs
the texans should for real call brett favre tho, they’re utterly fucked
i mean they’ll easily make the playoffs too but they’ll get murdered in their first game
The Texans are like a pile of burning tires now. I feel kinda bad for them.
xps yeah actually I think Hanie will be ok. It was a tough situation going into Oakland in your first game. Raiders D is playing well right now.
Yates on the other hand, you wonder how many snaps he’s even taken this year.
Like signing Favre is a ridiculous idea but when your starter is a 5th rounder who was third string 2 weeks ago, and you just had a competition workout between Delhomme and Jeff Garcia... it’s really the time for ridiculous ideas.
DOUG FLUTIE
yates was barely good at UNC last year
honestly how bad can delhomme be? (don’t answer that question)
there’s a part of me that hopes he’s the most terrible we’ve seen, if only for the ILNFL lols. But that’s just mean.
Texans are so damn good apart from the QB position. as good as any recent team I can recall.
I’m a bit on the fence on the Texans, they have handled what has been dealt, but they got a pretty sweet ass schedule with Peyty going down.
They did lose to B-more (who has coughed up a couple games), the Raiders and Saints. Their best win is against the Steelers.
Personally, I think they are not as good as the Bears with Cutler and are probably about the same with the backup Qbs.
Texans have a top 5 defense, top 5 o-line, andre johnson and arian foster. They were 7–3 with Matt Schaub. If they had Cutler as QB they go 8–2 at least imo.
If they had Favre they’d go 4–4–4–4–0 (16–0)
btw all you IDIOTS who say Tebow wasn’t responsible for the win last Sunday, check this out:
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7296591/john-fox-asked-tim-tebow-talk-denver-broncos-saturday
pip pip, chums. the old gridiron, what? splendid.
so, tonight. only worth watching for the remote but not inconceivable possibility that philly might lose y/n?
philly is away—i think the possibility is a bit more than remote!
Philly lost at home to Arizona and are playing in one of the toughest stadiums for visiting teams. Also, they are starting Vince Young. So you’re saying, there’s a chance...
yeah, i can see it, although seattle are still bad even if they have been getting slightly better over the season. it is some spice to an otherwise terrible fixture for the neutrals.
also:
also x 2, apropos of nothing:
those are both amazing
only saw the last few drives of wash vs seattle last wk but tavaris looked so bad i could almost not believe it
The Hawks beat the Ravens in Seattle so anything can happen. Just as far as “good-to-great team” vs. “terrible team” matches go this one seems really likely for an “upset” (even though they’re both 4–7!)
crunchwrap have you also been watching Vince Young
somewhat. i was amazed by how far his dropbacks are. he runs like 12 yds backward sometimes! he at least had 400 something yds of passing on the pats right? not that it’s that huge an accomplishment
p sure seattle is gonna win that one
we gonna start a new thread for sunday?
they were playing from behind most of the game. i didn’t see all of it but i did see his game vs. the Giants and he looked downright Tebow-esque (except he was actually getting picked off!)
i thought he looked okay in the giants game — he made a few bad throws, basically he looked like a guy that hadn’t played football in over a year
i’m sorta taking this route w/ caleb hanie too, but unless a back up is just obviously bad on a tyler palko level i think ppl need to give him like 3 games at least to make a judgment on his ability to qb the team forward.
like the first 2.5 games or so of matt moore’s tenure this year, i seriously thought he was one of the worst quarterbacks i’ve ever seen in my entire life. the jets game on monday night he was missing receivers that were literally open by 15 yards.
but now he’s prob one of the top 15 or 20 qbs in the nfl, at least at the moment. most of these guys haven’t played a live nfl regular season game for like over a year, and as the season ramps up they barely even take meaningful snaps in practice. there’s probably a big adjustment period, for most.
xp yea lotsa checkdowns or designed screens/outs that most anyone could complete but still he deserves a modicum of credit for not being tyler palko or whomever
xp yeah i’m amazed at how far matt more has come—he’s thrown some beautiful balls in his last couple games.
i actually looked up matt moore’s CAR record at the wknd because i remembered him as a total bust and he has played so well recently, but i guess he had p decent numbers thru 7 games in 2009: 61% comp, 7.6y avg, 8td/2int
you have to also consider that Carolina’s recieving core is terrible—it’s amazing what Cam is doing with basically just Steve Smith as an above-average WR
Caleb Hanie looked much better than Palko—his second half was okay after a disasterous first. the problem for the Bears is that they can’t really afford any more “we would have won this if we had Cutler” games b/c the Lions are on their tail for the WC and there’s probably not room for both
i’m glad that the past few weeks have given us some clarity in the “which back ups are actually TERRIBLE” discussion from a few weeks back
palko might be my #2 worst, after brunell