"4th and long, and the viewers have chosen 'Strap the Ball to a Rabid Bear'" — NFL WEEK 16

Panthers at Steelers (TNF)
Cowboys at Cardinals (XMAS DAY)
Patriots at Bills
Jets at Bears
Ravens at Browns
Titans at Chiefs
49ers at Rams
Lions at Dolphins
Redskins at Jaguars
Texans at Broncos
Colts at Raiders
Bengals at Chargers
Seahawks at Buccaneers
Giants at Packers
Vikings at Eagles (SNF)
Saints at Falcons (MNF)

An incredibly deflating 7-9 last week, 131-93 on the year. ;_;

Panthers at Steelers (TNF) - Steelers, right? C'MON MAN
Cowboys at Cardinals (XMAS DAY) - Cowboys
Patriots at Bills - Pats
Jets at Bears - Bears
Ravens at Browns - Ravens
Titans at Chiefs - Chiefs
49ers at Rams - Rams
Lions at Dolphins - Lions? I'm goin' for it.
Redskins at Jaguars - Jags
Texans at Broncos - Broncos, I guess.
Colts at Raiders - Colts
Bengals at Chargers - Chargers
Seahawks at Buccaneers - Bucs
Giants at Packers - Giants
Vikings at Eagles (SNF) - Eagles
Saints at Falcons (MNF) - Falcons

9-7 last week, 139-84 on the year

Panthers at Steelers (TNF) - steelers
Cowboys at Cardinals (XMAS DAY) - cowboys : /
Patriots at Bills - pats
Jets at Bears - bears
Ravens at Browns - ravens
Titans at Chiefs - chiefs
49ers at Rams - rams
Lions at Dolphins - dolphins
Redskins at Jaguars - jags
Texans at Broncos - broncos
Colts at Raiders - colts
Bengals at Chargers - chargers
Seahawks at Buccaneers - bucs
Giants at Packers - giants
Vikings at Eagles (SNF) - eagles
Saints at Falcons (MNF) - falcons

lol @ thread title

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/neverforgett-2.jpg

sexy mature MILF feet.avi

Every week's thread title this season has set a new bar of awesome imo

8-8, 134-91

Panthers at Steelers (TNF) - steelers
Cowboys at Cardinals (XMAS DAY) - cowboys
Patriots at Bills - pats
Jets at Bears - jets
Ravens at Browns - ravens
Titans at Chiefs - chiefs
49ers at Rams - rams
Lions at Dolphins - back to back road games in florida in december is nice, LIONS
Redskins at Jaguars - jags
Texans at Broncos - txns
Colts at Raiders - OAKLAND
Bengals at Chargers - chargers
Seahawks at Buccaneers - bucs
Giants at Packers - giants
Vikings at Eagles (SNF) - eagles
Saints at Falcons (MNF) - falcons

J0r alluded to it but since it hasnt been getting any discussion on here:

http://deadspin.com/5715741/this-may-or-may-not-be-rex-ryans-wife-making-foot+fetish-videos

rex ryan's wife is a fetish model who goes by "ihaveprettyfeet"

was gonna say--are we too classy to talk about this?

Can we talk about how she's a liar, because her feet seem kind of fugly?

well here's a direction i didn't want this thread to go in

oh okay, just one:
the sgt. hatred = rex ryan line writes itself

btw lol @ Deadspin's full-on dissertation on this ending with "but don't judge or talk about her"

They don't call him Sexy Rexy for nothin'.

lol the 49ers are starting Troy Smith this week.

MAKE UP YOUR MIND

i love that the niners could possibly win their division without going over 500 and without having a starting qb

while the raiders could be the first team to go 6-0 in div & miss the playoffs!

;_;

Last week 9-7, for the year 148-76

Panthers at Steelers (TNF) - Steelers
Cowboys at Cardinals (XMAS DAY) - Cowboys
Patriots at Bills - Pats
Jets at Bears - probably a good game, I'll go with the Bears
Ravens at Browns - Ravens, Browns kind of fell off a bit in the second half (QB injuries or play?)
Titans at Chiefs - Chiefs but I don't think the Titans will lay down at all.
49ers at Rams - Hopefully the Rams
Lions at Dolphins - can't take Detroit to win 2 in a row on the road, give me the Phins.
Redskins at Jaguars - Jags but man overall they have given up a crap load of points for the year.
Texans at Broncos - who knows about either of these clubs...I'd think the Texans.
Colts at Raiders - Colts. Indy rarely if ever plays the Raiders. I can only remembering them playing them once back the year Gannon won the MVP. Probably has happened again, but I don't remember it.
Bengals at Chargers - Chargers, but I kind of hope the Bengals knock 'em off now that TO is done for the year.
Seahawks at Buccaneers - Bucs had a huge let down last week. Seahawks have gotten absolutely clobbered a few times and I could believe it is going to happen again this week.
Giants at Packers - damn hard game to pick. I'll take the Pack working on the idea that Rogers is starting.
Vikings at Eagles (SNF) - Eagles should prevail.
Saints at Falcons (MNF) - rough game to pick. Falcons are good and tough at home, but give me the Saints to muss up their hair and knock em off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVRXFPsA3T

http://pd.patriots.com/20101222_pt2_download.mp4

there is a little bit of footage at the end of this of NE practicing squib kick returns with dan connolly. it seems crazy to me that they can have enough time in training to practice this kind of niche thing.

some thoughts on austin collie's series of concussions
http://theconcussionblog.com/2010/12/19/austin-collie-debrief/#more-1550

NY Media can't get enough of this
http://cdn.ksk.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/footlickerrex.jpg

KERNING PLEASE!

I was gonna say

"I'd be interested in seeing my wife's feet if I couldn't see my own" - the standard in Rex Ryan jokes atm.

cue all footlong jokes NOW

Tom Waddle of the NFL Network and former Bear's career was cut short by concussions. That dude was pretty fearless going across the middle and took some massive hits.

ban carolina

daria otm. this franchise should be revoked.

fucking massacre

steve smith to a better team plz

theisman: "he bought a refrigerator for the OL room like you all have in your kitchen - that's unheard of! thats what marcus pouncey brings"

this game is terrible i am working myself into a furious rage just for something to do. FUCK THE FUCKING NFL FOR PUTTING THIS CUNTING FECES ON GODDAMN FUCKING TV ON GODDAMN THURSDAY NIGHT AT FUCKING CHRISTMAS WHAT WOULD JESUS SAY SANTAS BAD LIST FOR YOU MOTHERFUCKERS I AM COMING FOR YOU AND WHEN I FIND YOU I WILL CUT YOU OPEN WITH MY CAR KEYS AND TEAR OUT YOUR SHIT FILLED INTESTINES AND DECORATE MY FUCKING TREE WITH THEM

j/k i don't drive

attack of the the carolina panthers

THEY JUST DON'T CARE

you'll just ruin your tree, roberto

GET EM

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/shakes_no.gif

140-84 on the season, 8-8 last week
Panthers at Steelers (TNF) - steelers
Cowboys at Cardinals (XMAS DAY) - cowboys
Patriots at Bills - pats
Jets at Bears - Bears
Ravens at Browns - ravens
Titans at Chiefs - chiefs
49ers at Rams - rams
Lions at Dolphins - back to back road games in florida in december is nice, LIONS
Redskins at Jaguars - jags
Texans at Broncos - txns
Colts at Raiders - OAKLAND
Bengals at Chargers - chargers
Seahawks at Buccaneers - bucs
Giants at Packers - giants
Vikings at Eagles (SNF) - eagles
Saints at Falcons (MNF) - falcons

paging r spiralli: are you in the area on the 26th? feels like a good day to watch some football.

Cowboys v. Cardinals is going to be a brutal Christmas game, ugh.

LMAO http://deadspin.com/5716038/the-greatest-letter-ever-printed-on-nfl-team-letterhead

cad - unfortunately i'm on long island, i.e. deep in enemy territory, but playoff watching will be a must.

that is the greatest letter ever.

i wish i had authored it tbh.

so cowboys and cardinals huh

I'm watching Florida high school finals (Plant vs. Aquinas). Better football imo.

Just looked at the score. What the hell is goin on in Arizona?

jon kitna is playing qb for the other team

pretty damn stupid, MB3

Oh Dallas! You owe me 14 points in pick'em, you assholes.

dallas in the you can't just fire your coach and expect to become a playoff caliber team surprise

damn, miles went slightly ham

i can't imagine that anyone in the united states -- even fans of both teams -- cared about this game beyond fantasy championship purposes

it was on the tv i guess

lol @ Todd Haley Soundtracks on ESPN.

I wonder how many hours of film they had to go through to actually get him saying "frick" instead of "fuck".

It's a beautiful morning in Raidertown http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/401a7a06.jpg

top 10 plays of this year!

i hope they're all desean jackson plays

out here in Stiller country for the holiday. no Pats game on tv

Vikes/Eagles delayed til Tuesday night. Grr.

haa vikings snow cursed

t-minus 5 min til my moms starts wanting to know if I plan on watching NFL all day. on the other hand, she was also just wanting to know why Obama doesn't get credit for all he has accomplished and why the GOP are acting like Nazis. LOL

'not all day, just the rest of the day'

some very cool plays

feel like i could make a top 10 eagles plays this year that would be really exciting

"until about 7 PM, apparently..." xp

desean should've had at least 2 on that list imo

lots of incredible vick passes this year (in particular i remember a td bomb to avant where vick had to throw it within an inch perfectly from like 70 yards away) and at least 2 shady mccoy plays i remember really strongly (the shovel pass in that redskins game and then - i don't remember the exact game - that outside toss during that blitz that he ran in for a TD)

"until about 7 PM, apparently..." xp

― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, December 26, 2010 12:46 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

why cant the nfl just give us this sweet snow game idgi

because tey want farve to start on tues imo

i was under the impression he he died

jaguars vs REX GROSSMAN. woooo

could use moms computer to find a feed of the pats game if moms weren't using it to look at pictures of cats XD

no sunday night game? wtf we're getting 20 inches of snow tonight--now what am i supposed to do.

drink till darkness overtakes you

I get rams/9'ers btw fuck this west coast shit

Happy Boxing Day

UH

Put your happiness in a box & open a bottle of something

skins-jax game weirdly has hardly any shots of the whole field? It's all close ups for some reason. Annoying

Gadget play long bomb into double coverage, interception negated because of really bad pass interference...this is definitely an NFC West showdown right now. RAMS! NINERS! MEDIOCRE FOOOOOTTBBBALLLLLLL

feelin' confident 49ers just a bit more terrible then rams

OMG Carlos Rodgers CAUGHT an INT
this never happens

Everyone At Hospital Already Hates Wes Welker http://onion.com/9HrKPg

kerry collins should not be out in cold like that, im worried for him

lolling @ scary cougar tailgating. Speakers cranking Usher & shes sexy dancing staring down everyone. At 10.15am. Around a propane grill. Hott u_u

um redskins just snapped it to banks in the WILDCAT and did the same old handoff they would on any other run play? fail

Coooooooley drops the easiest td catch ever

this 49ers game is going to be a treat. *considers move to east coast*

ugh fuck an eagles postponement

oh man does every team have this sideline camo gear? I hate it

football is WAR

this jets/bears game is a legit snow game

this Miami offense is a diseased dick right now. if Miami loses to a team with a wounded QB corps like this, they should commit harikiri on th field

that was a pretty sick throw off grossman's back foot

Grossman's standard throw

another Henne "communication error" with a receiver. jezus does this first team offense have separate practices by position or something?

weird non-challenge by the bills on a fitzpatrick fumble that might have been ruled an incomplete pass

http://i54.tinypic.com/1j14s2.jpg

i had a feeling that cat was going to show up soon

now THAT was a drive!

*wishin id started matt cassel in fantasy final*

tedd ginn housed a punt

Is Jeff Fisher's job in danger at all? I haven't heard any job gossip, though I don't hunt for it very hard.

red zone really is amazing

I don't think so. Bud Adams and Jeff Fisher don't always agree, but I think Bud doesn't relish the job of finding another coach after all this time.

there are some murmurs, but i doubt it, esp w/ the impending lockout

lotta buffalo receivers getting hung out to dry today

man, how do the Raiders not sell today's game out? game is blacked out, meaning the only game on TV for the bay area is the Bengals @ SD. Guess I'll be streaming red zone all day.

chuckling @ "game-changing" play in KC.

how am I in a bar with Sunday ticket and they have on EVERY GAME EXCEPT THE PATS

Mike Shanahan pitching a bitch over a call that didn't go his way. FUCK YOU, BABY

also noting that out here in my hometown nobody cares about the redskins anymore! stillers fans vs ravens fans pretty much

lotta buffalo receivers getting hung out to dry today

― call all destroyer, Sunday, December 26, 2010 2:26 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, fitzpatrick likes to throw those

only source of comfort to me during this game has been welker dropping two passes

how am I in a bar with Sunday ticket and they have on EVERY GAME EXCEPT THE PATS

― daria, Sunday, December 26, 2010 2:33 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

can you ask em to put it on? everytime I go to one of those bars they will change a channel on request in those types of situations, especialy if one gamei s on multiple tvs

really, fitzpatrick?

can you ask em to put it on? everytime I go to one of those bars they will change a channel on request in those types of situations, especialy if one gamei s on multiple tvs
--Bitch, it cold outside!!! BURR (San Te)

Idk, these don't seem like ravens fans I want to mess with- there is one dude with a Brady jersey directly in front like oh well, watchin afc north whatever

don't kick it to devin hester

jim belushi spotting!

jetsbears game is legitimately great

yea this is a winter classic.

WHOA at that catch

69 points combined so far this game. only in the middle of the 3rd quarter

is it 1991? this reminds me of the December battles I used to see growing up

somehow the "don't kick it to devin hester" memo got lost under the piles of women's shoes brochures on rex's desk

i learnt last week that directional positioning is really hard

Henne and Miami's offense getting way back on track.

i'm rooting against bears (for seeding purposes) but jets are still like the evil empire

lol @ one pats fan in Brady jersey here sitting with one colts fan in Peyton jersey, both looking bored as hell by all these games

never throw it to Ed reed man!

gould missed fg!

bad time to break that streak, robbie gould

fuck's sake

Henne, I hate you so much right now.

haha what happened?

wait, let me guess, does it start with an "i" and and "n" and a "t"?

does it rhyme with hatcatception?

3rd and 11, Miami clinging to a 3 point lead, Henne threw a pick in his own territory, giving the Lions the ball at the 36. lead to a fg which tied the game.

wow. fans moan about the coaching staff's unwillingness to trust henne, but this is why.

yea he's just baffling at times. earlier in the year he looked far more sure of himself, but it seems since midseason he's been much much worse

3:10 left in the jets bears game, jets down 4

HE JUST THREW A PICK SIX

oh my FUCKING GOD

get him the fuck out of there.

10 point lead with 5 mins is now a 7 point deficit. jesus christ.

might as well let him play-out. we're out of the playoffs.

if qb is the question, chad henne is not the answer

lol

yea we're out of the playoffs might as well throw caution to the wind and let Ronnie Brown play QB

henne + henning are an awful combination -- the guy can't design or call good pass plays

i'm not watching this game tho

dammit redskins. Tie game. I'm sure REX GROSSMAN can run a 2 min offense to win right? UH

i hear donovan mcnabb is demanding a release from the redskins!

that's our future, unless we can lure tom brady or payton whatshisname in free agency.

xpost I generally don't believe in writing the book on QBs in their first 3-4 years, especially given how Brees had a very mediocre 4 seasons before what he became, but usually you have something to hang your hat on to tell you he'll eventually be great.

Henne had lots of that in 09, but this year he can go from leading a methodical drive to flinging the ball up in the air randomly

the thing is that the whole offense is terrible -- i still contend that henne is no worse or better than mark sanchez, sanchez is just in an offense that can often mask deficiencies with an effective running game and good play calling (again, often), while henne really has no help whatsoever in that regard

can we hatcat-link mark sanchez now?

w00t

like, for as bad as henne has been, sanchez still has more terrible games, and henne still has more good games i think, if you were to look at their stats

they're usually pretty good about being able to minimize the risk involved w/ sanchez throwing the ball tho, not so much tho w/ henne

and right on cue

BEARS

man, they're gonna be tough in the playoffs

somehow phil simms found a way to call that a "tremendous throw"

lol @ Sanchez

cmon jax, the focus is on you now. the dream is still alive.

the prob with henne is that i don't see any upside

so if jax wins today, jets don't go to the playoffs?

not yet

Jacoby ford rules

DON'T KICK IT TO DEVIN HESTER JACOBY FORD

xps but if jax lose jets ARE in playoffs

GO JAGUARS

with today's loss, chad henne's chances of starting the pro bowl were completely dashed.

henne has no upside for the future, but with a good running game & better offensive play calling (i realize here that i'm aspiring to the play calling of brian schottenheimer, but still) the dolphins clearly have a good enough defense to emulate what the jets do (special teams would have to get better, partic in the return game i think tho)

Miami loses. 1-7 at home for the year. that is inconceivable. done watching em for the year, not gonna bother with the mopup Patsies game. disgusted

yes, tho, we do have a solid defense at least to build upon.

fins have a top 5 defense in the nfl & it's a really young defense too, but their running game is like bottom 3 in the nfl, so the whole structure of the team doesn't really compute

but what j0rdan said underscores the difficulty. everything about the offense -- save jake long -- has to improve.

ah. exactly.

go Cincy!

the WRs are good enough too i think -- they need a better offensive coordinator and a total overhaul at the rb position & interior line

it's so easy to find wrs in the nfl too that it's not worth dumping more into the position after what they did to get marshall

i mean, obv., bmarshall has lots of talent.

great job garrard

you've gotta be shitting me, garrard

ugh Garrard, why?!!!!

bad snap....bad snap...plz...bad snap...

damn

motherfucker

REDSKINS

Thanks, spoiler!

I was really hoping Mike Shanahan would never win another game, but Garrard gave him that one.

f---g jets.

jags really missed mojo

losing to the redskins at home should be automatic disqualification from playoff contention. having said that, am still hoping that the raiders don't hear they have been eliminated and beat the colts so jax still have a chance to keep indy out.

but then we would have to watch the jags in the playoffs

^otm

YOU would have to watch the jags in the playoffs. i have a spycam installed in peyty's self-flagellation chamber

i'm actually excited about watching bucs-hawks

^____________________^

packers score!

but then we would have to watch the jags in the playoffs

Mojo's return would make that worthwhile imo

hold on -- who the hell wants to watch the colts in the playoffs

me just for donald brown

and manning face

duh

xp

manningception!

scott hansen on that eli throw: "bad idea jeans" <3

i mean, obv., bmarshall has lots of talent.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, December 26, 2010 4:18 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

buttmarshall

hold on -- who the hell wants to watch the colts in the playoffs

― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Sunday, December 26, 2010 4:31 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

me, if the alternative is the jags

guys, matt hasselbeck just got hurt running into the endzone on a play where he literally was untouched

ade i'm aware of your bizarre colts fandom

hasselbeck hurt his back on this play -- he's like a 48 year old father playing touch football on thxgiving

haha im not a colts fan, they just almost always have memorable games in the playoffs, it's such a no-brainer - the jags are horribly dull and will bomb in the postseason

i know! when i was watching that and they were like "hasselbeck wasn't touched on the play" i was like, of course he wasn't, he is just 80

xp

not sure who I'm rooting for here in battle of the hot QBs

maybe Eli

sometimes i want to like the seahawks because marshawn lynch but i can't bear hasselbeck

aaron rodgers imo

hasselbeck's such a wiener

that's part of his appeal tho

mike tolbert stretchered out in the chargers game

the jags are horribly dull and will bomb in the postseason

they were exciting against the dolphins in the last century.

rodgers is playing really well

lol@ replay of coughlin on the sideline all mad

uh chargers what?! what is happening over there?

you go Janikowski!

where do you even get massive red bows to put on top of cars

has this ever happened

why do giants have so many chances to get into the playoffs? they don't have a particularly amazing record, do they?

xp that clip of Jim Caldwell's face following Janikowski's 59 yd fg was awes.

(i guess they do!)

none of those chances are partic probable if they lose 2day

i don't know, i like the bears to beat the packers next week

wau driver, nice catch

is it just me or do these guys who go to every super bowl seem like jerks kinda

they just seem like suckers

these bitches callin me MANNING(HAM) & ELI

is it just me or do these guys who go to every super bowl seem like jerks kinda

you mean like tom brady? yeah, he seems like a jerk.

Welp

internets trying to tell me buffalo had 7 TURNOVERS today, cant be true

omg it was so true it was disgusting

nice route by driver there

they showed this nice graphic on cbs of buffalo's turnovers this game: 7/n.e.'s turnovers this season: 9

nfl is quite a thing isnt it

*marvels at the nfl*

no seabass, no!

that's absurd.. well I mean I thought buffalo only had 6 turnovers

somehow there's a big difference between 6 and 7, yeah

six turnovers is one thing

also tom bardy hasn't thrown an interception since bernie kosar was playing or some such >:[

the pats seem pretty good

h8 u nfl

I know the Pats are nearly a lock for the Super Bowl, but it would make me so happy to see the Chiefs sneak into it in their place.

lol the chiefs are fun but they aren't making the super bowl

i still don't think the pats are a lock btw -- as good as they've looked, i don't think you can 100% trust an defense that young in the playoffs

brian billick just said "incontrivertible"..... or something

only afc contenders that can beat pats look like steelers/ravens. and, g-d help me, maybe the new y . . .

nah.

btw, chuckie's "THIS guy" announcing style is spreading throughout the announcing world

the colts could beat them

it looks so cold and pretty at lambeau

josh freeman is the shit

uh chargers what?! what is happening over there?

They can't run it at all, and the young receivers on the Bengals are playing well. Bolts getting no pass rush.

mark sanchez has no chance of winning a playoff game in foxboro

MANNINGCEPTION

dammit peyton

mark sanchez has no chance of winning a playoff game in foxboro

― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Sunday, December 26, 2010 5:42 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm btw

i still don't think the pats are a lock btw -- as good as they've looked, i don't think you can 100% trust an defense that young in the playoffs
--BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.)

^^^ this. idk i worry about matchups vs ravens/steelers. would be delighted by a pats/chiefs playoff game

Matt Cassel, Mike Vrabel, Charlie Weis, Romeo Crennel, and Scott Pioli vs. the Pats would be dope.

driver again! damn

aaaaand jennings
packers are so much fun to watch

all games should be played in lambeau

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

no 1 on the entire giants can hold the futbol

josh freeman is the shit

tru

we think it's gonna belong to the giants, the football - lol joe buck

haha peytie

wowwwww

lolololol

incredibly none of those packers were out of bounds and touched the ball from what i can tell

was

WTF football giants can not hold on to the football

well hold up, what if kevin boss goes out and comes back in and touches it first?

no 1 on the entire giants can hold the futbol
--johnny crunch

Hahaha had not even seen this

a team's season on the line & trying a huge comeback in a game called by gus johnson... life could get worse

I turned the game off. :)

what the fuck

who put nate keading at cb

lol @ chargers

i don't think i've ever heard either human being doing the texans-broncos game right now

man the texans are doing all they can to extend the tebow era

I wish the hell I'd downloaded the super chargers teletubbies clip off YouTube before it was deleted

san deeayygo super chargers
san deeayygo .... CHARGERS

CHARGE!

aw, poor Chargers

Chargers' special teams killed them this year

Everyone says that, but the rest of the team helped out too.

TEEEEEEEEEEEBOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

(I haven't seen a clip, I just know they took the lead)

Joe Buck needs to do me a favor and stop talking about this game in the past tense. Like, dude, you covered a game where a team blew a 21 point lead in eight minutes last week, you have to be aware that sometimes insane shit happens in football.

buck tries to insert the snarky ny media perspective whenever he can

oh eli

giants. CMON MAN

Raidahs!

Yeah I am pretty sure the next seven minutes of this game will be Buck being all "At some point you have to begin to ask, is this the end for Tom Coughlin" and meanwhile a game will be happening.

OK there is a new Hanes commercial with a dude squatting on an airplane in front of Michael Jordan with his Hitler mustache/soul patch combination, it is pretty upsetting.

Pretty limp onside try, Oakland. >:(

giants. CMON MAN
--daria

HOLY SHIT PEYTON RUN!

omg peyty almost got a rushing td

In any other week I would feel bad that the evil Giants showed up, because I like the Giants a lot, but this week I am pretty happy this is happening.

haha he's so slow! <3

great play by peytey

He only does that about once every three years, right?

i seriously can't remember ever seeing him do that and i am basically his stalker

Singletary will not return next year as 49ers head coach, according to "sources within the team"

what about his wooden cross?

Demoted to Linebacker coach.

Peter King just said Andrew Luck's probably not going to enter the draft. Sorry, Panthers. You're still screwed.

Peter King just said Andrew Luck's probably not going to enter the draft. Sorry, Panthers. You're still screwed.

Wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to give Clausen a shot or sign a veteran QB and focus on rebuilding all the other broken parts of the team.

bad part of giants implosion is that every step of their meltdown brings bill cowher closer to coaching them and not us next year.

Peter King just said Andrew Luck's probably not going to enter the draft. Sorry, Panthers. You're still screwed.

― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Sunday, December 26, 2010 7:29 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs

unless the panthers are the absolute worst team in the nfl for the next two years, it would suck pretty hard for them to miss out on luck

Heard the Giants aren't as interested in Cowher as Cowher is in the Giants.

Singletary will not return next year as 49ers head coach, according to "sources within the team"

interesting. do these super-insider "sources" include the homeless guy that bill parcells used to consult before choosing draft picks for the dolphins?

Wow, that Football Night in America set is BEAUTIFUL

i mean clausen is young yeah... but the guy's qb rating is in the 50s right now, i think most rookie qbs show it off in their first year

i would be wary of any coach that has been out of the league for 2/3 years

The more exterior shots they show of Philly, the more I wish the game was being played tonight. SNOW BOWL FOR THE AGES!

The last guy I'd want to hire is a guy like Bill Cowher who's been on vacation for the last four years.

meh. i mean, there's a low success rate for super-bowl winning coaches with their second team, but cowher is a really good, well-respected coach.

I honestly don't think the Dolphins' problems are (wholly) coaching related, fwiw. Sporano is quality. It's Henne + a few other broken parts.

i don't think cowher is another shanahan

i think most rookie qbs show it off in their first year

Most, but not all of them. Give the kid some weapons and some veteran competition.

I honestly don't think the Dolphins' problems are (wholly) coaching related, fwiw.

Totally agree. I like Sparano.

i think sparano is a good head coach too, if maybe a tad conservative at times -- they need a new offensive coordinator first and foremost, and need to improve some position groups

Yeah, he needs an upgrade at offensive coordinator.

tommy's suit looking choice once again at the post-game presser

i mean, the dolphins have been disappointing this year yes, but the guy also won the division the year after inheriting a 1-16 team. cycling thru coaches is not a sustainable or desirable model

tru

Texans are really the best option for a Bill Cowher. They have a good roster, good stadium, good owners...they just need that little extra oomph.

yeah i could see that -- and he could prob just enough out of that defense

GET just enough

nyg just as good, if not better, situation for cowher.

but texas a good spot, too.

Big difference is who wants him. Texans clearly will. Giants appear to be looking elsewhere.

"Quarterback Joe Webb was walking around with Vikings bedroom slippers"

cowher's good but i think it has to be said that in tha 'sburgh he really benefited from some of the best football operations in the league - he also phoned in his last year w/the steelers due to not giving a fuck. if you get him you better make sure he wants to be there and isnt just looking for a payday (and i think he understands this too, to be fair, which is why he hasn't been in a hurry to leave broadcasting - an easy check that lets him spend tons of time with his family)

Uh oh, now that the Saban-to-Cowboys rumors have officially been declared "unfounded," I find myself worrying.

xp yeah that definitely needs to be said

worrying about waht?!? EXCELLENT RUMOR: saban to cowboys!

As a lifelong Tide fan, DO NOT WANT

hey, listen, saban is a tough disciplinarian, a good coach, a star, someone who will inevitably be the next great nfl coach. take that from a team who knows. dallas cowboys, opportunity is knocking.

Singletary will not return next year as 49ers head coach, according to "sources within the team"

interesting. do these super-insider "sources" include the homeless guy that bill parcells used to consult before choosing draft picks for the dolphins?
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, December 26, 2010 4:37 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

the team president/CEO Jed York basically came out and said as much after the game.

nick saban's available, for the right price.

Well, even if Saban leaves, I think Alabama has learned from the post-Stallings era that you can't just make do with some schlub (or some former qb with the last name Shula) and keep winning just because you're Alabama. They'll go after another big fish.

are there looming sanctions against the tide? that seems like a scenario saban would try to escape. otherwise, he seems like a prototype college -- not pro -- coach.

Nothing that I know of. After the sanctions from the DuBose years that crippled UA for years (and undoubtedly led Dennis Franchione to bolt for Texas A&M after two seasons...sucka!), they're keeping a really short leash on the boosters.

saban runs a clean program -- he would bolt for one reason & one reason only: his ego. bama will pay him about as much as any college can possibly pay a coach, and he's got a seemingly unstoppable program there. the only thing you can't account for is if it gnaws at him that he was a failure in the nfl or if the competitor in him feels like college isn't satisfying him anymore -- see: pete carroll

the timing of carroll's departure was kind of obvious but i think he was going to return to the nfl at some point

yes, it is completely obvious that carroll left to avoid the sting of sanctions. and i have no insider information, obviously, but saban's departure from miami was utterly his own choice, the product of weeks of cynical deception on his part, and left no trace of the notion that it was "gnaw(ing) at him that he was a failure in the nfl."

maybe in the ensuing years he began to feel that way, but such a feeling runs directly counter to the impression left in the wake of his departure from the dolphins.

This all stems from the fact Jerry Jones flew into Tuscaloosa a few weeks ago and had a meeting with Saban. People in the Alabama sports press have indicated that it was more of tactical meeting of the minds related to Dallas football than it was Jones sniffing out Saban for potential. I mean, if I were Jerry Jones and my team had gotten off to the start it had this season, I'd want to go talk to a coach who could win and find out what he was doing right.

of the few nfl coaches who are children of former nfl coaches, i much prefer wade phillips to rex ryan

so i feel badly for phillips' failure in dallas. if the cowboys psychosis could engulf nick saban, tho, i'd be happy.

well two things

one, there was always speculation about carroll bolting to the nfl -- secondly, while i think he anticipated sanctions, and that might've pushed him out, the seahawks job also appeared at the right time for him, i.e. it was a west coast job, they ceded pretty much all power to him etc

secondly, miami ppl were always too hard on saban and are still bizarrely resentful of him. he did what coaches have to do in that situation. there is no other recourse but to deny, deny, deny. also, say he wins a national title in the next year or two. i could see him being enticed by the nfl.

personally i don't think he's gonna leave alabama. not at least w/in the next decade.

there is no other recourse but to deny, deny, deny.

i struggled with this, a little, at the time. because it's true. but on the other hand, there are a lot of coaches who "deny, deny, deny" in ways that seemed far less unsavory than saban, which is what left (and continues to leave) the bad impression with me.

He's worshiped in the state of Alabama. He wields more power than the governor. AND he's compensated very well, has his pick of recruits (even an Auburn championship this year wouldn't dent his prowess very much in that area), and generally seems like a happy guy now.

I wouldn't hate him if he left. I'd just wonder why.

can't see him as "a happy guy," (he doesn't seem the happy type) but i also can't see him leaving alabama. not now, at least.

it might've seemed more unsavory cuz it happened to "you"? i don't really know tho -- it just seemed very jilted lover to me -- like no one in miami would be clutching their pearls in horror if someone pulled a saban to come TO them

no. butch davis did this to "me," too, when he was at miami and considering the cleveland job. and some hurricane fans were upset about the way he handled it. but that feeling dissipated, because despite denying his interest in the browns, davis handled the situation -- in tone and demeanor -- far differently than saban.

i think johnny is right about saban's situation

when you're dealing w/ a coach on saban's level, i think their decisions are just driven by how they want their legacy to play out -- if saban is okay with being maybe one of the 5 or so most successful college coaches ever, he can have that -- if he thinks that the nfl leaves a hole in his legacy, that's a different story

but again, it seemed like saban & the nfl were really not a good mix, so i'd be surprised if he bolted

secondly, miami ppl were always too hard on saban and are still bizarrely resentful of him. he did what coaches have to do in that situation. there is no other recourse but to deny, deny, deny. also, say he wins a national title in the next year or two. i could see him being enticed by the nfl.

my fav sabes @ miami story is the one where he fired a secretary for bringing him the wrong kind of little debbie snack cake

really don't understand why so many people think being a good college coach and being a good nfl coach have anything to do with one another

(not talking about people itt)

neither do i

i've heard tons of stories about how saban treated people w/in the miami organization, and while all of that is supremely shitty, it's sort of immaterial to how butthurt dolphins fans remain to this day

can we just talk about how great this commercial is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdBaLJ-kHuY

the funny thing is that he sucked & the franchise has been better since he left -- it's like being a jilted lover over rosie o donnell

(no sports guyo)

i guess the sports guy version would be "it would be like being a jilted lover over a girl that has mosquito bites for tits"

its like owen wilson merc'ing himself over kate hudson

the funny thing is that he sucked & the franchise has been better since he left

Well, except for the Cam Cameron year.

well yeah but w/e

Some guys just don't need to be head coaches. He seems to be cooking in Baltimore, like Gregg Williams is doing just fine in New Orleans, like Josh McDaniels is likely to do somewhere next season.

haha, ravens fans fucking HATE cameron

Not surprising.

really don't understand why so many people think being a good college coach and being a good nfl coach have anything to do with one another

jimmy johnson/dallas.

every fanbase seems to hate its team's coordinators, but 'our offensive playcalling is incredibly predictable' seems to have been one of the major themes for the ravens this year

haha, ravens fans fucking HATE cameron

everyone does, except maybe ted ginn jr.'s family.

http://www.sportsargumentwiki.com/images/6/6f/Ginn.gif

well also the ravens playcalling was kinda outta wack w/ run/pass ratio

Is this primetime preview replacing SNFl.
WTF this thing goes forever

Cancelled? Ugh I'm a dumb ass :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRuwYF2Pc60

oh i guess they actually canned singletary for real -- interim coach and everything

Well deserved.

The monastery will be most displeased

i still don't think the pats are a lock btw -- as good as they've looked, i don't think you can 100% trust an defense that young in the playoffs

― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Sunday, December 26, 2010 5:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dont think its the youth, its that theyre not that good, the offese is vv good and the pats play v well at home, these things are in their favor

here we go:

Which, sure, except that Favre is already gone, and has been for some time. There's plenty to mourn about his departure, because he used to be fun and because he'll be replaced by narcissists of a crueler and more corporate cast—think of Tom Brady's joyless tuff-model mug, or Tim Tebow's blissful, boring evangelical boilerplate. Favre did indeed hang on too long, but not in the sense of no longer being able to make the throws or take the hits anymore. His mistake was getting high on his own supply, and sticking around long enough to disappear into his own misty mythos. Celebrity hollowed him out, as it does, and what's left of his old roguish joy now feels false and overdetermined; his press conferences may well be honest, but they are also claustrophobic—weird, rambling tours of the ornate, echoing ego-Xanadu in which he lives. He can't go away any more than Lindsay Lohan can, because there is an industry that depends on him, from which he also draws a sizable paycheck. But the better Favre—the one who really was Like A Kid Out There, as opposed to the one who merely regressed to childishness by overindulgence and self-addiction—is a long time and a long way gone.

http://www.theawl.com/2010/12/the-kid-fades-from-the-picture

The Awl is definitely where I go for my sports opinions.

lol

wouldn't do too much bragging about getting sports opinions from deadspin

It's not even a no-spin zone. The spin is fucking DEAD.

i get awl of my sports opinions from deadspin

i get awl of my opinions from deadspin

re: Saban, I was bitter for a year or so, but yea the moment the Sparano era started, it's like why dwell on it?

Fins fans also forget that Saban's first year as a Fins head coach, he churned out a 9-7 season with castoffs (granted with a really really really weak schedule). I used to post on a big Fins message board and the lionizing of Saban was at comical levels -- people did the annoying 'Chuck Norris'-isms stuff with Saban, talked about him as if he were a X-Men-esque superhero, and were talking about how we'd be hoisting the Super Bowl trophy in a few years.

On the evening he announced he was leaving, the message board's tone changed to "he was always an awful coach". Even the sportswriters were guilty of it too though -- Pete Prisco never thought Saban was a God, but was quoted as saying he could "flat out coach" after one of Miami's wins in the 2005 campaign. Then writes an article saying he doesn't know why Miami fans are sad because he was a lousy coach.

In truth, the 9-7 was more an aberration and a lucky circumstance, Saban showed his true tentative colors as an NFL coach in 2006, but some Fins fans have never let go of it, even though we at most have a handful of players even left from that era.

Frustrating as this season's been, 2006 with Culpepper/Harrington was much worse.

well, i still hate him.

I do still love it when he loses due to the dour look on his face when it happens.

me, too

http://blogs.ajc.com/jeff-schultz-blog/files/2009/11/NickSabanWizardofOdds2.jpg

hahaha rofl

harry and the hendersons 2

Rowwwwl Tahhhhde

Just'a good ol' boy . . .

:)))))))))))))))

Haha, I just noticed Sylvester Croom hunching down in the background!

There are still four teams in the running for #1 seed in the NFC.

Ed Rendell sounds like a real piece of work

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5960674

"We've become a nation of wusses. The Chinese are kicking our butt in everything," Rendell added. "If this was in China do you think the Chinese would have called off the game? People would have been marching down to the stadium, they would have walked and they would have been doing calculus on the way down."

if this was China you wouldn't be speaking to the press so do us all a favor and STFU

ugh

why do we always hear from the people we least want to hear the opinions of?

he should start walking everywhere while doing calculus - ur either part of the problem or part of the solution

or move to china

I like to imagine a parallel world where the Chinese governor goes on sports talk radio to complain about the shutting down of a Chinese football game and says AMERICANS WOULD NEVER DO THIS.
AMERICANS WOULD BOMB THE SHIT OUT THE CITY BEFORE THEY LET THIS HAPPEN. AND THEY WOULD DO IT WHILE EATING A HAMBURGER.

woah. guess I have some residual sugar-mania leftover from Christmas.

AMERICANS WOULD BOMB THE SHIT OUT THE CITY BEFORE THEY LET THIS HAPPEN. AND THEY WOULD DO IT WHILE EATING A HAMBURGER.

― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Monday, December 27, 2010 6:20 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

<3 VG

Lol.

Lord, please let this horrible season never end.

I'm getting sad thinking about not many games left, guys.

be happy guys; PLAYOFFS

:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oSFYxDGKy8

<3

Yay it's my favorite five minutes of the week! C'MON MAN

"C'mon Man! Of the Season"

lol I hadn't seen that McGee/flag clip before.

http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/139/cmonhatcat.jpg

FUCK YOU ESPN (except for keyshawn, tom and boomer)

matt ryan's got some floppy hair

so excited for c'mon man of the year

albert haynesworth for C'MON MAN of the year imo

yeah so this is pretty much my most anticipated game of the year imo

RISE UP MOTHERFUCKERS

ridiculously stoked up here tamtam

Katrina count: 1

yeah balls!!!!

me to tv screen: YEAH HANK IM READY!!!

matt ryan's hair was crazy in that intro

JUST TRY TO SILENCE THIS DOME

haha horseshoe yeah that caught me... off guard

t-minus 2 minutes until first THIS GUY imo

fuck the defense is looking SICK NASTY tonight

most definitely.

i think this might be only the second time i've seen atlanta play all season

how did they get to 12-2 and not get flexed into prime time more?

yeah they look great

lebron should change his name to jolonn

I know there are guys who've been in the league longer than Sharper, but it just struck me that 14 years is a long ass time to play professional football. It hurts just thinking about it.

in a past life arthur blank tied women to railroads

lookin for THIS GUY to showcase an arsenal of moves

well this has been the defensive battle we were all expecting

in a past life arthur blank tied women to railroads

― ೋ*¨*ೋALWAYz A F4RT3R ♥ 24/7/365ೋ*¨*ೋ (Princess TamTam), Monday, December 27, 2010 8:59 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

haha

william moore rules - fell to the second round cuz he played hurt his last year at mizzou, total steal

NYJ 34 CHI 38
NO 0 ATL 3

i love this game

william moore was an animal at mizzou

Is that the most animated Mike Smith has ever been in his life?

hochuli -> doesn't his crew call the most penalties in the league

Seems like I've heard that. Makes sense, as he loves taking the crowd to the gun show.

THAT MALCOM JENKINS AGAIN

mike smith gets mad sometimes iirc

announcers and everyone a little too psyched abt using this 'matty ice' nickname

I think this is the first Atlanta game I've seen this year, so yeah. I don't see him much.

i believe hochuli was the ref on the pats-packers game - lot of flags, entitled n.e. fans pissed off

announcers and everyone a little too psyched abt using this 'matty ice' nickname

― ice cr?m, Monday, December 27, 2010 9:09 PM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

on the one hand, i noticed this, too. on the other, have you tried saying it? it is fun to say!

i like "matty"

mike smith gets mad sometimes iirc

― horseshoe, Monday, December 27, 2010 9:08 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah he grabbed and shook an opposing player last year

if this is Atlanta's big public moment to show their competitors... they're kinda underwhelming

to show they're*

i think "matty ice" is a classic nickname

YOU'RE kinda underwhelming!!!

well to be fair they're playing the sb champions and they already beat them -- nothing wrong w/ a defensive battle

sneak peak tim tebow documentary O BOY

'matty ice' sounds like the nickname for cheap beer

^ Ah, northerners and their underappreciation of solid D. xps to Mordy

announcers and everyone a little too psyched abt using this 'matty ice' nickname

― ice cr?m, Monday, December 27, 2010 9:09 PM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

on the one hand, i noticed this, too. on the other, have you tried saying it? it is fun to say!

― horseshoe, Monday, December 27, 2010 9:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its a quality nickname 4 sure but still

'matty ice' sounds like the nickname for cheap beer

― daria-g, Monday, December 27, 2010 8:13 PM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark

lol well it's a play on "natty ice"

'matty ice' sounds like the nickname for cheap beer

― daria-g, Monday, December 27, 2010 9:13 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark

well...

haha xp

lol two screens in a row, is jason garrett calling this game

natty boh, ice version is actually called 'boh ice' sez the google?

no one drinks boh ice. not even in maryland. i didn't even know it existed

yeah wtf sean payton

xp

drilled that one huh

daria

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e89/PeeweeHerman05/natural_ice.jpg

http://grab.by/85Iz

SHITTIEST BEER(S) IN AMERICA

opponents should flip it to 'matty lite'

that's disgusting, i have never seen anybody drink that! ugh

i approve of this roddy white

I think you can get it by the case for about $4.

if you BLANK BLANK BLANK BLANK you will be a great QB in this league

<3 roddy <3

google image search for nicknames of shitty beers --> entire image galleries of 'so not gonna happen'

are either of these teams known for strong D's? i thought the big falcons story was Matt Ryan

http://grab.by/85IN

second low snap from mcclure

these guys

http://30fps.mocksession.com/2010%20December%2027%2021%2018%2032.jpeg

those guys rule, i took a screengrab but it wasn't that good

Spartan Saints!

"this offensive coordinator mike mularkey"

SNELLING GONNA SNELL

i definitely have a big crush on matt ryan

RODDY

THE PRICE IS WHITE

Goooo Falcons!

this game is giving me a massive erection

i definitely have a big crush on matt ryan

― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Monday, December 27, 2010 9:38 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

this game is giving me a massive erection

― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Monday, December 27, 2010 9:43 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark

samesies on both counts btw

GET EM :D

:D

And Ryan is def the cuteness

ur all drunk

on matty ice!