Jets vs. Steelers and Packers vs. Bears! It's Evil vs. Slightly-Less Evil and <3<3<3 A-Rodg vs. Ex-Hatcat — 2010 NFL Conference Chamionships

It's crazy how the Steelers are always able to dig up great linebackers for their scheme.

Some of those guys like Farrior and Harrison have been there a good long time.

I think they have a breeding program

well, the 3-4 emphasizes them and makes them happy i guess. a happy linebacker is a rampaging linebacker

ben got impatient waiting for his turn i guess

Ben is not the best QB in the league but he is damned good. Mendenhall was the offensive MVP yesterday, though.

kind of amazed that the steelers have gotten here (and had that running game in the first half yesterday) with the offensive line in shambles

Harrison later told the Beaver County Times that if not for Haggans's injury, he planned on retiring from football at age 26 to focus on becoming a veterinarian, something that Harrison still plans on doing after his football career ends. Harrison also considered following in his father's footsteps and become a truck driver,[6] and to this day does have a commercial driver's license.[8]

i thought BR had a pretty great game, despite the misleading stat line. he kept drives alive with his feet and a few clutch throws. i thought he handled that defense 100x better than either manning or brady, altho it is worth noting that neither those dudes had a healthy hi-cailber rb.

also, if i was cutlol, i would be delighted that everyone is talking about how he is a pussy rather than how he is at the core a shitty, unreliable quarterback who will never show up for enough important games in a row to ever win anything.

ben doesn't fuck up that much. he sometimes takes sacks that he shouldn't, but he gets out of them enough that it's reasonable. he doesn't have great stats, but . . . for a league that's 'all about winning' he does pretty well.

he def made plays when he had to last night but the Jets dropped two easy interceptions

yea Ben deserves the credit he's gotten, I mean in his rookie year he was more a 'don't fuck up' quarterback, but he's proven himself capable of making big throws when the run game dissolves.

some might overrate him but I think he's in the top ten of current crop easily.

hell tho if we took dropped INTs into consideration almost every QB would be in the upper teens at a minimum

that would be a great stat to follow. i would want to check brady during his no-int run, and in particular sanchez, all season. really hoping next season is the one where the wheel turns and all of those throws right at dbs turn into a 50int season.

i have a feeling Brady would still be pretty low even with that, dude is just really smart with his throws.

Eli Manning might hit "Vinnie's First Year as a Buccaneer" levels tho

in fact sometimes when I see Eli play lately I almost wonder if he's playing as if one SB win is enough for him, and he's content to ride out the rest of his career on autopilot.

yeah, I wonder if I'm just imagining things when I think that db's are dropping more easy ints than ever before

i would def take ben raeps over eli or romo. of, say, 3y+ players, better than him: rivers, brees, rodg, tommy, big P.

"Almost Ints" = new stat to make underachieving DBs feel better

(course they already have Passes Defensed but that includes balls batted down and shit too)

is matt schaub a good qb? is there any way to know?

i saw him play maybe one game this year.

i don't want to get into cutler-face territory, but eli has never looked like he enjoys what he does. i dunno. i was pissed at him (or mainly at his dad) for the whole i-won't-play-in-SD thing, but he just looks really unhappy and now i kind of feel bad for him

which is absurd of me

wouldn't be surprised. usually when you see the QB 'turn a corner' like he was starting to do that SB season and the year after, the QB maintains that level of continuity and builds on it, unless circumstances like moving to a team with a diff. offense or a severe injury impaired that.

but it seems like he's been just as maddeningly inconsistent ever since the brief moment of glory he had. I wonder if his head's always in the game, because his mechanics are fine, but he still does dumb shit.

eli will retire as soon as he feels like he can get away with it. he will buy a little ranch and it will just be take-out and coors light forever until he leaves this mortal plain.

and double stuffed oreos too! don't forget stuffy!

ben is the 4th or 5th best qb in the league.

it has taken me a long time to admit this.

there's something in the manning dna that exudes eternal "just found out my cow got run over"

so um...assuming Rodgers and company beat the Steelers, what a reversal of (deserved) fortune for Favre, to go from almost getting to an SB a year earlier and dominating your old team, to now watching your former team get there without you and anoint at new hero at QB that is nowhere near as reprehensible as you....oh and you sexted some chick.

good. fuck him.

there's something in the manning dna that exudes eternal "just found out my cow got run over"

― omar little, Monday, January 24, 2011 7:18 PM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark

omfg lol

cad: who of rivers, brees, rodg, tommy, big P is worse than him tho?

imo, you have peyton, the other 4 there are p much of a muchness just beneath him, raeps is just out of that group, then you have a handfull of 3.5 star dudes.

brady, peyton, rodgers

then either ben or brees

Eli Manning throws a bunch of picks, but I bet he got a half dozen that bounced off one of his receivers to the defense. The Giants passing attack went into the crapper once Steve Smith got hurt and the NY backs are all horrible, especially Jacobs in the passing game.

Eli definitely has a bit of Charlie Brown in him when he is walking off the field.

Thing is I guess Cutler should be more like Rivers or Peyty and just walking off the field screaming at his own team after throwing a pick six.

Big Ben reminds me of Steve McNair, who was another guy who could throw a pretty pass with a big ass lineman hanging off him. I get he is good, but 'he is the best player on the field'...I don't know about that one.

The local Lexington sports talk actually was talking football today and this lunatic said that the Jets should try to trade for Carson Palmer, as Mark Sanchez is not going to get it done. Oy vey. That is some sub-level BS there.

i am really starting to think ben is underrated because the way he does things is v. unorthodox.

john "fart" clayton did a ranking of the starting QBs recently:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=clayton_john&id=5972554

christ so sorry that your second year starting QB didn't win you a title jet fans

if the steelers win (a big if, obvs) i think it might be hard to put ben below anyone but tommy and big p

xpost I mean that makes him no better than EVERY OTHER JET QB SINCE 1969

i would take ben over pretty much any qb except for manning, brady, and rodgers tbh. just a hair over brees and rivers at this point.

if Steelers win, they're the new dynasty (if you believe in counting dynasties in which there are no repeat championships)

Of course, I think this guy is on the local Lexington sports talk because he knows horse racing...which gets talked much, much more on local sports talk than probably anyplace else this side of Dubai.

I think in today's 'win now' climate people like Elway/Bradshaw/Fouts would never make it because they weren't instantly amazing, and most took 4 years to excel.

hell don't forget Brees was supposed to be a 'bust'

that said fuck Henne he sucks

we need to go back to omar's suggestion of moving the super bowl imo

probably the best solution is soldier field, unless we can mark out a gridiron on the ice of some great lake

i remember seeing a purdue game with brees and was like wau

of course i also thought ryan leaf would be better than peyton

just play the super bowl in a dead cornfield imo

make sure it's not one of ben's body dump sites though :/

there should be an uphill and downhill maybe

kinda like that weird centerfield in minute maid park