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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Sept 30, 2013 13:13:04 GMT
Meanwhile, Jacksonville were early 19 point underdogs against Seattle last week. Next week the Jags are in St. Louis and the 1-3 Rams are 12 point favourites.
The week after that the Jags go on the road to Denver. You think that spread will be bigger or smaller than 24?
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Post by Moo on Sept 30, 2013 15:17:02 GMT
I was hoping to watch the start of series 2 tonight, but I feel obliged to watch a different bunch of crackheads running around a field tonight.
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Post by DC on Sept 30, 2013 17:06:58 GMT
Betting on Indy to beat the spread (and doubling up with "score more than 40pts) several years ago won me a chunk of change. Denver are on the same ground at the moment.
I may see if I can fund a holiday somewhere with Ladbrokes money.
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Post by elth on Oct 1, 2013 10:14:47 GMT
Apparently the Jacksonville - Denver line is going to be at least +28.
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Post by Moo on Oct 1, 2013 11:05:45 GMT
I would take the points there, just because that's a ridiculous amount of points to give.
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Post by DC on Oct 10, 2013 6:01:00 GMT
NFL.com article puts Peyton top of this seasons QB's (duh) but then says that he has arguably the weakest arm of any starting QB in the league. "Flutter" balls on anything over 15 yards apparently.
Based on that I expect all articles about arm strength in the future to have the Manning caveat, in the same way discussions about "under size" QB's should have the Brees caveat, and the "not first round talent, small college" should have the Brady caveat.
Chances?
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Post by Moo on Oct 10, 2013 12:59:00 GMT
I'm listening to yesterday's Patriots podcast and people called in saying we should try and trade Brady away.
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Post by hornet on Oct 10, 2013 15:02:11 GMT
Well, at least nobody's overreacting.
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Post by hornet on Oct 10, 2013 15:04:19 GMT
At least the Geno Smith era hasn't been boring. Terrifying, but not boring.
If Rex Ryan gets this team to 8-8 he should be pantfishing Coach Of The Year.
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Post by Moo on Oct 14, 2013 9:38:19 GMT
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Post by Moo on Oct 22, 2013 13:21:05 GMT
Geno Smith did well at the weekend, Hornet, hopefully he will be able to improve next year and not run as much. THat killed us.
I fear a little bit for the Patriots now. They couldn't stop the run against an OK running attack, I just hope we don't come up against any decent backs soon.
In other news, Andy Reid, eh? Laughing like a cunt, isn't he?
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Post by DC on Oct 23, 2013 17:10:36 GMT
Credit to Kansas, I am coloured confused by their turnaround. Smith is game managing his way to a Super Bowl berth.
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Post by hornet on Oct 29, 2013 9:38:44 GMT
Geno Smith did well at the weekend, Hornet, hopefully he will be able to improve next year and not run as much. THat killed us. Well, that lasted almost a week. To be fair, it's nice to have a quarterback who can throw deep for the first time in about a decade, even if he's still hilariously prone to Rookie Mistakes TM. And if Rex Ryan gets this team to 8-8 he should be the bloody Coach Of The Year.
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Post by Moo on Oct 29, 2013 10:06:00 GMT
Another vote for coach of the year? I thought that Billy was getting it for "coping with so many key injuries"™. The AFC East is shite though, isn't it.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Oct 29, 2013 13:18:17 GMT
Hornet's ballot-stuffing now.
The Rams gave up 135 yards of offence last night and still lost. So well done, them.
The first line of this year's Dolphins entry in the Football Outsider's annual says something like "Mike Wallace's $63,000,000 isn't going to block any pass rushers" and that's our problem this year. Pouncey's good. John Jerry could be excellent if he could lay off the burgers for ten minutes, but outside of that Incognito isn't reliable, Tyson Clabo is reliably crap and our left tackle is either a lawn chair or a guy who's been on the team for nine minutes.
If we could keep Tannehill upright, we wouldn't be terrible. We're not as good as 3-0 and not as bad as 0-4, but season probably turns on the next game. Which is on a short week against a team that just clubbed the Jets and would have beaten the Pats by 50 points if their coach had a clue.
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Post by hornet on Oct 29, 2013 14:18:40 GMT
Another vote for coach of the year? I thought that Billy was getting it for "coping with so many key injuries"™. The AFC East is shite though, isn't it. I've been saying it for a while, couldn't remember if I'd said it here and you can't expect me to read the rubbish I write. Seriously though, the only unit on the entire team that's got above-average NFL talent is the defensive line. And yes. Yes it is.
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Post by Moo on Oct 29, 2013 14:19:02 GMT
Hornet... as opposed to cakehole stuffing?
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Post by elth on Oct 29, 2013 14:47:12 GMT
Credit to Kansas, I am coloured confused by their turnaround. Smith is game managing his way to a Super Bowl berth. Their defensive talent has finally come good, Smith's a safe pair of hands, and they've played a cupcake schedule.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 1, 2013 13:11:39 GMT
Nice I could get my heart attack out the way on a Thursday this week, instead of waiting for Sunday.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 1, 2013 17:29:21 GMT
TRICK OR TREAT!
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 19, 2013 14:11:26 GMT
Cam Newton's cheating at Madden again.
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Post by Moo on Nov 19, 2013 16:26:30 GMT
I havent seen the highlights yet, I look forward to that one and Phil SImms spunking on my telly.
Also, I had to delete the Patriots podcast this morning as there were too many people wanting to kill referees.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 19, 2013 16:31:34 GMT
That was one of those calls where it was probably wrong either way. Gronk was visibly blocked from coming back to the ball, but the defender at Brady's feet meant the ball was underthrown badly enough that it was probably uncatchable by anyone other than the defender.
So wrong to ignore the interference and wrong to call it on the Painters.
Fortunately the ref's could hide behind the interception-negates-all-possible-interference rule, even though there's a chance the defender doesn't get it if Gronk isn't being run out and can at least contest the ball.
It didn't even make for a fun post game press conference because, once again, the most interesting thing in Belichick's minutes at the podium was the mic feedback.
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Post by elth on Nov 20, 2013 9:10:10 GMT
People who knows stuff about stuff seem to think it should have been defensive holding, which is a 5 yard penalty, repeat down, so it still would have been a 13 yard untimed down for the win for New England.
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Post by Moo on Nov 20, 2013 9:53:06 GMT
Yeah, Cris Carter even said it wasn't PI. He said he could see it being called as holding or illegal contact, but not PI.
In the end it doesn't really matter too much because we have a gimme game next weekend.
What?
Apparently, this is the first time since 2005 that the Patriots are a home underdog.
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