NFL Week 11: In four weeks we can put TEBOW!!!! in the headline

There is "something wrong," zag. The Bears' starting quarterback broke his thumb.

 

Doesn't matter - in those three games they will be playing against Carson Palmer, Tim Tebow and Christian Ponder - not exactly a who's who of quarterbacks

 

How that easy home win over Seattle work out for the Giants? And Baltimore had no trouble stomping on those pitiful Seahawks, too, right?

Truth is, there are no guaranteed wins (right, Saints vs. Rams?), and when your QB is out and your backup is, um..... Whatshisname, you've got trouble.

The Bears might very well get those three wins they need to get in the playoffs -- maybe even easily if Hanie is an actual player -- but if I'm the Bears, I'm sweating hard right now.

 

Bears should just go the Denver route and see if Pat White can be pried away from the Virginia Destroyers to run the option.

 

Pat White makes Tebow look like Paul Hornung.

I would feel much better about a team dominating like the 1986 Bears than the way the Packers are dominating now, but the Pack are still dominating.

If Mendenhall doesn't fumble, the Steelers probably win the SB last year, but a Pittsburgh/Green Bay rematch would be an epic shootout. Same with NE/GB. I just don't see Baltimore winning three games in a row.

The two teams I think could stop GB right now are Detroit and the Giants. Chicago could have, but without Culter, they cannot.

The Giants have a lot more weapons on offense than people think, and Suh could collapse the GB offense by himself if they cannot block him.

 

49ers. They could shorten that game up real nice with a grinding run game, and they are the rare team that can get enough four-man pressure/run-stuffing so they don't have to play man coverage in the secondary.

49ers' defense is much better than Bears', and not just because the numbers say so.

 

I just don't see Alex Smith walking into Green Bay on a frozen January day and pulling out a win.

 

No, it wouldn't be him. He could do his part finding the open man, but he can never throw into traffic and the game plan would have to rely heavily on Gore and the D. (BTW he had at least two wide-open touchdowns yesterday and airmailed them over the receivers' heads. He is still Alex Smith, after all.)

 

Jake Plummer, you are the fucking man.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Plummer-on-Tebow-8216-When-he-accepts-that-we?urn=nfl-wp12281

 

The Giants' defense is not playing up to its reputation, especially up front. Too many injuries, specifically Tuck being rendered just about useless.

You can't really play the "if Mendenhall hadn't fumbled" game with last year's Super Bowl, not with all the passes the Packers' receivers dropped. The Steelers were the ones who were lucky to even be close late in that game. Their defense was horrible in that game. The only thing that even slowed Green Bay down was its own mistakes.

 

That was pretty damn funny.

 

Thank you, OOP. Pittsburgh was lucky Rodgers didn't throw for 500 yards that day.