NFL week 17 running thread

Absolutely. Watched them screw up more crap than in any other season in their distinguished 12-year history in the league.

I'd like to think I'm the last guy to buy into media hype and expectations. But while I wasn't screaming Super Bowl Or Bust, I did expect better than 8-8.

At least I have my bandwagon team for the playoffs (see handle for obvious clue).

 

Sorry BYH, I know how much you love Hondo's rants.

And btw, Dallas went 3-1 against the AFC this year. Too bad we can't win in our own conference though.

That being said with today's events:

1) Glad we go to Seattle not Philly (imagine the madhouse again)
2) We've proven we can't win at home anymore so the road games might be a blessing
3) If we get past Seattle, and that's a big IF, I think we can give the Bears a big fight, especially with their secondary banged up.

BUt then again, I've been wrong before.

 

Too busy walking to work uphill both ways in the snow.

 

And the big guy (Klecko?) catches a TD for Indy!

 

I hate seeing the Steelers have the success they have with an ownership that has let great, great players for the gold-and-black leave year after year because they didn't want to pay them.

The Jets were a good team in 2004, and you can't say Pennington isn't put together with duct tape without saying Brees is too.

New Orleans was a brutally awful team last year (and blah in 2004), and the intangibles of the moving itself back to New Orleans earlier this year and the other Katrina intangibles mean a lot to me.

 

Joe's son!

 

Just what Peyton needed, another Red Zone weapon! ;D

 

Doesn't his family's move to North Carolina have something to do with Cowher's possible resignation?

 

How many do you think the Steelers choked away? Bottom line, neither team got it done.

And Kansas City fans, you're welcome.

 

Did the Steelers ever lose consecutive games on a missed PAT and missed chippie FG?

Bengals should be 11-5, at least.

Congrats, BTW.

 

That NE-Tennessee game was chippy enough to warm Don Cherry's cockles.

 

In 2004 the Jets have two quality starting running backs (they have none now) and two All-Pros on the offensive line along with one of the league's premier pass rushers.

They have none of those things now.

The Katrina argument is weak. Tell me anyone who had their whole life ruined to the point of no return with no hope of salvaging anything in the place they called home gives two shits about Sean Payton or the Saints. I've yet to hear anyone say that despite their home being blown to smithereens and destroyed with all their possessions and despite the fact that the government still hasn't come near their old neighborhood, which is still underwater...the Saints have been an inspiration...