2012 NFL Thread

mszwebs · 03-05-2012, 09:02 PM

Welcome to the 2012 NFL Thread.

A place to discuss how fast your OL ran the last 40 yard dash of his burgeoning career.

A place to discuss your team's 1st round draft pick getting snatched up 1 pick before your team had a chance to get him.

A place to discuss Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints (hopefully everyone) and why it's clear your team doesn't have the same type of bounty program because clearly they can't tackle for shit.

Basically...a place to talk up your favorite and talk down Spanky's favorite team.

Play nice children, but remember, nothing is personal.

KHayes666 · 03-06-2012, 03:58 AM

If Bellichick gets his head out of his ass and starts drafting some defensive studs, they have a legit shot of repeating as AFC Champions.

willowmoon · 03-06-2012, 08:21 AM

Just like the Sith .... a master and an apprentice.

saintsfett.jpg

Spanky · 03-06-2012, 03:00 PM

If the Eagles go about 14-0 by mid to late December, are a full 4 games ahead of every other team in the NFC and two games ahead of any team in the NFL and if they are clearly on their way to winning the Super Bowl.....

.....December 21, 2012 will be the end of the world.

It would take that to leave Eagles fans fucked again.

So watch out and be sure to root against the Birds everyday and twice on Sunday.

As you all were....

willowmoon · 03-07-2012, 06:14 AM

Looks like today's the official day when the Colts release Peyton Manning, apparently the press conference is at noon today.

I'm hoping he signs with the Chiefs, as far as an AFC team is considered, although I'm more than a little biased.

What teams do you feel would be a realistic, good fit for him?

tonynyc · 03-07-2012, 06:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willowmoon

Looks like today's the official day when the Colts release Peyton Manning, apparently the press conference is at noon today.

I'm hoping he signs with the Chiefs, as far as an AFC team is considered, although I'm more than a little biased.

What teams do you feel would be a realistic, good fit for him?

Sports radio talk shows were speculating that it had to be a weather team and a contender: like the Cardinals or 49ers...

Of course one could dream and he can join Eli as a Giant - imagine this play... "Manning to Manning to Manningham for the TD"

Mathias · 03-07-2012, 10:39 PM

I'm still waiting on those cookies Nancy promised from the last thread...

Spanky · 03-08-2012, 07:25 PM

Mathias,

Don't be "that" squirrel.

"That" Squirrel

Spanky

Spanky · 03-08-2012, 07:28 PM

HEY! PEYTON! Guess what? Yer the meat.

Ode to Peyton or Your Own Future Chant

Spanky · 03-08-2012, 07:35 PM

Hey, Sweetie Pie? Thanks for the birthing. Now for the afterbirth.

Just in case you forgot.

RODGERS RODGERS RODGERS!!!

DISCOUNT DOUBLE CHOKE!

Quote:

Originally Posted by mszwebs

Welcome to the 2012 NFL Thread.

<snip> Basically...a place to talk up your favorite and talk down Spanky's favorite team. <snip>

GTAFA · 03-08-2012, 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willowmoon

Looks like today's the official day when the Colts release Peyton Manning, apparently the press conference is at noon today.

I'm hoping he signs with the Chiefs, as far as an AFC team is considered, although I'm more than a little biased.

What teams do you feel would be a realistic, good fit for him?

Vikings. NOT because it would be good for the NFL, so much as because it would be the kind of thing the Vikings would do. They seem to keep seeking short-cuts. And the Colts would feel safer because he'd be less likely to embarass them than, say in an AFC city such as Miami or KC.

The crazy part? Manning should have stayed put, giving the new kid Andrew Luck possibly 2 or 3 years of mentoring, while seeing about winning a title or two. Then sometime down the road they would have passed the torch from Peyton to Andrew. No wait.. that's a classy scenario.

What was i thinking?

mszwebs · 03-08-2012, 08:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spanky

Hey, Sweetie Pie? Thanks for the birthing. Now for the afterbirth.

Just in case you forgot.

RODGERS RODGERS RODGERS!!!

DISCOUNT DOUBLE CHOKE!

lol That was actually funny, but you know as well as I do that the Packers failure to go further in the playoffs had nothing to do with Aaron Rodgers.

And Really? I don't think that anyone with the Billion Dollar Dream Team Eagles as their team of choice should be calling out any other players for "choking."

Yakatori · 03-08-2012, 08:43 PM

I sort of agree. Although, I wouldn't put it quite that way. I would've liked to seen Manning, who's already been paid on a scale that dwarfs the compensation of 90% of the rest of the league, try to rework his deal & offer a something of hometown discount, a cap-friendly, near veteran-minimum, but incentive-laden contract that positions them to negotiate Luck down to something equally incentive-laden. And then, they both go into camp as professionals, competing-each to the very best of his ability and, yet, also supporting each other and the team. And then, whoever the coach thinks gives the team the very best chance to win that week, will play for as long as that seems to be the case.

But-no, Manning, like Favre, is bigger than the game. Bigger than his team. Too good to actually have to compete head to head with another player.

As for the Vikes, I think it highlights one respect in which Favre has him beat. Whereas Favre seems to be the type of guy who can just seamlessly work his way into a variety of locker-rooms, I don't see Manning quite fitting in into the Viking's current culture. And he's not the guy to change-it either.

mel · 03-08-2012, 09:11 PM

TEBOW!!!! Can't wait to see my guy in action again this year.

KHayes666 · 03-09-2012, 10:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GTAFA

Vikings. NOT because it would be good for the NFL, so much as because it would be the kind of thing the Vikings would do. They seem to keep seeking short-cuts. And the Colts would feel safer because he'd be less likely to embarass them than, say in an AFC city such as Miami or KC.

The crazy part? Manning should have stayed put, giving the new kid Andrew Luck possibly 2 or 3 years of mentoring, while seeing about winning a title or two. Then sometime down the road they would have passed the torch from Peyton to Andrew. No wait.. that's a classy scenario.

What was i thinking?

It wouldn't be the first time Minnesota broke the bank to get one single guy. Hershell Walker anyone?

Spanky · 03-09-2012, 12:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mszwebs

lol That was actually funny, but you know as well as I do that the Packers failure to go further in the playoffs had nothing to do with Aaron Rodgers.

And Really? I don't think that anyone with the Billion Dollar Dream Team Eagles as their team of choice should be calling out any other players for "choking."

Okay, Aaron is cute and all, but seriously, he had a bad game, they were out of synch and while I do not accept the coach's son's loss as an excuse for professionals, sitting the starting team for a game and a half proved deadly. McCarthy? McCarthy? McCarthy?

I think the Giants or the Eagles would have gone into Lambeau and beaten the Pack that day. The Eagles after a shitty start finished 8 - 8, beat the Giants well in the Meadowlands late in the season AND the Jets beat them, the Eagles would have been in Lambeau pissing all over that lack of excuse for a defense, long flowing hair and all. Matthews? Matthews? Matthews?

Slight choke for the Eagles, yes. Thank DOG that the Pack eclipsed that leetle choke with a 15-1 discount double ....well you know what. I mean sheet-damn, you haven't even been to a Super Bowl since, what, 2011?

Two year plan for the Iggles. I drank the pickle juice flavored Kool Aide a few days ago and think the team gelled late and is ready for a run this year.

NYAHHHHHHH!

Spanky · 03-09-2012, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mel

TEBOW!!!! Can't wait to see my guy in action again this year.

Very nice, Mel! Very nice.

It is about time some of the pretty NFL girls represent. I mean I have to BET them, one at a time, just to get them to put on MY TEAM'S JERSEY.

Keep it up, Mel! Show the Zwebbies, Nancies and OWAsies how to do it right.

And any crappy throwing QB that beats...uh, embarrasses the Steelers is GOD in my book. Uh, I didn't mean the actual GOD, maybe a son of.....uh....um...maybe a distant third cousin.

GTAFA · 03-09-2012, 08:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KHayes666

It wouldn't be the first time Minnesota broke the bank to get one single guy. Hershell Walker anyone?

And that was such a disaster..!

Favre made some sense, taking them --almost-- to a championship. But the NFL is not like baseball, because it's essentially a team game, not a game of individual skills. A baseball team can be assembled with a pile of money to buy this pitcher and that hitter, etc etc. The team concept in football requires time to nurture, and can't simply be bought.

Oh well, we shall see. I suspect Manning could fit in anywhere, given enough time to learn the offense. I wonder, though, what he will have lost due to injury. Brady came back from his nasty injury. Can Peyton? I hope they'll give him time to re-gain his timing. It would have been hard to come back even if he was coming back to the same team (as Brady did). Now he's gotta come back from that injury AND get used to a brand new team & system. That's going to be interesting to watch.

KHayes666 · 03-09-2012, 08:50 PM

Looks like Washington is also going the Herschel Walker route. Trading 4 picks to get RG3......oh well

daddyoh70 · 03-10-2012, 06:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spanky

Okay, Aaron is cute and all, but seriously, he had a bad game, they were out of synch and while I do not accept the coach's son's loss as an excuse for professionals, sitting the starting team for a game and a half proved deadly. McCarthy? McCarthy? McCarthy?

I think the Giants or the Eagles would have gone into Lambeau and beaten the Pack that day. The Eagles after a shitty start finished 8 - 8, beat the Giants well in the Meadowlands late in the season AND the Jets beat them, the Eagles would have been in Lambeau pissing all over that lack of excuse for a defense, long flowing hair and all. Matthews? Matthews? Matthews?

Slight choke for the Eagles, yes. Thank DOG that the Pack eclipsed that leetle choke with a 15-1 discount double ....well you know what. I mean sheet-damn, you haven't even been to a Super Bowl since, what, 2011?

Two year plan for the Iggles. I drank the pickle juice flavored Kool Aide a few days ago and think the team gelled late and is ready for a run this year.

NYAHHHHHHH!

Spanks, you also forgot to mention that they, the Gnats, lost to the Redskins twice. Cleary not the best team in football, but one that really got their shit together the last few weeks of the season. I got my case of pickle juice in the fridge, but usually don't crack it open until about mid August.
And now that the Gnats have won another Super Bowl, we can look forward to 3 or 4 years of this now...
TIME OUT!!!
The Big Package

tonynyc · 03-10-2012, 07:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daddyoh70

Spanks, you also forgot to mention that they, the Gnats, lost to the Redskins twice. Cleary not the best team in football, but one that really got their shit together the last few weeks of the season. I got my case of pickle juice in the fridge, but usually don't crack it open until about mid August.
And now that the Gnats have won another Super Bowl, we can look forward to 3 or 4 years of this now...
TIME OUT!!!
The Big Package

Ah... but what will the Iggles Look forward to ?.... How long does Andy keep his job -

daddyoh70 · 03-10-2012, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tonynyc

Ah... but what will the Iggles Look forward to ?.... How long does Andy keep his job -

That's what I'm afraid of. So I figured I'd just get my licks in early before the season starts

I guess I have to wait till the first round of the draft to really get a feel for what the season is going to be like

willowmoon · 03-13-2012, 10:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KHayes666

Looks like Washington is also going the Herschel Walker route. Trading 4 picks to get RG3......oh well

Well the 'Skins reek of desperation ... they haven't had an actual franchise quarterback since probably Joe Theismann. I'm guessing they've gone through thirty starting QB's in a period of 10 years, lol.

This trade also kind of reminds me a little of when Ditka traded all of the Saints' picks back in '99 to get Ricky Williams.

KHayes666 · 03-13-2012, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willowmoon

Well the 'Skins reek of desperation ... they haven't had an actual franchise quarterback since probably Joe Theismann. I'm guessing they've gone through thirty starting QB's in a period of 10 years, lol.

This trade also kind of reminds me a little of when Ditka traded all of the Saints' picks back in '99 to get Ricky Williams.

The Saints trade would have worked out had Williams not bolted for Miami 2 years later

Spanky · 03-13-2012, 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tonynyc

Ah... but what will the Iggles Look forward to ?.... How long does Andy keep his job -

Until the Giants can beat the Eagles in the Billion Dollar Swamp, I do not hear you. Stooper Bowel dunces or not.

03-06-2012, 03:58 AM	#2
KHayes666 Retired Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 7,877	If Bellichick gets his head out of his ass and starts drafting some defensive studs, they have a legit shot of repeating as AFC Champions. __________________ Put your hands on a hot stove and a second can seem like an hour. When I put my hands on my hot fiancee an hour seems like a second

03-06-2012, 08:21 AM	#3
willowmoon Channeling Arthur Dent Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Northeast Wisconsin Posts: 3,585	Just like the Sith .... a master and an apprentice. saintsfett.jpg __________________ "Well this film wastes no precious screen time with a plot!" -- Crow (from MST3K), while watching Red Zone Cuba

03-06-2012, 03:00 PM	#4
Spanky Freakishly Normal Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 4,094	Just in case you witness it.... If the Eagles go about 14-0 by mid to late December, are a full 4 games ahead of every other team in the NFC and two games ahead of any team in the NFL and if they are clearly on their way to winning the Super Bowl..... .....December 21, 2012 will be the end of the world. It would take that to leave Eagles fans fucked again. So watch out and be sure to root against the Birds everyday and twice on Sunday. As you all were....

03-07-2012, 06:14 AM	#5
willowmoon Channeling Arthur Dent Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Northeast Wisconsin Posts: 3,585	Looks like today's the official day when the Colts release Peyton Manning, apparently the press conference is at noon today. I'm hoping he signs with the Chiefs, as far as an AFC team is considered, although I'm more than a little biased. What teams do you feel would be a realistic, good fit for him? __________________ "Well this film wastes no precious screen time with a plot!" -- Crow (from MST3K), while watching Red Zone Cuba

03-07-2012, 10:39 PM	#7
Mathias Go Phillies! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: PA Posts: 6,756	I'm still waiting on those cookies Nancy promised from the last thread... __________________ What for you bury me in the cold cold ground?

03-08-2012, 07:25 PM	#8
Spanky Freakishly Normal Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 4,094	Mathias, Don't be "that" squirrel. "That" Squirrel Spanky

03-08-2012, 07:28 PM	#9
Spanky Freakishly Normal Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 4,094	HEY! PEYTON! Guess what? Yer the meat. Ode to Peyton or Your Own Future Chant

03-08-2012, 08:43 PM	#13
Yakatori Hard to say, really... Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: "Empire State of Mind" Posts: 921	Well, I must be crazy, because... I sort of agree. Although, I wouldn't put it quite that way. I would've liked to seen Manning, who's already been paid on a scale that dwarfs the compensation of 90% of the rest of the league, try to rework his deal & offer a something of hometown discount, a cap-friendly, near veteran-minimum, but incentive-laden contract that positions them to negotiate Luck down to something equally incentive-laden. And then, they both go into camp as professionals, competing-each to the very best of his ability and, yet, also supporting each other and the team. And then, whoever the coach thinks gives the team the very best chance to win that week, will play for as long as that seems to be the case. But-no, Manning, like Favre, is bigger than the game. Bigger than his team. Too good to actually have to compete head to head with another player. As for the Vikes, I think it highlights one respect in which Favre has him beat. Whereas Favre seems to be the type of guy who can just seamlessly work his way into a variety of locker-rooms, I don't see Manning quite fitting in into the Viking's current culture. And he's not the guy to change-it either.

03-08-2012, 09:11 PM	#14
mel This is My year!..again:) Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The other side of ... Posts: 1,766	TEBOW!!!! Can't wait to see my guy in action again this year. __________________ Mel "Do I see sheets of plastic in your future?" Last edited by mel : 07-02-2012 at 08:49 PM.

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KHayes666 Retired Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 7,877	Looks like Washington is also going the Herschel Walker route. Trading 4 picks to get RG3......oh well __________________ Put your hands on a hot stove and a second can seem like an hour. When I put my hands on my hot fiancee an hour seems like a second

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