NFL 2008 Season Week 11 Picks

Denver over Atlanta 28-20

Oh sure, get cocky after you're excellent week!

No i actually go lucky on 3 or 4 games... But Denver will be my upset pick over Atlanta

Also Jags over Titians 13 - 14

Baltimore over New York?

Hold on a just a sec, the Packer's would be better off with Grossman? The only way that's true is if they then wouldn't have had any decent QBs and would've taken Brett back. I'll take Rodgers over Grossman any day.

I'm almost two weeks late on this, but man... what a classy exit KGB made, huh?

Is it really THAT much of a stretch?

"Jeremy
Save some room for B-Dubs. The Lindgren's and Pehler's are steppin' out!"

Drop those apostrophes, mister

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_correct_use_of_the_apostrophe_for_a_sign_that_reads_Future_Home_Of_..._Family's_last_name
http://www.englishforums.com/English/ApostropheProperNameEndingVowel/vzxh/post.htm

NFL Reviews calls in Packers-Vikings game.

Jeremy may have won this battle, but the war continues. It turns out that Adrien Pederson should have been flagged for 60 yards worth of unsportsmanlike conduct penalties for taking his helmet off on the field; that definitely could have had a big impact on the game (of course, if he gets flagged one time, he probably doesn't do it the next 3 times). So I'll still stand by my claim that the reffing favored the vikings in this game.

I liked this story better when I linked to it 24 hours ago in the proper thread.

So he "correctly" called intentional grounding, when that was not even the call. I did not see this in week 10, because I tend not to check the previous week from about Wednesday on.

How do you respond to the allegations about Pederson removing his helmet on the field and showing everyone the giant condom he had on his head, at least 4 time?

http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d80c6ff31

Well, it's clear what happened with the camera right there in semi-slow motion, but I could see how the refs might have thought his helmet just came off on that last run (or technically, when a teammate knocked him over.)

Edit: I originally linked to the wrong video. Moment in question is at about the 4 minute mark.

Just for the record, I was strongly considering picking the Vikings over the Bucs, but the Bucs have found very strange ways to win games this year. They seem to just find ways to win games they have no business winning. It's hard to pick against a team like that.

Who knew that the vikings running as actually Adrian Peterson, not Adrien Pederson?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/powerranking?season=2007&week=11
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/powerranking?season=2008&week=11

Jets 31 => 9
Packers 4 => 21

What a difference a year makes. I wonder if there's any explanation for these dramatic changes.......

Waluigi is my go-to emoticon. You can have Baby Mario .

Yeah, the explanation is Brett Favre is still awesome.

Vikings 27 => 18

G-Fre for MVP!!!!!

Sorry, it's now a proprietary eponym for any evil comment.

So is this NFL network thing really such a big deal. I have always been able to get it no matter where I lived. Then again, I have lived always lived in big cities. Does anyone not have it out there?

All of EC that just has cable.

Why wouldn't you look? The yellow is there to tell you there's new content and this way you don't look dumb posting the exact same thing someone else did.

The Jets D is way better this year. And Favre is way better than whoever the Jets were running out there last year. I know a number of teams could say this, but with one different play in each of the last 2 games the Packers could be 6-3, which is the record of the current 4th ranked team.

The Packers will win the North.

Who cares about the Packers? Go J-E-T-S! Favre was awesome tonight!!!!

I bet Brent regrets having Cassel on the bench last night. 400 yds, 3 TD and 62 rushing? Not half bad!

Anyone else have a problem with fairweather fans?

Well, she was never super-excited about the post Favre Packers, so I don't know if "fair-weather" is the best term. As for the loyalty to one player vs loyalty to a team issue, if you think about it loyalty to one/a few players is much more sane. Who are you rooting for if not the individual players? Rooting for a certain player, then letting that good will spill over into a couple of his teammates you "get to know" and letting that maintain your loyalty is much saner than rooting for a team for loyalty's sake. You just really like the jerseys? If the Packers team jet went down you wouldn't even be a little less enthused to root for the group of guys you don't know who replace them? (Even granting you a new team as good as the old one.) If the Packers and Vikings swapped rosters you wouldn't be the tiniest bit torn who to root for, or at the very least think "what's the point" of rooting period?

At the very least I don't think that player-loyalty should be as frowned upon as it is, especially in this case where it's as much about voicing your displeasure with a move the team made as anything else.

Players, coaches, owners, jerseys, logos, stadiums, etc change all the time, but if your fan-dom wains for a minute, or you voice displeasure over a decision, you're a "fair-weather" fan? I don't think that's what being a fan is about, in fact, in my mind, there's a decent chance you're being a bad fan.

I would say that I do, but I'm quite often accused of being one.

I am as big of a "player-loyal" guy as they come. Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you that, when all other things are equal, I always choose what team I am going to root for based on the ties that team has to Wisconsin, or a Wisconsin team. I became a fan of the Jets for sure when Favre joined the Jets. But I can honestly say that regardless of scenarios, I would never stop rooting for the Packers, Brewers, or Badgers. Maybe I would start following a team a bit closer in the event of a bunch of former Packers or Brewers became part of that team, but team loyalty is a big thing to me. Heck, I cannot bring myself to hate the Vikings quite as much because they have Longwell and Sharper and Childress and Darrell Bevell, all players who have ties to Wisconsin.

Honestly, I actually wanted to see Favre move on. Or I should say I was content with him moving on.

We Are....Marshall!

That's really far less rational than anything else though. I'm not saying it's wrong, or I don't feel the same way about the Twins and Vikings, I'm just saying that there's no inherent right way or wrong way. We've just been conditioned to believe that any wavering flap of anything less than blind 110% loyalty is sacrilege and means we aren't "real fans".

If someone became a Viking fan in the first place because they were a Randy Moss fan than I shouldn't get to think less of them when they become a Raiders/Patriots fan, and it doesn't mean their support meant any less to the Vikings while he was on the team.

The whole fan thing is over-glorified anyway. But, I think you can be a fan of a team and a fan of certain players at the same time. And I would also say rooting for a team is a little different than being a fan of team. Am I rooting for the Jets because of Favre (and because letting Thomas Jones go was a horrible personnel move for the Bears) this year? Sure, but I don't consider myself a Jets fan. Will I always hope the Packers win, no matter who they are playing or who's on the team or what the latest boneheaded decision of management is? Yes. Is it rational? Don't know, dont' care. Is anything about sports rational?

As I believe Stephen Decatur once said:

"Our team! In her intercourse with foreign teams, may she always be in the right; but our team, right or wrong."

Indeed

Packers Vs Jets SUPERBOWL!!!!!!

THE REVENGE OF THE FAVRE!!!!!!

I prefer calling it "Bretter off Ted"

This is worth quoting again.

This is more like it.

You know who I've been impressed with? Jordy Nelson. I think he's quietly having a great rookie year.

titans and jaguars... wat happened?

im calling a major upset right now.... JAGS UPSET TITANS!!!!!

I couldn't agree more. He hasn't been flashy, but there have been several times when I have noticed him coming up with big catches in certain situations. It's good to hear Sarah saying good things about the Packers again.

2nd tie in NutCan history. Step forward if you knew that NFL regular season games could end in a tie? Not so fast Mr. McNabb.

This is BS. it's not even an option to pick a tie! We got hosed by The Man. In this case, Whitey is Jeremy.

speaking of ties, how many teams went 12-2-1? Excellent!

9-6 gets the turd. Unreal. At least the Turkey edition is up. Five legs!