Posted on 11/26/2013 3:49:50 AM PST by Perdogg
NFC
Seahawks 10 1 0
Saints 9 2 0
Lions 6 5 0
Cowboys 6 5 0
Panthers 8 3 0
49ers 7 4 0
Cardinals 7 4 0
Eagles 6 5 0
Bears 6 5 0
Packers 5 5 1
Rams 5 6 0
Giants 4 7 0
Buccaneers 3 8 0
Redskins 3 8 0
Vikings 2 8 1
Falcons 2 9 0
AFC
Broncos 9 2 0
Patriots 8 3 0
Colts 7 4 0
Bengals 7 4 0
Chiefs 9 2 0
Titans 5 6 0
Steelers 5 6 0
Ravens 5 6 0
Chargers 5 6 0
Jets 5 6 0
Dolphins 5 6 0
Raiders 4 7 0
Browns 4 7 0
Bills 4 7 0
Jaguars 2 9 0
Texans 2 9 0
Redskins and tie-breaker... ha ha ha.... that is funny..
Great Patriot/Bronco game Sunday !
Especially after that dismal performance last night.
indeed! looking forward to the Seahawks/Saints game next week!
--go Niners!
I think both teams were glad it was over ... I was glad it was over ... I needed sleep !
i couldn't believe what was happening! especially since the Packers/Vikings had already ended in a tie earlier that day...
TWENTY STEPS TO INSANITY
I was at that game. Talk about mood swings. Well, given the mediocrity in the NFL this season, that is par for the course!
But, wildly exciting game, nonetheless. Here is what it was like:
1.) Geez. Ridley fumbled the ball. Damn him. Get rid of him. But it is a long game.
2.) Aw crap! Another fumble! 14-0! Man. Oh, well, long game.
3.) WTF! ANOTHER fumble????? What the heck is going on here? I have never sat through a first quarter like THIS!
4.) Near end of half. Can’t even stand to cheer on defense anymore. Entire stadium is sitting there in stunned silence.
End of half. Totally discosolate. Booed. Being beaten is one thing, giving it to them is something else. Good gosh. 24-0.
5.) Start of 2nd Half: Okay. Let’s go. Let’s see if we can get ANY points at all. It’s a new half, but don’t have high hopes.
6.) Hey. A touchdown. Okay, we won’t get shut out. Let’s try to cheer the defense on.
7.) Fumble? We got it. Great. This is a frikking big hole to climb out of, not much hope. Good field position, though.
8.) Touchdown! Hey...can you believe that we are only down ten points? Just amazing, as poorly as the Pats played.
9.) Wow. They stopped Denver on that drive? Man, is the team actually not killing themselves?
10.) TOUCHDOWN! HOLY CRAP, WE ARE ONLY DOWN A FIELD GOAL!
11.) INTERCEPTION! WTF! DEEP IN ENEMY TERRITORY!
12.) TOUCHDOWN? Mayhem. People jumping on seats, slapping each other three rows up. People still don’t believe it.
13.) Field goal. Can you believe the Pats actually dug out of that hole to go ahead.
14.) Denver touchdown. Can you believe the Pats actually dug out of that hole to be tied at the end of regulation?
15.) Coin toss...TAILS! We WIN! GET THE BALL...GO SCORE A TOUCHDOWN...wait...what? What are we lining up to kick off for. I don’t get it. I know there is the wind thing, but...this is overtime. Can you explain it to me? This is OVERTIME for God’s sake! WTF! Sigh. I guess Belichick knows what he is doing. I guess.
16.) Voice is gone. Gotta try to scream when we are on defense, though. (Weak yell...pounding backs of seats in front of me instead)
17.) Punt. Don’t let him run it back for a Touchdown...he’s waving it off...WAIT...players scrambling around like mad...PIGPILE...PATS HAVE THE BALL! Complete pandemonium. People standing on seats. Someone took their shirt off (is he insane?)
18.) Timeout by Denver. Okay. Trying to collect themselves.
19.) KICK IT NOW! KICK IT NOW! DON’T EVEN TRY TO RUN! KICK IT NOW! Argh...they are running it. Argh. They didnt’ fumble it.
19.) Okay, Pats line up for a field goal...YES...DON’T EVEN RISK A HAND OFF...They are lining up for a field goal...Great...KICK IT NOW! wait, what? Timeout by Denver their last timeout? Icing the kicker? No...wait...they are lining up again to run the ball! NOOOOOO! DON’T DOOO IT! Argh. They didn’t fumble it. But Denver used their last timeout...is this some kind of obscure Belichickian mind control trick????
20.) Field Goal. The Pats actually won. Can’t believe it. The record all time in the NFL for games when a team is down 24-0 at halftime is 6 wins, 483 losses. This is unbelievable. (all goes black)
I could'a gone to sleep earlier if I knew you'd recap so good.
Browns 4 7 0
Woo-hoo! We’re not in last place! Hip hip hooray!
I thought the Denver player was pushed into the ball, which is illegal, on the punt.
I don’t know the rule that well. They probably saw the contact as incidental, so that’s that.
It is the nature of the game. We saw that last week and this week, and not on that play, either.
Anybody on the receiving team touches the ball but fails to hold onto it results in a live ball regardless of if he got pushed or not. The one exception is if a player calls for a fair catch and gets touched, then his team still keeps it because you’re not supposed to touch a guy that called for fair catch. The big fault was Welker didn’t wave people off until way too late, when the wave off happens everybody on that team should run away from the ball, because no good comes from being near it if nobody is going to catch it.
I did hear a funny explanation of a certain part of this play that, when initially explained, caused me to pause for a minute and think “huh...wonder why they do that?”
When a punt is coming down and the punt returner waves it off to declare he is not going to field it, he also audibly yells out “PETER! PETER! PETER!” in quick succession, much the same as a fighter pilot might say “EJECT! EJECT! EJECT!”
I thought briefly about it...”Why would they say ‘PETER’?” then just as quickly, forgot. Later, I heard a former NFL player being interviewed, and they asked him just that. He declined to answer, saying “I can’t answer that on air”, which only whetted the interviewer’s appetite further as he egged him on with a “Yes you can!”
After a little hemming and hawing, he said:
“It boils down to, if you are not going to play with it, don’t touch it!” (obviously with a more salacious and explicit meaning!)
BTW, this happens often.
Heh, I have a lot of respect for Petyon Manning...though I do enjoy seeing “Peyton Face” the same way some people enjoy seeing Brady get pissed off...:)
It is hard for some people to like Tom Brady...he is rich, successful, good looking and married to a supermodel. Brings out a bit too much envy in some people, and they can’t get past it. They can’t see he is a driven, principled, hard-working athlete who has been operating at the top of the stratosphere since he gained a starting role in the most difficult and mentally demanding position in sports. He definitely doesn’t get any credit for being tough as nails, which anyone who has followed his career closely knows. One of the best tributes to Tom Brady came from Michael Strahan (who I have a good deal of respect for) who talked about the pounding that Brady took in the Super Bowl, but he kept getting up and playing as hard as he could without showing the effects of it. It wasn’t so much exactly what he said, but the tone of it betrayed just how tough he thinks Tom Brady is. A good tribute from someone to whom that actually means something.
I think Peyton Manning doesn’t have that problem. He seems more of a regular guy to some people, though he operates in that same stratosphere.
I never liked Eli Manning...I admit a good part of it is the fact that he was on the team that beat the Pats in the two Super Bowls, but I go all the way back to his draft days. I did not like the way he handled himself, saying he didn’t want to go to this team or that team. I lost a lot of respect for him then.
Never had that kind of dislike for Peyton. I hated seeing the Pats play him, because he made life so darn difficult, but that is about as far as it went. I was glad to see things turn out they way they did for him. It was a win-win situation for everyone, in my opinion.
If Dallas beats Washington, they’ll have the tiebreaker over the Eagles.
So if Dallas beats Oakland and Washington, even if they lose their other games, Philly has to go 9-7 to win the division.
This is how I like to picture Peyton.
*Sigh* Ahh, the good old days....
That said, Peyton does seem like a decent guy and other than his meddling father and the fact he does beat the Patriots once in a great while, I am a fan. I even like his commercials.
Good points about Brady. Many think he's just a playboy who had everything come easy for him. But he was drafted in 6th round and had to claw and fight to get a spot on an NFL roster. Since taking over for Bledsoe, he continues to this day to put in more hours in practice than just about every other player. He's as good as he is only because of intense discipline and perseverance. Most QBs would have mailed it in during the second half of Sunday night's game after such a miserable first half. But not Brady, he stepped on the field for the second half with a burning desire to pull it out.
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