The Browns are for real. Jamal Lewis ran like he was inspired. Braylon Edwards is a friggin stud. He's a top 10 WR now. He has 8 of the 10 most spectacular catches this year. What a turn around Romeo has made in Cleveland. They are quite entertaining.
Texans are looking smart now for taking Super Mario. As it is now, Joseph Addai appears to be the best back in that draft. Reggie Bush just isn't big enough to stay healthy in the NFL. Mario Williams was too much of a freak not to take there. He has amazing acceleration and a great motor. I am really happy for him to be doing so well. I"m happy for the Texan's franchise. The other DE (playing OLB in 49ers defense) Manny Lawson is a freak of nature too. Unfortunately he is injured this year but he will be back and he should make a Pro Bowl or 2 if he can stay healthy.
All I can say is FINALLY. Since the team came back in '99 it's been a long time coming to have a team that actually competes every weekend. Jamal is on a one year contract and I think he's trying to prove to everyone he's still got gas in the tank. He's come out recently and said he will sign another 1 year deal if that is what it takes to stay in Cleveland next year.
the BROWNS aint back.. ROFL! they got LUCKY one day! they will get steamrolled in playoffs, IF they make it LMAO
I'm glad for Cleveland, really, but having DA and Braylon as starters on my fantasy team was tough!! If the weather for their last home game is like it was vs Buffalo, I'll have to sit the two of them. Hopefully the weather in Cinci next week will be good. I need that passing game to keep rockin'!!
Please explain what ONE day we got lucky? We are 9-5 and got lucky ONE day? This should be entertaining. Let me guess, you are a Pats fan? PS If we beat Cinci this week we are GUARANTEED a spot in the playoffs and could contend for the AFC North depending on what Pitts does. Do you do any research before posting?
Ouch. As a Pats fan, this really hurt. I think I'd rather have seen the Pats lose to the Jets than have a Longshot/Supermax/Overtooled/ArmoredSaint alias be mistaken for one of us.
Congrats to the Dolphins for avoiding the bagel. Ravens fans must be proud. You look at that team, and you just can't believe how they can suck that bad. And how about a team I will spit from now on whenever I mention their sorry name, the Bengals? How could they drop that game to the 49ers with their third string QB playing? Maybe he should have been playing all along. Marvin Lewis should be on suicide watch. He deserves to be the first coach fired. I haven't always agreed with every personnel move the Browns have made, mainly that whole Brady Quinn thing, but signing Jamal Lewis has turned out to be very smart. Redskins -Giants was a painful game to watch, other than the outcome. Is Brandon Jacobs the worst pass receiver out of the backfield in the history of the NFL? After a while I felt sorry for him, as he had gone mental and was just not going to catch the ball. Either that or he needs to get his eyes checked. In fairness, Manning does not seem to throw an easy ball to catch. He threw those short ones very hard, and Jacobs was not theonly receiver to muff them. Plus he doesn't throw a real tight spiral, and the insane wind at the Meadowlands really screwed up his long passes. I will do a post-mortem on this weekend's picks later, which to say the least turned out about as pretty as one of Eli's passes.
I was delayed reporting on this weekend's picks because I had not completed my assignment of writing 1000 times on the blackboard "I will not take mediocre teams on the road." Ignoring this basic rule cost me big time this week. I ended up 2-2, but in the gambling world that is not break even, thanks to the vig and I don't mean Viggo Mortenson. I mean the vigorish, the risk 110 to make 100 nature of betting that keeps guys like Tony Soprano living large and the average bettor in the red. Can you imagine how hard trading would be if the broker added 10% to each losing trade? Of course, most of us add a lot more than that by failing to cut losers short, but that's another story ( and another 1000 lines on the blackboard.) Anyway, this was the weekend of the Bays. Tampa Bay and Green Bay won big for my two wins, and SF, the City by the Bay, managed to beat the sorry, no-account Bengals for one of my losses. Seattle, another city by a bay, showed again why they will join the Steelers as early outs in the playoffs by managing to lose 10-13 at Carolina and giving me my other loss in the process. Lesson here is simple. Why go with a crap team like the Bengals, no matter how weak the opposition? They will find a way to lose. And why go with a sissy team like the Seahawks, when they have already proved that they suck on the road unless they are playing a doormat, which I did think Carolina was. I have always thought Mike Holmgren was way overrated as a coach, and this season has done nothing to change my mind. Put them in the NFC East, and they wouldn't win a game. Speaking of the NFC East, the divison that invented smashmouth football, last night's Redskins-Giants game was ugly, but there was plenty of hitting. Jeremy Shockey went out with a broken leg, Skins lB Rocky MacIntosh suffered a knee injury, skins corner Fred Smoot apparently knocked himself out when he decided to blow up 270 RB Brandon Jacobs. He flew off Jacobs like he hit a speeding dump truck. The best hit of the night was the crusher Skins S Laron Landry laid on Plaxico Burress. He separated Burress from the ball and probably a few body parts and knocked him 5 yards out of bounds. I give Burress credit for catching a couple of balls after that. Plenty of wideouts would have found a way not to get open again. Tonight's Vikings-Bears clash should feature plenty of hitting. The Vikes are suddenly bigtime, but the Bears specialize in shutting down the run game. Who will be the difference-maker, Devin hester or Adrian Peterson? There were a number of notable games yesterday, none bigger than the Jacksonville-Pittsburg streetfight. I liked the Jags and said so, but the Steelers usually are invincible at home. I guess no one mentioned that to the Jags, as they gave the Steelers a lesson in running the football. The Cowboys laid an egg in front of Jessica Simpson and fell to the Iggles 10-6. After shredding Philly in the team's first meeting, TO was a non-factor yesterday, but in fairness, so was the rest of his team. Not a good showing for what is supposed to be the NFC's best team. I feel lucky to have decided to avoid this game because I thought the Boys would duplicate their earlier thumping of the Eagles. Now they have produced two consecutive dud games. Maybe they are not so great after all. The Cowboys dud game last week came against Detroit, which made me a bit gun-shy for their game yesterday against SD. If they could hang with the Boys, surely they had a chance against a SD team that was lucky to beat Tennessee. No way. SD is suddenly hitting on all cylinders and ran it up on the Lions, 51-14. Will Norv Turner have the last laugh? I suggested last week that NE would be hard-pressed to cover the 22 point spread against the Jets, and they didn't. Ditto, Indy, which got by Oakland by the margin of 21-14 and didn't cover the 10 point spread.