NFL Week 13: Something something, late thread, grumble grumble

[Rhinox]

Ok now I'm pissed. 2-10 tebow lead broncos just broke up my goddamn undefeated ar12 bears season in madden. Shit just got personal


Hope peppers goes Satan on his ass and fucking breaks his neck.

[Melena]

BQL Members, Week 14 thread is started.

[Conrad]

o thx

[Jaxzer]

Lol@espn saying teams wouldnt trade 1st round picks for manning just because one more injury could put him out for good. There's a dozen teams that would grab him just for a super bowl win. They did it for Favre who doesn't even compare to Peyton.

[AidenCarby]

Colts should just take Luck, let him learn a thing or two from Manning.

[archibaldcrane]

Colts should just take Luck, let him learn a thing or two from Manning.

And have 35 million tied up in QBs for the season?

Not gonna happen for a team that is awful on defense and special teams and has countless holes to fix. They need to dump Manning and his huge contract and build around Luck.

[archibaldcrane]

Random stat situation:

Football outsiders has the Packers defense ranked a tepid 24th. They're remarkably consistent, with the lowest "Variance" week-to-week, but yeah, 24th.

However

When Green Bay is in the second half, and they are between being up-7 and down-7 - basically in "one score game" situations

their defense is ranked #1 in the league by DVOA.

That's fucking weird.

Their offense, in the second half in a 7-point game is also #1.

[Demosthenes11]

Random stat situation:

Football outsiders has the Packers defense ranked a tepid 24th. They're remarkably consistent, with the lowest "Variance" week-to-week, but yeah, 24th.

However

When Green Bay is in the second half, and they are between being up-7 and down-7 - basically in "one score game" situations

their defense is ranked #1 in the league by DVOA.

That's fucking weird.

Their offense, in the second half in a 7-point game is also #1.

bend but don't break defense. the best kind. fuck stats

[Xajii]

Don't the Packers also lead the league in turnovers? If you let a team get down the field then snatch the ball out of their hands it don't matter how many yards you're letting up. Good shit.

Did you know Woodson was the last player to earn a Heisman trophy on defense, in 97 I think it was?

[archibaldcrane]

Don't the Packers also lead the league in turnovers? If you let a team get down the field then snatch the ball out of their hands it don't matter how many yards you're letting up. Good shit.

Did you know Woodson was the last player to earn a Heisman trophy on defense, in 97 I think it was?

Yeah, they lead the league in total turnovers (or did going into last weekend, not sure now) and lead the league in interceptions forced.

And yeah, Woodson won primarily as a cornerback, but his kick/punt return ability and occasional play at WR also helped. Well, and that Michigan won a national championship that year. He beat out Peyton Manning, Ryan Leaf, Randy Moss, and Ricky Williams for the Heisman.

[Xajii]

ricky got it next year i think!

[archibaldcrane]

ricky got it next year i think!

Yeah, and then Ron Dayne broke his record two years later and got it.

[AidenCarby]

What ever happened to Ron Dayne? lol

[Rhinox]

ate his way out of the nfl

[archibaldcrane]

What ever happened to Ron Dayne? lol

Drafted by the Giants in the first season that Tiki Barber decided to not be worthless, so they were a 2-back system for a while, eventually went to the Broncos and then the Texans - actually had decent seasons with each, but was never re-signed after the 2007 season - which was arguably his best year. I don't think he was injured, I think teams just figured he had nowhere to go but down despite coming off his best year.

http://www.pro-football-reference.co...D/DaynRo00.htm

[Headspace]

He became irrelevant like john clay

[archibaldcrane]

He became irrelevant like john clay

>implying john clay was ever relevant in the nfl

[Headspace]

Not really.

[archibaldcrane]

I also became irrelevant in the NFL.

[Cail]

Oh ESPN...

http://l.yimg.com/a/p/sp/editorial_i..._charlotte.jpg
We're going to go ahead and believe that the shot above is of a part of the greater Jacksonville, Florida, area — after all, the stadium shown does look a lot like EverBank Field, where the Jacksonville Jaguars play. However, this picture may not be truly representative of the current city. According to ESPN's Paul Kuharsky, observant viewers threw multiple flags against the "Worldwide Leader" after it became evident that some of the overhead shots on the "Monday Night Football" game between the Jaguars and San Diego Chargers were outdated representations of Jacksonville.

That's not the best part. According to Kuharsky, one of the aerial shots was actually of Charlotte, North Carolina. Whoops! Kuharshy reached out to an ESPN spokesperson, who had this to say:

"The Charlotte aerial was an inadvertent mistake. It should not have aired. We apologize that it was part of the telecast.

"The scenics of Jacksonville that were used during 'Monday Night Countdown' were shot the night of the previous MNF game there in late October. We did not have a crew shooting scenics Monday. There were no graphic or audio mentions indicating the shot was live, though we understand viewers may have been under this assumption."

Well, sure. Generally speaking, when you see an overhead shot of an area, you expect that you're seeing it live. We're under the impression that you shouldn't have to expect a disclaimer that you're not seeing something from a Goodyear Blimp in 1979, but maybe that's just us.

Or, given the team's new ownership and longstanding rumors of a franchise move to L.A. or elsewhere, maybe ESPN was just trying out aerials of different cities. That would have been a more creative excuse.