: Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:36 am  

Drachen Feuer wrote:

http://gallery.me.com/laurence_hardy#100153

Also, that's some pictures from Staffordshire Stallions first training session of the year, I appear in a couple pics as the guy in a purple t-shirt with bad hair.

Our probable QB this year is a Canadian Ex-baseballer, who's still better than JaMarcus Russell

That reminds me of watching Britball in the 80s - anyone with a vaguely North American accent came in to play QB, irrespective of whether they'd ever played the position before in their life.

: Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:51 am  

Packers shouldn't be anywhere near anyone's top 10 at this moment in time

: Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:05 pm  

Adamjk wrote:

Packers shouldn't be anywhere near anyone's top 10 at this moment in time

Come on. I'm not suggesting we should be top 5. I'd say 7-10.

: Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:34 pm  

ST_CONROY wrote:

I'm implying i can make my own opinion.

You'd agree with me unless of course you think McDaniels was correct and Cassell/Simms/Orton are better than Cutler?

Orton plus 2 1st round draft picks could turn out to be better than keeping Cutler.

: Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:06 pm  

ST_CONROY wrote:

Come on. I'm not suggesting we should be top 5. I'd say 7-10.

I'm not saying you won't be further down the line because I think with the players you have you can only get better but other teams have had more impressive starts. Given a loss at Lambeau against the Bengals (who have improved but it was at Lambeau) and a sloppy win against us, IMO (sadly) the worst team in the league which was still close in the 3rd quarter would mean that at this stage I'd have the Packers outside the top 10.

That could all change though of course. Some teams are awful and labelled no-hopers in September but dominating by December.

: Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:13 pm  

Clearly the Packers are a top ten team (according to Conroy) it's the rest of the world that's gone mad.

: Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:11 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

That reminds me of watching Britball in the 80s - anyone with a vaguely North American accent came in to play QB, irrespective of whether they'd ever played the position before in their life.

Having seen the guy today in training, he's got an arm like a flipping cannon. He's fairly accurate too.

This would put him ahead of Russell, Delhomme & Anderson as a starting NFL Qb.

: Fri Oct 02, 2009 11:21 am  

Drachen Feuer wrote:

Orton is a very underrated game managing QB imo. He basically took Chicago to the playoffs in his rookie season before Grossman took over and ballsed things up. He may not have had great numbers, but he ran the offense smoothly.

If Oakland had a competant QB, we'd be a much better team imo.

And running the offence smoothly is what he is doing in Denver at the moment. Mind you it is helping having a decent running game and defence behind him which is something Cutler never had in the whole of last year.

: Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:00 pm  

After going back to having a go of one of my old Madden games yesterday, an old question that i never asked re-surfaced:

why is spiking the ball not considered intentional grounding?

: Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:12 pm  

Need to find an RB for this week, Willie Parker is out and Westbrook on bye, minds you once i get through this week half my team has sat out its bye week