Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:00 am  

14-0 down already

Bye bye Mush. I better change my profile pic

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:08 am  

Surely F5/Free/the guy you said was better than Brady at the same stage of their respective careers last season will turn it around

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:14 am  

I'm off to watch the rest in bed anyway. I'd go play on Madden but it still hasn't turned up yet

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:27 am  

Laurent Robinson. FML. That is all.

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:35 am  

Hey, i'm going to shock a few of you here. This team is a lot worse than the 2009 Bucs that went 3-13.

That team had no talent but played hard. This team has some talent but doesn't want to play.

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:37 am  

LFCPatriotRhino wrote:

Surely F5/Free/the guy you said was better than Brady at the same stage of their respective careers last season will turn it around

I said statistically he was better, which he was. Yes, Brady won a SB but have you seen the protection and the weapons Josh Freeman has? Brady would struggle to do anything with this team.

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:52 am  

If any of you watch the game tomorrow, look how decent we look on O in the 3rd and 4th when Olsen is relieved of the play calling and Freeman takes over in a no huddle. It helps prove my point about Olsen a bit.

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:37 am  

The Bucs were terrible - I've watched bits of a few games, but didn't realise just how bad they were. Last night they looked as poor as we've done this year.

I wouldn't take too much notice of the 2nd half to be honest. With a 28-0 lead, Dallas were always going to take their foot off the gas and go more conservative. As soon as there was a sniff of a comeback they stepped it up again.

It's funny that the commentators were saying that they're a team not built to come from behind, yet people were going on about all the 4th quarter comebacks that Freeman led last season.

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:03 am  

Harrigan wrote:

If any of you watch the game tomorrow, look how decent we look on O in the 3rd and 4th when Olsen is relieved of the play calling and Freeman takes over in a no huddle. It helps prove my point about Olsen a bit.

Who do you think scripts the No Huddle? Freeman has been bobbins this year, just admit it. Massive step back. If you can somehow get Blackmon in the draft he may improve again next year. No matter how bad the playcalling is, Freeman still hasn't been executing and the numbers back that up.

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Sun Dec 18, 2011 4:16 pm  

Kris Radlinski's summary of the Tampa game: Once we got back to the houses, it was a quick change as we were going to the ball game. I had managed to make contact with a very helpful lady at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and she sorted me out with tickets to the Bucs v the Dallas Cowboys game. What an experience. The American national anthem blasted out and I looked around at our boys staring around at the packed stadium in awe of the place. The Americans know how to do things well. Obviously there is huge money out here due to the popularity and sponsorship but they really engage fans. A day out at the game is more than just what happens on the field, it is an experience. The actual playing time is 4x15 minute quarters but the event lasts over three hours. Fans win cars, the cheerleaders are ridiculously talented (performance related I mean) (yeah right) and fireworks explode all through the game. At one end of the ground there is even a huge life size pirate ship firing t shirts into the crowd and pirates throwing mardi gras beads off it.. It was a brilliant sight. It got me thinking as to what we could install at the bottom of the DW stadium. Maybe a giant pie firing meat and potatoe filling!!! From the excellent pre-season blog

Kris Radlinski's summary of the Tampa game: Once we got back to the houses, it was a quick change as we were going to the ball game. I had managed to make contact with a very helpful lady at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and she sorted me out with tickets to the Bucs v the Dallas Cowboys game. What an experience. The American national anthem blasted out and I looked around at our boys staring around at the packed stadium in awe of the place. The Americans know how to do things well. Obviously there is huge money out here due to the popularity and sponsorship but they really engage fans. A day out at the game is more than just what happens on the field, it is an experience. The actual playing time is 4x15 minute quarters but the event lasts over three hours. Fans win cars, the cheerleaders are ridiculously talented (performance related I mean) (yeah right) and fireworks explode all through the game. At one end of the ground there is even a huge life size pirate ship firing t shirts into the crowd and pirates throwing mardi gras beads off it.. It was a brilliant sight. It got me thinking as to what we could install at the bottom of the DW stadium. Maybe a giant pie firing meat and potatoe filling!!! From the excellent pre-season blog