super spider piggy Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Oh yeah! Patriots won, man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groundhog7s Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Oh yeah! Patriots won, man! Yeah, but it'll be interesting to see how next week goes for them. Not that anyone around here will be watching them. Aren't they playing some little team from down south or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 [sarcasm]Well, it won't get people excited like the Ravens/Browns game of last week, but what could? That was a game for the ages![/sarcasm] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsomedevil Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Whipped in Mile High Stadium by the Broncos on Thanksgiving. It ain't lookin' good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirymate Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Lord have mercy. Forced by the geniuses at the NFL to watch both the Lions AND the Raiders on the same day. What, are they TRYING to kill the Thanksgiving football tradition? The Bucs and Browns weren't available? Both Thanksgiving games should be handled like the current Sunday Night game- best matchup of the week. Or maybe move the Pats-Colts game to Thanksgiving. ANYTHING is better than what we got yesterday afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallbreaker2.0 Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 (edited) Whipped in Mile High Stadium by the Broncos on Thanksgiving. It ain't lookin' good! I'm speechless the Giants performance was pathetic. God I miss Spagnuolo that guy was a smurfing defensive Genius. Edited November 28, 2009 by wallbreaker2.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minimadman Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 We will see if the Saints are for real this Sunday. Good luck to all involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groundhog7s Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Somebody's 11-0 now. Nothing like being down 0-17 in the first quarter and coming back to win 35-27. I think the Colts love to give the fans some drama (and make everybody else hate them). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted November 29, 2009 Author Share Posted November 29, 2009 (edited) 17 points aren't much to an offense like that. A few weeks ago the Saints went down by 14 early, and it was the strangest thing when I was thinking to myself--"eh, we'll get that easily." And sure enough. . .with offensive juggernauts like these, you've got to score early and often, or you probably aren't gonna pull out the win. We will see if the Saints are for real this Sunday. Good luck to all involved. Well, if going 10-0 doesn't make you '"for real," then I don't know what could. As for beating the Pats, they are considered by everyone (rightly) as being one of the best in the league, despite their record, so I don't think that a loss to them would mean that they aren't a serious team that can compete for the championship. I hope the Saints will win, but a loss to the most successful current franchise in the NFL won't crush my hopes for them. Edited November 29, 2009 by karamazov80 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groundhog7s Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 As the Colts have progressed over the years, it seems like teams are figuring out ways to stop them in the beginning (basically, finding the element of surprise). Then, when they're figured out, the colts usually can recover and come back. Weird that it was the 5th straight week for them to be down in the fourth and have come back to win. As today went on, by the fourth the Colts looked like as energized as they did at the beginning, but Houston just looked wore out. Now with this game over, I can't wait to see tomorrow night. It should be a nice match up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted November 29, 2009 Author Share Posted November 29, 2009 Houston behaved as some of the Saints opponents have this year. They found that they were able to run all over them in the first half, then they inexplicably change their game plan and start passing more often. Then the Colts score a bit, and the Texans seemed to get spooked which caused them to throw even more out of panic. But running was winning them the game! Getting away from that didn't make any sense to me at all, but I think the Colts are fortunate that they did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minimadman Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Well, if going 10-0 doesn't make you '"for real," then I don't know what could. I'm just saying that the Saints have only played 3 teams with a winning record and this is one of the two (allowing that the Cowboy's don't implode by the time that they play the Saints) the biggest tests they will have all season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 I have no doubt that the Pats will be their biggest test of the regular season (or should be), but I think any team going 10-0 speaks for itself, even if the opponents weren't all playoff caliber teams (though when they played them, some of the teams the Saints played were considered very good--particularly the Jets and Eagles [defensively] early in the season and Giants when they were 5-0 or whatever it was). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super spider piggy Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 I may be late on this, do the Lions have to play every Thanksgiving? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 The Lions and Cowboys play every Thanksgiving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minimadman Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Hey Sam, you mind if I eat this here. *Ahem* The New Orleans Saints are the best team in the NFL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted December 1, 2009 Author Share Posted December 1, 2009 (edited) Well, I think they are "for real," anyway. You don't score 35+ points a game unless you're the real deal offense-wise, in my opinion. But I'm equally impressed with the defense tonight. They've really stepped it up, and getting McKenzie back has been a real treat. He was our best corner for the last few years until he got injured. I didn't even know we had signed McAllister, but hey--the more of these Scottish fellas we get, the merrier. These veterans know what they're doing. But Carney just missed a damn 20 yard field goal or something. There is a reason we cut his lame butt years ago Boy, the Pats sure pour it on when they're ahead, but down like this and Brady is out! I've never seen the Pats do this. Edited December 1, 2009 by karamazov80 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groundhog7s Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 (edited) So it seems the Colts aren't the only undefeated team that can pull it off at the end... And what has happened to the Pats this year? Edited December 6, 2009 by groundhog7s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 (edited) I don't know, but I'm sure it will be more evidence for some Saints haters to question their "goodness." Seems like whenever the Saints beat a "good" team, they start sucking, and people start suggesting that they weren't good when the Saints played them to begin with. Saints weren't really the better team today, in my opinion. The wacky fumble recovery by Meachem, the shanked field goal by the Redskins guy, the fumble by the Redskins in OT, they were all fairly lucky breaks for the Saints. But hey, at the end of the day, a win's a win. I just hope we can keep it up in the playoffs. Now we're playing not to have to play Minnesota in their crap weather in the NFC championship game, so I hope we can keep up the winning in the regular season, too. Though we did win in crap weather today, we didn't play particularly well. Edited December 6, 2009 by karamazov80 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groundhog7s Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 The wacky fumble recovery by Meachem That alone shouldn't have happened. But like you say, at the end of the day/season, all you see is another 1 in the win column. Having watched the Colts enough, there are quite a few of their wins that weren't because they were the best team out there. But that's the nature of the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 (edited) Even apart from today, the Saints have had some squeakers and comebacks, as well. Congrats to us both, though. For today, our teams are both 12-0! That's nuts! It's nice to be a fan of a genuinely good team for once. Edited December 7, 2009 by karamazov80 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groundhog7s Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Yes it is. Sorry you can't be in the club minimadman. But as nice as it is to be a fan of a winning team, I'd love to be a fan of a winning team that doesn't choke in the playoffs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamazov80 Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 Well, madman's team has 3 titles in the last 10 years. I would, of course, trade 20 12-0 seasons for one of those. The Pats are still the team to emulate. And despite how awesome the Colts have been since Manning came aboard, they still just have 1 title. So the Pats fans really have had more to be proud of in recent years than either of us, in my opinion. As for the Colts, though, I fear they will have another title once this year is up. They've been there so many times, that when they have a better than average team (for them), I think they are really going to be the team to beat in the playoffs. For the Saints, this playoff business is still pretty sporadic, and winning is very new. Until Jim Haslett came along circa 2001, the Saints had never won a playoff game. So far, he won one for us, and the Saints won another 1 under Peyton. That's 2 playoff wins in the history of the Saints. Maybe that will be an advantage, since we won't have as much baggage, but that lack of experience under the big-time pressure of the playoffs may not be a good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groundhog7s Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 I don't know who'd be better to win-the team that's always close or the team that comes out of nowhere for a trmendous year. I do know it'd be interesting to see the Saints and Colts against each other though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbpanizzi Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 I am personally a little miffed at the fact that some of the teams that have had great seasons but aren't the Colts, Patriots, or Saints are getting little to no coverage. The Favre and Vikings are a team to be reckoned with and so are the Bengals, yet even if these teams beat the smurf out of a typically great team, it pretty much gets buried. I know we have never had 2 undefeated teams this far into the season, but there are other smurfing teams playing, and why in the hell was my second choice of game Chicago vs St. Louis rather than Cincinati vs Detroit or Saints vs Washington and why the hell would they jump to the next game rather than showing the end of the previous the last 2 minutes of a game mean something not the first 5 of a new game total bullsmurf. I hate FOX broadcasting not just cause of these things but because there are always issues with the broadcast too. [/soapbox] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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