Gameday begins tomorrow.
Posted on 10/29/2005 8:56:24 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
This hasn't been the happiest NFL season so far. Katrina. New Orleans. The Superdome. Thomas Herrion. Wellington Mara. Lake Minnetonka. Ken Hamlin. Mike Martz. Dwayne Carswell. Owens-McNabb. The ongoing subplot of Tom Benson possibly abandoning New Orleans and moving the Saints to San Antonio, the equivalent of somebody's wife getting into a debilitating car accident, then her husband filing for divorce while she's still in the hospital.
By the way, we're only in Week 8.
So that part has been a little sobering. As for the actual games, can you remember this many yellow flags, late-game screw-ups, coaching brain farts, inept offenses and killer calls that went the wrong way? Other than Colts, Redskins, Giants and Steelers fans, none of the 32 fan bases seems that happy with its respective team (whether it's bad coaching, bad QBs, leaky defenses, crushing injuries, even an inability to beat a certain rival or come through when it truly counts), and an inordinate amount of coaches and quarterbacks have been on the bubble since Week 1. Even from a fantasy standpoint, I can't remember hearing this much complaining before, between Deuce and Dillon, Johnson, Clayton and Burleson, Julius and Kevin Jones, Trent Green and Marc Bulger, Manning and Harrison, Denver's RB platoon, and prolific fantasy serial killer Daunte Culpepper (who wiped out tens of thousands of teams from coast to coast).
So what has been fun about the 2005 season? I'm going with Manning vs. Manning, maybe the most compelling subplot in any sport right now. Forget that an all-Manning Super Bowl could shatter the pregame hype record as we know it, that Archie Manning probably would have to pull a Richard Williams and skip the game or watch it in someone's basement, even that Eli has a chance to legitimately own New York...
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Poor Archie.
Gameday begins tomorrow.
This article touches on an interesting point; Eli and Peyton are both great quarterbacks...but the former doesn't tend to choke up in big moments.
I like Eli and the G-Men to eventually make it to the Big Dance, but they have a few large holes to fill (especially on defense) before that's going to happen. In fact, this is the weakest Giant team on the defensive side of the ball I've seen in quite some time.
The World Champion New Englend Patriots,of course! ;-)
True; it's been so long since the Giants were downright EXCELLENT offensively and so long since the D wasn't upper-echelon 'good' that it seems odd.
Ben Roethlisberger!
Fortunately, we can end this speculation now. Cowboys all the way!!!!
Amen to that, bro!
It isn't just now, but it definitely is worse. Yellow on every play in some of these games (last week's Phi/SD game comes to mind). To quote Hunter S Thompson: REFS ARE RUINING THE GAME!
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