Posted on 12/01/2016 11:09:07 AM PST by Red Badger
It’s been a rather strange 2016 season in the NFL. Teams expected to be among the top contenders (Colts and Packers) are fighting for their playoff lives, while teams not expected to do much (Raiders and Cowboys) sit atop their divisions and look to secure home-field advantage.
Such unpredictability helps make the NFL exciting and fun each year.
Two playoff contenders, the Cowboys and Vikings, will battle it out on Thursday Night Football this week. The Cowboys own the NFC East with the best record in the NFL (10-1). They’re also riding a 10-game winning streak thanks to rookie quarterback Dak Prescott and rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott. The Cowboys look to continue their momentum against the Vikings, who they haven’t defeated in Minnesota since 1995.
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This might be their year. It’s hard to overstate how surprising — and impressive — the Cowboys’ rise has been. Tony Romo is now the quarterback of the past in Dallas, and Prescott is clearly the future. Additionally, Elliott leads the league with 1,199 yards on the ground and could break the NFL rookie record for most rushing yards in a season.
Outspoken wide receiver Dez Bryant, who has just 33 receptions for 550 yards this season, has been a popular target for Prescott as of late. Bryant has 18 receptions and three touchdowns in the last three games. A big reason for the Cowboys’ success, of course, is their offensive line, possibly the best in football.
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The 2016 Vikings haven’t been nearly as consistent. Losing starting QB Teddy Bridgewater and star running back Adrian Peterson early on, the team was all but left for dead. And yet they won their first five games. Acquiring Sam Bradford, the Eagles’ talented and injury-prone passer, certainly helped, as did a stout and stingy defense.Then they lost their next four games and split their last two to end up trailing the Lions in the NFC North hunt. The Vikings still hope to make a playoff run, and the schedule beyond the Cowboys game seems favorable. But there is significant work to be done if Minnesota is to be considered a championship-caliber team. Peterson’s return in the coming weeks should help if the playoffs remain within reach.
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Players, such as Stefon Diggs, Kyle Rudolph, and Adam Thielen, have stepped up to help the offense in Peterson’s absence. But it has been an uphill battle.
Bradford landed on the Vikings’ injury report Monday with an ankle issue that limited his practice time. The star quarterback will be needed, and needed at full strength, Thursday night. Cornerback Captain Munnerlyn and safety Harrison Smith also sat out of practice on Monday. Neither has been ruled out for Thursday, and the injury-riddled Vikings hope to have both players against the Cowboys’ high-powered attack.
The depleted Vikings hope they have enough on offense and defense to take down the NFL’s best team. They don’t. The Cowboys shouldn’t have a problem winning their 11th in a row on Thursday.
Prediction: Dallas Cowboys 32 – Minnesota Vikings 21
First TRUMP WINS THE ELECTION!
Second CUBS win the WORLD SERIES!
Third Fidel Castro is DEAD!
Now my COWBOYS on 10-1 win streak!..................GO COWBOYS!..............
Dak Atttack!
Are we caring about the NFL now?
Go Dallas!
(posted by a Minnesotan too...!)
Who cares?
The National Football League forgot what nation they are the football league of.
Jerry doesn’t put up with any of that BLM disrespectful kneeling at the anthem BS.........He told his players, this is MY STAGE AND MY STADIUM, you will NOT disrespect the flag or the national anthem on MY DIME............
How dare you... I bet members of the Met Council will be watching from their free suite box. ;-)
MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF US FORMER nfl FANS HAVE GIVEN UP, AND WILL CONTINUE GIVING UP WATCHING AND SUPPORTING THE nfl ENTIRELY IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM, UNLESS AND UNTIL THE nfl ACKNOWLEDGES ITS COLLECTIVE GUILT AND DIRECT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PROBLEM AND THE SUBSEQUENT BOYCOTT; AND TOTALLY RECTIFIES THE SITUATION BY PENALIZING, PUNISHING AND REMOVING THESE HATE-FILLED, ANTI-AMERICAN, P.C., RACIST, PLAYERS, MANAGERS, COACHES, SPONSORS AND STAFF FROM PARTICIPATING IN THE nfl.
OUR CONSCIENTIOUS CHOICE TO HABITUALLY BOYCOTT THE nfl WILL CONTINUE TO GROW UNABATED, EXPONENTIALLY, UNTIL THE nfl AS A SPORT AND INSTITUTION EITHER PUTS THE ABOVE, PRO-AMERICA, ANTI RACIST, ANTI "P.C." ACTIONS AND POLICIES IN PLACE OR IT DIES DUE TO TOTAL FINANCIAL COLLAPSE!
BY THE WAY; Y E S, I AM YELLING BECAUSE THE nfl HAS DISRESPECTED, HUMILIATED, AND ANGERED AMERICA AND THE nfl's E N T I R E FAN BASE LONG ENOUGH! By your own actions you have "awoken a sleeping giant and filled him with 'terrible resolve'!"
Simply put: "WE'RE AS MAD AS BLAZES, AT THE ANTI-AMERICAN nfl AND ITS ENABLER SPONSORS AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!"
Now that Greg Hardy is gone, I can actually pull for the Cowboys again.
Jerry Jones does irk me. But, I got to admit that the man does love his team, and I LIKE THAT!
I also love Romo. If he gets traded to a playoff contender, it could get very interesting.
Ah, but the NFL shares revenue, so you can’t support one team without supporting all of them.
Die-hard, decades-long Patriots and Dallas fan. Both teams have incredible win streaks going but I haven’t watched two seconds of ANY nfl games this year and have no intention of watching any, including the worthless “super toilet bowl” “starring” the perverse “lady blah, blah”.
The NFL, their SPONSORS, commissioner, owners, managers, thug-players and staff have continually chosen to side with “P.C.”, anti-American, black-racist, hate cops, hate America, hate our nation’s flag, hate our national anthem, hate our nation’s service men, hate whitey, “Only Black Lives Matter”, communist, leftist, anarchist lunatics over the NFL’s America loving, American-citizen fan base.
MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF US FORMER nfl FANS HAVE GIVEN UP, AND WILL CONTINUE GIVING UP WATCHING AND SUPPORTING THE nfl ENTIRELY IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM, UNLESS AND UNTIL THE nfl ACKNOWLEDGES ITS COLLECTIVE GUILT AND DIRECT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PROBLEM AND THE SUBSEQUENT BOYCOTT; AND TOTALLY RECTIFIES THE SITUATION BY PENALIZING, PUNISHING AND REMOVING THESE HATE-FILLED, ANTI-AMERICAN, P.C., RACIST, PLAYERS, MANAGERS, COACHES, SPONSORS AND STAFF FROM PARTICIPATING IN THE nfl.
OUR CONSCIENTIOUS CHOICE TO HABITUALLY BOYCOTT THE nfl WILL CONTINUE TO GROW UNABATED, EXPONENTIALLY, UNTIL THE nfl AS A SPORT AND INSTITUTION EITHER PUTS THE ABOVE, PRO-AMERICA, ANTI RACIST, ANTI “P.C.” ACTIONS AND POLICIES IN PLACE OR IT DIES DUE TO TOTAL FINANCIAL COLLAPSE!
BY THE WAY; Y E S, I AM YELLING BECAUSE THE nfl HAS DISRESPECTED, HUMILIATED, AND ANGERED AMERICA AND THE nfl’s E N T I R E FAN BASE LONG ENOUGH! By your own actions you have “awoken a sleeping giant and filled him with ‘terrible resolve’!”
Simply put: “WE’RE AS MAD AS BLAZES, AT THE ANTI-AMERICAN nfl AND ITS ENABLER SPONSORS AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!”
There have been rumors, Broncos were looking, but that’s just the rumor mill............
Yes you can. Only certain revenue is shared................
They get a free sky box?..............
This game might actually be good enough to bring a
temporary pause in the NFL ratings collapse.
How is the Vikings’ coach doing?
I heard he had to undergo emergency eye surgery.
Nice rant.
I’ve been a Green Bay Packers fan since they were World Champions in 1966, pre-Stupid Bowl.
I still have the team calendar photo.
Have not watched one game this year.
It’s been in the news lately people in the stadium commission were dealing out the sky box seats as favors.
to paraphrase an old Red Sox writer:
Football is not life or death,
but the Cowboys are.
Favor$?
Political Favor$ you $ay?
I’m $hocked!
$hocked, I $ay!...............
You haven't missed anything.............
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