Official 2008-09 NFL thread

**Martok** · 09-08-2008, 04:37

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

Brady is Done for the year. Just made official

Whoot!!

[Martok goes running naked through the streets]

**OverKnight** · 09-08-2008, 09:57

Originally Posted by Martok

Whoot!!

What did Brady ever do to you?

Well besides most likely crushing your team's hopes and dreams at some point.

**Martok** · 09-08-2008, 18:17

It's nothing personal against Brady, or even against the Patriots per se. I just hate the Patriots fanbase -- along with the Red Sox fanbase, the Bruins fanbase, the Celtics fanbase.... You can see the pattern, I'm sure.

No offense to you or any other Bostonians here at the Org, but most of your fellow fans seem to have this sense of entitlement -- as if they think that their sports teams deserve to win the championship every year. Such breathtaking arrogance demands that I wish for failure to all professional New England sport franchises; it is my duty.

**drone** · 09-08-2008, 21:19

OK, now it's official.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3575339

They still haven't said what the injury actually is, but Brady's going under the knife and is being placed on Injured Reserve.

Kind of ironic. Brady has been listed continuously in the injury reports for, what, 3 years running (foot, doubtful IIRC) as a ploy and screw-you to the league office. They took him off for the first game of the year, and he gets a season-ending injury. Don't cry for him though, now he gets to spend lots of time with Gisele.

I, too, await Bill Simmons' column this week. Assuming he didn't jump off a ledge around 2pm yesterday.

The Cowboys were good (or the Browns were just really bad), but they had lots of stupid penalties. They need to work on that or it's going to bite them in a real game. Indy looked meh, Peyton might be rusty but the loss of Saturday really hurt their blocking. The new guy better learn quick.

**Ramses II CP** · 09-09-2008, 14:52

Hey, Russel looked pretty good... for the last ten minutes against the second team D after the game was out of reach. During the, you know, real game he looked like a talentless chump with a bunch of WRs who just checked in off the street.

The Raiders were extremely undisciplined (As usual), the big money players didn't show up, and the defense was soft. It looks even worse than the offseason and preseason made it seem. Whichever RB won the coin toss for that play on the Broncos sideline came in the game and averaged over 5 yards a carry. Cutler's jersey was so clean he's not even going to get it washed before next week.

Hope sprang eternal until I saw 'em in a real game, and now I know they stink. You can say the Broncos always beat us, but this Denver team is younger than ours, with less talent, and they pasted the Raiders at home without looking like they tried too hard.

At least I was right about the Lions?

**naut** · 09-09-2008, 15:18

Cowboys. Nuff said.

**GeneralHankerchief** · 09-09-2008, 16:41

Originally Posted by Ramses II CP

Hey, Russel looked pretty good... for the last ten minutes against the second team D after the game was out of reach. During the, you know, real game he looked like a talentless chump with a bunch of WRs who just checked in off the street.

The Raiders were extremely undisciplined (As usual), the big money players didn't show up, and the defense was soft. It looks even worse than the offseason and preseason made it seem. Whichever RB won the coin toss for that play on the Broncos sideline came in the game and averaged over 5 yards a carry. Cutler's jersey was so clean he's not even going to get it washed before next week.

Hope sprang eternal until I saw 'em in a real game, and now I know they stink. You can say the Broncos always beat us, but this Denver team is younger than ours, with less talent, and they pasted the Raiders at home without looking like they tried too hard.

At least I was right about the Lions?

I'm not giving up hope on the Lions yet. I refuse to believe an offense that good and a coach known for toughness and defense can be this bad.

As for last night, that must have been painful to watch if you were a Raiders fan. Royal absolutely demolished DeAngelo Hall (not that I'm complaining, never liked Hall). If he can do that week after week then Cutler's going to rack up some very high stats with Marshall coming back.

**Martok** · 09-09-2008, 18:09

To my complete lack of surprise, the Vikings lost to the Packers last night in what I can only describe as a comedy of errors on both sides -- the two teams combined committed a whopping 21 penalties for a total of 160 yards.

Still too early to tell whether Tarvaris Jackson can be the Vikes' starting quarterback. He showed pretty good poise in most situations, but still has a tendency to overthrow the ball even when he has time to throw. Of course, that's preferable to him underthrowing it and then getting picked off, but he still has a lot of room for improvement.

On the plus side: Opening the season with a loss means we're that much closer to coach Childress getting punted out of Minnesota. I hope, I hope, I hope....