<p>Wilson dropped due to his height, not his talent or character concerns.
Deion was taken with the 5th pick not at the “end of the first round”.</p>
<p>I stand corrected. During the '89 (?) draft, I thought I remember Deion’s stock falling due to some sort of rumor or something.</p>
<p>If Chiefs can win against the Titans next week, they have 3 in a row at home (Oak, Hou, Cle) and thus a decent chance at an 8-0 start.</p>
<p>Great ending. Falcons nearly tie it after being down by 17 with about 5 minutes to go.</p>
<p>Do you Remember how L.C. Greenwood wore gold high tops as one of the ends on the Steelers’ “Steel Curtain” defense of the 1970s?</p>
<p>His passing leaves Joe Greene as the only surviving member of the front four.</p>
<p>[Obituary:</a> L.C. Greenwood / Big part of Steelers’ Steel Curtain - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette](<a href=“http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/steelers/former-steeler-lc-greenwood-dies-at-67-705428/]Obituary:”>http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/steelers/former-steeler-lc-greenwood-dies-at-67-705428/)</p>
<p>I hadn’t heard about L.C. Greenwood, thanks for posting that.</p>
<p>Reports are that Vince Wilfork has a torn Achilles and is out for the year… that’s a real shame.</p>
<p>The Giants offense was absolutely awful. 1 of 14 or so on 3rd down. They hit one play, a long TD to Victor Cruz - on which he pushed off, but oh well, whatever, never mind. </p>
<p>The collapse by Houston was pathetic. That is the kind of thing that wrecks a season … or which leads to more resolve and improvement. </p>
<p>Pittsburgh is now a team with a reputation, more “the guys who used to be”. They have plenty of offensive weapons but can only put it together for short stretches. My thoughts about Rapelisberger continue to be mixed: he can extend plays and often makes terrific throws, but he makes some very bad decisions and his extending of plays seems to break down the line’s ability to run plays. I mean most plays are run with a time intended, like this should take x seconds to develop, but when he doesn’t make a quick throw, which is often, the line has no idea what will happen. That can’t be good for most offensive linemen. They don’t know where the QB will be or whether they need to hold their block in this direction or that or if they’re moving their man in the right or wrong way. He isn’t a real pocket passer - like Ryan or Brady or Manning - who is in an area and you can count on to move around in that area so you know where you need to protect. </p>
<p>I wish I were more impressed with Denver’s start. It’s that I’ve seen this so many times from Manning. And I’ve seen this from other high-flying offenses, from NE to Green Bay to NO: when coverages get tight and the throws get harder, the decision-making changes. That to me is where Peyton has consistently failed in big games: his decision-making is fantastic when it’s all flowing. I remember well that he performed well in the only Colts’ Super Bowl run by dinking and dunking against Baltimore and then Chicago, playing unlike himself.</p>
<p>I watched the hit on DE Michael Bennett of the seahawks. He went out on a stretcher. It didn’t look pretty. The good news, however, is that he appears to be ok and will return to the team. I love football, but it really is scary sometimes.</p>
<p>Although I was glad to see it, I was surprised that Matt Schaub threw that really bad pass to enable the seahawks to take it to overtime. He is such a good quarterback most of the times.</p>
<p>Detroit looked like a real football team yesterday.</p>
<p>Patriots offense continues to improve by leaps and bounds every week.</p>
<p>Pats are proving why they are one of the best coached teams in football, they lost all their receivers, and find a way to win, instead of whining. Yeah, helps you have Tom Brady, but they were shaky, but have improved and are functioning. They should fire their GM because they let welker go when they knew they had lost hernandez, gronk was questionable and amadola, well, is about as resilient as a piece of tissue paper in the rain.</p>
<p>BTW, with the seahawks vs SF they set a modern noise record, it was something like 136.5 db, which is incredible (to give you an id, the Who used to routinely play at 125 db with their amplification level), and that is incredibly loud, surprised fans didn’t bleed from the ears. </p>
<p>The excessive crowd noise rule was put in a while ago, I remember a pre season game in NO where they were calling it every other play and in the regular season it wasn’t called. The rule does exist, but it isn’t called, and I seem to recall the owners basically all complained it ruined the game, etc. At every stadium they encourage fans to yell when the opposing team is on offense, and it is up to the offense to adjust to it, when the Jets played seattle several years ago in Seattle they pumped in loud music at their training facility to bring the level up to crowd noise, to acclimatize the offense. It is no different then warm weather teams when playing a cold weather team flying early and practicing in the cold, it is about adapting. About the only argument I can see about trying to cut crowd noise isn’t the players, it is about the fans themselves, 136 db is well above levels that can cause permanent hearing damage…</p>
<p>Kind of funny the way the season is playing out, the NFC west is strong, and the NFC east might see an 8-8 team take the division. </p>
<p>The other thing of course is Peyton manning, Denver is absolutely scary, they have the potential to run the table and do what NE failed to and only Miami did, have a perfect season. Once Champ Bailey and Vonn miller come back, their defense is only going to be better. Barring Manning getting knocked out because of injury, they are the team to beat IMO.</p>
<p>0-4 Bucs are on a sinking ship. Bye week coming up…could be bye bye time for some coaches or players.</p>
<p>^ If the goal is to win a Super Bowl, a team is far better off losing a game. The pressure and hype reach such extreme levels it becomes hard to function. You become the “Super Bowl” for every team you play.</p>
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They have no GM; Belichick fills that role. They signed Amendola after Welker signed with Denver, and long before the Hernandez thing happened. The split with Welker was basically over $1 mil in guaranteed money, which seems pretty stupid, but that is how they do business - they assign a value, and won’t go over it. </p>
<p>There’s been plenty of players who have walked from the Patriots because they couldn’t squeeze top dollar out of the team.</p>
<p>Yeah, NE does that kind of thing, this year it bit them. They were lucky to be playing weak teams and with Atlanta they aren’t exactly a barn burner this year, they have looked pretty sloppy, compared to the hype about them. Amandola was not a good take, the guy is hurt so much he is useless IMO, as a GM I would never sign him. </p>
<p>As far as Tampa Bay being 0 and whatever, I am glad, I don’t like Greg Schiano, I think he is an arrogant jerk, and the team reflects him, their defense is dirty, they rank up there with Tennessee when they had finegan, and with Detroit as well, and I think that reflects the coach and his attitude. I suspect he will survive this year, but if they don’t do anything by next year, he is going to be toast.</p>
<p>Most players that the Pats have let walk over money have not gone on to comparable success at their new team, with Welker being an exception after 4 games.</p>
<p>Their track record with this is pretty good over the years.</p>
<p>The win over Atlanta was legit, who has had a killer early schedule. The combined records of the three teams that Atlanta has lost to will be 11-1 after tonight’s game. All of their games have been close. Julio Jones is a beast. He is killing it on my FF team.</p>
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<p>Not a surprise to see Lane Kiffen gone. My D tells me that a lot of the curbs on campus labeled “fire lane” had “Kiffen” painted on the end. </p>
<p>I was somewhat shocked to see loss of scholarships reduced for Penn State, while upheld for USC. There are dozens of abused children who may disagree with the NCAA on that one. As a mom, I know I do.</p>
<p>No, they signed Amendola immediately after Welker turned down their offer and signed with Denver.</p>
<p>They had clearly been negotiating with both, though.</p>
<p>Welker turned down 2 yrs/$16 mil for 2012-2013 and so got franchised in 2012 for $9.something mil. He wound up signing for 2 yrs/$12 mil, so he and his agent clearly overestimated his market value.</p>
<p>It’s hard to blame him when Vincent Jackson got $11 mil/yr and schlubs like Pierre Garcon got 5 years/$40+ mil. It’s curious no one stepped up to beat $6 mil for two years for the receptions leader over the last 5 years; it seems most teams don’t value the slot receiver position all that much. Amendola got 5 yrs/$31 mil but only $10 mil guaranteed.</p>
<p>We’ll find out how good Washington Huskies truly are this year in the next two weeks: Stanford and Oregon in back-to-back weeks.
Will Northwestern pull the upset on OhioState?</p>
<p>Do you believe Silas Redd is still happy he left Penn State?</p>
<p>how do feel about UConn AD Manuel ousting Coach Pasqualoni after Huskies 4th quarter field goal loss to Michigan? Too early in the season?</p>
<p>Saints were mighty impressive, I want to see what they do on the road the next two weeks at Chicago and New England.The Dec. 2 Saints at Seahawks Monday nighter could be the biggest game of the season, with home-field in the NFC on the line.
Did not realize until last night that the Saints with Brees are 9-0 on Monday night.</p>
<p>Week 6 NFL:
Thursday (Bills at Browns) and Monday (Jets at Falcons) are both stinkers.
Some excellent early Sunday games, though:
Saints at Bears — Can New Orleans win on the road?
Lions at Packers — another loss could be a killer for Green Bay**
Patriots at Bengals — Cincinnati 2-0 at home, 0-2 on the road
Seahawks at Colts — is Indy for real?
Chiefs at Titans — is either team for real?
Broncos at Cowboys, the late CBS game, should be good
Sunday nighter — 49ers at Texans — is not as exciting as it seemed a few weeks back.
Then there’s the Chargers at Raiders midnight special, which was moved to 9:30 p.m. PDT due to the A’s Saturday night home playoff game.
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December 15, 1991* … the last time the Lions won in Wisconsin. Will the streak continue?</p>
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<p>If the rankings were not utterly East Coast, and especially Southeasternly, biased, more people would understand how competitive the Pac-12 really is.</p>
<p>As it stands, teams with creampuff schedules will in the discussions for the national championship despite playing nobody through the end of the year. Clemson anyone? Year after year, it is the same story … the preseason rankings decide the “contenders” and reward some average teams that will play other average teams. One loss teams are never eliminated because their loss was against a “quality” team.</p>
<p>In the meantime, teams in the PAC12 are extremely competitive and have to have perfect season, and this in spite of a brutal schedule. </p>
<p>This type of competition will remain a joke until a full-blown playoff system starts.</p>
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<p>That is true overall but they have plenty of questionable signings/draftings trying to replace those people that they would not pay market price for. It seems they waste a lot of money and resources replacing those players at the same time. Overall, maybe they come out ahead but maybe not by that much given all they needed was maybe a little more each year to win it all. For example, they would not sign Asante Samuel to a large contract but they end up over several years paying and drafting for a replacement without any success, meanwhile that was their biggest hole they have as a team. Without Brady, maybe the whole picture is quite different with how they went about things.</p>
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<p>Depending on who you talk to, the story might be different. But Welker camp contends that he wanted the Patriots to match Denver, but the Patriots had Amendola as a leverage and said take a couple millions less or we go with Amendola. Who turned who down? I am not sure.</p>
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<p>The losses of scholarships are a joke. The return of the scholarships to PSU is just one more scandalous decision in a series of scandals. </p>
<p>And, there is no bigger scandal that having seen PSU play televised football last season. Shameful decision by the spineless NCAA to not impose the death penalty, and even more shameful decision by the TV networks to broadcast a single second of the PSU games.</p>