Watching the Pro Bowl…
I find it even more boring than normal, because I have no rooting interest in either team. None of my teams’ players are in it.
At least when they did it by conference, I could root for my conference’s team.
There’s been a few good plays - Beckham had a great catch, Olsen made a great catch in the end zone, and Watt is his usual man amongst boys.
And is anyone surprised that Andy Dalton can’t complete 50% of his passes even against a defense that isn’t really trying?
I just looked up the stats, Luck has a 155.8 qb rating. Quite a change from last week’s 23.0.
Ha! You might be the only person in the nation who is watching it! Beckham is amazing! He is really s superstar of a different caliber.
How does Dalton even make the Pro Bowl? He was the 25th -ranked quarterback in the league this year.
Flacco declined to attend so he was next in line
Gotta agree with you here. I can’t find it at the moment, but IIRC the league’s first statement on Deflategate was that the investigation would be swift and transparent. Fail and fail.
Well thank g*d that’s over.
Gotta go rest up for the 2 feet of snow we are going to get.
Well,they haven’t just been twiddling their thumbs. They’ve been busy. They fined Jermaine Kearse 5.5k for throwing the game winning ball into the stands, fined Lynch 20k for keeping his own balls close at hand, fined Matthews 11k for shaking that hand and fined Lynch another 100k for not wanting to talk about it.
They fined Kearse? The fan who caught the ball returned it, for heaven’s sake.
Yep - it’s the law. You can jump into the stands after a touchdown but not throw the ball in.
15 yard penalty for just holding on to something that belongs to you for a brief time sounds crazy.
When MJ does it as part of half time show it is entertainment.
Maybe he’s just being careful to protect the family jewels?
Isn’t Odell a ton of fun? He made a subpar season really special for us Giants fans.
And look, I’m not saying Eli was his best this year, or stood out particularly, but his numbers stomped all over Andy Dalton’s–don’t know why he was passed over at that point.
Just to be clear, they report everything Harbaugh has to say here and he specifically said there wasn’t anything noticeable about the balls. There is no evidence there was anything about earlier game balls with the Colts or others. There is no evidence outside of a carefully worded speculation that the NFL did a sting. I doubt they did; this is a Championship Game followed by the Super Bowl and it would be extremely stupid to do this. In fact, the history of the league is that they issue a memo after talking to teams about various practices they consider illegal. For example, remember when the Jets were caught walling off the sideline so the gunners on punts couldn’t get by? League warned them not to do that - and of course an assistant coach took the fall for the head coach.
There is no evidence of a “culture of cheating” except for vague statements about stuff they won’t mention but which they insinuate must have happened with no details. There is no evidence of anything at all since the 1st quarter of the 1st game in 2007. There is no evidence the Patriots ever taped any team’s run through and the NFL investigated and said they could not have taped the Rams in 2002. There is nothing but a lot of hot air. Which apparently resists cooling no matter the outside temperature.
As for Eli Manning, he sucked this year. We get Giants games. He was awful many times. Andy Dalton was pretty good much of the time, rarely terrible and occasionally very good. I thought they got it together after the first weeks with the new offense but then they regressed in every phase of the game.
Classy. Jk.
Wow! I’m glad he’s not our problem child anymore
Browner is a Seattle poster child: one of the many PED users under Pete’s program. He was pretty good this year, not great, plays more like a safety than a corner. He’s continuously competitive, a true high effort guy. Refs hit him with flags that other CB’s don’t get because of his general roughness. But every Patriot player brings him without prompting in interviews as a good guy.
I’m actually posting because the NYT put up a fairly long story about Tom Brady in which the writer actually spent substantial time with Tom. His focus is absurd. [url=<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/magazine/tom-brady-cannot-stop.html?partner=rss&emc=rss%5DHere.%5B/url”>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/magazine/tom-brady-cannot-stop.html?partner=rss&emc=rss]Here.[/url]
CMP ATT YDS CMP% AVG TD LNG INT FUM QBR RAT
Manning: 2014 Regular Season 379 601 4,410 63.1 7.34 30 80 14 7 70.9 92.
Dalton: 2014 Regular Season 309 481 3,398 64.2 7.06 19 81 17 3 55.2 83.5
Numbers don’t lie. And ESPN rated Eli seventh overall this season. If I didn’t know you were a Pats fan before… 
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Browner was with the Hawks for three seasons. Has had ongoing issues with drugs that pre & post date the Seahawks, did not play in last years Super Bowl, as well as some other games.