<p>I am four points ahead of my opponent, who has a WR in this last game. Zero points for him so far. Hoping the second half will be just as awful.</p>
<p>Well, the Chargers are looking up.</p>
<p>OMG!!! This stupid game “made” me stay up to watch the finish. I love the implosion. Cardinals will win!!! </p>
<p>I have officially watched way too much football this weekend and will have a serious football hangover tomorrow. I am out of town next weekend so will be officially on the wagon until Seattle/Denver on the 21st.</p>
<p>I fell asleep then woke up for the last three minutes. I won, 100-99. Phew.</p>
<p>@saintfan talk about a football hangover, but you don’t have school like I do. 
And congrats @Youdon’tsay Cutting it a little bit close arent’t we?</p>
<p>Well I didn’t really have a dog in the hunt - I just wanted mass ineptitude since both team are in our division. I guess on that score I won. (
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<p>The handwringing has started all over again in New York over the confounding NY Giants. Once again, Eli looked dazed and confused. Whole team looked like they had no fighting spirit.</p>
<p>As for Rice, the 24-hour news cycle indignation is annoying to me. I mean, what’s new here? It was clear 6 months ago that he knocked his wife unconscious. LaMas has it right.</p>
<p>It wasn’t clear what happened until the video appeared showing that he struck her. Before that, all that was seen by most was a video of him pulling her out of the elevator. You have no way of knowing whether she had passed out, or what had happened. Now they do. One online comment yesterday from somewhere said that the Ravens action was taken because the new video didn’t support what Rice had said had happened. Not sure if thats accurate or not.</p>
<p>The Lions played a pretty good game, and the Giants just were a day late and dollar short on all of the important plays. Couldn’t make first downs, and couldn’t stop Detroit from making them, even when they had long yardage situations. It would be nice for the Lions to achieve something this year. They really haven’t had many decent teams in the last 45 years. Stafford is a dangerous QB.</p>
<p>If you watch the ESPN special “Book of Manning”, what will stand out for you is that Archie was a great deal more athletic than either Peyton or Eli. The boys have height, great arms, and so-so speed and agility. They are not equipped to do much scrambling. They need a good line, and a good passing scheme that creates the right set of options for them. </p>
<p>I loved “The Book of Manning”-- I laughed so much at the videos of the boys when they were little (and Peyton, who I like, was always crying and whining. So funny). </p>
<p>Yikes. I also won my FF by one point. Against my husband. Who is a little cranky about it. The less said about in our house the better. </p>
<p>I was listening to talk radio today and people were making some interesting comments. One person said the NFL established the rule of 6 game suspension for domestic violence but they suspended Rice indefinitely. Another person said that the reason Mike Vick was able to return to the NFL was because no videos surfaced showing him killing dogs. </p>
<p>My sister is in a last man standing pool where you pick the winner of each game and when you guess wrong, you’re out. </p>
<p>She’s now one of 4 left standing after the first week. Almost everyone went out on the Jets game. She picked Jets lol </p>
<p>I don’t know much about Stafford but I was impressed with him. He seemed to have really good pocket presence but was able to scramble and keep his eyes down field as well, I also liked his demeanor in the post game interview. He really seemed (from that small sample) like a good guy and didn’t have some of the annoying qualities of some of the other prominent QBs (even the “good guys”).</p>
<p>Dadx, I understand that Rice admitted in court last spring that he knocker her unconscious, but I have not seen the text of the court proceedings.</p>
<p>The Rice Affair is starting to get even more ugly because now Mrs. Rice is upset at the media coverage and blames the public for not letting the story fade away. She’s heading toward the ‘victim syndrome,’
blaming everyone but the perp. And she lost me, sort of, when she talked about ‘Ravens Nation.’ Huh. Lady, this ain’t about football games anymore.</p>
<p>Regarding the Mannings; Archie Manning was a greatly underappreciated pro quarterback, mostly because he played for an absolutely dreadful team. If he had been drafted by the 1970s Steelers or Dolphins for example, he may not have had astronomical numbers but he would have won many, many more games than he did with the Saints, whose best Manning finish was 8-8 and they did that only once. But the guy was phenonmenal when he had protection and somebody who could actually catch the ball (to paraphrase Giselle Bunchen, LOL).</p>
<p>Correction . . . I was so fixated on the fact that “we” play the Chargers next week that I said they were in our division. It’s that other blue and yellow team! </p>
<p>It is hard to see her blaming the NFL for taking football away from the husband who she loves rather than blaming him for throwing away the opportunity. It is a good lesson for the public (if we are willing to learn it) about how that psychology of abuse works. That she now says “it’s fine leave us alone” doesn’t mean it’s actually fine. I do think that it’s important to draw a line in the sand for the future and say that isn’t OK. Young people coming up need to see that.</p>
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<p>Yep. Textbook domestic violence response. </p>
<p>razor, I also heard someone make that observation, that the league’s new rule is 1st offense - 6 games, 2nd offense - lifetime ban – so what that heck is this indefinite suspension? It smells to me like a panic move – they knew they had to do SOMETHING – and yet a refusal to accept the seriousness of domestic violence. “Surely we don’t really have to permanently ban a talented player? Over a woman problem?? Not REALLY??”</p>
<p>Last night TMZ was making noises that they have evidence that the NFL had possession of the elevator video. Will be interesting to see if there’s an email floating around somewhere. If so, that’s the end of Goodell.</p>
<p>Another indicator that the NFL is completely at sea about this – Why was Harbaugh pushed out front yesterday to make the announcement and take questions? Why not someone from the front office? Too cowardly, I guess.</p>
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<p>The guys on the radio were saying the Raven’s leadership met and made the decision without first consulting the NFL. Later the NFL added additional sanction. (I’m not sure if I understood what the additional sanction was). </p>
<p>One reporter said that Raven’s management did not come out after Harbaugh spoke because he did a good job of explaining the team’s position, etc. Yea right. I would not want my face associated with this scandal either. Letting Harbaugh take the lead would be fine with me. </p>
<p>They are now offering a jersey exchange</p>
<p>I don’t know why we need the in-elevator video. A man and a 215-pound guy with muscles on his muscles go into an elevator during an altercation. The man emerges at another floor, roughly dragging the obviously unconscious woman. What do we THINK happened? How do we THINK she got unconscious? Was it the fairies?</p>
<p>And then, ask yourself if you were in an elevator with a person you loved, and suddenly they became unconscious without your intervention. What would you do? Would it not involve concern, calling for help and calling 911? Wouldn’t you squat down at the level of their face, and talk to them? If you were an NFL player, obviously a strong man, wouldn’t you pick up your wife/fiancee and cradle her in your arms as you took her out of the elevator on your way to the emergency room?</p>
<p>Or would you just drag your loved one out of the elevator?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t need the elevator video, but apparently the Ravens and the NFL did. </p>