Official 2011-2012 NFL Thread

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ballinouttacntrol said:
def what they were missing last year. this is why you wait til free agency is done to make your playoff predictions. i see this is as significant upgrade if they can bring in a slot reciever to go with boldin and evan
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Yeah making accurate predictions is hard, best time to do it is in week 15 or 16 :D Still don't think there was even anything the Ravens could do to get better then the Steelers.

On a side note, watched the Falcon/Dolphin game. I'm already willing to hang the ROY tag on Julio Jones, some scary talent there.


Go Dolphins!!!
 
Bderick67 said:
Yeah making accurate predictions is hard, best time to do it is in week 15 or 16 :D Still don't think there was even anything the Ravens could do to get better then the Steelers.

On a side note, watched the Falcon/Dolphin game. I'm already willing to hang the ROY tag on Julio Jones, some scary talent there.


Go Dolphins!!!
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i'm not a steelers or ravens fan but the week one match up i'm most looking forward to is ravens vs steelers. The trash talk they've been slinging back and fourth has me amped. my gut has been telling me that this is the year the ravens finally say enough is enough and squeak pass the steelers for one year. seems pitts has gotten a lil cocky. did lamar woodly really need to publicly come out and say the ravens will never win a superbowl with joe flacco? that's fighting words right there
 
Really excited for this year. I like too many teams, but my first is the Niners. I love both PA teams, too, especially the Steelers. Really rooting for the Niners this year and am excited to see if Harbaugh can turn them around, but I would also love an all-PA SuperBowl this year...thought it would happen last year, but alas. My favorite player is still TO, so I hope he goes somewhere good. Whomever he goes to I'll be rooting for also, I just hope it's not the Patriots...I have despised them since Brady has played for them. It's been hard enough rooting for the Cowboys whom I used to loathe and the Bengals. Maybe it'll be the poor Bills' year, lol...didn't mind rooting for them that year.
 
i'm wondering if the niners will purposely throw a season in an attempt to get andrew luck. it's the only logical reason i can come up with for why you would resign alex smith to a one year contract instead of a multi year contract. either you believe in him or you don't. i think they want an excuse to tank, they can always say well look at his history, he's never been a winner, we didn't do this on purpose, we were just giving him one more chance.

it's unfortunete, they have alot of talent in all the skill positions and a great defense in the making. they really need that franchise quarterback to get the ship selling in the right direction.
 
wow osi wow....no wonder he wouldn't take an incentive filled contract, he already knew he was hurt and could have to have surgery. now he shows up to practice and immediately has surgery? The giants were right in their stance of not giving him a new contract with a bunch of guranteed money.

on the colts front, bob sanders looked awesome in san diego. i think they'll get the usual 6 games out of him before injuries derail him yet again. i however do not believe peyton manning will miss a game. that man would have to be dead not to step on the field on opening day. Even if he missed 2-4 games, i think the colts still have enough pieces to win that division. it's not like the jags or texans are scaring anyone. if wade phillips corrects that texan defense maybe...
 
what do you guys think of this hit? it looked legit, wasn't helmet to helmet. but was it unnecesary roughness? should he have been flagged?

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http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/sh...ety-Rahim-Moore-defends-devast?urn=nfl-wp5513

It was unquestionably the hit of the preseason, and not in a good way — when Denver Broncos safety Rahim Moore(notes) leveled Bills receiver Donald Jones(notes) during the Broncos' Saturday win over Buffalo, it put Jones on the turf for several minutes while players from both teams prayed and waited. Fortunately, Jones was able to get up from the hit and walk off the field.
"I was being a football player," Moore said after the game. "I couldn't really get to the ball to pick it off, which is what I really wanted to do. But my intention was just to hit him. Our coaches want us to be physical, so I'm going to do what I do."
The Bills didn't agree — especially fellow Buffalo receiver Stevie Johnson(notes), who had a few words for Moore after the play.
That's the disconnect with pro football right now -- the speed of the game requires players to make major hits, whether the league likes it or not, and there are cases in which players collide unintentionally in ways that leave one or more players laid out. It's a byproduct of the game, like it or not.
"I didn't even know I was flagged until I ran to the sideline," Moore said. "If it was the wrong thing to do, I apologize, but at the end of the day, I mean no harm to nobody."
But again, the play was as much about the inevitable case of the NFL collisions. Moore was flagged for the play, but the thought process the NFL is carrying through when it comes to hard hits may be fundamentally flawed, and this is a good example.
"I'm not going to fault him. I don't think it was helmet to helmet," Broncos head coach Fox said after the game.
I would agree -- it looked like Moore was leading with his shoulder.
You decide after watching the hit above, dear reader — was Moore in the wrong, or was this yet another example of the NFL trying to legislate an impossible inevitability?
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Haven't seen the NFL fine Moore yet and I don't think they should. I was watching the game and at first view I though it was late, so I understand the flag. After seeing the replay, IMO if the buffalo receiver would learn to catch, the NFL would be showing that play over and over as the best hit of the weekend. Moore had good technique and put his shoulder into the chest of the receiver, yes the helmets touched but you have that on most any play. This was not a case of the DB leading with his helmet.
 
Did anyone else notice that the NFL has gotten a little soft this year for some rules and has become pretty brutal for others? For example, apparently if a defense man can get both arms wrapped around a quarterback while he still has the ball, then the ball is considered dead even if the quarterback isn't actually tackled to the ground (not sure if it counts as a sack or not, though).

I look forward to the MFK Fantasy Football League draft on Sunday (?); this should be a good season.

Also, go Steelers! :grinno:
 
about the video of the hit, based on what they said last year, that would be considered hitting a defenseless player. they showed plenty of examples of very similar hits last year, it has nothing to do with leading with your helmet
 
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