Originally posted by forumcrew
Morris will carry the ball more than Duckett. Duckett is there for short yardage packages, although I would like to see Weaver as the short yardage runner with Schmitt blowing people up in front of him. The run game really is improved from last year. I will take healthy julius over whatever the hell you want to call Shaun from last year. Also the oline is better. Mike Whale is a very good LG coming over from Carolina and allows Sims to move over to RG where he will be more effective. As long as Spencer can be healthy at C I actually feel good about our Oline again, although depth is still a large issue there.WR however does scare me. Branch is out basically the season, Engram wont get no the field at least until week 5 after the bye. So this leaves Burelson to step up as the #1 and a couple second year guys out of Auburn who need to emerge quickly.
It might be improved, but its Julius Jones. He was good, but somehow his confidence and his ability to actual find a hole left.
Originally posted by forumcrew
Panthers
Back in June, I was thinking that they might be the surprise NFC team this year, with the Jets being the one from the AFC. Now with Favre, it may not be that much of a "surprise" if they make the playoffs.
Actually, I almost put Carolina on my list instead of Seattle. 😛
So I was thinking a while back if the packers really wont trade in the division why dont the vikings just work out a deal with a team out of the division to have them trade for favre and then turn around trade them for him. Well watching a bit of the pre season game last night I found out what they wouldnt work. One of the terms of the trade of Favre to the Jets was that if they traded him to the NFC North they would have to give the Packers THREE 1st round draft picks.
Originally posted by forumcrew
I kind of wanted to pick the Browns... considered anyone but the Ravens, and I wanted to find a way to not pick the Steelers so settled on a Bengals re-emergence.
But I can see not picking them. Honestly, we had a cupcake schedule last year, our QB is still a question mark IMO. We upgraded our front seven but if we have 1 injury to a corner, now that Holly went down, we could be very screwed. I think McDonald and Wright will be fine but one injury could hurt us badly.
Originally posted by forumcrew
So I was thinking a while back if the packers really wont trade in the division why dont the vikings just work out a deal with a team out of the division to have them trade for favre and then turn around trade them for him. Well watching a bit of the pre season game last night I found out what they wouldnt work. One of the terms of the trade of Favre to the Jets was that if they traded him to the NFC North they would have to give the Packers THREE 1st round draft picks.
What an awesome move.
Favre for three first round picks.
Of course, that wouldn't be the best considering that would cost them a bajillion dollars in contracts, but atleast you could trade one of those picks for another player.
Originally posted by Smasandian
What an awesome move.Favre for three first round picks.
Of course, that wouldn't be the best considering that would cost them a bajillion dollars in contracts, but atleast you could trade one of those picks for another player.
Well they are already getting the initial picks from the Jets, the 3 1st rounders would be extra on top of that if the jets ever decide to trade him to the nfc north. To be honest these poison pill clauses are BS in my eyes. Teams do this a lot to get around the system.
Minnesota and Seattle is the easiest example to use. When Hutch was offered his 7 year 49 mill deal by the vikings, seattle had the right to match it to keep him. Unforuntately the vikings prevented this by putting a clause in the contract that he had to be the highest paid O-lineman on his team or his entire 7 year deal became instantly guaranteed. They did this because Seattle has Walter Jones who is the best LT in the game (or one of them) and is paid like it.
So Seattle turns around and offeres the exact same contract to Burelson with a clause that says something like he cant play more than 3 games in the state of minnesota or else his entire contract is guaranteed.
Originally posted by Smasandian
Yesh, thats crazy.A bajillion dollars is **** lot of money. Its real, check Wikipedia.....hahaha.
But in reality, 3 first rounders would cost a fortune.
yea they would, but would be in consecutive years not all at once. But still would get expensive over a 3 year period signing 6 first rounders. never would happen though jets would rather cut him than do that.
Even that would be expansive.
Anyways, I have an idea. Bot and I years ago played this game on where we choose each team's place in standings, playoff winners, players of year (ROY, Off, Def) and leading rusher.
After that we totaled the points of it to see who did the best. 1 point for each correct standing, 1 point for each correct playoff match, 2 points for each correct playoff winner, 5 for superbowl, and 5 for each award category.
At the end of the season, I'll total the points up. Anybody up for it?
AFC East
New England #1 seed
NY Jets #6 seed
Buffalo
Miami
AFC North
Pittsburgh #4 seed
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Baltimore
AFC South
Jacksonville #3 seed
Indianapolis #5 seed
Houston
Tennessee
AFC West
San Diego #2 seed
Denver
Oakland
Kansas City
NFC East
Dallas #1 seed
Philadelphia #5 seed
NY Giants
Washington
NFC North
Minnesota #3 seed
Green Bay
Chicago
Detroit
NFC South
New Orleans #2 seed
Carolina
Tampa Bay
Atlanta
NFC West
Arizona #4 seed
Seattle #6 seed
San Francisco
St. Louis
AFC Playoffs
Jets over Jags
Steelers over Colts
Patriots over Steelers
Chargers over Jets
Chargers over Patriots
NFC Playoffs
Vikings over Seahawks
Eagles over Cardinals
Saints over Vikings
Eagles over Cowboys
Saints over Eagles
Chargers over Saints
Rookie of Year -
Chris Johnson
Offensive Player of Year -
Donovan McNabb
Defensive Player of Year -
Shawne Merriman
Leading Rusher -
Adrian Peterson
Idiot of the Year -
Chad "I can beat Michael Phelps" Johnson
damn you stole my plan of giving the jags the division.
AFC East
New England #1 seed
NY Jets #6 seed
Buffalo
Miami
AFC North
Cincinnati #4 seed
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Baltimore
AFC South
Jacksonville #3 seed
Indianapolis #5 seed
Houston
Tennessee
AFC West
San Diego #2 seed
Oakland
Denver
Kansas City
NFC East
Dallas #1 seed
Washington #6 seed
NY Giants
Philadelphia
NFC North
Minnesota #2 seed
Green Bay
Chicago
Detroit
NFC South
Carolina #4 seed
New Orleans #5 seed
Tampa Bay
Atlanta
NFC West
Seattle #3 seed
Arizona
St. Louis
San Francisco
AFC Playoffs
Jags over Jets
Colts over bengals
Pats over Colts
Jags over Chargers
Pats over Jags
NFC Playoffs
Seahawks over Redskins
Saints over Panthers
Cowboys over Saints
Seahawks over Vikings
Cowboys over Seahawks
Patriots over Cowboys
Rookie of Year - Jonathan Stewart
Offensive Player of Year - LaDainian Tomlinson
Defensive Player of Year - Mario Williams
Leading Rusher - Adrian Peterson
Cool.
Mine
Dallas 1
NY Giants 5
Philly
Washington
Minnesota 3
Green Bay 6
Detroit
Chicago
New Orleans 2
TB
Carolina
Atlanta
Arizona 4
Seattle
San Fran
St Loius
New England 1
NY Jets
Buffalo
Miami
Pitts 4
Cleveland 6
Cincy
Baltimore
Indy 3
Jacksonville 5
Tennessee
Houston
San Diego 2
Oakland
Denver
KC
NFC
GB over MIN
NYG over ARI
DAL over GB
NO over NYG
DAL over NYG
AFC
IND over CLE
JAC over PIT
JAC over NE
IND over SD
IND over JAC
Superbowl
DAL over IND
Off MVP
Tony Romo
Def MVP
Bob Sanders
ROYOFf
Darren McFadden
ROYDEF
Kieth Rivers
Defensive rookie of the year - that defensive back with the hyphenated name in Arizona. Seems as of late, guys sticking with their ex-step-mom's girlfriend's roommate's maiden name are doing pretty good in the NFL.
Yeah, hopefully all the Steelers' passports got revoked so they'll only have to play 3 preseason games instead of 4.