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Post by kawalimus on Sept 7, 2007 8:59:35 GMT -5
That game ended up boring. But what you expect with all those pregame ceremonies and ridiculous hype for a damn regular season game? I think that s*** even ruins the Superbowl.
I am so sick of these damn networks and their hype of simple football games and events like they are changing fate of the earth. I remember watching hype video for a Patriots vs Jets wildcard game last year and you'd think it was biggest game in history. JUST STOP!!
I am fine with a little bit of ceremony really, especially to start the season. But don't put more hype into a single game than it actually warrants, cause in the end you just end up getting let down.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Sept 7, 2007 9:03:39 GMT -5
That game ended up boring. But what you expect with all those pregame ceremonies and ridiculous hype for a damn regular season game? I think that s*** even ruins the Superbowl. I am so sick of these damn networks and their hype of simple football games and events like they are changing fate of the earth. I remember watching hype video for a Patriots vs Jets wildcard game last year and you'd think it was biggest game in history. JUST STOP!! I am fine with a little bit of ceremony really, especially to start the season. But don't put more hype into a single game than it actually warrants, cause in the end you just end up getting let down. It was kickoff that is a big deal to a lot of people. I didn't mind any of it one bit except for the quality of the National Anthem. As for hyping up normal games throughout the season I approve of it, whatever it takes to get more butts in seats and more people into it the better off everyone is.
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Post by kawalimus on Sept 7, 2007 9:08:41 GMT -5
I don't think NFL would need bring all that in to sell out games.
I don't care how someone does the national anthem cause like the song says, this supposed to be the land of the free. Forcing people to do the anthem the "right" way goes against all the song and this country supposed to stand for.
I just don't see the worth of dragging out faith hill and other country stuff throwing it on TV. We get enough of that in the commercials they shove down our throat.
NFL games just about always sell out regardless of what that stuff is. Ravens are technically a small market team but you wouldn't know it if you saw how fast their tickets sell every year. Even back in 96-98 when they were terrible the tickets sold real well.
NFL is a draw cause it's NFL, not cause of some concert they have before games.
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Post by S-Chrome on Sept 7, 2007 12:10:07 GMT -5
God this is beautiful. Theres nothing better then watching a flukey, overrated, overhyped team getting a beat down and making all the people who are making them the "trendy pick" look like morons. Now that its over, 41-10, move those pretenders to the back seat and make way for THE REAL team in the NFC South.... The Falcons? So, you really think the Cats won't lose by two or three touchdowns when the Colts come to Charlotte a little later this year?
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Post by Batman on Sept 7, 2007 12:15:54 GMT -5
As I thought I remembered. 2006 Carolina Panthers went 7-6 with Jake and 1-2 with Wienke. The one win under Wienke came when Carolina threw the ball only 7 times, and direct snapped it to RB DeAngelo Williams while taking Wienke out and replacing him with an extra blocker on most possesions. None of this even mentions the let down in Defense. 4 of those losses came when the Panthers were leading going into the 4th quarter. If the D could have held on to just one of those games, or Wienke not have sucked... the Panthers would have been playoff bound. As a die-hard Panthers fan, last season was a kick in the teeth. They blew so many games they should've won. I believe they had a lead in the fourth quarter in nine out of their first ten games. The defense wasn't bad, but they were on the field all the damn time. They couldn't convert on a third down to save their lives... WITH STEVE FRICKIN' SMITH. I'm honestly pretty much out of patience with Delhomme and would be satisfied to see David Carr early in the year. At least he completes a ton of passes, and the Panthers' offensive line is way better than Houston's has ever been.
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Sept 7, 2007 12:16:06 GMT -5
God this is beautiful. Theres nothing better then watching a flukey, overrated, overhyped team getting a beat down and making all the people who are making them the "trendy pick" look like morons. Now that its over, 41-10, move those pretenders to the back seat and make way for THE REAL team in the NFC South.... The Falcons? So, you really think the Cats won't lose by two or three touchdowns when the Colts come to Charlotte a little later this year? 'Nevah! By the way, I'm a die hard fan and won't admit anything other then "We gonna win it all!"
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Sept 7, 2007 12:19:23 GMT -5
As I thought I remembered. 2006 Carolina Panthers went 7-6 with Jake and 1-2 with Wienke. The one win under Wienke came when Carolina threw the ball only 7 times, and direct snapped it to RB DeAngelo Williams while taking Wienke out and replacing him with an extra blocker on most possesions. None of this even mentions the let down in Defense. 4 of those losses came when the Panthers were leading going into the 4th quarter. If the D could have held on to just one of those games, or Wienke not have sucked... the Panthers would have been playoff bound. As a die-hard Panthers fan, last season was a kick in the teeth. They blew so many games they should've won. I believe they had a lead in the fourth quarter in nine out of their first ten games. The defense wasn't bad, but they were on the field all the damn time. They couldn't convert on a third down to save their lives... WITH STEVE FRICKIN' SMITH. I'm honestly pretty much out of patience with Delhomme and would be satisfied to see David Carr early in the year. At least he completes a ton of passes, and the Panthers' offensive line is way better than Houston's has ever been. It really didn't help Jake that we had no running game last year. We kept trying to power run it up the gut with no real power backs. Since we never got anywhere and people didn't have to try to stop us they could stack up against the pass. Between extra help against our recievers and knowing what's coming, it made it hard for Jake to do his job. Not only that but I saw a lot of dropped passes and blown routes last year. Everyone from the players to the coaching staff has to take responsibility for last year. Not just Jake.
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Post by kawalimus on Sept 7, 2007 12:24:00 GMT -5
As I thought I remembered. 2006 Carolina Panthers went 7-6 with Jake and 1-2 with Wienke. The one win under Wienke came when Carolina threw the ball only 7 times, and direct snapped it to RB DeAngelo Williams while taking Wienke out and replacing him with an extra blocker on most possesions. None of this even mentions the let down in Defense. 4 of those losses came when the Panthers were leading going into the 4th quarter. If the D could have held on to just one of those games, or Wienke not have sucked... the Panthers would have been playoff bound. As a die-hard Panthers fan, last season was a kick in the teeth. They blew so many games they should've won. I believe they had a lead in the fourth quarter in nine out of their first ten games. The defense wasn't bad, but they were on the field all the damn time. They couldn't convert on a third down to save their lives... WITH STEVE FRICKIN' SMITH. I'm honestly pretty much out of patience with Delhomme and would be satisfied to see David Carr early in the year. At least he completes a ton of passes, and the Panthers' offensive line is way better than Houston's has ever been. Panthers definitely had talent last year, they came into Baltimore and won only team come into Baltimore and win during regular season last year. Baltimore a VERY good homefield advantage, even when we are bad we are tough beat here. When we went 6-10 in 2005 all 6 those games won at home. For whatever reason though we are 1-2 in the playoffs here, though we weren't blown out in any of the games. They just didn't put it together all the time it seems, that just happens some teams now and then. Maybe this year will different for em.
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Post by Batman on Sept 7, 2007 12:24:24 GMT -5
As a die-hard Panthers fan, last season was a kick in the teeth. They blew so many games they should've won. I believe they had a lead in the fourth quarter in nine out of their first ten games. The defense wasn't bad, but they were on the field all the damn time. They couldn't convert on a third down to save their lives... WITH STEVE FRICKIN' SMITH. I'm honestly pretty much out of patience with Delhomme and would be satisfied to see David Carr early in the year. At least he completes a ton of passes, and the Panthers' offensive line is way better than Houston's has ever been. It really didn't help Jake that we had no running game last year. We kept trying to power run it up the gut with no real power backs. Since we never got anywhere and people didn't have to try to stop us they could stack up against the pass. Between extra help against our recievers and knowing what's coming, it made it hard for Jake to do his job. Not only that but I saw a lot of dropped passes and blown routes last year. Everyone from the players to the coaching staff has to take responsibility for last year. Not just Jake. I absolutely agree. I just feel that some new blood at QB (Carr) along with a new offense that isn't all about running it up the gut and slinging it to Smith would be the optimal way to improve the team this year. In fact, I'm getting more excited about this year's team as the days pass... Of course, if they get torn up by Jackson and Bulger on Sunday...
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Sept 7, 2007 12:33:38 GMT -5
It really didn't help Jake that we had no running game last year. We kept trying to power run it up the gut with no real power backs. Since we never got anywhere and people didn't have to try to stop us they could stack up against the pass. Between extra help against our recievers and knowing what's coming, it made it hard for Jake to do his job. Not only that but I saw a lot of dropped passes and blown routes last year. Everyone from the players to the coaching staff has to take responsibility for last year. Not just Jake. I absolutely agree. I just feel that some new blood at QB (Carr) along with a new offense that isn't all about running it up the gut and slinging it to Smith would be the optimal way to improve the team this year. In fact, I'm getting more excited about this year's team as the days pass... Of course, if they get torn up by Jackson and Bulger on Sunday... Well, I'm not to worried about the first game. With a new offense, I can see the first game having to work out a lot of kinks. It's the few games after that I'll really be worried about. Besides... it seems like we loose the opener every year, even our good years. I'll admit I'm a Jake fan. First off, he's cajun... and that's awesome. Second I'm a loyal person and he got us to a Superbowl and a NFC Championship game. I just can't say get rid of him, it's not in my heart.
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Post by kawalimus on Sept 7, 2007 12:33:52 GMT -5
"We don't want to change our identity, and if that means not being 'prolific,' so be it."-- Rick Neuheisel ravens OC(but Billick still calling plays this year) www.baltimoresun.com/sports/football/bal-sp.ravens07sep07,0,4542936.story What the hell is this? So Billick run offense that can't get first downs worth a damn, disguise their incompetence by calling it "ball control" but it ain't ball control if you DONT GET FIRST DOWNS!!! So now what do they do? You'd think they'd would change it. BUT NO!!! They want do the same damn things!! We have Mark Clayton and Demetrius Williams who last year proven they do have downfield threat. Also we have Heap and Mason out there who are big threats as well, not as downfield but great catchers. So what does BILLICK want to do? Surely not play to their strengths and stretch the field, making it harder for defenses to stop us. No he wants the same short yardage crap as if these players we accumulate don't even exist!!!! So we have talent run an efficient offense and Billick just wants stay the same old Vanilla crap gotten us f***ed up in the playoffs last year and gonna f*** us up again against tough teams this year. I just can't take this stupidity by BRIAN BILLICK!!!
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Post by The Wraith on Sept 7, 2007 12:36:03 GMT -5
lol
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Post by S-Chrome on Sept 7, 2007 12:41:08 GMT -5
In other unrelated matters, who thinks the Giants'll run the Cowboys out of their own stadium on prime time, eh?
Any takers?
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Post by Batman on Sept 7, 2007 12:42:31 GMT -5
I absolutely agree. I just feel that some new blood at QB (Carr) along with a new offense that isn't all about running it up the gut and slinging it to Smith would be the optimal way to improve the team this year. In fact, I'm getting more excited about this year's team as the days pass... Of course, if they get torn up by Jackson and Bulger on Sunday... Well, I'm not to worried about the first game. With a new offense, I can see the first game having to work out a lot of kinks. It's the few games after that I'll really be worried about. Besides... it seems like we loose the opener every year, even our good years. I'll admit I'm a Jake fan. First off, he's cajun... and that's awesome. Second I'm a loyal person and he got us to a Superbowl and a NFC Championship game. I just can't say get rid of him, it's not in my heart. Obviously, I'd love Jake to prove the critics wrong by having a huge year. It would also be nice to get off to a good start... Maybe four to six wins right from the jump. That would take us all the way to the bye week.
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Sept 7, 2007 12:42:34 GMT -5
In other unrelated matters, who thinks the Giants'll run the Cowboys out of their own stadium on prime time, eh? Any takers? I say there's no way that happens.
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Post by The Wraith on Sept 7, 2007 12:43:30 GMT -5
In other unrelated matters, who thinks the Giants'll run the Cowboys out of their own stadium on prime time, eh? Any takers? Sure.
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Sept 7, 2007 12:45:12 GMT -5
Well, I'm not to worried about the first game. With a new offense, I can see the first game having to work out a lot of kinks. It's the few games after that I'll really be worried about. Besides... it seems like we loose the opener every year, even our good years. I'll admit I'm a Jake fan. First off, he's cajun... and that's awesome. Second I'm a loyal person and he got us to a Superbowl and a NFC Championship game. I just can't say get rid of him, it's not in my heart. Obviously, I'd love Jake to prove the critics wrong by having a huge year. It would also be nice to get off to a good start... Maybe four to six wins right from the jump. That would take us all the way to the bye week. Know what I've always wondered. Why there are no teams that have two good QBs that treat them almost like pitchers are in baseball. So with us. Okay... Jake doesn't have it this game, let's let Carr play. Carr isn't doing good the next game, Jake relieves him. I mean, when you have someone like Peyton... that's understandable. But say all these teams that have two only decent-good QBs, why not?
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Post by EvilMasterBetty, Esq. on Sept 7, 2007 12:50:56 GMT -5
My thoughts on last nights game:
If the Colts D plays like that the rest of the year, they'll be back in the Superbowl. They were quick, swarming, and missed very few tackles. They're a total different defense when Sanders is healthy and it showed. They may miss Booger as the year goes on due do depth on the d-line, but they'll be better than they were most of last year. As for their offense...yeah pretty much the same. Addai is also going to break out this year.
The Saints have some issues. That defense isn't going to stop anyone playing like that, even in the NFC. When your big time CB gets burned 3 times by guys he should know like the back of his hand, that's bad. They're going to be playing in a lot of shootouts. The problem is, Colston and Henderson aren't top WR. They both had one good year, but they aren't ready to step up, at least not yet. They got 0 separation yesterday. Then when they checked down, Bush couldn't break anything more than 5-10 yards. So they've got to find a way to keep people guessing because no one will be surprised by the Saints this year. They know what that offense can do and I don't know if they can change enough to be as good as they were last year.
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Post by Batman on Sept 7, 2007 12:52:03 GMT -5
Obviously, I'd love Jake to prove the critics wrong by having a huge year. It would also be nice to get off to a good start... Maybe four to six wins right from the jump. That would take us all the way to the bye week. Know what I've always wondered. Why there are no teams that have two good QBs that treat them almost like pitchers are in baseball. So with us. Okay... Jake doesn't have it this game, let's let Carr play. Carr isn't doing good the next game, Jake relieves him. I mean, when you have someone like Peyton... that's understandable. But say all these teams that have two only decent-good QBs, why not? I think it has to do with the leadership that is supposed to be taken on by the quarterback. It would be interesting to try though.
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Post by kawalimus on Sept 7, 2007 12:54:40 GMT -5
Obviously, I'd love Jake to prove the critics wrong by having a huge year. It would also be nice to get off to a good start... Maybe four to six wins right from the jump. That would take us all the way to the bye week. Know what I've always wondered. Why there are no teams that have two good QBs that treat them almost like pitchers are in baseball. So with us. Okay... Jake doesn't have it this game, let's let Carr play. Carr isn't doing good the next game, Jake relieves him. I mean, when you have someone like Peyton... that's understandable. But say all these teams that have two only decent-good QBs, why not? Cap suicide.
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