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Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:04pm
by Havok
Fuck. I would take the safety
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:05pm
by Medic
Qwerty 42 wrote:weemadando wrote:weemadando wrote:It looks like I'll be watching Ravens v Dolphins in HD live any minute now... At least I hope so - thank god for Australian TV finally picking up it's game and showing more than just the Superbowl on free-to-air this year.
Crap - I just realised I have my time-zones all wonky like. It's probably the Arizona game on delayed telecast we're about to get.
CORRECTION! It is live - it's the Chargers v Colts game. FUCK YES! Let's watch Manning eat more dirt!
Baltimore at Miami and Philadelphia at Minnesota aren't going to be played until tomorrow, unfortunately.
Also, nice choice of music by NBC. "The Final Countdown" indeed.
EDIT: Could a Chargers fan tell me why they're wearing the powder blue tonight? Not that I'm objecting, it's just a surprise.
Prime-time game. I think it's that simple.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:05pm
by Qwerty 42
Well, Kaeding, this is what you're paid for. About seven yards to field goal range.
EDIT: Thank you, SPC.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:09pm
by Medic
I don't care HOW short this field goal is...
here comes the post-season choke-artist. God damnit.
edit: tie game, 31 seconds. We really should be in the lead but for bad luck (Sproles fumble edit: and the blown-coverage / substitution play) and a poor pass by Rivers.
We still have time to lose -- they have a timeout I think.
missed fucking opportunities is the name of the game for the Chargers. We deserve to lose, if we do. Otherwise, we continue our all-but-blessed season. What kind've luck to even be here when we started 4-8...
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:10pm
by Qwerty 42
SPC Brungardt wrote:I don't care HOW short this field goal is...
here comes the post-season choke-artist. God damnit.
Kick is good
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:17pm
by Havok
This match up is certainly worthy of an extra quarter, and not just based on this game.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:19pm
by Medic
havokeff wrote:This match up is certainly worthy of an extra quarter, and not just based on this game.
Yeah, anyone predicting a blow out was out of their fucking mind.
That being said, our defense played GREAT but our offense dropped the ball. So far, in my predictions, I've placed faith in 2 teams strengths (the Falcons ground game and the Chargers down-field passing game) -- both have disappointed though and both games came down to other things. I don't like this at all, it was winnable, outright, instead, this is literally almost a toss-up.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:20pm
by Qwerty 42
Chargers win the toss
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:21pm
by Havok
Did Manning just call HEADS?!?!
Always, ALWAYS call Tails.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:22pm
by Qwerty 42
havokeff wrote:Did Manning just call HEADS?!?!
Always, ALWAYS call Tails.
Tails never fails
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:23pm
by Medic
havokeff wrote:Did Manning just call HEADS?!?!
Always, ALWAYS call Tails.
Whoever did, yeah.
OTOH, I heard over the ref's mike: "Game over!" by a Charger at that coin toss.
Never, NEVER call the game at the coin toss. Hassleback versus Green Bay in the post-season, anyone?
JYNX!
edit: Quote Hassleback: "We're gonna take the ball and we're gonna win!" He threw a pic that went for the game-winning TD in overtime.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:26pm
by Havok
Nice. Great 1st down.
P.S. L.T. is gonna be trade bait this year FYI.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:31pm
by Medic
havokeff wrote:Nice. Great 1st down.
P.S. L.T. is gonna be trade bait this year FYI.
I hate to entertain such a notion, but you may be right. He's old, not getting younger and is getting hurt more often now. He may still have the speed and the agility but the durability at his age? That's a big fucking:
Sproles OTOH? He's setting an all-purpose yards record, real time. Right now he's #3 for post-season all-purpose yards between rushing, receiving, punt and kick returning.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:31pm
by Medic
HOLDING ON THE DEFENSE! WOOOOOOO!
edit: PERSONAL FOUL DEFENSE FACE MASK!
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:34pm
by Medic
DARREN SPROLES! GAME!
edit: Dude got 328 all purpose yards and the game-winning overtime-TD. Monster.
and Scifres. It's a toss-up IMO if you give the game ball to Sproles or Scifres. One got so many yards, the other did so much for the defense and offense in field position.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:36pm
by Havok
Helluva game. Congrats.
And your sig is so appropriate right now.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:38pm
by Havok
havokeff wrote:P.S. L.T. is gonna be trade bait this year FYI.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:42pm
by weemadando
SPC Brungardt wrote:DARREN SPROLES! GAME!
edit: Dude got 328 all purpose yards and the game-winning overtime-TD. Monster.
and Scifres. It's a toss-up IMO if you give the game ball to Sproles or Scifres. One got so many yards, the other did so much for the defense and offense in field position.
THAT WAS FUCKING AWESOME. Seriously, amazingly, awesome.
The Chargers are my heroes of the day.
What can you say? How about - when the crowd is going so fucking wild that every camera in the stands is uncontrollably shaking, then you are seeing a great game of football.
Peyton Manning eating shit own his own 1yd line actually had me cheering in my living room.
And to the Indianapolis D? I hope you guys like long, lonely flights home to a town that wants you dead. And whoever the Defensive Coordinator is had better have his resume ready and start applying to high-school teams, because that was a shambolic performance that cost them game.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:44pm
by Havok
Who the fuck let Matt Millen on the NBC set?
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-03 11:48pm
by Medic
The Chargers rallying call this season should be: 60 minutes. We play to the end of the season and every game. The team's want-to and conditioning is just amazing. We made huge mistakes and it came down to the wire but we stayed in there and won it.
edit: At least the NBC typically-Sunday-Night crowd agreed with me: Scifres and Sproles split the game ball. Well deserved by both -- I couldn't pick either of which was more important. The defense doesn't give up a single field goal all night (and in reality, only 7 earned points by the Colts, accounting for one blown-play) on the strength of our punter's foot, of all things.
So, the big question mark of the AFC post-season, are the Colts and Chargers, as wildcards, both, the teams everyone feared they should've been all season long? Yes and no -- but the yes and no might have surprised you, records considered.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-04 12:10am
by Havok
The funny thing, is with all the drama both teams had, there was a good chance they would have met in the playoffs anyway.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-04 01:18am
by Tsyroc
havokeff wrote:Who the fuck let Matt Millen on the NBC set?
You aren't kidding.
That's one of the worst combinations of talking sports heads I've seen in awhile.
I know they give crappy coaches and players tv gigs all the time. Millen was actually a good player and decent tv guy before, but now he's become such a joke how can they put him on? Does someone at NBC hate Detroit fans and just want to rub it in a little longer for some reason?
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-04 01:26am
by Elfdart
havokeff wrote:Who the fuck let Matt Millen on the NBC set?
It's a subtle form of low comedy. I think.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-04 01:43am
by Elfdart
SPC Brungardt wrote:
OTOH, I heard over the ref's mike: "Game over!" by a Charger at that coin toss.
Another reason Jamal Williams rules.
Never, NEVER call the game at the coin toss. Hassleback versus Green Bay in the post-season, anyone?
JYNX!
edit: Quote Hassleback: "We're gonna take the ball and we're gonna win!" He threw a pic that went for the game-winning TD in overtime.
Matt Hasselbeck should be thankful for his twit of a sister-in-law on
Yentavision (otherwise known as
The View). It's only because of her that he's just the second biggest retard named Hasselbeck to appear on TV.
Re: 2008 NFL Season Thread- The Road to Super Bowl XLIII
Posted: 2009-01-04 01:58am
by Qwerty 42
So the Eagles ran an ad on their website encouraging fans to buy the surplus Metrodome tickets. Any takers on how much green we'll see tomorrow?