WTF? The Eagles played terribly and even McNabb admitted they knew they were still in it as they knew they were playing so badly.

Also, you could see the Cards tightening up in their play and the play-calling changed. It wasn't about trying to run up the score or otherwise. It was a high pressure situation with inexperienced players.

He's mental if it's the person I'm thinking of.

Plays for BC.

Literally, a beast. Racks up sooooooo many sacks.

Fully agree. Moreno's much better than Wells, and I'd put Harvin over Wells as well. I don't think Wells will do much in the NFL. Moreno could be as good as Peterson (IMHO) and Harvin could be a leaner/faster version of Westbrook.

My personal favourite Moreno clip (is available in better quality if you're on YouTube itself):

Just rewatched the "Snow Plow" game from 1982. God, I forgot how much that irritates me.


Once a cheat, always a bloody cheat.

Shula had it right all along in his opinion.

Watched the highlights of the Championship games last night and would say that the Cards-Eagles game was the better of the two. The Steelers-Ravens just didn't live up to the hype at all (or was that because my eyelids were heavy? :) ) ... in saying that, what a sickening hit that was in the Steelers game. That pretty much killed the last 5 minutes of the game or so that was left. You could hear a pin drop and fair play to the Steelers fans to that ... Anyone heard any news on the two players as I haven't had time to check?

I'm on the Cards bandwagon for the Superbowl :p The Steelers have started to bore me in the last few games ...

Willis Mcgahee got released from hospital yesterday which is good news.

Was it ESPN Zone?

I frickin' love those places.

Nookie and I watched the 2007 season opener (Colts vs Saints, including a hot pre-game performance from the unspeakably lovely Kelly Clarkson) at one in Washington. It were smashing. :lux:

Torain is quality and Hillis is good enough to fit many different parts of a gameplan. I'm sure McDaniels will look at lots of different ways to incorporate him.

That's the bunny. :lux:

Morning all :)

Had to avoid this thread until I could watch the Steelers/Ravens game last night

That was some hard-hitting football, brutal stuff. One game too far for Flacco but he is going to be a quality QB

Delighted for the Cards, glad to see the Eagles are still the bridesmaid (even though that makes the Redskins the ugly sister :D ).

Assume most people think the Steelers will walk it but I'm not so sure

1. It was a play-off game, not a regular season one, so running up the score doesn't even come into it. It's perfectly acceptable to cement victory in a knockout scenario - see Carolina vs Arizona.

2. The Cards didn't get complacent, they got nervous, and their playcalling and execution was a little reserved as a result. There's no way their third quarter collapse came about because they didn't want to run up the score.

3. The Eagles came out after the break fully pumped up and played a tremendous third quarter, capitalising on the Cards' tentative play on both sides of the ball.

As do I. :lux:

Went to the one in Atlanta in 2004 and saw slack-jawed as a group of guys started aranging their fantasy football draft around us. They apologised if they were disturbing us and I was still too awe-struck to say how envious I was that they didn't have a draft that takes place over three weeks and six different time zones.

(Six weeks to Fantasy Baseball draft time. :lux:)

After watching that hit a couple of times (sober this time) I was perhaps a bit quick to judge Clark. Sure it's a devastating hit, but not as bad as I first thought. He actually tries to lead with his shoulder, but Mcgahee lowered his helmet right before impact, which makes it pretty hard to predict where he's gonna hit him. I'm not even sure it's illegal since he was already running with the ball, as opposed to a receiver with his eyes on the ball.

It really did kill off the game for the last five minutes, so hardly the cliffhanger like the two previous games they played.

Completely agree, great post Ben :p

I concur, offensively they didn't want to risk any turnovers and defensively they wanted to try and avoid any big plays. And Eagles were much better.

Unfortunately there was no way we would get a TD on a 4th consecutive drive.

I've read this morning when McGehey was asked what happened, he replied 'I didn't see him' ... !!!

Must admit I'm curious to know what a player's vision is like when they're wearing a helmet. My guess is their peripheral vision must be slightly affected to the left, right and up to a degree.

Head on a swivel and all that :)

I said points 2 and 3 already ;)

Has anyone else got the email regarding buying tickets for Wembley?

Mine has arrived but it doesn’t have a pin code in the space where it is meant to be, which you need to purchase the tickets.

Anyone else got the email and are able to let me know if they have the same thing or not?