Look at those Redskins go :) 2&0 and a 20-12 win in Philly

Giants at home next, I fancy the Skins to go 3&0

Strathclyde

Seeing as it's just down to me and you on the Survival game there's two ways we can do it.

a) both continue to pick sensible picks until one of us get shafted by something like San Diego -17 losing at home to Kansas

OR

b) I pick the Jets this week and you pick the Dolphins and we'll have a winner nice and quick PLUS the addded bonus of whoever the winner is, gets to smirk at the fact THEIR team won it for them.

Are you up for option b) ????

I've made a very sensible pick thus far but am happy to pick the Jets if you do Miami

I'm loyal, not stupid. ;)

I've picked New England this week.

BTW apparently the Jets are only given 3 or 3.5 points by Vegas this week (can't remember which). Can't believe that if I'm truly honest.

Think you might like Bill Simmons' new weekly podcast where he and a friend try to guess the weekly lines. Strangely addictive and easy to join in with in the car.

Well that kind of makes it dull as I went for New England as well.

Surpised you're so down on Miami's chances.

Granted Jets did the double last year but both games were by 3 points. Miami with 3.5 might come in.......which I'll be happy with as long as Jets win.

The Fins won't be coming in. Zach Thomas is out with a concussion now (announced earlier this evening).

Good job - he put in some big hits on NY players on Xmas Day last year IIRC!

No sign of Strathclyde????

Maybe he'll appear when Miami level things up in a minute

98 YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARDS!!!!

The Official Jets 'Offensive Play of The Year' for 2006 was Leon v Miami.

Reckon Leon v Miami might win that award again. :-)

Miami flying downfield again now

Are we on for another legendary Week 3 game???

Philly's Kevin Curtis 144 receiving yards in 16 mins!!!

On target for a 500+ yard game!!!!!!

Love it. It's taken 24 years but I've actually cheered a Dolphins point against the Jets, or, more specifically TWO points.

The 2 pointer brings in the o17.5 2nd half points bet.

Nice fake from Trent Green to set that up. :-)

Shame ;)

Mega comeback from Miami and Tony not around.

Grim Nostradamus gets it spot on yet again.

;)

Fins. Season. Over. :(

Loved the old Statue of Liberty 2 point conversion

What goes around comes around....

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/foo...ast_recap.html

Green Bay are surprising a few people by the sounds of it.

Given how last weekend worked out I decided to have a sport-free weekend. Feels extremely odd in all honesty, although a great deal more relaxing.

We got 424 total yards against you. :eek: How bad is your defence?

(Not as bad as our special teams coverage, obviously.)

The Jets had a wonderful ability to be ranked 20th or lower in just about everything last year yet still win 10 games and make the play offs.

Ronnie Brown best player on the pitch (as he was in the same fixture last year) yet ends up on the losing side.

All part of the magic of ERIC MANGINIUS!

Funny you should ditch sport for a weekend - just had my best sporting weekend since god knows when with Jets, Giants, Hull (rugby) Palace and Bayern all winning. Hell I even had a guest give me a winning horse tip at 9/1!!

So, come on Tony, join in. J-E-T-S JETS! JETS! JETS!!

All part of the magic of Penaltius Maximus, more like. (Latin for 'Cam Cameron', in case you were wondering.)

How about those Cards. Kurt Warner comes in and plays like a veteran that has a Superbowl ring (...oh he does) comes back from 21 points down, leaves minute and a half on the clock for defence to hold on, and defence blows it up. You would think that by supporting Cardinals I would get used to stuff like that... Will we ever be good?

He's great when he's used properly. Just all too often, he isn't used properly. :bash:

Could be a watershed weekend - both teams had stellar showings from their RB's.

Hopefully Jets can get Jones on the case from now on and we'll have the prime RB we've been missing since Curtis Martin got injured and put out of the game.

Can anyone tell me what Cam Cameron was referring to inm a recent press conference when he said 'I'm not doing a Jim Mora'

It seemed very jokey and Cameron was also laughing. Just wondering what Mora did in the past - maybe an outburst??

He's referring to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwq7BYOnDrM

See the Mike Gundy link on the College Football thread. That's better in my opinion.

Funily enough I saw the Mike Gundy thing when catching up with NFL Total Access about two hours ago.

Very good rant and interesting that he got applause rather than laughter when he stormed off.

PLAYOFFS!!!!?????!?!?!??!?!?

:D

Love that.

Fins 14-0 down.

Can we have a guess when we'll call the inevitable reverse for a four yard loss?

No more discussion about the #1 RB now, surely? What a run by Ronnie Brown.

Mr Taylor, if you're going to get a stupid penalty then go for Culpepper's knees. :bash:

BTW, I remember last year's Raiders game in Seattle when they couldn't block anybody. This Fins front seven can't pressure anybody.

Ronnie Brown again! Just about all his own work.

Great work on that drive by Green and Chambers. I'm off to YouTube to try and find some John Beck footage.

Daunte looks like he really wants to stick it to your boys today, Tony...

Think you're right Jason.

That play-action call on 4th down looked like an ego call for Culpepper. Past evidence says they could have run for that easily, even with Jordan on the sidelines.

Strathclyde - who you got in teh Survival game?

I'm on Dallas

You might as well uncover your picks because I'll do different from you every week if I know who you've got.

Be nice to have a winner either way

I'm on Dallas this week as well. Think I'm looking at Indy next week.

Hey, John Beck has some agility!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NCgH6sTEeP8

BTW, I can't wait until we kick the Marlins out of our stadium. (Blame our stupid owner for that one.)

Quite enjoying having Gus Johnson commentate on this game.

Frig 10-7 down to Crappy Duffalo

Chambers 1 rec, 8yrds

Not good for my fantasy team.

Yoy think that's bad

I missed the team news and picked Kevin Everett AFTER his injury!!

Forgot to change mine around, so stuck with Derick Ward and I hear he won't be on much as Jacobs is back

Jets are yet to figure out how to use Thomas Jones. 11 carries in the 4th quarter ain't gonna cut it. He's not a guy who's going to bust a big one everytime he touches the ball... but you have to keep feeding him. He seems like a forgotten man sometimes with the Jets.

He'd have more than that if it wasn't for the stupid penalty he got after a catch for a first down.

Missed that...

JT's going to get fined for that horse-collar tackle. Culpepper should have been penalised for taunting (although he wouldn't care, he's playing a very smart game).

This defence is embarassing.

••••••• Bears.

Love you Devin Hester :D:D

JT looks slow. :eek:

Time to start stacking the box and make them beat us through the air.

What on earth happened to Culpepper's fumbleitis? Could use another of those right now.

Oh the embarrassment of a loss to Duffalo.

New York in mourning as the Mets are also blowing it big style in the baseball to go with the Jets loss.

Second best news I've had all day. :lux:

Ugh.

I can see Brandon Jacobs running all over the Wembley turf at this rate.

Dallas win, final.

Time for tackling practice tomorrow, Miami D.

Bears are rediculously (sp?) bad. Praying for Romo after this season ;)

Just a comedy of errors from the bears today. I'm ashamed.

What a bunch of quitters. The most pathetic team I've ever had the misfortune to support.

Coming from a Palace fan that is a big call!!!

Christ, I might be joining you on one of those sport-free weekends Tony. the way it's gone this week.

Jets, piss-poor Palace, Hull out of Super League play offs.

Need the Giants to resurrect my mood.

But for now I'll settle for listening to my 3rd fave team and the best commentators of all the NFL teams......SAN DIEGO!

WTF?

Been lamenting the Jets; doing a few other things, switching to San Diego commentary, flick back to NFL.com and Detroit have racked up a pinball score.

What in hell's name happened there?

21 points in 2 mins to start the 4th quarter???

••••••• shit. ••••••• on sides kick and we let them run it back. what the ••••??!!?!!!!?!?!?!!?!?

Christ, turn my back for two minutes and we have two more TDs

Is this the greatest 4th quarter ever???

No.

No need for all over the Wembley turf.

I just hope to see him running a lot.....in the end zone with ball in hand :)

:D

You're right

It was in Week 3 of 1986!!

Chargers starting nicely

LT up to 35 yards already on first drive

.....

and now 38 yards for Vincent Jackson on that play

I think the Bolts are gonna finally break out

wow, Denver 10-0

Ron Woodson on NFl Network said they'd win. Thought he was barking!!

TOUCHDOWB LT

The Bolts' play off run starts HERE

Gore and Alexander a total of 18 yards from 11 carries.

A lot of elite running backs struggling this season

The nearest Palace equivalent to tonight I can recall is the 5-0 defeat at Wigan, or in a slightly different way, the play-off games with Watford.

A lot of times we've not been good enough. We haven't given up many times. And in the worst of times, Palace fans come through. Dolphins fans just leave and let the visiting fans have a party (and they complain about losing a game for the Wembley visit? Puh-lease.).
Very interesting comment on Alexander by a Seahawks fan on Bill Simmons' column this week, and about how (in his opinion) he doesn't grind out the tough yards.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...8&sportCat=nfl

They sure are...

Cris, which Giants is it that you support? I've been trying to figure it out but can't. :)

Not the New York ones, surely?

Cowboys looking very very good

How bad is Miami is they can lose to the worse team ever assembled by Al Davis?

Rather than struggle to pick a different team for every sport I kind of fell into the pattern c1984 of New York for everything, be it Jets, Giants, Yankees or Mets.

Hell, I even liked New York New Jersey Knights in the World League!!

Been known to wear my Pennington 10 an Tiki 21 jerseys on the same day (but not simultaneously!)

We're really bad. Notre Dame might give us a game at the moment.

Of all the pro/college teams in Florida, the Fins might be the worst in the state. Even worse than FIU.

Not the case any more.

Raiders won last week and were a Shanahan time out away from winning in Denver.

This is the year they start hauling themselves up the power rankings...








































.....to 29th

;) ;)

yep, I was right, Woodson was barking!!

28-13 Indy

Blimey, this throw away comment looks like it might come true!!!

Kansas back from the dead and now in the lead!!

Thanks to Sky+ able to watch this before doing the school run this morning.

Nice work Umenyiora!!!! :p

Early days but can anyone see past Dallas for NFC?

Are Green Bay for real?

Can Seattle mount a decent challenge??

Onwards and upwards I say - go Oakland!

Those Giants! :eek: Sound the sporting bigamy alarm. ;)

I'd also make the Cowboys favourites in the NFC, but their weakness is their secondary and after week one it's hardly been tested. If the Seahawks can up their game that's one very big potential challenger to them.

There must be a red hot favourite for the Heisman Trophy this year because whoever he is, the Dolphins obviously want to make sure they get him!

I wouldn't say there is, and our needs are above and beyond one player. If Ronnie Brown keeps up his recent form then Darren McFadden definitely isn't what we need, and if we draft a QB then why waste a #2 on Beck this past draft?

Then again, that wouldn't be unlike us. Here's a great post on where the Fins have gone wrong in recent years (warning, very, VERY long):
http://www.finheaven.com/boardvb2/sh...d.php?t=215885

I don't know why I'm saying this when they've got one more win than us, but if Brian Brohm isn't a Falcon next year I'd be very surprised.

BTW, if anyone is wondering why I like Gus Johnson, well it all starts from this Bill Simmons' comment from four years ago:
And of course Gus at his best. Ignore if you don't like College Basketball:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiy59lXkw0s

Good grief, the Fins are only a 5.5 point underdog in Houston this Sunday. Playing along with Bill Simmons' podcast my guess was in the 8-9 point range.

For you Fins fans... I got media passes for Miami at Cleveland. Any questons you'd like me to ask that might be relevant post game?

Do they fancy their chances of being let back into the country after the game at Wembley?

Just saw Devin Hester's latest effort on NFL.com. Might be his best one yet in terms of moves and avoiding tackles.

I'm surprised Devin doesn't see more offensive play action. He's incredible when returning the ball, why not give him a bit more of a go when trying to rush some yards?

Because he fumbles waaaaaay too much. Once he gets that sorted, I think you'll probably see more of him.

But then again, lok at Daunte Hall. The guy's gangbusters on special teams and is mediocre at best as a wideout. If you can't run good, clean routes NFL DB's are going to have no problems covering you...

Cris, you on Indy this week, or going elsewhere?

Just checked the NFL UK forums. Apparently some Wembley tickets are starting to arrive. :lux:

Mine came today. :lux:

Just got a text message. :lux:

Wife's best-mate's husband thanking us for his birthday present. :(

No, used them up in Wk 2

Bit trickier this week. No absolute gimmes (available to me) for the first time this season

Gone for Green Bay, although not 100% confident like I've been in previous weeks.

Missed the delivery of my Giants ticket by 20 minutes (what kind of effed up delivery firm comes at 4.50pm anyway!!!???)

Now have to wait until Tuesday for these *******

Wow, you took them on the road in Tennessee? Nice pick, gutty.

Maybe that should be our tiebreaker, you have to pick a road team.

That Trent Green injury looked frightening. I didn't hear it especially well, but it seems like it's just a concussion.

I know I've criticised his performances so far this year, but he got injured trying his hardest to help the team in a way a lot of QBs wouldn't (throwing a block). I hope he's ok.

Best of luck to TG, he was trying to do something positive for a struggling team... but it's not the best idea against a huge DT!

Redskins are rocking :)