SUN 3:00 FOX = EAGLES (-3) @ Arizona
SUN 6:30 CBS = Baltimore @ Pittsburgh (-5)
Since all the Eagles/Cardinals talk will be over on the main section, we'll use this one for Ravens/Steelers. That'll be a brutally physical game and I hope everyone dies before Tampa.
I'd rather face Pittsburgh.
I want no part of that BAL defense.
The only good thing about BAL would be their offense is zesty.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on January 11, 2009, 07:41:56 PM
I'd rather face Pittsburgh.
I want no part of that BAL defense.
The only good thing about BAL would be their offense is zesty.
same here.
if they do wind up playing baltimore, i think andy should start cobb. he looked pretty good against them the first time around.
Quote from: hunt on January 11, 2009, 07:43:49 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on January 11, 2009, 07:41:56 PM
I'd rather face Pittsburgh.
I want no part of that BAL defense.
The only good thing about BAL would be their offense is zesty.
same here.
if they do wind up playing baltimore, i think andy should start cobb. he looked pretty good against them the first time around.
:-D :-D
The sarcasm is so thick in that post you could cut it with a knife.
I agree, I don't want to see McNabb against the Ravens D. That would be ugly. But, I feel that the Ravens are going to own Rothlisberger and the Steelers.
Quote from: hunt on January 11, 2009, 07:43:49 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on January 11, 2009, 07:41:56 PM
I'd rather face Pittsburgh.
I want no part of that BAL defense.
The only good thing about BAL would be their offense is zesty.
same here.
if they do wind up playing baltimore, i think andy should start cobb. he looked pretty good against them the first time around.
Start Kolb and let him give Reed his obligatory 2 picks and then put McNabb in.
How is facing the Steelers defense any better? Plus Flacco has to fall apart at some point, right?
I'd rather face the Pittsburgh defense because BAL has Ed Reed and better corners.
yeah, steelers can be had through the air. baltimore is an all around scary D.
plus, pitt's o-line sucks & it's not too hard to get pressure on the qb.
i agree with easy...steelers defense is better than the ravens...especially with the raven corners....plus if the steelers make the sb the stadium will be 75% black n gold....its not a no brainer but give me the ravens if i had to choose
raven corners stink phreak
not to mention that the Pitt front gets a hell of a lot more pressure than the Ravens. I think they only had one sack on Collins.
With the way McNabb is playing right now I think he duplicates Collins' effort of 280 yds in the air and gets the win that way
Quote from: ice grillin you on January 11, 2009, 07:56:33 PM
raven corners stink phreak
You think? They seemed to be playing well this year.
But they just need to get there first. If they play PIT or BAL I will be happy, but I have a better feelng against PIT.
Put it this way Phreak...wouldnt you feel more comfortable going against rookie Flacco in the biggest game of the year than Rothlisberger who has already done it?
That PIT OL is a sieve though.
And their running game is not as powerful as Baltimore's.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on January 11, 2009, 08:05:33 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on January 11, 2009, 07:56:33 PM
raven corners stink phreak
You think? They seemed to be playing well this year.
But they just need to get there first. If they play PIT or BAL I will be happy, but I have a better feelng against PIT.
it wasnt all the corners fault of course but a kerry friggin collins offense put up 400 yards on the ravens yesterday...without mcallister they arent the same...
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on January 11, 2009, 08:09:11 PM
That PIT OL is a sieve though.
And their running game is not as powerful as Baltimore's.
ill give you the OL advantage...but jesus the ravens top runner is an obese fb...NOT scared
How about we make sure the Eagles actually get to the Super Bowl? Then we can wax poetic about who we'd rather they play.
Quote from: FastFreddie on January 11, 2009, 08:24:47 PM
How about we make sure the Eagles actually get to the Super Bowl? Then we can wax poetic about who we'd rather they play.
they are in the superbowl...thats not even a question
binary boy at it again
FF's right. We should all draw straws to see which player we're going to control with our minds to make sure the Eagles beat Arizona.
Quote from: General_Failure on January 11, 2009, 08:34:19 PM
FF's right. We should all draw straws to see which player we're going to control with our minds to make sure the Eagles beat Arizona.
You want DeSean Jackson, right?
Screw that, I call Brenda Warner. Bitch gonna clap and looky crazy like crazy!
I'll be pulling for the Ravens. I don't need to be hearing shtein for years from people in this Rust Belt town if the Steelers beat the Eagles in the SB.
An Eagles/Ravens Super Bowl would make my state melt. Home team vs. Delaware boy.
I'd like the Eagles chances more against the Steelers anyway.
you need to die and/or get aborted
It's a shame I wasn't a jew living in 1940's Germany.
Quote from: ice grillin you on January 11, 2009, 07:55:57 PM
i agree with easy...steelers defense is better than the ravens...especially with the raven corners....plus if the steelers make the sb the stadium will be 75% black n gold....its not a no brainer but give me the ravens if i had to choose
I say it would be 60/40 Eagles fans. Those losers up in Pitt have no desire to travel. They don't even know towns exist outside their little cozy factory haven they got going on there.
Quote from: King Cole on January 12, 2009, 02:35:11 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on January 11, 2009, 07:55:57 PM
i agree with easy...steelers defense is better than the ravens...especially with the raven corners....plus if the steelers make the sb the stadium will be 75% black n gold....its not a no brainer but give me the ravens if i had to choose
I say it would be 60/40 Eagles fans. Those losers up in Pitt have no desire to travel. They don't even know towns exist outside their little cozy factory haven they got going on there.
This is the most incorrect thing I've read all night. Steelers fans don't travel. Wow.
Really interesting stuff from the best football analysis site I've found. (http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/Articles/11_2630_The_not-so-secret_to_our_success.html)
Quote from: rjs246 on January 12, 2009, 04:14:38 AM
Quote from: King Cole on January 12, 2009, 02:35:11 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on January 11, 2009, 07:55:57 PM
i agree with easy...steelers defense is better than the ravens...especially with the raven corners....plus if the steelers make the sb the stadium will be 75% black n gold....its not a no brainer but give me the ravens if i had to choose
I say it would be 60/40 Eagles fans. Those losers up in Pitt have no desire to travel. They don't even know towns exist outside their little cozy factory haven they got going on there.
This is the most incorrect thing I've read all night. Steelers fans don't travel. Wow.
The ones in Pittsburgh might not travel, but there are plenty of those fargers all over the country anyway.
Quote from: King Cole on January 12, 2009, 02:35:11 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on January 11, 2009, 07:55:57 PM
i agree with easy...steelers defense is better than the ravens...especially with the raven corners....plus if the steelers make the sb the stadium will be 75% black n gold....its not a no brainer but give me the ravens if i had to choose
I say it would be 60/40 Eagles fans. Those losers up in Pitt have no desire to travel. They don't even know towns exist outside their little cozy factory haven they got going on there.
I don't know if I've ever heard anything dumber before in my life.
POLLS GALORE! (http://sports.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/poll/index)
Most notably, Andy Reid is currently leading the poll for "Which coach would you most want preparing your team for a Conference Championship game?" with 44% of the vote. Mike Tomlin had 40%, and the others are dangling.
QuoteSUGGS COULD MISS TITLE FIGHT
Posted by Mike Florio on January 13, 2009, 7:36 a.m.
Come next season, the Ravens might have to get used to life without linebacker/defensive end Terrell Suggs, since they have only one franchise tag and three guys (Suggs, Ray Lewis, and Bart Scott) preparing to hit the open market if they aren't re-signed.
The Ravens might have to get used to live without Suggs even earlier than that, if the shoulder he injured against the Titans on Saturday won't allow him to play in Pittsburgh this coming Sunday.
Per Aaron Wilson of the Carroll County Times (he's also been known to go slumming these days with less reputable Internet-only publications), Suggs says he'll be able to play. But coach John Harbaugh is less optimistic.
"I'm not going to sit here and say it's positive, or we're happy about it," Harbaugh said Monday, after Suggs had an MRI exam of the injured shoulder. "We'll just see how it goes. It's going to be close. He's going to work real hard to try to get back. That's all we know."
To keep Suggs out, however, the Ravens might have to physically restrain him.
"Check my track record, I don't miss games," Suggs said Saturday, after a game in which he didn't return after suffering the injury. "The only way I wouldn't be there is if I didn't have air in my lungs. I'm playing. It's nothing. What did I tell y'all? I don't even feel it now."
Huge absence for BAL if he can't go....
With any luck he'll stay out of the game, they'll win anyway, he'll stay out of the SB, spend the off season healing up and then the Eagles will pay a kings ransom to steal him from the other 31 teams who would die to have his services.
my initial reaction is that i'd rather face the steelers than the ravens because balt's d is playing lights out...but i'm already sick of hearing about the friggin steelers.
farg them.
I'm starting to waver on who I would rather see them face as well...
After seeing Parker look like he is back to his old form and Roethlisberger much more dangerous than Flacco at this stage, I think I would rather take my shot against the Ravens and Flacco's 44% passing.
I'm sick of hearing about the both of them though. Flacco's sack must be dragging on the floor from the weight of everyone swinging on it.
I hope they beat the shtein out of each other on Sunday and somehow BAL wins.
eagle are gonna beat whoever they play thus i would much rather face the steelers since i hate then 1000 times more than the ravens
I'd like to see the Eagles beat Arizona. Then the Steelers for the reason vigy just said.
But I'd also like to see Baltimore beat Pittsburgh at Heinz.
How about if Baltimore beats the piss out of the Steelers, but the Steelers somehow win the game?
if the beating is brutal AND the victory comes by way of the referees, deal
umm...he plays for the Steelers
Crack is whack, Dio.
GF got tricky with the mod-only delete post function there
back button FTW
Quote from: General_Failure on January 13, 2009, 01:13:53 PMFlagrantly bad pass interference call on Polamalu should cover it.
Big Brother is watching... and occasionally covering his own tracks.
P.S. May I please have my post count reset a la rjs? It's clearly worked out for him, and I want to give it a try.
I'd like to counter with a request that you add my post count to FF's number.
Oh damn, I forgot that it stops counting after a certain number.
Quote from: General_Failure on January 13, 2009, 01:19:14 PM
Oh damn, I forgot that it stops counting after a certain number.
Hahaha. Well played.
Geez, FF broke the post counter.
I honestly think the Eagles would beat the Ravens fairly easily in the SB if that's what it came down to. The difference between the Eagles O and the Ravens O is >>>>>> than the difference between the Ravens D and Eagles D. And don't give me the bullshtein about the game earlier this year. If the Eagles offense doesn't giftwrap points for the Ravens, they aren't scoring against this defense right now.
Even though they were ranked 18th offensively and the Steelers 22nd, I fear Ben and the Steelers O a great deal more.
keep in mind though, Big Ben was sacked 4th most in the NFL
although he is a tough bitch to bring down....I think the Birds get to him with their blitz schemes
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Pittsburgh-mayor-Luke-Ravenstahl-is-now-Luke-Ste?urn=nfl,134346 (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Pittsburgh-mayor-Luke-Ravenstahl-is-now-Luke-Ste?urn=nfl,134346)
Pittsburgh's mayor changed his name from Ravenstahl to Steelerstahl. I think that's farging awesome
Quote from: Tomahawk on January 14, 2009, 05:54:44 PM
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Pittsburgh-mayor-Luke-Ravenstahl-is-now-Luke-Ste?urn=nfl,134346 (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Pittsburgh-mayor-Luke-Ravenstahl-is-now-Luke-Ste?urn=nfl,134346)
Pittsburgh's mayor changed his name from Ravenstahl to Steelerstahl. I think that's farging awesome
Kinda repetitive. "Stahl" is German for "steel".
Regardless, you gotta love the guys gumption
well since we're talking politicians...NYTimes article on Rendell and the PA teams:
QuoteJanuary 13, 2009
Pennsylvania Governor Takes a Rooting Interest
By LYNN ZINSER
Gov. Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania will be rooting hard for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers in their N.F.L. conference championship games Sunday. But if both of them win and advance to the Super Bowl, he will not pretend to be neutral. After all, he has been an Eagles season-ticket holder for more than 30 years and even has a postgame television show. People in Philadelphia still call him Mayor.
"I'm not going to change," he said in a telephone interview Monday. "I told the people of Pittsburgh this when I was running for re-election. If they had a longtime Pittsburgh mayor and the Steelers were in the Super Bowl and he said he was rooting for anyone other than the Steelers, they would skin him alive.
"I have to be loyal. If it costs me some political points, that's life."
Rendell would be thrilled to run that risk because it would mean the teams from both sides of his state would have reached the Super Bowl. That would require an Eagles victory at Arizona in the National Football Conference championship game and a Steelers victory over Baltimore in the American Football Conference title game.
For most governors, that would be reason to host a news conference and smile a lot. But Rendell is hardly your average governor when it comes to sports. This is a man who — legend has it — sparked the snowball-throwing frenzy in a playoff game against Dallas in 1989. He has said he paid someone to throw a snowball at the field so he would not bother fans.
To Eagles fans, Rendell is one of them. He says true Steelers fans will understand. "The casual fans might be upset, but I don't care," he said.
Rendell says an Eagles-Steelers Super Bowl would send happy, rowdy Pennsylvanians rushing to Tampa, Fla., whether they had tickets or not. And he would become the de facto mayor of Tampa for two weeks.
That chain of events was almost realized in 2005, when the Eagles advanced to the Super Bowl but the Steelers lost in the A.F.C. championship. Rendell said 25,000 Eagles fans went to Jacksonville for the game even though they did not have tickets. He said he expected double that if both teams made it to Tampa, and he expressed sympathy for Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida.
"Eagles fans and Steelers fans are such enthusiastic blue-collar rock 'n' rollers, there may not be much left of Tampa when they get done with it," Rendell said. "Governor Crist is a friend of mine, so I will offer to send the Pennsylvania National Guard down to help."
Rendell said that when he was in Jacksonville in 2005, he was stopped on the street by 17 Philadelphia men sharing a recreational vehicle. They had no tickets and nowhere to stay but the R.V.
He said that he would continue the tradition of opposing governors' placing a bet on the outcome of the game, and that he would bet against himself in the event of an all-Pennsylvania Super Bowl. If the Eagles were to win, Pittsburgh would donate a shipment of sandwiches from Primanti Brothers to a senior citizen center and a homeless shelter in Philadelphia. If the Steelers were to win, Philadelphia would send Pat's cheese steaks to a senior center and a shelter in Pittsburgh.
And Rendell plans to be at the game to celebrate and, naturally, to do pregame and postgame shows: average governor stuff.
"Can you imagine what it would be like to have those two fan bases, so knowledgeable and enthusiastic, in the same Super Bowl?" Rendell said. "The only thing that would come close is if the Jets and Giants both made the Super Bowl. It would be a dream for so many of us.
"But nobody in Pennsylvania is counting on it yet. We know better."
and thats why we call it shteinsburgh
well, i guess i hope the cards win it all. i farging hate shteinsburg & that murderer ray lewis.
No. No one else wins their first Super Bowl until the Eagles do.
GO AFC.
meh....the cards winning it wouldn't make the eagles sb drought any worse or any better, imo.
QuoteNo. No one else wins their first Super Bowl until the Eagles do.
GO AFC.
for real..why the farg would i want the Cardinals to win. Its seriously a god-damn travesty this team is in a Superbowl.
the NFL should of paid the refs off because SB ratings just went in the shteinter
Is it really worse to have another perpetual loser team win the SB than to have a team out there having won it SIX times while the Eagles can't get one? I could bring myself to living with Murderin' Ray getting another ring, but the Steelers never.
There's always the Lions.
yeah. it's not like i want the cards to win. more like i don't want pitt or balt to win.
i'll watch the sb for the commercials.
yeah I cant wait for another dollar bill with eyes on it to really make me slap my knee
farg the superbowl
Quote from: reese125 on January 18, 2009, 07:01:34 PM
the NFL should of paid the refs off because SB ratings just went in the shteinter
Instead, they blew an easy call that would have extended the Eagles chances.
Quote from: reese125 on January 18, 2009, 07:08:58 PM
yeah I cant wait for another dollar bill with eyes on it to really make me slap my knee
farg the superbowl
don't hate, dood. i heard there will be some really clever talking baby ads this year.
Quote from: FastFreddie on January 18, 2009, 07:09:40 PM
Quote from: reese125 on January 18, 2009, 07:01:34 PM
the NFL should of paid the refs off because SB ratings just went in the shteinter
Instead, they blew an easy call that would have extended the Eagles chances.
can't complain too much after that call on the kickoff in the first half. cards got screwed on that one.
Your parents got screwed when their gene pool met up and decided on you as the outcome.
you're such a geek.
Guilty as charged, Yankee fan.
:-D
Looks to be the Steelers that will get to whoop on the Cardinals.
not so sure about that...I wouldnt doubt how farged up this year has been that the Cards dont win it all
Ben goes brain dead and completes a pass in the middle of the field without a timeout then can't spike it in time. Sign him up!
I prefer the Steelers to the arrogant thugs from Baltimore. That 2 hour SB pregame special featuring media hacks sucking Ed Reed's cock now has to be scheduled.
Hell of a hit just now. Clark bringin' some wood. Murderin' Ray is kneeling down crying. I wonder if he did that when he shot that guy in Atlanta?
Willis McGahee's neck just got broken.
well this game lived up to the physically brutal part
Super Bowl odds are out already: Steelers -7, O/U 47
My only interest in the Super Bowl is due to the fact I have 100 smakers invested in a pool at the Moose lodge. 1,000 bucks the first three quarters, and 2 grand on the last one.