Official 2007 NFL Season Thread

[Othello Harrington]

Well, I'm calling OJ, he'll know who did it.

[Videodrone]

I don't think so. Favre was killing his team, by trying to throw the long ball, while Dallas was leaving the short passes open. Rogers showed how GB should have played and even the hapless Gumball knew that.

Dallas will most likely meet Green Bay again, and they'll probably blow out the Packers. TO's botched catch in the end zone, kept GB in the game; if TO had caught that(endzone) pass, the game would have been completly out of reach.

That game was full of if/thens. For the one TO should have caught in the endzone there is the one to start the game that should have been ruled an interception that Harris ripped from TO. Not to mention the no call for face guarding Driver in the endzone on the opening drive that forced the Pack to take only 3 and of course the huge pass interferance in the 4th that probably should not have been.

As for Dallas blowing out GB in a rematch, I doubt it. McCarthy made the mistake of trying to adjust what worked all year (pass underneath, quick slants, etc) and trying to beat the DB's long. Once McCarthy was force to go back to the original plan with Rogers it was quite obvious that Dallas was very susceptible.

[Videodrone]

Except that the Cowboys have been without Terry Glenn all season and lost Jason Ferguson in week one. The talent gap is large when everyone is healthy. This is now officially a two team league, and the Browns might be the distant third.

The drop off from Woodson is MUCH greater than the drop off from Glenn to say Crayton. Mike McCarthy went to a zone, which the Packers hadn't used all year as a result of Woodson being out and it cost Green Bay dearly. The Packers defense is build around physical corner play and without Woodson you didn't see the real Packers defense.

[Othello Harrington]

God, it's Green Bay and Dallas woop woop.

AFC >>> NFC

[gamevet]

That game was full of if/thens. For the one TO should have caught in the endzone there is the one to start the game that should have been ruled an interception that Harris ripped from TO. Not to mention the no call for face guarding Driver in the endzone on the opening drive that forced the Pack to take only 3 and of course the huge pass interferance in the 4th that probably should not have been.

I'll give you the Harris interception(still questionable though) and the face guard not getting called. But there's no way you can't see that was pass interferance, when the guy clearly grabbed at his jersey and right arm. I don't care if it was only a brief grab, it was still enough to warrant the call.

As for Dallas blowing out GB in a rematch, I doubt it. McCarthy made the mistake of trying to adjust what worked all year (pass underneath, quick slants, etc) and trying to beat the DB's long. Once McCarthy was force to go back to the original plan with Rogers it was quite obvious that Dallas was very susceptible.

It wasn't McCarthy's calls that made Favre pass how he did. It was his decisions on the field that were costly. Rogers came in and stuck to the gameplan, while Favre improvised and paid for it.

Sure, GB didn't have one of their corners in the game, but Dallas still doesn't have Glenn(he'll be ready by playoff time) either. I can't imagine many teams covering two speedsters on the field, with both Glenn and Owens on the field. Then you have Witten in the middle and Barber ripping up yardage; not many teams have that much offensive talent on the field.

[Yoshi]

The drop off from Woodson is MUCH greater than the drop off from Glenn to say Crayton. Mike McCarthy went to a zone, which the Packers hadn't used all year as a result of Woodson being out and it cost Green Bay dearly. The Packers defense is build around physical corner play and without Woodson you didn't see the real Packers defense.

Absolutely no one thinks the Packers are on-par with Dallas. No one. Go read any sports site on the internet. You know what Woodson is? One more guy who can't cover Owens. Shit, he couldn't even cover Owens in his Raider days.

Dallas lost all focus when Favre got hurt. It nothing to do with anything McCarthy did. They could have picked the number they wanted to score on that overrated defense. When you've played no one all year, of course your PPG against looks good.

I'd tell you to wait until the NFC Championship game, but the Packers won't be there.

[Yoshi]

Kick ass. Tom Petty is doing the Super Bowl halftime show.

[Othello Harrington]

Finally, somebody decent.

[Yoshi]

Frank Caliendo's segment on Fox today had a part where they edited in what Chad Johnson was filming with that camera last week. It was Frank holding a sign that said "Hey, jackass, your team is still 4-7."

[Yoshi]

What... the... fuck... the Redskins are going to play the first play with 10 guys on defense to honor Sean Taylor. They should have just carried guns onto the field. I hope they give up a TD on the first play.

Besides of all this shit, we're talking about who the two best teams are, not who they played. The two best teams are Ohio State and LSU, and they have been all year.