2013-2014 NFL Thread

[YOhio]

Funny twitter exchange between Jags and Broncos.

https://twitter.com/jaguars/status/387229936232058880

[Color Me Badd Fan]

@KC in early Dec is as certain of a loss for Denver as there is, especially with how improved KC is this year. I think KC will win 14 or 15 games. Their defense is really good, and despite having Captain Checkdown at QB, it actually works for them because they're content to play ball control. They'll need to score against Denver, but I could see the games being 28-24 type of affairs. Denver still has tough games at Houston and at NE, but NE doesn't look nearly as tough of a team this year. Of course, the game is a couple months away so we could be looking at an entirely different team.

Denver plays the Jags this week, and it will be nice to have gotten through the Von Miller suspension at 6-0 despite yesterday's putrid defensive performance. Miller and Bailey should be back after that, and I expect Denver to go in to the bye week at 8-0. The game against Indy will be tough on the road, but I don't see Manning going back there and losing that one.

Houston is really bad right now. I can't figure out why the Seahawks had such a tough time with them aside from the fact that Seattle just isn't a good road team yet.

Cincy is a physical team, they may have the best front 7 in the league and New England always has trouble with teams like that (see the Ravens and Niners last year -- at least the first two and a half quarters of that Niners game before Justin Smith went down). That said, New England has not looked particularly good this year and they're without their best defensive player for the remainder of the season.

The problem in my mind is Peyton Manning in cold weather. We saw this with Brett Favre for years at the end of his career and it seems we saw it in that game against the Ravens in the playoffs last year -- some of these old QBs don't play well in cold weather (which in turn makes me wonder about Tom Brady). I'm pretty sure Denver or KC will be the #1 seed in the AFC this year with Indy having an outside shot. I think Denver would beat Indy easily on the road in the playoffs. But KC and Denver would be cold venues and on top of that they're holding the Super Bowl in freaking New Jersey which is beyond idiotic.

I still think Denver is the best team in the league, but I'm assuming their defense gets better when Von Miller gets back. But KC's defense is loaded -- Flowers, Berry, Poe, Houston and Johnson. They're the 2011 Niners with better offensive skill players. It is amusing to see Dwayne Bowe have marginal stats, same ol' Alex Smith who doesn't know how to throw to his WRs.

[The_Douger]

@KC in early Dec is as certain of a loss for Denver as there is, especially with how improved KC is this year. I think KC will win 14 or 15 games. Their defense is really good, and despite having Captain Checkdown at QB, it actually works for them because they're content to play ball control. They'll need to score against Denver, but I could see the games being 28-24 type of affairs. Denver still has tough games at Houston and at NE, but NE doesn't look nearly as tough of a team this year. Of course, the game is a couple months away so we could be looking at an entirely different team.

Denver plays the Jags this week, and it will be nice to have gotten through the Von Miller suspension at 6-0 despite yesterday's putrid defensive performance. Miller and Bailey should be back after that, and I expect Denver to go in to the bye week at 8-0. The game against Indy will be tough on the road, but I don't see Manning going back there and losing that one.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

I was looking at the Chiefs schedule and I don't see them losing to anyone besides Denver. They should pound the other 9 games remaining.

They, along with the rest of the AFC West, lucked out by getting to play the NFC East this year. Additionally, they're playing the AFC South who's not good outside of Indy now that Locker is out for Tennessee.

They have some tricky games aside from the Denver games. At Buffalo, at San Diego and even at Oakland may not be gimmes. Indy isn't a gimme even though I like that matchup for KC especially since it's in KC. That said, KC actually has a decent chance at the #1 seed. That's not a crushing schedule by any means. Denver has to play @ Indy and @ New England in the last week of November. Denver has a brutal stretch where they play KC at home, then go on the road against New England and then finish up on December 1 on the road against KC. If KC splits that Denver series, they could end up with the #1 seed.

[DrumNFeather]

Yay.

I picked up Pryor and he's helped position me to win in my big money league. Just need like 2 yards from Bilaal Powell.

[Surfah]

I am going to bed. I'm sure I'll wake up in the morning andwonder WTF happened. So it goes as a Raiders fan.

Yay.

[cougjunkie]

I was looking at the Chiefs schedule and I don't see them losing to anyone besides Denver. They should pound the other 9 games remaining.

The Chiefs will lose a few games they shouldn't.

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[The_Douger]

I was looking at the Chiefs schedule and I don't see them losing to anyone besides Denver. They should pound the other 9 games remaining.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

I'm looking at the Saints remaining schedule. There's only four games where the probability of them losing is either high (@ Seattle) or moderately slim (San Francisco). I think they're losing @New England and @Seattle and then they're at least splitting @Atlanta and home against San Francisco. In terms of likely records, 13-3 is the most likely followed by 14-2 and then 12-4. If had to place a bet on the #1 seed in the NFC, they'd be the team.

[Joe Public]

They should sign Tebow for the ticket sales alone.

Agree completely with this. If they're going to stink and have to find a new solution at QB, why not stink and have to find a new solution at QB while playing in a sold-out stadium with high local and national interest?

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Alabama is and has been great, but I think you are underselling the 2001 Canes.

I'm not questioning the talent, I'm questioning the coaching. I think Larry Coker was the coach at that point.

There's no way in hell the 2002 team should ever have lost to Ohio State.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

This comes up whenever there is a dominant college program and a really horrible NFL team, but I would love to watch Alabama vs. Jacksonville. Jax would probably win of course, but it would be closer than, say, Miami vs. whoever was horrible in 2001 (San Diego?). Think of all the linemen and defensive players that have been going in the first and second rounds out of Alabama over the past few years.

Alabama is and has been great, but I think you are underselling the 2001 Canes.

Overall, 38 members of the team would be selected in the NFL Draft. As of 2012, they had earned an astonishing 41 trips to the Pro Bowl: Ed Reed (9), Andre Johnson (6), Vince Wilfork (5), Frank Gore (4), Jeremy Shockey (4), Jonathan Vilma (3), Willis McGahee (2), Chris Myers (2), Clinton Portis (2), Antrel Rolle (2), Sean Taylor (2), Bryant McKinnie (1), and Kellen Winslow II (1).

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Just think about it, if Pryor isn't out for the Redskins game and if the Raiders hold on tonight, they would have been 3-2 with their two losses to teams that are a combined 9-1. I can't believe how good the AFC West is.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

This comes up whenever there is a dominant college program and a really horrible NFL team, but I would love to watch Alabama vs. Jacksonville. Jax would probably win of course, but it would be closer than, say, Miami vs. whoever was horrible in 2001 (San Diego?). Think of all the linemen and defensive players that have been going in the first and second rounds out of Alabama over the past few years.

[Surfah]

I am going to bed. I'm sure I'll wake up in the morning andwonder WTF happened. So it goes as a Raiders fan.