Gettin' ready for NFL '09!!!

[ZRT]

But .... why aren't you in the pool?????????

...cause I just read the news about Favre and haven't been keeping up with the thread and I don't follow preseason and alright alright I'll read up on it in a bit and make a bunch of random guesses based on what helmets I like.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Hmmm... I wonder how/if this is going to affect the Steelers' early games:

Big Ben hurt in last practice of Steelers camp
Updated: August 20, 2009, 6:24 PM EDT

LATROBE, Pa. (AP) - Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger injured his right ankle or foot during the last half-hour of the team's final training camp practice. It was not immediately certain how badly he was hurt or how long he would be out.

Roethlisberger had an ice pack on the back of the ankle when he was carted off at the end of Thursday's workout, with offensive coordinator Bruce Arians accompanying him. Roethlisberger didn't talk to reporters, but he could be overheard saying, "Oh it just feels great. It feels like a car ran over it."

Coach Mike Tomlin declined to talk to reporters. Team spokesman Dave Lockett said only, "Someone stepped on his foot, and we don't have any updates other than that."

As the Steelers' starting offense practiced against the starting defense, left tackle Max Starks couldn't handle a rush from linebacker James Harrison, the 2008 NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Starks went down to one knee as he tripped Roethlisberger, who stayed on the turf for about 5 minutes.

After being treated by athletic trainer John Norwig, Roethlisberger spent the rest of practice sitting on a cooler, then left the field on a golf cart, a towel draped over his head.​

More in the story linked through the headline.

 

[MisterSir]

Oh, ambiguity. On the one hand, I'd like Rongrastname to have a good season and put all the bullshit about the rape accusation behind him; on the other, he is a Steeler.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Soooo... after almost a third of the games for this week (5 of 16) are decided, the standings are:

4 - WD, YK
3 - DD, MS, SW
2 - D2, ES

11 games to go; it's still anyone's week!

 

[Yasashii_Kaze]

Soooo... after almost a third of the games for this week (5 of 16) are decided, the standings are:

4 - WD, YK
3 - DD, MS, SW
2 - D2, ES

11 games to go; it's still anyone's week!

Damn. Beginner's luck, anyone?

 

[Sir_Winston54]

15 of 16 games played:

WD - 11
SW - 10
DD, YK - 9
D2, ES, MS - 6

WD and I have the same pick for MNF, so he's got the win for the week.

DD and YK have an opposite pick from mine for MNF, so they could tie me for second.

Congrats to WD for the weekly win, and congrats to everyone for getting in and actually doing so well on pre-season picks, which are notoriously hard to get right because teams do so many different things in the first three pre-season games that don't always indicate how they'll play in the regular season.

 

[Yasashii_Kaze]

15 of 16 games played:

WD - 11
SW - 10
DD, YK - 9
D2, ES, MS - 6

WD and I have the same pick for MNF, so he's got the win for the week.

DD and YK have an opposite pick from mine for MNF, so they could tie me for second.

Congrats to WD for the weekly win, and congrats to everyone for getting in and actually doing so well on pre-season picks, which are notoriously hard to get right because teams do so many different things in the first three pre-season games that don't always indicate how they'll play in the regular season.

Yay! That was fun!

 

[Sir_Winston54]

So ....

WriterDom takes the week, with 12 correct picks (AND exactly the right number of points for the tiebreaker!).

SirWhatshisface came in 2nd, with 11.
DiscusDave and Yasashii Kaze had 9 each.
MisterSir had 7, and Daddy2 and ecstaticsub 6 each.

WTG, WD!

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Schedule for Preseason Week 3:

Thursday
Visitor. . . . . . . Home
St. Louis. . . . . . Cincinatti
Jacksonville . . . . Philadelphia
Miami. . . . . . . . Tampa Bay

Friday
New England. . . . . Washington
Green Bay. . . . . . Arizona

Saturday
Indianapolis . . . . Detroit
New Orleans. . . . . Oakland
Tennessee. . . . . . Cleveland
Buffalo. . . . . . . Pittsburgh
San Diego. . . . . . Atlanta
Baltimore. . . . . . Carolina
San Francisco. . . . Dallas
Seattle. . . . . . . Kansas City
N.Y. Jets. . . . . . N.Y. Giants

Sunday
Chicago. . . . . . . Denver

Monday
Minnesota. . . . . . Houston
Tiebreaker: Total points for MIN @ HOU ____

Good luck, everyone!

 

[WriterDom]

So ....

WriterDom takes the week, with 12 correct picks (AND exactly the right number of points for the tiebreaker!).

SirWhatshisface came in 2nd, with 11.
DiscusDave and Yasashii Kaze had 9 each.
MisterSir had 7, and Daddy2 and ecstaticsub 6 each.

WTG, WD!

To bad preseason doesn't count. Might be the only one I win.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

To bad preseason doesn't count. Might be the only one I win.

Yeah. Right.

 

[ecstaticsub]

Ok, let's see if I can do better this time

Thursday
Visitor. . . . . . . Home
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Tampa Bay

Friday
New England
Arizona

Saturday
Detroit
New Orleans
Tennessee
Pittsburgh
San Diego
Carolina
San Francisco
Seattle
N.Y. Jets

Sunday
Chicago

Monday
Houston
Tiebreaker: Total points for MIN @ HOU = 35

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Kickoff for Jacksonville @ Philly is 7:00 p.m. EDT tomorrow. Let's get those picks in, folks!

 

[DiscusDave]

My picks for this week!


Thursday
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Miami


Friday
New England
Arizona


Saturday
Indianapolis
New Orleans. . . . . Oakland
Tennessee
Pittsburgh
Atlanta
Baltimore
Dallas
Seattle
N.Y. Giants

Sunday
Chicago

Monday
Houston


Tiebreaker: Total points for MIN @ HOU..... 25

 

[WriterDom]

Thursday
Visitor. . . . . . . Home
. . . . . Cincinatti
. . . Philadelphia
. . . . . . Tampa Bay

Friday
. . Washington
. . . Arizona

Saturday
. . . Detroit
. . . Oakland
Tennessee. . . . . .
. Pittsburgh
. . . Atlanta
. . . . . Carolina
. Dallas
. . Kansas City
. . . N.Y. Giants

. . . . . Denver

Monday
. . . Houston
Tiebreaker: Total points for MIN @ HOU ____38

 

[Sir_Winston54]

St. Louis
Philadelphia
Tampa Bay (Go Bucs!)
New England
Green Bay
Indianapolis
New Orleans
Tennessee
Pittsburgh
Atlanta
Baltimore
Dallas
Seattle
N.Y. Giants
Chicago
Minnesota

Tiebreaker: Total points for MIN @ HOU __42__

(Few minutes late. Thanks for the reminder, WD!)

 

[Sir_Winston54]

My picks for this week!

New Orleans. . . . . Oakland

Ummm, Dave, buddy? You can't pick both. Sowwy.

 

[Yasashii_Kaze]

Thursday
Cincinnati
Jacksonville
Tampa Bay

Friday
New England
Green Bay

Saturday
Detroit
New Orleans
Tennessee
Pittsburgh
Atlanta
Carolina
Dallas
Kansas City
N.Y. Jets

Sunday
Denver

Monday
Minnesota
Total points for MIN @ HOU __45__

 

[DiscusDave]

Ummm, Dave, buddy? You can't pick both. Sowwy.

Dang! you caught my plot to get a better chance of scoring points.


My pick's for New Orleans then.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

So... 3 games last night.

DiscusDave - 3 for 3
SirWhosis - 2
ecstaticsub, WriterDom - 1
Yasashii Kaze - 3 misses.

 

[WriterDom]

Nice to see that Atlanta won. I recorded it but it cut off with Atlanta driving.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

With one Sunday game and MNF left, some surprising results thus far:

DiscusDave and SirHuhWhat? - 9
ecstaticsub - 8
Yasashii Kaze - 7
WriterDom - 4 (What happened, WD? Did you accidentally list your projected *losers* for the week, or what?)​

Too many possibilities to exactly figure them out, but I *think* at this point, the week could be won by DD, SW or YK. I *think* ES is out of the running because she has the same picks as DD for the last two games. We'll see what happens.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Nice to see that Atlanta won. I recorded it but it cut off with Atlanta driving.

It was a great finish. 3rd and goal from around the 2, Redman drops back, scrambles to his left, runs/gets tackled out of bounds for a loss of 4, 14 seconds left. Redman drops back, SD blitzes, Redman scrambles, finds Weems crossing in the endzone with a step on the defender... TOUCHDOWN, FALCONS!

 

[WriterDom]

With one Sunday game and MNF left, some surprising results thus far:

DiscusDave and SirHuhWhat? - 9
ecstaticsub - 8
Yasashii Kaze - 7
WriterDom - 4 (What happened, WD? Did you accidentally list your projected *losers* for the week, or what?)​

Too many possibilities to exactly figure them out, but I *think* at this point, the week could be won by DD, SW or YK. I *think* ES is out of the running because she has the same picks as DD for the last two games. We'll see what happens.

My strategy the first week was to load heavy with home games. It didn't work at all this week. Preseason doesn't count anyway.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

My strategy the first week was to load heavy with home games. It didn't work at all this week. Preseason doesn't count anyway.

That's true about PS counting, and yeah, a lot of home games is often a good pick for preseason.