American Sports Thread

[AZOffaly]

Seanie you must have loved that 😀 It was like they declared open season on Rogers. I nearly felt sorry for him by the end.

[smort]

Sat the Cardinal D/ST in my fantasy playoff final last night 

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Chip and the Eagles part ways

[magpie seanie]

Seanie you must have loved that 😀 It was like they declared open season on Rogers. I nearly felt sorry for him by the end.

I really did. Pro bowl me hole. Although it was probably someone elses fault, his o-line, his receivers, the play calling, the officials.....

[Minder]

Seanie you must have loved that 😀 It was like they declared open season on Rogers. I nearly felt sorry for him by the end.

I really did. Pro bowl me hole. Although it was probably someone elses fault, his o-line, his receivers, the play calling, the officials.....

Well when you get sacked 8 times there probably is an issue with your O line, especially when that O line has three back ups playing.

One of those back ups - Barclay, has given up the second most sacks in the NFL this season - he hasn't even played half a season.

Regardless of your bitterness 30TD & 7 INT is Pro Bowl form, he hasn't played as well this year, no doubt, but those numbers with that wide receiving & TE corps is good. Slowest wide receivers in the NFL.

[magpie seanie]

Seanie you must have loved that 😀 It was like they declared open season on Rogers. I nearly felt sorry for him by the end.

I really did. Pro bowl me hole. Although it was probably someone elses fault, his o-line, his receivers, the play calling, the officials.....

Well when you get sacked 8 times there probably is an issue with your O line, especially when that O line has three back ups playing.

One of those back ups - Barclay, has given up the second most sacks in the NFL this season - he hasn't even played half a season.

Regardless of your bitterness 30TD & 7 INT is Pro Bowl form, he hasn't played as well this year, no doubt, but those numbers with that wide receiving & TE corps is good. Slowest wide receivers in the NFL.

Excuses, excuses. Is Randall Cobb slow now? Only material difference from last year receivers is Jordy Nelson. That's it. And Davante Adams came with a load of hype. Every team has injuries, you can't hide behind it. When every other QB takes loads of sacks they get blamed for holding the ball too long but not Aaron of course. If you think he was in the top 6 QB's this season I'm afraid it's you who has clouded judgement. People keep pointing to the low number of interceptions but he had at least two fumbles the other night.

And if the receivers are as bad as you say then it shows an outrageous level of arrogance by the Packers - sure we can play anyone, Aaron is THAT good.

[gallsman]

The bitterness is strong in this one.

http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/10/31/aaron-rodgers-green-bay-packers-quarterback-analytics

[Minder]

Seanie you must have loved that 😀 It was like they declared open season on Rogers. I nearly felt sorry for him by the end.

I really did. Pro bowl me hole. Although it was probably someone elses fault, his o-line, his receivers, the play calling, the officials.....

Well when you get sacked 8 times there probably is an issue with your O line, especially when that O line has three back ups playing.

One of those back ups - Barclay, has given up the second most sacks in the NFL this season - he hasn't even played half a season.

Regardless of your bitterness 30TD & 7 INT is Pro Bowl form, he hasn't played as well this year, no doubt, but those numbers with that wide receiving & TE corps is good. Slowest wide receivers in the NFL.

Excuses, excuses. Is Randall Cobb slow now? Only material difference from last year receivers is Jordy Nelson. That's it. And Davante Adams came with a load of hype. Every team has injuries, you can't hide behind it. When every other QB takes loads of sacks they get blamed for holding the ball too long but not Aaron of course. If you think he was in the top 6 QB's this season I'm afraid it's you who has clouded judgement. People keep pointing to the low number of interceptions but he had at least two fumbles the other night.

And if the receivers are as bad as you say then it shows an outrageous level of arrogance by the Packers - sure we can play anyone, Aaron is THAT good.

Cobb has been absolutely atrocious this year, and has shown he isn't a #1 receiver.

Adams has been worse, 1 TD all year I think.

Pro Football Focus Top 10 quarterbacks rated going into Week 17

Big Ben 99.9
Palmer 99.6
Brady 99.5
Wilson 86.3
Newton 85.8
Rodgers 85.3
Carr83.8
Brees 82.0
Rivers 79.9
Taylor 79.1

http://espn.go.com/blog/green-bay-packers/post/_/id/25361/dropped-passes-plague-packers-wrs-davante-adams-randall-cobb

http://espn.go.com/blog/green-bay-packers/post/_/id/26235/packers-receiver-davante-adams-struggles-continueCarr

[AZOffaly]

Great evening in store in the NCAA semi finals. Clemson and Oklahoma up first at 9 our time. Alabama and Michigan State after that. Feck the new year countdown, this is a real New Year's Eve treat.

[Oraisteach]

Houston up 38-24 over Florida State with two minutes remaining

[AZOffaly]

Yeah. I took Houston -9.5 at half time. Was looking dodgy there for a bit.

[Oraisteach]

Cheering for Michigan State with their 29 Ohioans on their roster, not to mention QB Connor Cook from Cleveland Walsh Jesuit

[DrinkingHarp]

NYE Bets

MSU +9.5 vs Bama

2 team parlay Clemson +4 and MSU +9.5  half of it completed

2 team parlay  MSU +9.5 and Iowa +6

Go Big Ten and ACC!!!

[AZOffaly]

This is a heavyweight battle. Hard to run on either team. Will Cook win the QB battle?

[DrinkingHarp]

This is a heavyweight battle. Hard to run on either team. Will Cook win the QB battle?

I believe so, after he took that first hit he should be good to go. I can see the O/U around 33.