Is Pats Colts as good as Cowboys Niners was in the mid 1990s? It has lasted longer, but those Niners Cowboys games were always a big deal. Plus they won those four straight Super Bowls and always seemed to have to go through each other. Dunno it's to the same extent with Pats Colts.

This doesn't answer your question, but that AFC Champs game with the Colts comeback was so friggin great

jerseyhoya wrote:Is Pats Colts as good as Cowboys Niners was in the mid 1990s? It has lasted longer, but those Niners Cowboys games were always a big deal. Plus they won those four straight Super Bowls and always seemed to have to go through each other. Dunno it's to the same extent with Pats Colts.

Also, those Cowboys/49ers games often had the player-switching-sides dimension, like Charles Hayley or, most obviously, Deion Sanders.

But, as with the 49ers/Cowboys, the Patriots and Colts legitimately hate each other.

NFC East has some pretty decent young receivers, huh

joe table wrote:NFC East has some pretty decent young receivers, huh

devin thomas is gonna be a STAR

the greatest show on turf was fucking insane. I was looking at them just to gauge where Maclin/Jackson are at this point and at age 28/24 Bruce and Holt had a combined 3106 yards receiving and 15 TDs.

Jason Peters had a pro-bowl worthy day yesterday

My impression is the rule changes have led to increased scoring. According to this you would have made a lot of money over the past few weeks betting overs. For the season, overs are 84-59 for the season, and 11-3 the weekend before last. I suspect though those lines are going to start heading up pretty quickly. The only real surprising thing is they've stayed low for so long--it sort of indicates the sports betting market isn't quite a real market. In a real market, the anomaly would have been caught long ago.

cross posted from facebook but:

Fred Taylor is seriously under rated, 15th all time in rushing yards and of the 14 guys ahead of him only Jim Brown and Barry Sanders have better Yards/Carry

unfortunately he was always hurt

I drafted Fragile Fred for my fantasy football team once...never again...

he'd be a pretty terrible pick from here on out

BigEd76 wrote:unfortunately he was always hurt

My fantasy team was named "Fred Taylor's groin pull" one year.

TenuredVulture wrote:My impression is the rule changes have led to increased scoring. According to this you would have made a lot of money over the past few weeks betting overs. For the season, overs are 84-59 for the season, and 11-3 the weekend before last. I suspect though those lines are going to start heading up pretty quickly. The only real surprising thing is they've stayed low for so long--it sort of indicates the sports betting market isn't quite a real market. In a real market, the anomaly would have been caught long ago.

I'm not sure it makes sense to overreact to a 12 game swing in overs out of 130.

lethal wrote:

BigEd76 wrote:unfortunately he was always hurt

My fantasy team was named "Fred Taylor's groin pull" one year.

I've gone with Favre Dollar Footlongs the last two years. Gonna need to be more creative next year.

Trent Steele wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:My impression is the rule changes have led to increased scoring. According to this you would have made a lot of money over the past few weeks betting overs. For the season, overs are 84-59 for the season, and 11-3 the weekend before last. I suspect though those lines are going to start heading up pretty quickly. The only real surprising thing is they've stayed low for so long--it sort of indicates the sports betting market isn't quite a real market. In a real market, the anomaly would have been caught long ago.

I'm not sure it makes sense to overreact to a 12 game swing in overs out of 130.

If you bet $100 on every NFL over, you'd be up $2500, risking $14300, an 18% return.

If anyone other than the Rams wins the NFC West, we'll know the worst team to ever make the NFL playoffs. (Even if the Rams do win the division, they may be the worst team ever, but it'll actually be debatable.)

impressive how quickly the rams have turned it around. if they can get bradford some weapons, watch out.

What the fuck happened to the Eagles in 1981?

They were coming off the Super Bowl appearance, they won their first 6 games, started 8-2, then proceeded to go 2-4 down the stretch, then got bounced in the first round - at home no less - by the Giants. They outscored their opponents by 147 points in the regular season, by far the most in the NFL (next best team: eventual Super Bowl champs the 49ers, who outscored their opponents by 107 points).

It looks like they just couldn't beat a good team that year I guess.

They were 1-4 against teams with winning records.

People talk about parity now. CHeck out the NFL in the late 1970s/early 1980s. A lot of those years featured lots and lots of teams that sucked.

The 2007 Patriots were +315 in the regular season in point differential.

The Giants were +22.

Wow.