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Second Pronoun

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  1. Well, I'm sticking with the Steelers not having deserved to go. So I won't be "switching stances" there anymore. :P

    But geez, it looks like everyone's teams lost but mine. That's a real bummer. :(

    My team won! Although the Rams were very very shit, but a wins a win. Also Cordarelle Patterson is amazing and I'm so happy that Christian Ponder no longer starts for the Vikings.

  2. Yeah, don't have to tell me that, the fact the Chris Carter had to wait at all became a huge news story every year around these parts (Minnesota). And if you look at the WRs, Tim Brown is still there, Harrison deserves to get in. Isaac Bruce is coming up for nomination next year and he should be a lock. Hines Ward doesn't have a great case (compared to those others I have named) But I definitely think he is borderline. With TO coming up in the same year and Randy Moss soon after that the HOF still has a problem with too many WRs. And at some point how will we judge WRs and their stats in the new pass-happy NFL, all legitimate questions.

  3. So how does everyone feel about the HOF inductees, I'm happy that Ray Guy got in, All the rest definitely deserved to get in, but I have to question Andre Reed being inducted over Marvin Harrison, but I'm okay with it because he (Reed) should have gotten in in one of the previous 8 years he was up for induction. I think the cap at 5 (modern-era) people is tough in the NFL where there are the most players per team, and we see that this year with the Bus, Marvin Harrison, Tim Brown, and others being unable to make the cut.

  4. I'm a huge Tom Brady fan (he went to my 2nd favorite college, Michigan, plus I liked the underdog quality that his story had when I first started rooting for him) but this might just be the funniest thing I have seen all year.

  5. Bountygate also ended Kurt Warner's career when he went down for the Cardinals (a week after that shootout with the Packers where he threw more TDs than incompletions), but Favre threw that game away late. It's strange a lot of those hits weren't called but alas, it may be somewhat synonymous with the special teams rules today where the refs are either used to the older rules or just don't completely understand the rules (the Tom Brady rule wasn't a thing until the year before, although defenseless receiver wasn't a term yet).

    Oh I know that they had no one to blame but themselves in that game (back when AD had serious fumbling problems), I mean there was a hit where Favre handed it off to one of our RBs turned around and got cheap shotted. The first interception by Favre was also tough, he got hit high and low on that play (illegally), also I'm haunted by that 12 men in the huddle penalty, we would have had AD run on the next play and then had Longwell attempt a long (but makable) field goal. I just hate bounty gate because it reminds me of the amazing potential that that team had, and the cynic in my head tells me that I might never see another Vikings team come that close to it just to basically give it away, and if we do we'll lose in an even more horrible fashion.

  6. Can we please not bring up bountygate, as a Vikings fan I still haven't gotten over that NFC championship game. Although the Vikings definitely threw away that game, the Saints also played dirty and the refs turned a blind eye, but at the time it was all okay because the Saints were a "great" story. I think physical play means pushing the limits of the five yards of legal contact and pushing around the receivers when the ref isn't looking. Not exactly legal, but if the ref can't see it and doesn't call it then it is all fair game.

  7. I really can only think of 3 more above Brown

    1. Vincent Jackson, the guy's an animal and he also had lackluster QB play, he had a great season even with all of the crap happening with the Bucs

    2. Desean Jackson, he finally broke out after having a few recent lackluster seasons, but in this new system I think he really excels with his blazing speed.

    3. Jimmy Graham, I know he technically is a TE, but he never actually lines up at TE, he is really more of a slot receiver.

    4. Eric Decker, the guy is a vacuum, he catches everything and he has a nose for the endzone, also I'm biased because he went to where I go to college.

    Although against your point as to inflation of stats, this site (http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/wr) actually states that Antonio Brown played better than his stats indicate.

  8. I wouldn't ever compare a RB's output to what Adrian did last year, that was something special, plus he hasn't been playing with a terrible QB the entire year. What AD did last year is special, he consistently went against 8 and 9 man fronts that knew what the play was, he came back from an injury that many said he would never fully recover from. I somewhat understand the comparison but I don't think it really works.

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