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Someone should break Brandon Marshals legs and arms. Guy can't hold onto the ball and when he does for some strange reason he runs out of bounds when he can pick up extra yardage.

It's time to fire everyone in the front office and Sprano.

I think someone already broke or otherwise injured his legs. On the play when he beat Antonio Cromartie like a red-headed stepchild he couldn't keep his balance and stumbled out of bounds rather than into the end zone. On Revis's pick six Marshall stumbled over his own two feet and fell into Revis shoulder first, falling away from the ball.

BTW, I really don't get why people were complaining about defensive PI on the Revis pick-6. It was very clear that it went down like I describe, with Marshall initiating contact by stumbling and putting a shoulder in Revis's chest while he fell away from the ball with no chance to catch it. There were lots of plays where a PI call on Revis would have been plausible, but that was not one of them.

Should Miami Suck for Luck?

Tebow-Mania begins on Sunday!

Trying to snag him for my fantasy team. No matter how you feel about him as a person or as a quarterback, he puts up numbers! I expect bobbled snaps, throws that are a quarter-mile off target, brutal footwork and some kind of crazy-ass run for a touchdown that makes it all worth it.

I have Tebow on my team, along with Orton and Cutler (groan). I have little hope.

For a minute there I thought the Dolphins would screw up the Suck for Luck plan but they amazingly let themselves get beat by the Denver Broncos in the last few minutes of the game.

It was such a great day.

We are still in the Suck for Luck hunt, Sprano is getting fired, Ireland is getting fired I hope and I hope whoever takes over fires Brandon Marshall.

Of course the damn Colts tried to one up the Dolphins by losing 62 to 7 against New Orleans. Bastards.

Gotta give credit to Tebow. He was absolutely Teh Suck for 55 minutes until he figured it out at the end. He didn't fold or quit, but he has to learn you can't make a living playing like that in the NFL.

And what the Saints did to Indy...wow.

Boy that Cam Newton sure has turned out to be a bust in the pros! Lucky for him he's surrounded by an All-Star lineup to carry him through. Totally proved the JaMarcus Russell comparisons to be correct!

We Redskins fans are stillover that.

I have never in my life seen anything more horrifying than the Ravens' offense so far in the first half. 19 plays, 4 yards, 6 punts and a lost fumble, no first downs. Against the Jaguars. Wow.

The whole game suxs so far.

It really is quite the trainwreck. I think someone buttered the football and spiked the Gatorade.

At the half the teams have combined for 99 yards of offense. Baltimore still doesn't have a first down, and their punter has punted for a quarter mile. Flacco is 6 of 16 for 8 years.The only player on either team whose generated any offense--MJD--has fumbled twice, including a lost fumble on the goal line.

Yeesh. This is not football.

[edit]: Well, the second half wasn't as brutal as the first, but it wasn't actually good. Between this game and last night's game it's got to be about the worst week ever for prime-time NFL football.

The 49ers don't play Green Bay at all this season. I'm not sure if I should be happy about that or not. I'm thinking yet another NFC championship heartbreak in San Francisco.

I'm thinking that, barring a catastrophe (like Aaron Rodgers getting knocked out for the season), Green Bay will represent the NFC in the Super Bowl again and probably repeat as champions. I'm not seeing any other team look as good so far, especially in the NFC. New Orleans might make it to the title game, but they'd have to play in Wisconsin and, if they do, they'll get their asses kicked.

They're certainly the favorites, but the playoffs are a crapshoot. Even the biggest possible favorite at the start of the playoffs is not much better than 50% to make the Super Bowl, and Green Bay, while likely to be a distinct favorite, isn't going to be that big a favorite.

Green Bay has the best shot of all the teams in the league. They are just finding those ways to win.

As for my Dolphins.....

Coach Sprano has put his house up for sale. Flimsy excuses were given but I'm betting that short of a miraculous turnaround and they win all their games, pick up a wild card spot and then go on to win the Super Bowl this will be his last year with Miami.

Hopefully they fire that idiot General Manager as well.

Egads today was a bad day of football. May it never be repeated.

This is extremely surprising and hard to swallow.

-West W L
-San Francisco 49ers 6 1
-Seattle Seahawks 2 5
-St. Louis Rams 1 6
-Arizona Cardinals 1 6

It's a crazy season when you are 2-5 and it might already be too late to Suck for Luck.

Yep.

I tuned in last night and saw a bunch of dead, lifeless people walking among the living.

It wasn't The Walking Dead, it was Dallas at Philadelphia.

The Colts are very unlikely to win more than two games (home against Jacksonville and one other random very lucky win is the high end reasonably likely scenario for Indy wins IMO), but there are always tiebreakers should there end up being a mess of teams tied at 2 wins at the end of the season and if Indy does manage to win two that's not so unlikely.

That said, a 2-5 team's best chance at Luck is to end up with a top 5 pick and hope that Manning makes a quick and full recovery, spurring the Colts to trade the #1 pick rather than leave Luck on the bench for three years and leaving you in a position to trade for the pick.

Hey, Shady McCoy looked great. Singlehandedly got my fantasy team a win.

But speaking of dead...Tim Tebow. The dream is over.

I dream of pointing and laughing at Tebow. That dream has at least a few weeks of life left to it. I also dream of Tebow being so bad in his remaining weeks that he makes everyone forget Ryan Leaf and JaMarcuss Russell. That dream might end up vivid enough to live forever.

DAmmit!!

Indy needs to win a couple games so the Dolphins can win only one and win the Suck for Luck race!!!

Tough with the way the Dolphins have drafted over the last decade our first round pick could just as easily be a kicker.

Redskins Park has a "Help Wanted- Quarterback" sign hung out this morning. What a farce up in Toronto.

I'm worried about Baltimore. Yeah they won but you do NOT let Arizona hang 24 on you by halftime. The Steelers may roll them next week.

Ouch.

Is it possible for a 20-20 game heading to overtime to be any worse than this Monday Night excretion?

If so, how?

Philip Rivers channeled his inner Tim Tebow.

Stole this one from Facebook:

Now those are the Jets I want to see!

And the Chiefs too, just because that was really funny.