Getting close to the very much expected Super bowl we have to make a small stop to conduct a little recap in what is going on in the NFL so far, and what are our expectations. This weekend was a bit surprising to me with the Eagles vs. Giants game, where the Philadelphia Eagles won a very exciting game, leaving the Giants fans expecting a better performance from the team. Yet the Giants joined the Miami Dolphins in an interesting NFL record: fewest turnovers in a 16-game schedule with a total of 13.
The most surprising thing however is definitely the NFL’s final four list; three of the NFL teams ready to play next Sunday were basically known underdogs, let’s recap:
Philadelphia Eagles vs. Arizona Cardinals: At this moment The Cardinals host an NFC title game for the first time in their history after their 33-13 erasure Saturday night of the No. 2 seed, the Carolina Panthers.
The Ravens vs. Pittsburgh Steelers: Both are known rivals in their NFC North division, they will be looking to avenge the two previous defeats.
It is understandable to see the NFL fans cheering and enjoying these pretty interesting “small victories” especially so far in this NFL season. We can definitely expect a lot from this weekend’s NFL matches. I will certainly keep my eyes wide open, since I feel there will be awesome NFL records to be broken, or at least that is what I like to think. In my opinion Super bowl 2009 is still 3 weeks away and it is definitely too soon to jump into conclusions.
Tom Rathman has confirmed, while clearing out his belongings at the Raiders‘ complex, that he has accepted the San Francisco 49ers offer, a team he actually played for before as NFL fullback and as part of the coaching staff.
The San Francisco 49ers however waited until Rathman signed the NFL coaching contract to send press releases and official announcements. Tom Rathman will be taking over for Tony Nathan, whom was fired after his only season on the 49ers‘ staff. It has been known that 49ers fans seem incredibly happy with the news.
Tony Nathan was an NFL running back for the Miami Dolphins back in the 80’s however the 49ers team was not entirely happy with his performance as a coach and was fired on December 30th last year.
The San Francisco 49ers are apparently still missing an offensive coordinator but, San Francisco coach Mike Singletary has not released any information regarding possible prospects for the job. Mike Martz former offensive coordinator for the 49ers will not be coming back this year to play for the 49ers since Singletary reportedly wants more of a “ball-control, run-oriented offense” than Martz game.
More NFL changes are showing up just weeks prior to the Super Bowl, and we can all feel the heat, especially with the stress of the NFL playoffs going on. We certainly expect the best from this NFL change and wait to see a good difference in their game.
It just happened this Sunday, and has happened during the entire NFL Football Season. The Tennessee Titans are working hard to go undefeated this year, and have already accumulated 9 victories… and no losses. Had anyone noticed?
Last Sunday the Titans faced the Chicago Bears in an exciting game with a 21-14 final NFL Score. Kerry Collins was the hero of the day, with 2 touchdowns and 289 yards. So that’s how Tennessee made it up for the runningbacks’ poor performance. What looked like their possible first failure turned into another win to collect, remaining as the only NFL team with no defeats on the NFL 2008 Season. How do they do it?
Nobody expected so much fromTennessee. With all the fuzz and with Brady out of the Patriots, the other pro football team with the biggest shot to go undefeated was the New York Giants, defending Champions. Meanwhile, the Titans started to fly on their way to the flawless season, without almost nobody even looking at their achievements. And so, silently, they passed by the rest of the struggling teams.With last weekend’s game,Tennesseeproved that even in their lowest performance level, this season they’re meant to win.
On NFL Week 11, the Tennessee Titans will be facing the Jaguars at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium. NFL betting fans will be following the Titans and see how that goes. I’ll be playing my money there too. How about you? You think this is a new streak or just some luck?
The Denver Broncos made a great comeback on Thursday Night, when they defeated the Cleveland Browns with a 34-30 NFL score. Not bad at all, considering they had few chances of winning!
The NFL game took place in Cleveland, which probably was what gave the Browns the advantage on the first half of the game. Even though the Browns have had a really poor performance so far, everything seemed to be set for a victory the NFL team and football betting fans would’ve enjoyed at home.
The third quarter ended up in a tie and the Broncos, up on the NFL Standings, seemed to have that game taken away from them already. So how did they manage to score 21 points during the last quarter and beat the home team? Easy: Cutler threw a pass to Royal and then a pass to Daniel Graham. Pretty much all they needed to thrash the Browns!
This was the 8th straight game between these 2 NFL teams that was won by the Denver Broncos. The longtime rivalry is definitely going to remain there! And the Browns are also going to remain right there… almost at the bottom of the standings.
Today are the USA Presidential Elections. Everything is going around this event and, in a day like today, the sports betting world is usually left behind. So, if you are just as me and enjoy sports so much that you can’t just forget about it, you’ll enjoy this thing I came up with for the special day.
What would happen if our new President was…
Brett Favre: Ah, just forget about it. You’ll have this guy for decades. He’ll cry when the period ends, say goodbye and then just run for President again.
Terrell Owens: Presidential speeches will be significantly reduced due to his lack of control over his emotions. He will probably cry and complain about how Bush has been hardly criticized these years.
Tom Brady: He’d better get a good Vice President with him because he could break a leg or something on his first day of Command.
Tony Romo:Many will probably think the First Lady will be distracting him from his duties so we’ll end up officially losing the war.
Plaxico Burress: Don’t bother trying to attend his speeches, meetings, parties, or other scheduled activities, you know he won’t show up anyway.
So, who would be your favorite NFL president? Start voting now!
Brett Favre has always been a topic for conversation with his (lately) on-and-off pro football career and all his hello-goodbye dramas in the NFL. Now that it’s over, he’s still the one football betting fans talk about, but this time for a possible unethical behavior.
FoxSports reported on Sunday that former Green Bay Packers player and now New York Jets QB Favre called the Detroit Lions before the Packers-Lions game on NFL week 2, and gave them details about the Packers’ strategy. Green Bay won the game anyway, but the rumors are still concerning. Brett Favre has denied those rumors with a text message before his past New York Jets game, but the Lions preferred to stay with the “no comments” old line to avoid admitting inconvenient facts.
Since there’s no proof yet, there’s not much to be said about this NFL scandal. However, reactions have come on the Green Bay Packers’ side. While the Packers head coach said it would be really disappointing, others said that action is not to be respected at all. That one thing is if the Lions contacted Favre to get information. But since he was the one to seek out the Lions, that was a low move (honestly, I find it just as bad both ways).
NFL representatives say there’s nothing on the rules that can actually penalize doing something like what Brett Favre allegedly did, but this is obviously a very unethical action we’re talking about. The National Football League may not punish him, but if those rumors are true, NFL betting fans definitely will. Especially those Packers fans that always looked up to Favre as their idol.
Did Brett Favre have that much of a bad relationship with his former team to do something like that? Well, if he wanted to lose all bonds with Green Bay, he just did it perfectly. Next time he thinks about retiring, he’d better do it for good because there won’t be any chances back there, and probably not anywhere else.
I’m still trying to get myself out of the Giant shock of this past Monday Night Football game. What happened to the Giants?! New York just ruined their perfect NFL scores.
After a great start that made everybody clear why they are the NFL defending Champions, the New York Giants broke their undefeated status on Monday Night when they lost their first game… to the Cleveland Browns. Seriously!!!!
I just can’t understand how a 4-0 (now 4-1) team could lose their winning streak to a 1-3 (now 2-3) like the Browns. Not only that, but with the huge difference in the score. 14-35. Something I would’ve never though I would see, especially with the low performance the Cleveland Browns have had. Almost humiliating for the NFLChampions.
So how did this happen? Well, it seems Cleveland QBDerek Anderson just realized how bad his situation was and basically saved his ass from being kicked out. He completely outplayed Giants star QB Eli Manning and threw a few touchdown passes. He, Braylon Edwards and Eric Wright did most of the work to get this first meaningful victory to the Browns (the win over the Bengals was too damn easy, just like beating the LinehanRams).
After last Monday, the only football team left with some hope to go for a flawless NFL Season would be the Tennessee Titans (5-0). Who knows? Maybe they will actually surprise us, all of us who were too busy looking at the NFL Football Champions instead of their –so far- clean work (but you gotta admit, many of you must be as surprised as I was with the Giants’ neat Season start). Too bad for the Giants! But they still rule their Division.
No, Pacman Jones didn’t switch to the MLB. He’s just wasting his chances of keeping his NFL Football career alive.
When the Dallas Cowboys cornerback returned from his long suspension (1 year and a half) he was clearly warned that getting into any more trouble could leave him out of the NFL for good. Adam “Pacman” Jones was back, but just a few weeks into the NFL Season, he seems to be at “strike 3”.
The last incident reportedly occurred on Tuesday night, when he got into a fight with his own bodyguard at a Dallas hotel. He left the scene before the police arrived, with some broken mirrors and a bar tab unpaid.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell declared to the press that as far as he knew, Jones had behaved himself lately. There wasn’t an official position from the NFL about the incident because they didn’t have all the details yet.
Could this be the end of Pacman Jones’ career? It seems current pro football players are remembered for their scandals and violence instead of their skills. Well, maybe someone else would like to fill that position with a better performance and a better attitude, don’t you think?
We all make mistakes. But some people could start to get less empathetic when the mistake-maker doesn’t feel like apologizing. That seems to be the case for New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress.
Burress was suspended for one NFL game, after he missed a team meeting without letting anyone know about the reasons of his absence. Not making that phone call costed him to watch the defeat against the Seattle Seahawks from the bench.
Some seem upset because he didn’t apologize about the suspension. In fact, Plaxico said he doesn’t regret his decision at all. Some say his big “emergency” to skip the meeting was “having to take his son to school”. He says he just put his family first (which is fine). But how can you just not go to a meeting and not even call first when you belong to the NFL Champions team? Wow, that’s really not caring for your job.
Plaxico Burress said nobody really knew the situation he faced, but refused to give further details. The point is that he’s back now, and doesn’t seem very sorry for the punishment he received. The lack of discipline in our current players is easy to notice. Let’s hope not all of them have that little interest in being responsible.
The Houston Texans had a bad start this NFL football season, with a 0-3 record so far, and all the games played on the road. But next Sunday they will have a chance to get back on their feet a little and try to even things up. On Sunday, the Texans will have their first game with home field advantage.
What’s even better is that they will be facing the Indianapolis Colts, former NFL Champions, that started the NFL Season with the wrong foot this year too. Who would’ve thought it would be good for a team to face the Colts? But right now the Indianapolispro football team has a record of 1-2.
If the Texans know how to take advantage of the Colts’ weakness, this could end up on their first victory of the Season. But, as we’ve seen so many times, being at home is not enough to win a game. They will have to work hard if they want to change those negative scores; after all, the Indianapolis Colts have defeated them in 11 of the 12 encounters they’ve had.
So, if you don’t have your NFL tickets for this game, just watch it from home. Maybe there’s not a lot of action to see, but it’s definitely a game I will be following.
