Re: The all new NFL Chat thread : Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:12 am  

Harrigan wrote:

Some stats that may surprise you about the young Bucs:

- The Bucs are the 7th ranked rushing offense in the league

- Caddilac was our starting RB from weeks 1-7... we averaged 82.9 ypg (Half of which came from Graham and Freeman)

- Legarette Blount took over in week 8... we now average 148.5 ypg

- Blount has only started 7 games but has run for 941 yards averaging 5.2 ypc

- Josh Freeman has thrown the 4th fewest interceptions of all starting quarterbacks in the league (Big Ben, Cassell & Brady being the 3 with less)

- Only TWO quarterbacks in NFL history have had 5 TD/0 INT games before their 23rd birthday. Josh and some bum named Marino

- We are the 1st team since 1970 that has started 10 rookies and had a winning season

- With 924 receiving yards this season, Mike Williams has a shot at passing 1,000. No rookies have done that since Marques Colston

- Williams has also scored 10 TDs. Since the 1970 merger, only two wide receivers in NFL history have had 1,000 yards and 10 touchdowns in their rookie year (John Jefferson and Randy Moss).

- We are THE youngest team


Hope you enjoyed

All achieved against awful teams. Don't give me the NFC West argument, they're awful. (watch you beat the Saints sunday now) I know you're a good young team on the rise. But your schedule has padded your numbers slightly.

Re: The all new NFL Chat thread : Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:15 am  

Are Chicago resting their starters? Paddypower have them +10 against the Pack.

Re: The all new NFL Chat thread : Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:17 pm  

El Pac Carnegie wrote:

Are Chicago resting their starters? Paddypower have them +10 against the Pack.

Dunno, but apparently loads of people betting on Carolina upsetting the Falcons.

Re: The all new NFL Chat thread : Sat Jan 01, 2011 3:32 pm  

El Pac Carnegie wrote:

Are Chicago resting their starters? Paddypower have them +10 against the Pack.

I doubt they will.

They could still get the #1 seed. If Atlanta lose to Carolina and Tampa beat New Orleans in the 6pm games and Chicago beat us they would be #1. Either way they will know what they need to do before they play us at 9:15, so i don't see how anybody can predict if they will rest/pull their starters.

I'm not good with odds but i assume +10 means they expect us to win by 10 or more? That is ridiculous odds in our favour.

Re: The all new NFL Chat thread : Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:32 pm  

Looks like the Seahawks can't decide whether to start with Hasselbeck or Whitehurst for the crunch game against the Rams.

Having practised all week with Whitehurst it will be a real knock to his confidence if Pete Carroll puts a patched up Q.B on at the start. I understand Hasselbeck's experience but he is past his best now,maybe a loss against the Rams would put them in a better position to pick up a decent Q.B in the draft.

Re: The all new NFL Chat thread : Sun Jan 02, 2011 1:47 am  

Mark wrote:

All achieved against awful teams. Don't give me the NFC West argument, they're awful. (watch you beat the Saints sunday now) I know you're a good young team on the rise. But your schedule has padded your numbers slightly.

Again though. We were ranked 30th in the league last year. We have added any experience this year. Just good kids or guys who have been unwanted by other teams. I can guarantee you at the start of the season every team we have beat will have expected to beat us.

Oh btw you do realise ATL and New Orleans have had the same schedule as us bar 2 games don't you and that we are on the same rotation? Just as Carolina have. So we have all played 14 identical games. Neither of those deserve a play off place either obviously.

Oh and one last thing. If we do beat the Saints tomorrow and things do go our way the NFC South will take half the play off births. Kinda sucky for NY, Green Bay isn't it

Re: The all new NFL Chat thread : Sun Jan 02, 2011 8:32 am  

Harrigan wrote:

Again though. We were ranked 30th in the league last year. We have added any experience this year. Just good kids or guys who have been unwanted by other teams. I can guarantee you at the start of the season every team we have beat will have expected to beat us.

Oh btw you do realise ATL and New Orleans have had the same schedule as us bar 2 games don't you and that we are on the same rotation? Just as Carolina have. So we have all played 14 identical games. Neither of those deserve a play off place either obviously.

Oh and one last thing. If we do beat the Saints tomorrow and things do go our way the NFC South will take half the play off births. Kinda sucky for NY, Green Bay isn't it

They've both beaten good teams though? i.e each other, Pittsburgh, Baltimore.

Re: The all new NFL Chat thread : Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:40 am  

Mark wrote:

They've both beaten good teams though? i.e each other, Pittsburgh, Baltimore.

And if we beat the Saints today we will have too. We have been within a score of every "good" team that has beaten us since Blount came in. It's not like we've been blown out. The signs are there. We just need to push on. And had Talib not been injured against ATL we would have beaten them because he had shut White out in that game. It's only when he went off that they started to get a bit of momentum going.

Anyway, I like the Giants vendetta against us on here

I think it shows you're a tad nervous about tonight

Re: The all new NFL Chat thread : Sun Jan 02, 2011 12:36 pm  

Harrigan wrote:

And if we beat the Saints today we will have too. We have been within a score of every "good" team that has beaten us since Blount came in. It's not like we've been blown out. The signs are there. We just need to push on. And had Talib not been injured against ATL we would have beaten them because he had shut White out in that game. It's only when he went off that they started to get a bit of momentum going.

Anyway, I like the Giants vendetta against us on here

I think it shows you're a tad nervous about tonight

Not a vendetta, just stating fact.I think it's refeshing to see a team rise using mainly the draft. Not nervous at all, I know the Packers will win.

Re: The all new NFL Chat thread : Sun Jan 02, 2011 5:12 pm  

Bloody inactives, had to make a last second replacement in the RLFans league before the final, and in my other league where i'm in the final, had to change my QB, RB and WR.