2011-12 NFL Season

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No reason why I'm doing this. I just felt like it so here we go.:)

1. Between the dolphins, rams, and colts, I'm predicting at least one of those teams will be 0-16 by the end of the season. Which one is still anybody's guess.

2. Speaking of the Colts, after their disastrous performance on their last Sunday night football game, I think their next scheduled SNF game on Week 13 against the Patriots will be flexed out. We all know at this point that the Pats will destroy the Colts in that so I'm sure NBC/NFL have enough common sense to move it out of SNF and bring in a worthy game that people want to see. My guess is that the replacement game will be the Lions vs Saints game and I'm not just saying that because I'm a Lions fan, but because if you actually look at the week 13 schedule, that game looks like the best one in week 13 so far.

3. If the Lions get their act together and start winning and the Packers actually lose a game or two, we'll definitely see a neck-in-neck race for the NFC North title between these two teams in the 2nd half of the season. These two teams play each other on thanksgiving and in week 17 and I'm sure those games will be the most exciting ones to see in the 2nd half of the season.

4. We're already seeing a wild-card race in the AFC between the Bengals, Bills, Ravens, Raiders and Jets and that will definitely continue but I think the Jets have the smallest chance of winning in that race. In the NFC, it's between the Lions, Falcons, Bucs, and Bears. If the Lions win the NFC North, then I think the Bucs and Bears have a chance for the No. 6 spot. If not, my prediction is Lions and Falcons for both WC spots.

5. My last prediction is that we'll probably see more title races for the AFC West between the Chargers and the Raiders, and possibly in the NFC South and NFC East depending on how good the Saints, Bucs, Falcons, Giants, and Cowboys actually are this year.

Looking forward to 10 more weeks of exciting NFL Football!

Keep in mind that if it comes down to it, the Falcons have the Tie Breaker against the Lions, unfortunately...
 
Congress accusing NFLPA of stall tactics regarding HGH testing. PFT proposed last week that DeMaurice Smith has to be re-hired/elected next year, and just going along with this could have him out of a job, and/or give up the much more compelling position with the players of being able to say 'Congress made me do it' rather than them being able to blame him for why they're randomly having blood drawn now.

He doesn't get to escape that blame though, he allowed it to be included in the new CBA.

The NFLPA declined a complete tour and an in person step by step explanation of the testing process offered by the World Anti-Doping Agency that was offered to them previously...
 
HGH stuff could get crazy quickly.

In his weekly segment on the CBS pregame show, former Redskins and Texans G.M. Charley Casserly buried the lede, in a big way.

At the tail end of an update regarding the issue of HGH testing, Casserly dropped a bombshell. If the NFLPA forces Congress to conduct hearings aimed at forcing HGH testing, Congress will subpoena not only NFLPA leadership but also players, who’ll be grilled under oath on whether they are using HGH — and whether they know anyone who is.

Casserly says that the first guy who’ll be invited to the proceedings is Bills linebacker Shawne Merriman.

It would be a baseball-style fiasco that could embarrass players and the league, and that could get some guys prosecuted for perjury, if they don’t tell the truth.

It’s a brilliant move by Congress. With a perception that the NFLPA is dragging its feet in order to force testing — and thus to obtain cover for the decision to agree to it in the CBA — NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith now must ponder a potentially more harmful outcome to his chances of being re-elected in March 2012. If Smith strings this out to the point that it forces the players to be publicly interrogated, and possibly humiliated, he could be back practicing law at Patton Boggs by the time the next season kicks off.
 
meStevo said:
HGH stuff could get crazy quickly.

As much I agree that the players are dragging their feet...here is another example of Congress flexing its muscle where they do not need to. Especially with over 9% unemployment rate, tons of "white collar" crime and people losing their houses and jobs.

Wonderful that Congress wants to help their multi-millionaire owners buddies clean-up their game while middle and lower income people lose their houses and jobs.
 
As much I agree that the players are dragging their feet...here is another example of Congress flexing its muscle where they do not need to. Especially with over 9% unemployment rate, tons of "white collar" crime and people losing their houses and jobs.

Wonderful that Congress wants to help their multi-millionaire owners buddies clean-up their game while middle and lower income people lose their houses and jobs.

Contrary to popular belief, Congress is more than one person and can do more than one thing at a time.
 
Back to the games that people play and players that play them...

I am somewhat surprised the way the Dolphins have outplayed the Giants. Not to mention the fact that after scoring 62 points last time, the Saints got a big fat goose egg so far.
 
Priorities, my friend. Maybe YOU want government in your favorite sports.... I do not.

Then that's what you should have said then, instead of saying the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce should be tackling unemployment, white collar crime, etc...

Up to the NFLPA to keep this out of Congress, so far they appear content to take it there,but this will surely reflect poorly on them if players get paraded out to testify and in the end they just start doing what was agreed to in the CBA to begin with... testing for HGH.
 
meStevo said:
Then that's what you should have said then, instead of saying the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce.....

When you FIND the statement where I mentioned THAT branch of government.... I will agree with you, until then, you made that statement up.
 
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