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You're abolutely right. BTW, Cleveland just called, they'd like Ozzie Newsome back. Being that you guys are the moral authority in all this, I'm sure you'll send him right over…

The fine people of Cleveland had no problem with everything but the name and the colors being taken from them. That's why they only filed 100 law suits and not 1000 - it's because they got to keep the image of Jim Brown. This went to Congress it was such a big deal!

Come on! The NFL is certainly partially to blame for both departures, but to say that Irsay and Modell aren't the same person is absolutely ludicrous. How many games did the Ravens play in Memorial Stadium? What's that you say, they got a new stadium too? Oh wow, this looks more and more like the same deal to me every time I look at it…

How quickly you forget that the last series of downs in Cleveland had to be moved to the other side of the field because the DAWG POUND had gotten so restless…

ROT IN HELL ART MODELL
and yes, balmer should have know better
cleveland was one of the best football cities in america

Time of Possession:

Indy 31:24
Baltimore 28:36

30 pass attempts, leading to 4 turnovers, compared to 20 rush attempts, leading to zero turnovers. Bad gameplan. If you're going to have a convservative offensive scheme, at least try to kill the clock with the running game…

And since I was 2 for 2 taking the dogs today, I will offer the same advice for Sunday's games - take the points. Might even make sense to tease both dogs as they both have legitimate chances to win.

All McNair had to do is not make mistakes. McNair SUCKED

Time to jump back on the Chargers bandwagon!

what was up with walking off the field before the half with a minute left and all your timeouts

Billick's gameplan was vanilla awful. And McNair picked a bad time to have his worst game of the year.

The Ravens offense is worse than vanilla. Its like cottage cheese or that flavorless yogurt. But they did get rolling on a number of occasions yesterday until drives (and momentum) were killed w/ turnovers or penalities. I thought Billick's decision to run out the clock seemed justifiable at the time - he didn't trust McNair to not do something stupid. The offense isn't built to force the issue. They need to methodically make plays running Bo Schembechler's offense from 1971 and if nothing happens punt, wait for the D to do something awesome, get the ball back and try again. But in a game coming down to FGs, w/ a good kicker, they should have tried to pick up 40 yds. They had potentially a lot of plays to work with. Maybe the Ravens' 3 and out start the game happened so quickly Bilick forgot that Indy kicked off and he thought the Ravens were getting the ball to start the second half.

Still, not as idiotic as Andy Reid punting w/ 2 minutes left.

everyone needs to quit sleeping on the bears already, they are a damn good team.

Ka-ching!

so, thoughts about new england's performance yesterday?

i saw glimmers of the brady that led them to three titles in four years. that last drive of the first half was brilliant. brady was pissed at his first-half performance, and turned that anger into determination. they more or less shut down LT in the second half, which is what they needed to do from the start. i think they can take the colts if they can get brady to stay in that mindset. and if i can put in a request to NE from a fan: those need-to-make end-of-game drives, while thrilling, are wreaking havoc on my life expectancy. how about we go for the kind of victory we witnessed against the jets? thanks.

after a while, i just expect to see those end of game drives….in fact, i just wait for them to happen now!

the Patriots have almost locked up another super bowl in my opinion. you just cant beat them, and they almost never beat themselves!

I saw a Tom Brady who threw 3 picks and got very lucky on a couple plays. If Brown doesn't strip the ball recovered by Caldwell after that third interception we're not talking about Brady except for how poorly he played. The Chargers beat themselves with dumb penalties dropped balls, muffed punts and not giving the ball back to Tomlinson on their second to last drive. San Diego was the better team, but New England got extremely lucky.

I'm with Shadrach on this one. Other than the last drive, New England did very little to earn this game. I've never seen a game where a team did as much to give the game away as San Diego did. And truthfully, though I was betting against Marty and Rivers, most of the mistakes were not their fault.

but thats what New England does! they dont have to be better than you, but you'll lose to em anyway. the chargers may have won this game against many other teams, but not the Patriots.

what did they (Patriots) have 21 points off of turnovers?

i'll never buy the "better team lost the game" line. unless you wanna blame the referees or something.

the better team lost that game.

too many stupid penalties, absurd crazy shit (the fumble after the INT that he should have just batted down because it was 4th down)

obviously the pats played well when they needed to, but they (brady in particular) also stunk it up for much of the game, and it was clear that the chargers were the better team … i felt really bad for them at the end

looks like the colts have the best shot they've ever had at the pats … the pats this year aren't half the team of their super bowl years, and nothing i've seen this season or post-season contradicts that

the better team doesnt muff punts, headbutt opposing teams players after a 3rd down stop, pointlessly try to run back almost game clinching interceptions, or give up a game winning drive in the last 2 minutes when they hadnt give up one of such drives all game long.

the better team made less mistakes, and THAT was the New England Patriots.

and no worries, cause the colts ever get the lead next sunday.

I don't understand why guys try for the pick on 4th down. Unless they bring it all the way back it makes more sense to just knock the ball down.

sonick, we'll agree to disagree

i just hate seeing a game won by a team like the patriots on so much bullshit … i was praying on every punt / tricky situation on saturday that the colts wouldn't lose on some similar kind of play … this is peyton's year

The more talented team lost. The better team won.

Its hard to bet against the Colts at home, but its even harder to bet against Brady and the Patriots braintrust finding gaps in the Colts cover 2 (which is as predictable as the Ravens O) and the Pats D rattling Peyton.