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bmwracer wrote:
Being able to run the ball and pressure Rivers was the key to beating the Chargers.

Gonna take a miracle now for them. AFC spots are really just about locked up already, just the seedings and whether the Colts can catch the Jaguars. :bleh:

Troy Polamalu forces Joe Flacco to fumble the ball near the end and it costs the Ravens the game: Steelers win, 13-10. :bleh:

Cowboysf Don Meredith dies after brain hemorrhage

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP)\Don Meredith, one of the most recognizable figures of the early Dallas Cowboys and an original member of ABCfs gMonday Night Footballh broadcast team, died Sunday. He was 72.

Meredithfs wife, Susan, told The Associated Press on Monday her husband died in Santa Fe after suffering a brain hemorrhage and lapsing into a coma. She says a private graveside ceremony is being planned and that family members were traveling to Santa Fe.

gHe was the best there was,h she said, describing him as kind, warm and funny. gWe lost a good one.h

Meredith played for the Cowboys from 1960-1968, becoming the starting quarterback in 1965. While he never led the Cowboys to the Super Bowl, Meredith was one of the franchisefs first stars.

Over his nine-year career, Meredith threw for 17,199 yards and 111 touchdowns. He retired unexpectedly before the 1969 season.

Just two years after retiring from football, Meredith joined Keith Jackson(notes) and Howard Cosell in the broadcast booth as part of the gMonday Night Footballh crew.

He quickly became one of the most popular broadcasters in sports because of his folksy sayings and country humor.

Meredithfs signature call was singing the famous Willie Nelson song gTurn Out the Lightsh when it appeared a gamefs outcome had been determined.

Pats demolish the Jets, 45-3.

Har har har. :rofl:

bmwracer wrote:Pats demolish the Jets, 45-3.

Har har har. :rofl:

Talk about a statement game. Sure, Jets fans can point out that the season series is tied at one apiece but this was such a beating that the Pats would have to be favored if the two meet again in the playoffs. Great game all around by Patriots. It'll keep Ryan quiet, if only for a day or two.

deseipher wrote:Talk about a statement game. Sure, Jets fans can point out that the season series is tied at one apiece but this was such a beating that the Pats would have to be favored if the two meet again in the playoffs. Great game all around by Patriots. It'll keep Ryan quiet, if only for a day or two.

The Pats made the Jets a road apple... :hehe:

deseipher wrote:

Talk about a statement game. Sure, Jets fans can point out that the season series is tied at one apiece but this was such a beating that the Pats would have to be favored if the two meet again in the playoffs. Great game all around by Patriots. It'll keep Ryan quiet, if only for a day or two.

Oh, Rex is already crying about how they ran up the score, boo-hoo. :rofl: One of the tiebreakers after head to head is total net points, Pats knew what they were doing, they were trailing the Jets in that entering the game.

hitomi #1 wrote:Oh, Rex is already crying about how they ran up the score, boo-hoo. :rofl:

What a weenie. :shakehead:

That's what he gets for talking smack.

bmwracer wrote:
The Pats made the Jets a road apple... :hehe:

oh yea ... what a game that was :hehe: :hehe: :hehe:

deseipher wrote:

Talk about a statement game. Sure, Jets fans can point out that the season series is tied at one apiece but this was such a beating that the Pats would have to be favored if the two meet again in the playoffs. Great game all around by Patriots. It'll keep Ryan quiet, if only for a day or two.

Iknow right thats what he gets for running off his mouth ... and bringing brady Wife into it too uh uh u don't do them things ... this was juts a wake up call :mrgreen:

Hope the Pats can keep it up, travel to Chicago next week, Bears have been one of the biggest surprises of the year but luckily the weather they use as a home field advantage won't be of any use to the Pats. :shakehead: Good to see Woodhead have a huge game after being released by the Jets earlier in the season, Ryan grudgingly admits it may have been a mistake. :rofl:

Pats are used to the cold, so the only advantage Chicago has is home field.

If the Pats are starting to peak, the Bears are going to be roadkill.

Yeah, Bears should be road kill, they keep finding ways to win though. Pats will have a say in that division's race, after the Bears they the Packers at home, on primetime. Pats love primetime games this year, have gone 4-0 averaging 40 points(!) a game, :wow: Brady throwing 12 TDs and 0 INTs. :applaud:

hitomi #1 wrote:Yeah, Bears should be road kill, they keep finding ways to win though. Pats will have a say in that division's race, after the Bears they the Packers at home, on primetime. Pats love primetime games this year, have gone 4-0 averaging 40 points(!) a game, :wow: Brady throwing 12 TDs and 0 INTs. :applaud:

Brady's lucky: he has a solid team behind him... If Manning had the same, maybe he'd have as many rings as Brady. :(

Yeah, me too. If I had as solid a team around me, I'd have as won as many Championships as Brady.

Geezer wrote:Yeah, me too. If I had as solid a team around me, I'd have as won as many Championships as Brady.

How's your arm?

The Niners could use a QB. :P

BMW

The arm is fine. Itfs the Bursitis in the shoulder and the Arthritis in the hand that could be a problem. But everything in between is hunky-dory.

But what do you mean??? Alex The Magic Man Smith has been named as the starter for this week, so the Niners are set at QB.

Yeah, boy.

I think I have to pay a visit to Reno before Sunday.

What a game, watching the Pats humiliate the Jets was sweet. :dancing:
But I have to apologize to Brady. Last week he came on the radio and said he was not longer preparing for the Jets game because he had the Jets' defense all figured out. Instead he spent all last weekend preparing for the Bears. I called him a liar. Turns out he was right. :bow:

It was great that Bruschi got honored; well deserved. :applaud: He must have been proud of that defensive effort.

It's ironic reading that Brady has "a solid team behind him." When there were so many questions going into the season. The starting RB got hurt, the backup was traded. Right now the Pats' running game consists of, what were once, third string players. No one was sure how Welker would play after his surgery. Moss, a key target, was traded. Two rookie tight ends. Then there's that very young defense, that has struggled this year.

bmwracer wrote:
Brady's lucky: he has a solid team behind him... If Manning had the same, maybe he'd have as many rings as Brady. :(

At least they've always had one thing quite in common, even this year, in that they make marginal players look like stars, how many players have left those teams and fizzled out? :bleh:

Jav_sol wrote:It's ironic reading that Brady has "a solid team behind him." When there were so many questions going into the season. The starting RB got hurt, the backup was traded. Right now the Pats' running game consists of, what were once, third string players. No one was sure how Welker would play after his surgery. Moss, a key target, was traded. Two rookie tight ends. Then there's that very young defense, that has struggled this year.

That was a generalization on my part: the Pats seem to always have complete teams with a balanced attack and stout defense... Sad to say, but the Colts have not: their running game has always been suspect as well as their run defense.

The year they won the Super Bowl, it all came together with Joseph Addai and Bob Sanders, but it was just that one year... :(