The NFL Thread (with added College Football)

[UK Redsox]

The Steelers are looking very, um, stripey today

[UK Redsox]

Party time again for the 1972 Dolphins as the Broncos beat the Chiefs

[ADVILLAFAN]

I'd give a fantasy league ago - probably wouldn't be great at it, but could be fun.

Amazed that the Steelers beat the Lions, although the latter seem to stop playing once they have a lead sometimes.

[UK Redsox]

I'd give a fantasy league ago - probably wouldn't be great at it, but could be fun.

Amazed that the Steelers beat the Lions, although the latter seem to stop playing once they have a lead sometimes.

Detroit haven't won in Pittsburgh since the 1950s.

Stafford and Megatron were on record setting pace at half-time but then the Steelers defense seemed to get a grip.

[usav]

Although the Steelers have looked shockingly bad at times this season, it is still a good team at the core capable of beating anybody.   Once they sorted out the coverage on Johnson, there was only one winner.

[ADVILLAFAN]

I think the Steelers need to improve their O-Line for next season, or get a QB with a faster release.

[Toronto Villa]

The Steelers will be better after they fire OC Haley and give Ben some protection. Yes he needs to get rid of the ball faster but he isn't exactly given a lot of time. His line has been terrible for 2-3 years now. Finally they look like having a running game again, and with Brown an elite number 1 WR. They can still make the wild card in the AFC though it's likely if they do they won't advance past it.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Have been delighted with our O-Line this season (we're usually crap in this area), Cutler's slow release has caused problems though, which is why we've looked better with McCown at QB.

Rodgers is waiting for a risk assessment on his shoulder, typically this sort of injury takes 6-8 weeks to heal though and he's been out for 2 weeks so far. He'll definitely miss their Thursday night game against Detroit anyway.

[OCD]

He's not having any discomfort when throwing or running. The risk assessment will determine whether a shot to the Shoulder would cause any displacement that would rule him out for 3-5 month. So it's touch and go whether he'll be ready for the Detroit game but he's out of the Vikings game. That probably means the Vikings will win and the chances of us reaching the Post-Season is somewhere between slim and none.

[ADVILLAFAN]

He's not having any discomfort when throwing or running. The risk assessment will determine whether a shot to the Shoulder would cause any displacement that would rule him out for 3-5 month. So it's touch and go whether he'll be ready for the Detroit game but he's out of the Vikings game. That probably means the Vikings will win and the chances of us reaching the Post-Season is somewhere between slim and none.

When asked if he would play against the Lions, Rodgers said the chances were "one in a million", so I can't see it happening. Best not to risk getting him injured for the rest of the season against a huge Defensive line like the Lions.

[UK Redsox]

Suh and Fairley would be licking their lips at the prospect of facing a half fit Rodgers

[taylorsworkrate]

He's not having any discomfort when throwing or running. The risk assessment will determine whether a shot to the Shoulder would cause any displacement that would rule him out for 3-5 month. So it's touch and go whether he'll be ready for the Detroit game but he's out of the Vikings game. That probably means the Vikings will win and the chances of us reaching the Post-Season is somewhere between slim and none.

When asked if he would play against the Lions, Rodgers said the chances were "one in a million", so I can't see it happening. Best not to risk getting him injured for the rest of the season against a huge Defensive line like the Lions.

The problem is though if the Packers lose two more games then the season is as good as over anyway. I wouldn't be happy if we went 5-8 or so and then Rodgers was bought back in.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Yeah, I think you'd need about 10 wins to have a decent chance of getting to the play-offs.

I think Da Bears win the next 4 games:- @ Rams, @ Vikings, Vs Cowboys, @ Browns. Can't see us winning the last 2 @ Eagles and Vs the Packers.

Unless we can somehow scrape through to the division titles with 9 wins. Rodgers being injured against us in the final game would help!

Still think the Lions are the best all-round team in the NFC North.

[UK Redsox]

Starting QBs 1999-2013

[ADVILLAFAN]

And you could probably say that in the 10 years that I've been watching the NFL Rex Grossman is the 2nd best QB we've had. No wonder we haven't won the Superbowl!

Chargers have only had a few and they got rid of Drew Brees!

The Colts and Packers managed to have a very good Quarter-Back and replace them with another really good one. I don't think Drew Bledsoe was too bad at the Patriots before Brady either.

The Browns have had about 4 different QB's this year (Hoyer looked okay before injury and Jason Campbell has been better for them than he was for us).