Winner will be annouced: "Around the Jungle" game

This team was expected to be the worst in the league and look what Marvin has been able to do with it. I think he’s back next (and think he should be back next year) based on this, playoffs or not.

If Mike doesn’t come through with the practice facility for sure, and maybe some other demands Marv will walk after that. No, Marvin is not on the hotseat and will return for next season, playoffs notwithstanding.

if we make the playoffs, he could very well win coach of the year again.

and PBS would be overrun with Bengals fans.

The only reason I say this is because he really has a shot this year. That whole entire Texans team believes in him and have no doubt that he can lead them. But if he doesn’t do it this year then I’ll have to say Dalton because he has the best supporting cast of all of the rookies.

Tyrod Taylor, Baltimore. He’s in a great position to get a ring at this point.

He’ll have 1 or 2 but Benson will score one also

because I think they will come out running in this game, which is the right game plan to have against this team. But there is no doubt in my mind that Dalton could throw for 3 or 4 TD’s against the Rams depleted secondary if they decided to come out shootin’.

He’ll have 2 and we’ll score 2 on the ground as well. I can see us coming out and pounding the rock early to set up play action, and taking a few long shots downfield early. We’ll go up 14-3 or 17-3 before halftime, get the ball after the half and pound the rock down their throats

If the secondary doesn’t return at least 2 picks for TDs against Kellen Clemens and have this game wrapped up by the second quarter, I’d be shocked and amazed. They might pull Dalton by the fourth quarter.

Green Bay is obvious and Baltimore is going to be tough to beat

right now it looks like GB and Balt.
I really hope someone else other than NE, Pitt, or Balt represents the AFC, but honestly right now i don’t see anyone else that can….

And I’ll give the Vikings an outside shot from the AFC.

Wait….there’s another Super Bowl being played this year?

but he would have if he played all year

His receivers just run the wrong routes.

He was the whole team. Their defense is awful and can not stop anyone and the offense was tailor made for Peyton. Tebow on the other hand wins because he has an awesome defense and a really good kicker.

obviously manning has meant nothing to the Colts this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMK9FKMG3Nc the Tebow rap

but for completely obvious reasons.
Peyton was clearly the engine that made that team run, on top of his play- it was the level of confidence the whole team had when he was under center…now they just look morally defeated.
Conversly- it is the same exact thing w/Tebow, but minus the actually QB play. His results and uncanny ability to squeek out wins at the end of games has that team confident and believing that not only can they win w/Timmy, but they should win w/Timmy…..

But on the other hand, Manning has got to be the most highly paid QB coach in the league right now (though if you ask me, they ought to fire him … he hasn’t gotten anything out of the QBs in Indy)

hope he slows down soon.

If you’re gonna be dumb you gotta be tough.

Ben is tough…but i still think he’s the Dwyane Wade of the NFL….overplaying his injuries every chance he gets b/c he wants that tough guy image.
It came out he only has a grade 1 sprain on the ankle…..and afterwards he said it felt like he had a complete fracture——just sayin

To even play football. But Ben is probably one of the toughest cats in the game today. Just when you think he’s finally gonna sit out BAM he throws a TD. But he’ll look dumb in the long run when all of the beatings he has taken finally catch up to him.

Listen to the Football Today Podcast last week and both Matt Williamson and Ross Tucker have inside sources that say Big Ben likes to ham up his injuries for the camera.

So I’ll go with option “C” : Drama Queen.

I want to say DL as a whole, but have to pick one position. He has done a great job picking up talent, and they have been producing (when healthy).

If you take into account this being Romes first year as a starter, and the probability that it has distracted him, you add in an A.J. and an Ocho and I think you have slam dunk.

Palmer and Dalton….

This position has clearly produced the most headaches and no position on the team has awarded opposing defenses more quarterback sacks than the LG position.

See Mike Brown for reference

but Ocho just left for New England (Those guys win everything).

while football will always and forever be a violent sport, the league must take the long term health of its players, specifically brain injuries, in to account “The league has to protect itself from litigation by former players”"- Stephen A Jackson. " The NFL has to legislate to protect the QB because bad quarterback play is bad for the league" —someone on ESPN. No not quite touch football.

You look back at the players that played in the 70’s and 80’s and they are not in good shape. I think Roger is really looking out for the future health of the players. Do I like it…No. Is it necessary……Yes.

b/c of the lawsuits currently going w/the NFL wrapped up in the middle. They don’t want to have to pay these guys later in life b/c of the physical damage their bodies take….they don’t care about player safety unless your a start QB. This is nothign more than a pre-emptive measure to protect them from future lawsuits…if it wasn’t they would make safer equipment (specifically helmets) mandatory for players to wear.

That is, with the new rules in place Football is now the same game as soccer. I realized this after watching a game for 30 min before I figured out that Manchester United was not a new team in the AFC East.