NFL Week 8 - New England Patriots (5-1) at Pittsburgh Steelers (5-2)

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Oct 30, 2011 7:55pm
Automatik;951371 wrote:Steelers keep winning.

Clowns fans keep chirping.......and losing. :laugh:
QFT
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Oct 30, 2011 8:00pm
Commander of Awesome;944988 wrote:I'm officially the second biggest Pats fan on this board this sunday. Hope they embarrass them in the same fashion that the pats pwned them last season.
Sucks to be you.
Automatik;951371 wrote:Steelers keep winning.

Clowns fans keep chirping.......and losing. :laugh:
Reps.
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Oct 30, 2011 8:01pm
Next Sunday night. Ravens @ Steelers. Should be epic.
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Oct 30, 2011 8:03pm
killer_ewok;951386 wrote:Next Sunday night. Ravens @ Steelers. Should be epic.

Should be, but it seems like the steelers are playing better and bmore is struggling lately.
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Oct 30, 2011 8:06pm
wes_mantooth;951390 wrote:Should be, but it seems like the steelers are playing better and bmore is struggling lately.
By far the two best teams in AFC North. It will be a slobberknocker. Both teams will bring it.
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Oct 30, 2011 8:09pm
killer_ewok;951398 wrote:By far the two best teams in AFC North. It will be a slobberknocker. Both teams will bring it.

Probably, but I am starting to buy into cincy's defense. More than likely they will fall off, but I didn't think they would win 5 games all year
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Oct 30, 2011 8:10pm
wes_mantooth;951401 wrote:Probably, but I am starting to buy into cincy's defense. More than likely they will fall off, but I didn't think they would win 5 games all year
True. It may be a 3 team race in the division.
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Oct 30, 2011 9:37pm
Best record in the AFC. Who would have thought after a couple of games in? Big one next week. Gotta get back at the Ratbirds.
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Oct 30, 2011 10:32pm
killer_ewok;951398 wrote:By far the two best teams in AFC North. It will be a slobberknocker. Both teams will bring it.

Pittsburgh is the best team in the AFC North, but the Ravens aren't much better than Cincy, if at all IMO.
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Oct 30, 2011 11:14pm
Excellent win. Great atmosphere at Heinz Field, too.

Only problem is the Steelers have to come back and play just as well next week.
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Oct 30, 2011 11:22pm
LOL @ one of the Steelers players (im not sure who) while being interviewed saying that you gotta put Ike Taylor up there with the likes of Revis
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Oct 31, 2011 6:49am
Raw Dawgin' it;943636 wrote:Non want to make an avatar and sig bet?

No spread, Patriots win straight up.

So what's raw dawg's new avatar and sig, non?
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Oct 31, 2011 7:00am
killer_ewok;951792 wrote:So what's raw dawg's new avatar and sig, non?
That's right. Good reminder.

I was pretty drained after getting back from the game and I'm going to work now...I'll pick one by this evening
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Oct 31, 2011 8:00am
Not often the Patriots offense lets them down. Even though NE didn't make the steelers punt i think keeping them to 25 gave them a really good shot to win and Brady just couldn't capitalize. They lost a lot of time with the botched Gronkowski TD call at the end. Also, if they could move the ball that well in their final drive I don't get why they couldn't do that all game.
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Oct 31, 2011 8:04am
Raw Dawgin' it;951809 wrote:They lost a lot of time with the botched Gronkowski TD call at the end.
True. This was a big play for time. Patriots did have the option to challenge this with three timeouts. Belichick didn't want to risk losing one but if it was an obvious TD he wouldn't have lost one.
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Oct 31, 2011 8:19am
Non;951811 wrote:True. This was a big play for time. Patriots did have the option to challenge this with three timeouts. Belichick didn't want to risk losing one but if it was an obvious TD he wouldn't have lost one.
His feet were in the endzone, the have enough people on the coaching staff watching replays to relay that to him. Then on the ensuing play they run the play clock down to under 5 seconds. Just terrible clock management when you need as much time as you can.
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Oct 31, 2011 8:23am
Raw Dawgin' it;951814 wrote:His feet were in the endzone, the have enough people on the coaching staff watching replays to relay that to him. Then on the ensuing play they run the play clock down to under 5 seconds. Just terrible clock management when you need as much time as you can.
Well, he would still need the ball to break the end zone. If his feet were in the end zone and the ball was out then he's not in. That's kind of what I thought it looked like but my seat was all the way on the other end and I never got a second look at it so the ball may have been over, too.
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Oct 31, 2011 8:23am
Where's the new avatar?
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Oct 31, 2011 8:43am
Non;951821 wrote:Well, he would still need the ball to break the end zone. If his feet were in the end zone and the ball was out then he's not in. That's kind of what I thought it looked like but my seat was all the way on the other end and I never got a second look at it so the ball may have been over, too.
What about what guys tip toe in the endzone and catch the ball while it's out of bounds? that counts, no reason this one wouldn't have. Not saying they would have won if they called it good (the missed FG didn't help either) but we may have been able to kick off and try for a stop rather than botch an onside kick
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Oct 31, 2011 8:55am
Raw Dawgin' it;951833 wrote:What about what guys tip toe in the endzone and catch the ball while it's out of bounds? that counts, no reason this one wouldn't have. Not saying they would have won if they called it good (the missed FG didn't help either) but we may have been able to kick off and try for a stop rather than botch an onside kick

Yeah, I was pretty pissed when Suisham missed a FG too.
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Oct 31, 2011 8:57am
killer_ewok;951840 wrote:Yeah, I was pretty pissed when Suisham missed a FG too.
true, forgot about that.
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Oct 31, 2011 9:34am
Raw Dawgin' it;951833 wrote:What about what guys tip toe in the endzone and catch the ball while it's out of bounds? that counts, no reason this one wouldn't have. Not saying they would have won if they called it good (the missed FG didn't help either) but we may have been able to kick off and try for a stop rather than botch an onside kick
It doesn't really make sense but I'm pretty sure it's different. When Santonio Holmes caught the TD against Baltimore a few years ago, his feet were in but they had to see if the ball broke the end zone which it did...barely. Gronkowski's catch looked about the same. They would've had to review to see if part of the ball was over, not only the feet.
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Oct 31, 2011 11:56am
Good win. I'm finally recovered enough from the weekend to feel like typing words and stuff, so yeah...good win. I knew I liked hearing virtually everyone talking about how Brady owns the Steelers all last week for some reason!

Now they need to take care of business at home against Baltimore and get revenge for the week one thumping. Winning that game puts them in a good situation in the division and conference.
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Oct 31, 2011 5:45pm



I'll just go with a standard Ben pic for raw dawgin it's avatar.
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Oct 31, 2011 6:28pm
Non;952465 wrote:


I'll just go with a standard Ben pic for raw dawgin it's avatar.

And the sig?