Tegis Posted March 26, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted March 26, 2012 And Spencer Larsen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted March 26, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted March 26, 2012 Tracy Porter, Joel Dreessen, Caleb Hanie and Jacob Tamme (I like him) to the Broncos. No Dallas Clark by the looks of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted March 27, 2012 Author Moderator Share Posted March 27, 2012 Or Jeff Saturday :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted March 28, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted March 28, 2012 Gronk works a shift at a Dunkin' Donuts: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packoman Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Eagles left tackle Jason Peters has ruptured his Achilles tendon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Poor bloke. Hopefully he takes his time for it to heal 100%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted April 5, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted April 5, 2012 Judging from the rest of her body, it doesn't look like RGIII sprung for implants. Would not be too surprised to see him trade up in a year or two though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Coming over here, stealing our wimmenz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copey11 Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 as for the suspensions, they are truly "no contact" and is supposed to include email/phone/text/contact between the coach and any part of the team and coaches. If you get a chance, check out the audio of Gregg Williams captured by some documentary filmmakers during a pregame speech. Chilling, calling for specific players and specific body parts to target. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted April 18, 2012 Author Moderator Share Posted April 18, 2012 Some interesting (and some scary) stats on the Broncos schedule that was announced. [*:468f13dab1]Denver's regular-season opponents had a combined record of 139-117 (.543) in 2011. That marks the second-toughest strength of schedule in the NFL. [*:468f13dab1]This marks the 21st consecutive season the Broncos have played on Monday Night Football, extending the longest active streak in the NFL. It is the second-longest such streak all-time. [*:468f13dab1]This will be the 13th consecutive season the Broncos have played at least one of the previous season's two Super Bowl teams. [*:468f13dab1]The schedule features games against the division champion from the AFC North, AFC South, AFC East and NFC South. [*:468f13dab1]It will be the first time in franchise history the Broncos have opened the season with primetime games in back-to-back weeks. [*:468f13dab1]The five primetime national television broadcasts are the second most in team history. [*:468f13dab1]It's just the second time in franchise history that the Broncos have opened consecutive season in primetime -- the team played on Monday Night Football to open 2011. [*:468f13dab1]It marks the second consecutive season the Broncos have opened at home after starting the season on the road for six straight years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Here’s what I see in the Ravens’ schedule for 2012: + It looks tough. No surprise there. Even before Tuesday night’s unveiling, the Ravens knew their 13 opponents combined for a .527 winning percentage in 2011, tying them for the fourth-hardest schedule of 2012. Exactly half of their games are against teams that made the playoffs last year. It’s hard to hide in there. + Having said that, there are some things about the schedule the Ravens will like. Three of their first four games are at M&T Bank Stadium, where they didn’t lose a game last year. That gives them a chance to get off to a strong start. By the same token, three of their last five also are at home. + The fact that there are “homestands” to open and close the season means, of course, the middle of the season is rough. Here’s how rough: they only play two home games, total, in October and November. That stretch will surely test the playoff mettle of a team that struggled on the road (.500) in 2011. + Clearly, Ravens Owner Steve Bisciotti was heard when he made it known last summer that he was pretty irked about his team having to play two Monday night road games in 2011 when it hadn’t hosted a Monday night game since 2007. “I was very disappointed because I had mentioned it to the scheduling guys,” he said on a fan conference call before last season. “When we didn’t get it last year, they took note, but I will bet you a Ravens hat and a shirt that we are on Monday Night Football at home next year.” Well, he can stash those hats and shirts away for another wager. He was right. The Ravens open the 2012 season with a Monday night home game against the Cincinnati Bengals. + For those keeping track of such things, they will break a Monday night home drought of 1,743 days when they face the Bengals on Sept. 10. Their most recent one before this was on Dec. 3, 2007, against New England. + Despite those crazy numbers, let’s not go down the Paranoia Path, still so easily summoned in Ravenstown. No, the league doesn’t have it in for the Ravens. Baltimore’s team is on Sunday night football twice, Monday night football once and Thursday night football once in 2012. That’s plenty of prime-time exposure. The NFL does not hate the Ravens. To the contrary, it loves the Ravens. + If there is such a thing as a well-positioned bye, the Ravens have one – in Week 8, almost exactly halfway through the season and right in the middle of their tough midseason stretch of five out of seven games on the road. Just guessing, the break will be welcomed. + Two games in three weeks against the Steelers? Sorry, not my favorite. Why not just go all in and do the games on back to back Sundays? Hey, how about a doubleheader? + Looking quickly, there are a couple of especially tough turnarounds on this schedule. The Ravens get their AFC title-game rematch with the New England Patriots on a Sunday night in September – sure to be a big night – but then they have to play again just four days later, on a Thursday night against Cleveland. The only thing that makes it acceptable is both games are at M&T Bank Stadium. Later in the season, they face the Steelers in Pittsburgh on a Sunday night and the Chargers in San Diego the following week. That means a middle-of-the-night return from Pittsburgh and four days of practice followed by a cross-country trip and a game against a team that blasted them a year ago. Then another game against Pittsburgh the next week. There’s nothing unfair in there; it’s just tough sledding, especially considering the caliber of the opposition. + When the 2011 schedule was unveiled a year ago (in the middle of the lockout, by the way, ugh, remember that?), people in Baltimore circled the December home game against the Colts as a big one – another grudge game. But things had changed, to say the least, by the time the game rolled around. The Colts were winless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerniesElbow Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Browns have the third hardest schedule and the Patriots (who were in the Super Bowl) have the easiest. Makes perfect sense to me... http://espn.go.com/blog/testablogforprod/post/_/id/15852/2012-nfl-sos-chart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted April 19, 2012 Author Moderator Share Posted April 19, 2012 That stat is warped seriously by the strength of each team's division. Browns divisional opponents finished 12-4, 12-4, 9-7. That accounts for 37.5% of their schedule (i.e. 6 of their 16 games). The Pats were in an 8-8, 6-10, 6-10 division. Nowt they can do about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Yeah, the only teams you really play so that your schedule is balanced with how good you are, are the ones that finish the same position as you in other divisions. Otherwise the games are set because of your division or part of the rotation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted April 23, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted April 23, 2012 Brandon Stokley back with the Broncos. Manning player I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irreverentad Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 I can hear your tears from here Dante: Ravens LB Terrell Suggs tore his Achilles playing basketball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mole86 Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 Just came here to post the exact same thing!! Awful news for the Ravens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted May 3, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted May 3, 2012 Huge loss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irreverentad Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 From a Steelers perspective...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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