Wednesday Walk Around the NFL 11-25-08

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Nov 26, 2008 7:00 AM EST in News Comment 14 comments

Good Morning everyone, it's time to take a look at some of the stories making headlines around the NFL. So here we go!

The Vikings still believe they are a playoff team, and can win the NFC North.
Lesley Visser from CBS Sports says Matt Cassel is going to be due for a huge raise next season.
The seats are getting warm in Cleveland.
Here are the latest power rankings from Pete Prisco at CBS Sportsline.
Bill Cowher will be in demand at seasons end, according to The Sporting News.
From the USA Today, Mike Hiestand says the Lions every Thanksgiving is one turkey too many.

Final thoughts from me:

The Jets haven't won a playoff game since 2004, isn't a little soon to hand them the AFC Crown?
The records for your Thanksgiving matchups:
10-1 at 0-11 (Titans at Lions)
2-9 at 7-4 (Seahawks at Cowboys)
7-4 at 5-5-1 (Cards at Eagles).....It's not the tryptophan that puts you to sleep, it's the bad football.
The Giants went 4-0 against the NFC West, and outscored them 151-65.
I wish you all a happy, healthy, and safe Thanksgiving.

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Best Hypothetical

What if they both have to host a championship game on the same day?

Would pose some interesting logistics.

by Woogie526 on Nov 26, 2008 8:53 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

That won't happen

Roger Goodell says one game would be played on Sunday, the other on Monday night. That would actually be pretty cool. Here is the link.
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/nfceast/0-5-174/Giants—Jets-wouldn-t-host-title-games-on-same-day.html

by Ed Valentine on Nov 26, 2008 9:15 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

oh man

if the Giants got bumped back to the Monday night game, I have a feeling that would be the longest week ever, and I guarantee I would get nothing done that Monday…

by cjmulrain on Nov 26, 2008 12:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I still think

The Colts are going to have something to say about the AFC rep in the SB, they seem to be heating up.

What’s a bigger matchup? Giants-Jets or Giants-Colts?

Giants fan from the womb to the tomb

NY Ranger fans talk all things Blueshirts at
http://broadwayblueview.blogspot.com/

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Nov 26, 2008 9:53 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Either would be the holy grail

for ESPN and sports media.

Farve revives the Jets to battle the cross town rival OR

Manning vs Manning

Good god the 2 weeks before the SB would be awful.

I think somehow, The giants are the lesser story in both of those scenarios. ironically.

by Woogie526 on Nov 26, 2008 9:57 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Colts definitely

You remember the media backlash during the Subway Series in 2000!? Everyone hated that.

Eli vs. Peyton however….that’s something that would just take off!

by Cody K on Nov 26, 2008 11:55 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

baseball’s a different animal though, where people really only follow their regional teams. In football, most people watch multiple games every weekend, so there’s familiarity with different markets. And I doubt that a matchup has ever stopped many people from watching the Super Bowl, whereas I myself have not watched World Series before based on the matchup (2003, for example…ugh), even though baseball is my favorite sport.

I think a Jets-Giants Super Bowl would be MUCH better received than the Subway Series was.

by cjmulrain on Nov 26, 2008 12:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

also

I think the Manning oversaturation would turn just as many people off as the Favre oversaturation. An entire region of the country probably would avoid watching a Colts-Giants Super Bowl (New England, I’m looking at you).

by cjmulrain on Nov 26, 2008 12:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Just for the record

we hadn’t won a playoff game since 2000 before the Super Bowl run last year, and were 0 for our last 4 going into the Tampa game. The Jets 4 year drought isn’t really that long (they are only 0 for their last 2, and they should have won that game against Pitt in 2004). And adding Brett Favre and Kris Jenkins has made them a much different team.

by cjmulrain on Nov 26, 2008 12:44 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Understood

But at 7-3 last year, nobody was crowning the Giants NFC Champs

I just think the hype around the Jets is a little much

Giants fan from the womb to the tomb

NY Ranger fans talk all things Blueshirts at
http://broadwayblueview.blogspot.com/

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Nov 26, 2008 1:58 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

true

but I think part of it is that the AFC is wide-open this year. The Titans were the only dominant team, and the Jets took them apart. Had the Giants destroyed the Cowboys last year the way the Jets just destroyed the Titans, I guarantee people would have been crowning them NFC Champs. That’s just the nature of the beast, I think.

by cjmulrain on Nov 26, 2008 2:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Jets

1. I think they’re overrated. And when did the NFC suddenly become the dominant conference?
2. I bet they wish they could get Matt Cassell. I know, Favre is a big part of their turnaround. But he’s not the future, in his 2-year shelf-life.
p.s. thanks for throwing that OT INT
…related, I wonder if Cassel has the class to give preference to an NFC team (god forbid its the Lions — maybe the 49ers are a fit ) or at the very least, stay away from AFC east teams that could use him (Miami).

by Simms-McConkey on Nov 26, 2008 10:37 PM EST reply actions 0 recs