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FOOTBALL!!!

 

I love March Madness with baseball season starting up but this is my favorite time of the year and it's not even close. September/October baseball with college and the NFL starting up. Love it. And am I suppose to say "Back to Football'? Anyways, awesome match up as always to start the year with The Saints traveling to Green Bay to open up the year. It happens every year, I am not that excited and the 1st college football Thursday hits and it all comes back. So pumped up.

 

Welcome to the 2011-2012 edition of the NFL.

 

Thursday Sept. 8th

New Orleans @ Green Bay - 8:30pm ET

 

Sunday Sept. 11th

 

EARLY GAMES (1pm ET)

Atlanta @ Chicago

Indianapolis @ Houston

Buffalo @ Kansas City

Tennessee @ Jacksonville

Cincinnati @ Cleveland

Philadelphia @ St. Louis

Pittsburgh @ Baltimore

Detroit @ Tampa Bay

 

LATE GAMES (4:15pm ET)

Minnesota @ San Diego

New York Giants @ Washington

Carolina @ Arizona

Seattle @ San Francisco

 

SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (8:20pm ET)

Dallas @ New York Jets

 

MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (Sept. 12th)

New England @ Miami - 7:00pm ET

Oakland @ Denver - 10:15pm ET

 

MAPS (has not updated yet)

 

http://the506.com/nflmaps/

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Can't wait to grab my seat for bloody mary's an hour before game time under my Chicago Bears flag in my favorite watering hole. Sadly, the Pittsburgh game will have sound now that they have quadruple the amount of Bears fans that show up for games.

 

Happy to see two Monday night games. Hope that there are more weeks with double headers this season. Too lazy to look it up.

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Really looking forward to seeing more out of Vic So'oto on the Packers. I was super impressed with him in the final preseason game, and it sounds like he's pretty much a lock to make the team out of camp.
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Briggs for Osi.

 

The Giants have suffered injuries to their back seven already and, at some point before the trade deadline, perhaps a swap of disgruntled players with the Chicago Bears, for linebacker Lance Briggs, could make sense.

 

http://blogs.nfl.com/2011/09/05/giants-de-umenyiora-to-miss-first-two-games/

 

Quit stealing my ideas, Jason!

 

i think we're already pretty good up front. melton looks awesome as a 3rd DE, and maybe 2nd at the end of the year. We need Briggs, which is the tragedy, here.

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Briggs for Osi.

 

The Giants have suffered injuries to their back seven already and, at some point before the trade deadline, perhaps a swap of disgruntled players with the Chicago Bears, for linebacker Lance Briggs, could make sense.

 

http://blogs.nfl.com/2011/09/05/giants-de-umenyiora-to-miss-first-two-games/

 

Quit stealing my ideas, Jason!

 

i think we're already pretty good up front. melton looks awesome as a 3rd DE, and maybe 2nd at the end of the year. We need Briggs, which is the tragedy, here.

 

Yeah, but if you got Osi you could slide Idonije inside. But yeah, we do need Briggs. He's not going anywhere...but still...Peppers and Osi on the same line? *drool*

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Rams

 

Fingers crossed.

 

Rams receivers will be completely over-matched by the Philly secondary, but this will allow Lance Kendricks to begin his ascent as the greatest tight end in NFL history. He's going to eat up the weak Philly linebacker corps.

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Rams

 

Fingers crossed.

 

Rams receivers will be completely over-matched by the Philly secondary, but this will allow Lance Kendricks to begin his ascent as the greatest tight end in NFL history. He's going to eat up the weak Philly linebacker corps.

 

My pick is just a feeling. While I am not biting on Bill Simmons' theory that the Eagles as a whole will be overwhelmed by playing in a dome, the fact is they are starting a really inexperienced offensive line, so that should hurt playing in a potentially loud dome.

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FO has released their projected DVOA and postseason odds report.

 

AFC East: New England

AFC North: Pittsburgh

AFC West: San Diego

AFC South: Houston

 

NFC East: Philadelphia

NFC North: Green Bay

NFC West: San Francisco

NFC South: New Orleans

 

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/dvoa-ratings/2011/2011-dvoa-projections

 

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/playoffodds

 

Some weird stuff in there. KC going from 13th in offensive DVOA to 25th. SD going from No. 1 in defensive DVOA a year ago to 31st. And apparently they are big Reggie Bush fans because Miami is projected No. 9.

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FO has released their projected DVOA and postseason odds report.

 

AFC East: New England

AFC North: Pittsburgh

AFC West: San Diego

AFC South: Houston

 

NFC East: Philadelphia

NFC North: Green Bay

NFC West: San Francisco

NFC South: New Orleans

 

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/dvoa-ratings/2011/2011-dvoa-projections

 

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/playoffodds

 

Some weird stuff in there. KC going from 13th in offensive DVOA to 25th. SD going from No. 1 in defensive DVOA a year ago to 31st. And apparently they are big Reggie Bush fans because Miami is projected No. 9.

 

Also, their projected wildcards:

AFC: Baltimore, NY Jets (Miami, Indy following)

NFC: Atlanta, Chicago (NY Giants, Minnesota following)

 

The NFC is projected to have 6 above average teams in Philadelphia, Green Bay, New Orleans, Atlanta, Chicago and the NY Giants. The worst projected NFC team is Seattle, but pick any NFC West team for that one.

 

The AFC is projected to have 9 above average teams in Pittsburgh, New England, San Diego, NY Jets, Baltimore, Houston, Miami, Indianapolis and Jacksonville. The worst projected AFC team is Tennessee.

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That's a pretty realistic projection for the Bears I think.

 

At least we have the computers on our side.

More than last year, even.

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That's a pretty realistic projection for the Bears I think.

 

At least we have the computers on our side.

 

It's the computers on one side, and Bill Simmons and staff on the other.

 

I'll take the computers.

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That's a pretty realistic projection for the Bears I think.

 

At least we have the computers on our side.

 

It's the computers on one side, and Bill Simmons and staff on the other.

 

I'll take the computers.

 

I do feel the Bears are much closer to being a wildcard playoff team than the worst team in football.

 

And for all the breaks they got last year, they got the opposite two years ago. The Grantland author basically spent two sentences talking specifically about gambler's fallacy and then specifically used it to say the Bears could be the worst team in football.

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