NFL Football 2011

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Broncos come to New England this year, I am so getting tickets.

I love the Pats, and Denver is my surrogate sports city, it doesn't get much better.

 

[FLBuff PE]

^Good luck with finding tickets for a reasonable price for that one!

 

[Supe]

Bet there will be some heavily discounted Tebow jerseys for sale, though.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Vegas has updated their Super Bowl odds with Manning coming to Denver:

Last month one site said Denver was given 70:1 odds to reach the SB, they have since updated it to 12:1 behind only New England, Green Bay, and New Orleans. Another site said they went from 50:1 to 10:1 odds.

Either case, Denver's chances are greatly improved.

BTW: ESPN has just reported that Manning has agreed to a 5yr $96M contract with the Broncos and will have a press conference at 3pm (Eastern) to announce it.

 

[snickerd3]

Bet there will be some heavily discounted Tebow jerseys for sale, though.

or they will box them up and send them to 3rd countries.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

^Have they run out of New England Super Bowl XLVI Champs shirts already? :brickwall:

RE: FlBuff

Yeah, they won't be cheap, but Stubhub is fairly reasonable. Unfortunately, the craziest batshit Pats fan I know is leaving town, so I'll need to find someone else to go with.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

^^^ Have they released the 2012 schedule yet?

Edit: Nevermind, I found it. They've only released the matchups, but not the full schedule yet (dates/times).

http://www.nflschedu...2-nfl-schedule/

Looks like the Broncos play their 6 Divisional games, 3 AFC North games, 3 NFC South, and the 1st place schedule. Some pretty tough matchups in there : New Orleans, New England, Houston, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, San Diego twice, Atlanta.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Home and away matchups for each team are known, just not specific dates and times.

For instance, it is known Denver will play in Foxborough, just not known if it's in September or December, or if it's an ealy/late/SNF/MNF game. My gut feeling is November sweeps week at 4:15.

 

[snickerd3]

Vegas has updated their Super Bowl odds with Manning coming to Denver:

Last month one site said Denver was given 70:1 odds to reach the SB, they have since updated it to 12:1 behind only New England, Green Bay, and New Orleans. Another site said they went from 50:1 to 10:1 odds.

Either case, Denver's chances are greatly improved.

BTW: ESPN has just reported that Manning has agreed to a 5yr $96M contract with the Broncos and will have a press conference at 3pm (Eastern) to announce it.

I think New Orleans chances of making the superbowl just took a hit. Loss of draft picks, Head coach suspended for the season, GM suspended for 6 games...

 

[roadwreck]

Vegas has updated their Super Bowl odds with Manning coming to Denver:

Last month one site said Denver was given 70:1 odds to reach the SB, they have since updated it to 12:1 behind only New England, Green Bay, and New Orleans. Another site said they went from 50:1 to 10:1 odds.

Either case, Denver's chances are greatly improved.

BTW: ESPN has just reported that Manning has agreed to a 5yr $96M contract with the Broncos and will have a press conference at 3pm (Eastern) to announce it.

I think New Orleans chances of making the superbowl just took a hit. Loss of draft picks, Head coach suspended for the season, GM suspended for 6 games...

yup, that has to hurt.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

As a Pats fan, I'm laughing at the Jets signing Tebow. Wait until Week 3 when Sanchez throws 2 or 3 picks and the Post and Daily News and WFAN start calling for Tebow. I might have to take in Pats at Jets in the Dreadowlands this year as well.

That team is a mix between a circus and a dumpster fire.

Also, the Saints Scrutiny on the Bounty business is crippling. Talk about cutting off the head of the snake with the HC out for the year, and top asst done for half the year. And that's a reasonably competitive division with the Falcons and Panthers.

 

[Dark Knight]

Elway is a classless son of a beatch. Why did he have to humiliate the kid sending him to a team that everybody knows will not hep in his development? One thing is to be displaced by a future HOF QB. That was a given. Now he sends him to the f'ing JETS? Forget that it was for a 4th round draft pick, to the JETS? How does Tebow fits in there? What was the GM thinking?

I can imagine Elway laughing, smoking a cuban cigar, enjoying the moment. Bastard.

 

[snickerd3]

God has a purpose for everyone...maybe it was time for Tebow to face a different sort of challenge.

 

[roadwreck]

Elway is a classless son of a beatch. Why did he have to humiliate the kid sending him to a team that everybody knows will not hep in his development? One thing is to be displaced by a future HOF QB. That was a given. Now he sends him to the f'ing JETS? Forget that it was for a 4th round draft pick, to the JETS? How does Tebow fits in there? What was the GM thinking?

I can imagine Elway laughing, smoking a cuban cigar, enjoying the moment. Bastard.

That may be a little harsh. Of all the places mentioned as possibilities the Jets seemed one of the better options for Tebow. Sure the Jets are a circus but no team that was interested wasn't. At least the Jets have been in the post season this decade. The other serious suitors were Jacksonville and Miami? Jacksonville is a disaster and the only reason they wanted Tebow was to fill seats because he is popular there (because he played at UF). He would not have fit into their offensive system with their new head coach, Mularkey, whose offense revolves around a prototypical drop back passer. That's not what Tebow is.

Miami's new headcoach is former Green Bay packers offensive coordinator Joe Philbin, whose offense relies on accuracy and timing, not Tebow's strong suits.

The Jets are a run first pass second offense, which actually works for Tebow.

 

[snickerd3]

DK must have wanted Tebow to go to FL

 

[Dark Knight]

Just wanted the kid to have a fair chance but football is a sport where convicts and rapists get second chances and are glorified. Guys like Tebow are the object of mockery just because their convictions. It is clear that the guy is a sub-par QB, but now he does not have a chance to improve, not in a team that is more interested in his character than in his skills.

Now that you say it snick, Jacksonville is not too far from where I live. Darn it.

 

[chaosiscash]

I figure the Jets wanted Tebow b/c the new OC, Sparano, is the guy that brought the single wing (wildcat) back into pro football. For as "bad" of a pro QB Tebow is, he might be the best guy in the country suited to run that package. I fully expect to see both him and Sanchez sharing time depending on the down an distance.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Listening to sports radio over the lunch break, they were discussing how well Tebow actually fits into the Jets system. Like RW said, the Jets are a run-first team and needed someone to help run their attempt at the wildcat. Tebow just became the Jets' replacement for Brad Smith.

 

[roadwreck]

Just wanted the kid to have a fair chance but football is a sport where convicts and rapists get second chances and are glorified. Guys like Tebow are the object of mockery just because their convictions. It is clear that the guy is a sub-par QB, but now he does not have a chance to improve, not in a team that is more interested in his character than in his skills.

Now that you say it snick, Jacksonville is not too far from where I live. Darn it.

I totally disagree. Jacksonville and Miami weren't interested in his skills, they were only interested in him because of his character and ability to polarize a fanbase and thus drive ratings/ticket sales. Love him or hate him people watched him. He didn't fit into the system that Jacksonville of Miami would run so once the novelty of Tebow wore off he would be tossed aside in favor of someone else. By contrast the Jets are actually interested in his football skills, and I think the Jets are actually a much better destination for him as a player.

 

[Dark Knight]

Wild cat is dead in the NFL. DC figured that one out.Not even Tebow can save that one.

RW, I was hoping to see going to a place where he was going to be able to learn from a good QB for maybe 2 or 3 years and then find another team to play at the QB. I agree that nor Miami or Jax were those places. Denver (Elway) needed to get rid of him to avoid more billboards. They did not believe in him and I am convinced they set up him to fail.

The JETS team is a circus. An important player is on record saying that the team did not need Tebow. Some others mocked him last season. How can someone fit in that environment? Time will tell. But looking at the whole thing, maybe you are right and they are after his skills but I am 90% convinced that his career as a QB is over.