HOF Game / Preseason Thread

magicfan4life05 · Post #1 » by **magicfan4life05** » Sat Aug 8, 2009 11:20 pm

what's that sound you hear???

oh yeah...the official end of the NFL OFFSEASON!!!

:rockon:

Tonight is the HOF ceremony

from espn

from nfl.com

http://www.nfl.com/halloffame

The newest members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame -- Bob Hayes, Randall McDaniel, Bruce Smith, Derrick Thomas, Ralph Wilson and Rod Woodson -- will be inducted on Saturday, Aug. 8, with the enshrinement ceremony being televised live on NFL Network.

Tomorrow is the HOF game

Who: Buffalo vs Tennessee

When: 8:00 on NBC

Where: Fawcett Stadium in Canton, Ohio

with the HOF game tomorrow, the 2009 NFL campaign has begun (well at least the preseason anyway)....and NFL fans could not be happier!!!

Ladies and Gentleman....I am honored to ask you all....

Triple M · Post #2 » by **Triple M** » Sun Aug 9, 2009 9:32 pm

No Kenny Britt but I'm looking forward to see what Jared Cook will look like.

Bleeding Blue · Post #3 » by **Bleeding Blue** » Sun Aug 9, 2009 11:28 pm

I am so pumped for the start of the NFL season! I am actually having a few buddies over to watch the game....I hope TO plays more than the first series...

High 5 · Post #4 » by **High 5** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:19 am

I only saw the highlights, but why would Tennessee waste their best trick play in the preseason?

Post #5 » by **J.Kim** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:40 pm

High 5 wrote:I only saw the highlights, but why would Tennessee waste their best trick play in the preseason?

They would never run that in a real game (At least, with Craig Hentrich as the punter).

Post #6 » by **Celtics_Champs** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:54 pm

The best part was chris mortensens son throwing a pick 6.

High 5 · Post #7 » by **High 5** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:01 pm

J.Kim wrote:
High 5 wrote:I only saw the highlights, but why would Tennessee waste their best trick play in the preseason?

They would never run that in a real game (At least, with Craig Hentrich as the punter).

That's one you want to keep in your pocket just in case. It would be different if he did just hand the ball off.

Post #8 » by **lpsevier** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:41 pm

Celtics_Champs wrote:The best part was chris mortensens son throwing a pick 6.

Yeah I felt bad for ol Morty.

Post #9 » by **J.Kim** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:22 am

High 5 wrote:
J.Kim wrote:
High 5 wrote:I only saw the highlights, but why would Tennessee waste their best trick play in the preseason?

They would never run that in a real game (At least, with Craig Hentrich as the punter).

That's one you want to keep in your pocket just in case. It would be different if he did just hand the ball off.

Craig Hentrich is going to remain as the punter for a while, and Fisher's not going to be running any trick plays like that (at least with him running) while Hentrich is the Punter. And by that time the Titans replace their punter, everyone will have forgotten about a trick play in the first quarter of a meaningless preseason game.

kenny1 · Post #10 » by **kenny1** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:47 am

Hey, it was awesome! had real fun watching it!

magicfan4life05 · Post #11 » by **magicfan4life05** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:15 pm

4 games tonight

Washington at Baltimore

NE at Philly

Dallas at Oakland

Arizona at Pittsburgh ON ESPN!!!

ESPN will have their "nfl countdown" pregame show starting at 7

VinnyTheMick · Post #12 » by **VinnyTheMick** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:34 pm

Chuckie is a terrible announcer.

FakeScreenName123 · Post #13 » by **FakeScreenName123** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:02 am

Brady looks good. I forgot how nice he was. My god he is levels upon levels above and way beyond Matt Cassel.

Post #14 » by **Celtics_Champs** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:10 am

^It's like riding a bike for him.

Munchlaxatives · Post #15 » by **Munchlaxatives** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:37 am

Neither one of the games I want to see is on TV. Pittsburgh/Arizona is intriguing for a regular season matchup, but I'd much rather watch the Eagles or Ravens in the preseason.

Leinart looks good. Real good. Unfortunately, he also looks bad on some plays.

I'm hoping Kolb hasn't played for the Eagles yet. He's one of the main reasons I wanna see the Eagles. Maclin is looking good, he should get 3 TDs on returns next year.

Munchlaxatives · Post #16 » by **Munchlaxatives** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:58 am

I wouldn't call myself fashionable, but Suzy Kolber has had the worst hair I've ever seen 6 years and running.

On that note, I'm done with the Cards/Steelers game. 3-3 game in the 3rd, very boring so far. Not even worth seeing Dixon. The Eagles/Pats feed just went down, I guess I'm done with football tonight.

High 5 · Post #17 » by **High 5** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:48 am

Fitzgerald has tremendous teeth.

Munchlaxatives · Post #18 » by **Munchlaxatives** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:11 am

Post #19 » by **Icness** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:19 pm

Lions/Falcons notes:
--hard to really grade the Lions QBs considering the top 4 WRs were out. I thought Stafford looked just fine. His first two incompletions were drops by Keary Colbert on good, not great, throws. Responded very well from a terrible INT, made a couple of great throws as the game went on.
related: Keary Colbert absolutely sucks!!

--Atlanta's starting DBs played pretty well, but the best CB on the team is rookie Chris Owens. Dude was a blanket and looked real strong in run support, made a great open field tackle that saved a big gain. Wasn't afraid to run in to big Will Heller either. Thom Decoud looked fine at safety, showed some range and closing speed.
related: Heller is already the best TE the Lions have had in years and he's not even the #1 TE. Nice to see a guy who can block AND run a decent route and catch the ball.

Falcons 1st team DL had no trouble getting pressure up the gut against Lions 1st team OL. Dom Raiola is just too small to handle big guys. Off the bench I thought Thomas Johnson played a real nice game for ATL, very active and stout.

ATL had better not get any OL injuries because the backups were terrible in pass protect. Will Svitek is passable but the interior guys got flat-out dominated by the likes of Landon Cohen and Jason Hunter. I thought Chris Redman looked better than he ever has as the backup QB.

Gosder Cherilus is looking more like a bust all the time. He has zero instincts.

Drew Stanton showed me something. Dude plays like Michael Vick and he's nearly that fast. He's certainly no starter but he's the kind of guy you can put in on 3rd and 11 and make things happen, or as a Wildcat package QB.

Anthony Henry got toasted once but overall he and Philip Buchanon look like HUGE upgrades at CB for DET.

Matt Ryan looked fine, Roddy White ditto. Gonzalez didn't get to do much.

High 5 · Post #20 » by **High 5** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 3:31 pm

Stafford has a golden arm. That was the first time I was ever kind of cheering for a player against the Falcons.