Watch that game on replay. Tebow had those backers completely frozen on every big run. He was much more impressive than I thought. My goodness that boy can't throw though. If the other teams linebackers decide to play guessing games rather than their own gap Tebow and crew gonna wreck you.

Total net yards both games combined:
Ernies: 312+392=704
Ravens: 385+356=741

First downs:
Ernies:20+20=40
Ravens:17+23=40

WIM:
Ernies: 0
Ravens: ~350

Wins:
Ernies: 0
Ravens: 2

tl;dr: Ravens > Ernies this season

just hard to see how the bengals are going to score very many points against the lolsteelers

Palmer made 5 or so absolutely amazing passes. I'm impressed. If the Chargers keep flailing and the Raiders are within a game in the last few games then Palmer should have plenty enough time to grow a nice rapport and take it. Dumb ass trade pretty much regardless but Palmer looks good.

[x] Ravens have better record than Steelers
[x] Ravens swept division series vs Steelers
[x] Ravens have #2 scoring defense in league vs Steelers #9
[x] Ravens #7 scoring offense in league vs Steelers #12
[ ] Steelers favored in rematch
[x] lol stealers lol agdci

Of all the many insane things of this season the Texans playing good defense, without Mario, is the most shocking.

i think you will be surprised. bengals offense is fine, very good wr core. steelers havent been lock down against the run this yr.

bengals secondary is suspect and i think mike wallace and antonio brown do some damage if roeth can avoid the rush.

will dalton be able to get him the ball though

edit: steelers looked pretty damn lock down against the run last night. don't think you can cite statistics from earlier games in the season in this regard when they have been missing people

Missing best LB last night.....

agree. I'll go as far to say as a fully-up-to-speed Palmer makes Raiders best AFC west team. but good lord their remaining schedule is not doing them any favours, 5/8 left on the road and they blew what should've been their easy KC and DEN wins at home.

It's an excellent movie, primarily about propaganda. US Govt wanted to sell Tillman as this guy who he wasn't and they picked the wrong family to bully. Must see.

A visual representation of the Sunday night game

I agree up-to-speed Palmer makes them the team to beat and said so in the gameday thread. If that game is any indication he's not far away, all those great throws I mentioned were frozen ropes on deep intermediate routes both inside and outside just perfectly thrown.

And like I've said he's in the best possible situation to succeed off the couch. Hue knows him better than anyone in the league, he has better receivers than his last few seasons in Cincy and a vastly superior run game to boot. Still I'd be surprised if he gets into a nice groove for at least another month. By the end of the season there's a very good chance he is better than Campbell and not out of the question he's at a pro bowl level.

Damn, there are some pretty good games this week. Thursday Night is back obv, but we have:

OAK @ SD
JAC @ IND Failfest 2011
PIT @ CIN
NO @ ATL
DET @ CHI
NYG @ SF
NE @ NYJ

that I'm all really interested in.

Why the hell did the Raiders decide to bench DHB for Housh?

OAK @ SD (heart says OAK ldo)
JAC @ IND Failfest 2011
PIT @ CIN
NO @ ATL
DET @ CHI
NYG @ SF
NE @ NYJ

Bot that is a load of great games indeed. I think I'm looking forward to the NYG-SF game because depending on how SF plays I'll move them up quite a bit in my power rankings. I think they are legit but can't quite convince myself yet.
Want to see CIN beat PIT because there's too many CIN naysayers. NE@Jets will be fun, I'm feeling the Jets (as a Sanchize hater I'll at least admit that he's playing a pretty good season for his standards). DET@CHI I have no clue tbh, gonna go with Cutler will be murdered for now. NO@ATL..would have said NO by a decent clip not too long ago but ATL has looked better than I remembered them from earlier this season while NO trends down a bit and has some injury issues
JAC@IND=the fix is in will be obvious to the last doubters

would u rather go to the beach or go to a sporting event? most people would go to the beach. thats the problem with miami and socal

I guess the wise guys are saying NYG +3.5 is freeeeeee money on the road vs SF.

SF is an excellent team they just can't win a shootout if it were to come down to that, which probably happens eventually esp playoffs. Alex Smith is playing the definition of game manager - no turnovers, no risks - and no one has stopped the running game. I do not think you can win the Super Bowl with this unless the defense is historically elite and it isn't.

"Pat’s a ****ing champion and he always will be. Just make no mistake, he’d want me to say this. He’s not with God. He’s ****ing dead. He’s not religious so, thanks for your thoughts, but he’s ****ing dead."

Even with a historically elite defense you can't win the superbowl because Rodgers is historically super-elite which trumps regular elite.

It was pretty ****ed up and standard how officials were all "these atheists just won't go along with our perfect war hero narrative, they hate America." All the way up the chain people were infuriated that the family wouldn't keep quiet and kept demanding answers. Damned atheists.

I missed why the Steelers are being referred to as the Ernies?

I like lol'ing at the Steelers a great deal and don't want to miss out!