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Colorado verses Colorado State this Sat Night! I enjoy both teams....Buffaloes are in great conference now. Seems strange all these cross-state rivalries early in the season.

Manning still kinda flat Thursday night although he did pull it out at the end. KC not looking really great again this year. I thought Alex would bring them together by now but the defense is just too weak and the running game as well. Broncos running game and defense looking better in week 2.
 
Pricechange said:
Colorado verses Colorado State this Sat Night! I enjoy both teams....Buffaloes are in great conference now. Seems strange all these cross-state rivalries early in the season.

Manning still kinda flat Thursday night although he did pull it out at the end. KC not looking really great again this year. I thought Alex would bring them together by now but the defense is just too weak and the running game as well. Broncos running game and defense looking better in week 2.
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I agree. This year should be it for Manning. He is done. I hope he isn't one of these stars who retires a few years too late. I think he should have called it quits after the loss to Seattle in the SB.
 
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I agree. This year should be it for Manning. He is done. I hope he isn't one of these stars who retires a few years too late. I think he should have called it quits after the loss to Seattle in the SB.
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The great ones almost always stay too long. Agree Manning's passing ability seems to be degrading with age. He'll surpass Favre's yardage total this year, turn 40 before the next season... time to exit.
 
wildchild...yea I lived in Miami during Marino's last years and it was just pure hell. He wouldn't retire and just kept getting worse and worse. At the end he split the fans and screwed the transition from Shula to Jimmy Johnson. After that Jimmy left football forever. Fans turned against him for benching a very very bad Marino/

I fully agree..I hope Payton goes out in style..at the top. Not dragging the thing out.

I think I will take Seattle at GB -3.5
 
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I lived in Miami during Marino's last years and it was just pure hell. He wouldn't retire and just kept getting worse and worse.
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Speaking of Miami and Marino, a few weeks ago I hung out with Mark "Super" Duper from back in the day and he's a cool dude. My friends hired him to speak at a corporate function they were throwing the other night so I got to sit with him and shoot the breeze for a few hours. I asked him, "So did you ever get hurt in all those years you played?". He went on for 45 minutes about all the injuries he had. Broke this, broke that, brain trauma, you name it. He even showed me a crazy scar where he had to have one of his kidneys removed. And that's from being a wide receiver. Imagine how some of these older pros feel today who were literally on the line and getting hit on just about every play back then. Crazy.
 
yea I waited on Duper and Clayton at Joe's stone crab way way back when I was a waiter there. Duper by far the more charismatic guy. Clayton kinda quiet. Both were work horses in the Shula "pass on every play offense" and got way more than their fair share of hits...proly more so than the miami running backs in those days. The opposing teams knew for a fact that one of the two (Duper more often) would be getting a pass thrown at them almost every play. The marks brothers gave the wide receiver position a great flair and energy seldom seen today.
 
Manziel actually looked pretty good...but was against Titans so who knows. Cousins and Mallet looking better and better. Bortles looked good as well. Don't know whats wrong with Eli and Bradford as I thought they had good teams built around them.

Look out, Romo is down for some weeks so I guess Redskins and Giants have some hope this year.
 
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Manziel actually looked pretty good...but was against Titans so who knows. Cousins and Mallet looking better and better. Bortles looked good as well. Don't know whats wrong with Eli and Bradford as I thought they had good teams built around them.

Look out, Romo is down for some weeks so I guess Redskins and Giants have some hope this year.
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That NFC East is going to be horrible. The Cowboys looked pretty bad even before Romo went out. I don't think the Redskins are anything. I don't think the Giants are anything. If Philly doesn't turn things around, this Chip Kelly is going to get to experience a shorn scrotum. That guy had a bunch of hype, little to show for it.
 
yea, you know I was thinking that during the Seattle vs Green Bay game. Only Green Bay and Patriots looking very good again this year. Surprised at just how bad owners have let teams get: Redskins, Philly, Giants, 49ers, Titans, Cleveland, Bengals, Arizona, Jets, Vikings, Chicago, Detroit, Jax, Tampa, Oakland.

I keep talking about quarterbacks because it seems that is a sore spot in the NFL. Pretty hard to get a good consistent quarterback these days. I am looking at the younger ones but who knows, the jury still out on all of them (even Luck).
 
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