[Archived] Nfl 2007

[Gav]

Sunday nights without NFL isn't the same especially if you've got a spare £10 for some handicap betting to liven up proceedings.

Last week I took:

San Diego Chargers -7.0

Detroit Lions +3.0

Seattle Seahawks -6.0

Minnesota Vikings -3.0

Returned £190.

Looking for today’s picks, anyone got any dead certs?

[ABBEY]

yes broncos to beat the scum by 40+!!!!!!!!!!!!

and oj to get off again

[Gav]

yes broncos to beat the scum by 40+!!!!!!!!!!!!

and oj to get off again

[ABBEY]

yes broncos to beat the scum by 40+!!!!!!!!!!!!

and oj to get off again

REMIND TO KEEP MY GOB SHUT!!!!!!!!

AWFUL BUT WE BEAT THE SCUM IN OT ,,,,,,,,,IT WAS LIKE ROVERS BEING 2 UP AT HT AND BURNLEY WINNING 3-2 WITH 1 MIN LEFT AND THEM SCORING OWN GOAL AND US WINNING ON PENS........... AH 2-0

NOT THIS YEAR BUT NEXT YEAR IS OUR YEAR AGAIN

[Redrose49er]

REMIND TO KEEP MY GOB SHUT!!!!!!!!

AWFUL BUT WE BEAT THE SCUM IN OT ,,,,,,,,,IT WAS LIKE ROVERS BEING 2 UP AT HT AND BURNLEY WINNING 3-2 WITH 1 MIN LEFT AND THEM SCORING OWN GOAL AND US WINNING ON PENS........... AH 2-0

NOT THIS YEAR BUT NEXT YEAR IS OUR YEAR AGAIN

They were lucky, very lucky! That Janikowski kick looked like it could have been a 65 yarder. Thankfully Wilkins hasn't got a leg that strong!!!!! 49ers 2-0

[Gav]

REMIND TO KEEP MY GOB SHUT!!!!!!!!

AWFUL BUT WE BEAT THE SCUM IN OT ,,,,,,,,,IT WAS LIKE ROVERS BEING 2 UP AT HT AND BURNLEY WINNING 3-2 WITH 1 MIN LEFT AND THEM SCORING OWN GOAL AND US WINNING ON PENS........... AH 2-0

NOT THIS YEAR BUT NEXT YEAR IS OUR YEAR AGAIN

The handicappers had the Broncos by 10; needless to say it’s the last time I take them this season.......

[ABBEY]

The handicappers had the Broncos by 10; needless to say it’s the last time I take them this season.......

should have been easy pickings gav..but we have a young and new team this year so its going to a rollercoaster for the broncos...next year or the year after will be back2backs again!!

[USRoverME]

GAV, my rule of thumb is to never take a 2-digit spread... so amny thigns can happen, you can still get an seay win, and only win by 8 or 9 due to some garbage time scoring against a prevent defence.....

[T4E]

Can somebody sum up the situation with JaMarcus Russell for me? I watched the draft and am aware of his being taken then, but I'm now reading that he's likely to be inactive all season, but I'm not sure why? Is it a contract dispute? How does it work when a player is drafted - are they bound to the team that takes them? How much in the way of rights does the drafting team actually have?

[ABBEY]

dont like posting about the scum ...tugs but here ya go .

TO ALL RAIDER SCUM HAHAHAHAHAHA ...TIMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOUT

[ABBEY]

Pretty shocking news about Bills reserve TE Everett who got injured on a kick off return (he was defending). The bloke broke his neck as far as I can tell, at the C3 and C4 level. The guy is on life support on an ICU, although he is expected to be taken off that as his breathing gets a little better. They thought he'd never walk again but latest news were more optimistic and they think he might just walk again.

By JOHN WAWROW, AP Sports Writer

September 20, 2007

AP - Sep 14, 2:42 pm EDT

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Kevin Everett will be transferred Friday morning to a Houston hospital to begin the next phase of his rehabilitation, less than two weeks after the Buffalo Bills tight end sustained a life-threatening spinal cord injury.

And doctors said Thursday they believe he will be walking within weeks -- perhaps sooner.

"Soon ... they're going to stand him up," Dr. Barth Green told The Associated Press, shortly after discussing Everett's condition with Bills orthopedic surgeon Dr. Andrew Cappuccino. "They're very confident he'll be walking very soon ... in the next days or weeks, not months."

Eric Armstead, a partner of Everett's agent Brian Overstreet, said Everett was going to Houston's Memorial Hermann Hospital and would be traveling by private plane.

"I talked to him today, and he's very excited," Armstead said.

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The prognosis is remarkable after Everett arrived at Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital paralyzed from the neck down after being hurt while making a tackle in Buffalo's season opener against Denver on Sept. 9. Doctors initially expressed fears Everett would never walk again.

Green is chairman of the neurological surgery department at the University of Miami school of medicine and has received regular updates from Everett's doctors on the player's progress.

"Now that doesn't mean he'll be walking normally, but standing up and holding his own weight," Green said. "I think the future for him is very bright."

"He's strong, you all, I'm telling you he's strong," Everett's mother, Patricia Dugas said. "Kevin's going to get up walking and take care of his business like he always has. I don't think life is going to change that much."

Bills spokesman Scott Berchtold said the team had no update on Everett's status.

Everett makes his offseason home in Houston, where many of his family members and friends live.

Green suggested Houston would be the best place to move Everett because it's important for the player to have his family and friends nearby.

"I love the Buffalo people, and I'll hate to leave them," Dugas said. "But it'll be good that we can be closer to home for all our family to come over and see him because they're worried about him. ... He wants to see his family, too."

Dugas has been at her son's bedside since a day after he was hurt.

"He never asked why. He has a positive outlook about all of this," she said. "Sometimes I walk around here saying, `I can't believe he's smiling like that. ... That's what he give me, peace. He keeps me strong."

Everett was strong enough to sit up on his own in his hospital bed this week.

NFL Players Association executive director Gene Upshaw and NFLPA president Troy Vincent, a former teammate of Everett's in Buffalo, were scheduled to visit the player Thursday.

[awhom111]

Can somebody sum up the situation with JaMarcus Russell for me? I watched the draft and am aware of his being taken then, but I'm now reading that he's likely to be inactive all season, but I'm not sure why? Is it a contract dispute? How does it work when a player is drafted - are they bound to the team that takes them? How much in the way of rights does the drafting team actually have?

The team has rights for several years. The contract dispute is just related to the structure and fine print of the contract. There are guidelines for how much each rookie should make based on union negotiations and the like, but if you are the top pick, there isn't as much limitation so Russell was making sure that he was getting more than anybody else in the past. He probably wouldn't have played much this year anyway so it was safe for him to not sign immediately and just as fine for the Raiders ("scum") to try to get him to take less money. He has signed, so he can play now, but because he is a quarterback and it is such a difficult position to learn to play, he is not likely to see game action until next season.

[ABBEY]

the Raiders ("scum")

nice touch!

[Eddie]

Pretty much sums up almost any fantasy season I've ever had.

[ABBEY]

WOW IN ALL MY TIME AS ROVER AND A BRONCO IVE NEVER WITNESSED SUCH A PASSIONLESS SHOWING IN ANY TEAM I SUPPORT AS YESTERDAY..I WAS HIGH ON THE ROVERS WIN AND SUICIDll after the broncos pathetic showing..the worst ever!!!!!!!!

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Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007, will live in Broncos' infamy as The Fiasco at Invesco.

There was gloom.

There is doom.

An ominous black cloud hung over the stadium Sunday afternoon.

A portentous dark shroud hangs over the Broncos.

The Broncos are beyond wretched.

That was the most pathetic, pitiable display of effort, skill and emotion by a Broncos team in more than 40 years.

The 75,617 "fans" gave the Broncos a new Mile High Salute.

They got up and left en masse, as they might during the worst, screeching piano recital in modern history. The "Broncos" were the no-shows; the "fans" were the no-stays. Well before the end, maybe 617 remained.

Sunday is a bye. Yesterday was bye-bye.

"I did a very poor job of getting this football team ready," Mike Shanahan understated. "I don't know if I've ever been more embarrassed. I don't think our players have ever been more embarrassed to put on that type of show."

The Broncos played air football. Nothing but air and airheads.

In 1963 the Broncos lost a game 59-7. They finished 2-11-1. This group of coaches and players has that potential.

"We're a much better football team than we were today," Shanahan overstated.

The 109 million dollar (salary cap) question is: What's wrong with the Broncos?

Answer: They're a bad "team" with many bad "players" and some "bad" coaches. And anybody who believed they would be a much better team than they were Sunday was grossly mistaken. This ancient fool pleads guilty.

Shanahan does have to accept the blame for yesterdays and tomorrows, and the coach-for-life must be held accountable. The city and the region grow weary of false promises and repeated failures.

No mastermind or brilliant brain would have put such inept, ill-prepared offenders, defenders and nonspecial-team guttersnipes on the field.

Kickoff returners, no matter who, fumble the football.

Receivers fumble the football.

Travis Henry fumbles his life and can't run or hide.

Jim Bates, the so-clever defensive coordinator, has installed a system that doesn't work with players who don't work. Jabba The Adams can't do it, and the Broncos know it. Simeon Rice and Ian Gold are not getting it done, and the Broncos don't know why. D.J. Williams is not succeeding in the middle, and everybody knows it. Nate Webster waved at LaDainian Tomlinson on one lengthy run, and everyone saw it. The linebackers can't or won't fill the gaps and the passing lanes, and the Broncos realize it and can't correct it. The defense is in denial and incompetent. The offense is impotent, and the play-calling is ludicrous and laughable.

"Can't anybody here return the football on punts and kickoffs and play this game?" Casey Stengel would have said.

"We've got to go back to basics and fundamentals," said safety John Lynch, the only player on the defense who is responsible and taking responsibility. (Champ Bailey walked away saying, "No ... no ... no."

"I've only felt this kind of humiliation once before," said Lynch, who jerked off his helmet at one point and had a look that would harm. "I was disgusted by a touchdown."

The Broncos had all the wrong people in all the wrong places. Out of chaos has come disorder.

Jay Cutler again was ho-hum - 232 yards and one interception (nine consecutive games with a pick), one fumble he recovered and another fourth-down flop. When are you coming home, Daniel Graham? Brandon Marshall ripped the fans for leaving prematurely ... er ... maturely, but didn't rip himself for fumbling away the ball or rip his teammates for smushball.

Fourteen points in 11 seconds, more red-zone follies, no stopping the run, no stopping the pass, no stopping the fall in the autumn.

San Diego was a team in disarray. The Broncos turned them into a team with a ray of optimism.

But the Broncos, as Lynch said quietly, "came into the year with great expectations to be a championship team. We have to do something to get that back."

Shanahan said he didn't see any quit in the Broncos Sunday. He must not have been looking. The season-ticket holders were. They saw quit, and they quit on the Broncos.

The Broncos deserved the walkout protest. They've lost three in a row, two at home. They don't improve themselves on defense, and they don't prove themselves on offense. They have dropped into a tie in the AFC West with Kansas City and San Diego at 2-3 and are a half game behind, yes, the Oakland Raiders (2-2 with a bye). And they were "Ishtar" awful yesterday.

The Broncos are gloom and doomed.

http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_7113571

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disgraceful and then marshall slags the fans for booing and leaving!!!!!!

[American Rover12]

Being a Jets fan is the hardest thing in the world to do.

[Shevchenko]

Start of the season hasn't exactly been amusing for the Eagles either...

[Blueboy Downunder]

start of the 4th quarter today at orchid park, i was all doom and gloom untill tony romo got over those 5 pick offs and took the boyz down field, then when dick jauron called a time out (shouldn't be allowed) just as the boys were ready to kick the field goal...i sunk back into my chair, with my head in my hands and had visions of nick folk pushing it wide right....but when he drilled it from 53 yards to win...i was ecstatic, running and jumping round my lounge room. sets it up for a massive game next week in texas!!!!

[ABBEY]

LUCKY BARSTEWARDS

[Redrose49er]

You want to try following the 49ers, talk about a lack of offense

[awhom111]

You want to try following the 49ers, talk about a lack of offense

Well, we did lose Alex Smith and Frank Gore can't possibly be better this year than last, so I'm willing to give them a pass. Our defense is good and getting better anyway.

[Redrose49er]

Well, we did lose Alex Smith and Frank Gore can't possibly be better this year than last, so I'm willing to give them a pass. Our defense is good and getting better anyway.

Hmmm, we weren't exactly setting the league on fire with Alex at the helm, we were already ranked 32/32 in total offense before he got injured. Fair comment with the D, Willis looks a decent bet for Defensive Rookie of the Year although the loss of Lawson was a sickener. Hopefully Smith and Davis will be back soon and we can maybe get a few 1st downs!!!!

[American]

Abbey, what pished me off the most watching Sunday's game was when one of the receivers (maybe Ward?) jumped up and made a fist pump after making a 20 yard reception. Not that I'm against celebrations, but we were down 34-3 at the time!!

[ABBEY]

HAHAHA I know I was ranting at the telly and in the mane chatroom about it too. I'm still on a downer and I cant honestly see where the next w is coming from apart from the fade and queafs........IT WAS SO BAD I STILL CANT BELIEVE IT.

i CANT BELIEVE THE LACK OF HEART PASSION AND WILL TO WIN.. there was joking and jovialty on the bench even when the 40th point went on...tackiling dont even get me started there it was pittiful.

thank god its a bye week and my weekend cant be ruined again.

with the number one draft pick the denver broncos select..................

[ABBEY]

hahahaha ive been cunning and resourseful haahaha...my g/f said last week she wants to out this weekend on sunday night as shes fed up with the nfl on sundays hahaahaha so me thinks to myself how can i apease her and guess what its broncos bye week hahahaaa so im recording the triple header taking her to the flicks and watching the footy later on because im on nights...and no she doesnt know its a bye week ..happy days