Things I learned week 6

by shake n bake on Oct 14, 2008 12:03 AM EDT Comment 18 comments

I have lots of random football thoughts and pick up lots of tidbits. Some I expand on, some I express as is, but a lot I just forget about. Instead of losing those, I'm going share them. Here's this weeks.

1. Clint Session's last name does not end in a "s"

2. Antonie Bethea's name is pronounced Beh-THAY

3. Curtis Johnson is bigger than Robert Mathis

4. Marvin Harrison still has all his steps and then some.

5. Charlie Johnson sucks significantly less than last year.

6. Even the really terrible NFL teams get paid (STL 19, WAS 17 : MIN 12, DET 10 : CLE 35, NYG 14)

7. I'm still not much better at picking winners that against the spread. 9-5 in both.

8. The NFC east is overrated. One loss to a bad team is a fluke. Two prompts questions. Three is strong evidence. Three and the 4th struggling is proof.

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what happened to 9 and 10?

by jedye on Oct 14, 2008 1:21 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

not Roman numeral X

X as in however many I think of

I'm still here in the flesh
Twenty-one year old legend
I'ma live way after my death
-Lil' Wayne "Get Down"

by shake n bake on Oct 14, 2008 9:23 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

ok.

I enjoyed the other ones so I was hoping you’d come up with a couple more.

by jedye on Oct 14, 2008 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

How

do the colts get away with using such small defensive linemen?

I was just looking at some stats on how big robert mathis is and 245pds would be undersized for a LB on some teams. Eric Foster is 265pds which is small for a DE, but instead of DE he plays DT which typically is reserved for the 300+ club. and our other starting DT is even smaller (Keyunta Dawson at 254pds). I don’t know of any other team in the NFL that has such small players on there D-line. I’m not saying that size means everything, obviously we’ve had some success with our D-line. But how/why are we the only team in the NFL to do this?

by FreeneyWillEatYourBaby on Oct 14, 2008 3:37 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

They can get away with it

and there are some phenomenal players out there that don’t get a chance because of their size. That means the Colts can scoop them up for cheap.

I'm still here in the flesh
Twenty-one year old legend
I'ma live way after my death
-Lil' Wayne "Get Down"

by shake n bake on Oct 14, 2008 9:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Isn't Bobzilla

one of those very players who got a chance because of the Colts small, fast defense?

"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007

by peytonsthebest on Oct 14, 2008 12:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Guys like Bob or Freeney

still would have been drafted, but not as high and wouldn’t have been put into roles that fit them as well. Guys like Mathis, Eric Foster, Raheem Brock, Gary Brackett got their chance to be NFL players because of the system the Colts run.

I'm still here in the flesh
Twenty-one year old legend
I'ma live way after my death
-Lil' Wayne "Get Down"

by shake n bake on Oct 14, 2008 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Speed Over Size

The defense is built to complement the high-scoring offense. We get a lead and the D can start to tee off. Speed over size.

by TouchdownMonkey on Oct 14, 2008 10:20 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Bethea

Are we entirely sure about the pronunciation? Because until this past weekend the only person I’d ever heard call him Beh-Thay was Al Michaels. Then Sunday I heard just about everyone say it Beh-Thay. Has Antoine ever spoken to this or the team in general?

by bamagrad01 on Oct 14, 2008 10:32 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

In the chat I linked in the fanshot on Ugoh/Lilja

Phil B said Bethea asked the announcers to say it Beh-THAY after letting them say it wrong for two years.

I'm still here in the flesh
Twenty-one year old legend
I'ma live way after my death
-Lil' Wayne "Get Down"

by shake n bake on Oct 14, 2008 10:38 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thank you

I appreciate the follow up.

by bamagrad01 on Oct 14, 2008 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

NFC East is still much better than AFC South

and its not even close because Houston is god awful. All 4 teams in the NFC East are legit playoff caliber teams.

In Romo we Trust

by Terry on Oct 14, 2008 11:35 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Im going to agree with Terry on this

I still think the Colts can be the best team if combining the two divisions…. but I dont like the Titans or Jags as much as the Giants, Eagles and Redskins (it is very close obviously)… and even if Houston is better than their current record… they are still the 8th best team out of these two divisions…

and maybe this has more to do with me HATING the titans and not liking the jags than it has to do with the talent of the giants, skins and eagles…

by zkmavz on Oct 14, 2008 11:40 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm a hater, too.

But I still think the Giants are better than the Titans and I think Dallas is better than Jacksonville.

"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007

by peytonsthebest on Oct 14, 2008 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Disagree...kinda

I would take the Colts, Jags, or Titans over any team in the NFC East. The Texans definetly kill the curve though. People forget it is still early in the year though. We have another two months before we see what these teams are actually made of.

by hoosierdore on Oct 14, 2008 11:50 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

God I hate agreeing with Terry

BUT…the point was that the NFC EAST is overrated not that the AFC South is better then the NFC East. Before this weekend people were starting to talk like the NFC East is the toughest and greatest division of teams ever. Clearly the case was made this weekend that this isn’t the case. HOWEVER, the NFC East is still IMO the best dvision in the NFL this year (until proven otherwise), though that isn’t saying much so far. Execution and talent levels seem inexplicably to be down this year. Maybe it’s the hard 80 man training camp roster limits that cause many teams including the Colts to take a softer and easier approach to Training camp. Maybe it’s injuries, maybe the bad teams just got better and the good teams slipped a little and the gap between good and bad closed down a lot more this year which just makes for tighter competition every week, which makes it appear that the quality of the league is down.

by Rob-Westside on Oct 14, 2008 11:53 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

a related philosophical question

Does the colt’s preference for smaller players (for the reasons previously discussed) partially explain our favorite team’s apparent propensity for injury?

by jedye on Oct 14, 2008 3:16 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs