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Lovely TD from Green-Ellis: 24-14 Patriots

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Superb challenge by BB - he was out.

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FG Attempt is good: 27-14 Patriots.

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TD Jets: 21-27

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That should hopefully about do it:

FG: 30-21 Patriots - 1:02 left on the clock with no timeouts left.

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Final: New England Patriots 30-21 New York Jets

A good close game, but a good home win for the Pats, going to 4-1 alongside Buffalo. The way we transferred to the running game and hammered the Jets D in the 4th quarter was very impressive indeed.

We had a few players missing for the game today, so when we start to get a healthy roster in the coming weeks, I think we'll go from strength to strength.

Dallas at Foxborough next week, which again, won't be easy - our upcoming schedule is pretty damned hard all around to be honest!

[DH1875]

Are you guy's watching the end of the Broncos game, Jesus.

[DH1875]

So the Patriots are now a running team, who knew. Don't know if it's down to their D making us look OK today but I'm starting to feel better. Doubt we will make the play-offs but the rest of the season should be better to watch (The way them Buckeyes are playing I need something) and if anything even though we lost I'm less apprehensive.

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Are you guy's watching the end of the Broncos game, Jesus.

Soz but Brandon Lloyd made one of the best catches I've seen and Tebow was running about like a mad man. Was exciting stuff .

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[hibsbollah]

Sorry to interrupt the perennial east-coast obsession but anyone think the 49ers may be 'for real' this season? 4-1, offense on fire behind an obviously on-song QB and last night was a helluva result, blowing out another strong team...
Maybe it will take a winning record to win the NFC west this season

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Sorry to interrupt the perennial east-coast obsession but anyone think the 49ers may be 'for real' this season? 4-1, offense on fire behind an obviously on-song QB and last night was a helluva result, blowing out another strong team...
Maybe it will take a winning record to win the NFC west this season

Certainly looks like the 49'ers have improved, but the other teams in the NFC West look dross - St Louis and Arizona will both be lucky to win a couple and I can't see Seattle winning many more than 4 or 5 (though I must confess, I didn't give them a prayer vs New York). They might make the playoffs, but I doubt it'll go beyond that, as there are a LOT of really good teams in the NFC - Detroit Lions winning the NFC North or at least getting to the NFC Championship game though a WC spot would be an ace turnaround! Anyway, looking forward to seeing San Fran vs St Louis in December when I'm over there! First live NFL game in the states for a while!

Results

Pittsburgh Steelers 38-17 Tennessee Titans
Seattle 36-25 NY Giants
Cincinnati Bengals 30-20 Jacksonville Jaguars
New Orleans Saints 30-27 Carolina Panthers
Oakland Raiders 25-20 Houston Texans
Buffalo Bills 31-24 Philadelphia Eagles
Kansas City Chiefs 28-24 Indianapolis Colts
Minnesota Vikings 34-10 Arizona Cardinals
San Francisco 49'ers 48-3 Tampa Bay Bucs
New England Patriots 30-21 NY Jets
San Deigo Chargers 29-24 Denver Broncos
Green Bay Packers 25-14 Atlanta Falcons
MNF: Chicago Bears @ Detroit Lions (should be a cracker - come on the Lions! )

NFC East

Washington 3-1
NY Giants 3-2
Dallas 2-2
Philadelhia 'dream team' 1-4

NFC North

Green Bay 5-0
Detroit 4-0
Chicago 2-2
Minnesota 1-4

NFC South

New Orleans 4-1
Tampa Bay 3-2
Atlanta 2-3
Carolina 1-4

NFC West

San Francisco 4-1
Seattle 2-3
Arizona 1-4
St Louis 0-4

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AFC East

Buffalo 4-1
New England 4-1
NY Jets 2-3
Miami 0-4

AFC North

Baltimore 3-1
Cincinnati 3-2
Pittsburgh 3-2
Cleveland 2-2

AFC South

Houston 3-2
Tennessee 3-2
Jacksonville 1-4
Indianapolis 0-5

AFC West

San Diego 4-1
Oakland 3-2
Kansas City 2-3
Denver 1-4

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Lads, in the abscence of Peyton Manning who do you personally rate as the best 5 or so quarterbacks in the NFL now? ARod is probably most peoples number 1 but after that? Brady and.......

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Sorry to interrupt the perennial east-coast obsession but anyone think the 49ers may be 'for real' this season? 4-1, offense on fire behind an obviously on-song QB and last night was a helluva result, blowing out another strong team...Maybe it will take a winning record to win the NFC west this season

They were my pick to win the NFC West this year (having said that I picked them the two prior - eventually I was going to be right!) theyve been threatening to do this for a couple of years now. Weak division and really theirs for the taking. Alex Smith was their achilles heel but he seems to be putting it together - I put it all down to Harbaugh - great coach. Thats the Niners jinxed then!

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Lads, in the abscence of Peyton Manning who do you personally rate as the best 5 or so quarterbacks in the NFL now? ARod is probably most peoples number 1 but after that? Brady and.......

Firstly, nice avatar

I presume you mean for the season thus far and not just generally better than - if so, I doubt most people would give Rodgers the credit of being better than Brady YET.

There are actually a lot of good QB's in the league this year.

Aaron Rodgers (GB) - 14 TD's, passed for 1721 yards and thrown only 2 picks this season
Tom Brady (NE) - 14 TD's, passed for 1874 yards but thrown 6 picks this season
Drew Brees (NO) - 12 TD's, passing for 1769 yards with 5 picks so far
Matt Stafford (DET) - 11 TD's, passed for 1217 yards and only thrown 3 picks
Eli Manning (NYG) - 11 TD's, passing for 1486 yards and 5 picks

Cam Newton, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Matt Shcaub and Matt Hasselbeck also deserve a nod for the numbers they're putting up thus far:

Cam Newton (CAR) - 7 TD's, 1610 yards and 6 picks (not bad at all for a rookie QB in the one of the worst teams in the NFC)
Ryan Fitzpatrick (BUF) - 10 TD's, 1233 yards passing and 4 picks
Matt Schaub (HOU) - 9 TD's, 5 INT and 1377 yards on the year
Matt Hasselbeck (TEN) - 9 TD's, passing for 1414 yards and only 4 picks thus far

Phillip Rivers, Ben Roethlisberger, Tony Romo and Mark Sanchez are all a little underwhelming right now - all good QB's, but not necessarily having great years to date:

Rivers has thrown for a decent yardage (1500+) but has had more turnovers than touchdowns, Romo looks good in games until his increasingly frequent 4th quarter meltdown, with 7 TD's for the year, but only 1200 yards passing, Roethlisberger is 8 TD/6 Int, with 1300+ yards passing and Sanchez has an 8/5 split, with only 1200 yards passing (no real surprise I guess, seeing as the Jets prefer to run the football).

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Firstly, nice avatar

Mines is better .

[Sylar]

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Mines is better .

Did you notice we're up to #11 in the rankings? Things are starting to smell rosey, if you catch my drift .

I don't expect to win in November, but if we do, you'd best avoid .net for a few months, as I'll make your (virtual) life hell

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Did you notice we're up to #11 in the rankings? Things are starting to smell rosey, if you catch my drift .

I don't expect to win in November, but if we do, you'd best avoid .net for a few months, as I'll make your (virtual) life hell

That's more like it . Tell me, what's it like to lose one of these games? In all my time following the Buckeyes we've never lost . I make it 1 win in 10 and none in 7 for your lot. If ever your gonna do it, it has to be this year.

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Just finished watching the Green Bay @ Atlanta game, No way did i think we would win that after the first quarter. I thought it was superb the way the D managed to tighten up and they never scored again! Rams next week

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That's more like it . Tell me, what's it like to lose one of these games? In all my time following the Buckeyes we've never lost . I make it 1 win in 10 and none in 7 for your lot. If ever your gonna do it, it has to be this year.

It's fairly horrible - I imagine it must be a bit like being a Jets fan to be honest - we've dominated you for years, but when the win finally came last year, how did that feel? That's how good I'll feel when I finally get to see us win a game vs the Buckeyes. We never won when I studied there, and we haven't ever won since!

We always have a chance in Ann Arbor (the last game in the Big House was pretty damned close for quite a while, against what was one of the better Buckeye sides in recent years) and I think there'll be a good belief that this CAN be the year. However, we improve each year and I like the look of the program under Brady Hoke - we'll continue to improve and I dare say Ohio State's recruitment might well suffer as a result of a very poor year and the damage the rules violation will have absolutely done to the school!

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Results

Pittsburgh Steelers 38-17 Tennessee Titans
Seattle 36-25 NY Giants
Cincinnati Bengals 30-20 Jacksonville Jaguars
New Orleans Saints 30-27 Carolina Panthers
Oakland Raiders 25-20 Houston Texans
Buffalo Bills 31-24 Philadelphia Eagles
Kansas City Chiefs 28-24 Indianapolis Colts
Minnesota Vikings 34-10 Arizona Cardinals
San Francisco 49'ers 48-3 Tampa Bay Bucs
New England Patriots 30-21 NY Jets
San Deigo Chargers 29-24 Denver Broncos
Green Bay Packers 25-14 Atlanta Falcons
Chicago Bears 13-24 Detroit Lions

NFC East

Washington 3-1
NY Giants 3-2
Dallas 2-2
Philadelhia 'dream team' 1-4

NFC North

Green Bay 5-0
Detroit 5-0
Chicago 2-3
Minnesota 1-4

NFC South

New Orleans 4-1
Tampa Bay 3-2
Atlanta 2-3
Carolina 1-4

NFC West

San Francisco 4-1
Seattle 2-3
Arizona 1-4
St Louis 0-4

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AFC East

Buffalo 4-1
New England 4-1
NY Jets 2-3
Miami 0-4

AFC North

Baltimore 3-1
Cincinnati 3-2
Pittsburgh 3-2
Cleveland 2-2

AFC South

Houston 3-2
Tennessee 3-2
Jacksonville 1-4
Indianapolis 0-5

AFC West

San Diego 4-1
Oakland 3-2
Kansas City 2-3
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Indianapolis 0-5

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As much as I dislike the Jets, being rivals and all, I really hate the Colts and their fans. This is such a beautiful sight from a one-man team. My annoying Colts supporting class mate has suddenly become "neutral" and is "only really in it for the game, teams dont matter". Funny thing is, he cried when they lost the superbowl - not really neutral!

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Soz but Brandon Lloyd made one of the best catches I've seen and Tebow was running about like a mad man. Was exciting stuff .

Ive never liked the Broncos but you've just got to warm to Tim Tebow. Hes like a bigger tougher more charismatic Elway. Id play him every week.

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As much as I dislike the Jets, being rivals and all, I really hate the Colts and their fans. This is such a beautiful sight from a one-man team. My annoying Colts supporting class mate has suddenly become "neutral" and is "only really in it for the game, teams dont matter". Funny thing is, he cried when they lost the superbowl - not really neutral! [/QUOTE]

Excuse the pun but it'll be just their luck that they end up with the top draft pick and get to pick up Manning's successor.

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As much as I dislike the Jets, being rivals and all, I really hate the Colts and their fans. This is such a beautiful sight from a one-man team. My annoying Colts supporting class mate has suddenly become "neutral" and is "only really in it for the game, teams dont matter". Funny thing is, he cried when they lost the superbowl - not really neutral!

Excuse the pun but it'll be just their luck that they end up with the top draft pick and get to pick up Manning's successor.

Hmmmm - are you suggesting they're throwing games to end up with the worst record, thus defaulting them the no.1 draft pick...

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Who is coming through College this year that looks good?

[DH1875]

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Who is coming through College this year that looks good?

Andrew Luck is they guy their talking about for the Colts (I think ) He's QB for Stanford and should be the next big thing .

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They were my pick to win the NFC West this year (having said that I picked them the two prior - eventually I was going to be right!) theyve been threatening to do this for a couple of years now. Weak division and really theirs for the taking. Alex Smith was their achilles heel but he seems to be putting it together - I put it all down to Harbaugh - great coach. Thats the Niners jinxed then!

Is that Jim Harbaugh the old Raiders quarterback?

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Hmmmm - are you suggesting they're throwing games to end up with the worst record, thus defaulting them the no.1 draft pick...

I don't think they're tanking deliberately but it's a nice consolation prize! I guess rather them than the Dolphins!

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Harbaugh was a QB not with the Raiders though (I think). He really turned Stanford around from a Pac10 doormat to national championship contenders (if they had beaten Oregon last season they would have played Auburn for the title). He also recruited Andrew Luck.