Cardinals meet 49ers on Monday Night
Monday, November 10th, 2008
First work day of the week always means one thing, Monday Night Football.
Week 10 of the 2008-09 NFL football season continues at the University of Phoenix Stadium where the Arizona Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers meet on Monday Night Football.
Both teams will be playing in what could be a ho-hum game. Why is it such a ho-hum game? Let’s start with the Arizona Cardinals. Sure, they are leading the NFC West with a solid 5-3 mark but because the NFC West is probably one of the worst divisions in football right now, nobody seems to care what the Cardinals have done.
The San Francisco 49ers on the 
other hand, are in the middle of a three-way tie for second place behind these Cardinals. But with a poor 2-6 start, how can the Niners be tied for second best? EASY. All of them other than the Cardinals are at 2-6, making this division one of the worst ones in professional sports.
Thankfully, it’s Monday Night Football, the only day of the week when you’ll only have one football game on TV. So I guess people will still watch this one anyway, even if they know they might just sleep through the whole thing.
For the Niners, this will be a test to their new head coach Mike Singletary, taking over the reigns from the well-dressed Mike Nolan.
In his first game as the interim Niners coach, he made a permanent quarterback change, kicked another player off the field and dropped his pants in the locker room to show his displeasure at halftime of a 34-13 loss to Seattle two weeks ago.
Boy, Singletary sure was busy eh? Let’s hope the bye-week last week gave him and the rest of his team the well deserved R&R.
Now, he returns to the sidelines facing the…
2008 NFL Season Week 10 Betting Tips
Friday, November 7th, 2008
Time to cash in on some games in the NFL.
Week 10 of the 2008-09 NFL football season started early this week because starting this week, football comes early every Thursday night until the second to the last week of the season.
And in case you missed the first paragraph, YES, Week 10 started on a Thursday night with the Denver Broncos visiting the Cleveland Browns. These two teams have been struggling lately and matching them up together last Thursday was just what both of these two teams needed.
Next, the St. Louis Rams will try to regain some momentum after giving their new coach a couple of wins only to lose the next two games when they face the New York Jets. Having won two of three games under coach Jim Haslett, another victory would have given the St. Louis Rams a 3-5 record last Sunday at the season’s halfway point and moved them to within one game of the Arizona Cardinals. Instead, they have fallen three games behind Arizona after the Cardinals handed them a 34-13 loss back in Week 9. They have the Jets this Sunday, a team that won two straight to put them in the middle of a three-way tie for first in the AFC East. And in case you didn’t get that, yes, this is a bad time for a struggling Rams team to face the high-flying Jets.
New York Jets by seven.
The Jacksonville Jaguars have their worst record in franchise history after eight games at 3-5. Fortunately for these guys, they will play the STILL winless Detroit Lions this Sunday and there’s no way in hell the Jags will drop this one. The Jaguars are the first team in NFL history to play back-to-back games against teams with 0-8 records, but after losing to the once winless Cincinnati Bengals last Sunday, giving the winless Lions their first win of the season shouldn’t be included in their…
Can Colts stop Titans’ NFL Perfection?
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Can the Titans continue their perfect run against the Colts on Monday Night Football?.
At 6-0, the Tennessee Titans are flirting with perfection this 2008-09 NFL football season. The problem is, other teams have flirted with it in the past and failed miserably.
The team nearest to accomplish the feat was New England and yes, that team was also the one that failed most miserably when they lost the Super Bowl to a Giants team that dropped its first five games of that season. At 6-0, the Tennessee Titans have a shot, but as we all know, it only gets tougher each week.
Looking back, the 1972 Miami Dolphins are the only NFL team to have a ‘’perfect season’’ and win the Super Bowl, following the 1970 AFL-NFL merger. Their undefeated campaign was led by Don Shula and notable teammates Bob Griese, Earl Morrall, and Larry Csonka among many others.
This team went 14-0 in the regular season prior to the extension of the regular season by the NFL, and won all three playoff games, including Super Bowl VII against the Washington Redskins, for an undefeated record of 17-0.
This remarkable feat can be done with the right players on the team. With the New England Patriots last season, the first half of that year was on the Pats’ side, but it all slipped away when their defensive line faltered through the second half of the season.
Perfection is all about mentality, who wants it more, while not letting it get too much in your head, or too far away to make it a reality.
For the 1972 Miami Dolphins, they had the right players that fit their system. Players on the ground during that time were running backs Larry Csonka and Mercury Morris, becoming the first teammates to each rush for 1,000 yards in a…
Redskins setting the NFL on Fire
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
After starting the season under Jim Zorn with a 16-7 loss to the Giants, this team has never been the same since.
Since losing to the Giants, the Washington Redskins won four games in a row to go 4-1 after five weeks into the 2008-09 NFL football season. New Orleans and Arizona were their first two victims but after beating the best in the NFC, Dallas then Philadelphia, it was clear that the Redskins have a trip to the Super Bowl in mind.
You read it, the Washington Redskins just completed a two-week swing that could put them in a better position to make the playoffs come January.
Yes, the playoffs, who would’ve thought we’d be able to describe the Redskins as a playoff team with a new coach and a young quarterback eh?
After beating the Dallas Cowboys 26-24 last week, the Redskins followed it up with another huge win against another one of their NFC East rivals. This time, it was Philadelphia and since the NFC East is arguably the best division in football today, the Redskins have clearly shown that they belong.
The Philadelphia Eagles jumped on the Redskins right from the get-go, leading 14-0 in the first quarter thanks to the returning Brian Westbrook, who came up with a nine-yard touchdown run before Desean Jackson returned a punt for 68 yards to score Philly’s second touchdown.
After the first quarter, it was all Washington…
Trent Edwards Out, Bills fall to 4-1
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
The Bills are no longer undefeated.
After galloping to a 4-0 start in the 2008-09 NFL football season, the Bills suffered their first loss after Arizona took out Trent Edwards in the very first quarter before winning convincingly, 41-17.
Yes, with just one play, the Buffalo Bills quickly remembered how losing tastes like. On the very third play of the game, Bills quarterback Trent Edwards went down with a concussion after Cardinals safety Adrian Wilson blitzed untouched, leveling Edwards and slamming him to the ground.
J.P. Losman took Edwards’ place but unfortunately, the Buffalo Bills were simply never the same as the Arizona Cardinals took advantage of the Bills who remained on the field without the guy who engineered this Cinderella run in Buffalo.
‘’I looked to see if the ball was completed, then he didn’t get up,’’ Arizona Cardinals safety Adrian Wilson said. ‘’I know the situation that happened with Anquan [Boldin] last week, so it was just a scary situation whenever you see a guy just laying there and not moving. So I just wanted to help out.’’
‘’I just came from Trent,’’ Bills coach Dick Jauron said in his postgame news conference. ‘’Trent was responding, but he was still a little groggy. Hopefully, he’ll be fine as time goes by here. It’s a good time to have a bye.’’
‘’I don’t think it was helmet-to-helmet but I’ve…”
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