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#1 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 27 hours ago
Say it every week...Chargers a complete dumpster fire. Top to bottom. Instead of a handful of interceptions, Herbie was sacked 8 times. He apparently fractured a finger so we may be seeing his backup soon. Would be funny if his backup went on a run.
JJ McCarthy was injured in their win against the Eagles. Hopefully he'll be ok.
Cowboys win a close one...keeping them barely alive in the division.
Puka injured on the last play in the Rams -Redskins game. MRI tomorrow. If it's bad news...Rams are fucked.
Bengals manhandled the Falcons. I always forget about the 6 am game overseas. I looked at the Bengals schedule...holy shit...a cake walk. Toughest opponent is Pittsburgh. They're definitely in contention for the #1 seed.
Packers completely trounce the Pats...Maye looked like Testaverde in his rookie season.
49ers whip the Raiders.
Chiefs scalp the Jets.
Bears are way too fucking reckless on offense. They need to settle things down because this kind of shit is what leads elite teams to wild card round exits from the playoffs.
Caleb threw 4 INTs. Inexcusable. Stop going for the big play all the time. He really is reminiscent of Favre.
Can't wait for the game tonight. We're about to find out if the Vikings are for real.
#2 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 27 hours ago
We're now at the midway point of the season.
If the playoffs started today....
The matchups...
That's an incredible bracket...best in years.
A few noticeable absent teams...
Rams
Ravens
Seahawks
Eagles
I think the Bears need the #2 (or #1) :seed for a real Super Bowl run. Statistics back this up...
Bears haven't been to a Superbowl without having the #1 seed.
#3 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 28 hours ago
As far as the Dem nomination goes, southern black voters tend to determine the nominee, so Kamala can't be counted out. She is still very popular in the AA community, and those southern states have massive delegate hauls. However, 2026 was the best Democrats have done with southern whites in recent memory, so maybe the 2028 primary electorate will be slightly different.
She was polling around 1% in the 2020 primaries before Biden chose her as Vice President.
She's unelectable...
If the DNC wants the GOP to get the presidency in 2028, all they have to do is choose her as the nominee.
#4 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 28 hours ago
It's unfortunate that Kasich is so old. The GOP needs a normal, intelligent politician to try and bring us back to something resembling normalcy.
Politics needs to get boring again so the masses aren't using it for entertainment and culture war trench warfare.
His first term didn’t seem that bad because there were adults who basically stopped him from his worst impulses.
Mattis literally saved us in his first term. He wanted to strike Venezuela, Iran, and God knows who else but Mattis shit canned the idea every single time. I forgot which one, but Trump was telling Mattis how he wanted to bomb them, Mattis said "We're not doing that..", and hung up the phone.
None of his current sycophants now have the balls to do that.
As you guys said...yhe adults surrounding him made him appear more competent than he was.
Notice he got destroyed so badly he didn’t even raise the election fraud bullshit he likes to parrot.
He's now doing this but even he doesn't believe it.
It's just culture war bullshit...a distraction.
Just curious…what would any of you want of substance moving forward? I’ve been so conditioned to expect nothing. And i don’t see the Dems seizing on this opportunity. But if they could, then what?
For starters...
Ditch the massive tax cuts for billionaires/corporations
Trump is gutting food regulations to the point our food supply isn't even safe. Fix this NOW.
Start regulating the crypto shit. Trump and his goons are exploiting this.
Until they start tackling these, t's all just surface level bullshit.
Good to see you again SLC.
#5 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 3 days ago
The rumors were true....
Colts are willing to trade Jonathan Taylor but they want a #1 or two #2s for him.
That's why no one has grabbed him....YET...but apparently the Vikings and Giants are genuinely interested.
Imagine the Giants if they grab him...
Taylor
Skattebo
Singletary
Might be the most stacked RB depth chart since late 90s Broncos...
#6 Re: The Garden » NEW MEMBERS introduce yourself here » 3 days ago
I turn 52 in 5 months....
#7 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 3 days ago
I don't know about calling her a "favorite"....Newsom probably gets mentioned the most...but she'll be in the mix when it's time.
Kamala fans the flames of the culture wars.
She'll definitely be involved in some capacity.
Yeah Mitch...that's my concern....just another round of constant Trump shit without doing anything substantial.
#8 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 4 days ago
I rarely watch news anymore other than checking the main headlines and the war(s) but this election was unprecedented.
It looks like the country may finally be open to moving on from the Trump era. We'll see. It looked like we were ready in 2020 but we weren't.
Have we learned our lesson yet?
Edit
I'm not even all that excited by the shift towards blue. They have to immediately start taking steps towards anything resembling substance before I start paying attention.
#9 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 4 days ago
The Ravens-Jags game was excruciating. The crowd knows the season has been flushed down the toilet. I've never seen such a hostile crowd in Baltimore before. After witnessing how they played last night, this team wasn't going anywhere WITH Lamar.
The Cardinals trade Jacoby Brissett to the Ravens. He'll play next week. It's not going to change anything.
Crazy how Shedeur Sanders could be their starter right now. Ravens wanted to draft him in the 5th round last year but he refused because he didn't want to be a backup to Lamar.
Their schedule is bonkers. Last four games....
Steelers
Browns
Bengals
Steelers
A divisional gauntlet. They'll be lucky to go 1-3 in the final stretch.
It's over.
Carson Wentz will start this week for the Vikings. Now this could get interesting IF the Vikings beat the Bills. They might move on from Kyler....they need to. That offense is dead in the water.
Joe Milton will start for the Eagles. Not sure how much it's going to help at this point. That team is a dumpster fire at the moment.
Sheuder Sanders will start for the Browns this week due to Watson having a concussion.
Drew Locke will start for the Seahawks...Darnold got banged up in the Bears game. There's speculation by the media about this being a "soft benching". I disagree...but I never would've brought Darnold back in after his injury week 1 since they were winning with Locke.
HUGE games this week...
Vikings vs Bills
Vikings gotta get their shit together now. They're entering a 3 game gauntlet where things could fall apart quickly if this turns into a losing streak.
Bills
Packers
49ers
All playoff teams
Packers vs Patriots
Both teams need wins to stay in their division hunt...Packers can't afford many losses from here on out.
Bears vs Bucs
Bucs are coming back from the brink...and the Bears have put the league on notice but must continue the rise.
Cardinals vs Seahawks
This is huge because a loss by the Seahawks and a loss by the Rams places the 49ers in the driver's seat for the division at the halfway point.
Cardinals are going to spoil at least one teams playoff dreams this season....Rams or Seahawks...maybe both.
Either way , I refuse to take the Broncos seriously.
Same here...but unfortunately they're probably getting the #1 seed again unless something catastrophic occurs. That schedule is too easy down the stretch.
As we've talked about before, they're reminiscent of the 98 Falcons...a cupcake schedule, they beat a couple great teams in close games, and then they're right there at the top come playoff time.
They're also barely good enough to upset someone in the AFC championship even without the #1 seed.
It's a wacky team. I like listening to Shannon Sharpe rant about them.
#10 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 7 days ago
Bears whip the Seahawks 34-17. Bears are for real..just gotta keep Caleb healthy. Acquiring Simmons was HUGE. He made an immediate impact.
James wrote:He reminds me of those crappy qb who get carried by the defense/st and the first thing people mention is the w-l record. Grossman on the Bears (esp the Super Bowl year ) and Vince Young comes to mind.
I'll say it til my dying day ...
If Kyle Orton starts the Super Bowl....Bears win.
Grossman was a mistake....a collosal one.
Bears should've went to and won the prior Super Bowl as well. For a two year period...that team was red hot with nothing to show for it.
Greatest defense to never win a Super Bowl.
Flutie....yeah his career started off on the wrong track and could never fully recover.
Reminds me ....on NFL2k5 (or 4) you could have Flutie start for the Patriots and go undefeated. Amazing game.... shameful how they allowed Madden to have the exclusive rights.
On this , a couple of things I remember . This was like prime Devin Hester . He just returned those damn kicks like crazy and was on another level . That and their defense scored a ton .
The other guy I remembered (and I think he should have gotten a little more due ) was Thomas Jones , the Rb. He washed out as a high pick in AZ. But man he was great with the Bears . Had 1000 yds while he was splitting time with Benson. They gave Jones the carries when the games were competitive and in doubt . Benson was just a blow out the clock and short yardage guy . He eventually became an effective RB with the Bengals later on.
yeah the qb thing will always sting with those Bears teams . All you needed was a guy that knew how to properly manage the game and convert some 3rd down throws and not fuck it up like Grossman. You needed to avoid turnovers and get some points on offense in the passing game to supplement the D/ST and the running game . Orton was fine when he started those games with Grossman out.
Oh God...Hester...I said it back when they got him...you build the team around this guy. Just shore up that defense and keep the machine turning.
Thomas Jones was amazing. He was similar to Henry though...not really an all around RB. It's why Cedric had to help carry the load. I was shocked when he went to the Jets.
It all went so wrong. They've been horribly mismanaged for decades but in the early-mid 2000s, something special was being cooked up. They simply couldn't sustain it and their inability to acquire a proper QB played a role in the downfall.
Ravens experienced something similar in the 2000s. They ditched Dilfer after winning the SB and could never get a real replacement. There's an alternate timeline where the Ravens are winning multiple Super Bowls in the 2000s instead of the Patriots.
Look at the 2006 Ravens...almost identical to the 2006 Bears. Both unbeatable teams with a reliable QB.
By the time Cutler was brought in, it was all coming in for a crash landing.
