BRH

I disagree. The players are just as bad when it comes to voting on name recognition or just voting for "their boys."

Not so fast Mike... "pro bowl recognition" doesn't necessarily mean they're starters.

So does that mean James and Bailey are the starting CBs in the AFC? Chad Johnson might have a different opinion. 'Course, he might not. Was he even on the field last Sunday?

:I starred in Brokeback Mountain: the voters and :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: Lechler.

And they’ll walk out to the bleachers; sit in parkas and hunting outfits on a snowy, windy, freeze-your-nuts-off afternoon. They’ll find they have reserved seats somewhere near the 50-yard-line, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they’ll watch the game and it’ll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they’ll have to brush them away from their faces. They will make the playoffs, Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been cowbell. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But cowbell has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh… they will make the playoffs Ray. They will most definitely make the playoffs.

Why isn't V-Coach helping us out here?

Andy Reid sure has been going to Hawaii a lot lately.

Jeez, I didn't even know Larry Allen was still playing.

Did you watch them this past week?

Love it!

Coach P doesn't necessarily get another year. He got a "vote of confidence" from the chancellor but Gross will be free to make his own decision, I think.

How much cowbell do we have now?

Oh, as for another player I strongly dislike: Peerless Price.

Your kids are reading the board, eh, Greg?

If we're talking coaches, then Mike Shanahan, Brian Billick, Mike Martz, and Jack Del Rio (a new addition after Sunday) just made the list.

Tom Brady. It isn't even close. A distant second would have to be Randy McMichael.

Beautiful stuff. That pass was Fiedleresque in its idiocy.

I haven't read this thread but count me as one of the people who doesn't give a flying !@#$ whether the Steelers rest their starters. If we need that game to get in, we're going to win it. The 12th man will accept no less.

I kept waiting for Madden to bring it up -- anything to save face for his beloved Brady. Guess the choke happened too late for Madden to think of it, though. By the way, your sig line rocks.

I'm in, and happy birthday! Big Mo, he has cowbell

Madden deserves all the crap he gets. How about the times last night when he insisted that Brady was having trouble throwing to his outside receivers because "they play their safeties back here, see, and the corners are up here." Like press coverage was some novel defensive idea dreamed up to stop The Great Brady.

All it means is that Brady choked. I think he's gonna miss Big Charlie a hell of a lot more than anyone's letting on.

Consider this post an official petition for Stoj to bring back his last avatar.

Man I've heard "trap game" for the past month. First Miami was a trap game because they had a new coach and it was on the road. Then Cleveland was a trap game because THEY had a new coach. Then Cincinnati was a trap game because they were pissed after losing to New England and Kitna was playing*. Now SF is a trap game because we're overconfident and we might already be in a win-out-and-we're-in situation. I fully expect some assclown to call Pittsburgh a trap game by this time next Monday. * You know, I haven't done the research, but I bet some of the same people who were saying last week that we were in trouble because the veteran Kitna was playing posted today and said the win was misleading because Cincy was missing its starting QB.

One because he was out of bounds and one because of an offsides penalty I think. Both in the end zone. I bear AW no ill will. We couldn't afford to keep him. He's making more money and our defensive backfield is better. We both won.