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With 54% going to the shameful broadcast by ESPN it wouldn't have been in the running anyway. The ABC response on the following Monday night broadcast, presumably to the media and consumer complaints lodged against ESPN within a day of the episode, shows the pressure the Networks are under to avoid stepping in sh-- like Theisman and Co. did. Part of this no doubt are internal concerns about ABC's upcoming promotion of Theisman into that Monday Night Football booth. Perhaps some further "campaigning" on the part of the league's fan base will convince ABC to kill the awful idea of advancing Theisman's pitiful broadcasting career.

Wish you could make it- with even the slightest luck the best stories will require a PM ;-)

Tell us agains how you don't actually get to watch the games because you're too cheap to buy DirecTV! Perfect Pat's fan- doesn't actually WATCH football, just buys what the local KMart has for jerseys.

Stop the presses! Hollywood Donahoe declares message board Trolls to be the true arbiters of maturity internet wide! Let no one say you won't dare to scale the weakest of limbs.................

What actions by a team, players or fans so far this season has earned itself the title of the most pathetic development?

While I can admit that it's possible to read the stats incorrectly, you on the other hand are forced to hide behind the fact that you have so little conviction in your research that you would refuse my bet- even when you'd have won it! I rest my case on the lilly-liveredness of the Pat's bandwagoneers on your refusal to stand behind your point when called out. And before you throw words like pompous and D-Bag around a Message Board, you might take a look around- it's a Bill's Message Board. I could choose to be a pompous D-bag by going to the Patsy boards and spending my time rubbing in how pathetic your team is this season, but that'd simply make me a pompous D-Bag like you!

You're inability to read stat sheets is immaterial to a conversation where you've insisted your false information is accurate. Bulger 2004 Splits ESPN

Like that Donovan McNabb lie you've been spreading over this forum for 2 months now? You'll see I exposed that lie in another string and proved you would continue lying even after given plenty of notice that you were being dishonest. You seem to prefer "Kicker's Dynastys" of 3 points or less. Anyway you cut it, only a fool calls 3 point wins "Dynastic".

Translation: "Why would I defend the things I say when I don't have any idea what I'm talking about"

The league leader for the uninformed and dishonest may have had 1.6 passes of over 40 yards per game last season, but anyone with any ability to honestly discuss football knows that even Marc Bulger threw for more deep balls than Donovan McNabb in 2004. But carry on your campaign of lies and ignorance, it goes far to exemplify the shame of being a bandwagoneer fan.

You Pat's fans LOVE to talk about the past! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeah, I've corrected your misuse of the word Dynasty before, perhaps you've already fogotten: The average margin of score for the Patriot's Super Bowls is MINUS 8 points- the 2nd worst among all NFL champions since the first Super Bowl. This supports the conclusion that the Pats are among the least convincing championship teams in the history of the sport, and no respectable student of the game would ever accept those anemic numbers as an indication of a "dynasty" when they in fact indicate just the opposite. The Pats have eked out these timid victories at a time when their NFC opponents are at their weakest in over 25 years Weak NFC. The fact is there is a tremendous chasm between being "barely good enough by your kicker's foot" and the huge leap from there to being an actual "Dynasty".

Soulless- Balless- Honorless- Thank you for confirming for everyone at The Stadium Wall all the things I have accused Pat's fans of being for all these many years! You are the icon of their contemporary fan base- no understanding of football, no grasp of developing a coherent position an any subject, merely a bandwagoneer willing to perpetuate false information even when being put on notice that you're full of crap and will be exposed.

You keep telling the same lie- accept my bet and I'll show the whole string just how full of stojan you are.

I'm guessing you're VERY familiar with "small sample sizes" ;-)

And like the fans at Gillete- the gutless representatives of the New Bruschi (We're not worthy!) (We're not worthy!) Patriots whimpering out of the stadium in embarrasment, you refuse to defend your own statement. You lied about McNabb- and you continue to defend your lie. Accept my bet and you will find the cleansing nature of my kidney fluids upon your forehead to have restorative benefits for the condition from which you suffer.

It's Official! 4 and 4 = .500, unless of course you're a moron

Still waiting for your answer..................... The bet is memorialized 2 posts above; I've claimed I can prove you're a liar, all you have to do is accept it to expose yourself!

You apparently believe that your own inability to consider the whole league when making a iditoic statement such as you've made absolves you somehow of being a dishonest idiot? I won't argue against your logic, in fact I'd bet you might get some to bite on your "I'm not dishonest, I'm merely an idiot" logic even on a Bills' message board. You obviously intend to continue perpetrating what I've pointed out is a lie: "They didn't". Why don't we do this little excercise: If I'm able to produce irrefutable evidence that proves you're lying by showing Donovan McNabb WAS NOT the league's most frequent downfield passer using throws of 40 yards or better as the measure, you'll begin a new topic declaring in the title "I lick the soles of AKC's shoes", and in the description "And I enjoy doing it" If I am unable to produce the evidence that proves you a dishonest piece of Troll garbage I'll do the same. Waiting for your answer.................................................

Actually the Indy D played plenty of attention to the screen past night on most downs, they had three guysont he side for the Watson screen/TD but NE got an extra blocker over there on that play. Around the league DCs are realizing that Brady has made a career of puffed up stats and QB rating throwing passes behind the LOS to the 10 yard line. With all the lovefest media garbage regarding him "throwing long" this season, he still is completing less than 30% of his passes over 20 yards.

The guy who's "carried" them to a .500 record?

Now that the Patsy Oline scheme is allowing a little bit of pressure, the vaunted Tom Brady is sure looking like a guy with some difficulties with "pocket presence"; coughing up fumbles, getting passes batted down and throwing the kinds of balls associated with Joey Herrington rather than any QB ever considered the "best ever". The funny thing is, the Pat's Oline scheme that max protects the middle on passing downs is still effective and gives Brady for more time than a lot of the QBs in the league, but that slight decline in PassPro is clearly interfering with the play of a QB used to getting all the time he wanted in the past. It's also funny how going from a dominant D to an average one has all of a sudden turned Brady into a .500 QB, a guy you can't seriously argue as a QB who can "carry a team on his back" like all the great ones. I'm also trying to track all those media love stories about how the Pats can "plug in any player and still win"- I can't seem to find ANY done since the first game of 2005! Could all of those who suggested the coordinator losses in NE might have a bigger impact on the Pats than generally assumed have been right? Since their primary personnel losses were on D, why are they so woefully underpowered on offense? Is the same media bandwagon that created the "grocery bagger" and then folded him up about to do the same thing with another system QB? Stay tuned 'til next week when the Perils of Robert Kraft's Empty Sky Box continue!

"Make someone look foolish by using actual, rather than fabricated, comments" It's always amusing to see trolls come into this forum and lie about stats; the problem for the trolls is that the facts are irrefutable. Now you've rested your reputation on your lie that Donovan McNabb was, in your words, "the '05 league leader in deep pass attempts". Perhaps you'd like to explain to everyone in this string how it is then that other quarterbacks threw far more deep balls than McNabb last season? hint- An alphabetical list of those Quarterbacks throwing deep balls more frequently than McNabb in 2004 will start in the B's. Now was "foolish" your word? Do come back anytime you want to have your incredibly limited grasp of football exposed.

And I give Madden praise for pointing out the TD run right over Bruschi (We're not worthy!)'s chest. The field last night wasn't even as bad as it was a week ago when they claimed it was due to a soccer tourney or match they held prior to our game. Clearly the coaching staff in NE doesn't want their boys playing on a fast field.