Thanksgiving Football Live Comment Thread

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After family and stuffing your face, Thanksgiving is about football (not necessarily in that order). This year is almost Bizzaro World, in that the Lions game is the game least likely to be a blowout.

Opening things is the Packers at Lions. If Green Bay wins, they'll be four games up in the NFC North with five to play.

At 4:00 is Jets-Cowboys. A whopping 99% of FanIQ like the Cowboys here, and another 67% see Dallas covering the 14.5 point spread, meaning this could be the perfect background for your after-meal nap.

For those with NFL Network, tonight is Colts-Falcons. Expect to hear a lot about Michael Vick. Once again, 99% are picking the Colts.

Here's the place to comment about today's games. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

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592 days ago

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*Wonderful* start for the Packers' defense so far.

592 days ago

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What the hell was that?

592 days ago

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The Pack are lucky it's only 6-0 right now.

592 days ago

CriticalFanatic

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Thanks for getting this up gearhead ... technically difficulties here in the 'Nati.

592 days ago

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6-0 I see as I get to a TV for the first time today. Two field goals I assume? Or a TD and a missed PAT?

592 days ago

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MrNFL wrote:

6-0 I see as I get to a TV for the first time today. Two field goals I assume? Or a TD and a missed PAT?

Two field goals. One thanks to a chop block negating a 1st and goal at the 1. The other thanks to a gift fumble by Favre.

Big pick there! C'mon offense, clean this up!

592 days ago

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There you go, Gearhead. The Pack started playing.

592 days ago

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Touchdown!

With that, I'm off to dinner.

592 days ago

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TD Pack. Ryan Grant.

I did pick the Packers to win, and if the trend of my picks envolving the Lions continue, the Lions will win.

592 days ago

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He may be old, but Jason Hanson still has it.

Kitna must fear for his life on every play, he's got to be tough to survive as many hits as he takes each week.

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(Edited 11/22/07 4:03PM by MrNFL)

Hey, I got a pick with the Lions in it right. Pack wins...

Why I thought this game would be under is beyond me.

592 days ago

tpamotormouth

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For Detroit fantasy wise, only Jason Hanson and Calvin "Megatron" Johnson were the good starts. Kitna and his WR core were dissapointing at best. I was listening to the game and the Lions for 3 out of the 4 quarters weren't in sync at all.

592 days ago

SouthernMissfan

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Green Bay has the best shot at dethroning the patriots. to bad they don't play them in the regular season

592 days ago

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SouthernMissfan wrote:

Green Bay has the best shot at dethroning the patriots. to bad they don't play them in the regular season

If the Packers are really that good, then we'll find out in the Super Bowl. But I don't think they'll beat the Cowboys, and if they sonehow do, the Pats would still beat them by a few TD's. Favre and their offense would be completely helpless against the Patriots defense.

592 days ago

kantwistaye

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Falcons up 10-0 on Colts. Ouch.

591 days ago

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Pat wrote:

I don't know how good a chance the Pack have against the Pats. My guess is not good. The way I see it though is that the Colts and Cowboys had their chance, and they couldn't do it. Thus, the Pack might as well get their chance, because they (and the Steelers) are the only other top echelon team left.

However, the Cowboys scare the hell out of me, especially if the guys who got hurt today can't play next week. Despite that, though, I've already decided that I love this team, no matter what happens. I was pretty optimistic on them compared to others, but they've completely exceeded my expectations. If they can get to the Super Bowl, great. If they get destroyed by the Pats, so be it. It's still been a dream season, no matter what.

(Note: please remind me of this post if I start bitching)

591 days ago

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gearhead wrote:

"Thus, the Pack might as well get their chance, because they (and the Steelers) are the only other top echelon team left"

How many losses to horrible teams are the Steelers allowed to have (without any real quality wins) before they leave the "top echelon"?

590 days ago

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Pat wrote:

The Steelers are top echelon because when they're on their game, they play as well as any team this side of New England (see the first Cleveland game, the Baltimore game, and the Seattle game). Consistency is a problem, but they're still the obvious 3rd best team in the tougher conference. They're ranked fifth in Football Outsiders' ratings, including #1 in defense. Most years, that's top echelon.

590 days ago