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Landscape of the AFC North

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Will we see the power of balance shift in the AFC North?

  • No - Pitt has done enough to replace all they lost

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No - Balt has lost big names but have done enough to remain on top

    Votes: 2 8.0%
  • Yes - Off-season was nothing flashy but Cincy will overtake Pitt & Balt

    Votes: 5 20.0%
  • Yes - Cleve has had an impressive off-season & will finally jump into the top 2

    Votes: 2 8.0%
  • Somewhat - Cincy is ready, Cleve is on upswing. It will be a tight race w/ all 4 teams

    Votes: 14 56.0%
  • No - Balt & Pitt are too good of organizations and Cincy & Cleve haven't proven anything yet

    Votes: 2 8.0%
  • Yes - Complete reversal w/ Balt & Pitt in 3rd & 4th due to revamping & aging

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other - Name it.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    25
This will be the year that Flacco makes it easier on us and shows that he's neither average, nor red chip nor mediocre. If he's not considered elite now, he will be after this season.

:chuckles: at "the Super Bowl fallacy." The guy had the second best post-season in history, playing perfect football while throwing a lot of passes. But that doesn't indicate that he's on his way to being an elite QB. Ok.
 
This will be the year that Flacco makes it easier on us and shows that he's neither average, nor red chip nor mediocre. If he's not considered elite now, he will be after this season.

:chuckles: at "the Super Bowl fallacy." The guy had the second best post-season in history, playing perfect football while throwing a lot of passes. But that doesn't indicate that he's on his way to being an elite QB. Ok.

He got hot, and Boldin went absolutely bananas. Flacco had some absolutely miserable regular season games last season...downright terrible. Overall he's praised for making the playoffs every year in the league. I attribute that to the talent around him. This year we finally get to see who Joe Flacco is. They won't make the playoffs.

Props to him for what he did in the playoffs this year. But Joe Flacco is not elite, and he will prove that this season. There's no doubt in my mind.
 
This will be the year that Flacco makes it easier on us and shows that he's neither average, nor red chip nor mediocre. If he's not considered elite now, he will be after this season.

:chuckles: at "the Super Bowl fallacy." The guy had the second best post-season in history, playing perfect football while throwing a lot of passes. But that doesn't indicate that he's on his way to being an elite QB. Ok.

Yeah get out of here with that shit. I've seen much worse QB's get hot for a stretch of four games like him before. It's really not uncommon for average QB's to go on a hot streak.


Does everyone just all of a sudden forget about the regular season? Flacco was average, posting a 46.8 QBR, which he literally DOUBLED in the post season at 83.6. He posted 22 TD's. Turned the ball over 19 TIMES. Only had an average of 7.19 yards per pass, and completed 59% of his passes.

If this doesn't absolutely scream average to you, you've fallen to the fallacy too. Over-looking the larger sample size to look at his hot streak.


16 games of mediocre play >> 4 games of playing out of your mind.
 
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You two have now forced me to root for a Raven. Hope you're happy.

And triple... watch your language when you're talking to me, boy.
 
If they don't complete that miracle bomb against Denver and they lose that game, is Flacco still the dreamboat you make him out to be?
 
If they don't complete that miracle bomb against Denver and they lose that game, is Flacco still the dreamboat you make him out to be?

But he did complete it, didn't he boy?

He was prolific this past post-season, boy.
 
But he did complete it, didn't he boy?

He was prolific this past post-season, boy.

According to a definition I heard, the pass itself is prolific, not the player throwing it.

So that means Flacco sucks.
 
According to a definition I heard, the pass itself is prolific, not the player throwing it.

So that means Flacco sucks.

You've been direly misinformed. Who said it? I'll correct them in picture form.
 
You need to crawl back into EAYOR. You've really been slacking over there lately. :chuckles: :thumbdown

Mind your business, boy. I'll spread my RCF time out how I see fit.

Triplethreat:

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I don't get why Kiley & Booms were assuming this morning that the Steelers pick and (off topic) the Colts pick were going to be LATE 3rd and 4th rounders.

I could realistically see the Steelers having a worse record than last year, and the Colts were arguably one of the worst 11-5 teams ever (footballoutsiders actually gave them a worse "DVOA" rating than the Browns.)

Listening to Booms rant took years off my life for the 1 month I listened to him.

Every now and then, I tell myself, "I'll listen to K&B until Booms starts one of his unfounded rants". I did so on Monday. As soon as I turned my car on, he was SCREAMING about the Pittsburgh trade. Didn't even make it 5 seconds.

I blame PTI. That show became a hit, so every sports talk show now has to be 2 idiots screaming ridiculous opinions at each other. So awful.
 
This will be the year that Flacco makes it easier on us and shows that he's neither average, nor red chip nor mediocre. If he's not considered elite now, he will be after this season.

:chuckles: at "the Super Bowl fallacy." The guy had the second best post-season in history, playing perfect football while throwing a lot of passes. But that doesn't indicate that he's on his way to being an elite QB. Ok.

Similar arguments were made about Mark Sanchez. While Flacco > Sanchez, a small sample size doesn't make a stud.
 
Similar arguments were made about Mark Sanchez. While Flacco > Sanchez, a small sample size doesn't make a stud.

By whom? Mark Sanchez never did anything even comparable to what Flacco did this post-season. The funny thing is, Flacco was very strong in the latter part of the season too. It's not like it was just the playoffs. He had a 13:4 TD: INT ratio over the last 9 games and put up a good chunk of yards too.

I'm not saying the guy is Tom Brady. I'm saying that based on the way that he finished the season and his historic performance in the playoffs, that I predict he'll propel himself into elite status.

You can fight me all you want, but there's nothing for you to win for months now. I WILL remember who argued with me on this though, and I'll be sure to bring it back up when it happens.
 
I take it that all of you EXPECT Ben Roethlisberger to be out for the year with a hit. In that case, I'll alter it.

If Ben Roethlisberger is healthy ALL YEAR:
Bengals 11-5
Ravens 10-6
Steelers 10-6
Browns 6-10

If Ben Roethlisberger is about as healthy as last season:
Bengals 12-4
Ravens 11-5
Steelers 9-7
Browns 7-9

If Ben Roethlisberger is hurt ALL or MOST of the season:
Bengals 12-4
Ravens 11-5
Browns 8-8
Steelers 7-9 or 6-10

I don't think Pig Pen misses all or most of the season, but they lost so much in FA that they could easily be worse than last year under the second scenario. No Wallace, Osama, or some of their key defensive stars.
 

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