Halfway stage. Hows your team doing?

Winning Hand

St Louis Rams 4-4
Lost coach Mike Martz for the rest of the season due to infective endocarditis. Turned over a 3 game losing streak to beat the saints last week and the jaguars this week. This is despite losing QB bulger, WRs Holt and Bruce and LB Little (brother was shot dead). Bulgers replacement Martin had a 200yrd game last night with 2 tds and 3ints, his second career win (only played 3 season games before). RB Jackson ran for 179yards and last night the Rams had a blocked punt returned for a TD, their first time since 87.

The Good
Two game win streak despite losing much of their offencive weapons
Replacements holding their own
Defence finally looks like not losing games
Special teams (usually last in the league) have started to put in some good plays this season
Injured players should return after the bye.

The Bad
Martz out for season (although some consider it a good thing)
Defence still not out of woods.
Lost to SF

Prediction 10-6 with a first round playoff loss

BTW, anyone who has broadband can go to nfl.com and have live updates of scores during games with play information updated in real time. If you pay extra you can get radio coverage aswell.

irishraven

Baltimore Ravens 2-4

Eh, I really don't want to get in to it but I'm not expecting much from tonight's game:-(

I am really loooking foward to playing the Browns again and the Vikings will be a nice one too! Thank god for teams with worse problems than us!!! ;-)

Vikings

Vikings 2-5, horrible season to be honest. So much potential and not a drop of success. Culpepper could be out for the season with the injury he picked up yesterday aswell, things are not looking good.

ButcherOfNog

Raiders 3-4

Started off with a really tough schedule and lost some close games due to stupid mistakes and penalties, things are looking up tho with 2 wins on the trot and not that far off a playoff place. Theres only 1 team in the AFC really playing well (the colts, i don't rate denver or the bengals) so a 3-4 record ain't so bad at this point in the season. However if we make a wildcard slot I think we'll be doing well, we're lacking in alot of areas at the moment and paying big money for randy moss was a bit stupid (great player, but not what we needed), but thats al davis for you.

Chucky the tree

^^ raiders aswell.

Mssing gibson and woodson for the season now aswell. Gonna be tough.

think we'll finish 8-8.

Earthhorse

I find it pretty hard to follow the football in my house but as I understand it the Jets are currently 2-5.

And that's games not quarterbacks by the way!

Davey Devil

I'm following The Panthers (5-2) this season, purely from a betting prospective.

Won 4 on the bounce now and Smith is on fire. Have a great chance of picking up the NFC Championship which in fairness is very weak this season, especially with the Eagles suffering. Huge game next week at The Bucs.

The_Bullman

Tampa Bay Buccaneers ( 5 - 2 )

I was optimistic with their season until they went down to the 49'ers this week. Chris Simms sacked 5 times, turnovers, fumbles. A total shambles offensively on the day

Ranked 1st defensively which is good

Last time they were on the tv they lost to the jets so I'm hoping they won't make a repeat of that next week against the panthers.

Close division - tough to make it out of it if you can't win the easy games

RuggieBear

San Diego 4-4

Keep conspiring to lose games but reckon will make the play offs and i'm sure there are plenty of teams dreading them.

The four losses have been by 4, 3, 2 and 3 points

srdb20

Eagels

4 - 3

Disastorous match against Dallas and the Broncos had a great comeback.

Mc Nabb injured but still playing strong for the most part, fingers crossed he can finsh the season.

Pherekydes

srdb20 wrote:

...and the Broncos had a great comeback.

Hehe. They started with 28 unanswered points, and finished with 21 more. What comeback? And they were jammy against the Chargers, so they should really be 3-4.

srdb20

The comeback was the fact that for the first few mins of the fourth quarter we dominated untill, eh cough cough COMEBACK!!!!

BizzyC

New England, 4-3

Not looking great, given all of the injuries.

But hey, Teddy's Back!!!

I think they still have a chance if the make playoffs.
I see a 8-6 end to the season, so they probably wont.

Neil3030

Seahawks 6-2 after Alexander the great rushed for 170+ yesterday, giving us a comfortable win at Arizona. Granted, not the toughest competition in the league, but we've beaten Atlanta twice, St Louis IN St Louis and the improved Cowboys in Dallas. AND we really should have beaten the redskins in Washington. Sorry, what was that? Homefield advantage? Why yes, I believe so!

bmurphy8177

Seahawks 6-2, looking good in last couple of weeks.
"Alexander the Great" scoring an amazing touchdown in the second half. 88 yard rushing TD. If you havent seen it yet.....go have a look.

Neil3030, home field would be nice, but lets not count those chickens just yet man. They do look good for it though.

RuggieBear

LT scores 4 as chargers hold on. What a scoring machine.

Neil3030

bmurphy8177 wrote:

Seahawks 6-2, looking good in last couple of weeks.
"Alexander the Great" scoring an amazing touchdown in the second half. 88 yard rushing TD. If you havent seen it yet.....go have a look.

Neil3030, home field would be nice, but lets not count those chickens just yet man. They do look good for it though.

Maybe getting a little carried away alright, got some tough games ahead. Confindent we should at least hit double figures in our win record though.

Kobayashi

Seahawks man myself, pleasantly surprised at 6-2 record. Also surprised there are so many Hawks fans in Ireland! Back home in Scotland there was me and my mate and then everyone else supporting Cowboys, Redskins, Raiders etc amongst those who followed NFL. We used to subject my local to the gridiron every Sunday on Sky to the usual shouts of "what's this p**h"!

Iceman_5000

Green Bay 2-7! This is going to be the mother of all come backs! Sky should show more Green Bay games they always see to be alot better than the ones that they have on, for example Saints V Bears at LSU.... yawn...

Thanx 4 The Fish

Jaguars are 6 and 3 at the moment and are not going badly. Only a few injuries to be worried about and hopefully can continue this good start with a win at the Rams.

Pherekydes

Packers 1-7. (at halfway)

I'm still confident we can win the division.:D

We still have 4 divisional games in our last 7. Toughies against Seattle and Philly, but still doable.

Pack showed on Sunday that they are not a 2-7 team. In reality, they are a 6-3 team, who've had a few bad breaks. Gado is their 5th starter at RB this season and they lost 3 of their original 5 WR's, yet they're still doing decently on offence. If they could just cut out the TO's (and who doesn't want that?;) )

Trampas

my team 2-6.Mighten come last this year 49ers.

Still havent been on sky this year and still no signs to them been on but they say every team will appear once.

J.R.HARTLEY

The Mighty Steelers. 7-2
couple of problems injury-wise though most notable big ben, and third string qb charlie batch leaving tommy maddox and our new super sub qb Antwaan Randle El, who threw a 51 yard td pass to hines ward last week.
we've a great chance this year, only problem i can really see is when we hit the colts, jesus they are on fire right now, 9-0. i would love to end that streak though.
run in is tough, no cake walk but we can do it:
Nov 20 @Baltimore
Nov 28 @Indianapolis
Dec 4 Cincinnati
Dec 11 Chicago
Dec 18 @Minnesota
Dec 24 @Cleveland
Jan 1 Detroit

chopperbyrne

Bears 7-3 after a nice win against Panthers last night. Six wins in a row and heading straight for the playoffs.

Kobayashi

Can someone give me a shake to wake me up. Seahawks 8-2 and best record in the conference. Someones been spiking my drink...........

Neil3030

No sir. If St. Louis lose and we win this weekend - DIVISION CHAMPS!!

J.R.HARTLEY

damn 7-3 and the colts are next

J.R.HARTLEY

and big ben is back, could the steelers be the first team to beat the colts this year.



btw where's the edit button on my last post, i wanted to add this to it, instead of double posting, but it wasn't there

Winning Hand

Neil3030 wrote:

No sir. If St. Louis lose and we win this weekend - DIVISION CHAMPS!!

Haha, dodged a bullet against the texans tonight. 10 points down with a minute to go, get the touchdown, win the onside kick. Wilkins then hits a 47 yard field goal to put it into overtime. We force the punt and hit a 56 yard pass for the win. Now lets see what the giants have

dl

The Bears are still making an impression, seven in-a-row........ they say defense wins championships.... should I put a few quid on now..?

Vikings

As are the vikings, 4 in a row - 5 from last 6. We have a 'better' schedule than the bears ahead of us, granted we are chasing a 2 game gap with only 5 to go we need results to go our way starting now. I wouldn't put money on the bears at all, they were nearly beaten by the bucs there on sunday and the bucs have practically no offense besides cadillac (even a bucs fan will admit that). And the bears have no stunning offense either, even though they scored 13 on the bucs, who have the 2nd best D in the league (behind the bears) but that was due to a bucs fumble on their own goal line.

I'm starting to beleive that the vikings will nab a playoff spot, whether it be as a wildcard or as NFC North champions is another matter. One thing for sure is that the vikes and bears game in coming up will be a thriller.