PUT YOUR NAME ON IT: The AFC South Standings

by Tim on Jul 16, 2008 10:48 PM CDT in News Comment 56 comments

There's been some pretty spirited discussion in the last twenty-four (24) hours here and here as to how the AFC South standings will look come Week 17. With the obvious caveat that injuries and training camp cuts make this subject to change, it got me thinking about how I reckon the chips will fall when the dust settles and the hay is in the barn. On a unrelated note, that was three (3) cliches in one sentence. Try to beat that while not coming across as a moron.

Back to the point...take a look at the schedules of the Colts, Jags, and Bud Adams' Minions (as well as that of your Houston Texans). How do you think they'll fare come the end of the season? Here's one schmuck's guess:

1. Indianapolis (12-4)
2. Jacksonville (11-5)
3. Houston (9-7)
4. Titans (6-10)

Let the hate mail from the Volunteer State begin!

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Agree

Agree with that as a Colts fan.

But, I think the Titans will be better than people think and possibly finish second even.

JMO.

by HelloKitty on Jul 16, 2008 10:52 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

dis...agree

No way the Titans take second. I say this because this is a team that had glaring issues when the season ended and they weren’t addressed very effectively. Meanwhile, everyone else in the division was busy upgrading. They weren’t the best team at the end of the season, so why would doing nothing and losing key guys position them for a better year? If Vince gets some of that rookie mojo back, they could take 3rd, but that’s it.

Wake me when it's football season.
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by abumNamedPaul on Jul 17, 2008 11:55 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You're dreaming

Please come back here in December and we can rehash your assessment of the Titans.

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by SOLIS on Jul 17, 2008 7:36 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That is pretty fair assesment

of how the chips would fall. Though I feel the Texans will finish with one more win and get there first taste of playoff action.

by metal_militia on Jul 16, 2008 10:54 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

The only thing I worry about with the Texans is the first 5 games look rough. Not an easy way to start the season.

JMO.

by HelloKitty on Jul 16, 2008 10:57 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

So, with all respect

You’ve made that statement about the Texans’ first 5 games approximately eleventy million times in the past 24 hours. It’s getting to be a bit of a broken record.

It’s not that I disagree with you about the rediculous test that awaits in Weeks 1-5, it’s just that I get annoyed very easily after detoxing this long from CFB & NFL action.

However, I’d like to point out to everyone that our key injuries don’t really kick in until Week 6…...so we should be just fine. Right?

So you're saying that now I have to think of some witty Sig that will be applicable across all the SBN sites? Go Texan Horn Stros!

by Shake on Jul 16, 2008 11:59 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good Luck

Sorry about that.

And I hope you guys have better luck this year with injuries.

by HelloKitty on Jul 17, 2008 1:02 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I am convinced

that the Texans finish second in this division, rivaling the Colts for the top spot. This is the best division in football. The Texans are my team to shock the NFL this year, though it shouldn’t be a surprise. I’ll do a fanpost soon outlining the reasons for my opinion. Gotta run now.

by coltsfanawalt on Jul 17, 2008 1:43 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

CFA

Haven’t seen you lurking in quite a while. I look forward to your insight from an outside perspective.

So you're saying that now I have to think of some witty Sig that will be applicable across all the SBN sites? Go Texan Horn Stros!

by Shake on Jul 17, 2008 8:55 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Been lurking

Just haven’t posted in a long time, except here. I am so ready for football season to start. Just reading the schedule and preparing for fantasy football is building my anticipation.

by coltsfanawalt on Jul 17, 2008 12:58 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

rough spots in sked

I’ve heard about how rough the Texan’s first 5 weeks will be from every source possible ever since the schedule came out, but I don’t think it’s necessarily even the toughest part of their schedule. Why has no one mentioned weeks 11-15 (specifically 11-14)? Is it just because the first few weeks are naturally in the spotlight every year before the year begins? That’s the only reason I can come up with why 1-5 are in the spotlight and 11-15 are not even being mentioned. Look at 11-15:

wk11: @Indy (as opposed to wk5 Indy at home)
wk12: @Clev (everyone’s team to watch this year who I personally suspect might be in for a letdown year, but arguably just as difficult a team as @Pitt in wk1)
wk13: Jax (vs wk4 @Jax)
wk14: @GB (despite the soap opera going on, this was a 13-3 team last year, and it’s in GB in December, much tougher game than Balt in wk2)
wk15: Tenn (vs wk3 @Tenn)

The stretches are obviously very similar due to each having the 3 division opponents, but I think Balt and Pitt are easier than GB and Clev. If nothing else, the latter stretch is equally difficult. Anyway, just saying….

On a new topic: We all know the media focus is always going to have that “lag” effect, right? I’ll use the Browns as an example, but first a side note: do any other long-time Houstonians still hate the Browns like I do? I chalk it up to the old days in the same division, and also liking the Elway Broncos of the 80s, boy those were some fun AFC championship games…but I digress. The lag effect explains why every media member is picking the Browns to make the playoffs, why the freakin Browns get 5, 5! nationally televised games including 3 MNFs for cryin out loud, and why the Texans don’t get much love because everyone still remembers how bad they were a couple years ago and because they’ve yet to be a winning team, etc, etc. Not sure where I’m going with this, but I guess I just hate how shortsided national media are and how they don’t want to go on a limb and actually predict who might be good based on something besides who was good last year. Finally, to provide some backup to my earlier prediction/gut feeling/desire that the Browns will not make the playoffs this year (unless it’s instead of the Titans!) I looked up their schedule this year. Guess which 2 divisions they play this year? That’s right the 2 toughest ones - they have games against the entire NFC East and AFC Central, both of whom they didn’t play last year - enough said.

by KRump on Jul 17, 2008 10:06 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Good call.

That 11-15 sched is brutal and has the added problem of featuring two teams (CLE, GB) who play well at home in the cold and who we have no real gauge on at this point in the year.

Re: the lag, I agree.

Yay, sports.

by MDC on Jul 17, 2008 10:16 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Excellent Point

And I happen to agree with you—I don’t see Cleveland making the postseason this year. They snuck up on everyone last year, had the benefit of playing a last-place schedule, and didn’t have to play every team in the NFC East and the AFC South. Those are the two toughest divisions in football by far, and having to play both in a single season leads me to believe the Browns are almost certain to take a step back record-wise.

Looking forward to a day when being a Texans fan doesn't mean that April is the highlight of my season...

by Tim on Jul 17, 2008 10:43 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

No doubt

Cleveland takes a step back this year. Besides the usual faces and the Texans, don’t be surprised to see Buffalo improve. They won’t be super bowl caliber, but the Bills of this year will finish like the Browns of last year, IMO.

by coltsfanawalt on Jul 17, 2008 1:05 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Why We have Good Reason to Be Cocky

Sure, they guys have to prove it on the field, but here’s why we will take “The Leap” this year.

1) Alex Gibbs
2) Mario ate his Shrooms over the offseason = Super Mario will be Top 5 in Sacks
3) Healthy Andre Johnson
4) Did I mention Alex Gibbs ?
5) Demeco = Pro Powl Field General
5b) Okoye year two. Man Child turns 21.
6) We have the best Depth in our Receiving core in this Division (Johnson,Davis,Daniels,Walters,Jones)
7) Rosey Colvin + Mario Williams + Okoye = Bad News for opposing QB’s
8) The Fred in his Second Year, more depth in Secondary with Frenchy, and Moldin
9) Healthy Schaub, Healthy Sage..they can both sling it down the field
10) Uh…Alex Gibbs

- tyler

by bullpen116 on Jul 17, 2008 12:28 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

spell check

/ 5) Demeco = Pro Bowl
/ end spell check.

- tyler

by bullpen116 on Jul 17, 2008 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hate Mail from Volunteer State

Of course, any argument I make will just be termed blind homerism, so I’ll just say that you’re wrong and leave it at that.

by hartley on Jul 17, 2008 2:57 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Re: Hate Mail

I can appreciate the difference of opinion, Hartley. And there’s nothing wrong with backing your squad. Truthfully, I wouldn’t be shocked if the Titans finished with 7 or 8 wins. But another winning season would surprise me. I just don’t think there’s enough there on the offensive side of the ball. Of course, I said that last year and your boys managed to win 10 games. So what the hell do I know?

Looking forward to a day when being a Texans fan doesn't mean that April is the highlight of my season...

by Tim on Jul 17, 2008 4:02 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't know what you know.

To be fair, I think the Texans are a Wild Card playoff team if they played in any other AFC division, or a division winner in any NFC division other than East.

But I just don’t see it in this division, not this year. 9 wins, sure, maybe even 10, but at least 4 or 5 of your losses are going to be divisional… again. And I don’t see the Titans or the Jags losing enough games outside the division to overcome those divisional losses and make the playoffs.

My take:
Colts 14-2 (1 divisional loss, to Titans in meaningless Week 17 game)
Jags 12-4 (4 divisional losses, 2 to Colts, 1 to Titans, 1 to Texans)
Titans 11-5 (2 divisional losses, to Colts, Jags)
Texans 9-7 or 10-6, probably 5 divisional losses.

by hartley on Jul 17, 2008 10:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Blind homerism...

Not like the community projections at MusicCityMiracles.com

Honestly, I still think Tennessee is good enough to finish .500. With that defense, they’ll still be in it. It’s not like their offense can be WORSE than it was last year.

Then again, Jevon Kearse is finished. If you guys think he’s somehow better than what you had there last year, you’re sadly mistaken.

by HoustonDiehards on Jul 17, 2008 3:34 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeah...

Those are blind guesses.

I don’t see how it’s possible for VY to throw for 1000 more yards AND LenDale White (or “the Round Mound,” as we call him) to run for 200 more yards AND for Chris Johnson to get 800 yards rushing.

I mean, our defense would have to get a 3-and-out on every opponent possession for us to have that much time with the ball to get those kind of stats.

On the other hand, I do see more offensive production total next year, I just don’t know what form it will take.

Kearse is a studied risk. The Titans are planning on him being a situational player, not a starter. They’re really counting on the rookies to replace Odom and LaBoy.

by hartley on Jul 17, 2008 9:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don’t think it bodes well for the Titans that they have some street free agents hoping to make the roster. If the Texans Dline plays at or slightly above their natural talent level every play every Sunday, they’re going to be tough opponents for everyone in the division. If Schaub plays as well as projected when acquired by the Texans, and Gibbs gets the running game fixed, the Texans will be even tougher opponents. I can’t see how the Titans have bettered themselves compared to the rest of the AFC South. I’m surprised they won as many games as last year, but we play the NFC North this year, which has 2 strong teams in the Vikes and GB. At least by playing the AFC South the NFC North gets to see just where they stand talent wise. I think the Texans are creating a strong team, as opposed to a few exceptional players surrounded by others that just play dirty football.

AH, Texas and sports, better than fried coke.

by Tomriffic on Jul 17, 2008 10:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m not sure what you mean by “street free agents.”

Green Bay is only a contender if Favre plays, Rodgers is nothing. Yeah, the Vikes will be tough, but luckily, the Titans are great run-stuffers when Haynesworth is healthy, and he shouldn’t have suffered his annual injury yet by the time the Titans play them in week 4.

The Titans drafted to maintain their talent level on defense, they are counting on Chris Johnson and the new OC to be the bump in offense. Steve McNair’s best seasons were under this coordinator, he should be able to help VY as well.

Next year is when I worry about the team, because they didn’t get a deal signed with Haynesworth. If he becomes a free agent, the Titans will lose him because they will not “overpay” free agents (the rumor is they offered him the Tommy Harris package – $40 mil, 4 years, $18 mil bonus, and he turned it down). And then next year, we’re screwed. Our D-Line gave up an average of 100 yards rushing more per game without him last year.

by hartley on Jul 17, 2008 10:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

If you read the Titans team report at Yahoo sports, one gets the impression that the Titans didn’t draft well. By street free agents, I mean guys that have been out of football a year. I really don’t go in for all this we’ll do that ya’ll will do this preseason mumbo jumbo. So until the Titans actually show a much improved offense, and the same could be said for the Texans defense, Tim’s AFC South pontification is as accurate as anyone else’s this time of year. I could say I think 11 & 5 for the Colts, but I couldn’t base that on anything concrete, just an intuition. If everybody splits with everybody in the division which looks just as likely at this point then every AFC South team will have at least 3 losses. Throw in a couple of other losses to other strong AFC teams and no AFC South team does better than 11 & 5. Without Adrian Petterson and Brett Favre, I think the AFC South can sweep the NFC North but everybody loses at least one trap game. I do thank you for taking your curse with you back across the Mississippi river. I do think 9 wins will be harder to come by this season, but it’s not impossible. Not being a homer, I think the Texans finally have the talent to be capable of winning 12 games, but they’re not so far removed from their expansion roots that it wouldn’t take all 22 players plus the kickers and special teams all staying healthy all season and all playing every down at or above their natural ability to do it.

AH, Texas and sports, better than fried coke.

by Tomriffic on Jul 18, 2008 6:50 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

9 wins is far from ridiculous

Football Outsiders has the Texans projected at 8.9 wins with a much better chance of winning 11+ than going below 7 wins.

Colts are at 9.9 (the system doesn’t know that Peyton Manning led offenses don’t regress to the mean like most others. The Colts always outperform their FO projection.)

Jags at 9.2

Titans at 6.7

FO agrees with the order of finish you predicted and the records aren’t far off.

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by shake n bake on Jul 17, 2008 6:20 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

sounds about right

I agree with those projected standings, but for some reason I have a hunch the Colts and Jags will tie for 1st. Kinda odd, yes, but I feel the Jags are a team more than anyone else; that is to say that the whole is more than the sum of the parts (i.e. Florida Marlins’ two world series championship teams)

by BigTexBD on Jul 17, 2008 8:42 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

SPINE CRACKER!!!!!!!!!!!!

I see Mario Williams putting a Lawrence Taylor blindside spine cracker on Peyton Manning. Permanent Pain.

Teddy

by jahunter221 on Jul 17, 2008 9:37 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Ok you wimp ass p... (Steph will be mad if I say it)

Cinta Rojo and I think the Texans will win the division this year.
Jacksonville second
Colts third
BESF forth.
You heard it here first. When it happens I expect Dalwhinnie to
flow in my direction. Some of you guys just don’t even have the high expectations
of even the Colt fans for the Texans….(though they don’t predict this result)
This is the year we go to the playoffs. This is the year to expect miracles.
Tim, you are just expedting too little (though you are the prophet). We are due, and payback is now.
Sorry Colts fans , this is the year of reversals. Oh, and expect the stock market to
drop below 8000, reinvest then. Hey somebody tell the maid to get me another scotch.

by 1Texan on Jul 17, 2008 11:12 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

The maid has been properly notified. nt.

So you're saying that now I have to think of some witty Sig that will be applicable across all the SBN sites? Go Texan Horn Stros!

by Shake on Jul 18, 2008 10:50 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The MS Stradley

Like everybody else her Majesties Ship Stradley has her own set of paranoias, general quirks, hang ups and obsessions. The difference is hers are ok with her while yours are something that needs fixin. And this leads me to something interesting though completely off topic. Since I used the medical term vagina, these parts awhile back, I have basically been barred from posting on her blogs at AOL due also no doubt to my general non-longhorniness. I don’t mind so much being a maroon spot on a burnt orange carpet, (hell I have burnt orange carpet and would rip it out if it wasn’t so much fun whiping my feet on) but I have learned something I never would have had I always stuck to my own kind which is general everyday chumps that put their pants on one leg at a time, and that’s that the far left is just a dangerously subversive of free speech as the far right is. The other thing I’ve learned is that I’m too far to the right for loosy lefties and too far to the left for righty tighties. I guess that makes me abnormal.

Now this is a real shocker, so hang on to your burnt orange thongs and keep em cinched up tight, Simultaneously, and this is some of the cause of my spelling and agreement errors, because I’ve had problems created complete strangers, I’ve been led to read something on coercive mind control tactics, and not at all oddly enough not letting someone post on your blog no matter how well they’ve treated you on your blog falls into tactics 2 and 3. If I had time to complain to a higher authority, and I ain’t talking metaphysical here, I would. It’s just that I’m too busy and have higher priorities.

I guess NOW can’t control all their members, which if they did would make NOW a cult. Maybe it is on some level. I don’t like joining groups it inhibits free thought.

AH, Texas and sports, better than fried coke.

by Tomriffic on Jul 18, 2008 5:13 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Prescribed dosage

What the hell are you talking about?

Either you’re taking too many or not enough of your meds… cause you’re rambling again.

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by SOLIS on Jul 18, 2008 7:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

bull fn shit and if you don’t stop it your gonna find yourself in a whole bunch of trouble. I aint puttin up with this crap forever.

AH, Texas and sports, better than fried coke.

by Tomriffic on Jul 19, 2008 6:57 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Tom

The last few weeks/months you’ve written some comments with decent opinions & analysis. But this one is just retarded. And not the good Rain Man sort of retarded.

Also, your hatred of grammar and puntuation is not doing much to reverse the Aggie stereotype.

So you're saying that now I have to think of some witty Sig that will be applicable across all the SBN sites? Go Texan Horn Stros!

by Shake on Jul 19, 2008 5:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

This is the second time you’ve commented that I need medication. There’s a whole world full of toms just in Houston alone, let alone North America, and you’re not supposed to know anything about me, but a number of people here behave as if they do.

What you need is jail time.

What Tim needs is to be more careful choosing his friends, and who he allows access to personal information to. Also the good cop bad cop routine has to stop it’s getting cliche’. If all I needed was a spell check I would idiotically follow the suggestion and replace ‘cliche’ with ‘cloche’. 700.

AH, Texas and sports, better than fried coke.

by Tomriffic on Jul 20, 2008 9:48 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Get your facts together Tom

Feel free to link either the 1st or 2nd time that I suggested you need medication. Good luck finding something that didn’t happen.

So you're saying that now I have to think of some witty Sig that will be applicable across all the SBN sites? Go Texan Horn Stros!

by Shake on Jul 20, 2008 6:28 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Tomriffic

Hey, you seem like a nice guy, and I post drunk on a regular basis…
as well…bust Steph is articulate, smart, well educated, and way smarter
than me regarding the Texans. ...so , please treat her with the respect she
deserves. And I ain’t a burnt orange kinda guy.

by 1Texan on Jul 19, 2008 8:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Shit!

Goddamit, (for Matt) and I am not a burnt orange kind of guy.

by 1Texan on Jul 19, 2008 8:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

matt

1. ...but Steph….I know what you’re thinking….

by 1Texan on Jul 19, 2008 8:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That’s funny, because now I can post again. I’ve been rooting for the Texans since the NFL announced the team would be located in Houston. Last fall was the first time I missed watching a game. I listened to the game on the radio on my roof. She knows more about the Texans because she can get seats behind the team bench, and she accesses the team. That’s about the only difference.

We don’t know one another well enough to have either respect or disrespect for each other. I don’t need her respect. I’m not going to respect someone who just arbitrarily bans and unbans me from posting when I haven’t said anything to her, or done anything to her.

I don’t fall for all this respect and sensitivity bull shit because it’s just a trump card people use to get the upper hand and bully people they have a disagreement with around. One side is no different than the other after careful and close inspection. We can all always throw ourselves down on the floor scream and kick and pretend to be offended by stuff, or sensitive. It’s just a cheap easy trick.

My niceness or non niceness is situationally dependent. I’m not going waste emotional energy on people who have no real intention of actually being nice to me. Save the world and save the people speeches are for high school graduations. Someone probably started giving those somewhere and sometime before the Great Depression.

Apparently I just don’t get the new social dynamics of it’s ok if I do it to you but if you do it to me you have a problem. I guess I need to take a course on how to be a more believable victim, because that’s basically what I am it’s just that a situation has been created to make it easy to blame it on the victim, which causes me to be less sensitive to the trials and tribulations of my fellow man and an over all drop in respect for everyone.

I’m going to point out that I did say it was OFF TOPIC. I seek justice where it’s remotely fair and impartial and I choose battle grounds that give me some chance of winning at best or survival at least. At this point, if I had known that SB Nation was a blog created by longhorns I never would have started posting here, period.

AH, Texas and sports, better than fried coke.

by Tomriffic on Jul 20, 2008 9:38 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

One other thing.

I haven’t started a fight with anyone in oh 29 years. So you can be 100% certain that anyone having a problem with me is one they’ve created, and a choice they’ve made and one they have unfortunately made for me.

AH, Texas and sports, better than fried coke.

by Tomriffic on Jul 20, 2008 9:55 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ok

I agree with Solis…get back on your meds, cause you can’t be that much of an asshole on your own…could you(a question mark goes here, but I’m using one of those crazy latin keyboards at the moment and can’t find it)

by 1Texan on Jul 20, 2008 11:30 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

So now we’re back to it’s ok to call me names again. See I knew I was never really wrong to begin with, and if that’s what you think then you need to be in the same cell shake and solis belong in., and all I ever wanted was a place I could talk about the Texans and not have to put with Cowboy fans.

AH, Texas and sports, better than fried coke.

by Tomriffic on Jul 20, 2008 12:13 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

"Haven't started a fight in 29 years"

And if someone doesn’t believe that, they should just ask you…...right?

So you're saying that now I have to think of some witty Sig that will be applicable across all the SBN sites? Go Texan Horn Stros!

by Shake on Jul 20, 2008 6:32 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don’t give damn what you believe. If you give me a buck, for every person you ask if I’ve started a fight in the last 29 years, and they said no and weren’t lying, I’d get rich quick. I have no problem with you starting a fight with me. I’m sure I’ll have no conscience ending it either, not any more. I have witnesses, and an alibi your manipulative obsessive bullshit has accidentally manufactured.

So fuck it ask around, but I know you’re not interested in anything close to the truth, so don’t waste our time. Go back to sleeping with your burnt orange boy friends and making stupid passes at straight men that just want to cold cock you.

I don’t need all the fingers on 1 hand to count the times I’ve started fights, and all of those were errors in judgment. I’ve survived the consequences of my mistakes in spite. At least they weren’t accidentally on purpose dishonest mistakes.

Why are you so interested in 12’x12’ real estate and khaki overalls?

AH, Texas and sports, better than fried coke.

by Tomriffic on Jul 20, 2008 8:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Please...

Find somewhere else to post if this is what you’re considering adding to the discussions. This comment has nothing to do with your maroon tendencies, it has to do with the fact that everyone here can poke fun at each other without getting their panties in a bunch. If you can’t take a joke, leave.

by txnpwrlifter on Jul 21, 2008 9:49 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

And with that...

TPL has met his 1 post per offseason quota.

Seriously though, it’s nice to see one of the original folks still hanging out.

So you're saying that now I have to think of some witty Sig that will be applicable across all the SBN sites? Go Texan Horn Stros!

by Shake on Jul 21, 2008 3:41 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

thank you

Yes, I am a real OG.

by txnpwrlifter on Jul 22, 2008 8:18 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That’s just a non sequitor. 1 year is too long to carry on a practical joke, especially when the joke is harming the butt of the joke, but 10 years is way past the funny ha ha stage. So I’ll leave either when Tim bans me or I decide it’s time for me to leave. This has nothing to do with practical jokes, and your suggestion means you belong with solis, shake and 1texan.

AH, Texas and sports, better than fried coke.

by Tomriffic on Jul 21, 2008 5:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Again

Please Tom, tell me why you keep calling me out.

So you're saying that now I have to think of some witty Sig that will be applicable across all the SBN sites? Go Texan Horn Stros!

by Shake on Jul 21, 2008 6:40 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Out On A Limb

1. Jacksonville
2. Indianapolis
3. Houston
4. Tennessee

This is based on more of a gut feeling than anything else. I think the Jags are ready to take the next step and Indy is poised to slide some. We’ll see how it all shakes out.

by Dancerdog on Jul 18, 2008 7:49 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

how do you figure

that the Colts are poised to slide some? The Colts are stronger and healthier than ever and got Dom Rhodes back. The only games they’ll lose will be throwaway games once they’ve already locked up the division. And their third team might even win those, like they almost did against Tennessee at the end of last season.

by ukiah on Jul 18, 2008 8:15 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

A fanaticle Texans fan

While I’m on the subject of being a member, of a group I’m incapable of leaving.

I am compelled to agree with Tim on his AFC South placements. I can’t even argue with his Texans record of 9 & 7, because I would basically have to argue with myself too,and you never know who might be watching and assume you have multiple personalities.

Anyway that doesn’t make me a less of a fan just one trying not to build up unrealistic expectations, because I thought Gary Brown looked like the next coming of Earl Campbell too.

Let’s say everyone in the AFC South sweep’s the AFC North and the NFC North, that would leave everyone with 8 win’s. Now let’s assume that everyone split’s win’s homes’ and loses away’s. That makes’ everyone 11 & 5, the 2008 season is the most exciting in the NFL since forever, the AFC South is officially enshrined in the HOF as the toughest division in the NFL, and the AFC South’s end of year placement is resolved with point’s, and possession’s.

At this point in the season, it could happen.

AH, Texas and sports, better than fried coke.

by Tomriffic on Jul 18, 2008 5:30 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Not going to happen

The Titans suck.

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by SOLIS on Jul 18, 2008 7:02 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yep

I second that opinion.

by txnpwrlifter on Jul 21, 2008 9:50 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

What's possible.

Now I know that you know that this is all mostly speculative the last few days. You can’t know the Titans will suck, like everyone else you assume they will because they didn’t pull off as smart a draft as the Texans.

We’re assuming based on recent track record that the Smithiak can find needles in hay stacks and Titan fans are assuming that Jeff Fischer can squeeze blood out of turnips, and Colts fans are assuming their unsung heroes will be hailed in epics and before we all jump off the into the deep end I was just trying to clear the air a bit so we could all get a grip before anyone blew a gasket because no one has even played a pre-season game yet, like the train hasn’t pulled to the curb let alone left the station dude. The silence of Jags fans is golden, they obviously wish not to jinx their team with the mighty beating of sunken chests.

I said it could happen, I didn’t say how probable it was. For starters, the AFC South sweeping both the AFC and NFC North is (1/(2)8)4. That’s pretty small odds already. Then you have to multiply that by the simple probability that every AFC South team splits with each other. That one is slightly technical, (1/4)^4. You are right it’s not going to happen but not for the reason you gave. It is however still possible. Even assuming any team is capable of winning on any given Sunday.

AH, Texas and sports, better than fried coke.

by Tomriffic on Jul 18, 2008 9:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Texans will have a winning season, but that's only good for 3rd place...........

because the AFC South is too tough. Three playoff teams last year from our division, and it should (OK could) happen again this year. I’ve already picked the Texans for 10-6. I haven’t even looked at the other teams schedules, but suspect that both Indy and the Jags are good for 11-13 wins each. Titans are not terrible, but their division record will drop them down to around 6-8 wins.
Indy 13-3
Jags 12-4
Texans 10-6
Titans 8-8
Jags and Texans earn wildcard berths.

As the charismatic Mills Lane always says “Let’s get it on!”

GO TEXANS!!!!!!!!!!!!

by oiler-texan diehard on Jul 18, 2008 11:05 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs