NFL 2008 Season Week 10 Picks

Remember when nutcan was a never ending stream of comments and activity? Me neither.

I did start Royal - 29.1 points for me!

We all picked that game before it was moved from week 2 to this week because of the hurricane.

Sarah, did you read Matt's comment on the Giants Eagles game? Or the other way around? Or neither? Because I didn't read either before I made mine. But I got a kick out of the similarity.

Packers' O looks like trash. Packers' D can't stop 'em. What the heck?

I did not read Matt's comment and I thought it was funny just looking at it now how all of our comments are basically the same, save for a word or two.

Come on. It was a great game. Both teams made mistakes and stepped up and made good plays as well. The play calling had nothing to do with the missed field goal, that thing would have been good from 60, it was just offline.

Hey Jeremy, you were at the game right? Is it true that after Mason Crosby missed the 52 yard field goal that the Vikings Audio System in the dome played the "I don't wan't to work, I just want to bang on my drum all day" song. If so, hiliarious.

can u explain to me why we are talking about a game that has already passed? get over it, the packers lost, its unfortunate, but hey life goes on..... now wtf are the packers going to do for next week?

I heard tell of rumors that Barnett had actually been playing pretty crappily so far this year anyway. Is that true?

Right, because Rodgers was just doing anything possible to get it out of there. He wasn't trying to complete a pass. Where the pass landed was irrelevant. (Well, I think you'd have a case if it did go beyond the LOS) People keep saying "usual throwing motion" as if it was called a safety because he threw a pass side armed. He was flying through the air, parallel to the ground, leg hairs grazing the turf, throwing arm on the back side of the endzone, and he quick flipped it under him to where ever that would land. He was not attempting a pass, and there was no "reasonable" attempt at a pass. The fact that it wouldn't have been grounding if someone caught the ball is also irrelevant. When would you ever call intentional grounding if a receiver caught the ball? The whole point of the rule is that no one caught the ball because the pass clearly wasn't intended for anyone. This was really a text book example of what the grounding rule is setup to prevent, so you can bitch about technicalities all you want, but the rule provides room for discretion, and it's painfully obvious what happened.

The only difference is that Favre's pass was caught.

The fact remains in my opinion that the referee overstepped his bounds by trying to read Rodgers' mind in that he wasn't "intending to make a pass". He sort of changed the rule (or added to the rule) on the spot. The Ref should not be charged with the task of reading a quarterback's mind. A ball that goes forward in the area of the receiver--except if that ball is clearly fumbled--is a pass. That ref basically made the shovel pass an illegal forward pass because it is an unnatural throwing motion. Afterall, the natural throwing motion is over the top, not underhand or off to the side.

The other difference is that it wasn't Favre. I think even Aikman half jokingly said, "You know they wouldn't have called that on Favre".

Here's a new discussion point. For all the mobility that Rodgers showed in the first couple games, the guy stinks at avoiding sacks. He should scramble more to try and slow down the pass rush, although I'm sure the coaches have told him not to so that he doesn't take any big hits. Which isn't working out very well anyway, he got rocked more than once Sunday. He had 60 yds in 12 carries in the first 2 games, and 65 yds in 21 carries in the next 7 games. Accordingly, sacked 1 time in the first 2 games, 20 times in the next 7.

Congrats to Jay6666 for going 14-0, that's quite the feat. All of you who went 13-1, you should be ashamed of yourselves.