NFL 2009 Season Super Bowl Picks

well this sucks, the season is almost over............. no bets on pro bowl? well, its been fun and i will be returning next season for another run. i did pretty good since this is my first time making picks on the net. i also wanted to say CONGRATS to sarah for a winning season

Sarah, you are welcome.

I'm new to nutcan and have so enjoyed watching you all this season! Congrats Sarah on a great season. I hope to learn a lot from you all.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3874838

Here's something I'd like to negative nut.
Cris Carter STILL not inducted into the HOF. Granted, before I complain too much, Randall McDaniel did deservedly get in. But how can Cris Carter not be put in right away?
I heard today that the reason he wasn't put in last year was likely because no WR ever has gotten in on the first time and they are waiting to put Rice in there on his first ballot. So that solved that mystery. But why not now?

Football's whole process is pretty bogus anyway. Not to mention, they've shown over and over again that it's better to be famous than good. Better to be part of one or two championship teams than put up ridiculous stats your entire career. In fact, they've almost shown a complete disdain for any numerical representation of someone's performance.
Cris Carter retired as statistically the best receiver EVER that isn't named Jerry Rice. And even if people had taken the time to watch 10% of the games he played in, they'd know it wasn't even the statistics that made him so good. He was just unbelievably talented and productive. He made his teams better. Did no one notice that Minnesota made the playoffs virtually every year while he was there? And he was basically the anchor of the offense. You know how many quarterbacks came through Minnesota in those years? 583. Look it up. He was consistently good year after year in a consistently changing situation. Look, guys like Jerry Rice and Marvin Harrison are obviously good. You can't argue that. But you know what? They had Montana, Young, and Manning throwing to them for virtually their entire career.
Carter had some good passers, but they changed every year, and often in the middle of the year. Rich Gannon, Wade Wilson, Sean Salisbury, Jim McMahon, Warren Moon, Brad Johnson, Randall Cunningham, Jeff George, Daunte Culpepper, plus Spergeon Wynn and Todd Bouman. Those are the starters. That's 1991-2001.
Sure a few of those guys are pretty talented, but can you imagine changing quarterbacks that many times and still being as good as anyone in the game?
Put it this way. He led the entire NFL in TD receptions three different years. 1995, 1997, 1999. Each of those seasons, with just a year between each, had a different qb as the predominant starter in Minnesota. Warren Moon, Brad Johnson, Jeff George -- didn't matter. Cris Carter found a way to catch more tds than anyone each time. And he did it with as good a set of hands that have ever caught a football, and with ridiculous body control.

Yeah, he'll be in the Hall some day. But some day should have been last year, or certainly this year.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame should be embarrassed by the consistently poor job they do at electing players.

Chris Carter didn't win 3 super bowls, so clearly he is an inferior athlete who deserves not to share the same honor as an average receiver like Irving who was on good teams. Don't come here with your empirical data proving that Chris Carter is mathematically twice as good as Michael Irving when you know full well that the hall of fame clearly is not for individual stats as much as it is for the teams you played for. That's just fuzzy math.*

*clearly I am joking.

Party is a strong word, but yes we are having a gathering.

That overturned call completely blows up the conversation we had about the Greg Jennings touchdown against the Bears where the player must maintain posession while going to the ground. If the call in this game was a completion, I demand that the ESPN writer (and Jeremy for that matter) retract their arguments about the Jennings call be correct. Jennings had posession and then had it knocked out, and then fell. This guy was falling, made the catch, then continued falling, and then had the ball knocked away. I want justice!

Not only was the Tim Tebow commercial not as controversial as people made it out to be, it was also about the most corny use of $2.5 million I could have imagined. So instead of the anti-abortion crowd getting a commercial that stirs up controversy and discussion, they get a commercial that will at best not be remembered and at worst will lessen whatever impact they hoped it would have and almost be seen as a joke.

The Saints don't stand a chance.