ejsteeler
09-09-2010, 06:27 PM
please, give me a freakin break. This dude has some serious issues....
Article (http://www.cleveland.com/budshaw/index.ssf/2010/09/post_16.html)
AP Can new Cleveland Browns quarterback Jake Delhomme finally lead the team to the promised land of the NFL playoffs?
CLEVELAND -- A recent L.A. Times story traced the annual upheaval in the NFL's postseason -- though it's understandable if it feels like more of the same for Browns fans.
Share In each of the past 14 seasons at least five teams have made the playoffs after missing them the year before.
There were six last year: the Jets, New Orleans, New England, Green Bay, Dallas and Cincinnati.
With the new season kicking off Thursday when Minnesota gets a rematch with the Saints, my picks as the Best Bets To Return to the Playoffs after Missing Them in 2009 (with last year's record in parentheses):
Houston (9-7), Tennessee (8-8), Miami (7-9), Atlanta (9-7) and San Francisco (8-8).
I don't see Pittsburgh in the postseason. In fact, I think the Browns finish higher than the Steelers this season. And, no, I have not been drinking.
L.A. Times sportswriter Sam Farmer coins a term for the seven NFL teams that have gone at least five years without making the playoffs. For their inability to rise, he calls them The Unleavened Seven.
And, of course, that's where you'll find the Browns.
The list: Detroit and Buffalo (10 years), Houston (eight), the Browns, 49ers and Raiders (7), and the Rams (5).
Who will end the drought? Houston and San Francisco.
For the seventh consecutive year, a team -- New Orleans -- went from worst to first in its division. The Saints didn't stop there, of course, winning the Super Bowl.
But that streak of surprises looks to be in serious danger.
I mean, who would you pick to go from the bottom to the top out of this group: Buffalo (6-10), Cleveland (5-11), Jacksonville (7-9), Kansas City (4-12), Washington (4-12), Detroit (2-14), Tampa (3-13) and the Rams (1-15).
The fact that it's happened so often is another reason for the NFL's growing popularity as America's favorite sport.
That, fantasy leagues and gambling.
Article (http://www.cleveland.com/budshaw/index.ssf/2010/09/post_16.html)
AP Can new Cleveland Browns quarterback Jake Delhomme finally lead the team to the promised land of the NFL playoffs?
CLEVELAND -- A recent L.A. Times story traced the annual upheaval in the NFL's postseason -- though it's understandable if it feels like more of the same for Browns fans.
Share In each of the past 14 seasons at least five teams have made the playoffs after missing them the year before.
There were six last year: the Jets, New Orleans, New England, Green Bay, Dallas and Cincinnati.
With the new season kicking off Thursday when Minnesota gets a rematch with the Saints, my picks as the Best Bets To Return to the Playoffs after Missing Them in 2009 (with last year's record in parentheses):
Houston (9-7), Tennessee (8-8), Miami (7-9), Atlanta (9-7) and San Francisco (8-8).
I don't see Pittsburgh in the postseason. In fact, I think the Browns finish higher than the Steelers this season. And, no, I have not been drinking.
L.A. Times sportswriter Sam Farmer coins a term for the seven NFL teams that have gone at least five years without making the playoffs. For their inability to rise, he calls them The Unleavened Seven.
And, of course, that's where you'll find the Browns.
The list: Detroit and Buffalo (10 years), Houston (eight), the Browns, 49ers and Raiders (7), and the Rams (5).
Who will end the drought? Houston and San Francisco.
For the seventh consecutive year, a team -- New Orleans -- went from worst to first in its division. The Saints didn't stop there, of course, winning the Super Bowl.
But that streak of surprises looks to be in serious danger.
I mean, who would you pick to go from the bottom to the top out of this group: Buffalo (6-10), Cleveland (5-11), Jacksonville (7-9), Kansas City (4-12), Washington (4-12), Detroit (2-14), Tampa (3-13) and the Rams (1-15).
The fact that it's happened so often is another reason for the NFL's growing popularity as America's favorite sport.
That, fantasy leagues and gambling.