The season starts in one week, and the guys are pumped. Steven and Jeff start with some NFL News as they discuss the current officiating issue that surrounds moving the umpire from the defensive side of the ball to the offensive side of the ball. Both guys have different suggestions to resolve the issue. They also discuss the fracas in San Francisco between TE Vernon Davis and WR Michael Crabtree, the situation QB Matt Leinart finds himself in and QB Ben Roethlisberger seeking a reduced suspension down to three games.
The guys then get to it and give your their predictions for all eight divisions. Steven and Jeff agree on plenty of division winners, but where they disagree, they really disagree. Listen as the guys go week by week and try to give you the essence of the ebbs and flows of each teams NFL season. The guys have the same AFC representative in the Super Bowl, but differ on the NFC Super Bowl team. Jeff’s selection is pretty incredible while Steven explains his reasoning behind his pick.
And of course, finally, Jeff reveals which team he will cheer for in the 2010 NFL Season. Listen to this shocker!
Romeo Crennel drafted matty? No it was Dennis green that drafted Leinart. That drop about defense wins championships was said by ray lewis not ray rice. Guys I love but Ben Rothlisberger never did anything he was accused you dopes. And you said what he did. What did he do? Nothing. Errrrr. Steven I agree with you pick on the wteelers I have them going 7-9.
My picks. The Afc east patriots, afc north bengals afc south colts afc west chargers the wild cards is the dolphins and chiefs.
Nfc east cowboys, nfc north packers, nfc south saints, nfc west 49ers the wild cards are falcons, giants.
My super bowl is bengals vs the packers with the bengals winning.
I understand Steven’s love and having his Cowboys go to the Superbowl. I always have Patriots there, I just hope I don’t have to go through that Giants superbowl crap that happened though. That sucked. But Steven, you ever thought that you are giving the Cowboys the Miranda Curse? ;p
Jeff, Saints and Colts, Colts won’t make it my my opinion. This will be the season where Chargers bump them off in the playoffs.
and finally even though I got cold feet and thought differently = Jeff I called it ;P http://twitpic.com/2ksu5o
Glad we won’t be divisional rivals mate :)
p.s. Pick ’em league this year on espn?
Well I am happy I got it right yay for the Sydney sider. Love your work guys but hey I do think Philly will take one game off McNabb.
Damn you Itunes. Since updating my version of Itunes (which has added Ping to my Iphone 4) whenever I select an episode of NFL R&R to play it just takes me back to the home screen. :-(
Will have to try syncing to my Ipod classic instead.
Looking forward to the show when I can hear it guys….
I like how Steven thinks his Cowboys v Colts prediction has been “close” to happening ever one of the 5 years he has made it.
How many playoff games have the Cowboys won in that time? In the last 15ish years?
Hey Guy`s i believe that it will be packers who take the superbowl crown this season with the saints pushing them all the way. also a suprise prediction the bucs to make the playoffs with an 8-8 season. You heared it hear first. Also on the collage front south carolina look very good indeed great young QB in Garcia. from Mr E in the UK.
Superbowl will be Packers and Jets, with packers winning 27-21.
I’m having the same problem playing the podcast on my iphone. every time I start it the damn thing just dumps me back to the home screen. This is a blow. Everything else to date has worked great.
I have the same problem with playing on the iPhone. I can’t play ANY of the episodes from the phone following this week’s update. I just get bounced back to the home screen (NB: This is the only podcast affected).
I can play it direct from iTunes on the PC, so the download has worked fine, but there’s something odd happening after sync. Relieved to see I’m not the only one affected.
Steven
During the podcast you got sidetracked and never gave predictions for the NFC North in full. You gave numbers for Minnesota and Green Bay, but not Chicago or Detroit. Where did you have these teams finishing?
So.. Does Leinart getting the boot make any difference to your Cardinals predictions? No I guess not.
Wish I would have been caught up because I knew jeff was taken the Texans. You guys seem to like Atlanta but going through some of the schedules Atlanta was always getting a loss to some bad teams.
@Nathan
Every year but one both the Cowboys and Colts have made the playoffs, so really that is not far off. There are a ton of ‘pundits’ who pick teams that don’t even make the playoffs. But I do agree had both teams made it to the conference title game a a few times that prediction would be much closer to happening.
can’t listen to you guys anymore iPhone op system4 won’t play or recognise your podcast!
+1 for the iPhone 3Gs / iTunes problem…
hey guys– can’t play this podcast on my ipod touch– just goes to the home screen– previous ones work fine
I had no problem with this podcast on my iPhone4. I haven’t updated it to 4.02 yet though, hadn’t updated iTunes until yesterday either, so it’ll either be iOS 4.02 or the new iTunes causing the issue
+1 on the problems with this episode on my iPhone 4… Since I downloaded it, my iPod applicaction on the iPhone doesn’t start properly and takes me back to the home screen…
Anyways.. Wow… Seattle winning the division??
Won’t start on my iPhone 3G with iOS 4.02 today, but it did work yesterday… so I’m not sure what the problem is. Listened to it here though :)
I notice that a lot of pundits have the Dolphins pretty high up this year, I wondered what your reasons were for not having them at least above the Jets in the division. I’d even be inclined to have them as division winners if it was any other ageing team other than the Patriots that they were up against…
On the officiating change: plenty of rule changes throughout the game have changed the way the game is played. Indeed, definitionally changing a rule changes the game. The question to ask isn’t if this rule change will impact offenses, but if it will achieve the intended effect: to protect the safety of the umpire.
The problem is not moving the official — 40+ year old guys who aren’t professional athletes and aren’t wearing pads don’t belong in the middle of a pro-football collision. The problem is giving in to the demands of the teams to endanger the official at all.
Hey guys, first time I listened to your podcast. I enjoyed it, but one issue I have. I think you guys missed the point on the Vincent Jackson trade issue. The issue is NOT what the Chargers are asking from other teams, its what Jackson and his agent want that is/has been the issue. They want 30mil guaranteed, which no one is willing to give him. That’s why they can’t move him, not the draft picks that they are asking for.
This show is pretty much like Crack to me and now that Jeff has picked my Texans… I think I just overdosed.
@jeremy
I thought about writing about how over-rated the Cowboys are, but Bill Simmons did it for me.
“REDSKINS (+3.5) over Cowboys
Let’s end on a Cowboys rant. The Cowboys remind me of the Kardashians in that their strongest talent is a relentless ability to remain relevant. Much like the Kardashians successfully created the illusion that they should be famous, the Cowboys successfully created the illusion that they should be a Super Bowl contender. And they didn’t even have to leak a sex tape to do it. You know what Dallas’ record has been since 2000? 82-78. You know how many playoff games it has won over that stretch? One. That’s right … one more playoff win than Buffalo and Detroit.
As with the Kardashians, it’s all about the packaging. We consider Tony Romo an elite QB because he dates celebrities and puts up big fantasy numbers; so what if he freezes in big games? We consider Jerry Jones an elite owner because he splurged on a magnificent stadium and matched wits with Ari Gold; so what if he never built a Super Bowl team without Jimmy Johnson? Dez Bryant has been reinvented as the steal of the 2010 draft based on a bunch of preseason practices that nobody saw; so what if half the league passed on him because teams thought he was a head case? Most fans consider the Dallas offense as “elite” because it has a few high fantasy picks; so what if they don’t have a single elite offensive lineman? Every Cowboys Super Bowl pick includes the caveat, “They’re returning 20 of 22 starters from last year”; so what if it means they’re returning 20 of the 22 starters the Vikings trounced in January by 31 points?
Even the Kardashians thing makes more sense to me. They learned all their tricks from Paris Hilton; there are three of them; they have a catchy name; they don’t say anything controversial or incriminating; they only date celebrities, athletes and reality-TV-ready degenerates; and Kim (their fearless leader) is the perfect goddess for her time: a multi-new-media icon (Internet, reality TV and Us Weekly) with a definite hook (her butt), a tawdry past (her sex tape) that wasn’t really all that tawdry (the camerawork was bad, and you could barely see anything) and no discernible talent whatsoever (which doesn’t matter, because you don’t need talent to be famous in 2010). That smoke-and-mirrors routine should work in pop culture. In football? No. And yet, somehow, the Dallas Cowboys have the fourth-best odds to win this year’s Super Bowl (8-1). I give up.