In Eli's defense the same thing happened with QB;'s named Alex Smith, Rivers, Palmer, Leftwich, Vick, Grossman, Marc Bulger ec...  Young QB's given the franchise & not doing a whole lot with it right now. Well, Vick isn't young, but he was basically GIVEN the starting job in ATL automatically in year 2, & they let him play no matter how bad he would get.

Yes & no.  A case can be made for GnR killing themselves, they basically did. But bands like Crue, Cindarella, Poison, Warrant, Skid Row had no shot, again NO SHOT of surviving the grunge era. The few that did were GnR & The Black Crowes. That's about it, some other like Metallica & Megadeth etc, but they weren't really "mainstream" prior to grunge. Also, before grunge hit there were some severely shitty bands (Mr Big anyone?? Extreme...) Tesla was ok, I liked them. They somewhat survived, but never topped their success of Love Song or Signs. There might have been s small few others I'm not thinking of.

As for the OP, yeah it's a good writeup, aside from the "surviving" snafu.. DTJ's right, "remaining" is a much better word but whatever.. Russtcb yeah there's ttwo sides to every coin though. On one hand in the general publics eye it's an 'anticipated comeback', but on the other, he's in an article of comebacks with Vanilla Ice, Spice Girls, and Mike. Not exactly elite company either.

Yeah, it's gonna be tough still having to play Dallas & Giants again.  In addition Seattle NO & Buff. Could go anywhere from 4-1 to 2-3 or something. But yeah, they played a heck of a game last night, and have talent. I'm just not ready to annoint them as 10-6 like some people here are thinking that they'll win out.

Actually that would be a pretty wise move for both the Browns & whoever goes for him. Sure the Browns gave up this years 1st rounder & probably another pick or two in last years draft, but they wanted a good QB. They got him. Only it's not the QB they were thinking it was going to be.  Still, Derek Anderson looks like the real deal, & sometimes the best QB's do come out of nowhere (Warner, Romo) as opposed to 1st rounders who are busts about 50% of the time. For the team getting Quinn, you get a young QB for the future with pro potential,  with 1 year experience of learning in practice & on the bench, who can start if not opening day, maybe by week 8. Worth trading a mid-late first round pick for. We'll see. Remember the Chargers had Drew Brees & Philip Rivers. Rivers is ok, but I don't think he's mind-blowingly better than Brees is, so it wouldn't have been a terrible move to trade Rivers without him ever playing and keep Brees.

I wouldn't call the NFC wildcard wrapped up, I think it's totally up in the air actually. And since Philly beat Detroit, we are only 1/2 game behind them, so if both have the same record, we win the tiebreaker & get in. Minn could make a run as well, it really depends on teams schedules and I think I hear Detroit has a really hard ending to their schedule. Arizona really could have taken the lead by beating SF, but they blew that opportunity.

As for my NE post, I guess I didn't mean we shut down NE offense, but we did for Moss & pretty much Stallworth. I guess that's how you play them, pick 2 guys make the 3rd guy beat you. The next team should shut down Moss & Welker & try & see if Stallworth can do it.  I still don't understand NE running game, I though Mulroney was pretty good!? Why didn't he play, is he hurt or just bad.