Can the Raiders or Titans go 0-16? (1 Viewer)

[TS Garp]

The Raiders really need to win next week at SF or against ARZ, because their schedule gets rough after that:

at SF

at DEN

ARZ

PITT

At SEA

DEN

at KC

at SD

HOU

at CIN

STL

KC

at NYJ

With the exception of Houston, their last 10 games look tough.

Here's the Titans' schedule:

at IND

at WSH

Bye

HOU

at JACK

BALT

at PHI

NYG

IND

at HOU

JACK

at BUFF

NE

The Titans have the advantage of playing Houston twice, but I don't see any other winnable games for them, except maybe Buffalo.

What do you think? Can one of these teams beat the Bucs' 1976 0-14 season?

 

[LongDrivethenFoozle]

Raiders will but the Titans will beat the Texans once and the Bills. Raider Fans are a trip when you can acctually find one that kows football. Those rare....knowledgable fans are about 70%-30% that they will beat the 49ers next week......yet I'm betting every "low-life" ignorant shirt wearing buy a truck in Silver guys I come across this week and make my starting point @ $20.00 ans will go up to $100.0 per bet. I plan on a minimum of $1,500.00 worth of best. If I'm wrong rub it in.....I'll have it coming.......but it's a bet that will be easy to establish......and I'm so sickenend to the point that I will even allow "food stamps" as long as they make it worth my while. You'd have to live in Cali to see how ridiculous it is.......1 in ten know the game day, and 5 of them might know that Collins is not still the QB. Mass fans(beyond those fans willing to purchase a ticket) are those who get the shirt at a flee Market.......and our local flee Market is on Sundays.

 

[Stompin' Tom Connors]

Raiders will but the Titans will beat the Texans once and the Bills. Raider Fans are a trip when you can acctually find one that kows football. Those rare....knowledgable fans are about 70%-30% that they will beat the 49ers next week......yet I'm betting every "low-life" ignorant shirt wearing buy a truck in Silver guys I come across this week and make my starting point @ $20.00 ans will go up to $100.0 per bet. I plan on a minimum of $1,500.00 worth of best. If I'm wrong rub it in.....I'll have it coming.......but it's a bet that will be easy to establish......and I'm so sickenend to the point that I will even allow "food stamps" as long as they make it worth my while. You'd have to live in Cali to see how ridiculous it is.......1 in ten know the game day, and 5 of them might know that Collins is not still the QB. Mass fans(beyond those fans willing to purchase a ticket) are those who get the shirt at a flee Market.......and our local flee Market is on Sundays.

Ah yes. Great year for the Raider Haters.

There are many diehard Raider fans on this board who know more than a thing or two about the game (I would like to count myself among this crowd, but the few on these boards put me to shame with their gridiron acumen); all of us are likely right there with you in the opinion that this team is a complete and hilarious spectacle at this point.

But to call out an entire fanbase is ludicrous. Every NFL game I've been to has a lowest common denominator out there -- the fall-down drunk, calling out players' mothers during warm-ups, taking off their shirts in 30-below weather and carried out at halftime in a stretcher with hypothermia type of fans. They are most notable because they are the loudest and most obnoxious.

I will not deny that Raider fans have a certain rep, and having been to many a game at the Coliseum, I know the feel is more "prison yard" than "tailgate." But truth be told, I've seen much worse at other stadiums. In its totality, like every NFL team's fan base, the Raider Nation is a passionate and knowledgeable fan base.

For future reference, if you are going to make wide, sweeping generalizations about another group's ignorance, it's probably best to avoid irony completely with properly spelled words and a modicum of understanding about what an ellipse is.

 

[Raider Nation]

Raiders will but the Titans will beat the Texans once and the Bills. Raider Fans are a trip when you can acctually find one that kows football. Those rare....knowledgable fans are about 70%-30% that they will beat the 49ers next week......yet I'm betting every "low-life" ignorant shirt wearing buy a truck in Silver guys I come across this week and make my starting point @ $20.00 ans will go up to $100.0 per bet. I plan on a minimum of $1,500.00 worth of best. If I'm wrong rub it in.....I'll have it coming.......but it's a bet that will be easy to establish......and I'm so sickenend to the point that I will even allow "food stamps" as long as they make it worth my while. You'd have to live in Cali to see how ridiculous it is.......1 in ten know the game day, and 5 of them might know that Collins is not still the QB. Mass fans(beyond those fans willing to purchase a ticket) are those who get the shirt at a flee Market.......and our local flee Market is on Sundays.

Ah yes. Great year for the Raider Haters.

There are many diehard Raider fans on this board who know more than a thing or two about the game (I would like to count myself among this crowd, but the few on these boards put me to shame with their gridiron acumen); all of us are likely right there with you in the opinion that this team is a complete and hilarious spectacle at this point.

But to call out an entire fanbase is ludicrous. Every NFL game I've been to has a lowest common denominator out there -- the fall-down drunk, calling out players' mothers during warm-ups, taking off their shirts in 30-below weather and carried out at halftime in a stretcher with hypothermia type of fans. They are most notable because they are the loudest and most obnoxious.

I will not deny that Raider fans have a certain rep, and having been to many a game at the Coliseum, I know the feel is more "prison yard" than "tailgate." But truth be told, I've seen much worse at other stadiums. In its totality, like every NFL team's fan base, the Raider Nation is a passionate and knowledgeable fan base.

For future reference, if you are going to make wide, sweeping generalizations about another group's ignorance, it's probably best to avoid irony completely with properly spelled words and a modicum of understanding about what an ellipse is.

Was that post even worth replying to, Tom?

 

[Stompin' Tom Connors]

Raiders will but the Titans will beat the Texans once and the Bills. Raider Fans are a trip when you can acctually find one that kows football. Those rare....knowledgable fans are about 70%-30% that they will beat the 49ers next week......yet I'm betting every "low-life" ignorant shirt wearing buy a truck in Silver guys I come across this week and make my starting point @ $20.00 ans will go up to $100.0 per bet. I plan on a minimum of $1,500.00 worth of best. If I'm wrong rub it in.....I'll have it coming.......but it's a bet that will be easy to establish......and I'm so sickenend to the point that I will even allow "food stamps" as long as they make it worth my while. You'd have to live in Cali to see how ridiculous it is.......1 in ten know the game day, and 5 of them might know that Collins is not still the QB. Mass fans(beyond those fans willing to purchase a ticket) are those who get the shirt at a flee Market.......and our local flee Market is on Sundays.

Ah yes. Great year for the Raider Haters.

There are many diehard Raider fans on this board who know more than a thing or two about the game (I would like to count myself among this crowd, but the few on these boards put me to shame with their gridiron acumen); all of us are likely right there with you in the opinion that this team is a complete and hilarious spectacle at this point.

But to call out an entire fanbase is ludicrous. Every NFL game I've been to has a lowest common denominator out there -- the fall-down drunk, calling out players' mothers during warm-ups, taking off their shirts in 30-below weather and carried out at halftime in a stretcher with hypothermia type of fans. They are most notable because they are the loudest and most obnoxious.

I will not deny that Raider fans have a certain rep, and having been to many a game at the Coliseum, I know the feel is more "prison yard" than "tailgate." But truth be told, I've seen much worse at other stadiums. In its totality, like every NFL team's fan base, the Raider Nation is a passionate and knowledgeable fan base.

For future reference, if you are going to make wide, sweeping generalizations about another group's ignorance, it's probably best to avoid irony completely with properly spelled words and a modicum of understanding about what an ellipse is.

Was that post even worth replying to, Tom?

Well, no.But it's late. I'm wasted. And I'm belligerent...and yes, my getting belligerent usually means verbose posts full of nitpicky grammar call-outs.

Truth be told, it's not as if I'm super-sensitive about the persistent stereotype of Raider fans. Nor am I thinskinned about all the pot shots this team has taken this season, because, as one of those highly knowlegeable and self-deprecating die-hard Raider fans yourself, you know as well as I do this team deserves it.

I guess it's just the cumulative effect of seasons of moronic arguments about why Raider fans are any worse than any other teams' fans who, say, had a jail in their stadium, or whose fans chuck bottles or sleetballs at players or other fans.

I think I can trace it to people poking fun of Al Davis puttering around with a walker. Call it the straw that broke the camel's back, but don't deign make fun of a man without whom there may not have been an NFL or a Superbowl. If anyone caught Adam Schefter's interiew with Al at the Hall of Fame Game, they know how quick-minded he still is -- he made Jerry Jones (and Schefter, at one point) look like rubes at the state fair.

So yes, the post didn't deserve a response, but I guess this season is grinding on me, much more than this team did in the mid 80s or 90s. Once the Molson wears off, I'll be back to posting more verbose posts full of nitpicky grammar call-outs, albeit in a much more congenial tone.

 

[Tom Servo]

Raiders will but the Titans will beat the Texans once and the Bills. Raider Fans are a trip when you can acctually find one that kows football. Those rare....knowledgable fans are about 70%-30% that they will beat the 49ers next week......yet I'm betting every "low-life" ignorant shirt wearing buy a truck in Silver guys I come across this week and make my starting point @ $20.00 ans will go up to $100.0 per bet. I plan on a minimum of $1,500.00 worth of best. If I'm wrong rub it in.....I'll have it coming.......but it's a bet that will be easy to establish......and I'm so sickenend to the point that I will even allow "food stamps" as long as they make it worth my while. You'd have to live in Cali to see how ridiculous it is.......1 in ten know the game day, and 5 of them might know that Collins is not still the QB. Mass fans(beyond those fans willing to purchase a ticket) are those who get the shirt at a flee Market.......and our local flee Market is on Sundays.

Ah yes. Great year for the Raider Haters.

There are many diehard Raider fans on this board who know more than a thing or two about the game (I would like to count myself among this crowd, but the few on these boards put me to shame with their gridiron acumen); all of us are likely right there with you in the opinion that this team is a complete and hilarious spectacle at this point.

But to call out an entire fanbase is ludicrous. Every NFL game I've been to has a lowest common denominator out there -- the fall-down drunk, calling out players' mothers during warm-ups, taking off their shirts in 30-below weather and carried out at halftime in a stretcher with hypothermia type of fans. They are most notable because they are the loudest and most obnoxious.

I will not deny that Raider fans have a certain rep, and having been to many a game at the Coliseum, I know the feel is more "prison yard" than "tailgate." But truth be told, I've seen much worse at other stadiums. In its totality, like every NFL team's fan base, the Raider Nation is a passionate and knowledgeable fan base.

For future reference, if you are going to make wide, sweeping generalizations about another group's ignorance, it's probably best to avoid irony completely with properly spelled words and a modicum of understanding about what an ellipse is.

Was that post even worth replying to, Tom?

Well, no.But it's late. I'm wasted. And I'm belligerent...and yes, my getting belligerent usually means verbose posts full of nitpicky grammar call-outs.

Truth be told, it's not as if I'm super-sensitive about the persistent stereotype of Raider fans. Nor am I thinskinned about all the pot shots this team has taken this season, because, as one of those highly knowlegeable and self-deprecating die-hard Raider fans yourself, you know as well as I do this team deserves it.

I guess it's just the cumulative effect of seasons of moronic arguments about why Raider fans are any worse than any other teams' fans who, say, had a jail in their stadium, or whose fans chuck bottles or sleetballs at players or other fans.

I think I can trace it to people poking fun of Al Davis puttering around with a walker. Call it the straw that broke the camel's back, but don't deign make fun of a man without whom there may not have been an NFL or a Superbowl. If anyone caught Adam Schefter's interiew with Al at the Hall of Fame Game, they know how quick-minded he still is -- he made Jerry Jones (and Schefter, at one point) look like rubes at the state fair.

So yes, the post didn't deserve a response, but I guess this season is grinding on me, much more than this team did in the mid 80s or 90s. Once the Molson wears off, I'll be back to posting more verbose posts full of nitpicky grammar call-outs, albeit in a much more congenial tone.

Al and the Raiders have as much to do with the history of the NFL as the Steelers, Packers, Giants, etc. It's this history that makes the present all the more annoying for the dyed-in-the-wool Raider fans like STC and RN. It is a down cycle for Oakland, and right now they look bad and have done a lot of stuff that has all the bearings of a bad comedy.

What got me in the original post is going to the "flee" market. Priceless...