What do you think was the biggest surprise of the 2011 season? Was it the play of the rookie quarterbacks in the lockout shortened "season?" Was it the Colts going 0-13 without Peyton Manning? Was it the play of the San Francisco 49ers? Cincinnati Bengals? Dan Marino's passing record falling to Drew Brees and possibly Tom Brady? What was it?!?
i'm going with the choke job by the eagles. the niners situation is surprising, but i don't know if he is the most surprising, considering how much talent we knew was sitting there all along.
I went with how horrible the Colts have been without Peyton. I think we all knew they would not be close to the team they were with Peyton but what they are now is just awful...
yep, the colts embarassing themselves was on my final 3 list. i don't believe that peyton manning is worth 8 or 9 extra wins a year for a team. He's obviously worth at least a few (maybe 5) but i don't believe this team should be 2-13. they were 10-6 last year with manning so they probably should have been able to get 5 or 6 wins this year.
I can't decide between the Eagles and the Colts. I might give the edge to the Eagles because people were basically talking Super Bowl or bust for that team, and they're not even in the playoffs.
The Colts have had crapty drafts for the last few years. Its surprising it was that bad, but a drop off was coming. I took the 49ers over the Eagles because the Eagles are still around .500. If Phil. dropped like the Colts did, I would have picked them.
With Manning, I didn't think they would be better than 10 wins. I thought they'd hit that mark, but I still felt like the Texans would win the division.
I knew the Colts were going to be awful because if you looked at last year you saw that Manning carried that team.
if they win sunday... they would be 3 wins better than i thought. i penciled 10-6 without alex:icon_eek:
Nothing really surprised me. One year turnarounds are fairly common, especially with a new coach. If theNiners continue to do well next year I'll be surprised. The Colts were surprisingly bad but again I wasn't shocked. You could tell they were on the down slide with some of the struggles they has last year. They didn't seem unbeatable. If I had to choose I would go with the rookie QB's
I remember thinking the 49ers would be a 8-8 or 9-7 team who had a shot of winning a bad division. That defense though put together a dominant season and I am shocked this team could end up locking up a bye and a home game in the playoffs.
I'm kind of surprised that the Niners are running away with it. I thought they'd be improved and win the division. I didn't think they'd be as good as they are though.
The San Fransisco 49ers all of a sudden becoming the team nobody wants to play after years of being abysmal. Nobody saw this one coming.
