Who has been the 2 biggest surprise teams (1 positive and 1 negative)
 

Who has been the most surprising teams in the league,1 surprisingly good and 1 surprisingly bad team?

GOOD SURPRISE TEAM:
Its a VERY tough call between Green Bay and Cleveland but I give the nod to Green Bay because of Favre's resugence as an all-pro QB and the fact that Cleveland has lost more games than GB.
so of course the Runner up is Cleveland

BAD SURPRISE TEAM:
Another tough call but one that comes most to mind is San Diego who was
14-2 last year,Sure Norv Turner was a lousy replacement and we expected SD to not be that great as last year but at 5-5 right now? - I expected better with all that talent which just proves a lousy coach can make a good team just as lousy
Runner up goes to the Oakland Raiders who I thought was going to make progress to at least be a 7 win team this year with what looked like a solid defense but 7 wins is not going to happen.

Your selections?

Re: Who has been the 2 biggest surprise teams (1 positive and 1 negative)
 

Detroit-Diego

Re: Who has been the 2 biggest surprise teams (1 positive and 1 negative)
 

Good surprise: The Patriots. I know I know...but even with the additions we made in the off-season I didn't think we would be this good. It was reasonable for fans to expect Brady to need time to get in sync with Welker, Moss and Stallworth, especially after two of them missed training camp, but turns out he didn't need the time.

Runner up: Green Bay, Cleveland.


Bad surprise: New Orleans and San Diego. I don't care that the Chargers won this week, there's no other way to characterize their season other than dissapointing (I'm enjoying it though). New Orleans has regressed.

Runner up: St. Louis, Cincy

Re: Who has been the 2 biggest surprise teams (1 positive and 1 negative)
 

Are you saying you thought before the season that Green Bay was going to be better than Detroit this year? - I didn't

As for Detroit,that debacle on Thanksgiving shows me where they will probably end up - Thats on the outside of the NFC playoff team bubble looking in

Re: Who has been the 2 biggest surprise teams (1 positive and 1 negative)
 

Cleveland - Denver

Re: Who has been the 2 biggest surprise teams (1 positive and 1 negative)
 

Absolutely. They have a ticked off Favre and somewhat of a tradition.

Detroit has had the worst GM in Millen. They've drafted the most overrated position, WR, very high then repeated again and again. They spent big for a QB and cut him and they've sucked pretty much forever.

They had a good coach (I thought) in Mariachi and that didn't work.

I could keep going.

Why in the world would you expect Detroit to do more than vie for the #1 pick again?

As much as Favre sucked last year, they were still 8-8 while Detroit was 3-13.

Did I misunderstand the question?

Re: Who has been the 2 biggest surprise teams (1 positive and 1 negative)
 

Negative?

Norval. He ####### both us and the Chargers up....there's no reason we shouldn't have made progress with an improved roster, but Mike Nolan was just too ******* stubborn to hire an offensive coach all season.

Positive?

I'll go Cleveland.

Re: Who has been the 2 biggest surprise teams (1 positive and 1 negative)
 

Packers and Chargers.

Re: Who has been the 2 biggest surprise teams (1 positive and 1 negative)
 

Packers and Ravens.

Re: Who has been the 2 biggest surprise teams (1 positive and 1 negative)
 

For a positive surprise, it's got to be the Browns. For a 'negative' surprise, I'll go with Baltimore.