The season starts in three days. Will the Bungles light it up with Owens and Ochocinco? Will the Steelers recover from Big Ben's 4-game suspension? Will Favre be brittle and old or as good as he was last year? Looks to be an interesting season.
The one thing I'm pretty sure of is that I'm tired of Favre acting more the drama queen than my 8th grade daughter every pre-season.
And the holdout is over! Revis signs! Given how good the defense has looked without him and how spotty the offense has been, I'd probably bet the under on every Jets game this season, at least until someone comes in with a line below 30 points . . .
There is a better chance of Santa personally granting another trip to the postseason. The Jets are the most overrated team going into this season, and their offseason acquisitions don't exactly inspire confidence, especially on the offense. For their sake, they better hope LT has some gas left in the tank, because their aerial game isn't going to be very good.
Was decent for a while, but the Vikings sort of fell apart in the second half. Both teams look very beatable.
Hey, the only people for whom the Jets' acquisitions in the secondary don't inspire confidence are the Jets' opponents. In camp and preseason games, LT's looked like he has a lot more gas left in the tank than Jones did last season; moving from the leagues worst run-blocking offensive line to one of the best will do that for a running back. Having a healthy and in-shape Kris Jenkins is more of an improvement over last season than any acquisition the Jets might have made on the D-line. Holmes was an absolute steal, even given his suspension. Taylor was fine for the situational role for which he was acquired, but he points out the real problem the Jets have at most positions: a lack of depth in the backups. The Jets will have a lot of problems if the injury bug hits. Besides depth, left guard and quarterback are potentially serious issues. Sanchez has the tools and work ethic to develop into a pretty good quarterback, but it's unclear if he has the maturity or brains needed for the job. And left guard is not going to make it any easier on Sanchez. Faneca was well and truly done for, a prime suspect last season whenever Sanchez nearly got his head taken off, so I don't think it was the wrong move to let him go, but the position battle for left guard between Slauson and Ducasse probably gave Sanchez and the coaching staff night terrors. The Jets defense is way too good for them to be a below average team this season, but depending on health, left guard, and Sanchez's development, nothing from 8-8 to 13-3 would surprise me.
The Patriots are looking much better than all the pundits predicted, they pounded the Bengals pretty hard today.
Arian Foster with the second best opening day rushing performance ever. Will the Texans finally supplant the Colts as the big stick in the South?
True, as far as it goes. What your statement overlooks is that the Bengals are nowhere near as good as most pundits like to think they are. Like last season, the Bengals are a mediocre team, and there's no reason to expect them to repeat last season's absurd string of luck that turned a 7-8 win team into a 10 win division champion. Given that the Bengals have the bad luck of a particularly difficult schedule already this season, they're probably about a 7 win team given average luck the rest of the way.
The Bears won today, but the jackass coach had two of the fucking dumbest decisions I have EVER seen. 1) Down by 2 at the half, he opts for the extra point instead of the two point try to tie it up. 2) With 4 minutes to go, down by 1 he goes for it on 4th and 1 from 1 yard line and they miss. Kick the field goal and put the points up you jackass. For my money he should be sacked tonight.
I don't think the Bengals are as mediocre as as you say, they have two shutdown corners, a good D line, a QB who is now healthy with two good receivers to throw to and Cedric Benson in the backfield, I like the Bengals to win 9 or 10 games. What makes the Pats looks good has nothing to do with the Bengals and everything to do with Wes Welker being back with a great 2 TD performance, Brady is healthy, looks sharp and is signed to a fat new contract with all his offensive weapons healthy. Also their D was flying to the ball and showed a bunch of different looks. To me it looks like Bill B has his team ready to play and I like them over Indy or the Jets in the AFC Championship game with a legitimate shot at the Super Bowl.
Well, the Rams looked capable of being reasonably competent. They had some bad plays against the Cardinals, but they made some good plays too, and they didn't show a ridiculous inability to tackle like they have in the past. The new QB seems promising. All in all, this season might be much less painful than the past few have been.
Bradford's getting a lot of undeserved praise for his week one performance. On the plus side, he threw the ball 55 times without his arm falling off. On the minus side he averaged under 5 yards an attempt, threw a bunch of picks, didn't show any ability at all to go downfield, and did it against a defense that was comically bad last season. It was a performance you'd expect from Mark Sanchez last year if every single running back on the Jets roster had been crippled in a mysterious accident. Now it was just one performance, and it was Bradford's first, so there's really no reason to change one's evaluation of him as a quarterback because of it. Still, Bradford did nothing last week to make bypassing Suh with the top pick look not idiotic.
The Jets beat the Pats 28-14. The Big Green Machine looked good today. A little rough in the 1st quarter, but good after that. Tom Brady looks like somebody shit in his bowl of Cheerios.
I predict that the Cowboys can still go to the Super Bowl. After all, they all make enough money to afford tickets and, this year, it's a short drive to attend the game.
Well, if he quits right after the Monday Night Game at the Jets in week five then the season will be entirely full of win no matter what happens next. Oddly enough, just before reading this post I got off the phone with a friend where I brought up the possibility of Farve quitting mid-season. I think it'll probably not happen until later on, but if he's got nagging injuries, is playing like a 41 year old cripple, and the Vikings are sucking, then there's really no reason for him not to retire sometime in the week 10-14 range.
Well, heading into this week's games, Football Outsiders' DAVE rating, which combines preseason predictions and early season performance, had Chicago ranked 6th and Dallas ranked 15th in the league, so not too much of a surprise to them. They really like the Bears' defense, expect much better from Cutler this season, and have the Cowboys pegged as thoroughly average in all aspects of the game.
