If that ball was thrown any less perfectly, Welker goes down at the 20. Yeah, let’s not not give any credit to QB’s who hit their receivers in stride. Oh! and lets have a judge at every game who decides if any tackling attempts were poor, or any yardage was the result of a defensive breakdown, and purge those stats too. Tom Brady Sucks!!
I think we should tack 6 yards to Brady’s pass since he made from six yards behind the line of scrimmage.
Anyway, while I live in New England, I can’t help but feel a little sorry for Chad Henne. I mean, he had possibly the best game of his life last night – certainly a very good game by any comparison (Fourth highest yardage of anyone in the league for the season, 93 passer rating plus a rushing TD, and subjectively he was making good decisions, consistently getting the ball off just before the rush, and slotting some beautifully accurate passes helped by a couple great catches).
And yet he still loses by two touchdowns. Ouch.
SportsPickle’s Week 1 Checklist.
Is there a PC shortage in Cleveland? 
The Colts will do better, I think. They can hardly do worse. If Indy doesn’t straighten up, then, considering Indiana University’s football team sucks canal water and the basketball team is not much likely to be much better, the Pacers are going to be the only thing that will save this from being an awfully long winter for me.
However, my second favorite team did manage to win. Go Niners!!!
Amongst other things. Also clean drinking water, doctors to treat staph infections, skinny people, etc…
Kentucky is fatter than NE Ohio.
I’m on vacation and bouncing around a lot with only occasional internet access, I didn’t want to fiddle with a paypal title subscription and stuff from my ipod.
I couldn’t fit the entire “posting from the AFC North basement” in the title (character limit) so hopefully this is adequate.
Hopefully they can get their shit together against the hapless Colts so I can get rid of this.
Welcome to the bandwagon, baby!
Well I went to sleep before the flag throwing festival ended at Insert Your Name Here Field at Mile High. But what a disaster. Broncos can’t run and can’t stop the run. And that kinda makes it hard to anything else of significance. My hopes for mediocrity are dashed. Even Saint Elway is going to be hard pressed to turn this around any time soon.
Eh, don’t throw in the towel yet. I think the Raiders are, wait for it… a damn good team and will probably win the division. They have a pretty good offensive line made even better by a great running game, and importantly a coaching staff dedicated enough to stick with it when it starts slow. They have perhaps the best 1-2-3 back combo in the league in McFadden, Bush and Reece. Campbell can’t run a west coast but he’s damn good at play action, and might finally have a system that suits him. The Raiders receivers are still a work in progress and they’ll be what holds the offense back from being legitimately good. Defensively if the Raiders can manage to not commit every stupid penalty in the book they’ll probably stone some teams this year.
Are you serious or was this written for dramatic effect? The Raiders will probably win the division? They might. It’s not impossible. But probably?
I’m not at all sure the Raiders are a very good team at all. McFadden was a beast. Janikowski obviously is still very good and had a great night. Really that was about it. Against a 4-12 team the Raiders put up less than 300 yards. And the complete lack of composure (15 penalties for 131 yards) did not impress. Time will tell of course, but I think the Raiders looked really rough out there last night. To me that looked more like two teams imploding, with the Broncos just imploding more effectively.
I like them better right now than anyone else.
Ha, yeah, you are correct. I meant to use the term “surreal.” I was thinking surreal and inexplicably typed sublime.
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So a pass where the QB gets the ball to the receiver in perfect position for a long run should be treated the same as a pass where the receiver has to stop, turn around, lunge, and gets no extra yards?
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I think so, because too often a QB receives credit for yards that are generated exclusively by the receiver after the catch. Should a QB be credited with 99 passing yards on a 2-yard dump pass that the receiver takes 97 yards after breaking tackles, avoiding others and outrunning the rest of the defense (essentially a run)? The answer, of course, is yes, because it’s in the rules; but I don’t think it should be. The receiver is responsible for getting himself in a position for a long run.
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Yeah, let’s not not give any credit to QB’s who hit their receivers in stride.
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Oh! and lets have a judge at every game who decides if any tackling attempts were poor, or any yardage was the result of a defensive breakdown, and purge those stats too.
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My argument isn’t that a QB shouldn’t receive credit for passing yards because of a defensive lapse. My argument is that the QB shouldn’t get credit for things that a receiver does after the catch. Yards After Catch is a receiver-only stat after all. “Poor tackling” and “defensive breakdown” was simply narrative describing the play (as I saw it).
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Tom Brady Sucks!!
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Ridiculous straw man again.
I sure am glad I don’t live there then!
Beef, you wear it well! Its a badge of honor to be posting from the AFCN basement. I should know, as my team is there a lot!
So what’s the deal…you keep that thing if the Bengals win and the Browns win because you’ll still be in last place? Do you get to get rid of it if the Browns win and the Steelers lose because then they will be in last place if the Benagls also win? I think I like the latter scenario the best. It’ll be tough talking AirmanDoors into wearing the tag, though.
It’ll be tough because it’s not going to happen. I’ll put it on if the Steelers finish last, and I’ll leave it on for the entire offseason. I’ve nothing to worry about, but I’ll humor you guys into thinking that it matters.
You guys should have waited until the third or fourth week when things started to shake out, because in the first week you each had a 25% chance no matter what. Next week it could be a 4-way tie for first, so you’d be posting from both the bottom and the top.
I don’t see this at all. I agree with the RBs and I think they have a really solid Dline; but I can’t see how that Oline is any better than “adequate.” None are high-round picks, except for a rookie taken in the second round because of nepotism. Not saying that you can’t succeed with overachievers, but a whole line of them makes me wonder about the talent level.
More crucially, the secondary and the WRs look very weak to me. The NFL is a passing league, and they’re going to struggle at it. A poor team with a weak Dline such as Denver’s will let them hang around and pound away with the run. But better teams will do better against their pass rush, and force them to throw and pass protect.
They’re a great team … if it’s 1978, and everyone’s running the ball 40 times a game. As it is, I see a low ceiling for them.
Look at it this way: does anyone really think Jason Campbell is going to win them any games?