NFL Week 2 Discussion

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As I thought VICK looked damn good against the Lions… he avoided major mistakes and was able to get his receivers the ball on the move. Good running game too… I think the Eagles need to work on the D-Fense…

Bears looked really nice against the BOYS… funny to watch the entire Fox crew put their mouths on the Cowboys… the BOYS are soft… not sure how you can possibly fix that…

Freeman looks really tight… funny wonder if Peter King will admit he was talkin out of his ass concerning Matt Moore. Never saw what that guy did last year… next to Delhomme I would look good.
Falcons kicked the Cardinals ass… and Derek A just sucks…sucks sucks… Whis’s hate against Leinart may come back to bite him in a 6-10 or 5-11 season.
Sanchez really manned up against an overrated Pats defense… And no tebow means the Josh M got out of his own way and got a win for Denver…

Got the Niners tonight stepping up and knocking the Saints in the mouth…

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I’ve been having the exact same internal debate. I wish I could subscribe on a week-to-week basis. Ponying up the day of when the Bears are on bye or playing in Primetime. It’d suck to buy the package and only use it a few times and if I get a call from friends to go out to a bar I’m left feeling like my money was wasted.

Wonder if they’ll make that adjustment.

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Redzone is only 5-7 bucks. I’m on the west coast though so maybe it’s better for me. In my market the Niners are on at 10am half the time and the Raiders are for the most part blacked out.

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Is it me, or does Alex Smith finally look like a grown man out there? Kid’s making some good decisions and playing like a pro.

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Wow. Saints got all the breaks tonight, and needed every single one of them to sneak out of town with a win. 49ers just won’t quit. Tough defense, and a QB coming of age. Willis is a beast in the middle.

Saints special teams had a good night. 49ers didn’t do much in the return game, and gave up the ball on the muffed punt.

Waiting for an update on Bush. He got carted off, prolly having an MRI on the knee…

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AAaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgh!

This just in: Patrick Willis is a beast, and so is Frank Gore. However, two guys I have been championing ended up costing us the game: Delanie Walker and Phillip Adams both coughed up the ball on very, very bad plays.

At least the play-calling thing was worked out (both the speed and quality). We still needed the win.

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Not entirely. They burned at least one timeout because the play was late getting in in the second half and the offense was a long ways from consistent for most of the night.

Did it look to anyone else like the kicker would have missed that last kick if not for the deflection? Looked to me like he had hooked it badly and the 49ers forearm straightened it out.

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Bush has a fractured fibula. Out at least 5 weeks.

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Braylon Edwards was arrested for DUI last night. Story

I understand how these things happen in the off season. But how the Hell do you get that drunk when you’ve got an NFL practice the next day?

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And, counter-intuitively, it doesn’t fall under the League’s personal conduct policy, but rather their substance abuse policy; which means no automatic suspension.

I hope Goodell hands one out anyway. There’s no excuse for this, especially, as you say, in the middle of the season.

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Picked up for DUI at 5:15 AM? WTF??

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Tuesday’s usually an off-day for NFL players. Probably out watching MNF (till 5:15, apparently). That article linked says that the conduct and personal conduct rulings can’t be used together against a player. So, no suspension unless he’s violated the substance abuse policy before.

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Without a dog in the hunt I was able to cheer simply for a good game last night and it was all of that and more. Hella matchup.

A question about SF’s 2 point conversion to Vernon Davis though. I can’t you.tube so going off memory here but it seemed to me that when Vernon caught the ball both he and the ball were in the endzone and he had possession but he was in the air and had not yet put his feet down. When they (feet) did come down they were back on the field of play, having crossed the goalline.

Did I see it wrong or, if that was the case, why would a receiver not need to plant both feet at the endzone front? He has to going out the back or either side of the endzone.

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The ball just needs to cross the plane, he gets his forward progress which is past the goal line as long as he maintains control of the ball.

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The TV crew at one point showed a still of Davis with the ball in his possession and both feet down. At that point the ball was well over the goal line. This video from the league shows a goal-line camera angle nicely that confirmed the still shot.

Although I’m happy that play succeeded, Josh Morgan (84) was wide open behind Davis. Although there was traffic between them, that might have been a safer throw for Smith.

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Has he ever played a full season without injury in the NFL? Seems like there’s something every year with him…

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2006, his rookie year. He’s missed at least 2 games every season since.

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GOOOOOO BENGALS!

Notching an ugly, defensive win over Baltimore, the Nasty Nati Boys are poised to get their offense on track over their next three games against Carolina, Tampa Bay and Cleveland. They have a realistic chance of being 4-1 going into their bye week.

There really have been some strange things going on so far in this still young season.

Patriots played great in their first game, looking like a machine, then get drubbed by the Jets, who looked terrible offensively in their first game against Baltimore.

The Bengals looked tentative and got beaten by the Patriots in the first game and then turn in a gritty, tough defensive effort against the Ravens to beat them. The Ravens offense, by the way, is putrid. Flacco is so overrated, and the media frenzy over their WR acquistions is misplaced too. They don’t look like a Superbowl team to me.

And neither does Dallas, whom is playing incredibly sloppy football and they were another team like the Ratbirds that many pundits picked to go to the big dance at the end of the year.

Tampa Bay is 2-0, and so are the Chiefs! Weird, although at least in the Bucs case it remains to be seen how good they really are.

The Colts get ran all over in week one and lose to the Texans, then take Eli and the Gints to the woodshed in week 2.

Minnesota looks like its in big trouble.

Pittsburgh is playing great defense and is getting wins off of that, penalties and playing lesser teams so far.

What happened to Tennessee? Jeez. From hero to benched goat in one game for Young. Crazy.

There’s more, but you get the idea. How good or bad are any of these teams not named New Orleans? Sure is a murky, mixed bag so far.

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That’s actually good news for Saints fans. If it was a tear or a strain, that’s the sort of thing that could linger throughout the season (and beyond). But a break heals clean; once it’s better, it’s over, and the player is back to 100%.

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I don’t think it’s fair to say that Pittsburgh has been playing lesser teams so far. Both the Titans and the Falcons are 1-1, and they both clobbered their non-Steelers opponent (though you could easily argue that those opponents were lesser teams). Chris Johnson had been tearing defenses apart, and many people were claiming Matt Ryan was reaching the ranks of top level QB, until they played the Steelers. I don’t think either team is a pushover.

That being said, the Steelers’ offense is pretty pathetic right now, but it has a decent chance of turning around when Roethlisberger is back.