I gotta remember to do these threads if no one else is.
Has there ever been a team in NFL history that’s been as dominant as the Pats? 42-7 at half time. Closest their opponents have gotten is 17 points.
It’s like they’re playing Madden '08 out there.
5 TDs in a half for Brady.
He has a legit shot at breaking the TD record. Definitely not a foregone conclusion, though - he doesn’t get to play in a dome all year, he’s going to have to tone down the air attack later in the season.
All I’ve gotta say is Nolan has to go. If anything, the team’s getting worse. My beloved niners are simply terrible.
I don’t see anyone beating these guys this year. Maybe the Steelers if they could manage to dirty up Brady’s uniform and keep the ball out of his hands, but even that would be a longshot. Other than that, I think they’re looking at a perfect season.
Meanwhile, the Bills’ Trent Edwards ran a no-huddle in his third NFL start (sixth NFL game). He and Lynch are looking awfully good.
My Cardinals almost came back. How come this is so much like the Baltimore game?
Arizona still wins the NFC West.
Here, here! An opposing offense has nothing to fear if they know the other offense is completely and totally impotent. I know we need new offensive linemen first, but when do we get to draft a new QB?
At least the Sharks are getting it together.
Brady racked up anther 6 TDs. It is amazing. I am actually rooting for him to do it.
Meanwhile, my **Giants ** won a laugher over SF. Next week they get to visit London to take on the Dolphins. I am hoping they can go into the bye at 6-2. I cannot believe this is the same team that started the season. They are playing so much better and the coaches have the offense spreading things around and the defense swarming and aggressive.
Jim (Thank you for starting the thread SenorBeef)
But he looks so great in that tie!
Got to watch the Houston-Tennessee game here…very fitting for this franchise that they fought back from a 32-7 deficit in front of an emptied stadium (most of whom were likely more disappointed that Vince Young didn’t play), only to lose on a last second field goal, the eighth of the day, which broke an NFL record.
Wow, the Cowboy’s defense just shut down the Vikings attempt at a passing game. Less than 60 yards? Adrian Peterson is good, but not that good.
Sad, I was hoping the Vikings were going to help the **Giants ** out. They had my hopes up after the first half.
Jim
It’s really scary to see what the Cowboys did to the Vikings, and then think back to what New England did to the Cowboys. Were Griese’s undefeated Dolphins this overwhelmingly dominant?
I don’t think the Giants are going to need any help, except with the Cowboys. TB is saying the NFC East is the best division in the NFL. He’s probably right, but only because the Colts aren’t in the AFC East anymore, and Jax isn’t in the Central.
As of yesterday, by the way, there were three teams in the NFL that had a PF:PA ratio over 2:1. New England, Pittsburgh, and Jacksonville.
Go Broncos!!!
Hopefully next week the Broncos win won’t come down to Elam’s leg.
How about that 2-minute drill by my B[COLOR=DarkOrange]ears[/COLOR]? I am a lifelong fan, but I didn’t have much faith that they could pull that off. And the topper is that Griese’s headset wasn’t working - he called most of the plays on that drive. It appears that Griese is shaking off the rust at last.
This team is going to be credited with more than a few heart attacks.
Random note: Minnesota’s coaching staff seems to be retarded.
They have one of the most explosive players in the league on their offense… and that’s pretty much all they have on offense. But even after a spectacular performance, he struggles to get carries.
Before I thought they were worried about wearing him down and injuring him. If you have a decent back to RBBC with it could keep both of them fresher. I disagreed with the idea but I could at least see the reasoning.
But… then they use Peterson on kick returns. And not crucial kick returns like the last drive of last week, but simply the first kick return of the game.
Which completely negates any sort of logic they might have for not giving him a lot of carries.
They just seem dumb.
Come on now, Peterson had a significant injury every year in college. With an investment like that, if you can limit him and bring him in slowly, it’s all the better. The Vikings aren’t going anywhere. There’s no reason to trot Peterson out there to get devoured if they have Chet Taylor.
Not even close, and a fact that you never hear reported with the stories of the “amazing” 1972 Dolphins is that they benefited from one of the easiest schedules in NFL history- the best team they beat in the regular season was 8-6. Their opponents records:
8-6
1-13
7-7
7-7
4-9-1
4-9-1
5-9
4-9-1
3-11
7-7
4-9-1
3-11
8-6
5-9
So if the Pats do run the table, they will wipe out the Dolphins not only by playing two more games, but by playing an inifinitely harder schedule.
And every NFL commentator who said Randy Moss was finished should retire, immediately. A one-handed catch with his back to Brady? Who were the Raiders coaches who said he was “done”- Art Shell, who didn’t have a job before or since his Raiders debacle, and his coordiantor who was running a bed and breakfast before Art deemed him worthy of running an NFL offense? These are the brains who said Moss was done. No wonder no ones called them for jobs in a decade except the Masqua-Raiders.
So who is the only other team to win its first seven games by 17 or more?
ETA: It looks to be the 1998 Rams, who lost in week 8.
With the exception of the Pats, is there another team that people don’t want to see on their upcoming schedule more than the Giants?
Barring a London miracle, Big Blue will be 6-2 at the half-way point. Of course, they were 6-2 at the half-way point last year, and 2-6 after that. However, I have to feel they’ll be able to shake off the late-season shakes they’ve had the last few years. They’re playing like a completely different team this time around.
Is it too early to think that perhaps we’ll even see a playoff win this season?
Wow - only two games against teams that finished above .500? Thanks for this sursprising info.
Perhaps the Andy Reid era has come to pass in Philly, where they again fail to score on nearly every trip to the “red zone” and he claims “he is responsible” and “has to get that fixed”. McNabb looks horrible with respect to accuracy and field vision, and even the D couldn’t bail them out in the 4th Quarter.
None of this sounds right. The AFC East may be the worst division in football, or at very least near the bottom. The AFC South is probably the best division in all of football right now; moving the Colts to the East wouldn’t help either division.
The NFC East is almost certainly a solid #2 in the rankings, though since I haven’t been doing them this year I can’t say for sure.