The good news is the Bills won again and are 5-1. The bad news is they were threatened by the Dolphins.
If you love 4 yard passes and special teams touchdowns, the Bears/Saints came is for you.
Not surprising, though. Miami’s winless but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be a pushover. Bills are looking good - good to see football back in Buffalo.
I guess it might be time to get out the stopwatch to see how long Dan Quinn lasts. I think he’s a good coach, but he’ll probably never recover from blowing a 28-3 lead in the big one - at least not while he’s in Atlanta.
You can say the same about Pete Carroll. Gus Bradley was head coach of the Jaguars for a few years after being the DC for Carroll, went 14-48 and got fired.
Dan Quinn is another former DC who became head coach of the Falcons. He had more success than Bradley, even getting to a Super Bowl (which was lost in epic fashion) and has an overall winning record, but rumors are that he will be fired this year in the midst of his 5th year as head coach. (Likely in the bye week.)
The point is that having long-term success in the NFL is difficult, as the league is designed to support parity and to try to prevent a team from being too dominant for too long. The deck is stacked against every head coach. The ones that manage to do it are exceptional and you shouldn’t expect their protégés to have the same success.
Great player quote of the day:
“It’s not good enough that we haven’t won a single game.” - Preston Brown, linebacker, Cincinnati Bengals.
Holy crap! An offensive touchdown and a pass that went more than 15 yards in the air. Living large in the Bears/Saints game now.
I’m not a Ravens fan but I’m liking their defense. Kinda tired of seeing pretty boy Wilson get the benefit of roughing the passer calls.
Man, the Bengals are back to bein the Bungals.
Not sure that holdout was a good idea for Melvin.
I do enjoy Tarik Cohen jawing after a 9 yard gain on dump off, when his team is down 26 late in the 4th quarter. That’s cool.
Saints playing awfully well without Brees.
At this point I’ll be shocked if he lasts the rest of the season.
Funny, Dave Wannstedt on the Pro Football Weekly show has, more than once, commented: “I don’t think Atlanta has recovered from losing to New England.”
I told my wife more than once while watching SF @ Wash: “Now THAT is football weather over there!”
Aaron Rodgers is unbelievable. How often do teams have the luxury of having one future H.o.F. QB take over for another? The Packers have REALLY lucked out in that regard over the last 25+ years.
I predicted a Seahawks loss today. Despite their 5 - 1 record going into today I just haven’t been that impressed. Baltimore took it to 'em because these Seahawks aren’t good enough to make the kinds (and number) of mistakes that they did in today’s game and in the game against “Nawlins” and still come away with the “W” (at least not against good teams).
And here I thought the fact that they played the Seahawks so tough in Week 1 meant that they’d made the right choice in changing head coaches. Now it looks more like that game said more about Seattle than it did about Cincinnatus.
I’m a HUGE R.W. fan. I’ve got stuff with his likeness on it all over my house. But I have to agree with you that at least some of the “roughing the passer” calls made when opponents have tackled him are the kinds of calls that a guy like Jack Lambert would be steaming mad at (and with good reason, in my opinion).
I think they’re playing with purpose after they (in my opinion) got JOBBED out of a trip to the Super Bowl last season.
It’s telling that they gave up 14 points to turnovers (a pick-six and a fumble) and lost by 14 points.