The Pats were up 52-0 before a garbage time TD. They are absolutely demolishing people, aren’t they?
I’m starting to feel pretty okay about the 34-17 Cleveland loss to the Pats. The game was actually closer than the score - a garbage time fumble recovery/return at the end boosted the Pats score.
The Browns have won back to back games for the first time since 2003 (or 2004?) which is sad, but good.
Derrick Anderson has thrown for about 500 yards, 6 TDs, and 0 ints, with 2 sacks (I think) in the last 2 weeks. A QB rating of 143 and 142. Who’d have guessed? The Browns have an interesting QB situation on their hand. Anderson is a RFA this year and a UFA next. If they decide they’re commited to Quinn… well, if Shaubb, far far less proven than Anderson, got 2 second rounders and a swapped first rouder, what could he pull in?
Braylon Edwards is an absolute stud - top 5 WR in the league. If you can get an extended highlights clip of the game, do so. A short highlight show might only show his TDs, but he had some amazing catches in this game.
Next week the Pats play the Colts. Game of the year. Much more interesting than the NE/Dallas matchup. Can’t wait.
Also can’t believe it’s a Sunday afternoon game. Did the networks not think that an Indy/NE matchup might be interesting?
Oh… right. NFC East matchups are required by law to be on prime time television.
The Giants apparantly did not want to lose in London today as much as Miami wanted to lose. Both teams honestly looked bad. At the end of the season, it will just look like a win, so I am damn happy they got it.
I cannot believe 52-7. The Skins are not that bad, maybe New England is that good? Wow, just wow.
Cowboys had off and the Eagles won, so the NFC East standings are
So far, this Pats team is looking like one of most dominant squads I’ve ever seen. Next week we’ll see if maybe I should take out the “one of the” part.
I hope someone knocks off the Pats. I don’t think I could deal with the hoopla over an undefeated season. If Indy doesn’t do it, my Steelers will get a shot in December, but they look darn tough, and who knows if anyone can stop them right now. The only thing worse to me than a Patriots undefeated season is a Browns, Bengals, Ravens or Cowboys undefeated season.
Pittsburgh looked great today on offense, but the defense looks decidedly human this year, which is discouraging. Ben’s having an outstanding year, and he looked very sharp again today (that one bonehead decision notwithstanding). Always nice to knock off the Bengals. Now to take care of Baltimore!
Speaking of the anticipated Colts-Pats game, does anyone know if this is the furthest into an NFL season that two undefeated teams have faced one another?
Go Bills! Okay, beating the Jets in a tight game isn’t much to brag about, but the Bills are gradually proving that they’re not in that lousy teir above Miami and St. Louis. And that Evans TD grab was pretty amazing.
I was just browing some stats, and I came across this.
Derrick Anderson is only 24 and only has 6 or 7 games as a starter, so he’s been pretty inconsistent. But his stats during the last two games (against admittedly weak teams, but you can only do what you have the opportunity to do):
vs Miami:
18/25 245 yards 72% 3 TDs 0 ints long of 33 rating 142.5
vs St. Lous
18/25 248 yards 72% 3 TDs 0 ints long of 29 rating 143
We can never beat the Pats. Remember the last few seasons? In our best season of the last five years, we beat them once during the regular season. They beat us at Heinz field during the championship. After that, we couldn’t even beat them during the regular season, even during our Superbowl run IIRC. We won’t do it this year unless something insane happens. It would be better to hope we beat them, somehow, some deux ex machina, during the playoffs. If we even make it that far.
We also struggle against the Broncos, including last weeks game. For some reason we don’t do well against both of those teams.
Watching the miserable Lions vs. Bears game a Lions player intercepted the ball at the goal line and landed on his side just outside of the endzone. His momentum then carried him into the endzone (again, he was on his side, not his feet if that matters). No one touched him so he stood up and started running and got about 7 yards.
My first thought was what a goof…better to stay there and take the touchback and be on the 20 yard line. Then I wondered if a Bears player had actually touched him down while he was in the endzone would that have been a safety?
Yes, he would have been better off to take the touchback. My guess is that he wasn’t sure if he’d come down outside the endzone and rolled in. You can only take the touchback if you came down in the endzone. He wasn’t sure, so he ran it out to be safe.
I understand that. I just wondered if you were totally powerless to stop bouncing into the endzone (i.e. he wasn’t trying to go there) if that would still count.
Well…it would have depended on the ref’s call. If your momentum carries you into the endzone, it would not be a safety. It’s only a safety if the player intentionally runs back into the endzone (be it to get a touchback or to simply cut across the field). If you catch the ball on a flying dive, land on the one and slide into the end zone from the dive, then are touched, the defender keeps the ball, and it’s spotted at the spot of the interception (the one yard line or so, in this example).
I think you’re not alone on this, but I do wonder why. Nobody seems to want the Patriots to go undefeated, which I can understand if you’re a Jets fan, I guess, but otherwise? I’m a Giants’ fan, so the Patriots fall into the great mass of teams between the Giants and Bills (my adopted AFC team) at the top and the Redskins, Cowboys, and Eagles at the bottom. I don’t have strong feelings about them one way or another.
But I’d LOVE to see them go undefeated. I’d just like to actually witness the accomplishment, which would be a significant and historic one. I’d also like to see someone finally shut up the '72 Dolphins, who have held this honor with about as much smugness and obnoxiousness as I can imagine possible.