Black is white, up is down, dogs and cats living together…and what the fuck happened to the Vikings? I had them at 14 in my confidence game. Thank you so much Daunte…All I asked for on Sunday morning as I prayed to my Lord Jesus Christ and all of his Angels, was that the Bears not be embarrassed in Baltimore…Thank you Jesus.
I liked how the Bears looked. Certainly, I don’t think they’re the greatest team ever, but I saw some good stuff from Marty Booker, James Allen and the Defense…Please tell me that the Lions are really THAT bad and that the Packers aren’t that good. I can’t take a whole season of every commentator on the planet giving virtual hummers to Brett Favre every week. I can’t.
Interesting how my whole fantasy team from LAST year had a great day yesterday. Brunell, Ricky Williams, Jacquez Green, Warrick Dunn…where were you folks when I needed ya?
Anyway, regardless of how my final score looks over at SDMB Fantasy Football Extravaganza, I do know a little about football…I promise…I just was sure that Vinnie Testaverde knew how to play.
Ahhh. The pain of Vinnie as your fantasy QB. I know that well from past years.
This year I’ve got my own pain. I’ve got both Derrick Alexander and Tony Gonzalez from KC and who decides they’re not going to show up this week? The KC QB - Trent Green. Thanks Trent!
Tony did fair, I was looking for 10 points (our league uses touchdowns and yardage) from him and didn’t get it. Trent’s fumbling didn’t help much.
Can’t help ya with Bruce. I played against him and was crossing my fingers the whole game that he wouldn’t break open a big pass against me. It worked. It’s my fault Bruce didn’t do jack this weekend!
Not to worry (yet). The Lions really are that bad, and the Packers are pretty good. Favre did look very sharp, especially considering it was pouring rain, but Detroit has virtually no secondary. Also, the Pack’s defense looked great (and their d-line did have 7 sacks) but they were helped by Charlie Batch showing up with a whole pot of suckage. He had a terrible game – I’ve never seen a QB make such poor choices. He had receivers open all day and he seemed to not see them.
Still, Favre looked good enough where you will be tearing your hair out. His accuracy was there, he was throwing great on the run just the good ol’ days, and he even tossed a couple shovel passes. I rather enjoyed myself watching it.
On the plus side (for me), my fantasy team kicked ass this weekend. Bill Schroeder and Jimmy Smith, you guys rocked!
jarbaby, rather than dwell on the results in our league, allow me to point out how incredibly sexy a woman who knows football is. Rowwwrr! And remember, it’s a long season, so don’t get too down over the first one.
That said, I got knocked for 15 points by the Vikings. I figured [list=1] [li] they were the better team [] they were playing at home [] they have incredible offensive weapons [] Denny must have done something about the defense in the offseason, no? [] Chris Weinke was starting only his second game, first in the regular season, for chrissakes![/list=1][/li]
Think about the positives, though: the Bears are tied for second in the NFC Norris with the Vikings and the Lions, only 1 game behind the Packers and Bucs.
ShibbOleth - ya had to figure the vikes are gonna have some trouble. They lost their running game which makes them terribly easy to defend - Randy Moss or no. For my own enjoyment I try to guess the records of every team in the league. I’ve got Minnisota going 6-10.
I have Ahman Green on my fantasy team and heard he wouldn’t even play the entire team and almost sat him. I got pretty lucky there. I’ve also got Jimmy Smith and Sammy Knight (3ints) so needless to say I cleaned my poor opponents clock. Yah me. I realise that it’s just week but it’d be nice to improve on my 9-8 record from last year.
Here’s to hoping that The Shane Matthews Band is benched in favor of Miller or Wuerfel by week 3.
Explain this, the Bears let Engram go in favor of the tall, fast, rangy reciever as a deep threat. Look at them, D’Wanye Bates, Dez White, Marty Booker, Marcus Robinson, David Terrell…their all bigger than some linbackers, yet they don’t once throw the ball up down the sidelines and them them use their skills. Remember ‘98, Crowton made Robinson’s career by playing that ball. Granted Crowton is at BYU and his offfense had gotten solved, but that doesn’t change the fact these guys never made hay catching 4 yard outs and 6 yard hitches. My guess is that the Bears are more afraid of Matthews’ potato arm than defenses are. I’ve never understood what Jauron saw in this hack. And no, its not just this loss, I was never on his bandwagon in the McNown era either. I’d take McNown anyday over him, but the still puts McNown third behind Miller and Weurfel in my imaginary roster.
Thank God for Urlacher or else I’d have very little desire to even tune in.
As a Packer fan, all I can say is: T.J. Rubley. And I sympathize with Batch. A QB’s first game in this offense almost always sucks. Did you know Favre’s first completion was to himself? And the rest of that game was no better (it was a blowout. In Tampa(!) during the Sam Wyche days. Ouch.). Charlie looked like a deer in headlights a lot yesterday, but considering the new offense, the rain, and the pressure the Packers were getting (get used to the name Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, and it’s not pronounced “ba-ha,” but “ba-ja”) there’s not a lot he could do. The pick at the end of the first half was bad/dumb, but what’s up with Herman Moore totally giving up on the play? I’ve seen coma patients less inert than he was. I’d say if Charlie doesn’t look any better by the end of October then he’s done in Detroit.
And I didn’t think the Packers looked as good as everyone said. The first 12 minutes were very good, but some of that had to do with field conditions and a depleted Detroit defense. I think they’ll do well this season, but if they play the way they did the last 48 game minutes, then the beginning of the game is only false promise. Favre played really well and the defense stiffened in the red zone, but the special teams are shoddy outside of the kickers, the D was soft in the middle of the field, and dropping passes is still a problem. The commitment to the run is very important, but I think if people think it’s going to be all Ahman Green and very little Levens (if he stays healthy, that is), I suspect they’ll be wrong because the Packer O with Levens has always been a different (and more potent) thing then without (as we’ve learned these past few injury-riddled years). I think Favre feels very comfortable with him there, even when Dorsey’s limping, and I don’t think any defense wants to face a Favre when he feels comfy.
But enough rambling about the Packers. Anybody who saw the Vikings game, why did Bennett only get 30-some yards? Was it him or the O line?
I started watching American Football from last november. Since then, I have noticed a common strategy by the Ravens’ defense: Simply fall on the qurterback; you are bound to take him out.
This happened even in the season opener where we crushed the ankles of the quarterback who apparetnly had surgery on that ankle recently.
Is there some rule which says “You can injure only x quarterbacks a seaon”. if so, I would advise Billick to reserve this tactic for the teams like the Vikings; not the bears. We were leading at that point anyway.
