Wish Brandon Weeden wasn't so batshit fucking awful. One offensive drive and the Browns get the upset of the weekend.
Defense balled out, though. They'll need to do the same all season to win some games. Frankly, should have just taken Stephen Hill in the spot we took Weeden, and had an extra weapon for Matt Barkley/Geno Smith/Tyler Bray/Tyler Wilson/whichever QB we're going to have to draft anyway because Weeden is awful.
That was clearly a delay of game. These replacement refs are terrible.
That was clearly a delay of game. These replacement refs are terrible.
I agree definitely a bad call.
Man Denver just ran over the Steelers defense
Tracy Porter.
It's always Tracy Porter.
I'd say Peyton had a good first return game
How are the replacement officials so bad that they can't even get replay correct.
How are the replacement officials so bad that they can't even get replay correct.
What is catch.
But seriously, lol
Looking for a reason to root for my boys in Blue and Gold? You got it:
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Alright, let's go Chargers!
The Ravens should feel lucky that Bengals DT didn't do the same kind of cheap shot to Flacco while they were trying to run up the score that they did to Dalton.
And calling a timeout just to bully the officials about a completely legitimate call against a cheap shot when they were the beneficiaries of the only two notably bad calls of the night. I feel like the Ravens are trying to poke karma with a knife.
So apparently Reed broke Woodson's record for most interception return yards.
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Also, I never understood what's so wrong about running up the score. After all, it counts towards tiebreakers so you should always try and score as much as possible.
I have no issues with the concept of running up the score in professional sports. My issue comes with the injury risk that teams are always oh so concerned about. This is especially true when you give the other team a reason to want to take a couple cheap shots.
The Chargers/Raiders game is pretty interesting. I feel like the Raiders should just embrace who they are rather than having this huge identity crisis about being "disciplined" and all that. I've always associated them as a heavily penalized, nasty team that other teams just don't want to have to play. "Just win, baby."
Rivers looks good so far. Two years ago he was one of the top 5 QB's in the league, but last year he wasn't as consistent with his accuracy. He was still a very good quarterback, but fell out of that elite group with guys like Brady and Brees. I want to know if that was a one year anomaly or if he can return to form. I saw him miss a couple of his spots so far, but not many. And to his credit, those misses haven't erred on the side of interceptions to this point.
Positives from tonight's game: Chargers D looked better than ever. They had a couple of bad drives but for the most part they beat up on the Raiders. Rivers picked the D apart for the most part.
Negatives: Red Zone woes. 20 points left off the board because they settled for FGs. Running game: hopefully it'll be better when Mathews is back.
Looks like it's going to be another frustrating season to be a Chargers fan.
Oh well, I'll take a win over the Raiders no matter how it's done.
Chargers D looked really good tonight. Haven't seen them look that intimidating since the Merriman days.
11-5 last week
Chicago @ Green Bay
Kansas City @ Buffalo
Cleveland @ Cincinnati
Minnesota @ Indianapolis
Oakland @ Miami
Arizona @ New England
Tampa Bay @ New York Giants
Baltimore @ Philadelphia
New Orleans @ Carolina
Houston @ Jacksonville
Washington @ St. Louis
Dallas @ Seattle
New York Jets @ Pittsburgh
Tennessee @ San Diego
Detroit @ San Francisco
Denver @ Atlanta
9-7 last week, boooooo. I don't think GB is in any sort of trouble yet, but I will if they lose tonight.
Chicago @ Green Bay
Kansas City @ Buffalo
Cleveland @ Cincinnati
Minnesota @ Indianapolis
Oakland @ Miami
Arizona @ New England
Tampa Bay @ New York Giants
Baltimore @ Philadelphia
New Orleans @ Carolina
Houston @ Jacksonville
Washington @ St. Louis
Dallas @ Seattle
New York Jets @ Pittsburgh
Tennessee @ San Diego
Detroit @ San Francisco
Denver @ Atlanta
I too went 9-7 last week. Chicago @ Green Bay
Kansas City @ Buffalo
Cleveland @ Cincinnati
Minnesota @ Indianapolis
Oakland @ Miami
Arizona @ New England
Tampa Bay @ New York Giants
Baltimore @ Philadelphia
New Orleans @ Carolina
Houston @ Jacksonville
Washington @ St. Louis
Dallas @ Seattle
New York Jets @ Pittsburgh
Tennessee @ San Diego
Detroit @ San Francisco
Denver @ Atlanta
10-6 last week myself.
Chicago @ Green Bay
Kansas City @ Buffalo
Cleveland @ Cincinnati
Minnesota @ Indianapolis
Oakland @ Miami
Arizona @ New England
Tampa Bay @ New York Giants
Baltimore @ Philadelphia
New Orleans @ Carolina
Houston @ Jacksonville
Washington @ St. Louis
Dallas @ Seattle
New York Jets @ Pittsburgh
Tennessee @ San Diego
Detroit @ San Francisco
Denver @ Atlanta
Wow. I never thought I'd see so many people hating the Packers at home.
Woo!!!! Down goes Rodgers!!!!
Me: Oh yeah! Forte is getting it going!
TV: Uh Oh. There goes Forte into the locker room. He might be done for the night.
Me: :cwy:
The o-line is just as bad as ever. Cutler is constantly having to run for his life.
The Packers are still one of the most dangerous teams in the league. If that defense manages to be average, that might be all they need, and they looked good tonight. Hopefully Tramon can stay healthy this year, because he was great two years ago.
Bears will be even more of a night and day team. I don't think anyone can beat GB if the Claymaker gets 4 sacks. It's definitely not happening with 4 picks.
Woo!!!! Down goes Rodgers!!!!
Well, at least he wasn't Cutler.
@Nex:
Fantasy wishes coming through. I'm against Rogers in 3 of my leagues this week. Including ours. And I would really like to beat you
Tbh, as a Packers fan I can say that the games against the Bears are usually uglier looking and more defensive than people expect. And the Packers still won but Rodgers really put up a pretty bad fantasy week. As a fan I was fine with what he did this week, but as a fantasy owner not so much.
Rachel Nichols @Rachel__Nichols
Just interviewed Charles Woodson on the field - he said: "It's the same old Jay. We just need to be in position. Jay will throw us the ball"
Ouch.
Lol yeah. Cutler sort of dug his own grave this week by wishing the Packers secondary luck trying to cover the Bears receivers. Unfortunately for him, the Packers are a defense that's built on turnovers and Cutler's a QB that has a history of making a lot of them, especially when he travels to Green Bay. He's never had a game there in a Bears uniform that wasn't completely dismal and embarrassing for him. And now he's got a couple extra days to hear about it from the Chicago media.
I see very few analysts who ever really seem to understand how the Packers defense functions. People frequently focus on the fact that they were last in the league in yards allowed last year and treat them as a terrible defense because of it, but they were middle of the road in points allowed, and number 1 by a long shot in interceptions. Not many fumble recoveries put them 2nd in total turnovers and turnover margin to the 49'ers I think. That's what they do, they gamble yards to try to get turnovers. If they don't get them, it looks bad, and they rely on the offense to win a shootout. But when they do, along with that offense, they become virtually unbeatable. The 49'ers are a very tough matchup for them in large part due to the fact that they very rarely turn it over on offense.
I think their defense got a little annoyed with how many people ripped them apart for yards allowed last year. I don't know how much it will change, but I'll be interested to see if they focus on eliminating the big play going forward like they did yesterday. It still wasn't perfect but it was better than usual.
There's plenty of blame to go around with this loss.
Of course Jay had a terrible night, but in his defense Marshall dropped a TD, Bennett stood there like a rock when he should've went back to the ball when it came to him, Briggs dropped an easy pick, and once again OL play was absolute shit. I don't mind Cutler going off on Webb like that, he should be pissed.
It's still early in the season, so let's see how they from here.
Oh, I don't mean to pin the loss solely on Cutler's shoulders, but he did play a miserable game this week and he's going to get a lot of flack for that and his attitude in Chicago. The OL was bad and got whipped, but Cutler didn't do them any favors with how long he held the ball either. He has just as many reasons to be upset with himself, and the fact that he seems to be harder on his teammates (not named Marshall) than he is on his own play is I think what irritates people. Chicago played a bad game offensively. It's not indicative of how they'll play over the course of the entire season at all, but it is indicative of how they've played in Green Bay during the Cutler era. I don't know why, but they seem to put up the worst game of their season when they travel there every year. They'll probably look just fine next week.
But it's not like the Bears were the only team with missed opportunities. The Packers dropped two more potential interceptions, dropped two touchdown passes, and their one interception was also because of a WR not doing his job. These things happen in every game on both sides, so I try not to get hung up on them. Ultimately, the game turned on the fake field goal that blindsided literally everyone. It takes some serious balls to make that call on 4th and 26. I could hardly believe my eyes. And Matthews was an absolute terror all game long, easily deserving of player of the game (and now the front runner for NFC defensive player of the week). You know it's a big game when a guy who limits Marshall to two catches while getting two picks isn't even considered.
Even though I'm a Packer fan, I do hope that Forte can recover quickly. Even with Marshall, Forte is still probably the best offensive player on that team, and I never like to see teams get crippled by injury. Of course they can't make excuses and need to succeed in spite of it, which I think they can, but I still hope he can overcome it quickly. High ankle sprains are always tricky.
I'm going to the Bolts Titans game today. Looking forward to the ceremony for Seau. If I can get some good pics I'll throw em up later.
Oh jacksonville. You've had first round draft picks in a row for 5 years, and you're still this bad.
Oh well. Texans 2-0
I cannot believe I sat Eli for RG3.
Then again, I can't believe he threw for 500 freaking yards.
Anyway, the ceremony was fantastic. I'll post pics once I get home. My service ain't to get here.
I can't believe New England had it won but lost.
Ravens- Eagles has been a pretty good slobberknocker.
The refs in the Rams and Redskins game are terrible.
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Again the refs are terrible in this game.
Another sloppy win for the Eagles. If they can lessen the turnovers, they'd have a beastly offense. Once again the replacement refs are awful.
The refs are freaking horrible in the rams again.
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Thankfully. The rams finally got in the endzone. Those refs are horrible.
Amazing footwork by Wallace!
That was great catch by Gibson for the Touchdown.
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The Rams offense is doing pretty damn great.
How in the mother of fuck was that a pass interference?!
The Rams won!! YES YES YES!!!!
The redskins just got Cundiff'd.
Well, watching Dallas play actually made me feel depressed.
I mean, I felt really sad watching them fall apart.
And I didn't even want them to win.
Is Arizona better than anyone thought? That's not possible… right? Oakland was also surprisingly bad. Philadelphia sticks out to me by committing 9 turnovers in 2 games and still going 2-0 anyway. San Fran still looks like the best team in the NFL. TB vs NYG wins the craziest game of the weekend award. Through 6 quarters, I thought the TB defense was something to be feared this year. Then 510 passing yards happened. I don't think Romo will ever willingly go to Seattle again, as that place is a nightmare for him. San Diego looks dominant through two games, even if they were both against subpar teams. Looks like I might have overestimated Cincinnati this year.
Finally, I'm sure we all had New Orleans sitting at 0-2 right now...
It's hard for me to be upset about the fantasy league, because I dominated in my two money leagues this week. I put up 192 in one league (with the next highest being 157), despite Brady sucking. If only I could do that all year.
I kinda expected Arizona to be good this year. As a Rams fan, I didn't expect them to be good this year, since its Fisher's first year as head coach for the team. But I didn't expect them to be this pretty good this year. I'm still surpise that they came close of beating the Lions in Week 1. I won't be surpise in the next year or so that Rams starts to be really great again like they were in the early 2000's. Hell, the entire NFC West is pretty damn great this year so far.
I struggle to believe that Arizona can be that good for the simple fact that they don't have a quarterback they're happy with and they really don't have an offensive line, either. Their offensive line came in as one of the worst in the league, and they've since lost two of them for the season I believe. However, their defense is really good, and their special teams is good too, so they should be able to compete most weeks. Maybe they can compete for a wild card this year if things go their way.
If New England has proven one thing in the past 5 years or so, it's that their biggest weakness is pressure from the opposing defensive line. Brady is anything but mobile, and he's now like 35 years old too. It's for that reason that I worry about them a bit this year, since their offensive line is in the worst shape I've seen it in in a really long time. Combine that with an Arizona front line that really got after it, and it was a recipe for disaster. Their biggest weakness, in my mind, seems more exploitable this year than ever before (during their "dynasty" era). We could learn a lot from their trip to Baltimore next week.
I haven't really had a chance to see St Louis at all, so I can't really comment on them too much. But they have a great head coach who has always excelled at defense and running. So I would expect them to at least become competitive over the next year or two. I'm not sure a 4 interception game from Stafford is repeatable.
I don't see them doing another multiple interceptions game again like what happen in week 1 against Stafford again. But it should interesting when they play Chicago this weekend.
Yikes, not a good start for Peyton.
@Nex:
I cannot believe I sat Eli for RG3.
Then again, I can't believe he threw for 500 freaking yards.
Anyway, the ceremony was fantastic. I'll post pics once I get home. My service ain't to get here.
Still upset you started RG3?
let see iof peyton can pull of another comeback win
So I'm absolutely sucking in our league hear. Yet in my other 16! team league I have led the scoring both weeks. Mostly thanks to Spiller.
