Here's some random NFL...
The Jets are totally fucked. There's no way around it. This is a team that still has to play the great Bills defense, Bellichick twice and Saban again. With that quarterback situation, those are five losses. Now tack on the Ravens, Bucs, Falcons and Chargers. Are the Jets going to be favored in ANY of those games? I can definitely see this team losing ten games. (And by the way, this is more a response to Fiedler's injury than Pennington's.)
Say what you want about Marvin Lewis, Nick Saban is the NFL's coach of the year to this point.
I wonder if Jerry Angelo and Lovie Smith are thinking, "Maybe we should've taken Cadillac."
BANDWAGON WATCH: Anyone still have the Cardinals winning the NFC West?
The Dallas Cowboys have played three of the five most exciting games in football this season.
So the Patriots lose their two coordinators. Now they've lost their best defensive player and their best offensive lineman. How much of this can they deal with?
The Detroit Lions lost their last game 38-6 and have ascended into first place in the NFC North.
I've avoided it for years but I'd like to thank those of you for welcoming me onto the Jacksonville Jaguars bandwagon. If fat Byron stays on the field, they'll be joining the Bengals as the AFC Wildcards.
For some reason, people don't like talking about Shaun Alexander. 22 carries for 140 yards and 4 touchdowns.
Alright, Tom Coughlin. You're tough. We get it. Win something.
What's up with the Carolina Panthers? Lose to the Saints and Dolphins and beat the champs. This is a wacky league.
AMERICA IS AWESOME ALERT: Hey, Mexico! You guys want a professional football game? You do! Cool! Oh, oops. Well, we can't really get that together but we will send you the San Francisco 49ers and Arizona Cardinals.
Takeo Spikes going down for the year is going to be a very interesting injury to watch in Buffalo. I'm a big fan of defensive coordinator Jerry Gray but the Bills rush defense looked burnable by the Bucs last week. If Deuce Macallister does a 24-150 to them this week, the season could get considerably longer.
On another Bills note, I'm shocked at the number of analysts writing that it should be Kelly Holmcomb's turn in Buffalo.
Shame on the Washington Redskins. You clearly hate Patrick Ramsey. He's been treated worse than any other player in the NFL. Now, he has an actual chance to go start for a pretty good football team and you won't even entertain offers from the New York Jets. They're not in your conference.
If Cleveland scored 14 points on Sunday, this entire week would be dedicated to Romeo owns Peyton stories.
BEARS FANS START CRYING ALERT: The biggest mistake in the modern history of this franchise will be not handing the reigns over to Nick Saban a year ago.
THE FIVE BEST TEAMS
5. Pittsburgh Steelers, Cincinnati Bengals (tie) - I will never pick the Steelers to win a big game.
4. Philadelphia Eagles - They're starting to roll.
3. Tampa Bay Bucs - Starting to look like the best team in the conference.
2. New England Patriots - God, Adam Vinatieri is the best clutch player in the sport.
1. Indianapolis Colts - Alright, I'll roll with it. Dwight Freeney is the Defensive Player of the Year thus far.
THE FIVE WORST TEAMS
5. Detroit Lions - the only first place team that ever makes this list. They lost 38-6 TO THE BEARS!!!
4. San Francisco 49ers - they're playing hard, though.
3. Arizona Cardinals - shock.
2. Houston Texans - week off and they jump a slot.
1. Green Bay Packers - hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
(Note: The Pack have a Monday Night game this week. Producers have ordered one million wet rags to wipe the you-know-what of you-know-who off the chins of Al Michael and John Madden.)
The Bears are 1-0 when Kyle Orton doesn't throw an interception. 0-2 when he does. Not that complicated, kids.
I'm a firm believe in one play changing the course of an entire game. If Justin Gage makes the catch on the Bears first drive or Mike Brown makes the goalline interception, that's an entirely different football game.
THE RACE FOR MVP
5. Dwight Freeney - I love involving defensive players in this race.
4. Julius Jones - make no mistake about it...he's the reason Bledsoe is holding it together.
3. Donovan McNabb - banged up and playing the best quarterback of his career.
2. Carson Palmer - watch the first touchdown pass he threw Sunday between Tillman and Mike Brown. It was absolutely perfect.
1. Cadillac Williams - he's on pace for 2,315 yards. He won't do it but that'd be 200 yards over the all-time record and 500 yards over the rookie record.
Bill Bellichick told the Pittsburgh trainer to "get the fuck off the field" when the guy came out to help out with Matt Light, after noticing how serious he thought the injury was. Hey Bill, you're a a great football coach but you're also a really big idiot. You need to go out, get drunk and bang a fat chick.
People need to stop telling me about the Giants defense. They have one...one...one player. That's it. One.
Demarcus! Ware? Has 7 tackles and 1 sack in three games. Were the Lawrence Taylor comparisons a bit premature?
According to Yahoo Fantasy Sports, Drew Bledsoe currently has two and half times the fantasy points of Peyton Manning.
AND I'M THROWING THE PICKS ONTO TODAY'S FUN AS WELL BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE TIME TOMORROW ALERT:
7-7 last week, putting me at 23-22-1 on the season. The hump is mine.
SAN FRANCISCO +2.5 OVER ARIZONA (in Mexico)
Mike Nolan's teams have never lost a game in Mexico.
ATLANTA -6 OVER MINNESOTA
I'm not taking the Vikings on the road just yet.
NEW YORK JETS +7.5 OVER BALTIMORE
Brooks Bollinger vs. Anthony Wright. (Think about that) 7.5 should be the Over/Under.
BUFFALO pk OVER NEW ORLEANS
J.P. keeps the job another week.
HOUSTON +9.5 OVER CINCINNATI
I think the Texans are going to surprise some people and make this a game.
INDIANAPOLIS -7 OVER TENNESSEE
Can this team go 16-0?
DENVER +4 OVER JACKSONVILLE
This might end up being a pretty damn good football game and if Champ Bailey doesn't play, I want the pick back.
PHILADELPHIA +2 OVER KANSAS CITY
No. The Eagles should almost never be underdogs this season.
SAN DIEGO +5.5 OVER NEW ENGLAND
Take the over (46.5)
ST. LOUIS +3 OVER NEW YORK GIANTS
Oh, I don't know. I've started making picks for no reason.
OAKLAND -3 OVER DALLAS
The Raiders deserve to win a game. I think they've been better than 0-3.
TAMPA BAY -6.5 OVER DETROIT
Nothing matches up well for the Lions in this game. So they'll probably win but I'm not being that crazy.
SEATTLE +2 OVER WASHINGTON
I think Seattle is a better football team.
GREEN BAY +7.5 OVER CAROLINA
Very very rarely do I pick the Packers but Brett will keep this close as he always does on Monday night. I do think the Carolina Panthers are going to continue this good-one-week-suck-the-next-week thing.
Will I ever get nine?
#2 Reverend Dave said . . .BEARS TAKE FIRST PLACE IN THE NFC NORTH BABY! god this is sad
October 3, 2005
#3 Antibush said . . .whats sad is that the moment i saw that a new comment had been posted i knew it was you and knew exactly what you were gonna say
October 3, 2005
Bush is forever saying that democracies do not invade other countries and start wars. Well, he did just that. He invaded Iraq, started a war, and killed people. What do you think? Is killing thousands of innocent civilians okay when you are doing a little government makeover?
Our country is in debt until forever, we don't have jobs, and we live in fear. We have invaded a country and been responsible for thousands of deaths.
We have lost friends and influenced no one. No wonder most of the world thinks we suck. Thanks to what george bush has done to our country during the past three years, we do!February 13, 2007
Here at DaBearsBlog, you are free to kill us or the Bears as you so wish. You are not free, however, to be an asshole. So if you spew racism or ill-meaning foul language (cursing about football is just fine) or anything of that ilk, your comments ain't gonna last long, jerk.