With apologies to Bills fans, it's not that the Bills are good. It's that the Chiefs are really, really bad. They were one of two vastly overrated teams last year, along with the Bucs. Whom also got handled at home by Detroit. That game wasn't nearly as close as the score indicated.
You're not serious right? The Redskins, Cowboys, Falcons and Bears all have a ton to prove before they should be called "damn good teams". Those four teams have so many issues(Unfortunately the Redskins beating up on an injury hampered Giants team, and the Bears beating up on an overrated Falcons team just masked both winning teams issues).
The Falcons and Bears don't have crap to prove. They both won their divisions last year. The Bears completely owning the Falcons was the surprise of the week to me. The Falcons are by no means a pushover. Overrated? Probably. But, at worst, they're still a 10-win, playoff caliber team. I thought the Bears were due to totally collapse this year, though.
So the Chiefs win their division last year, and suck, but the Falcons and Bears have nothing to prove because they won their division last year? Don't put too much stock in week 1 of the NFL season. My opinion is KC isn't very good, the Falcons aren't that great, and the Bears are inconsistent.
Bears really made a statement yesterday, most had written them off this year and even I was shocked at how easily they took apart the Falcons. D looks better, Cutler and the WR corp look better. They have a very tough 3 games to start but I'd be very impressed if they make it through 2-1 which I think is very possible.
Yes, it is my opinion the Chiefs are overrated. Their division sucked. And they barely won it anyway. They won 4 games the prior year. No one was expecting them to do well. Their success has fluke written all over it. The Bears and Falcons, though, had been competitive before last year, and won much tougher divisions and played harder schedules. The Bears in particular. Falcons schedule wasn't super tough by any means, which is why I think their 13 win performance is a little inflated. But they're still a hell of a lot more credible than the Chiefs.
I'm glad I am not the only one who thinks that. Most people don't realize the Bucs didn't beat a winning team last year in those 10 wins they had. I also think the Falcons are overrated too and they might just start 0-2.
Week 4 Sunday Night Football: Colts at Tampa Bay NBC probably pulling their hair out that they can't flex schedule that one. KC may be poor, but the Bills still demonstrated that they've got some tools. Fitzpatrick had some hot games last year, Johnson's got the name to be a strong receiver in this league, and Fred Jackson doesn't stink. Too bad Ralph Wilson keeps hurting the team with his cheapskate moves as he tries to ensure his family gets all they can from his estate. You can always count on Skins fans to break out the champagne after a win against a squad missing half its defense. Ugly deadlocked game at halftime, and they need more from Hightower than a sub-3 ypc average. ELIte Manning looks dumber by the game putting himself in the room with Brady. But hey, you might go down as having a better season than your brother for once! Cincy lost a lot of people money yesterday. God, did everything go wrong for the Rams yesterday. I don't know what to really take away from Titans-Jags, except that maybe they're a lot better off with Hasslebeck than I realized. Maybe that goes to show how bad they were with the Collins/Young era. Steelers D....WTF. Maybe you are old. You looked it. I'm never surprised when Roethlisberger tries to play beyond himself and burns himself in the process...but that D was toothless and flat while the Ravens looked like they all took PCP to get hype. McNabb looked terrible. Return of the Funslinger! If Young is the perfect backup for Vick, maybe Dallas should bring in Rosencopter to play behind Romo. Holy mother that was some debut by Cam Newton! It did come against the Cards (now minus D-R Cromartie)....but to shatter the rookie record like that? Number 1 Fantasy waiver wire pick up? Is any QB more likely than Rivers to storm back to his bench after a bad play screaming at his coaches instead of the other way around?
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From a fantasy perspective, it is quite fascinating how well "bad vibes" from training camp and preseason carry over into the regular season sometimes. Teams with bad training camp vibes this summer: Seattle, Tampa Bay, Kansas City, Atlanta, Minnesota, Indianapolis, San Francisco, New York Giants, Philadelphia. I thought that Atlanta, Philly and Tampa Bay would shake off those vibes, but really only Philly did.
Of those listed here was my perspective on them regardless of training camp: Seattle: Jackson is their quarterback.....enough said. Tampa Bay: As mentioned, their wins last season came against teams without winning records. They're not a 10 win team. Kansas City: I thought they would have a better showing against the Bills than they did but ended up getting trounced. That said, I expected them to have a worse year than last overall. Atlanta: They have nice offensive pieces but can you name anybody on their defense that really scares you? That's their biggest problem. Minnesota: I was kind of mixed on them. I expect them to be better than last season but not by much. That's still possible but with 15 attempts by McNabb, 16 by Peterson and 41 overall offensive snaps, it doesn't look good. Indianapolis: It's been said before but this is a low, single digit win team without Manning and it showed yesterday. They may be in line for that ticket to draft Luck. San Francisco: Smith comes back to quarterback them again so expect another long season by the bay. Ginn Jr. isn't going to do what he did yesterday every week. New York Giants: I actually expected them to challenge the Eagles for the division but injuries have decimated that defense and the offensive line does look too good and Manning is still not very safe with the ball. Bad things all around. Philadelphia: I still have questions about their offensive line and linebackers but I think they have enough all around to make up for those deficiencies and at least make the playoffs.
poor romo. never ceases to stop amazing...one way or another. guy can't run for sh_t with the ball. plays well at times...and then negates it with big minus plays. story of his career. it all evens out in the end...meaning cowboys fans will end up with nothing to show for his career except record-breaking regular season stats that nobody cares about. granted, it took a completely at-the-exact-right-time-we-didn't-need-it blocked FG attempt on some idiocy special teams play to help seal this deal. romo did the rest. was it just another game with a bad 9/11-like NY-homestyle-refereed no-NY-penalties-all-game freakish ending? did romo want to subconsciously help new yorkers more than his own team win? maybe. this is romo's make-or-break season imo...and he started off in the worst possible way to prove why we should keep sticking by him. the romo debates have kicked off in a tidal wave of blunt criticism against oh-it-wasn't-romo's-fault-ers. how many more times must we as fans do this before romo is no longer the answer? and, then we got to have a jerry jones gm finding a new quarterback...something he has proven to be inept at before a semi-stable romo came along. it could be another ten years before the cowboys figure this out. lol. fine...chalk it up to romo being rusty just back from injury time off and regular season games missed. there's another 15 games left. let's see what the old whippersnapper can do at 31 in his whatever-numbered season it is now. but, somebody stand near the door and get ready to put on their boots...cause that time is approaching where we may have to show him the door. i'm sure he will be ready to cough up the ball on the way out...if he can catch the snap. thanks for the tease, cowboys. now, come back next week and finish the f__king game this time...instead of giving it away on a silver cowboy-star-engraved freaking platter. romo looking like a guy who should be wearing a tux serving Hors d'oeuvre out there at the end. damn trying to fool us with that strong start early with strong play on both sides of the ball for three quarters and then the appetizer sale at the end there. this will not be another debacle of a season after last season. there should be a no tolerance level. finish the damn games.
Ehh, it sucked but it's certainly not the end of the world. Everybody in Pittsburgh saw this coming. Week one, on the road, against a team that literally tweaked their entire roster specifically to play against you....they've been waiting for this one and they took advantage. For that they deserve major props. I mean, they kicked our asses. There's no way around it. That said, it's still only week one, they still have to come into Pittsburgh and let's forget that this "old" defense was still the class of the league last year. On a side note: for those that didn't watch there were quite a few skirmishes (two of which, resulted in officials getting knocked to the ground). It will be interesting to see if the league dishes out any fines or suspensions as a result.
Nice defense by the Chargers, we held Peterson below 100 yards so that's good. I really like Takeo and Sanders, if they can stay healthy this season we can continue to be the number 1 ranked D. Our offense could've been much better and no doubt we should've won this game by much more but a win is a win. Next week we're at the Patriots and that will be pretty tough. Raiders are getting blown out tonight, cause they ****ing suck.
I think Seattle's problems are more than just Tarvaris Jackson. They just don't have the tools to get anything done offensively. Plus the season-ending injury to Tony Moeaki means that the already shaky Matt Cassel has lost his biggest security blanket. Not good at all. I was even concerned about Jamaal Charles' high ADP -- he has the talent to live up to the hype, but bad situations like this cannot help fantasy value. Actually, there were even worse vibes from Atlanta's offense than their defense in the summer, and that played out on Sunday. Their O-line seemed to have a nightmare of a time trying to protect Matt Ryan, and Roddy White looked kind of ordinary. Not good. They will bounce back, I'm sure, but they don't look like the Super Bowl contenders that we thought they were. Looks like the Vikes are learning that Percy Harvin + scrubs does not a passing game make. I knew McNabb wasn't exactly going to light the world on fire, but 40 yards passing? Good lord. In many ways, San Francisco is who we thought they were -- nothing changed. It will be interesting to see if Harbaugh can bring about a turnaround in attitude (I for one am pretty impressed with his Stanford record), and their defense always plays well at home. But they're going to continue to suck until they find a replacement for Alex Smith. My goodness this guy sucks. They actually have a few offensive weapons now -- several times yesterday he just completely missed wide open receivers, including a glaring TD opportunity to Michael Crabtree with no defender within 20 feet (of course he threw the ball away in the opposite direction).
Detroit's got a lot of young talent. Calvin Johnson is awesome, give him some a healthy QB for a whole season and his numbers will be much higher.
Bears went 11-5 last year and won the division that had the Packers in it and made the conference championship game..... Falcons went 11-5 with a rookie then 9-7 to 13-3 the next year and won the division with the Saints in it. They beat the Saints, Packers and Ravens last year and lost to the Steelers in OT. Last year Romo was healthy the Cowboys went 11-5 and won a playoff game. I'm wondering if you weren't serious or you just started watching football a week ago.?
