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How About Some Football?

Jimmie | October 22, 2007 | Comments (0)

A few thoughts on the NFL, after some pretty fun Week 7 games. If it helps, read the comments out loud with your best Larry King impression. It’ll make it more fun.

If you don’t like football much, don’t go past the jump. It’s all testosterone and butt-patting past there.

The Redskins stand a pretty good chance of covering the spread against the Patriots Sunday if the offense shows up. The ‘Skins will be the first really good defense the Pats have faced all season.
Speaking of the Patriots, it sure seems like the team is out to show that it doesn’t need videotapes to beat its opponents badly. It looks to me like the team has taken the whispered allegations that its wins have been fraudulent very personally. I’m betting the league wishes it had handled the controversy a little more quietly.
Of the two 0-7 teams, the Rams are the least likely to win a game this year. Their performance Sunday against Seattle was an embarassment. The players have obviously given up on their head coach and he seems to have given up trying to coach them and has resoted to…well…I’m not quite sure what he’s doing. The Rams are not a bad team. They’re just playing like one.
Okay, scratch part of that last point. The Rams are a terrible team. But they don’t have terrible players.
I can’t see any reason why Jerious Norwood isn’t getting more than 7-9 carries a game. Whenever he touches the ball, he can break off a long run and he has a pretty impressie yards-per-carry average. Warrick Dunn clearly isn’t doing the job thus far. Someone in the Falcons organization needs to get the coach on the line and show him the stats.
As a fan and a fantasy football aficionado, I hate the bye week system. hate, hate, hate it.
Speaking of the Patriots one more time, Randy Moss could have been had by any team this past off-season. How many GMs are kicking themselves in the tail right now when that thought crosses their mind? Especially those GMs whose teams are one good WR short right now.
Now is it okay to say that Donovan McNabb was grossly overhyped by folks who were paying more attention to his pigmentation than his play? He’s had a good career – though by no means a great one – which has been hampered by the lack of a consistent and skilled receiving corps around him. Then again, you could definitely make the case that Tom Brady certainly hasn’t had the most stellar receivers around him either, but he’s been pretty darned successful working with what he’s had. McNabb has certainly not merited the star treatment he’s been given most of his career.
There’s little doubt in my mind that black quarterbacks in the NFL get hyped far beyond their actual playing abilities. Michael Vick actually makes a better example than McNabb. There’s a guy who had great physical talents not barely a lick of an idea about how to play the position. And he got hyped to high heaven despite doing very little with a talented team. Apparently, quarterbacks are supposed to throw accurate passes, which is something that Vick never quite managed to learn how to do. Byron Leftwich works as another example.
But, for some reason, Jason Campbell isn’t getting that much hype. I wonder why not?
When do folks in Atlanta start putting the Falcons front office on suicide watch? The word int he offseason was that Atlanta could ahve had Randy Moss and Jerry Porter from the Raiders for Vick and a song. Given that they already had Matt Schaub, who had proven (at least in preseason games) that he could handle playing in the pros, that shuold have been a no-brainer deal. Now Moss is making circus TD catches in New England, Schaub’s doing pretty darned well in Houston, Vick’s getting barked at wherever he goes, and the Falcons flat stink.
Tonight’s game: Indy at Jacksonville. How bad do you think the Colts want to romp over a pretty good Jags defense? Once upon a time they were the darlings of the NFL. They’re still the reigning champs but Tom Brady, Randy Moss, and the Patriots are getting all the headlines this year – good and bad. I imagine that in the backs of the players’ minds they’d love to deliver a Dolemite-sized beatdown on national television just to remind everyone that there are two unbeaten teams in the league right now.