Some quick thoughs about the second week:
- Huh, Rex Grossman is an actual quarterback. Whoda thunk?
- Joe Gibbs is horribly over-rated as a coach. I didn’t see the first half, so perhaps I missed it, but the Cowboys’ defensive weakness has been its coverage for a couple of years now. Last year, the Redskins themselves overcame a thirteen point deficit to beat the Cowboys by throwing two long touchdowns. But Gibbs didn’t seem to try to stretch the defense at all.
- Gibbs also doesn’t appear too bright. Down by 17 with just under four minutes to go, the Redskins were in field goal position, but decided to go for it on fourth and seven. Why not kick the field goal and go from there? What the hell was he thinking? Did he have any idea what the score and/or time situation actually was? Did he just want to get back to the hotel and get some shut-eye?
- Those H3 commercials with the magician? I don’t want to cast aspersions on the magician but, well, let’s just say that I am not hiring anyone who looks that unsavory for any kids’ party I am associated with.
- Drew Bledsoe still needs to be benched. Washington didn’t do what you need to do beat Bledsoe: pressure him and make decisions. Bledsoe can’t make good decisions, never has been able to make good decisions, and shows no signs of ever being able to make good decisions. Under pressure, its at least 50/50 that he will do something horribly stupid and kill your team. He is Brett Favre without the personality or talent.
- I don’t know if you can win a Super Bowl running the option offense, but after the last two weeks, I wouldn’t blame Atlanta for trying it.
- Eli Manning is going to kill a coach. For three quarters, he looked like he had never played the game before. No one would have baled Coughlin for sitting him down. And then he led the Giants to an overtime victory from a seventeen point fourth quarter deficit.
- Why not play Vince Young? Vollek is apparently so far in the dog house that the Titans preferred to sign Kerry Collins rather than play him. And Kerry Collins is, well, Kerry Collins. The Titans aren’t going to win very many games anyway, so why not let Young learn the game?
- Yet again many, many players gave praise to God for winning the game or playing well and no one said a variation of the following: “We were doing great. Until GOD made me lose that fumble.” I cannot die happy until that happens.
- What’s the over/under for the number of weeks before Texan fans burn down the team’s offices? They passed on home town hero Young and almost sure-thing pro-bowler Reggie Bush to take a defensive player who has four tackles and no sacks through two weeks.
- New Orleans is a great story, but they haven’t played anyone good yet. This little run ends next week when Atlanta comes to the Superdome. And its a shame that the rest of New Orleans hasn’t been treated as well as the Superdome has.
- Has any quarterback dropped as precipitously as Dante Culpepper? Two years ago he was the best quarterback not named Peyton. Last years he was terrible, then injured, and this year he has been terrible.
- Do you think that defense players have taken to asking Brett Farve if he is happy he came back for one more season?
- I think that Minnesota is doing it with mirrors, but as a Bears fan, I am uneasy about their game next week.
- Tgirsch is once again beating me in the football picks pool.
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1. No kidding. Although the Bears haven’t played anybody good yet, either.
2&3. Gibbs is basically a figurehead. The offensive coordinator runs the offense and calls all the plays. The defensive coordinator designs, calls, and runs the defense. Gibbs just stands there.
8. Two words: “David Klingler.” Not good enough for you? How about “Akili Smith?” “Jeff Blake?” Or any number of other promising QBs whose careers were ruined because they rushed into playing on a team with no offensive line protection, and wound up injured and/or shell-shocked in less than one season.
9. Amen!
10. If they haven’t done it by now, I don’t think they’re going to.
12. I’m of the opinion that Culpepper was never very good. In his good seasons, his numbers were artificially inflated by a wealth of talent around him. (Remember, the offense in which he thrived is the same offense that made a four-hundred-year-old Randall Cunningham look good.) Miami made a big mistake in signing Culpepper. He’s a fullback, not a quarterback.
13. I watched that game. The worst part was, Favre looked very, very good (3TDs against 1 INT, on that he was hit as he threw). But NO running game, and his receivers (mostly the veterans) had the dropsies. After seeing them yesterday, they’re not nearly the worst team in the league, as I had previously thought, but they’ve got to get some offensive line consistency (not to mention a defensive secondary) before they’re going to be any good.
14. Rest easy. You’re going to crush them like a bug.
15. It’s early, and I had a VERY good week (stupid Rams!).
Yet again many, many players gave praise to God for winning the game or playing well and no one said a variation of the following: “We were doing great. Until GOD made me lose that fumble.” I cannot die happy until that happens.
I think it was Tom Lehrer who asked, about 30 years ago: “Why does God hate the Kansas City Chiefs?”
No one has ever come up with an answer.
You might not like Joe Gibbs, but to think he is not bright or good at his job is to overlook a lot of evidence to the contrary. You will find he is on a very short list of head coaches that have won 3 Super Bowls. You will find he is on an even shorter list of guys who have done it with three different QBs (that list only has one name on it – his).
Not only did he do all that before he retired, he then left football for NASCAR and within a few years won whatever it is they win there. The guy knows how to build a winning team and make it execute.
Granted the Redskins do not look too good this year. But when you lose your only marquee player to injury (Portis), it has an impact on your team. When you don’t have a running threat, you can’t stretch the field because the safeties tend to lay back and play center field since they don’t need to provide run support. Everyone was writing Gibbs off at beginning of last year too. I seem to recall the Skins made it to second round of playoffs…
As for down 17 with time running out, if you kick the field goal, then you need to get in the end zone twice to tie. The defense can pay super prevent and you don’t have a chance. If you score 7, then the field goal remains relevant, so the defense needs to play a bit tighter. Bottom line, you need several miracles to win at that point. If you have been moving the ball on that drive, going for 7 isn’t wrong. Kicking field goal isn’t wrong either…
All of which is of little consequence. What matters is the Ravens have given up a total of 6 points in two games. Can you say ‘85 Bears? (I still remember when they won the coin toss at the Super Bowl and elected to kick. Patriots went 3 and out, Bears got field position, scored, and game was essentially over.)
Ted
yeah, the not too bright comment was probably too harsh, but I wrote that part as I was watching the game and was just flabbergasted. If he doesn’t make it on that 4th down, the game is over. Such a huge, needless risk, I think.
And Giobbs probably was a great caoch — but he doesn’t seme to have kept up with the NFL. His offense and defense just seem bland and predictable.
And yes, the Ravend D ha slooke dimpressive, but lets see how they handle some of the offensive power hosues before we say 85 bears
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