I'm pleased with the Bucs' performance against the Patriots. The single bad note, and it's a big one, is that OG Davin Joseph suffered a knee injury which will cost him this season. Prior to bringing in Carl Nicks, Joseph was the best offensive lineman on the team and his loss will be tremendous.
No, didn't get too. Headed out with my daughter to secure a campsite up at Redfish lake for the weekend, with the boys and my wife joining on Saturday after soccer stuff. So did not get to catch the game. Was a beautiful night under the stars up at Redfish though!
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- j. johnson
I sure can't blame you. That sounds like heaven!
Argghhh!!! the only thing worse than the Seahawks dropping a game like that is having to experience it by internet written play by play on Fox. The channel isn't even available from Cox in our area. I may have to at least buy the audio package. But still, a sucky loss. No need for it. On the replays I watched I saw one very catchable touchdown pass dropped, and the play by play I was watching made it sound like there were more in that late game goal line stand. At least wilson looks like he played well enough for them to win, and I bet he will continue to get better.
Still, grrrr.
Steve Thompson
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- j. johnson
Iggles barely won with Vick throwing 5 interceptions. Amazing.
Peyton Manning looked scary good tonite. What's with the Jets remembering how to play football? lol
The dang nurses had me all day so I MISSED ALL GAMES.tHEY TRIED TELLING ME i WOULD HAVE TO SHUT DOWN THE RACE LAST NIGHT BECAUSE IT WAS ON UNTIL MIDNIGHTSTARTED AT 6PM.I TOLD THEM ID SIGN OUT IF THEY DIDNT LET ME WATCH................TRUST ME WHEN THEY SAW A PIECE OF MY WHITE ARSE PACKING MY THINGS TO GO HOME .LETS JUST SAY I GOT MY WAY AS USUAL.
TIME FOR BED THE MEDS ARE MAKING ME TYPE BAD
Give 'em hell, Muddy!
Haven't had a chance to get into football the last couple seasons, due to work schedule... Hopefully, that will change and life will slow down to the point where I can get back into watching sports again.
So I'm not sure if Cam Newton impressed me yesterday or not. I didn't see any of his signature plays, the O-line kept collapsing, he got sacked a handful of times and he threw I think 3 interceptions.
Cam got to know Bucs' DT Gerald McCoy pretty well yesterday. It's a shame yesterday's game was blacked out here, requiring fans that really want to see the Bucs to take to the internet to find streams of the game. Yesterday's game should forever silence the casual fans here that insist Gerald McCoy is a bust because he didn't become Warren Sapp overnight (despite having very similar stats to Sapp's first two years here). What I saw yesterday was that it takes at least two offensive players on every single down to block McCoy, and even so, he was disrupting Newton left and right yesterday, chasing him around the backfield, forcing him to make bad throws, etc. The problem here is that too many fans don't know what solid DT play looks like. They assume they can just check the number in the "sacks" column when there is so much more to it than that.
A couple of other notes on the Bucs' performance... I couldn't be happier they traded down in the draft to take Mark Barron instead of moving up to take Morris Claiborne (or worse, Trent Richardson). Barron showed a lot of very intelligent play yesterday. The real highlight for me defensively was watching rookie LB Lavonte David. It's about time the Bucs had a LB that seemed drawn magnetically to wherever the ball was. They've lacked that since Derrick Brooks. David was involved in play after play, run coverage, pass coverage, the guy was everywhere.
Josh Freeman looked much more poised than last season. If the right throw wasn't there, he didn't try to force it. Schiano really seems to have had an impact on him, and I couldn't be happier.
Fifteen games to go, and we've already won 1/4 as many games as last season!
Go Bucs!
Not an auspicious beginning for the Browns.
LOL. Yeah. It's going to be interesting to see what the new owners thinks about all of this. Which, should come sometime in October when he is officially approved as new owner by the other owners.
Looks to me like one strong possibility is that the new owner will wipe the entire slate clean, Holmgren and all and bring in his own player personnel guys. If that's the case, it's going to be yet another reboot for the Browns, and this one will set them back many many years. Still, I cannot thank Holmgren enough for taking Richardson off the board early so the Bucs wouldn't make that mistake.
The Lions won. That's all I'll say. Thankfully they don't hand out style points.They'll have to play a lot better on Sunday night, that's for sure. Here's to hoping the Niners get overconfident.
So much for the prediction of the Packers going 16-0.
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After a shaky first half, the Texans looked good, especially J.J. Watt's pass swatting.
The Schaub / Andre Johnson train also got rolling.
They ran for only 83 yards, which needs improvement considering the talents of Arian Foster.
A penalty-filled game for the Seahawks which ended ugly.
I can't really fault Wilson too much except that he had a couple passes batted down due to his lack of height.
The receivers couldn't seem to shake loose for anything. That and dropped balls really showed some serious shortcomings.
Lynch couldn't really get started. I think he had about 85 yards. I have to admit that the Card's defense was very tight. Much better than I expected.
It will be interesting to see if the 'hawks can all come together and make plays.
The really bright spot was, as usual, Washington's kick/punt returns for big plays.
The defense looked very good at times, but couldn't contend with Kolb.
One weekend in and I'm utterly appalled by the performance of the replacement officials, which is sadly, not at all surprising. It seems like it's in vogue to just laugh it off and say "ha ha, it couldn't get worse than the regular officials" but quite clearly, it can. Roger Goodell is trying as hard as he can to vie with the NHL's Gary Bettman as the worst pro sports commissioner in my lifetime.