<p>ooooo! KC is down as well! And the Eagles are getting thumped by Jacksonville. Who knew? The thing that I wonder about the Eagles is how Nick Foles will do when he is under pressure. In college we used to love him because he has a cannon arm and is ‘5 tool guy’ as they say in baseball, but when he gets pressured he panics and makes bad decisions. His collegiate tendency was to throw some silly interceptions when pinned back behind his 20.</p>
<p>Hmm love whats going on in Houston now!!! Offensive was dloppy at first but people who arent from Houston: Deandre Hopkins is a GEM. Clowney’s in the locker room and the angst abounds. Also I see another Defensive MVP in J.J Watt’s future. The defensive unit is starting look like its form when they were the bulls on parade. Love this!!</p>
<p>@jmnva06 I really thought that when Morris scored, Washington might take control. Needless to say Im all smiles now</p>
<p>YESS! That’s Karma on Jerome Boger for a TERRIBLE call. </p>
<p>JJ Watt is amazing. Good ol’ Milwaukee boy. Those teamates from Wisconsin (Wilson, Watt, Ball) are all doing pretty well. Unfortunately, Houston’s amazing D also means that my husband is killing me in Fantasy Football. </p>
<p>Wow! 2 games head into overtime and the Patriots are losing to the Dolphins!!??!!!?? >:) (That’s an evil laugh) The Rams and Chiefs got beat and now if America’s Team can prevail over the 49ers it will be perfect. The Falcons have a chance to beat the Saints here.</p>
<p>FALCONS!!!</p>
<p>Just based on stats it looks like Hoyer was OK . . . 19/31 with 230 yards and 1 TD. The box score that I’m looking at listed no rushing TDs so I’m trying to figure out if they just moved up and down the field but just got lots of field goals out of it with no red zone conversions. Does anyone know?</p>
<p>edit: I figured it out. I just had to expand the box score and one guy had two rushing TDs</p>
<p>What a monster day for Ryan. A really great way to start off the season.</p>
<p>What do you all think of having division games during the first 3 weeks? I think that these kinds of games should be played later in the year, when there is even more on the line. I think the Steelers/Ravens next Thursday is way to early. Division battles really start to heat up in the thick of a playoff hunt. Having Pittsburgh play two division games in the first week is detrimental. Take this awesome Falcons and Saints game. (I think it was the best of the early games). How much more exciting would it have been if it was during week 8. Just my two cents</p>
<p>I’m not sure @emenya. On the flip side the Seahawks play the Niners twice at the very end of the season which the pundits have been saying is brutal. </p>
<p>@saintfan that is brutal. An entertaining game by all means, but still brutal. I think that if the Seahawks and the Niners played twice in the beginning of the season, the intrigue that is the Seattle/San Francisco rivalry would be nonexistent. Or at least nowhere it is now.</p>
<p>Really surprised by the Chiefs losing to the Titans. Didn’t have any expectations for Jake Locker and it’s starting to look like Kansas City’s season last year was an anomaly.</p>
<p>Pittsburgh shouldn’t have let the game get that close. Especially with the way Big Ben had been playing. (A slimmer Ben I should add.)</p>
<p>By week ten we’ll all forget about the Pats’ loss in week 1.</p>
<p>Now we get to my favorite analysis. WOW at the Texans’ D. Talk about ferocious. Most of that was without Clowney as he left the game with a knee injury. (Crossing my fingers here.) Besides J.J Watt’s utter dominance throughout the game, the biggest take away from their game was Brooks Reed. He had a great year as an OLB with Connor Barwin, then disappeared during the next year. But today he made himself felt, even more than Brian Cushing. Offense was okay. Shaky, but efficient enough for the Redskins. Andre Johnson and Arian Foster are already returning to form as superstars and that can only help this team. Personally, I don’t think Fitzpatrick can take them far. He never seemed confident enough in the game. The Texans offense has the potential to be Lamborghini, but Fitzpatrick will always have the mentality of a Prius driver. Good game anyway and I’m expecting an improvement next week against the Raiders. </p>
<p>Locker is a guy who is still trying to break out of the collegiate mode. He is a really nice guy from a small town football family. As the best guy on the field he was a quarterback but is not a natural quarterback. He is really fast for his size and has an arm (was a baseball player as well) but his pass accuracy has never been good. I pull for him out of nostalgia but he’s trying to have this not be his last year in the league.</p>
<p>Well we had Green Bay and get Denver in two weeks. It’s about tv ratings and having marquee match ups for maximum viewership. SF and SEA play on Thanksgiving which will be better for TV than Detroit.</p>
<p>For division reasons, I’m liking the SF-Dallas game right now</p>
<p>Dallas is looking even worse than I expected. I will be interested to see how the Cardinals are. On paper our end of season schedule looks brutal: Cardinals, Niners, Eagles, Cardinals, Niners, Rams. However . . . with injuries the Rams might not be what we expected and who knows about the Niners and Cardinals. We have a week 4 bye, so no chance to rest and recover heading into the stretch either.</p>
<p>I was thinking SEA would the best defense again this year, but so far SF is pretty amazing. Though day for Tony Romo so far. </p>
<p>SF has a very solid defense but Romo is doing his part to make them look pretty epic. </p>
<p>Interestingly, we’ve thus far seen no luxury suite camera shots of Jerry Jones during this horrendous first half for Dallas. Romo’s been decent. Can’t figure out if Dallas’ recent poor performance is Romo, the players generally or Coach Garrett.</p>
<p>My official determination is ‘candy from a baby.’ We won’t know how good the SF defense is for several weeks because this is just pathetic. :-? </p>