I could only see highlights of the TN/Tampa game. My only observations are: a) Tampa was terrible, b) the few plays I saw were 1st read throws by Mariota and it looked like they ran college plays for those, c) the only long pass I saw took a lot of apparent effort from him, d) accuracy on short throws and e) threw into some tight coverages very quickly. I wouldn’t venture a judgement beyond that. Maybe he sees the field very well and his first read throws are the right ones or maybe he’s just making that play because it’s Tampa.
Oh, Lord, I hope the rest of this season isn’t as rough as this first game. I love you, Jason Witten.
Same old Bucs. Tampa has lost its last ten home games now with yesterday’s loss. If Superman had been the Bucs QB yesterday they still would have lost probably. Tampa franchise needs a complete shakeup from top to bottom.
Houston kicker Randy Bullock first to miss an extra point from the new further distance. For trivia contests.
I saw the highlights as well of TN/Tampa, they definitely tailored the gameplan to the college/Oregon style of offense. Probably not a bad idea, gives him confidence, but I also would be careful about reading too much into this. I notice they play the Bills week 3, gonna be interesting to see how Mariotta handles that kind of defense, that basically kicked the crap out of Andrew Luck. If he can give a credible performance against Buffalo, then you can see if he is the real deal. I never understood why they made a big deal about Lovey Smith, he had some great players in Chicago, but his defensive schemes were never anything to write home about.
I can’t believe the Falcons actually won…I thought for sure they were going to screw it up.
Atlanta basically won because Philadelphia screwed up (and I am glad, I don’t like Chip Kelly and I think his whole Oregon bring college football to the pros is annoying), it is a sign that the team isn’t ready when they shoot themselves in the foot all the time.
Not much good play this first weekend. The SF/MN 1st half was like watching a bad 1st preseason game. ATL/PHI was often comical. Best relatively consistent team play came in the NYG/DALLAS game.
Wow, was that an ugly end to the game for KC. You can’t have 5 turnovers and be -4 on net takeaways and expect to win though.
ETA: Being 0-7 on third down conversions doesn’t help you much, either.
UNBELIEVABLE! The KC Chiefs re-enact one of the most famous stupid plays in the history of the NFL: “The Fumble”. As described in Wikipedia: [Joe Pisarcik] began his NFL career with the New York Giants, and is best remembered for his role in a November 19, 1978, game where the Giants, ahead 17–12 with only seconds to play and their opponent out of time-outs, lost after his handoff (a play called by offensive coordinator Bob Gibson over Pisarcik’s objections) to Larry Csonka was fumbled and returned for a touchdown by Herman Edwards of the Philadelphia Eagles. The play has since been referred to as “The Fumble” by Giants fans and “The Miracle at the Meadowlands” by Eagles fans."
If you didn’t see it, with 20 some odd seconds left in a tie game, rather than kneel down, the Chiefs hand off to Jamaal Charles. He fumbles and the ball is scooped and returned for the game winning TD! The Fumble is why they have the kneel down!!! This is one of the most stupid plays in the history of the NFL, especially given that everyone knows about The Fumble!
After 16 years of watching Andy Reid as head coach of the Eagles all I can say is get used to it.
Playing fantasy football for the first time this year. It is a mildly addicting and very enjoyable pastime.
^ I benched Manning last night in favor of Rothlisberger, because I mistakenly thought KC had a defense (and Peyton looked like crap against the Ravens). And my opponent this week has DMT…
It was looking like a good decision right up to that last 2 minute drive, when KC’s pathetic defense gave up 9 points to Peyton and 7 to Thomas. Such are the vicissitudes of FF. 
Thank goodness for that last drive. I have Demaryius. 
In one FF league I have Jamaal Charles. In the other, my husband has him, and I’m playing against him this week. Such ambivalence
Two fumbles, and he still put up decent points. I wanted him because he’s a Longhorn.
Poor Chiefs (or Chefs, haha - anyone remember that TV commercial?)
Two red zone turnovers – that’s at least six dropped points. They really should have won that game.
I found an article showing teams who are -3 in turnover differential for a game have only about a 3% chance of winning. I couldn’t find a number for -4, but it will most likely be even lower. Teams who win the turnover battle by any margin win 75% of the time.
You can’t turn the ball over if you want to win in the NFL. Let alone 5 times. And for a back of JC’s caliber to lose two fumbles… yeesh. He’s got to do a better job.
The Clemson vs Louisville game was interesting. Clemson may have won but I don’t think that they showed that they are worthy of being #11 in the AP rankings. I’m hoping Georgia Tech beats Notre Dame on Saturday and moves up from #14 .
There are only two truly elite teams in cfb this year: Ohio State and Alabama. There are plenty of other good teams, but past maybe the top six or seven, the rest of the top 25 IMO is fairly arbitrary this year.
One of the things this game showed is that Kubiak is an idiot on the lines of Brian Schottenheimer, the clown comes to Denver and says “I have a system, and I am going to make Peyton manning follow it”…what the heck? He has a quarterback who is arguably the best or one of the best to play the game, and he has the ego to think he knows better? Anyone want proof, look what Manning did in the end of the game, when he was running the offense, suddenly KC looked like a division 2 football program.