1.) Great win for the Jets. Offense looked sharp and defens looked disciplined. Although it did seem that Moss didn't seem as motivated once Revis went down. He committed what might be the greatest sin I could think of a WR committing: A pass was intercepted by Cromartie, who was covering Moss on a go route one on one, in front of him. I mean there are only three ways a pass is intercepted in front of a reciever by a single coverage corner on a go route: 1.) The DB is a ton faster than the WR, 2.) The DB beats the WR on a jump ball and comes down with the ball, 3.) Thw WR quit. Moss is fast enough to get to any deep ball that the DB could catch up with and nobody beats him on a jumo ball. So what's left?
2.) The Titans recovered a late onside kick when the ball bounced off the Steelers' DB, former Giants great, Will Allen. Any Giants fan will tell you that there is no way that Will Allen should be on the "hands" team.
3.) The Eagles should go forward with their QB situation as if they just spent a high pick on Kolb and this is his rookie year. Vick, it seems, would be able to take this team farther than Kolb, but Kolb's their future. If the Eagles want to win this year, they should go to Vick. Worst case scenerio: Vick bombs and you switch to Kolb and embrace your future. If you go with Kolb now and he struggles, and he will, the fans will call for Vick and Kolb's confidence is shot. Suddenly, you've a lame duck starting QB and a rattled young QB. OK the Eagles just said Vick's their starter, but I'm not erasing all of this and thinking up something else.
4.) Have the Ravens ever lost a game that wasn't the refs' fault?
5.) Far be it for me to defend Favre from the media, but I don't care what they think he looks like and how motivated he looks. It'll be funny how much younger Favre could look when the Vikings win.
6.) Carson Palmer's brother is his backup QB. So if you're him, do you root for your brother to play well or are you hoping for him to suck and you get the starting job?
7.) Speaking of brother QBs, two of them played against each other this past week if you hadn't heard. The Giants tried to be too cute on both sides of the ball.Defensively they played with three safetys and one LB with Deion Grant playing the role of a small LB. They were daring Indy to run and Indy did. All over them. It took far too long for the Giants to adjust, but by then it was already too late.
8.) Offensively, they came in knowing that the Colts D is undersized, fast, and struggles againt the run. They also came in knowing that the Colts know this. I guyess they figured that the Colts would be so geared up to stop the run that they (the Giants) can take advantage with misdirection. This was illustrated perfectly on their first offensive snap of the game when they faked a run up the middle and gave it to Manningham on an end around. It didn't work. Speedy defenses are great as misdirection. What they're not good at is power running and the Giants barely used any of that. The few times they brought out a power set, they ran away from the extra lineman. Then, before you knew it, it was too late to adjust. Also, Jacobs should be suspended and the Giants can't get rid of him soon enough. He's gotten soft ever since he got paid.
9.) Watching Freeney and Mathis run around the Giants tackles as if they were stuck in quicksand reminded me once again of an idea someone brought up to Peter King in a mailbag once. The reader pointed out how many teams have gone to having at least one pass rushing specialist. Sometimes the specialist comes in on only passing downs. He's smaller and quicker than traditional pass rushers. So why then don't teams have pass blocking specialists/ A cross somewhere between a tackle and a tight end. I forget King's reason why this wouldn't work, but I don't think it was much good.
10.) I have seen the future of football offenses. It's in college right now. It's called the pistol. In the shotgun, the QB stands five yards behind the center so to be able to survey the defense better and get to his reads quicker. Cool. But the HBs stand next to the QBs and their game is hurt because they have to wait for the ball to be caught by the QB and handed to them before they an start running meaning that runs out of shotgun are limited to variations of draws. While in running plays when the QB is under center, the HB is sprinting forward as soon as the ball is snapped and gets the ball as he passes the QB going the other way. The pistol combines the best of both. In the pistol, the QB stands four yards behind center, so his advantage is basically the same. The HB, however, stands 3 yards directly behind as if they're in a power i and the QB is the fullback. So now on running plays, the HB takes off forward like he does in normal running plays where he stands between five to eight yards behind center. With the influx of spread offenses, but the decline of running in those offenses, the pistol seems like the perfect answer.
Limerick of the Week
Viking fans are starting to fret
Inside them panic begins to set
AP stopped at the one
Favre not having fun
Childress needs to go back to his funky headset.
Peace
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