Bears 30, Falcons 12 - What a great way to kick off the season. On Friday, I was listening to Keyshawn Johnson, Chris Mortensen, and Mike Tirico on the radio. Mort picked the Falcons to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl. All of them talked about how they were not high on the Bears. They agreed that the Falcons would win on Sunday.
Well, well, well, well... This is one great example of the media getting on a team's jock hard, while not giving respect to a solid, yet potentially unsexy, team. The Bears' D looked great and why wouldn't they? They willed the Bears to the NFC title game last year. They have most of the same piece back. I'm extremely happy to see them hold a potentially efficient Falcons' offense to 6 points. The Bears' offense actually gave up the one Falcons touchdown in the game. The Bears' D on Sunday was a perfect example of Lovie Smith's "bend but not break" philosophy.
Jay Cutler looked great besides one mistake (INT returned for a TD.) That mistake was probably more on the O-Line, but it is still unacceptable. Ultimately, though, it was meaningless. Matt Forte is my hero- pay that man his money!
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| "Kid's got alligator blood..." |
Coach Tellian Award - In high school I was a basketball player. I have never played a game of football in pads. One reason for this was that our high school football program was wretched. My senior year, the entire program went 0-30. That's right- the Freshmen, JV, and Varsity squads went 0-10 a piece. Ouch. Midseason, Coach Tellian, the mastermind of this program, offered me the starting Tight End position in passing while I was walking to my next class. What a tool.
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| He literally looked like this. |
Sean Payton - His decision to run Mark Ingram with no time remaining while down by 8 to the defending Super Bowl champs is inexcusable. When you have one of the best QBs in the NFL, and said QB has over 400 yards passing and 3 TDs, you should put the ball in elite QB's hands rather than a rookie. The Saints deserved to lose that game due to such a poor decision.
Matthew Berry Award - I admit I watch ESPN's Fantasy Football show each Sunday morning. The Talented Mr. Roto has occasional good advice. He also occasionally spews out the worst liquid diarrhea of fantasy tips. This award is in honor of the poor side of Berry's advice.
Me - I benched Steve Smith (CAR) at 9:30am Sunday. He sat active all week, and I psyched myself out and put in Ronnie Brown. I figured Cam Newton would be inaccurate and throw mostly to his TEs, while Ronnie Brown might get some touches to steal points away from LeSean McCoy (the guy I was going against had Vick and McCoy in his lineup.) It was a terrible gamble that lost me the week. What I do know now is that if Arian Foster comes back healthy, my team is pretty damn good. This makes me feel good.
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| Steve Smith reminding me who scored the most points on my team... even though he was on the motherfuckin' bench. |
Jim Harbaugh! His San Francisco 49ers took care of business against the Carroll's Seahawks. Alex Smith showed some grit and Ted Ginn returned a punt and a kick! If nothing else, congrats to my friends that cheer for the Niners. This game has to give you at least a little hope.
Munson Award - The movie "Kingpin" is hilarious. Woody Harrelson played Roy Munson- a bowler who constantly looks like he has the world at his fingertips, only to make a bad decision or two and get the crap beat out of him (or in one case, his hand cut off!) During the movie, people start using the saying "they really munson'ed that" to describe someone screwing up. This team really "munson'ed" their game this week.
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| The look of a champion. |
Bad News Bears Award - This award goes to the team that played the worst, but still won.
San Diego Chargers - Wow. I started the Chargers D in one fantasy league on the premise that they have a good defense and that their massive weakness on special teams was worked on and fixed. A solid 12 seconds into their opening game against the Vikings and I'm convinced that Norv Turner allowed the Chargers' special teams to complete all their drills on Madden rather than on an actual field. Despite the Chargers' best efforts to lose the game, they ended up beating Donovan McNabb's Vikings. I'm happy with the end result, but the game was fucking awful.
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This season looks to be pret-ay, pret-ay, pretty good. The Lions, Bills, Bengals, and Redskins should be awfully proud of themselves. All of those teams came up with big wins that will help excite their fan-bases. It is just great to have football back.
3 comments:
Dude, my MSFL team is off to a tremendous start as long as Welk-ah, Lloyd, and Hernandez can get a combined 25 points which SHOULD be easy in a PPR league.
Grossman was amazing yesterday. I am starting to believe in the Skins! We aren't bad enough to get Luck anyway. Might as well win instead.
The Niners won, yeah, but I'm not too enthusiastic about their chances yet. Their offense looked terrible, and the Seahawks had the momentum in a 2 point game before Ted motherfucking Ginn scored 14. Their defense looked good against Tavares and Beast Mode, but that's not exactly impressive.
I can't believe an autodrafter rode Ray Rice, Cam Newton, and Megatron to the highest score in the league. Steve Smith was wasted on my bench as well, as was Ben Tate, but it wouldn't have helped me any.
I think my MSFL team is going to be quite dangerous if Steve Smith keeps it going and Arian comes back healthy. I literally started Ronnie Brown emotionally to stick it to Ace in the scenario where Brown scores for his own team and it was against him. I didn't have much faith in Steve Smith doing much this week. I suck.
The Redskins looked great. I watched RedZone all day and I was impressed with them. Their D looks great and Rex was efficient. One of the most enjoyable Redskins games I can recall in years.
Observer- I totally agree about the autodraft. That is just awful.
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