NFL Week 3 Review
Posted on September 23, 2008 - Filed Under NFL, Sports
Another football week done and another one chalked full of it’s own stories. This weeks biggest story was the New England Patriots getting embrarased by the Miami Dolphins. Hardly anyone saw this coming, especially after Joey Portor gave the Patriots some Bullentian board material and the fact that the last regular season game the Patriots loss was to the Dolphins, so you wouldn’t think they’d let it happen again.
Luckily for the dolphins, it did happen again. It wasn’t something they sqeueked away with, they dominated the team with a great offensive plan and a defense that was able to keep the offense in check and wrap up tacklers in the open field. When a single player scores 5tds, it going to be hard to beat that team, and Ronnie Brown ran and threw the ball all over the New England defense. This footage will be disected by every team in the NFL and it’s not going to help their cause to make another playoff push. It’s looking like they might have finally hit their limit of having the depth on personal to keep letting their star players go. The defenses age is showing and they are left with a back up who has no buisness even being in the NFL trying to manage the offense.
The only story in the AFC East isn’t just the Dolphins vs Pats games, the Bills are contining to be an early surprise. They overcame a late 10 point lead the Raiders had on them to come back and win the game. Leaving us back to asking who are the real Raiders? the week 1 raiders that got blown out by denver or the week 2 raiders who looked like an NFL team. Speaking of Denver, they continued to show they are the new greatest show on turf, and like the old show, they don’t have a defense to speak of. So far that hasn’t been a problem as they are just out scoring their opponents, with a little bit of luck. Denver vitits the Chiefs next week, so they should win again, but as the dolphins have shown, divisional opponents are always tought games not to be overlooked.
That AFC West division also has the San Deigo Chargers in it, who finally played like the Chargers on Monday against the Jets. LT is still bothered by his toe injury and it shows, but fantasy owners are going to be at least happy with his 2 tds. Unforutently the Jets are still uncertain of where they stand. With the Patriots showing vulnerable they need to take advantage but the offense just isn’t clicking quite yet. It’s only a matter of time before Brett is comfortable, but will it be to late when that happens?
Looking in the NFC, the bears gave away another game. Thanks to a pair of Orton interceptions and a last minute defense collapse, and assaulting another player being no penalty but getting the guy off the guy he’s punching in the face is a penalty. Granted, the game never should have went to over time in the first place. Orton finally showed a little bit of the deep ball, but both of his ‘long’ throws were underthrown and required Lloyd to make a great catch and forte to just wreslte it down. This offense is still the problem and looking to lose more games then ‘bad’ rex has ‘lost’. Beyond chicago you had a handful of good NFC East games. The first game being the Giants overtime win over the Bengals. The benglas played hard and started to show the offense they are capable of, but Eli and the giants showed just a little bit more with a big overtime catch for Toomer. The eagles and their pressure kept the steelers and Rothesburger throughly grounded. Ben was sacked 7 times in just the second quarter. The Offensive line of the steelers is going to need some work, but they at least kept it close. Then the final NFC East game was the Cowboys over the previously undefeated Green Bay Packers. The Cowboys are continuing to look like the team to beat in the NFC. Let’s hope the Bears can squek out the division and the cowboys continure their first round exits.
Then for a little baseball flair, how about them cubs? Even the pitcher is getting in on the action with a grand slam in yesterdays game.
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