Football Week in Review #2

Football Week in Review:
This week in football has taught us somethings about how this season is going to play out.

1. There are a lot of pretenders.

At this point it seems like a small miricle that Jay Culter didn’t meet an early death after the inadiquacy the O-Line showed during the Monday night drubbing of the Bears by the Giants in the new Giants stadium. If it’s not fixed soon the Bears wouldn’t even make the 6 victories needed to enter a post-season bowl game, let alone the play offs. There can be no passing game without a running game, there can be no running game without an offensive line, and there can be no wins without all three of those. If things keep in this direction the Bears will be looking for a new Coach and a new GM.
What else was apparent in the North division is that the Lions are a vastly improved team that hasn’t figured out how to get out of their own way. Doing their best Green Bay Packers impersonation they distroyed their chances by amassing over 100 yards in penalties in a game that they most likely would have won . Bringing up the fact they should be 3 – 1 after loosing close games to the Bears (given to them by a questionable NFL rule), the Eagles, and the Pack. They would be sitting in the number one spot all alone had they played mistake free.

Other pretenders:
The North Division. Exactly what is Green Bay doing? With one of the best young QB’s in Rogers, and a beast in Finley, double coverage should weekend up the run defense and spring a good back in Ryan Grant. Again another example of an offensive line not doing their job. And I don’t want to start on Bret “Hamlet” Favre. His play over the first 4 games shows that he should have stayed in Mississippi when the 3 musketeers came to get him instead of slowly killing the dream of a repeat playoff birth, and sticking one more knife in the back of his hall-of-fame career

The 49ers. I mean what? Having probably the most gifted team in football athletically, Singletary is crashing and burning, and there is no amount of de-pantsings that are going to fix it. They are simply playing unenspired football, and the only passion showing is in Singletary’s well known shifty eyes as he chases down officials to get explanations on penalties that he can’t change. As a Chicago Bears fan, I know how nice a guy he is, but he’s not coaching, he’s just expecting for his underlings to figure it out on their own. You can’t have a successful team until all the phases are on the same page.

The Cowboys still remain a disappointment, the Saints have one of the weakest 3 - 1 records, and without a healthy Mike Vick the Eagles cannot win. The bottom line is the whole NFC is up for grabs at this point with no clear cut dominant team... I fear this will be another Super Bowl victory for the AFC.

2. Tom is Tom, Randy is Randy, and Bill is Bill

What we know is that Tom Brady will always be Tom Brady, Randy Moss will always have sure hands, and Bill will never take off that sweatshirt. And why change a darn thing when a so called “off year” is one where you make an exit from the playoffs in the first round. In a season full of “what do we have here,” “I can’t believe how bad they are,” and “the Chiefs are 3 -0” (no you read that right), one this is certain, New England will be in the playoffs, and they will be hard to beat.

3. Do not count the Jets out.

This Jets v. New England battle will be the one to watch down the stretch. Still managing to win without the best CB in the league in Darrelle Revis (who should be back in week 5) the Jets are good. With him, they are great. Solid running attack in a rejuvinated LT who is looking like the LT of about 5 years ago. The offensive line is holding up well, and protecting one of the best draft picks in recient history in Mark Sanchez. They have it clicking, and with Braylon “look ma no hands” Edwards catching a football instead of getting caught under the influence they can only get better in the passing game. This will be the play-off game to watch.