Parity
This must be the ideal situation for the NFL commisioner right now. I'm not going to lie, I didn't watch a lot of football yesterday, mainly because the Bears weren't playing and I could care less about watching a game between the Packers and the Dolphins. I did watch the second half (or most of) of the Chiefs-Chargers game, and that was awesome. Also, I was glad that CBS didn't cut to the Steelers-Falcons game, because why would I want to see another game that was a really close finish? Thank you for deciding for me CBS, I didn't want to see it. I was, however, glad that Boomer pointed out that if I'd purchased the Sunday NFL package I could have gotten the game. Ass. Anyways, I digress.
So yesterday there were some absolutely mind-blowing games. Or, at least, mind-blowing scores. I can't believe how games that seem like obvious blowouts turn out to be, at least what I would consider, huge upsets.
Case #1: Arizona and Oakland. I don't care where this game is played, I would take the Cardinals 10 out of 10 times. Oakland has only come close against a pretty poor Cleveland team, and last week the Cardinals almost beat the Bears. So, yes, there's an emotional let-down from that game, but still, it's the Raiders. And yet, there it is, final score, 22-9, Raiders win. And, from what I hear, the Raiders could have scored more. For my money I still think Marques Tuisasopo is the best QB on the team. If they were running the option. Still, wow, the Raiders actually won a game.
Case #2: Texans over Jags. This is another score I had to look twice at. The Jags beat the Steelers, played the Colts tight, blew the Jets out of the water, beat the Cowboys, got beat by the Redskins. The Texans beat Miami. I think. I don't really have anything to say except how baffled I am at the score of this game. Is Houston finally turning a corner?
Case #3: Bucs over Eagles. This is the Eagles team that blew out the Cowboys a couple weeks ago. Maybe the Cowboys are just way overrated this year. But the Bucs? They're not the class of the NFC, and even last week people were saying that the Eagles might be. Nope. Still looks like the Bears.
Case #4: I'll just lump some close scores and results that surprised me here, as I don't want to go into it any more: Chiefs over Chargers, Falcons 41-Steelers 38 (and Charlie Batch playing not horribly again?), Bengals 17-Panthers 14, Vikings 31-Seahawks 13.
It seems like lately any team can get hugely outperformed at one aspect of the game and get completely blindsided by a team, just like the Bears almost did to the Cardinals, or the Redskins did to the Titans (among others), or like the Colts almost did to the Titans. It's just good to know that the Bears are still on top, and because the Colts wouldn't be able to stop Maurice Clarett from rushing for 100 yards, they will be until they lose.
So yesterday there were some absolutely mind-blowing games. Or, at least, mind-blowing scores. I can't believe how games that seem like obvious blowouts turn out to be, at least what I would consider, huge upsets.
Case #1: Arizona and Oakland. I don't care where this game is played, I would take the Cardinals 10 out of 10 times. Oakland has only come close against a pretty poor Cleveland team, and last week the Cardinals almost beat the Bears. So, yes, there's an emotional let-down from that game, but still, it's the Raiders. And yet, there it is, final score, 22-9, Raiders win. And, from what I hear, the Raiders could have scored more. For my money I still think Marques Tuisasopo is the best QB on the team. If they were running the option. Still, wow, the Raiders actually won a game.
Case #2: Texans over Jags. This is another score I had to look twice at. The Jags beat the Steelers, played the Colts tight, blew the Jets out of the water, beat the Cowboys, got beat by the Redskins. The Texans beat Miami. I think. I don't really have anything to say except how baffled I am at the score of this game. Is Houston finally turning a corner?
Case #3: Bucs over Eagles. This is the Eagles team that blew out the Cowboys a couple weeks ago. Maybe the Cowboys are just way overrated this year. But the Bucs? They're not the class of the NFC, and even last week people were saying that the Eagles might be. Nope. Still looks like the Bears.
Case #4: I'll just lump some close scores and results that surprised me here, as I don't want to go into it any more: Chiefs over Chargers, Falcons 41-Steelers 38 (and Charlie Batch playing not horribly again?), Bengals 17-Panthers 14, Vikings 31-Seahawks 13.
It seems like lately any team can get hugely outperformed at one aspect of the game and get completely blindsided by a team, just like the Bears almost did to the Cardinals, or the Redskins did to the Titans (among others), or like the Colts almost did to the Titans. It's just good to know that the Bears are still on top, and because the Colts wouldn't be able to stop Maurice Clarett from rushing for 100 yards, they will be until they lose.
posted by Jtrouble at 3:15 PM
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