Karma’s a bitch but I can’t help myself. I’ll be rooting for the Ravens, Bengals and Seahawks today. Okay. Not really. I’ll be rooting against the Bills, Jets and Dolphins. Looking at those matchups, it feels like all of those dominoes could fall in my favor. Not that I trust the Ravens and Joe Flacco. Or the Bengals and Marvin Lewis. It would be a shock for the Dolphins to fly across the country and beat the Seahawks in Seattle. That couldn’t happen, right?
If things go my way, the worst case scenario would be the Patriots flying out of Phoenix tied for 1st place in the AFC East.
If memory serves, New England was the only franchise to place two players in the Top 10 of the NFL’s Top 100 Players list; Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski. Neither of them will be on the field Sunday night - and starting left tackle Nate Solder didn’t make the trip, either - and the Patriots are only 7-point underdogs? Would any other team playing without either of their starting tackles, without their starting QB and their two best offensive skill players (Gronk and Dion Lewis), both their starting wideouts coming back from offseason surgeries and both their starting defensive ends from last season gone (Chandler Jones traded to the Cardinals and Rob Ninkovich suspended) and be just a one score dog on the road?
Will Aaron Rodgers one day eclipse Tom Brady as the greatest of all time or is he just the greatest fantasy football QB or all time?
It’s hard for me, after all the years watching Ryan Fitzpatrick make that critical, game-breaking mistake game after game over his many years in the AFC East, to believe that his 2015 season is the new normal. I’m looking forward to the inevitable sideline meltdown between Fitzpatrick and Brandon Marshall after Fitz misses a wide open Marshall while throwing an INT trying to force the ball to Eric Decker. I’ll set the over/under at Week 7.
Does Carson Wentz starting and Jared Goff sitting tell us more about those young QBs or does it tell us more about the Eagles’ and the Rams’ organizations? I’ll say the latter. I’m not saying Wentz will be great but as Bill Belichick recently noted, you can’t get better at playing football unless you play football. The Eagles also shed Sam Bradford’s contract in exchange for the Vikings’ first round pick in next year’s draft. Wentz could easily start his NFL career 1-0-0 with the Browns visiting. The Rams? They’ll be making their first impression with the fans in Los Angeles starting Case Keenum at QB. Couldn’t Jared Goff hand the ball to Todd Gurley as well as Case Keenum?
How long before opposing defenses start targeting Trevor Siemian’s head?
Will the Colts fire Chuck Pagano after the Colts lose at home to the Lions in Week 1? Or will Pagano do the right thing and resign?
On a scale of 1-10, how crazy will Cowboys’ fans go if Dak Prescott throws a game-winning TD pass against the Giants? They’ll go to 11, won’t they? What if Prescott leads the Cowboys to an improbable 6-0-0 record when Tony Romo is cleared to play again? Is it so hard to picture Tony Romo in a Chicago Bears uniform next year?
If Matt Ryan has lost his fastball the Falcons are totally screwed. Matt “Pick 6” Schaub and Matt “It Turns Out There Is No QB Chromosome” Simms are the alternatives? And what’s with all the Matt’s? Three Guys Named Matt sounds like an unsuccessful folk trio from the 60s featured in an SNL parody (with Beck Bennett, Kenan Thompson and Kate McKinnon in drag).
I know we’ll never stop talking about it so I shouldn’t be surprised by seeing a few posts about Deflategate with Brady’s four-game suspension getting really real today. Should I be surprised Roger Goodell maintains that he got it 100% right? No, and I’m not. He’s a little kid with crumbs all around his mouth and down his shirt front swearing he didn’t take the cookies. What else can he do?
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