NFL HARD KNOCKS

Sep 17, 2012 -- 5:38pm

{general observations from 14 non-stop hours of football viewing on Sunday}

 

Rams over Redskins: Shame on you Josh Morgan for throwing the football at a Ram defender and costing your team 15 crucial yards and the potential tying field goal in the waning moments. Totally selfish.

Note to Mike Shanahan, stop using RG III on those designed runs, he’s taking too many hits and won’t last.

Eagles over Ravens: Philly is living with angels, they’re 2-0 both victories by 1 point, despite turning the ball over 9 times! This can’t continue. Tough loss for the Ratbirds, who now must beat an angry Patriots team to avoid a 1-2 start.

Note to Andy Reid, continue to run the ball more and pass less, Michael Vick ‘s health is on borrowed time. Vick is being hit on nearly every dropback, he won’t last if this keeps up.

Giants over Bucs: Lost in Greg Schiano’s low rent bush league end of game fiasco, is that Eli Manning threw for an x-box like 510 yards!!!  He did it versus a Bucs defense that gave up only 10 points to the Panthers the week before. Leadership is demonstrated by refusing to lose and drop to 0-2, as Eli rallied his troops.

Note to Greg Schiano, who is doing a good job with Tampa, his team is over achieving considering his talent level, however no matter what the NFL is saying publicly, they were not happy with the victory formation shenanigans. It wouldn’t surprise me if Schiano got a call today from the Commish telling him to knock it off. Bad job coach, completely amateurish.

Panthers over Saints: Steve Spagnuolo had better get something figured out with that defense, they allowed 40 to the Skins and 35 to the Panthers. At 0-2 as Yogi used to say,” it’s getting late early”

Like the read option with Cam Newton, tough to stop the run, plus it brings the safety into the box and singles up the wr’s. Brandon LaFell and Louis Murphy developing into nice compliments to Steve Smith.

Cardinals over Patriots: The happiest man in the stadium when Stephen Gostkowski honked the 42 yard game winning fg ? Ryan Williams, the Arizona runningback, who moments earlier, handed the game to the Pats by doing the unthinkable, fumbling as the Cards were trying to run clock. Don’t look now, Arizona is 2-0 and going back to last year the Cards have won 9 of the last 11.

All good things come to an end. The loss snapped the Patriots record in home openers, they were 10-0. The loss of TE Aaron Hernandez, for what appears to be a high ankle sprain, is very concerning for New England.

Seattle over Dallas: The question was how would Dallas react to prosperity after defeating the Giants on the road to kickoff the season. The answer is terribly. The Pokes were non competitive in Seattle. Marshawn Lynch ran all over them. Just when you think Dallas has turned the corner and become legit, they lay a stink bomb like Sunday

Question for Jason Garrett: Should Jason Whitten be playing? He seems tentative, dropping 3 passes, perhaps he’s still worried about his lacerated spleen, I would be.

I like Russell Wilson, first I always pull for short guys, and he does a good job extending plays. Now he must learn that when you scramble it should be to buy time for his receivers , not to immediately become a runner.

 

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