Are You Ready for Some Football - Week 3

[Ninot]

I'd like to take a moment and declare:

GO EAGLES!

McNabb is back

[Sikander]

The Broncos defense played very well.

The offense committed 5 (!) turnovers, 3 by Plummer. Jeckyl and Hyde won't get it done.

[Tuberski]

Obviously nobody actually watched the Dallas game.

Damn that TO for throwing 3 interceptions!!!

ACK!

[Spaced Cowboy]

I watched it.....Romo! Romo! Romo!

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Sikander
The Broncos defense played very well.

The only reason to say that is that they kept the Rams from scoring TDs. Every other way to measure performance says they didn't play well. They gave up a lot of big plays.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Falcons

Even though Smith was out, it was still impressive to totally smother the Carolina offense. Abraham took over the game. Great pick up.

And very suprisingly the run game totally destroyed the Carolina defense (I was not expecting that). And no turnovers is very nice as well.

A good win, we'll see if we can make Chris Simms seem as bad as he did against Baltimore for another week.

[-Jrabbit]

Atlanta looked great. I would not want to be next on Carolina's schedule.

[Jaguar]

Most of my projection methods tell me that in the NFC South, Atlanta will be good, Carolina will be even better, Tampa will be mediocre, and Reggie Bush will make some great runs in garbage time.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Hopefully Smith is not beset by nagging injuries this season or else, I don't see Carolina doing too much.

[Kidlicious]

If anyone wants to see a killer hit. Look at the Rams-Broncos highlight film and see what Leonard Little does to Mike Bell right before he lays another hit on Jake Plummer and strips the ball.

[Jaguar]

Fair enough. Injuries for some teams are more problematic than for others.

I think you could eliminate any one Denver Bronco of your choice, and the team would still play very well without him. The same is true for Pittsburgh. It's not true, however, for most other teams. And an injury to Smith would be devastating.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

And Branch is gone to Seattle for a 1st. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, *******.

On the other hand, this means the Pats basically traded Branch and a 5th for Doug Gabriel and a 1st. I wouldn't call that a bad trade at all, if Gabriel wasn't hurt. Then again, Branch is pretty much certain to spend a couple of games out this season too, so... (no, this isn't the badmouthing them on the way out of town thing. To be honest, I valued Givens over Branch. Of course, now they have neither.)

I hope they didn't forgive his nearly half million in fines.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Maybe now Branch can be paid what he's actually worth. He called the Pats bluff and won out in the end (Pats claiming that on the market he wasn't worth what he thought he was and being shown to be completely wrong).

[Jaguar]

The Patriots were 10-6 in a creampuff division last year, then they lose their highly regarded passrushing linebacker and both their receivers. Frankly, I'm not so sure they're really that good anymore. It looks like Pittsburgh or Cincinnati could stomp all over them right now.

It will be interesting to see what Brady can do with his receivers. As far as I can tell, their WR depth chart consists of Troy Brown, Reche Caldwell, and Diet Pepsi Machine. Somehow I think he'll fare better than Delhomme did without Steve Smith. He looked absurdly lost. You could just see him thinking "Steve? Steve? Where are you Steve? Oh, why hello Mr. Abraham. Maybe you've seen my friend Steve somewhere around here."

[Koyaanisqatsi]

He still isn't worth what he thought he was worth...he's just now getting paid what he thought he was worth.