Comebacks and Injuries

After all the off-field problems in the NFL all week, it was nice to finally get back to actual games this weekend. The great football weekend actually started off on Saturday when #9 USC lost to got ran over by an awful Boston College team. In case you missed it, BC ran for 452 yards against a defensive line that was supposed to be one of the best in college football (USC ran for only 20 yards). This brought up a tough decision for me of which I love more: USC football losing a game or Duke basketball losing in March. Both of which of great.

Jordy destroyed the Jets in the 2nd half

Inspector gadget to the rescue

Now to the NFL, this weekend was full of big comebacks and some interesting upsets. Both the Packers and Bears came back from down 17 points or more. However, these two games felt completly different than each other. In the Packers game, the Jets got off to a quick 21-3 start but it never felt like they were going to hold on to that lead. It may be my optimism as a Packers fan but I felt like they would come back and win since they still had 3 quarters of the game to play and Aaron Rodgers at quarterback. However, in the Bears game it was completly the opposite. The Bears looked done late in the 2nd quarter down 17-0. They had two recievers who looked like wounded ducks for most of the game and yet they still came back. Part of the credit for their comeback should go to Colin Kapernick who apparently decided that Bears cornerback Kyle Fuller is on his team as he threw the ball to him twice. Most of the credit, however, should go to Brandon Marshall who went all "eye of the tiger" in the second half and caught anything thrown his way including two touchdowns. So after those two comebacks and a couple of stompings in Carolina and Minnesota it leaves every NFC North team at 1-1 after two weeks of the season. This division race could very easily be a three team race all the way to the end (sorry Vikings fans but you won't be along for the ride), so these comeback wins now will most likely play a huge part in who takes the division title in January.

Stop Blitzing!

In the upsets category this week we have the Saints. I really don't know what to say about the Saints other than they don't play well on the road. They started off the year as many expert's NFC pick for the Super Bowl, but they are now 0-2 on the season with loses to a couple of teams with a combined 8-24 record last season. Last weeks loss was easy to push aside since it was on the road in Atlanta which can be a very tough place to win for any team, but to lose to the Browns, that's just terrible. The Saints defense made the Browns look outstanding throughout the whole game, and especially on that last drive. The Saints kept blitzing and not getting to Hoyer which meant wide open recievers down the field and easy completions. If you watched the game, you saw Sean Payton screaming at Rob Ryan (Rex's long hair don't care brother) on the final drive when the Saints couldn't stop anything. I'd imagine it had something to do with Ryan continuing to call blitzes when they weren't working and they were giving the Browns easy yards. Next week the Saints finally go home to take on the Vikings so they should finally be able to put a 1 in the win column, but it will be about 2 weeks later than most people thought.

When it comes to our fantasy league, I don't want to dig into anything yet since the games aren't all over and I'm going to talk about it tomorow in the recaps. I will say this, Josh's team has bit the injury bug hard! He called me yesterday to congradulate me on my victory at about 4 o'clock after Jamaal Charles went down, making that his third injured player on the day (Doug Martin &RG3). Check back tomorow for the full recaps of each game and more football non-sense that runs around in this brain of mine.