All the Sunday Night Football crew could talk about was how Chicago was “stunning” the colts and everyone else. Yeah, they stunned everyone who doesn't remember what a healthy Chicago defense can do and has been in a cave regarding Manning's surgery. After the game Urlacher looked really insulted by a sideline reporter who suggested their win was a “huge upset.” The only thing that stunned me was the bears offense which put up 20 points. Not stellar or anything but when you're expecting more like 6, well, it's surprising. I think this makes them overachievers, as 6 points from the offense would've still won the game. I wonder why nobody accused Lovie Smith of running up the score during the press conference? How competitive does the NFC north look all of a sudden?
While I'm on the subject of the Sunday Night Football crew I've got to rant a little about how they're consistently phoning it in. They seem to make whatever random comment comes to mind whether or not it's based on any kind of even rudimentary knowledge of the team or, in the case of some comments, the past 15 minutes. Since we got to hear from these chuckle heads twice already this week I'm going to point out one remark from each game, though there are certainly more if I wanted to really draw this out. During the Washington at New Jersey game the announcers remarked that the one thing you can count on is that a Tom Coughlin coached team is always a disciplined team. Now, they're old, so lets not hold it against them that they can't remember two years ago when the Giants lead the league in personal fouls. The fact is, in the game they were commenting on, the Giants had already committed two fifteen yard personal fouls! Icing on the cake came on the very next play when a late hit drew a third personal foul. Fast forward to the Sunday night game. Bears have the ball at midfield, 3rd and 6. Draw play, Matt Forte up the middle breaks off a 51 yard touchdown run. Next Bears possession, 3rd and 5, draw play, Matt Forte up the middle for little or no gain. The announcers jump in with “teams usually assume they can run this draw play on the colts because their ends come to the outside so quickly, but not on third down, they protect it. You can't run the draw play on the colts on third down.” Excuse me? How can you so quickly forget a 51 yard touchdown run? Thanks for the insightful commentating NBC. How much do these guys get paid? I hear a lot of people complaining about players who don't try hard enough, what about announcers?
So Tom Brady is out for the year. Football talking heads declare this to be just awful. I mean, he's the “elite” of the NFL. He's what the fans come to see! Fuck him. His team cheated and then played like poor sportsmen the entirety of the previous season. Karma assholes. As a Redskins fan I hate the Giants but I was still happy to see the Patriots “perfect” season fail. I'm also happy to see Tom Brady injured because I think the NFL is better off with a mediocre Patriots team. This also opens up the very real possibility of Jett Favre winning the AFC East. I still give the edge to the Patriots in the division, but it'll be a lot tighter now. Somebody will declare the Bills to be the front runner in the AFC East with the impressive win over the Seahawks. Beating the Seahawks on the road? Meaningless, the Bills still have a lot to prove. Let's examine Matt Cassell's assessment of the situation:
Week 1's best cheerleaders have to go to the Eagles. Check out the photo from philadelphiaeagles.com and note the domain in the link; somebody over there has a sense of humor.
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