The National Football League-that was the week that was

All right, you NFL experts, answer these burning questions for a Fantasy Football rookie (that would be me) :

So I have Chad Johnson, Andre Johnson, and Javon Walker as my receivers.

A. Johnson and Walker are injured. A Johnson is a stud when he's healthy, and Walker had a couple of decent games before he got hurt. A. Johnson will be out at least two more games, and Javon Walker probably another game or so. But when they do come back, they can't be expected to perform to their former lofty standards right away.

So I'm thinking about dropping the pair of them and picking up Dwayne Bowe and Santonio Holmes.

What sayeth thee, O Fantasty Football gods?
 
New England and Dallas look heads and tails above everyone else......Super Bowl looks like NE vs DALLAS.

I would love to see Browns finally do something!


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Interesting games yesterday. Must be a great day to be a Browns' fan. They have put humiliating defeats on their two hated rivals, the Bengals and the Ravens. I'll admit I totally misjudged this club, although my comments on this game last week warned bettors to avoid it. The Ravens' offense is so pathetic it makes them a dicey bet against any team with the potential to put it in the end zone.


While the sun shines on Cleveland, things are not so nice in several NFL cities. Take San Diego for instance. Hint: If you wake up one morning and you are the GM of a team that just went 14-2, it's probably not a great idea to fire the coach and replace him with a guy who failed in previous head coaching stints at two storied franchises. SD blew a lead yesterday to KC at home, then heard it from the fans. Mar-tee, Mar-tee, Mar-tee. Look on the bright side. There are 12 games left and the Bolts could win all of them. Color me skeptical.

At least Chargers fans were somewhat prepared for disaster. They lost at home in the playoffs last year. The Bears by contrast made the Super Bowl, a feat they will be hard-pressed to repeat this year. At this rate, making the playoffs will be a challenge. I warned last week to stay away from what looked like an inviting spread against the Lions because the Bears defense had injury problems and the Lions had a quick-strike attack. The Bears certainly can attest to that, as they watched in horror as the Lions put up an NFL record 34 points on them in a wild fourth quarter that saw each team run a kickoff back for a TD. I guess if you give a team enough high first round picks, a mad genius offensive coordinator and a half-way decent veteran QB, they can embarrass any defense. Looks like the Lions are not a joke any more.

The Steelers came back to earth against a much improved Arizona Cardinals squad. In fairness, the Cardinals staff of embittered ex-Steelers coaches probably knows the Steelers better than their rookie coach. There was clearly a pay-back element to this game. Maybe a one game aberration for the Steelers, maybe they're not quite as good as advertised.

Other games went pretty much to form, with Dallas, Indy and GB getting solid wins and covering the spread, as recommended. Houston fell flat against Atlanta, giving me my only loss in recommended games. Last night, the NY Giants thoroughly demolished the erratic Eagles and not only covered but won the game getting one point. Call it 4-1 for last week's rec's, going into tonight.

The Cincy-NE Monday night game raises an obvious question: should you allow the children to watch? Under coach Marvin Harrison, who formerly oversaw Ray Lewis and crew at Baltimore, the Bengals have led the league in arrests and obnoxious behavior. NE went from being the league's most admired franchise with a string of Super Bowl wins, the consensus best coach and too perfect QB Tom Brady to an embarrassing team with a Barry Bond-sized question mark over its accomplishments. Coach Bellichek went from being charmingly eccentric to downright weird, Brady looked like a jerk in abandoning his pregnant actress GF in favor of a new super model of the month and there are mutters around the league that the team got off too easy for the cheating scandal and that it was merely the tip of the iceberg. Whatever. Cincy RB Rudi Johnson is out and I look for the Pats to cover.
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The Cincy-NE Monday night game raises an obvious question: should you allow the children to watch? Under coach Marvin Harrison, who formerly oversaw Ray Lewis and crew at Baltimore, the Bengals have led the league in arrests and obnoxious behavior. NE went from being the league's most admired franchise with a string of Super Bowl wins, the consensus best coach and too perfect QB Tom Brady to an embarrassing team with a Barry Bond-sized question mark over its accomplishments. Coach Bellichek went from being charmingly eccentric to downright weird, Brady looked like a jerk in abandoning his pregnant actress GF in favor of a new super model of the month and there are mutters around the league that the team got off too easy for the cheating scandal and that it was merely the tip of the iceberg. Whatever. Cincy RB Rudi Johnson is out and I look for the Pats to cover. [/B]
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A savage attack AAA.

If I had kids I'd certainly take them to see the # 1 offense, # 1 defense, reborn and rehabilitated Moss with off the charts stats that nobody can cover, and passing efficiency nobody has seen since Unitas.

Will they go 16-0, some are asking here. I don't think so. They have Indy and Dallas away and Steelers are lurking. Still that frightful firepower and no obvious weakness at any position is giving other coaches canniptions.

Special message for Indy people: forget W/L - watch the spread between NE and IN points for and points against. Yer losing ground boys and it will grow and grow until the showdown in which Manning will bedwet for 3 interceptions I predict. :cool:

Finally, my call is for a bad winter here so if your team goes to Foxboro later this year - sayonara.
 
sammy morris couldnt run to save his life when playing with the phins...yet yesterday he put up sweet numbers with the patriots....goes to show something be wrong down yonder....could it be our own version of the madden curse?? where we on the cover of the 2008 madden video game??
 
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A savage attack AAA.


Special message for Indy people: forget W/L - watch the spread between NE and IN points for and points against. Yer losing ground boys and it will grow and grow until the showdown in which Manning will bedwet for 3 interceptions I predict. :cool:

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if the indy defense comes to play this will be one hell of a showdown...only one other team can try to go toe to toe with NE in td's and that's indy ( and perhaps dallas )...so it will all boil down to indy's defense which if they come to play will put a somewhat damper on the brady/moss 2 for 1 combo...
 
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if the indy defense comes to play this will be one hell of a showdown...only one other team can try to go toe to toe with NE in td's and that's indy ( and perhaps dallas )...so it will all boil down to indy's defense which if they come to play will put a somewhat damper on the brady/moss 2 for 1 combo...
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I agree. And watch for both offense sto go No Huddle play after play. NE & Indy pretty much the only teams in NFL that can do that

Game of the year.
 
I thought Cincy hung in there pretty well last night, considering the injuries. Still, the Pats covered pretty easily, leaving me at 5-1 for last week's rec's.

Sorry, I'm not into fantasy football, so I have no advice there.

A "savage attack" on the Pats? Moi? Well, it is all intended in good fun. I leave the harsh stuff for the politics forum. I didn't even get into the details of Belichek and that married woman in New Jersey. Couldn't he just get Brady to hook him up with some supermodels?

The Pats certainly look very capable of running the table. How well has Moss fit in? I give them credit for stealing him from Oakland. Donovan McNabb no doubt would like to have Donte Stallworth back. If there was a team that should have been prepared tot take a chance on Moss, you would have thought it would have been the Eagles, considering how thin their wideout corps is. Guess they are still traumatized from that whole TO affair.
 
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