Around the NFL-Week 1

[JoeRedskin]

But yeah, that was epically stupid.

[CultBrennan59]

I've been loving every minute of this Peyton Manning TD fest until I realized the guy I'm playing in Fantasy Football has Manning...

[RedskinRat]

Getting a little annoyed with the 'America's Game of the Week' promo.

[sandtrapjack]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

Getting a little annoyed with the 'America's Game of the Week' promo.

Shameless self promotion. It was on NBC and they are obviously going to promote their own programming. Wouldn't matter if it was Jets vs. Raiders, they would have been shoving down our throats every commercial break.

[JoeRedskin]

P. Manning and D. Thomas on my FF teams.

[Ruhskins]

I guess this was a big FU from Manning to all the people that had Seattle #1 in their power rankings.

[RedskinRat]

Manning to Thomas, Touchdown....

OK, you can stop now.........

[donofriose]

This game has turned into a video game. what seems like every year now, might see a whole bunch of passing records broken again this year.

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by donofriose

This game has turned into a video game. what seems like every year now, might see a whole bunch of passing records broken again this year.

agreed. brees, manning brady are amazing qbs but 50 plus tds for brady, 5k for brees? the game is changing. im just glad the skins seem to finally be game planning and playing modern nfl football and not the control the ball with 3 yard runs and a cloud of dust approach.

[SmootSmack]

That was odd

[SirLK26]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

That was odd

I agree. We need an explanation. GreenMonkMachine, care to provide your reasoning?

[Green Monk Machine]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

That was odd

Was it?
It amused me that I was out on the ledge with plenty of game left. But with a cooler head after waking up, not watching the 2nd half, and to my delight, the Ravens lost.

Odd? IDK, I'm weird as shit. It was just a dialogue between upset self pre-end of game vs day after game over self.

I live in Bmore where people are assholes, spout off tribalism to opposing fans who like my family had been season ticket holders from the '50's- Feb '12 (before trading the rights to RG3 for those historians), and their team wins championships. So it may bring out "odd" shit when the ravens lose b/c it means more to me than anyone outside of Bmore can fully understand.

And I think after watching that game, I've become more aware that despite an absentee Defense, Manning and the broncos can win a game that I had pegged them to lose.

[Chico23231]

That was a hell of a statement game last night. I dont know what to think of Baltimore, but their Oline got pushed around pretty bad last night by a bronco defense without their key guys. And their secondary sux

[donofriose]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

That was a hell of a statement game last night. I dont know what to think of Baltimore, but their Oline got pushed around pretty bad last night by a bronco defense without their key guys. And their secondary sux

Right when Oher got knocked out that entire OLine pretty much fell apart. Their secondary, much like the Skins secondary needs time to gel. Without a pass rush both secondaries will look awful.

[CultBrennan59]

Originally Posted by donofriose

Right when Oher got knocked out that entire OLine pretty much fell apart. Their secondary, much like the Skins secondary needs time to gel. Without a pass rush both secondaries will look awful.

I still think the Ravens are a good team with a good defense. They were just second guessing themselves. They thought they knew peytons plays from Stokely, Dallas Clark, and Jim Caldwell, but Peyton, being the great QB he is, changed the signals or made adjustments to the routes.

The Ravens defense was doing ok until like you said the offense started getting hurt (losing Jacoby Jones didn't help because he was getting open) with Michael Oher hurting his leg and a rookie going out there against a good denver defense. Then they started having too many 3 and outs and all the momentum went to Denvers offense and the Ravens just got gased and tired. I still think Baltimore is a play off team, but last night was a beat down and wake up call to that team. They're a very well run franchise. They will adjust.