17 October 2011
NFL Week 6 Results
San Franciso 25, Detroit 19: Did I call it or what? As for the actual game, it's time for the Lions celebrated defensive line to start taking the run seriously. The 49ers beat them with the power run game, and now it's on tape for every upcoming Lion opponent to see, starting with the Atlanta Falcons, who can pound you with Michael Turner. All the hysteria over the Lions will turn to panic if they lose next week. . .it was all too good to be true, and remember, Marinelli was 6 - 2 before losing 23 of his last 24 games. . .when you've been shit for as long as the Lions, you have to wash off the stink every week, or risk being tossed back into the crapper.
{BTW, Jim Harbaugh is one helluva coach. . .he has the power run game, of course, but he still needed the underwhemling Alex Smith to make a play on that fourth down--if Singletary is the coach, Smith throws one at Walker's feet, and the Lions take over. I think the Lions defense coasted at times, and you can't do that against a Harbaugh team. . .you have to play every down. Time for the Lions to kick the the negro rappers and faux-red neck rockers out of their locker room and get back to basics.}
Atlanta 31, Carolina 17: Turner 27 carries, Ryan 22 throws. That's the recipe for success for Atlanta.
Philadelphia 20, Washington 13: After I finally get off the Eagles, Moronwheg takes my advice: 28 carries for McCoy.
Tampa Bay 26, New Orleans 20: I don't know how Tampa ever wins a game. . .oh, Mark *Carousel Horse* Ingram, 9 carries, 22 yards, that's how.
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Atlanta finally played like Atlanta: Run the ball.
ReplyDeleteThe Witness-Protection Coach "Smith" was trying to make Atlanta a passing team.
Look, I'm okay with Ryan, but a QB of his caliber could have been had in the 2nd round. Not a great arm, not a runner, not powerful like Rapeberger who is difficult to sack (he looks like a fat kid holding a candybar his momma is trying to take away when pass-rushers get to him), and I guess he can lead, but he's not great.
He's decent at reading defenses, but so was Bernie Kosar.
They need to run the ball like this every game. Screens, draws, play-action, up the middle, etc.
Ryan will never be a Manning or Brees or Brady. Never.
Ingram is disappointing at NO.
You see this crap with Cam Newton? How screwed up is fantasy football when he gets 14 pts. with a 40-something QB rating? 3 INT's. Not TD's. And that's worth more that Rapebergers 1 TD, zero INT performance?
This fantasy football thing is fun, but it illustrates a problem facing football: Valuing bs points that are poorly calculated over W's.
Look at Vick. Now, look at Newton. 3 INT's. I've seen the guy play a couple times in the NFL and he's got a shitty arm. When he misses, he misses wrong. If you're going to miss, make it a miss the OTHER team can't INT.
He does the opposite. And frankly, he'd have more INT's if D-backs had better hands. There have been some times it looks like the DB is so fucking surprised Cam made such an error that he drops the ball in surprise.
It's such a joke how those points are assessed.
ha ha ha, you did call the Harbaugh/Schwartz thing.
ReplyDeleteHarbaugh. . . . he's an asshole. I never liked the guy when he was QB for whatever team. Now he runs across the field to shake hands and does some overhand sweep thing with a backslap.
He should have been smashed by a 250 lb LB, you know, for old-times sake.
This is going to make for excellent bad-blood. The next contest b/t DET and SF will be fun and chippy.
But Harbaugh has something if SF's QB did 17/32 with 125 yards, 1/1 on TD/INT.
Oh yeah, Gore ran for 141 yards, Hunter 33 yards, Ginn 24 yards. . . . . Stephen Hawking got a couple carries in on the DET rush defense. What the hell happened there? Didn't DET know they didn't have to worry about Smith too much?
Stafford looks like he did decent. Nearly 300 yards, no INT's, no lost fumbles. . . . completion percentage is less-than, but that could be Stafford throwing a few away. . . . better that than the stinkin' INT.
But the run-game. . . . painful. 66 yards of rushing? Shit, how did Stafford NOT toss an INT?
Best ran for 160 yards last game and couldn't break 40 this game? MNF? Was that the problem?
The Lions-Falcons game should be pretty good. Suh & Co have to play the run first this week, or Turner and Snelling and those guys will give Atlanta 35, 36 minutes of possession time.
ReplyDeleteStafford was OK last week, but by the end of the game I think he was worn down from the 49ers pass rush, he had nothing on the last drive.
Zero turnovers from Stafford. That's the big stat. Decent yards and no INT's or lost fumbles. I'll take 220 yards, 1 TD, and no turnovers from a QB any game rather than 300 plus yards and a turnover or two.
ReplyDeleteRight now the NFL is QB-centric, but more teams are going to realize their team can't rely on the QB so heavily. Atlanta can't. That's not a dig on Ryan necessarily. But a good run-game is still important in the league because not every QB is Brady or Manning or Brees. Remember the Lions and Raiders when they had Sanders and Jackson?
Even they relied on running too much. They never had a QB. Not really, and it made so little sense. Play action is so easy with a good running game.
If the Falcons can run, and they have the backs for it, and remember Ryan's limitations, the Lions have real trouble.
The Falcons need to get at Stafford if they want to stop him. They have to hit him a few times. The Lions need to establish the run to tighten up coverage and loosen their receivers for the long ball.
I think the Lions win it.
You know, the thing that really sunk the Lions of the Barry Sanders era was a run of freak bad luck. Fontes got them to 12 - 4 in '91 and the NFC title game, he had put together a pretty solid team with a KILLER offensive line. . and then, boom, the two starting guards, Utley and Andolsek, one gets paralyzed, the other gets killed. Sanders never really had great offensive line after that, or he would have broke every record in the book.
ReplyDeleteI remember the paralysis. It really freaked out Pop Warner parents. I remember that. They put us in these weird neck-braced behind the helmet and crap.
ReplyDeleteWhich fit for crap.