It’s harrowing, it’s dreadful, it’s absolutely hideous. To put into perspective how bad it is I would rather watch Brad Childress and Wade Phillip’s post game conferences over again…or watch Todd Collins throw passes’ to Roy Williams…or look at Andy Reid…or watch the Pro Bowl. It’s in the running for the worst offense in the past forty years. They’ve scored 10.4 points per game, five touchdowns, 52 points and managed to gain 236 yards per game. The 0-16 2008 Detroit Lions managed 16.8 points per game, and scored 19 touchdowns over the course of the season. The Panthers are on pace for 16 touchdowns…equivalent to a touchdown a game. The Lions scored an average of 1.19 touchdowns per game in 2008. The only offense I’ve found to be worse than the hobos the panthers have fielded?...your 0-14 1976 Bucs’!
2. Andy Reid gave us this gem Sunday…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMJ0RpdNbz0
I’m 99.9 percent sure it was some signal for an offensive play (no pun intended) but come on…really?
3. Brett Favre needs to STOP playing…like right now
In the pit of my warped, twisted, and barren soul I hope that something happens to Favre over this sexual harassment case. Not only because I feel for the woman he supposedly harassed but because he has committed an equally heinous crime to Viking fans across the country. He has hijacked the organization, to the point where they have risked the future of the team to put everything into a Super Bowl run this season…only they’ve put all their eggs into a hobbled (apparently he’s got enough various ailments to be placed on IR), 41 year old attention hog who clearly cares more about playing in an unprecedented 300 straight games than the future of a football team basket. By now Travaris Jackson must be as psychologically damaged as Tom Brady after Randy Moss told him he looked like a girl.
4. How many flies has Wade Phillips consumed during his lifetime?
5. The 49er’s…
The 49er’s…your 2010 mega under-achiever! This is the team that everyone continues to over value, but seems to find a way to lose week after week. I mean, they could realistically be 3-2, or even 4-1 right now if not for a few terrible breaks (not that they didn’t bring most of them upon themselves). If Nate Clements just falls down after that interception of Matt Ryan…the 49ers win. If San Fran doesn’t fumble three times in the red zone against the Saints…they win. If Alex Smith doesn’t throw that Favre like interception against the Eagles…they might win. It really is hard to watch Smith play sometimes (errr most of the time). One drive he will play as if his life depended on it, while in others (roughly 93.36 %) he plays like he wants Mike Singletary to scream and spit in his face again…just mind boggling.
6. Special Teams are altering the outcome of games more than ever …
The Chargers lost to the Raiders Sunday not only because of a fumble returned for a touchdown but because of a blocked punt that was returned for six (two blocked punts total by the Raiders!). If teams expect to win, stuff like that just can’t happen. Consider this: San Diego outgained Oakland 506 to 279, earned 15 more first downs, ran 13 more plays, had five less penalties, and controlled the ball for five more minutes. In addition, Tennessee beat Dallas Sunday in large part because of a 73 yard kick return towards the end of regulation that set up the winning touchdown while Dallas dominated in almost every other offensive category. In week four, the Miami Dolphins lost to the Patriots almost entirely because of a shocking special team disaster (NE kickoff return for TD, field goal blocked for touchdown, punt blocked to set up a touchdown).
This year, a combined 12 punts/kickoffs have been returned for touchdowns (through five weeks) while 28 were returned for scores last year. We’re on pace for about 38 touchdowns for the season, which is ten more than last year! 28 are the average numbers of kick off/punt return touchdowns over the last six seasons so we may end 2010-2011 ten above the mean.
7. Guess who I’m talking about:
How can a team with an all-pro pass rusher and defensive tackle, a three time pro bowl quarterback, a backfield that goes three deep (cue crying Packers fans), an all-pro caliber wide receiver that dropped out of the sky, and a second wide receiver that fell to this team towards the bottom of the first round while being top five talent? If you guessed the Dallas Cowboys you would be correct! I’m angry that they’re underachieving so much and they’re one of my five most hated teams in any sport. When a team is 1-3 at this point with such a strong level of talent there is only one solution…axe the coach. I’m starting to believe that Dallas has just quit on Phillips…for instance, they have committed 38 penalties through the four contests they have played. How can a professional team commit over nine penalties a game?...they can’t be that dumb, can they? It’s almost like they’re purposefully doing stupid things just to exasperate Wade…
8. The injuries sustained by Green Bay are reaching an apocalyptic level…
Jermichael Finley, Aaron Rodgers, Donald Lee, Ryan Pickett, Derrick Martin, Clay Mathews, Ryan Grant, Nick Barnett, Cullen Jenkins (playing, but with a wrapped up hand the size of my head he is of questionable effectiveness) comprise the injury report. They all aren’t on injured reserve, but the injuries are piling up to the extent that the Packers aren’t looking like the Super Bowl contenders they were once thought to be. They will be better once Finley and Mathews return (and Rodgers is cleared to play after the concussion) but until then they have to win a few to stay in playoff contention.
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