Monday Morning QB: Week 5 with HD MM
1. The Browns/Bills game on Sunday set professional football back 50 years. Who would've thought a team led by a QB completing just TWO passes for 23 yards en route to a QB rating of 0.00 in the 2nd half could've won the game?! Remember the stats to this game. This may never happen again in the history of football.
2. Josh McDaniels told reporters before the game that if Bill Belichick taught him anything, it's that there is a way to beat ANY team in the NFL. Mark this down as another case in which the understudy out smarted his mentor. Former assistants are now 7-8 vs. Belichick.
3. Speaking of Denver, even Ugly Betty thought those mustard and maroon colored jerseys with the vertical striped socks were atrocious. And what's with the Argyle painted endzones at Invesco Field? Is that supposed to go with the whole "ugly theme"??
4. What's gotten into the Bengals? All five games have been decided by 7 points or less. This is the third straight game that has been decided by 3 points. All game-winning scores in Cincinnati's five games this season have been with under two minutes of regulation or overtime. A new nickname is in order for this team: The Kardiac Cats!
5. Talk about rivals going in opposite directions. The Titans and Colts Sunday Night game was a testament to that. Make that the 5th straight game Peyton has thrown for over 300 yards. All this without their #2 WR Anthony Gonzalez and post Marvin Harrison. Woah.
6. It's business as usual in Oakland. And the beatdown at the hands of the New York football Giants is only the least of their worries. Randy Hanson, the ousted Raiders defensive assistant coach is now coming out with gruesome details of the alleged attack by head coach Tom Cable. Hanson says the Oakland coach attacked him when he wasn't looking and that he had "no reason to believe he wouldn't have killed me" if others hadn't pulled Cable away.
7. The Texans/Cardinals game highlighted two of the games elite WR's in Andre Johnson and Larry Fitzgerald. This was expected to be a shootout between gunslinger's Matt Shaub and Kurt Warner. In the end though, it wasn't the offense, but the Cards defense that decided the game. Take that irony!
8. Anyone else feel like there were an abundance of lopsided matchups this week? The NFL speaks of it's parity, and while that may be true most years, it really seems as if we have a greater disparity among the league's elites and league's worst teams than most years. Week 5 highlighted this.
9. I guess the Falcons weren't just a 1-year wonder. Beating the 49ers the way they did and on the road none-the-less was just plain impressive. Matt Ryan deserves all the accolades he's receiving.
10. Looking forward to tonight's MNF game. I'm curious to see how Rex Ryan plans to counter the ever creative Wild-Cat scheme by Tony Sporano and company. Also to watch is the unveiling of new Jets WR, Braylon Edwards. The diva and image conscious receiver loves the spotlight. In 3 Monday Night appearances in 2008, Braylon averaged 6 receptions for 120 yards. In the 13 "non-Monday night games", he averaged 2.8 receptions for 29 yards.
