As we wrap up Week Two in the NFL, here are a few random observations…
I was really tired when I sat down to watch the Sunday Night match-up between the Eagles and Falcons. I figured I would fall asleep watching. But, no... It was too good a game -- I couldn’t fall asleep on it!
At times, it seemed to be a battle of two teams intent on giving the game away. So many turnovers, so many mental errors. Pretty sloppy stuff, really. Still, it was a compelling back-and-forth, and it came down to the very end. Good game.
I hold no great affection for Michael Vick -- and it has nothing to do with his dog-fighting history. My dislike for him long precedes those revelations. So I was inclined to root against Vick’s Eagles. Plus, I have been turned off by all of the “dream team” hype surrounding Philadelphia coming into 2011. And so, while the game had no immediate impact on Green Bay, I was pulling for Atlanta -- and was delighted by the surprising end result.
Has to be a bitter loss for Philly, though, for they mostly outplayed the Falcons. Plus, the concern about Michael Vick’s immediate health and long-term durability is palpable. Tons of money invested in a guy whose style of play makes him a natural candidate for the hospital.
Speaking of the hospital, the Colts are in trouble. For a lot of years, they have been the NFL’s gold standard in terms of consistency, regular season wins, division titles, and playoff appearances. But throughout all that time, they have been primarily a Peyton Manning team. And since he was the next best thing to Brett Favre when it came to iron man reliability, no one gave much public thought to what the Colts would be without him. Well, now we see. They are 0-2 without him, including a home loss to the Cleveland Browns.
The 0-2 Dolphins are also in trouble. Everyone else in their division is 2-0. That’s a bothersome early hole to try to dig out of. And now they head up to Cleveland to play the resurgent Browns.
In Packerland, I know it’s early and it’s hard to complain about a 2-0 start. Still, look at the “Net Points” column on the ""standings" page on NFL.com. This stat simply reflects the difference between the total number of points a team has scored and the total number of points their opponents have scored against them. The 2-0 Packers number is +15. Not bad. The 2-0 Lions number, meanwhile, is +52. Yikes!
Finally, have you seen the GEICO sushi commercial? GEICO has some of the best commercials going, and this one got me laughing out loud the first time I saw it.
(Conversely, who convinced Deion Sanders that being some strange sort of football fairy was a good career move for him? Ridiculous.)
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