NFL Notes
What did the Vikings do to deserve all this bad luck? Was Bud Grant a pimp for underaged Guatamalan orphans or something?
The camel's back is way past broke. That bastard is in traction, drinking its meals out of a straw right now. Culpepper's injury is just pile on right now. This team might not win another game. The fact that Mike Tice still has a job boggles the mind. He might be the worst coach in the NFL right now. The sad thing is that in that putrid division 9-7 or 8-8 could win it all. The Packers are a mess, and the Lions and Bears define the term mediocre football.
Comparable to the NFC Norse in its ineptitude is the AFC Least (I mean East). The Jets, Dolphins and Bills are mirror images of each other. They all have good defenses. They all have talent at the skill positions. They all have Pro Bowl caliber running backs. The one thing they all lack is a quarterback. That's what separates them from the Pats right now. If any of those teams had an average to above average QB, they'd run away with the division.
Kelly Holcomb should be ashamed of himself for throwing a four yard out on fourth and seven. He's got two quality receivers going against a patchwork secondary. If fourth down isn't the take a chance down the field against that group, then when is a good time? They should have won that game by two touchdowns. As good as Tom Brady is, he can't cover wideouts or defend the run. You already saw how the Pats were exposed when they played the Chargers, Panthers and Broncos. And none of those teams are in the Colts class.
I don't buy the whole "Pats are in the Peyton's head schill". The Pats beat the Colts because they were a better team. Period. This year, with the additions to the Colts defense, Tony Dungy finally has a "D" worthy of his teachings. People forget how bad the Bucs were until he came on the scene. This team is as balanced as any team we've seen in the last several years. They are going to blow the doors off the Pats on Monday night. I know Foxboro is a tough place to play and Manning's had his problems there. I know Bruschi has given that team an emotional boost. But the Colts are the better team right now. This is their year. They're going to get some major payback Monday night. If they don't, then they never will.
I'm as big a Giants fans as anyone. But how did these two wins elevate them to Super Bowl contenders? I like this team offensively. It has the potential to be best offensive team that we've ever had here. Eli has really come into his own and has become one of the top 10 QBs in football right now. But despite their performance against the fraudskins, I still have some real concerns with this defense and consistency of this team as a whole.
I have yet to see a game where the entire team is on all cylinders. The defense, special teams, passing game and running game. They've had three of four or two of four. But never four of four. And Eli still isn't as accurate a thrower as he can be. I think they're a definite playoff team if they win the next two games (at SF and the Vikes at home.)and they can definitely win the division. But I want to see if they can avoid these traditional trap games that they usually fall into this time of year before I annoint them as the next big thing. The last couple of years, these games come along and the Jints have fallen flat on their face and the season did soon after. Crawl before you walk.
An already dire situation got worse for the demoralized Minnesota Vikings with confirmation Monday that quarterback Daunte Culpepper will miss the rest of the season with a devastating injury to his right knee.
Culpepper, a three-time Pro Bowl pick coming off a career year whose effectiveness had fallen off dramatically this season, tore his anterior cruciate, medial collateral and posterior cruciate ligaments in Sunday's 38-13 loss at Carolina.
Once the swelling subsides, the 28-year-old Culpepper will have surgery and several months of arduous rehabilitation. An injury of this nature typically takes a year to recover,but at least right now the Vikings are optimistic about his status for 2006.
``Our expectations are he's going to be ready for the season,'' athletic trainer Chuck Barta said.
The camel's back is way past broke. That bastard is in traction, drinking its meals out of a straw right now. Culpepper's injury is just pile on right now. This team might not win another game. The fact that Mike Tice still has a job boggles the mind. He might be the worst coach in the NFL right now. The sad thing is that in that putrid division 9-7 or 8-8 could win it all. The Packers are a mess, and the Lions and Bears define the term mediocre football.
Comparable to the NFC Norse in its ineptitude is the AFC Least (I mean East). The Jets, Dolphins and Bills are mirror images of each other. They all have good defenses. They all have talent at the skill positions. They all have Pro Bowl caliber running backs. The one thing they all lack is a quarterback. That's what separates them from the Pats right now. If any of those teams had an average to above average QB, they'd run away with the division.
Kelly Holcomb should be ashamed of himself for throwing a four yard out on fourth and seven. He's got two quality receivers going against a patchwork secondary. If fourth down isn't the take a chance down the field against that group, then when is a good time? They should have won that game by two touchdowns. As good as Tom Brady is, he can't cover wideouts or defend the run. You already saw how the Pats were exposed when they played the Chargers, Panthers and Broncos. And none of those teams are in the Colts class.
I don't buy the whole "Pats are in the Peyton's head schill". The Pats beat the Colts because they were a better team. Period. This year, with the additions to the Colts defense, Tony Dungy finally has a "D" worthy of his teachings. People forget how bad the Bucs were until he came on the scene. This team is as balanced as any team we've seen in the last several years. They are going to blow the doors off the Pats on Monday night. I know Foxboro is a tough place to play and Manning's had his problems there. I know Bruschi has given that team an emotional boost. But the Colts are the better team right now. This is their year. They're going to get some major payback Monday night. If they don't, then they never will.
I'm as big a Giants fans as anyone. But how did these two wins elevate them to Super Bowl contenders? I like this team offensively. It has the potential to be best offensive team that we've ever had here. Eli has really come into his own and has become one of the top 10 QBs in football right now. But despite their performance against the fraudskins, I still have some real concerns with this defense and consistency of this team as a whole.
I have yet to see a game where the entire team is on all cylinders. The defense, special teams, passing game and running game. They've had three of four or two of four. But never four of four. And Eli still isn't as accurate a thrower as he can be. I think they're a definite playoff team if they win the next two games (at SF and the Vikes at home.)and they can definitely win the division. But I want to see if they can avoid these traditional trap games that they usually fall into this time of year before I annoint them as the next big thing. The last couple of years, these games come along and the Jints have fallen flat on their face and the season did soon after. Crawl before you walk.
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