Cornerback Blitz: Week One Recap
Posted by rich on September 9, 2008
Green Bay will be just fine. Despite the best effort of his offensive line to stall drives with mind numbing penalties, Aaron Rodgers played a great game last night in the national spotlight. Rodgers threw for a touchdown and ran another one in as the Packers held on to beat the Vikings 24-19. See, we weren’t wrong when we said that the Packers would be fine without that idiot, Favre.
Oakland…wont. Yikes. Anyone who stayed up to watch the back end of the Monday Night Football doubleheader probably regrets it. The Oakland Raiders looked like a combination of a train wreck happening in the midst of a tornado while a hurricane is bearing down. They looked pathetic. They looked worse than the thousands of goons in the stands dressed up as any horror figure from any movie ever. It’s tough to make season long projections based on one weeks’ performance, but the Raiders looked like the worst team in football last night. The problem is that, with Al Davis at the helm, it’s probably not going to change.
Tom Brady apparently got hurt? I don’t know if you saw this, ESPN hasn’t said much about it. Brady blew his knee out on a hit by Kansas City safety Bernard Pollard on Sunday, effectively ending his season immediately after it started. Losing Brady hurts; we know this. But it’s the Patriots we are talking about here; they’ll find a way and get it done with Matt Cassel. And if you’re a betting man, the Patriots are coming in as underdogs this week versus Bretty and the Jets. Take it.
Dallas is the NFL’s best. I’ll go ahead and get this out of the way now. In a week where some of the AFC’s finest looked bad in losses, the Cowboys looked outstanding in a win over last year’s surprise team, the Cleveland Browns. Playoff history aside, this team appears to be the most rounded in the NFL by my estimations. Felix Jones is going to be a superstar in the NFL some day, it’s just a matter of the Cowboys finding effecient ways to use him. When they’re clicking, the Cowboys look downright scary.
Vince Young has fallen off his rocker. Even though there’s not much substance to the story about Young running off last night, I still have some concerns. He looked bad again, the Titans fans boo’ed his ass, and Tennessee had to win in spite of him, not because of him. Does Kerry Collins make the Titans a better team? Hell no. But we need to come to the realization that Vince Young sucks.
I’ve decided to mute Monday Night Football. If Tony Kornheiser makes one more Aaron Rodgers Brett Favre comparison, I’m going to fly to the booth and shove his mic down his throat. Honestly, the only reason we’re still stuck on comparing Rodgers to Favre is because of punk asses like Kornheiser who are treating this like Favre was an ex girlfriend. Stop it, assholes. I’ll go ahead and warn you now; the Cowboys Eagles game is going to be filled with Jessica Simpson and PacMan banter. I’ll give Ron Jaworski six weeks before he knocks Kornheisers ass out of the booth with a right hook because Kornhole is talking about something not pertaining to the game itself and subsequently interrupting Jaws while he tries to study film.

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