Hey, look I'm a Lovie Smith fan, I think he's a good coach, not a great one. Great coaches has sustained excellence and can adjust on the fly and very seldom get out X'ed and O'ed. Lovie's not that guy, but his team plays hard for him and he has a sound philosophy that he believes in, but he's not Green Bay head coach Mike McCarthy. McCarthy may not be great yet, but he very seldom loses cause he was out game planned.
Hey, look I'm a Jay Cutler fan, I think he's a good quarterback, not a great one. Cutler is one of only a handful of quarterbacks in the NFL that can physically make all the throws needed to be considered elite. However, his decision making is questionable and he doesn't perform well when the lights shine on the brightest stage. I think he still has the ability to be great, but right now, he's definitely no Aaron Rodgers, who not only is great, but in my opinion the best QB playing right now. So what I'm saying is that if you wanna beat a team that has a better coach and a better QB than you, absolutely you CANNOT get outplayed on special teams, now let's move on.
Peyton Manning, Robert Griffin and Adrian Peterson are my fav 3 players after week 1. 2 of which, Manning and Peterson, came back from devastating injuries last year and upon their return, looked like they never left and RGIII of course, is the rookie sensation that out gunned Drew Brees, in New Orleans, that almost never happens. Michael Vick is my least fav for the week, you can't throw that many interceptions and be fragile, one or the other homie. The NFC is so rugged this year, that I wouldn't be surprised, if of the 2 teams I had just missing the playoffs, Detroit and Dallas, one of them would make the Super Bowl (though Dallas still has a long way to go before I believe they are not incapable of implosion). A week where Tim Tebow is not in the headlines is a good week for football.
I haven't forgotten about baseball:
He is not the best pitcher on the team. He would probably be their number 3 starter in the playoffs but still when you have a chance to win the World Series you pull out all the cards. No way the Nationals should have shut him down. It was a move that the Montreal Expos would make not a World Series contender. No way the White Sox can hold off the Detroit Tigers if they continue to only score runs off of home runs. After the Cardinals improbable surge to the playoffs last year, it would be only fitting that they collapsed this year. The Yanks may very well make the playoffs but the team as it's constituted right now, is making it's last hurrah, trust me on this boo!
I said it years ago, about baseball needing to expand their playoff teams, Bud Selig finally listened, not to me, but somebody, and now we have fantastic playoff races across the board, kudos MLB. Picking the AL manager of the year will be even harder than picking the AL Cy Young award. White Sox manager Robin Ventura, Baltimore's Buck Showalter, Tampa's Joe Madden and Oakland's Bob Melvin all deserve to win. No I don't have Bobby Valentine in the running. BTW I got my money on Justin Verlander for the AL Cy Young.
Lastly, the best part of blogging during the football season is this little nugget:
Seattle +3.5
Houston -7.5
Pittsburgh/Jets u 41
San Franciso/Lions o 46.5
Patriots-13.5
Dueces!!!
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