NFL Week 2 running thread ...

[hondo]

Impressive wins over Dallas and now Pitt, but let the record show BOTH victories came at home.

Counts the same as a road game, last time I checked. Are you minimizing a victory over the defending champions and another one over the team most of the experts picked to win the NFC?

Nope. Two very good wins. But Jax is a completely different team on the road. I'll point out the playoff loss to an otherwise ordinary Patriots team last year. But as Steve Young said, 'does that offense scare you?' Sorry, it doesn't. But Fred Taylor looked pretty awesome tonight.

And it's amazing how much slower Willie Parker looked against a great defense on the road. Parker was a blur last week ... he did absolutely nothing tonight.

Jaguars have the following road victories in the Jack Del Rio era:

2004

at Buffalo, 13-10
at Tennessee, 15-12
at Indy, 27-24
at Green Bay (in December, no less), 28-25 (Packers made the playoffs last year, so don't minimize this one)
at Oakland

2005

at Jets, 26-20 (Pennington not hurt yet)
at Steelers, 23-17
at Tennessee, 31-28
at Cardinals, 24-17
at Browns, 20-14
at Texans, 38-20

Del Rio is 11-5 on the road his last two years. How many other teams can match or beat that?

 

[Oz]

Del Rio is 11-5 on the road his last two years. How many other teams can match or beat that?

Steelers went 13-3 on the road the past two seasons. The Colts were 12-4 and the Patriots 11-5.

 

[hondo]

Del Rio is 11-5 on the road his last two years. How many other teams can match or beat that?

Steelers went 13-3 on the road the past two seasons. The Colts were 12-4 and the Patriots 11-5.

But you will admit 11-5 over two seasons, on the road, in the NFL, is darn good.

 

[Oz]

Oh, no doubt. Given how many times the Jags have beaten the Steelers through the years, you know it's no fluke. There might be an ESPN crew trying to convince a national audience that people look past the Jaguars, but that's only because they ran nonstop segments on T.O. and then Big Ben in back-to-back weeks to start the season and want it to look like they didn't ignore a darn good team.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Uh, math isn't our strong suit (per Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

Ben Roethlisberger had a little fever and not the high temperature reported on the Steelers-Jaguars broadcast yesterday on ESPN and in various other media outlets.

"The fever was 100.4," not 104, Steelers coach Bill Cowher said at his weekly news conference this afternoon. "Somebody miscalculated a decimal point."

 

[DyePack]

The Jaguars will be OK until Leftwich and/or Fred Taylor get hurt, which has a high probability of happening.

 

[Chuck~Taylor]

The Jaguars will be OK until Leftwich and/or Fred Taylor get hurt, which has a high probability of happening.

I wouldn't worry to much about Leftwich getting injured because they have Garrard. But if Fred Taylor gets injured AGAIN, they'll have to go with Maurice Drew. I'm not set on him. I don't see him being a 1000 yard back.

EDIT: 8 more posts to a 1000!

 

[thebiglead]

Uh, math isn't our strong suit (per Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Ben Roethlisberger had a little fever and not the high temperature reported on the Steelers-Jaguars broadcast yesterday on ESPN and in various other media outlets.
"The fever was 100.4," not 104, Steelers coach Bill Cowher said at his weekly news conference this afternoon. "Somebody miscalculated a decimal point."

Yikes.
"Very high fevers, between 103 and 106 F, may cause hallucinations, confusion, irritability and even convulsions."
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/DS/00077.html