Running NFL Week 1 Thread

except for the fact that the falcons ran well from the opening possession.

 

Braylon Edwards ... wow. Way to take that one off your pads, resulting in an interception. And Cleveland goes down.

 

Actually, he's only the MVP for the Panthers. He doesn't do much for the other 31 teams.

I don't know if anyone saw it, but on the first play after the Losman safety it had looked like the Bills had returned a pick for a touchdown. There was a block in the back, which is 10 yards from the spot. That's not the problem, though -- the refs said Whitner had stepped out of bounds at the New England 46. Except he never really came close. Rather than to enforce the penalty from the goal line for a first-and-goal, the Bills had 56 yards to drive for a touchdown. Even had the Bills not scored a touchdown, a field goal would have given them a one-point edge. Not only that, but there would have been pressue on Gostkowski to boot a game-winning field goal in his first game trying to replace Vinatieri's heroics.

But that didn't happen. Patriots got a gift there.

 

The dynamic, turbocharged, kicked-into-overdrive offense masterminded by the crafty genius, Mike Martz, manages two field goals.

The rock-solid, iron-clad, blood-and-guts defense masterminded by the no-nonsense, fundamentally-sound and hard-nosed Marinelli manages to collapse in the last 2 minutes to blow the game.

FIRE MILLEN.

 

Why would the ball have been spotted on the 10? The drive started 10 yards from the spot of the block in the back, as it should have. The only way the referee mistake for blowing the play dead would have been relevent is if there had been no penalty.

 

I thought they said 10 yards from the end of the play, so I presumed that was where they thought he stepped out. They didn't say from the spot of the infraction, if I remember right. But they did blow the play dead during the runback, which was a mistake.

I think you are right about it being from the spot. It's Week 1. I'm rusty.

 

Great opening drive for Dallas. That T.O. dude caught a couple passes, too.

 

The Buffalo interception was puzzling. Kid didn't step out of bounds, and there's no reason it should have been blown dead. But since there was a penalty anyway, wouldn't it have come back to where the penalty was flagged?

The Cowboys O did in fact look like a machine ... against one of the best D's in the league. Owens, Glenn, Witten, Jones ... didn't even see Barber. If the D shows up, this should be a Super Bowl team (that's our pick, anyway).

 

Penalty should be marked from the spot of the foul. Sounds like they got that right.

 

Where's Major Applewhite when you need him?

 

Now, the nimrods had Leinart completing first pass for Arizona today.

How difficult can that job possibly be?

Get it right.

 

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