Week 2 NFL thread

Exactly. Sticking our heads in the sand and trying to ignore that won't make it go away.

 

If they were playing anyone else but the Jags (which will be making their second straight cross-country trip after last week in Oakland, in addition to being really bad) - I might take a flyer on Seattle losing given Pete Carroll's history of winning a big game one week and then his team being flat the next. Even a flat Seahawks team should be able to beat the Jags, but don't be stunned if the Jags cover the spread.

 

Not to pick nits, but after their loss to Oakland, they have just stayed on the west coast. No flying back and forth.

Should that change your mind? Absolutely not.

 

I was wondering about that. I'm pretty sure I heard someone who should know mention the back to back trips and it surprised me they weren't just hanging out this way.
San Jose has an NFL team! Too bad the Jags will miss the Tebow rally.

 

With Jacksonville's alleged offense facing Seattle's defense, if there was a way for a team to score negative points, this might be the week it happened.

 

Yea, the only way the Jags cover the spread is if Seattle scores less than 20.

 

Fixed

 

I'm not buying Denver as the best team in the league. They've beaten a Ravens team that is a shell of what it was and a crappy Giants team.

Manning against Seattle screams a 3-int sack fest, and I wouldn't like them over SF either.

Denver, IMO, is Green Bay/Atlanta masquerading as an elite team in the AFC. The two best teams in the league right now play in the NFC West and everyone else is a tier below.

 

Being the best team in the league in September earns you nothing.

 

This has to be a joke? No way did these people mean this to be real. If so, forty-whiners might be the most appropriate pejorative in all of sports.

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/letterstoeditor/article/Letters-to-the-editor-Sept-17-4819523.php

 

As the late John Facenda once intoned:

And hopes that were high in the heat of September
Can wither and die in the chill of November


Or, in Peyton's case, December and January.

 

I wasn't saying that it did, but it's September, so it's hard for me to tell you the best team in January of 2014.