Week 3 NFL thread

As noted somewhere (earlier her or on another thread, I can't remember), a team's finish affects only two games on its schedule -- I believe that's why KC plays Buffalo and Cleveland. What really makes the Chiefs' schedule easier is that the NFC division the AFC West is matched up against is the NFC East (and Oakland is in their division, so they get the Raiders twice).

 

Playing Buffalo and Cleveland, as opposed to playing the Patriots and the Bengals is a pretty big difference. The difference between first and second usually isn't a big deal, but the difference between a first place schedule and a last place schedule is usually pretty significant.

 

Patriots and Ravens. It should be noted the Broncos have the same schedule other than those two and already stomped the Ravens. I think the Broncos still win the division but I now firmly believe the Chiefs are a playoff team with their start and this schedule.

 

It's like Marty never left.

 

Two road wins already this season is nothing to sneeze at, even if one is over the worst team in the NFL and the other was against an Eagles team that may have been a bit overrated based on the Week 1 win over the Skins.

KC has a lot working in its favor this year, but I don't think anyone doubts that the addition of Reid and Alex Smith were both great moves.

 

In that 100 Top Players of 2012 thing done by NFL Network, I think six Chiefs made the cut. So there was talent there, just no organization nor quarterback.

 

Amazing how much a difference having a decent QB makes. Smith is a good, solid QB who has clearly benefited from his time with Harbaugh and Reid and doesn't make many stupid throws.

 

Packers only have five numbers retired (soon to be six with Favre):

3 - Tony Canadeo
14 - Don Hutson
15 - Bart Starr
66 - Ray Nitschke
92 - Reggie White

Although Paul Hornung's 5 was "unofficially" retired in 1967, it was still worn briefly by the likes of Vince Ferragamo and Don Majkowski (before he switched to 7). No one has worn it in camp since 1988.

 

I'm kinda of surprised Reggie White's number is retired in Green Bay. He only played six seasons in GB. I understand he was a valuable member of the super bowl runs, but he WAS an Eagle for the first seven seasons of his career (which I is how I best remember him).

The rest of those guys They ARE Packers. Even Favre - despite his bitter departure - will be remembered as a Packer.
To me White, was an Eagle first.

 

Reggie White was the most important player to come to Green Bay since the end of the Lombardi era. The Packers were nothing on the national stage before he signed there, at a time when the whole world thought it was between Philly, SF and Dallas. He set the stage for everything that happened in the next six years and the Packers becoming one of the NFL's marquee teams again.

And hell, they have to recognize him just for his statehouse speech!

 

Hi.... I'm Brett Favre, I don't believe we've met.


Defense is great, but without Favre... White's career in Green Bay follows the same arc as his career in Philly.
Favre made that franchise go.
The Packers finished 9-7 the year before Reggie arrived and were 9-7 the following two years. Then 11-5 in 1995 with Favre winning the first of this three straight MVP awards.

 

As late as the middle of the 1994 season, coaches were seriously considering benching Favre for Mark Brunell. Holmgren was the only one who wanted to stick with Favre and he even he had almost thrown in the towel.

And you are wrong about what won those playoff games. Look at the scores -- they didn't in shootouts, they won by holding teams under 20 points and abusing quarterbacks.

Also: Favre didn't choose to go to Green Bay. White did. That was a seismic stunner on te NFL landscape early in the free-agency era. There is no question within the Packer fan base as to what White meant.