Week 4 NFL: Aaron Rodgers asks fans to join the demonstrations

[Michael_ Gee]

Four games in (I know we still have one games left), but who's overrated? Bills?

Time to panic? Giants, Dallas? Pats? Tennessee?
Biggest surprise? Houston? Denver? Rams?



I don't know what's more stunning; Watson's play or the fact Bill O'Brien actually started Tom Savage!
Denver is a big surprise for me, but probably shouldn't be. Great defense, powerful running game and solid QB play. I think they'll win the division.

The Pats are still the favorite, because the Steelers can't beat them in a meaningful game. I;m not too worried about the Steelers. They are 3-1. No, they shouldn't have lost to the Bears. But it's one game. The DLine is playing well and the LB play is none too shabby as well.

Avoid a let down with Jacksonville this week and see what they do with the Chiefs.

Every NFL team, even the Super Bowl champ, turns in one complete stinkeroo a season. Most of course turn in more than one. But one bad game alone, while annoying, should not be frightening.

 

[Cosmo]

Four games in (I know we still have one games left), but who's overrated? Bills?

Time to panic? Giants, Dallas? Pats? Tennessee?

Giants' time to panic was last week. They're done. Only one team in history has ever started 0-4 and made the playoffs. Giants aren't making it two this year.

 

[bigpern23]

Giants' time to panic was last week. They're done. Only one team in history has ever started 0-4 and made the playoffs. Giants aren't making it two this year.

Nope, not with their roster and the schedule they have to face.

Surprisingly, it's been their defense that has let them down the last two weeks. Not that the offense has been great, but it's handed a lead to the defense in the waning minutes for consecutive weeks and the defense wasn't able to hold either one.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

The Pats don't do panic, but extremely angry concern will be the idea as far as their defense is concerned. If it can't do better against Tampa Bay Thursday night, a team they have owned for like 40 years, then panic will indeed be the order of the day.

 

[swingline]

What's surprising is that the Patriots have lost two at home this season. When was the last time that happened in the Brady era?

 

[Cosmo]

What's surprising is that the Patriots have lost two at home this season. When was the last time that happened in the Brady era?

Last year. Both of their losses came at home.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Last year. Both of their losses came at home.

One was when Brady was suspended. Worst in Belichick-Brady era is three losses, which came in 2008, the Matt Cassel year.

 

[swingline]

Doh! Lookup fail.

I should have clarified that I didn't mean the season Cassel started after the Chiefs tore Brady's knee up in the first game, which led directly to the no hitting at the knees rule in place today.

 

[Cosmo]

One was when Brady was suspended. Worst in Belichick-Brady era is three losses, which came in 2008, the Matt Cassel year.

Good point. Forgot about the suspension last year.

 

[heyabbott]

The Pats don't do panic, but extremely angry concern will be the idea as far as their defense is concerned. If it can't do better against Tampa Bay Thursday night, a team they have owned for like 40 years, then panic will indeed be the order of the day.

It will be perversely fun for many to watch the Pats struggle. "on to Cincinnati" is cute when you go out and beat the Bengals, and then 10 of your next 11. But when Imodium is more effective than your game plan, glib becomes delusional not intelligent.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

You can only be "successful" if you accomplish anything, and it's not as though some of these kneeling/protesting NFLers are going to wake up one day to say to themselves, "Yep, we changed the world."

When it's time to renegotiate another contract with the union, let's see how many owners lock arms with the players.

It's been a week. Takes a little longer than that to change the world.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

Why would anyone panic at 2-2?