Tuesday Morning Week 3 Recap

Week 3 Predictions Head up: 9-7 Straight Up

Week 3 Predictions against the spread 7-9

Record so far 17-14

Another week goes by in the NFL and we know a little bit more about things. There are only 3 undefeated teams left while there are 5 teams yet to get a victory. A pretty good divisional Sunday night game was followed up by a dreadful divisional Monday night game. Adrian Peterson showed me he was still the most spectacular back in the NFL and Charlie Batch showed he still has something left. So let’s get into the Tuesday quick hits.

Don’t Bury us yet

You do know they lost by 22 right Roy??

So going into this week I along with a lot of other people were ready to bury both the Vikings and the Cowboys, so of course they go out and put together wins. However only one of those wins should really ease the nerves of a fan base. If I’m a Vikings fan I still think they’re a bad team after watching that game against the Lions.  This truly speaks to how good Adrian Peterson is but he won that game basically on his own. The question being how many more games can he win by himself? 3? 4? Whatever it is, it’s not enough to get into the playoffs. The man has 392 on 5.6 yards a carry but he can’t overcome Brett Favre giving up the ball 7 times through 3 games. The Vikings beat the Lions but they still have a lot of things to get right going into the bye week. However the Cowboys seemed to play with a bit more urgency on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball. They generated their first turnover of the year and decided not to stop there getting 3 more from the Texans. This combined with a competent ground game to complimented Tony Romo well.  Who would have thought Roy Williams would be the guy that carried the Dallas passing game against the sieve that is the Texans secondary. Each week for the Cowboys they’ve had a different receiver step up to the plate, if they can get all 3 going this offense could really become the juggernaut we all thought it would be coming into this season.

Andy Reid takes a bow

So after a week of questions for Andy Reid and one bloggers staunch support Michael Vick goes out and puts on a show once again to the tune of 4 touchdowns and 320 total yards of offense. There’s been a lot of writing about Michael Vick here but he’s been by far the most interesting story so far of this NFL season. If somebody would have told me through three weeks the Eagles would have abandoned Kevin Kolb in favor of Michael Vick and he had put up 750 yards 6 touchdowns and no picks through 3 games I would have been flabbergasted. He’s absolutely tearing it up and sure he’s played 2 pretty bad defenses and one that didn’t prepare for him, but he can only play who’s on the schedule. Looking at said schedule he has two more terrible pass defenses coming up in the Redskins and the 49’ers. So I suppose now is the time for Michael Vick to let the good times roll as they say. The only question that remains in Eagle land is if they actually trade Kevin Kolb or try to ride this hot hand as far as it takes them before they make a decision at the end of the year under a new collective bargaining agreement.(hopefully a new collective bargaining agreement because nobody wants a lockout)

Has the Sanchize put it all together?

Mark Sanchez knows who hes going to be for Halloween

I’m sure J-E-T-S JETS!!! JETS!!! JETS!! Fans are excited about the recent play of Mark Sanchez. Back to back 3 touchdown no interception games against division rivals. Could this be the dream Jets fans had dancing in their heads this off season, their young quarterback taking the next step and leading an explosive offense to go along with a dominant defense? Only one problem there Gang green fans………that defense isn’t looking so dominant anymore. Sure there’s no Revis Island but even sans Revis a top 5 defense shouldn’t be giving up 363 to Chad Henne. The Jets are currently the 19^th overall defense in the league and 26^th against the pass, call me a blasphemer if you must but I don’t think Darrelle Revis Is that good. I could be wrong and he could be the difference between 26^th and 1^st. The thing is the Jets offense has become more a model of efficiency than an explosive one. They’re still ranked 26^th in passing offense, they just have 6 touchdowns to go with that rating. Those numbers are a bit skewed because of the unfathomable 74 yards they put together in that opening night debacle against the Ravens. The past two weeks Sanchez has put up in 220 and 256 in bonafide quarterback duels both of which he won, and one of which was against Tom Brady.

Ladies and Gentleman these are your teams chasing the 72 Dolphins

Steelers, Chiefs, Bears. No matter how many times I see those 3 teams next to each other I still can’t wrap my mind around the fact that these are last 3 undefeated teams. The Steelers wouldn’t be such a surprise if they had Big Ben but not only do not have Big Ben they don’t have his back up….or HIS BACK UP…. They’re currently on their 4^thBucs on the road. The Steelers to me are the most impressive of the bunch they seem to be solid in every phase of the game. They have Rashard Mendenhall to anchor the running game, Hines Ward and the speedy Mike Wallace to pair with a hopefully de mulleted Big Been come week 5 and the best defense in the league. The Chiefs on the other hand put together their most complete game of the year, with both a dominant defense and surprising guest appearance by Matt Cassel and the Chiefs passing game. If Matt Cassel can put together some semblance of a confident passing offense going forward in combination with Charlie Weiss and Dwayne Bowe the Chiefs might be the team to beat in the AFC West. The Bears on the other hand beat everyone’s NFC North darling (including mine) the Packers. How’d they do it? Special teams, just enough offense, and the Packers absolutely imploding. That had the classic look of a game the Packers lost more than the Bears won.  The Packers had a team record 18 penalties last night for 152 yards. One of which called back a touchdown. The pass rush that we expected to get to Aaron Rodgers didn’t and he threw it all over the field especially in the short game to the tune of 316 yards. But at the end of the day the Bears won and they should be commended for that. I just think that looking at the resumes of our 3 world beaters they remain the least impressive.