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How refreshing to see that little has changed in the NFL.
Philthydelphia 24, Carolina 13
Tennessee 17, Oakland 16
Washington 13, NY B-R-E-T-T-S BrettsBrettsBretts
410Tampa Bay 27, NE Pansies 10
NY Football Douchebags 37, Cleveland 34
Dallas 13, Denver 23
Jake Delhomme made his return for Carolina and looked…well, like a quarterback coming off an injury.  IOW, he didn’t suck, but he wasn’t all that great, either.
A lightning storm chased the players off the field during the first quarter.  Mother Shitcan would’ve called it “a little wind & rain”.
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We have ourselves a JoMarcus Russell sighting!
Russell started for Oakland – and looked pretty good at times.  On one touchdown drive, he rolled left, then fired a bullet back across to the right to a not-too-terribly-covered Zach Miller.
He was only 10 of 17 for 75 yards – but I imagine that’ll get better as he goes along.
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Memo to Green Bay:  Yes, I know you wanted to go with Aaron Rodgers – but His Almighty Favreness still has something in the tank.
Just 10 days after being acquired from Green Bay, Favre finished 5-of-6 for 48 yards and the touchdown. He said his arm felt fatigued early in the week, but looked strong in his two series. He lasted 14 plays after coach Eric Mangini said he expected Favre to take 8-12 snaps.
“I felt like I threw the ball well, moved around OK,” he said. “Ten days ago, I was doing yard work.”
The other Brett, Ratliff, threw for 148 yards, including 71 on the final drive.  Mike Nugent’s 23-yard FG attempt hit the upright as time ran out.
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The post-Super Bowl hangover continues for the New England Pansies.  Brady didn’t make the trip, and Matt Cassel flat-out sucked.
With the 2007 MVP [Tom Brady  -Ed.] sitting out for the second straight week, the defending AFC champions sputtered with backup Matt Cassel running the show in a 27-10 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday night.
“I think it was pretty obvious we’ve got a lot of work to do, based on tonight, in all three phases of the game,” said Belichick, who played down the significance of Brady not playing.
Brady remained at home, reportedly to rest a sore foot, and Cassel had limited success moving the ball against a feisty Bucs defense that scored on his third-quarter fumble and intercepted the first pass thrown by successor, Kevin O’Connell.
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The zebras are still slurping the balls of the Douchebags; Brandi Jackoff is still a pussy and a hot-shit wannabe; the D-bags’ O-line still holds on every friggin’ play, and Ewi is still a pansy.
Problem was, Cleveland played worse.  A lot  worse.
New York’s 37-34 exhibition victory Monday night was made easier by the Cleveland Browns, who had a season’s worth of mistakes in little more than a quarter, including 98 penalty yards and a fumble that resulted in a 95-yard TD for the Giants.
That return gave New York (1-1) a 30-3 lead less than a minute into the second quarter, one that second- and third-stringers barely managed to maintain.
That return came after Cleveland’s Syndric Steptoe brought back a kickoff 90 yards for a near score.  Nothing went right for the Browns last night, and that sequence typified it.
The bad news is that the D-bags won’t be as bad as their third-stringers.  The good news is that they’re nowhere near that good to begin with.
And as soon as the zebras start calling the games properly  last year’s fluke factor will be evident to all.
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I’m not all that concerned over the Cowboys’ suddenly woeful offense.  I’m only minorly pissed that an undersized Denver outfit pushed them around, both offensively & defensively.  And I’m hacked that the special teams did only marginally better than last week.
But this is what worries the hell outta me:  Tony Romo has stopped running.
Case in point:  2nd quarter, C’boys ball, 3rd-and-4 at their 26.  Romo evades the rush, scrambles to his right, where he’s got all day to run – then pulls up short and badly overthrows Sam Hurd running a post.
The old Romo would have run for the first down.  I dunno who  this guy is.  But I do know that when Romo doesn’t run, the C’boys don’t win.  Keep your eyes on that going forward.
The officiating sucked as badly for us as they did for Cleveland.  There were more phantom pass-interference calls, as well as a couple of bogus personal-foul calls.  Meanwhile, Denver’s shit didn’t stink as far as the zebras were concerned.  Ed Hochuli – if you paid as much attention to your eyesight as you do your biceps, you might  make a halfway-decent referee.
Bruce Read needs to go as special teams coach.  Even when the C’boys do something right – they blocked a punt in the third quarter – they found a way to fuck it right back up (the punter caught his own blocked punt and raced 29 yards up the backs of the Cowboy punting unit which was setting up a return).  Read just needs to go.
And why the Hell™ are we still lining corners up 15-20 yards off the receiver?  Do we really want our opponents playing fucking pitch-and-catch all day long?  Dave Campo, are you listening?
The PFW returns on Thursday.
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GAH! It’s
exhibitionpre-season football, fer criminy’s sake! Not only do the games not count, the stats don’t count, and how a team performs has N-O-T-H-I-N-G to do with their chances to even play in the play-offs, much less win the Super Bowl! Good teams are supposed to look crappy inexhibitionpre-season, because coaches don’t run their full offense inexhibitionpre-season, and the starters are just trying to not get hurt.Teams that play
exhibitionpre-season games to win usually lose in the regular season, and usually don’t make the play-offs, because they have fucked up priorities. Trying to win a meaningless game, with meaningless plays and meaningless players, and then, placing some sort of meaning upon the whole process, is a recipe for disaster.Normally, HDD – your sudden spate of irascible-ness aside (who’s pissed in your  Cheerios lately, my friend?) – I’d agree with you.
Except for one minor, almost trivial detail:  Romo played this exact same way in December.  How’d that work out for him?
My point is that Romo needs to be the scrambling, always-a-threat-to-take-off kind of quarterback he was from September to November if the Cowboys are to do anything this year.  Anything less, and folks will be calling for his head, just like they called for Bledsoe’s and Testaverde’s before him.
It’s the way  he’s been playing that bugs me.  He’s trying to be more of a pocket passer, and that’s not gonna work for him, pre-season or  season.
HDD’s like this every pre-season. He doesn’t like that everyone makes a big deal out of something that is meaningless. I understand his point, but… I’ve missed football. HHD is also a little hot under the collar because his beloved Brew Crew has not been able to pass the Cubbies in the standings, and it looks like the Cubbies won’t be having one of their standard issue “it’s the Cubs- they’ll tank” years. The good news for him is that my beloved Cards have almost no chance in Hades to stage a comeback, which means the Brewers are pretty much a given for the Wild Card slot.
As for Romo… I blame what’s-her-face.
I guess I just get irritated at the irrational importance so many people, especially the dunderheads who cover sports, place on preseason performance. I know, for a fact, that the Denver Broncos place NO importance on winning preseason games, because they’re only interested in keeping their starters healthy, and trying to assess non-starters for roster spots. In addition, the players *loathe* playing in preseason games, because the vast majority of them have nothing to gain, including monetarily (the players aren’t paid their normal wages for preseason games, only a league-stipulated pittance of a per diem), and everything to lose, like, the season due to injury.
The only reason we even hear about what used to be called “exhibition games” is because the league saw a way to make some extra money off the labor of their players, and ‘sports journalists’ needed something to talk about.
I just get a little cranky at all of the wasted ink and air time, blathering about the importance of something that has, by design, no importance. I’d rather save my effort and time to talk about things that actually have an impact on the season, instead of why players who are trying to not get injured are playing like they’re trying to not get injured.
Don’t worry about how the ‘Girls are playing now. Worry about how they play when the games count. Right now, Romo is just trying to not get hurt. Remember that, the next time you critique his preseason play.