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Sunday, September 25, 2005
Foosball games
I watched a bit of a few football games today, some observations:
- The Packers-Bucs game was the main early game here. Cadillac Williams is pretty good. The Bucs got the steal of the draft with him. Favre has lost it...he has the capability to play well for about a quarter a game (he made a sweet 37 yard touchdown pass on a 4th and 4 in the first quarter). Granted, his last interception wasn't entirely his fault, but that wasn't a good pass anyways.
- The Bengals-Bears game was on at the same time, but it was over pretty early, so I didn't really watch it. The Bengals seem like the Chargers of last year, whupping on weaker teams early in the season to build confidence. They could end up being the best second tier team in the AFC.
- I was able to watch the end of the Jags-Jets game. I was able to see Chad Pennington completely stink up the field (wasn't he good a couple of years ago?) and the Jags get the ball with good field position. Leftwich ended the game with a 36 yard TD pass to Jimmy Smith (who did a fantastic job keeping himself in bounds long enough to reach the ball into the end zone). They are the team I would always fear in a close game late.
- Immediately after that game ended, it switched to the Raiders-Eagles game, where the had just tied the game with about 2 minutes left. I then got to watch the classic Raiders defensive breakdown at the end of the game, twice failing to stop the Eagles on 3rd downs when they could not kick a FG (their kicker was hurt) to let the Eagles drive down to the 5 where Akers made the FG through immense pain. There were still 9 whole seconds left in the game, meaning a decent run back plus one or two deep pass attempts could give the Raiders a chance. And then their kick returner made a horrible mistake and decided he wanted to score on a squib kick (basically impossible because of the quick convergence on you of the other team) rather than go for field position. At one point, he even ran back 15 yards, while the clock ran down to 0. It never ceases to amaze how badly prepared the Raiders are, no matter the team and coach, for moments like those.
- Then there was the Patriots-Steelers game, which I watched along with the Angels-Devil Rays game (which was not enjoyable to watch). The Patriots really seemed to dominate this game, but kept turning the ball over. Roethlisberger was terrible, but he is young and should recover. Eventually, the Patriots were able to put a few drives together and take the lead, which lead Roethlisberger to play well, and then the Patriots to win on another Vinatieri FG.
- The final game of the evening, I flipped on during the third quarter (I really flipped the Rangers-A's game on to watch the 9th and switched between the two) and more or less watched the rest of the crew. With the score 35-20 Chargers, the announcing crew apparently thought that Eli Manning was God's gift to QB (but what about Favre, Vick, and Peyton Manning?). I mean, come on...the guy could only even lead his team to a FG with it down by more than two touchdowns and one quarter remaining. Save some of your praise for the guys that actually deserve it. From what I saw of Manning he looked like an average quaterback (he missed a lot of guys). Maybe, they got so excited because he was actually completing some passes. Eli Manning is and always be a punk to me, no matter what ESPN's announcers think he has the ability to do.
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