NFL Week 8-What have we learned?
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by TheBatman
The AFC South is the maybe the best division in Football. Even though a promising start went sour and the Texans have turned back into the Texans, The Jags, Titans and Colts are three of the most physical teams in the NFL.
The Jets are who I thought they were. Even though benching Pop-Gun Pennington was long overdue. Jersey B is not just one Kellen Clemens short of a winning season. The J E T S did it with mirrors last year.
Speaking of futility, how 'bout them Dolphins? They should have just burned that $20mil. they gave to gutless Joey Porter. And Cam Cameron . . . ? Wayne Huizenga made his fortune picking up garbage, does he think he can stay rich throwing it on the field every week?
The Pats, benefactors of playing in the worst division in football, are clearly trying to prove something now. The 52 they put on the Skins was purposefully humiliating. It's evident that they're trying to make history this season, not just win a championship. Here's the interesting thing, they are one hit away from being a punching bag and lets not forget that the rest of the NFL knows that. Other teams are probably getting kind of tired of seeing Belicheat's bunch stepping on the gas when they're already up by 4 TD's in the 4th quarter.
Mike Tomlin's Steelers were exposed defensively, again, by the Bengals. But since they're the Bengals, Pittsburgh's NFL leading defense only allowed it average of 13 points and moved to 5-2. Are the Steelers a SB competitor? Not until Tomlin scraps the easily exposed 3-4 ZB scheme and iimplements the disciplined schemes that win in the NFL come January.
Cleveland, however, is on the rise. Ironically, a Romeo Crennel team is making its name on offense. Even though Crennel couldn't see that Derek Anderson was the guy, at least he saw that Charlie Frye wasn't the guy.
Ray Lewis took some shots at his coach and an ex-team mate. This was news? From the same guy who was charged as an accomplice to murder and then plead out to obstructing justice, taking a chop at his coach and team mates is nothing. Ray-Ray has been bitching and whining ever since the Ravens decided that protecting him from contact wasn't job one anymore. The Ravens have bigger problems than just Ray-Ray, though. An offense that hasn't gotten on track in seven seasons, and aging QB, and a defense that lives as much on reputation as it does toughness . . . .Not exactly a great formula.
Speaking of calling out HC's, D'Angelo Hall decided that just playing CB in ATL wasn't enough to earn his inflated paycheck. He needed to assist Bobby Petrino with personnel decisions. Unfortunately, his assist was in questioining the release of an overweight, malcontent, freelancer named Grady Jackson. Note to D'Angelo: Your two personnel decisions are supporting a convicted felon, and an over-the hill, lardass. Quite a team you're building there D.
The Cowboy love for Romo's gang is getting a little bit nauseasting, if not just ironic. Dallas in looking like the Bills of the the Nineties. The Class of a completely inferior conference, dreaming its way to an inevitable SB pounding. The way NE handled Dallas should have been humbling, or at least a message to the talking heads. But no, a few weeks later, they've all forgotten that if Dallas was in the AFC South or AFC North they be sub .500 right now.
