Yes I know, I know it is late, but my virtual dog ate my orginal NFL Week 3 wrap-up.

All right I am going to try this again, let us take one last look back on the weekend that was. Yes, I know it is Wednesday, but hey my computer ate my original idea, maybe it was for the better.

Baltimore 26 Arizona 23 – The Nevermores pull one from the fire, thanks with a little help at the end with a personal foul. They nearly blew a 23 – 6 lead and were looking at overtime till the last drive. This was a very strange game. It was a game where both starting QB’s were replaced. One for a pulled groin, and the other for a pulled brain muscle. Excuse me Mr. Leinart I am sorry is the NFL season getting in the way of you getting of your social life. Look when your team has to pull the greatest Iowa Barnstormer out of moth balls to try to save the day then you need to spend a little more time in the film room than worrying about if you and Lechey are on TMZ.com.

Green Bay 31 – San Diego 24 - So this is why Brett Farve came back. Marty must be having a giggle about this, but Charger fans he is not the one you miss. The one you miss is 3-0 with his new gig in Dallas. This team has to rediscover the blitz because the secondary that was supposed to be fixed isn’t. You are not going to win games when you keep dropping Phillips and Merriman in coverage.

Indianapolis 30 – Houston 24 - Colts grind out another win. They got over the shock of opening kickoff and stayed on an even keel. And when they needed a big play from the D it got it and snuffed out the Texans rally. The Colts Offense is scary in that everyone one is in tune. Take away Harrison and Wayne; they will hit you with Clark and Gonzalez. Look this team made guys like Morehead and Fletcher. It is so good it must give Payton all that free time to do all 4,238 commercials. Even though a moral win equals a big fat zero in the W column you have to be pleased as a Texan fan. Your team trade blows with the champs and had a chance at the end. All of this without much of a running game, and no Andre Johnson. It looks like the time may becoming as soon as this year that Texan fans follow their team past Halloween.

Kansas City 13 – Minnesota 10 Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwnnnnnnnnnn. Four words sum up how to describe this game, “trip to the DMV”.

New England 38 – Buffalo 7 – The Bills did lead this game at one point. A moment that will be documented on the team’s View Master Highlight Disc. The Pats just rolled them; it was like taking candy from a baby that the coaching staff has taped. I am not going to say that the 72 Dolphins should be scared, just that they may have to wait till December to break out the bubbly.

New York Jets 31 – Miami 28 A late touchdown made this game closer than it was. The good news for the Dolphins is that it looks like they can throw the ball now, sure they can’t run it, but don’t bother me with details. The bad news is that Defense realized it is old. The Jets happy to have the win, but right now they realize that if they have any hope for a Wild Card spot they have going to have to win 9 of the next 13 to get it.

Philadelphia 56 – Detroit 21 Excuse me Coach Marinelli maybe you can answer a question. The main principle of the Tamps 2 is to keep everything underneath right? So then why was Kevin Curtis running free all day? Maybe just maybe if you had gone into prevent that you could have kept the Eagles to 42 points. Maybe the Lions D was just perplexed, horrified and quite possibly blinded by those Eagle Throwbacks. It looks like McNabb will keep the fan unrest at bay for another week at least. But next week Eagles fans will be pissed that the team has not scored 63.

Pittsburgh 37 -San Francisco 16 - The Tomlin eras has begun with a rousing success. The Steelers. The grounded up the Niners in all three phases. Efficient on offense 200 yards rushing, and no Int’s. The only trouble spot for the Offense is the injury sustained by Ward. The defense frustrated the Niners, even when they could drive the ball, the Steelers would make stops. Twice early the Niners had 1 st and 10 inside the 15 and only came out with 6 points. Gore found little running room and Smith just could not get into any kind of rhythm. The Special Teams pitched when it opened huge holes that the well-traveled Allen Rossum took back for six. It is still a ways off, but there could be a slim chance that on Dec 9th we could see two undefeated teams squaring off (New England rolls into Heinz).

Tampa Bay 24 – St. Louis 3 – This week the Rams will be equipping Marc Bulger’s helmet with deer antlers to go with that deer in the headlight expression on his face. Pace and then Incognito go down and Alex Barton is still the Human False Start Machine, so the O-Line looks awful. This offense was supposed to cover for the Rams awful D. Alas it can’t, so it looks like it may be time for Rams fans to get prepped for Blues hockey. Thank goodness that style points can’t be deducted from the Bucs. It was not pretty, but you protect the ball and cause turnovers you will beat bad teams and will more times than not put you in the position to win games against equal or better talent. The Bucs are slowly trying to reinvent themselves on D and across the O-line, but Chucky has to be happy since he is in the NFC South were you have two teams that are in trouble (Atlanta and now New Orleans) and one that still can’t figure out who they are (Carolina) So if he can keep grinding out the Bucs might steal this division, but I feel that having 4 QB’s is going to haunt this team late when it finds itself short handed at a position.

Jacksonville 23 – Denver 14 – Wait this just in, the Broncos have finally made a 3 rd down stop. This is Jag team everyone fears, they play like they look. Big, fast, angry and methodical. Now we will see if this can keep it up. Apparently they mirror the expansion cousins Carolina with their maddening inconsistency. As a Bronco fan it was a gut punch to see them just bust the Broncos across the face with a 2X4. They whipped the Broncos physically. When a team holds the ball for over eleven minutes on one drive you going to have a long day. Throw in bad timeout management, some poor execution and some head scratching play calls you have the mess you saw. This game is another in a troubling trend. The home field advantage that the Broncos used to is not dead, but it is very sleepy.

Oakland 26 – Cleveland 24 – The Lane Kiffin Era gets it’s first W, but had to sweat it out against a team it should have beaten handily. Oh the irony, last week the Raiders complained about the timeout Denver called. Well Lane it looks like someone did explain the rule to you. This game saw the debut of Culpepper as the Raider QB as he took over for Shaky McCown. Culpepper did not turn it over and since LaMont Jordan and Justin Fargas ran well there was no need to have him do too much. It was turnovers and sloppy special teams that let the Browns back in to it. Derek Anderson, I hope you enjoyed you 15 minutes of fame last week; you are not long for the starting job in the NFL or the CFL if you ask me.

Seattle 24 – Cincinnati 21 In a game that may have damaged many a HDTV the Bengal’s showed why they are the NFL’s version of cake frosting. Sure it taste good and it comes in great colors, but you eat it all the time and you just make yourself sick. Sunday they held a team to under a quarter of a century but could not make a stop when they needed it. Now Rudi Johnson has a bad hammy, this is not what playoff runs are made of. As for the team clad in the rotten meatesque uniforms there is one big issue that is looming. Shaun Alexander boo boo has been upgraded to cracked bone in his wrist. Now I am not medical expert but that is not going to be beneficial running the ball. They need him, period. His ability to run the ball effectively leads to following clichés. He run, it opens the passing game. He runs it keeps the undersized D off the field and blah, blah, blah. They still control their own destiny in the division, even if San Francisco had won in Pittsburgh. They have enough talent on both side of the ball to guide them to a division title, if and only if Alexander can stay on the field.

New York Giants 24 – Washington 17 – So is the last offensive series the Skins ran the reason why they pay Al Saunders all that money. If not then Dan Synder and Redskins just hate trees. 700 pages and that is the best you got. Hell even though I have Ladell Betts in a fantasy league I know it should have been Portis at the end, or you could do something silly like throw to Cooley. Yes I know strange. Speaking of throwing the ball. Could I suggest to the Skins that they let Campbell throw the ball on 1 st and 2 nd down. You have Moss and Randle El use them. Use them like Brandon Lloyd is using you for that contact of his. Typical Giants, just when you think they will finally float to the top of fish tank they figure out how to play football. Which means they will a couple more and then trip over themselves and out of the playoffs.

Carolina 27 – Atlanta 20 – Falcon fans complain that they cannot hear the P.A. due to the loud flushing sound. DeAngelo Hall continuing the tradition of great Falcon decisions got himself thrown out of the game for losing his cool with Steve Smith. It ruined an actual good day for Joey, but no fear he will work hard to come out next week and throw 3 picks and start prepping for the Byron Leftwich era. I feel for the Falcon fans and Petrino, but this is beyond a lost season. This is Dante’s seven level of hell bad. The Panthers tried as they might to let a game they should have had handily get away, but they could not pull defeat from the jaws of victory. Now the big question in Carolina is the health of Delhomme. We may see if the problems in Texas where either the offense or Carr himself. Which if Delhomme can’t start makes for a very interesting and possibly ugly situation. Schuab and Texans play at Atlanta. Fans may go ballistic if they see Texans club them with the QB who was theirs.

Dallas 34 – Chicago 10 – This game was tied 3 –3 at half and the Bears made one mistake. They let Grossman out of the locker room. Where he proceeded to soil himself again on national TV. As we all know now is that Rex has been benched and Griese is the starter. I just would like to advise the Bears fans that this is still Brian Griese, sure he is miles ahead of Grossman who now making people say, “wow Cade McNown wasn’t that bad.” But as a Bronco fan I will say from personal experience is that Brian will find a way to break your heart. He will lift you up to the point where he can cause the greatest amount of pain when you drop, that or get hurt. I say go to Deadspin poster boy Kyle Orton. Let him at it, he won 8 games as rookie even though they were scared to play him. He could not be as bad as Rex. As for the Cowboys, it looks like Tony Romo will just back up the Brinks truck when it comes contract time. Also love him or hate him you have to be impressed on T.O. performance. Sure we know he is pulled hammy or a press conference away from imploding, but he has looked very good so far. When his mind is right he is tough to cover.

Monday Night

Tennessee 31 – New Orleans 14 – Well that went horrible bad for the Saints. They lose Deuce; look awful on offense and the D can’t make stops. Apparently the Aint’s we grew up with have returned. They do miss Joe Horn who is spending this season in Atlanta. A decision both would like to have back. Good luck to the Saints running game if they think Stecker and Bush can hold up. Two scat backs trying to run between the tackles will go as well Paul Prudhomme trying to run a four-minute mile. The Titans did the right thing by keeping Jeff Fisher. He just finds ways to get this team to win. I just wonder what would have happened if the L.A. Rams had been bold and made him their coach instead of Chuck Knox. They may still be in L.A. Probably not since Georgia and John Shaw were hell bent on leaving for a huge pile of cash, the bastards.

My record was:

12 – 4 Straight Up (Not too shabby)

5 – 8 – 3 ATS (Way too shabby)

Quick Power Poll (please argue amongst yourselves)