Week 7 Wrap Up: NFL Enters Bizarro World
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No Comments | October 22nd, 2006 | Trackback
Every year it seems like there’s a weekend in the NFL that season that takes all of the conventional wisdowm, assumptions, and preconceived notions that fans and media have about the league, and takes a great big piss all over them. Looks like week seven was that week this year. This phenomenon is perhaps the single most frustrating and confounding aspect of watching professional football for gamblers, fantasy footballers, power rankers, media-types, and wannabe smartass know-it-alls like us. It throws us all off our game.
Now that we think about it, we should’ve seen this seen coming after last Monday’s Bears-Cards game. That should have clued us in that strange things were on the horizon. As it is, we’re feeling more than a bit sheepish about our week seven picks — although we’re still holding out hope that the Giants-Cowboys game will end in a tie, with at least six season-ending injuries along the way. But just to give you an idea of how random this week was, in light of everything that had happened so far this season, considering the following:
- Donovan McNabb — the league MVP through six weeks and the picture of consistentcy — throws for three interceptions, two that get taken back to the house by Ronde Barber.
- Joey Harrington of all people turns in a 400-plus yard performance. This is Joey Freaking Heisman we’re talking about.
- Houston wins a home game (the first time they’ve won two consecutive home games in their entire existence — seriously) against a tough Jacksonville team that’s been playing pretty good ball this year. As if it’s not astonishing enough that Houston actually got the W, they did it by playing excellent defense. Now that’s just odd.
- Cincinnati looked like they were ready to be left for dead, while Carolina was starting to make everyone who picked them to win the NFC feel a little bit better about themselves. Then, this afternoon, Cincy goes out a wins a huge game, while Carolina manages only 14 poitns against a not very defense. What the hell, guys?
- Kansas City looked like Temple’s JV squad last week against Pittsburgh. This week, you almost forgot that Herm Edwards was their coach as they scored 30 against a tough division rival in San Diego.
- Mike Vick looks like an NFL quarterback for the first time all season, throwing for four TDs, and only only running for 40 yards as the Falcons beat the Steelers in OT.
- We were getting pretty used to seeing the Bucs get beaten on last second field goals, and we greatly looked forward to Jon Gruden’s post-game press conferences of those games. So what happens today? Not only do the Bucs win one on a last second field goal, it was from 62 yards away. One yard short of the all time NFL record. (As a side note, it’s times like this that we wish that the Martin Gramatica was still the Bucs kicker. We would have loved to seen that wiry little bastard go ape-shit after kicking a 62 yard game winner).
- Figure this one out: On Monday night, the Cards defense looked fast, talented, and hungry against Chicago — one of the more explosive offenses in the league. Today, they got lit up by Oakland, a team that was seriously threatening to go 0-16. Denny Green, what the fuck is going on in the desert, dude? You’re killing us here.
We take a little solace –but only a little because our fantasy team got fucking murdered today– in the fact that the Pats jumped out early on the Bills, kept pummeling them for four quarters, and Bill Belichick still looks like a guy who just scored a room at the neighborhood Y after being on the streets for the last six months. At least some things never seem to change.
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