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Monday Morning QB
by Andy Antonik
Posted on
11/09/2004 |
There is plenty
to talk about this week, and a lot of it I'd
like to say that I mentioned last week as things
to keep an eye on for the weekend. It was a
very surprising day of football and a lot of new
decisions will have to be made in terms of how
you look at certain teams.
No matter how
close the score, the Bills dominated the Jets.
The Bills defense lived up to its top five
defensive ranking, and put enough points on the
board offensively to make it hold up. And, as
expected by many, Willis McGahee is proving to
be a very good NFL back and Travis Henry may as
well lean back, take his shoes off, and sit a
spell. His hope of playing will require an
injury to Willis. As I watched the game, I
listened to the announcers say again and again
that the Bills players did not think of their
team as a 2-5 team. Initially I thought it was
just the same hype that everyone on a lousy team
says, but this time it appeared to be true. I
said last week that I felt the line was an
anomaly and that three points looked very small
when reviewing the records, stats, etc. A lot
of gamblers thought so as well, but the bookies
appeared to have it right after all.
The major item
I took out of this game is that Chad Pennington
has been making mistakes this year in critical
games and game situations. In both losses this
year, you can look directly at a mistake made by
Pennington that led to points by the opponents,
or stopped a promising drive by the Jets. This
is a situation that ought to be monitored as the
season progresses, and may impact what I select.
I live in
Illinois and therefore I am stuck with hearing
about the Bears all season long. This year the
talk has all been about how bad they are. Last
week I mentioned that I thought that Krenzel had
looked OK as an NFL QB in the game against SF.
This week, despite the 38% completion rate, and
the two lost fumbles, he made enough of the
right plays at the right time to win the game
for the Bears. The Giants, on the other hand,
gave the game away. What needs to be determine,
however, is if the 7 sacks that Warner had were
his fault, or the fault of the line, or the
Bears defense. If the Giants cannot keep a team
like the Bears off their QB, then they are in a
lot of trouble.
Pittsburgh has
just jumped to the top of the list as the best
team in the NFL. The game was taken out of the
hands of Roethlisberger as the Steelers ran 56
times for 252 yards. They only passed 18 times,
and connected on 11. I don't know the time of
possession differential, but the Eagles ran only
33 plays, while the Steelers ran more than 70.
It was a typical Steeler (and Jerome Bettis)
kind of game, and they played it very well. The
lines this week ought to be interesting. But one
obstacle remains, can a rookie QB win the Super
Bowl? He will have to keep up this level of
play for a long time yet this year, and I wonder
if the rookie can stay strong, never having
played some many games before. If they make it
that far, it'll be 20 games, plus pre-season.
They better have a back-up in the wings to give
the kid a breather.
San Diego is
proving to be more than a one-dimensional team.
L. Tomlinson has one of his worst days as a pro
and they still won easily. Drew Brees threw for
4 TD's and had a very good statistical day. The
race in the west should be interesting, and
there are a lot of teams in the AFC that you
just can't figure out. Are the Chiefs dead, or
not? Can the Jets win a big game, or can they
only beat the bottom feeders? What about the
Raiders, Titans, Ravens and Jags? No teams are
demonstrating anything except the Steelers and
Pats, and at this point you ought to just have
the two teams play each other now for the
championship and save everybody the time and
aggravation.
That's it for
looking back at last weekend. It seems much
clearer now than it did last Friday, but after
the games I saw, not much clearer. |
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| Andy Antonik is a Fantasy Football Contest and
Content Manager for Wildcardsports.com. Born in New
York State, he now lives in central Illinois with
his family, and feels like a fish out of water. His
favorite sports teams are all from New York, and
when not with his family, he can be found on the
golf course redefining the term "duffer." |
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