NFL Week 3 Scott Zolak edition

Sir Toppam Hat

 

Well, another game, another key player apparently lost for the Chargers: Manti Te'o goes down with no one around him in Indianapolis and it's been confirmed as an Achilles injury, which I don't think is ever a day-to-day thing.

I know things were going to be iffy for San Diego this year, but geez!

 

Imaginary Olinemen get him?

 

Lennay's spirit makes the tackle.

 

One of these weeks, Wentz is going to do something that isn't perfect, and the Browns braintrust can point to the TV and say "See? Not Top 20!"

 

That's the Steelers defense we've come to know; little pressure, stupid penalties, can't get off the field on third down, and give up big plays.

 

Wentz continues to impress and the Pittsburgh defense is a disaster. Eagles push their lead to 20-3 early the third quarter.

Also, Timmons sent to the hospital with his leg injury.

 

Yet another injury. Eli Rogers out with a toe injury as things just get uglier. The Steelers have completely fallen apart. Been a while since they've gotten their asses handed to them this badly.

 

Does Wheaton know that touching the ball with both hands doesn't count unless you catch it?

 

Fits in with the rest of the team. Aside from Antonio Brown, the Steelers have been absolutely horrible in every way.

 

Watching Seattle suck for two weeks and then take apart the 49ers today got me thinking about how hard it is to genuinely suck for long stretches of a season in the NFL. The talent level is so good that it's hard to go more than about three weeks at a time without things evening out.
So I looked it up. From 2012-15, league wide, there were 59 losing streaks of four games or longer. Two of those were winless streaks that included a tie. A third of them -- 20, to be exact -- belonged to Jacksonville, Tampa Bay, Cleveland and Tennessee. Five other teams had three four-game losing streaks.
Five teams (New England, Denver, Indianapolis, Seattle and Buffalo) have not lost four in a row in that stretch.

 

Hey, a good point by Phil Simms -- the Bridgewater injury that led to the Sam Bradford trade might have been the best thing that could have happened to the Eagles this season.