NFL Week 3 running thread...

I kinda like the Steelers what with Big Ben being a MAC guy and all, but the ridiculousness about them being posted by 93Devil is beginning to make me hate them. Sort of like how I now hate the Seahawks because their fans won't STFU about the Super Bowl being stolen.

 

Tell that last part to Angola and JLB.

I'm an admitted fanboy, but even I'm not going that far. The Steelers are definitely improved from last season, just because Roethlisberger is healthy this time around. He played way too much last year when he wasn't fully recovered from the accident and the appendectomy.

But I'm still not even sure that improved is going to get them out of that division.

 

OK, they host San Fran, travel to AZ and host the Seahawks. If they are 5-0 headed into the bye week, then I will start touting them again. They follow the bye with two tough road games and then host the Ravens. That is the heart of the schedule. But if Cincy has imploded by then and Boller is taking snaps for the Ravens...

Then again if they are clobbered by the 49ers this weekend, all of this is moot.

 

Except that Super Bowl was not stolen. As poorly as the Steelers played, the Seahawks played that much worse and gave the game away.

Re: Steelers now, with 10 sacks and 10 points allowed in two weeks, they're off to a good start. And say what you will about the opponents, the Browns did hang 51 on the Bengals and the Bills nearly beat the Broncos. The Steelers must have done something.

 

I know that, and that is why people claiming it happened makes me hate the Seahawks.

 

You are right. I heave by Ben, a run by Parker and a trick play to Hines was the difference in that game. But big plays do win the big games, and Seattle just did not get the big scoring plays.

They played like an 8-8 team that day. Luckily, the Seahawks played like a 6-10 team.

 

And the three they gave up to Buffalo were courtesy a gift to the Bills by the officials. (For those that didn't see, McGee for the Bills stepped out of bounds on a kickoff return, but the officials missed it and he got another 30 yards or so on the return).

They still have some things to prove, but so far the Steelers have done exactly what a good team should do. They beat the crap out of two inferior opponents.

 

Broncos did NOT impress me in the opener, and needing overtime (and a shtoink on Janikowski's do-over) to sneak by the Raiders reinforced that impression. As for my beloved Bills, I fear what might happen against the Pats this Sunday if the starting defense includes Jabari Greer and Kiwaukee Thomas at the corners...

 

The New York Giants' defense have found the enemy...and it's the media.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/giants/2007/09/21/2007-09-21_antonio_pierce_michael_strahan_get_testy-1.html

Yeah, it's us, dipshits. We're the reason you can't tackle or cover or stop the run or defend the pass. Now, I hope you go 0-16.

 

Oh how I love seeing Big Blew and the Sheagles suffer so!

 

You must be at odds this week, Innovator of Violence. Big Blew at the Deadskins. Who or what do you root for?

 

I root for an implosion of the entire field

It's worse next week: Sheagles at Big Blow, 8:15 p.m.