NFL Week 4 thread

Yeah, like Jim Irsay, who 12 years earlier had testified against the Dr. Feelgood supplying him with illegal meds.

Robert Mathis, Rodgers, Irsay, Landry, Chris Rainey -- been a great year for the Colts so far.

 

The offense scored 0 points.

 

They had trouble finishing "a" drive - the one that ended at the San Francisco 1 in the final 2 minutes. The rest of the drives, they had trouble starting, continuing and everything else about them.

They had 213 yards of offense, and I'm not sure they ran a play in SF territory until that drive that ended at the 1.

For the Eagles' sake, I hope that's not high efficiency and just having trouble finishing off drives when it comes to the run-and-shoot.

 

That "favorable" schedule has already included Indianapolis and San Francisco.

 

Trouble finishing drives? They had trouble getting first downs.
Ninety of their 213 yards came on the next-to-last drive -- which was also the first and only time they crossed midfield. That they had any chance of winning that game is astonishing. They should've lost by 30.

 

It was a battle of dueling statistical probabilities. Two special team touchdowns and a defensive touchdown in a game probably have close to the same winning percentage as a game where the offense never scores, close to 1.000.

 

It wasn't just that. There was the phantom "illegal use of hands" call on Julius Peppers, the phantom "defensive holding" call on the Bears during a Packers field goal attempt, and two other silly "unsafe hit" calls, where Ryan Mundy and DJ Williams both get flagged simply because a referee saw the helmet just brush against a player.

The calls against Peppers and the Bears player on the field goal (his name escapes me) were by far the worst.

 

That was my point. Actual run-and-shoot offenses were able to move the ball. The Eagles right now, not so much. Point being, the comparison doesn't really hold up.

 

From what I've read, it was Marrone's call to go with Orton. Not that it changes his status as a coach whose job may now be on the line.

 

As far as the NFC East goes, who knows. The teams all have to play the NFC West and I can't see any of them beating Seattle. Maybe the Giants can beat San Francisco since they get them at MetLife. Who knows how the Eagles and Cowboys will match up with Arizona.

They also get to play the AFC South, so the top three at the moment likely all beat the Jaguars, and I figure the Giants and Eagles will beat the Titans.

So it likely comes down to how the division matchups go, unless one of the teams is able to sweep the AFC South opponents.

 

They get starting RT Lane Johnson back this week -- his four-game PED suspension is up. That means Herremans can move back to guard, giving them three of their five starters in place. The others, C Jason Kelce (sports hernia) and G Evan Mathis (knee), I believe are expected back by early November.

 

The run-and-shoot was a one-dimensional gimmick offense destined to die an NFL death, and without a running game as its base, Kelly's offense is nothing more than a one-dimensional gimmick.