Week 4 NFL thread

Kinda blah on the early Sunday games, except Seattle at Houston & maybe Chicago at Detroit.

Late afternoon has some intrigue with Philadelphia at Denver.

Sunday nighter (New England at Atlanta) is not bad.

For once, the best game of the week might be Monday night: Miami at New Orleans.

Someone else can add the lines.

By the way, Tampa Bay has benched Josh Freeman. Mike Glennon is your new starter.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000250435/article/josh-freeman-benched-in-favor-of-mike-glennon

 

Does TB play Seattle this year?

Nice subplot to that story.

 

Yes, Nov. 3 in Seattle.

 

Is Freeman seen as the problem in Tampa or is this all falling to Schiano? I mean, it's not like Freeman is Aaron Rodgers, but I think him being benched is pretty stunning.

Thursday night's game should be a good one. It seems the better the Niners are supposed to be, the more trouble they have with the Rams. Maybe after losing their last two, the Niners will go in and destroy them, but I tend to doubt it. As a fanboi, this game scares the hell out of me.

I think the Saints will kill the Dolphins, but I thought the Falcons would kill the Dolphins...

 

Maybe Belichick, Schiano's pal, told him he changed quarterbacks early in a season once and it worked great.

 

Usually when that happens, it's an injury that causes the switch and then they stick with the player with the hot hand. I'm sure there are others, but I think that was the case with the Patriots, the Rams (with Warner) and the Niners with Kaepernick.

 

Of course it was. I was just being mildly snarky. One midseason quarterback change that DID work was when Tom Landry finally made Staubach his starter, but not before giving history the amazing alternating-quarterback experiment.

 

Tony Romo replaced Drew Bledsoe for Dallas in October 2006 and that worked out pretty well -- the Cowboys got to the playoffs and Romo made the Pro Bowl.

Of course, that season ended when Romo fumbled a snap on what would have been the winning field goal at Seattle in the first round. So, never mind.

 

Was Bledsoe hurt when that happened?

I can't really think of too many times when a QB was benched and then his replacement came in and tore things up.

 

The Broncos became awesome when they benched Kyle Orton in 2011.

 

Yeah, can't believe I forgot that one...

 

Mizzou, I think there are millions of Americans who've worked hard to develop suppressed memory syndrome where Tebow is concerned, and I don't blame any of them a bit!