Podcast - NFL Touchdown Spotlight Week 10
November 5, 2008
Andy Benoit discusses the logistics of the NFL Network Thursday Night schedule.
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Podcast: Week 10 GamePods
November 5, 2008
Quick-hitting run down of all the Week 10 action in the NFL, including the Denver Broncos vs. Cleveland Browns NFL Network game, and the Philadelphia Eagles vs. New York Giants.
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NFL Week 10 Power Rankings
November 4, 2008
32. Detroit Lions (0-8)
At least they’ll give us a storyline on Thanksgiving: avoiding 0-16.
31. Oakland Raiders (2-6)
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
30. Kansas City Chiefs (1-7)
No, they’re not good. But at least they’re developing a slew of hardworking youngsters.
29. Cincinnati Bengals (1-8)
Maybe T.J. Houshmandzadeh needs to make guarantees more often.
28. San Francisco 49ers (2-6)
A chance to prove their naysayers wrong when they take center stage Monday Night. Or something like that.
27. Seattle Seahawks (2-6)
Apparently the injuries at quarterback and wide receiver have somehow hurt the defense as well.
26. St. Louis Rams (2-6)
As it’s turned out, really all Jim Haslett has done is prevent this team from getting laughed at.
25. Jacksonville…
Sunday Snide Remarks - Week 9 Early Games
November 3, 2008
Tennessee Titans 19, Green Bay Packers 16
- This may have been the best game of the day, and nearly half the people who watched it did not get to see the ending because FOX took them to their local market broadcast of New York vs. Dallas. This begs the question: if FOX has the doubleheader for the day – which they did – then why can’t the NFL just push back the start time of the Cowboys-Giants game by 15 minutes or so and give the Titans-Packers audience a chance to see a great ending to a great game? The people who didn’t get to see this ending got screwed out…
Sunday Snide Remarks - Week 9 Late Games
November 3, 2008
Indianapolis Colts 18, New England Patriots 15
- Classic Colts-Patriots: you had New England eating up the clock and controlling the tempo, Peyton Manning making all the big plays through the air, Adam Vinatieri deciding it with a 52-yard field goal and Bill Belichick barely shaking Tony Dungy’s hand afterward.
- The Patriots lost this game, but a huge positive that stood out was the confidence Matt Cassel displayed. He is growing each week. And while he’s still not making his third and fourth reads from the pocket, he’s at least diagnosing defenses on the presnap and showing a presence in the huddle.
- The tendency is to think that the Colts got gashed by…
NFL Teams Policing Themselves
October 30, 2008
Have you noticed something about the NFL Conduct Policy this year? Maybe how, it’s working – masterfully, in fact?
Players are not going to stop getting in trouble – human nature won’t allow it. Any collection of 1,600 young adult males is going to have a few bad apples. (Numbers show that the NFL actually has fewer bad apples than American society on average, if we are to believe the arrests numbers.) But what the NFL Conduct Policy has done is empowered, or coerced, teams into reprimanding their own problem children.
We have seen an unprecedented amount of team-issued discipline handed down this season. Individual clubs have taken the initiative…
Podcast: Week 9 Spotlight
October 29, 2008
Andy Benoit takes a closer look at the firings and hirings that have taken place in the NFL this year, including a closer look at Mike Singletary and his postgame tirade on Vernon Davis.
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Podcast: Week 9 GamePods
October 29, 2008
Quick-hitting analysis on all the upcoming NFL games in Week 9, including Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Washington Redskins, Dallas Cowboys vs. New York Giants and New England Patriots vs. Indianapolis Colts.
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Week 9 Power Rankings
October 28, 2008
32. Cincinnati Bengals (0-8)
The whole “no character” approach is really backfiring.
31. Detroit Lions (0-7)
At least they still have Thanksgiving.
30. Kansas City Chiefs (1-6)
They passed like crazy and won the turnover battle 3-0 against the Jets….and still lost.
29. Oakland Raiders (2-5)
What? You mean they haven’t turned things around under Tom Cable?
28. San Francisco 49ers (2-6)
Mike Singletary respects the game like no other, but does that formula work with this group of players?
27. Seattle Seahawks (2-5)
Only two games back of Arizona, and they still play the Cards twice. But the Hasselbeck situation is very discouraging.
26. St. Louis Rams (2-5)
Imagine if they’d had Jim Haslett from the start.…
Sunday Snide Remarks - Week 8 Early Games
October 27, 2008
Dallas Cowboys 13, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 9
- This was a very good defensive struggle, highlighted by two ravenous run-stopping front sevens. For the Bucs, the speed of the defensive line gave Dallas trouble. For the Cowboys, linebacker Bradie James and nose tackles Jay Ratliff and Tank Johnson were big difference-makers.
- Terrell Owens had only 33 yards receiving, but he stayed positive afterward. A sign that Owens has maybe grown up – a little – is that he seems to realize the offense is going to be treading water as long as Brad Johnson is under center.
- Jeff Garcia is playing at a Pro Bowl level. Few quarterbacks elude the rush and…
