Random Sunday Football Thoughts - Week 2

First off, a reminder to everyone who plays fantasy football. If your significant other wants you to go for Sunday breakfast before the games start, set your lineup first! Otherwise, breakfast turns into a Wal-Mart shopping excursion (if you have a kid, 100 packs of Mega Blocks for $10!) and you get home 15 minutes late and end up leaving Jahvid Best and his 40 points on the bench in favor of Cadillac Effing Williams. And lose by 10. Better yet, set your lineup on Thursday like every other normal human being.

Also, there will be some non-football material coming up. I just finished off The Accidental Billionaires, the book that the upcoming movie The Social Network is based on, and so I'll be reviewing that. I also downloaded a couple of albums and hoping to throw up some thoughts on those. So watch for those. Without further adieu though, the football thoughts!

I watched portions of 6 games on this fine Sunday. Accompanied by a glorious tin of Pringles Multigrain Ranch chips I might add. Definitely a good tasting 'healthy' chip. I think I only put on 2 pounds today.

Packers-Bills - This one was pretty much everything I expected, a complete annihilation. I really don't have much to add other than Mrs. Scott thinks that Clay Mathews is a really good player, especially being a girl and all.

Bears-Cowboys - A few things we learned in this game: 1) The Cowboys are not as good as everyone thought. Odds are they come back and make things interesting, but they will be very fortunate to make the playoffs. 2) I was an idiot for taking Jason Witten in my fantasy football draft, bypassing Antonio Gates to do so. Miles Austin has surpassed Witten for the first guy that Tony Romo looks for, and Witten now gets the leftovers. 3) The Bears might just be back. Matt Forte looks like he did in his rookie season, and the power of Cavallari seems to have turned Jay Cutler into a competent QB again. In that division, the Bears could just sneak in and make the playoffs. 4) If any team should be looking into trading for Vincent Jackson, it's the Bears. He could be the difference between a playoff run. Their wideouts are pretty bad.

Dolphins-Vikings - The Vikings are looking like a team that begged and dragged a 40 year old QB out of retirement. If you know me, you know I've bashed Favre for years, but even I'm starting to feel a little sorry for the guy. He just looks old, he's getting hit a ton and he has no weapons he trusts. I'm thinking he might just throw a ball clean through Bernard Berrian at this point to prove a point. The Dolphins once again relied on defense, rushing and a little Wildcat magic. They're a low end playoff team, but always a tough game for the opposing team. Everyone knows when they see Miami on the schedule, it's going to be tough to get out of bed on Monday.

Patriots-Jets - Everyone wrote off the Jets after a one point loss to a tough Ravens team. Today they showed everyone they're still a threat. And Mark Sanchez saved himself from being stoned in Central Park for another week. A great catch by Randy Moss on an 'injury' to Darrelle Revis that reminded me of Michael Johnson tapping out to Donovan Bailey a bunch of years ago.

Texans-Redskins - Possibly the best game of the day, with the Texans with a huge comeback and some questionable coaching decisions in overtime. Gary Kubiak managed to call a timeout right before the game winning Redskins FG (note: this was originally a Mike Shanahan tactic, nice to see him get burned by it by his old assistant coach), and their kicker goes out and shanks the re-try. Please don't Kubiak him smart for this, it happens just as often that the kicker misses the first try right as the timeout is called and then drills the 2nd chance. The Texans got lucky, but wow can they move the ball.

Colts-Giants - I knew about 5 minutes in that my prediction on this game was totally and completely off. I'm thinking the Manning boys had a significant personal bet on this game (loser has to change Archie's Depends? Oh wait we know Cooper gets that job), because Peyton came out on a mission. Not a lot to say here, complete and total annihilation. One thing we did learn, the NFC East is not nearly as good as anyone thought it would be.

Other random thoughts:

- My Chiefs are 2-0! I'll enjoy it while I can, but barely beating Seneca Wallace doesn't exactly say they're going to win the division. San Francisco comes in on the road on a short week though, so they could be 3-0 going into their bye week.

- I'd hate to be Andy Reid right now. Kevin Kolb might be the future, but Michael Vick is the now. In a weak division, they could sneak into a division title, but not with Kolb at the helm.

- Carson Palmer is terrible, but the Bengals for whatever reason own the Ravens, despite how bad he is. Nice to see Pacman Jones with a pick.

- Also nice to see Joey Galloway with a big catch. It's always nice to see senior citizens being productive members of society.

- I usually like Jeff Fisher's decisions but benching Vince Young was not one of them. Those are the type of games Young needs to learn to win if the Titans ever expect to contend for a championship.

- The Steelers are 2-0 without Big Ben, and Tampa coming in next week. Troy Polamalu is more important to this team than Roethlisberger. Right now, if I'm picking a team to win the title, I think it's Pittsburgh. Tough defense, an offense that has been good enough and will get better in a few weeks, and Shaft as coach.