Your Week 10 NFL Recap
GENERAL By Patrick M. on November 16, 2009 at 10:10 am
I’d be remiss of recapping the NFL in week 10 without turning the back clock to Thursday night. Admittedly, there was a lot of pressure on Jay Cutler coming into the season. The Bears gave up quite a bit for his cannon arm, creating expectations of future Pro Bowls and Bears playoff appearances. Said high hopes ignored the fact that 1.) the Bears wideouts are crap and 2.) their D is getting by on rep and is average at best.
But Cutler’s about as close to being the next great QB as Papoose is to being the next great rapper. And Thursday’s 5 interception trainwreck crushed both Chicago’s playoff hopes and the last remnants of the Windy City’s faith in their golden-armed savior. And who can blame them. It’s hard to root for someone who, after throwing the ball directly to the defense, wears the mug of a spoiled Ivy League grad whose Dad just confiscated his Range Rover.
Another team that’s got to be questioning themselves is the defending champs. The Bengals came into Pittsburgh and out-Steelered the Steelers, riding a fearsome pash rush, special teams and some field goals to a huge victory. With a cake schedule the next three weeks, the freaking Bengals could be 10-2 heading into December and have to be considered one of the top five teams in the league.
The Steelers will probably regroup, but Broncos and Jets fans should be shitting themselves about their playoff chances at this point. Rex Ryan talks a big game, but his defense was the problem against Jacksonville. As for the Broncos at least they could use Kyle Orton’s injury for a pass…except, they lost to Washington, a team whose fans have given up and whose coach is a dead man walking. And the schoolyard play in the clip below, which is not a good look at all.
Other News and Notes
– Tennessee’s up to 3-6 behind another super human game from Chris Johnson whose having a historic season.
– Unimpressive wins for NFC leaders Minnesota and New Orleans against the dregs of the league (Detroit and STL) but you can’t get up for every one, no homo.
– Green Bay saved their season by shutting down Dallas’ high-powered offense with five sacks and three takeaways. Good bounce back game from the Pack.
– San Diego’s doing their usual comeback routine after a slow start. With their win over the now struggling Eagles, the Chargers go into Denver next week ready to take back the division. LT even mustered up a little old magic.
– For this week’s installment of impressive Adrian Peterson runs, he uses Tecmo-skills to elude would be tacklers, placing a hand on the ground to maintain his balance.
Posted in GENERAL, Sports — Tags: Adrian Peterson, Chicago Bears, Chris Johnson, Cincinnati Bengals, Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers, Jay Cutler, LaDainian Tomlinson, Papoose, Pittsburgh Steelers
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Watching Belicheck’s face after he outsmarted himself and lost the game was priceless; the combanation of Constipation, sadness, and anger always makes me chuckle. AP and Chris Johnson maybe the best 2 rb’s in the league.
AP and Chris Johnson maybe the best 2 rb’s in the league.
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if they’re not the best, they’re definitely the most exciting.
I knew how nice AP was; but Johnson is balling. Glad to see VY is also making the most of his second chance.
Giants didn’t play and gained a game on the Eagals and cowboys. Got to love that. They should have a bye every week. lol
The Titans receivers have dropped a grand total of zero passes in VY’s starts.
Zero.
They went from suckass to “damn y’all got good” in a matter of weeks.
The Giants needed a week off lol.
Honestly, I expected the Pats D to hold the Colts, since they don’t have much of a run game. The Colts crushed that though.
Yo…ladell betts mvp. stop playing. the boy is better than average. redskins 7-9. The nfc (l)east’s best team will be a ten win team. The power structure in the league is shifting away from the mid atlantic.
Gotty:
The way the Giants were playing they needed a month off. lol I swear if I saw C.C Brown get burned one more time I was going to lose it. But it just isn’t him the Whole secondary have been playing badly since Kenny Phillps went down. The pass rush was just covering their poor play.
The Titans gave away too many games to make a run at the playoffs; but if VY can right himself. They have a great 1-2 punch at rb; they can address their holes and they will be right back contending.
Cutler played like ass, but the 5 ints are a bit misleading. The Bears problem is a horrendous o-line that can’t run block or pass block. Usually a line can at least do one or the other, these guys do neither so Forte runs into brick walls all day and Cutler is constantly under pressure and has no time to pass. I don’t think a single o-lineman on the Bears would start for any of the elite contenders. Kreutz and Pace are past their prime guys playing with giant forks in their backs. Beekman and Garza are average guards at best and neither is strong like you’d want out of a guard. Williams looks to be an utter bust at tackle and another failed first round pick from Jerry Angelo. Omiyale was a free-agent flop and got benched for Beekman after 6 games. That’s 6 lineman, all scrubs. I don’t care who you got at QB/skill positions, if your line is terrible like that you can’t win.
For the most part I think the WRs have been solid. Hester is on pace for an 80 catch/1,000-1,100 yard season and Knox and Bennett are both on pace for 50-60 catches and around 700-800 yards. They’ll get better and if the O-line gave Cutler time to throw they’d probably have even better numbers.
That said, the 5 int total is misleading to an extent. Hester caused 2 of those. He slipped and
fell on a play and the ball went right into the hands of a DB who was where Hester was supposed to be before he fell. On another INT, he was running a crossing route and bumped into an official, which slowed him from getting to the ball in time as a LB came away with it. On a 3rd INT, the refs blew an obvious pass interference call (when NFL network yes men call you out for a blown call you known it’s for real). So that’s 3 that I can’t really blame on Cutler. The other 2 in the red zone though were completely inexcusable.
Long story short, Bears season is over. The o-line is a joke. Time for me to bet against them a few games and make back the money I spent going to Cincy and watching them get their brains beat-in.
Belicheck lost that game for the Pats. Giving Manning a short field is foolery.
belicheck as a head coach < manning as a head coach.. belicheck has had the luxury of his amazing teams making him look good. last night was a terrible decision. not to mention.. kevin faulk. really? not randy, not welker, not punting..kevin faulk. Applause.
Punting should have not even been a question in that situation. I’d MAYBE understand if you were playing some scrub team with scrub offense/QB, and you go for it and trust your D. MAYBE then it’s ok. But against the Colts? You’re putting that offense in primo position and burdening your defense with added pressure to make a stop on a short field when you could have punted and forced them to go at least 70 yards minimum. Just a dumb, arrogant move.
Long story short, Bears season is over. The o-line is a joke. Time for me to bet against them a few games and make back the money I spent going to Cincy and watching them get their brains beat-in.
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co-fucking-sign!!!!!!!!!!
You cant blame the O-Line on the Cutler throws into double/triple coverage…he is just overrated and you wonder why the broncs let him go so easily…
New Orleans.
is still
undefeated
WHO DAT!
@warpath: like I said, those 2 red zone ints were inexusable and the result of bad throws, but the other 3 came due to 2 bad plays by Hester and a blown pass intereference call. If the team beats itself there isn’t much Jay or any QB can do. Having watched every minute of every bears game this year, I can say unequivocally that at least 7-8 of those ints were caused by his receivers fucking up. Doesn’t excuse his mistakes but his numbers are in part a reflection of that. Also, the o-line has been sorry all year. If you don’t think that has a negative impact on how Cutler and the offense performs I don’t know what to tell you.
without strong performances in the trenches…you can’t play with the toughness needed to compete in this league…on both sides of the football.
’nuff said.
i had jay cutler, i also had MJD and randy moss