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Monday Mourning: Week One
Week One: Stop watches, keggers, and high-top fades...
San Francisco walked out of Arizona with a 20-16 victory of the defending conference champion Cardinals. The game raised plenty of questions about the new pecking order in the NFC West, namely: Why was Mike Singletary wearing a stopwatch over his white turtleneck? Does he feel that it's the head coaches job to monitor the hang time of punts? Was he attempting to monitor "hustle" by timing players as they ran on and off the field? Making sure everyone got exactly 30 seconds of stretching for each hamstring during pre-game?
Mark Sanchez had about as good of a debut as a rookie quarterback could ask for, throwing for 272 yards and a touchdown in commandeering the Jets to a victory over Houston... As former USC QBs go, Sanchez probably had the best day, as Carson Palmer's offense was stymied for 59 minutes against Denver, and Matt Cassel watched injured from the sideline in a Kansas City loss to Baltimore... but Matt Leinart reportedly had a "kick ass" and "killer" time as a USC house party with new Trojan star Matt Barkley.
The 19-year-old Barkley and his classmates celebrated Barkley's game-winning drive in the waning seconds of a Top-10 match-up against Ohio State in Columbus. Barkley was reportedly soaking up all of the good things that come with being 19 and engineering one of the most memorable game-winning drives in your school's history when his "buzz was killed" after a large amount of people asked him, "Who's the weird old guy doing keg stands?" and "Why did you bring your dad?" When Barkley asked Leinart if he was sure he wanted to be at a college party and suggested that it may better if Leinart leave, Leinart replied "I love this sh*t...I keep getting older and they just stay the same age...alright, alright, alright."
The Eagles defense forcing five Carolina turnonvers wasn't the biggest story in Philly's 38-10 spanking of the Panthers. Eagls QB Donovan McNabb fractured a rib during a late touchdown run and early reports vary on his length of absence. This could set the stage for the "other" guy that plays quarterback in Philladelphia; The one that everyone is talking about, that everyone wants to see. That's right: Let the Kevin Kolb era begin in Philladelphia.
Tennessee speedster Chris Johnson is beginning to nip at the heels of Buffalo tailback, Marshawn Lynch for "Ugliest Person in the World" award.
Adrian Peterson made scoring rushing touchdowns look easier than selling selling tin foil to Chipotle, lugging the rock 25 times for 180 yards and 3 touchdwons in Minnesota's 34-20 drubbing of Cleveland. Drew Brees was just as good through the air (maybe making passing touchdowns look as easy as selling Tabasco to chipotle?), throwing for 358 yards and 6 TDs in a Saints 45-27 victory over the Lions, who started the 2009 season like they finished the 2008 one, without a victory.
Was Mike Tomlin rocking the Up-Town Fade or High-Top Fade in Thursday's NFL Opener?
The 'Madden Curse' bit Troy Polamalu on Thursday night when he suffered a grotesque injury in the second quarter of the Steelers contest against the Titans. Polamalu ended-up in the bottom of a pile with his legs spread at an angle usually reserved for girls on poles named "Dakota" or "Cinnamon." The five-time Pro-Bowler could miss 6 weeks with a sprained MCL. The other half of the 2010 cover, Larry Fitzgerald, made it through week One injury-free.
The best ending to a Week One contest definitely came out of Cincinatti, when a Denver Broncos team who had just relinquished a lead that they had held for the entire game, found themselves trailing the Bengals by a point with 87 yards between them and the end zone. That's when a desperation pass from Broncos QB Kyle Orton, intended for wide out Brandon Marshall, was deflected and miraculously ended up in the hands of Fanco Harris... errr Brandon Stokley, who proceeded to skedaddle all the way to the end zone for a touchdown and Denver victory.
The best part: As Stokley out ran the last Cincinnatti defender, he saw that there were no defenders pursuing him, so he went all 'Tecmo Bowl' and ran horizontally down the sideline to waste time. A classic move that I pulled many times as a child. Denver, at 1-0, is on pace to go 16-0.
This just in from Green Bay, Wisconsin: Jay Cutler just threw another interception...
Mark Sanchez had about as good of a debut as a rookie quarterback could ask for, throwing for 272 yards and a touchdown in commandeering the Jets to a victory over Houston... As former USC QBs go, Sanchez probably had the best day, as Carson Palmer's offense was stymied for 59 minutes against Denver, and Matt Cassel watched injured from the sideline in a Kansas City loss to Baltimore... but Matt Leinart reportedly had a "kick ass" and "killer" time as a USC house party with new Trojan star Matt Barkley.
The 19-year-old Barkley and his classmates celebrated Barkley's game-winning drive in the waning seconds of a Top-10 match-up against Ohio State in Columbus. Barkley was reportedly soaking up all of the good things that come with being 19 and engineering one of the most memorable game-winning drives in your school's history when his "buzz was killed" after a large amount of people asked him, "Who's the weird old guy doing keg stands?" and "Why did you bring your dad?" When Barkley asked Leinart if he was sure he wanted to be at a college party and suggested that it may better if Leinart leave, Leinart replied "I love this sh*t...I keep getting older and they just stay the same age...alright, alright, alright."
The Eagles defense forcing five Carolina turnonvers wasn't the biggest story in Philly's 38-10 spanking of the Panthers. Eagls QB Donovan McNabb fractured a rib during a late touchdown run and early reports vary on his length of absence. This could set the stage for the "other" guy that plays quarterback in Philladelphia; The one that everyone is talking about, that everyone wants to see. That's right: Let the Kevin Kolb era begin in Philladelphia.
Tennessee speedster Chris Johnson is beginning to nip at the heels of Buffalo tailback, Marshawn Lynch for "Ugliest Person in the World" award.
Adrian Peterson made scoring rushing touchdowns look easier than selling selling tin foil to Chipotle, lugging the rock 25 times for 180 yards and 3 touchdwons in Minnesota's 34-20 drubbing of Cleveland. Drew Brees was just as good through the air (maybe making passing touchdowns look as easy as selling Tabasco to chipotle?), throwing for 358 yards and 6 TDs in a Saints 45-27 victory over the Lions, who started the 2009 season like they finished the 2008 one, without a victory.
Was Mike Tomlin rocking the Up-Town Fade or High-Top Fade in Thursday's NFL Opener?
The 'Madden Curse' bit Troy Polamalu on Thursday night when he suffered a grotesque injury in the second quarter of the Steelers contest against the Titans. Polamalu ended-up in the bottom of a pile with his legs spread at an angle usually reserved for girls on poles named "Dakota" or "Cinnamon." The five-time Pro-Bowler could miss 6 weeks with a sprained MCL. The other half of the 2010 cover, Larry Fitzgerald, made it through week One injury-free.
The best ending to a Week One contest definitely came out of Cincinatti, when a Denver Broncos team who had just relinquished a lead that they had held for the entire game, found themselves trailing the Bengals by a point with 87 yards between them and the end zone. That's when a desperation pass from Broncos QB Kyle Orton, intended for wide out Brandon Marshall, was deflected and miraculously ended up in the hands of Fanco Harris... errr Brandon Stokley, who proceeded to skedaddle all the way to the end zone for a touchdown and Denver victory.
The best part: As Stokley out ran the last Cincinnatti defender, he saw that there were no defenders pursuing him, so he went all 'Tecmo Bowl' and ran horizontally down the sideline to waste time. A classic move that I pulled many times as a child. Denver, at 1-0, is on pace to go 16-0.
This just in from Green Bay, Wisconsin: Jay Cutler just threw another interception...
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