Week 1 NFL Wrap

An interesting slate...

• The Falcons take a stand.... how bout that defense, huh? I liked the Falcons in the game due to the matchups, but I definitely did not think the defense would show up the way it did.... I thought Miami got infinitely too cute with the wildcat in a weird spot in the game (and gave it away obviously by making Pat White the #2 QB and basically ensuring he'd play by doing so)..... Liked the effort...and I'm not particularly worried about the lack of offensive output b/c Matt Ryan seemed to be just a touch off, and the Miami defense is a top 8 unit in the league... Very encouraged...
• Green Bay beats up on Cutler.... Aaron Rodgers wasn't as good as I had hoped he'd be, but Jay Cutler was certainly far worse... 4 INT's isn't acceptable for anybody, and I don't want to hear the WR excuse...you can explain 1 or 2 of them with WR issues...but not 4.... The more discouraging fact for Chicago to me, however, was the lack of Matt Forte....I had that fear in fantasy as well as real life, that Cutler would detract the focus from Forte, and it seems to be headed that way...
• The Niners make a mark... I'll chalk up this one to a clunker by Arizona (which I expected) moreso than the Niners playing fantastically...but Shaun Hill was encouraging... Kurt Warner looked like a 40-year-old statue and the running game still isn't there for Arizona...
  
• How bout them Seahawks! and How bad are the Rams!
• Denver/Cincy....you know where I'm headed...this was a PUTRID game....until the last 20 seconds or so...with the Gus Johnson call of the tipped ball 87-yard touchdown to Brandon Stokley...awesome...awesome....awesome....I heart Gus
• The Vikings played the Browns and won 34-20...Adrian Peterson is good at running with a football.... that's all i have
• Drew Brees...6 TDs... He's that good, and yes it was against the Lions but he threw to EIGHT receivers and SEVEN of them had 30 yards or more of output...and that's without a big game from his go-to-guy in Colston... Matt Stafford? typical rookie debut with 3 INT...meh...
• Philly/Carolina....Donovan McNabb goes down... broken ribs are fairly mild by NFL standards...but if he can't play by Week 3...get ready for the barrage of Vick coverage...will he start? Won't he start? lol.... Philly looked very good though....not surprised by that, as I really like that unit.... on the other end...Jake Delhomme was flat-out awful and if they had ANY legit presence backing him up, I think I'd sit him...and yes, it's week 2 this week...even worse for Carolina, though, was under 75 yards total from Williams and Stewart...they can't win that way
  
• Fantasy studs: Joe Flacco was huge.... indicator of things to come or product of KC's bad defense? I choose the latter...but only b/c his numbers were too gaudy for that offense... Reggie Wayne 10 catches for 162 and a TD...and people wanna continue to talk about Anthony Gonzalez (who is now hurt FYI)...this is the stud... Tony Romo...350+ and 3 TDs...and the big one...0 INT....take that for no receivers... Mike Bell and Julius Jones... not exactly the most likely candidates for 100+ yard games...but both got the majority of the carries...and both can operate in pass-first offenses when they don't face stacked boxes...
  
• Previewing Monday night... Pats by 3 Tds... Brady goes nuts... Moss goes nuts... the Bills offense gets beat up on... Chargers by 17... LDT shows the world he's still a marquee back (I'm thinking 150 total and 3 TDs), and Chris Chambers has a big game (Jackson will be taken away by the human gauntlet CB on the other side lol)....

Big-time weekend...and it only gets better...