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Thoughts on Wild Card games
NYJ-Cincy
*Carson Palmer is a shell of himself. He made Mark Sanchez look like Joe Montana.
*Shayne Graham killed his team’s momentum twice in the 2nd half with two FG shanks of easy distances. I think if Graham makes either of those FGs, it’s a different ball game.
*The game was very unappealing to watch. The Jets made two plays the whole game (Greene’s run and Keller’s catch), but that was two more than the Bengals made.
Cowboys-Eagles
*The Eagles guessed wrong with their defensive blitzes all game. They made it pretty easy for the Cowboys to move the ball.
*A healthy Felix Jones could be the X-factor in this year’s playoffs. He and Romo were a tough tandem, and the Cowboys defense was very physical.
*Sometimes Donovan McNabb has bad games. This was one of them.
Pats-Ravens
*It seemed like the Patriots didn’t really care if they won or lost. The fans were booing the team 5 plays into the game. Tom Brady looked stoned.
*I’m not that surprised the Ravens won…if you look at each team on a player-by-player basis, its obvious that the Ravens have the better talent. The Patriots have always been a finesse team, but it was shocking as to how much the Ravens physically dominated New England. Flacco basically didn’t have to throw a pass all game.
Cardinals-Packers
*The Packers never got out of their zone defense. Their LBers provided no obstacle to Kurt Warner’s passes, yet Dom Capers was content to drop his LBers into a short zone and allow Warner all the time in the world to pick his defense apart. That said, Warner was throwing darts off of 3-step drops…it was amazing that Doucet and Breaston would be 5 yards behind the linebackers immediately after the snap.
*Speaking of Warner, he had a tremendous game. His accuracy on downfield throws is incredible. He had one pass down the sideline to Breaston where the Packer DB had pinned Breaston’s left arm, yet Warner was able to have the ball float over the DB’s head and rest gently into Breaston’s right arm. An amazing throw. Lets hope this retirement talk is premature…Warner still has some good football left in him.
NYJ-Cincy
*Carson Palmer is a shell of himself. He made Mark Sanchez look like Joe Montana.
*Shayne Graham killed his team’s momentum twice in the 2nd half with two FG shanks of easy distances. I think if Graham makes either of those FGs, it’s a different ball game.
*The game was very unappealing to watch. The Jets made two plays the whole game (Greene’s run and Keller’s catch), but that was two more than the Bengals made.
Cowboys-Eagles
*The Eagles guessed wrong with their defensive blitzes all game. They made it pretty easy for the Cowboys to move the ball.
*A healthy Felix Jones could be the X-factor in this year’s playoffs. He and Romo were a tough tandem, and the Cowboys defense was very physical.
*Sometimes Donovan McNabb has bad games. This was one of them.
Pats-Ravens
*It seemed like the Patriots didn’t really care if they won or lost. The fans were booing the team 5 plays into the game. Tom Brady looked stoned.
*I’m not that surprised the Ravens won…if you look at each team on a player-by-player basis, its obvious that the Ravens have the better talent. The Patriots have always been a finesse team, but it was shocking as to how much the Ravens physically dominated New England. Flacco basically didn’t have to throw a pass all game.
Cardinals-Packers
*The Packers never got out of their zone defense. Their LBers provided no obstacle to Kurt Warner’s passes, yet Dom Capers was content to drop his LBers into a short zone and allow Warner all the time in the world to pick his defense apart. That said, Warner was throwing darts off of 3-step drops…it was amazing that Doucet and Breaston would be 5 yards behind the linebackers immediately after the snap.
*Speaking of Warner, he had a tremendous game. His accuracy on downfield throws is incredible. He had one pass down the sideline to Breaston where the Packer DB had pinned Breaston’s left arm, yet Warner was able to have the ball float over the DB’s head and rest gently into Breaston’s right arm. An amazing throw. Lets hope this retirement talk is premature…Warner still has some good football left in him.
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