MMQ: Monday Morning Quarterbacking

[puppetmaker]

Welcome to another edition of MMQ where I talk Sports especially football.

Feel Free to Skip if this topic has no meaning to you. I do understand. I watch Peter's eyes glaze over when I try to explain football to him. He's a baseball fan. He watches the Superbowl for the commercials.

The Jets loss to the Patriots comes down to who got it done and done well. Pats did and the Jets didn't. Until the Jets can tighten up both defense and offence, they are not going anywhere for a long time. You can't place yesterday's game on the Quarterback. Parts of it yes but overall no. He did what he was suppose to do now the other players have to get themselves where they are suppose to be. I do like that it was not the blow-out that everyone predicted. 20-10 is a respectable loss to the Pats.

Next the Patriots play the Dolphins who are coming in with a win. That's right the Dolphins won a game. Of course it was to the Ravens who haven't exactly been playing at the top of their game recently. But it seemed to me that the Ravens were expecting an easy win and a disheartened Dolphins team. They got an angry team that really did want it more. Well that and a couple of really lucky plays.

Cowboys and Packers are still battling it out for who is going to do what. The Cowboys loss was more them giving the game away rather than the Eagles winning the game. (Sorry Eagles fans). They had their chances and just couldn't capitalize.

Speaking of not capitalizing on opportunity, how about those Giants? It was the inability for the receivers to hang onto a ball that killed them. Eli got the ball there but the catch, or lack there of, was painful to watch. And Shockey is out for the rest of the season with a broken leg because Toomer rolled over on it? This team seems out to sabotage any chance they have at a playoff game.

The Cleveland Browns still have hope. Especially since the Steelers seem to want to hand the division to them. It will be interesting to see how this one plays out.

I am grateful that everything is not sorted out before we get to the end of the season.

Comments

Seattle at Carolina

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

I had mixed emotions watching the Seahawks versus the Panthers; I've been cheering for the Seahawks (my getting back into football coincided with their Super Bowl season), but I'm glad to see Oregon's Dante Rosario (who played high school basketball with one of my cousins) getting some stats. So that game helps the Panthers and, if I understand correctly, doesn't hurt the Seahawks too much, so I can accept that and go on.

Meanwhile, I'm glad when both the Chargers and the Saints win. I'm glad the Chargers are overcoming their years of suck (including, as I've said, the period when I lived in San Diego, when San Diego sports was more famous for the San Diego Chicken and the finale of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes). (Oh, and I remember being so confused by the Padres not being dressed like, well, padres...I was a rather literal kid...)

Wow. That's a part of my comment that maybe Peter can appreciate. :-)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*laughs* They interrupted my roommate's commencement ceremony yesterday to announce the outcome of the Packer game.

I'm torn between fear and amusement at what will happen if the Packers make it all the way through the playoffs (or even make it into them, which the Brewers failed to do, despite being #1 for a while during the last season).

And the sad thing is, I don't particularly like sports (too many games have pre-empted tv shows I was watching for there not to be lingering resentment).

[kithan.livejournal.com]

They've clinched the division so there's no way they can not make the playoffs now. At this point, we're just trying to get home field advantage.

Thanks to the Panthers loss, we've also clinched a first round bye. It'll be sorely needed by then, I think.

Hopefully we can win our last two games and Dallas will lose one more so that if/when we see them in the playoffs, it'll be at home.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

I have to say, I'm with your husband on this. American Football just doesn't do it for me at all ;-)

Yesterday's Browns game versus Buffalo was entertaining, though - but only because everyone was sliding all over the field like a bunch of high schoolers on an ice rink.

[tiggerallyn.livejournal.com]

I don't normally watch football, but for some reason I had to watch the Ravens and the Dolphins. The two most hapless teams going head-to-head.

I said at one point in the second half that it looked like the Ravens were snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Their comeback in the final two minutes of the half was absolutely riveting.

Of course, the shanked field goal set them up for the loss. Them's the breaks.

[vysion-of-books.livejournal.com]

I caught the Dolphin's win recapped on ESPN's Sportscenter last night. Quite exciting the way they depicted the game.

"Superbowl for the commercials" -- I'm right there with him.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

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