NFL Week 5 Recap

Well I will have to say this week in the NFL started out great!!!


RAMS TALK! Nothing better then starting out the week with the Rams on Thursday Night Football and punching the Cardinals right in the neck!  And I will say this, its a lot easier watching the Rams on Sunday when there are all the other games going on.  When its just the Rams I hang on every play!   For a team that didn't score an offensive TD in three games, they came out and took them less than 3 minutes before Bradford hit Kendricks in crazy pass happy first drive. 

Unfortunately that would be about it after Danny "Queen" Amendola, who was incredible, broke his clavicle and was lost for the game and probably a good part of the season.  He was truly the blanket to Bradford's inner Linus.  Bradford couldn't complete a pass rest of the game.  Until he hit Chris Givens on a bomb of 52 yards! 

But the real story was the Rams Defense who quietly have become very good and nasty.  They sacked Kolb 9 times and will punch you right in the mouth.  Fisher truly has brought a new, nastier mentality to a team that hasn't had that kind of nastiness on defense since the Fearsome Foursome (which by the way is airing on NFL Network tonight at 8pm as part of their "Its A Football Life" series). 

Rams who are 3-0 at home and 0-2 on the road travel to Miami to face the Dolphins.  On paper should be a win for the Rams, but being on the road tends to always be a problem for the Rams. A win here will really put them on the right track.  We shall see!

The Dolphins are killing me in the Football Pool.  There is always a team that you just can't quite get right and this year its the Dolphins.  Last week I was the only person to take them against the Cardinals and it looked like I had that game won, but nooooooo!  Cardinals come back tie it and win in OT.  This week Dolphins traveled to Cincinnati and were clearly the underdog.  One person picked Miami, and it wasn't me.  What happens?  Dolphins win!  What the heck!?

There are clearly only a few bad bad teams in the NFL and they are as follows.  Jaguars.  Just got clobbered by the Bears 41-3 as their defense scored twice....Browns.  They are winless.  And even after going up 14-0 on the Giants they lose 41-27.  Trent Richardson is the real deal and the only bright spot on what could be called once again the "mistake by the lake"....Chiefs.  Yes Chiefs are bad even if they only lost 9-6 to Ravens.  I just don't see them winning many games.  Titans. They are slowly become bad and are 1-4 and just got hammered by Vikings.  Which of course I picked the Titans in the upset.  Turned out to be my bonehead pick of the week....

And the Jets are in that category.  In fact they are in the Circus Category.  I mean did you see them Monday night?  They are a joke.  Players are platooning in all the time.  Half the time they don't know what play they are running until its too late.  Tebow comes in.  Tebow goes out and leaves Sanchez with impossible 3rd downs.  Then when Tebow runs a wildcat and gets a first down and almost a TD, they hurry up and try it again...THIS ISN'T HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL, where you can run  the same play over and over.  Its the NFL!!  That team is a joke.

Truly the Elite of the NFL...Damnit, 49ers are.  I mean in two games they have a combined score of 79-3!  Its hard to find a problem with this team as painfully as it is for me to say.  Texans are right there too.  Running, passing defense, they all have it together as long as Schaub keeps both ears in tact.  Falcons, still undefeated and struggled against the Redskins, but was on the road and was a good tough win that builds character.