NFL Week One, In the Books, well almost.

     The first week of the NFL season is over, except for the monday night double header, which should be interesting but some things have been learned that paint an intriguing picture for the rest of the season.

1.  The Eagles are not as good as most people thought.  Green Bay has a good team but Philly was the decided favorite coming into todays game, more troubling for than the two costly special teams turnovers was their anemic offensive preformance, scoring just 13 points, that isn't going to cut it from week to week in a tight division like the NFC East.

2.  The jury is still out on the Lions, the beat Oakland today, and they nearly blew the game to the Raiders so I am still sceptical of them winning more than 6 or 7 games this year.

3.  Brett Favre is ageless.  The Packers should just go ahead and give him a lifetime contract, since he apparently woun't retire until he dies at this rate, so save us the offseason drama.

4. New England is still really good, but they may yet have problems with Randy Moss and no one else at wide out and the injuries on the defensive side of the ball.

5a.  The Cowboys have a lot of offense, running up 45 points on the Giants tonight, but the banged up secondary is a problem.  Overall their defense needs to tighten up against the deep ball.  The 'Boys offense will be frightening once Terry Glenn comes back from his injury next week or the week after.

5b.  Tony Romo is a stud, 4 TD passes, 1 TD run, 345 yds of passing, 11 yds of rushing and 1 Int, come on Jerry, give Tony a long term contract already.

6.  Eli Manning is really good, but even that probably won't save Tom Caughlin's job, the Giants need a playoff win or Caughlin is out the door contract extension or otherwise.

7.  The Steelers are back and are looking to prove that last year was in fact an abberation.

8.  The Redskins are better, but by how much? And ditto their opponent today Miami.  Both of them palyed well with Washington wining in over time but questions remain for both teams.

9.  The Browns suck, pick a QB and stick with him, but don't play the savior from South Bend untill next year.  That year on the sidelines is one of the best ways to teach a rookie QB the NFL game.

10.  St. Lois was complacent and believed a little to much of their own hype and failed to take Carolina seriously and they lost as a result, that should not happen again.  For Carolina they need to keep it at a high level all year and not play down to their opponents level like last year, that cost them 4 games and a playoff spot.

11.  Chicago's offense is their achilles heel, they held San Diego to only 14 points, but managed just 3 themselves, this when Rex Grossman gave a good preformance, givimg up a single Int that was more the fault of the reciever than his own.  If Grossman plays well and they still can't score points they will have a long and dissapointing season.

12.  Vince Young just wins, he did it at Texas in collage and he is doing it in Tennesee with the Titans, look for the Titans to make it to the post season this year.

13.  Kansas City was mistaken in letting Trent Green go.  Green was the best of all their QB's and they will miss him for  quite a while.

14.  The Texans seem to be pulling it together after their fresh start, they convincingly beat the Chiefs, showing a smart, aggresive defense that will keep them in games that changes to their offensive should now be better equipped to capitalize on and bring home some wins.

      Overall the opening weekend played out about how one expected, with a lot of close games and a couple of real blow outs.  Now to see how the teams playing on monday fare to get a complete picture of each division and who looks like the likely winner and loser of those races now that we will have had a chance to see all 32 teams play games that actually mean something.  So on a final note I say:

GO COWBOYS!!

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