Week 2 In Brief

As always the NFL threw up more than just a 500 yard game from Eli Manning but some shock scores around the league leaving all but 4 teams with a 1-1 record. Obviously I’m going to start with my Steelers getting back to winning ways against flash in the pan Mark Sanchez and his Jets.

Without being a brilliant game (Typical Steelers Football) and a bunch of 3 & outs in the second half surely Tebow time is just around the corner. Where does this leave Jets fans?, not knowing which Sanchez is going to turn up week after week? Some say “again” the Steelers D is too old and without Harrison and Polomalu we still only gave up 10 points which is more worrying for Jets fans on the back of Sunday night.

Big Ben showed us all again why he is not considered an elite QB but he gets the job done and I’m liking the look of Dwyer for those dirty yards. I wouldn’t worry too much if I was a jets fan, after all we’re only 2 games down and they’re sitting pretty at 1-1.

The Ravens going down to the Eagles was a bonus as Andy Reid’s men go 2-0 with a 2^nd 1 point win which also made me smile. I’m not convinced the Eagles will do enough to keep Reid in a job but lady luck is certainly on their side. The Eagles D however made Flacco look human again but I’ve no doubt the Ravens will top the AFC north and give the Steelers a good kicking along the way (Twice).

We’ve already seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of Tony Romo this season which I love because I think he’s over rated anyway but what do I know about football? I thought the Cowboys would walk all over the Seahawks.

RG3 was at it again with 206 yards and 1 TD passing and 82 yards and 2 TD’s rushing yet it wasn’t enough to over come a stubborn Rams D with no other Skins player picking up more than 89 yards. It was nice to see Sam Bradford pick up over 300 yards and 3 TD’s for the Wembley bound Rams who picked up what I thought was an unlikely win.

The Cardinals turning over the Pats must be the shock of the week other than the Chargers and the Bills putting up over 30 points a piece. Go Chargers, the Bills will come back down to earth before long.

So yeah the Pats missed a game winning field goal, that’s right Stephen Gostkowski missed a 42 yard field goal, just as well I took him out of my fantasy team for David Akers. Gostkowski is the best Kicker in Patriots history but on this occasion wasn’t quite enough to pick up the W. To be fair you would have thought the Pats would have had enough Offensively to comfortably see off the Cardinals and losing Aaron Hernandez Early on didn’t help the cause of the Tight End Happy Tom Brady who still threw 316 yards. The field goal miss was reminiscent of the AFC Championship game which dearly cost the Ravens a trip to Indianapolis, I didn’t feel too sorry for the Ravens though, or the Pats on Sunday to be fair.