Thursday, October 18, 2007

NFL after week 6

I think maybe we should just end the season now and give the Lombardi trophy to the Patriots. They are far and away the best team in the NFL. New England has scored 230 points so far this season, an average of 38 points per game, which is 27 points more than the next highest scoring team. And who was that next highest scoring team you might ask? Well that would be the Dallas Cowboys, the team that New England just spanked Sunday night by a score of 48-27. Oh yeah, they were also considered to be the best team in the NFC. The best in the NFC? That's like being the tallest midget -- who cares??? Tell me which other team has a prayer of beating the Patriots?

The 5-1 Packers? Um, no. They aren't that good. True, Brett Favre looks rejuvenated and is playing great football. But their defense I don't think is that great and his receiving core still isn't very good. Donald Driver is a stud but Jennings looks like he's regressed (could be due to his constant injury problems) and James Jones started off well but fumbled a couple times against the Bears and didn't do much the following game against the Skins.

The 4-2 Giants? Yeah, I don't think so. They're 4-0 since and 0-2 start but we've seen this before. I saw a stat the other day that the Giants have started 4-2 the last 4 years and only had one winning year overall. Nice coaching job there Mr. Coughlin. Eli Manning looks like he might finally be coming into his own and Plaxico Burress is starting to earn some of the ridiculous money paid to him. Burress has more than 500 yards and 8 TDs so far this season. The Giants also got Brandon Jacobs back to throw his 260 pounds around. But I'm still not sold on their defense. Strahan is old and while Umenyiora is a horse, he doesn't have many stats outside of the Philly game. Plus I think their corners aren't too good; any team that's keeping RW McQuarters as a corner has issues.

The 4-2 Panthers? Vinny Testaverde - enough said.

The only team that has a chance is in the same conference. The Super Bowl champion Colts are the leagues only other undefeated team through week 6. They still have a fantastic offense as shown two weeks ago against Tampa. With Marvin Harrison and Joseph Addai on the bench with injuries, some guy named Kenton Keith rushed for 121 yards and had 2 TDs while Peyton Manning had three different receivers with 7 catches. Their defense is still suspect and Bob Sanders continues to get injured. Do they have enough defense to hang with the Pats?

What do you think?

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