Mondays are rough, I know. But at least we have the weekly gift that is Peter King's column to jump-start the week!
My take on this week, and the first half of this NFL season, is this: The good teams, and the pleasant surprises, are the teams that plan for the future while trying to win championships today.
[This is what I'm talking about! Love it. Petey never fails to blow my mind. The good teams are the teams that try to win?? That's genius. No. INgenius! See? I told you Mondays weren't so bad.]
Todd Herremans with a touchdown catch. Brent Celek with a 100-yard receiving day. That's some wacky stuff Andy Reid did with his tight ends Sunday in Seattle.
[I know! THROWING to his tight ends! How does Reid think of this stuff?!?]
Three-hundredth career pick by Favre, and from the looks of him after the game, he didn't much care.
[Umm, he didn't seem too bothered by the first 299 (neither did the media). So why start fretting now? I mean, he's already got the most ever. I think he even threw an INT in that pick-up touch football game in his Wrangler commercial.]
[Matt] Ryan's mastery of the Atlanta offense is Year 2 Peyton Manning-like. That's no exaggeration.
[And by "no exaggeration" Petey obviously means "a sizeable exaggeration." Let's take Ryan's projected full-season numbers and compare them to Year 2 Peyton Manning's numbers:
Ryan: 3322 yards, 58.6 completion %, 18 TDs, 10 INTs, 85.4 QB rating.
Y2 Peyton: 4135 yards, 62.1 completion %, 26 TDs, 15 INTs, 90.7 QB rating.]
"They are an awesome duo," Collins said over the cell afterward.
[Sometimes I wish that Petey and I could talk over the cell too....]
Detroit defensive coordinator Joe Barry, under attack for having the worst statistical defense in the league this season, told Lions beat writers the other day that Detroit's 35 worst defensive snaps in their first seven games this year had yielded 1,202 total yards.... To illustrate, let's look at the worst two defenses in the NFL through eight weeks in yards per game, Detroit (32) and Kansas City (31), and see what would happen to each if their most generous 35 defensive snaps were removed from their total yards allowed....]
[It only took several hundred words, but there ya go, Petey! A well-thought out analysis based in objective evidence to call out a coach (Detroit DC Joe Barry) on a truly absurd comment. Proud of you, guy. I bet Petey finishes this segment with a real zinger to put an exclamation point on things....]
Barry is a good defensive coach.
[lkjhadsfoijuasdfkja...... Sorry. I just blacked out and banged my forehead on the keyboard.]
The smartest pro football player about college football players is St. Louis strong safety Corey Chavous, who is Kiperish in his study of the college game. After watching Florida's 49-10 wipeout of Georgia Saturday, he said of the Bulldog quarterback who threw three interceptions: "I'm still convinced Matthew Stafford is a number-one-overall-type pick -- Jeff George with a team-first attitude. He is going to be a good pro."
[Since when is comparing a QB to Jeff George a COMPLIMENT? But yeah, Corey Chavous is right. If George hadn't been so selfish and concerned with padding his stats, he would have completed waaaay more than 57.9% of his career passes. This one is definitely going in Stafford's scrapbook.]
I think this is the biggest mystery of the first half of the NFL season: Why can't the Jaguars run the ball? Certainly the porous guard play....
[Mystery solved??]
Halloween notes.... We had a Sarah Palin and a Carson Palmer and a bottle of mustard among the 240 door-knocking guests at the King house in New Jersey....
[Some kid dressed up as Carson Palmer? Weird.]
See you tomorrow, Petey!
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