Case of the Mondays: NFL Cornucopia

September 10th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanR

Catch a beat running like Randy Moss

Here’s one thing we know after opening weekend of football season: the AFC still trumps the NFC. There was the Colts dismantling of the Saints on Thursday, the Chargers handling the Bears late (more on that next) and lest we forget, the Patriots are looking rather scary. Tom Brady went off in his presser after the Pats-Jets game about Randy Moss being a leader and this and that. And although we don’t usually assimilate Moss with those kind of traits, TB might just have it right. Which, I’m quite alright with. Straight cash, homie.

The Bears are who we thought they were

Which is to say, they are a squad too heavily reliant on their defense. It works, up to a point. No matter how good your D plays (Bears worked over LT for much of the game and came up with some key stops. OK, fine. Tommie Harris was offsides.) if your offense can only muster three lousy points on the road against a Charger team with an incredibly potent offense, things probably aren’t going to work out in your favor.

Also, you must, I mean must watch this first video here with Mike Brown at the end. (I tried to swipe it off there and put it on YouTube to no avail. If you are reading this in real-time it should still be there at that link.) Guy is such a fireplug for Chicago’s D and it stings even more seeing him breakdown like that after he talked about his knee sprain. Get well soon, MB.

In Praise of Brett Favre

Sure, his offseason “will he or won’t he” comeback tactics were a little annoying, (as is the way every broadcaster is in love with him) but I’m going to enjoy watching Favre play this season. It’s not that he’ll be particularly brilliant or that he still possesses the same cannon arm. (His numbers from yesterday were somewhat tame.)It’s that, in what is now his 17th season in the league, to see a guy that old still playing at a pretty high level (those two passes in the third quarter were rather fantastic) is special.

Maybe he only came back to make sure he’d break a few more all-time QB records. Who knows. Frankly, I don’t care. As a Bears fan, I can admit the Favre is a dude who loves to play and he’ll be making plays this season a guy his age should not. In that, I can sit back and revel in.