I feel like it's this way every year. Week 1 is such a crapshoot - every team has such turnover, and it's almost never as good or bad as the pre-season guesses. Even if there aren't a lot of upsets, there end up being a lot of unexpectedly-close games.
Thanks to a few upsets and the Colts/Texans tie, 61/100 of the people in my survivor pool are already out. Luckily I took the Ravens in week one, so I still have a shot.
From my group chat with a guy who lost by 90 something points in fantasy: "Week 1 was so bad, my fantasy team resembled my reality sex life."
I don't know if y'all watched the game tonight, and I don't think Herbie or Michaels mentioned it. But, the interception turning point in Chiefs-Chargers had a fascinating moment. Chargers TE Everett had two catches in a row, the second one a long gainer that put the Bolts inside the 5 yd line. When he got up, he immediately motioned to the sideline "I need a breather" but instead, the Chargers went hurry-up, Everett ran a tired route, Watson jumps it, and gets a 95-yd TAINT. Everett didn't even bother to try and stop Watson and in the replay can be seen in the background ignoring the play and focusing on picking up his mouthpiece or something he dropped., It was a little nuance, but changed the whole game.
Yeah, that was a colossal error. We were loaded seeing it in real time, then seeing them go hurry up Instead of pulling him. But then throwing to him after that? My only guess is Herbert didn’t get the signal that he was gassed. Completely unnecessary pick. That aside, there were some terrible plays that also decided the game- the offensive PI that got called as illegal contact turned into seven for the chiefs, some egregious missed penalties against the chiefs, and like five ridiculously close almost turnovers. I LOVED watching kelce get manhandled and slammed by Derwin, even though that’s a textbook penalty. Also, it was dumb to keep Herbert in. That being said, that man is a god. That sequence of being unable to run one wide open yard for a first because of pain and then throwing a 40 yard dart on the money was just insane.
What a crazy come back by the Dolphins. I thought they were going to lose by 35 points the way the first half ended.
Wow. Was watching Red Zone while cooking some dinner and that turned into watching the end of the Cardinals game. Crazy! What a great ending to the game.
Jets ending, Dolphins ending and Cardinals ending were all great. What a day! Even the Falcons almost pulled off a miracle.
plus the cowboys sent bengals to 0-2 on a game winning 50 yarder, while making burrow watch most of the game from his back
Bills OC losing his mind at the end of the games is hilarious. https://twitter.com/TrainIsland/status/1574130676521222148?cxt=HHwWiIC-wdPgt9grAAAA
Pretty sure it was the guy sitting up top on the right that did that. He pulls his headphones off and moves out of the picture right before it happens.
Last night's game was up there with the worst games of all time - the futility by both QBs/offenses was legendary. Al Michaels sounded like he was reading from a phone book by the end of the game.
It needed the Manning Cast. It was the worst football game I can ever remember watching. And yet I couldn’t look away. Both of those teams spent money and draft picks on those QBs. It really makes the GMs from Seattle and Atlanta look amazing.
reminder that Wilson has a quarter billion dollar, 5-year extension coming. Once he finishes his current contract.
The Colts gave up just a third round pick and I don't think Ryan is even in the top-10 for yearly spend for the 2 years left on his contract, so it's hard for me to fault them too much. Ryan looks like ass, but they took a shot and it's a short term mistake. Broncos paid 2 firsts, 2 seconds, a fifth, and two players, then promptly signed Wilson to the #2 highest (yearly) contract in the league before he stepped on the field. If they cut him in 2026, they'll still count something like $26m in dead money. It's absolute carnage. I know there's a lot of football to be played, Hackett looks like he's so far in over his head that he could get fired mid-season so that isn't helping, the team keeps tripping over their own dicks even outside of Wilson playing badly, so... lots could change for the Broncos. But right now this looks like a, "set the franchise back 5 years" type of move.
Next week's Thursday night game: Washington Commanders vs. Chicago Bears. The NFL is giving it to Jeff Bezos good and hard.