Week 3 NFL Games Thread

[jmt57]

This really belongs in the NFL forum, but I'll put it here for now. Post your thoughts, opinions and reactions to other NFL games in this thread.


Early Games
0-2 Dolphins at 1-1 Browns; Miami favored by 1½
2-0 Texans at 1-1 Saints; New Orleans favored by 3½
1-1 Giants at 1-1 Eagles; Philadelphia favored by 8½
2-0 Lions at 0-2 Vikings; Detroit favored by 3
1-1 Broncos at 1-1 Titans; Tennessee favored by 7
1-1 Jaguars at 0-2 Panthers; Carolina favored by 3½
1-1 49ers at 1-1 Bengals; Cincinnati favored by 2½

Late Games
0-2 Chiefs at 1-1 Chargers; San Diego favored by 14½
2-0 Jets at 1-1 Raiders; New Jersey favored by 3
1-1 Ravens at 0-2 Rams; Baltimore favored by 5½
1-1 Falcons at 1-1 Bucs; Tampa Bay favored by 1½
0-2 Cardinals at 0-2 Seahawks; Arizona favored by 3
2-0 Packers at 1-1 Bears; Green Bay favored by 4½

Sunday Night
1-1 Steelers at 0-2 Colts; Pittsburgh favored by 10½

Monday Night
2-0 Redskins at 1-1 Cowboys; Dallas favored by 4½

 

[jmt57]

Predictions:

Falcons (+1½) at Bucs
Tampa Bay's run defense is still a work in progress; I expect a big day from Michael Turner. That will open up play action passes to Roddy White and Tony Gonzalez.
5 units

Pats at Bills (over 54)
This game could have that many points on the scoreboard by half time.
5 units

Raiders (+3½) over Jets
First off don't discount the effect of coast-to-coast travel. Shonn Greene looks indecisive and Nick Mangold is out. That forces the Jets to throw the ball; I like Oakland to not only cover but to win straight up.
4 units

Pats at Bills (+7½)
Considering all the injuries on both sides of the ball I'm very tempted to predict the Bills win this one straight up; at minimum I expect them to cover.
4 units

Broncos (+7) at Titans
I'm not sold on Hasselbeck and see last week's win over the Ravens as an anomaly; Tennessee comes back to earth today.
2 units

Giants at Eagles (-8½)
The Gints have no receivers, and they have nobody in their secondary that can cover the Iggles receivers. How many picks do you figure Eli throws, about three?
1 unit

Lions (-3) at Vikings
We're now seeing why two teams gave up on McNabb. With no passing game to fear Detroit can focus on taking away Adrian Peterson, which is Minnesota's only hope.
1 unit

Dolphins (-1½) over Browns
After facing the Chargers and Pats Miami's defense gets a break going against Cleveland; now word is that Peyton Hillis is out.
1 unit

Steelers (-10½) at Colts
Normally there would be no way that I would go with double-digit favorite on the road, but I'm going against the Colts until they show a reason to not do that
1 unit

Chiefs at Chargers (-14½)
Even though SD is without Antonio Gates, and even though this is a ridiculously huge line in a division game, Kansas City is so bad I've got to go against all logic and against the Chiefs
1 unit


The rest:
Miami-Cleveland under 42½
Texans +3½; New Orleans-Houston over 51
Giants-Eagles under 47
Lions-Vikings over 44½
Broncos-Titans over 43½
Jaguars +3½; Jags-Panthers over 42½
Bengals -2½; SF-Cincy over 38½
Chiefs-Chargers under 44½
Jets-Raiders over 40½
Ravens -5½; Ravens-Rams under 42
Falcons-Bucs over 44½
Cardinals -3; Arizona-Seattle under 43
Bears +4½; Green Bay-Chicago over 45½
Steelers-Colts over 39½
Redskins +4½; Washington-Dallas under 46½

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Not getting Pats where I am.

Texans @ Saints . . . HOU has 3-and-14 inside their own 10 . . . when Andre Johnson just barely picks up a first running over Malcolm Jenkins. And now HOU is in the red zone.

 

[randomk1]

The Eagles dream team secondary sure is looking ****ty.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Not getting Pats where I am.

Texans @ Saints . . . HOU has 3-and-14 inside their own 10 . . . when Andre Johnson just barely picks up a first running over Malcolm Jenkins. And now HOU is in the red zone.

10-0 HOU after 1.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

And A$ante giving up a TD because he isn't willing to chase down the receiver. Sheli up 14-0 over the Eagles.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Saints turning into the Aint's again . . . 13-7 HOU and Brees just got picked off in Aint's territory. . . .

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Saints now leading 17-16.

As they say, it's hard to beat TDs with FGs.

 

[BaltimorePatsFan]

Eagles look awful in the redzone. Have to settle for a field goal to go up 16-14.

 

[juny]

Raiders tied up with jets at halftime. If oakland can pull this out, it won't be all bad today.

 

[TriplecHamp]

The Raiders look good on D. Fast to the ball, good pressure and they rap up.

 

[KDPPatsfan85]

Cromartie had 4 flags on him. Dirty Sanchez sacked 3 times

 

[Guts]

o line better show up against the raiders their Dline is good. I like our chances against them though they give too many penalties and free plays

 

[patsinthesnow]

Should we be worrying more about the Bills than the Jets, or too early?

Sanchez is turrrrrible

 

[DefenseRules]

The Raiders look good on D. Fast to the ball, good pressure and they rap up.

Their defense concerns me. But I think that they can go on vacation next week when our so called Defense comes to town.

 

[patsinthesnow]

Wow that was some play calling to stop the Jets agressive D.

 

[DefenseRules]

Wow that was some play calling to stop the Jets agressive D.

So thats what a real OC looks like.

 

[Banjo]

The Jets are crumbling to the Raiders. so at least there's that.

 

[juny]

Raiders on the 1. Could go up by 14. A jets loss will make up for the Pats loss a little.

 

[sbpatfan]

Meriweather with a nice play in the CHI-GB game. I forgot what a safety looked like.