Peter King is an idiot, Part 3245678

Ok, Peter King release his Fine 15 today and he has Denver #1. He is so impressed with the pass rush of Denver he thinks that it makes them the best team. He says that Manning doesn't have to carry them anymore.

I am convinced he didn't watch the Denver/Baltimore game. The Broncos offense is awful. They only won because of pick six by Talib, two really long field goals that McManus could never make outside of Denver, and the fact that Flacco had no receivers.


http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2015/09/15/nfl-week-1-rankings-top-15-denver-broncos

I can't believe I actually clicked on that link.

1. It's SI, which is on the deflategate **** list.
2. It's Peter King (see #1).
3. It's the worst NFL ranking I've ever seen.

Rob0729 said:

Ok, Peter King release his Fine 15 today and he has Denver #1. He is so impressed with the pass rush of Denver he thinks that it makes them the best team. He says that Manning doesn't have to carry them anymore.

I am convinced he didn't watch the Denver/Baltimore game. The Broncos offense is awful. They only won because of pick six by Talib, two really long field goals that McManus could never make outside of Denver, and the fact that Flacco had no receivers.


http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2015/09/15/nfl-week-1-rankings-top-15-denver-broncos

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I agree about their offense, but their defense is really freaking good. But yeah, he is trolling.

Their defense is pretty good. They did what a good defense is supposed to do which is completely shut down a bad offense and Flacco was constantly getting harassed. If not for Father Time doing a number on Manning, that game would have been a blowout. That said, they definitely should not be #1.

Granted Peter King is not as an idiot as Walter at Walter Football who has dubbed Tom Brady as a "rotting corpse" who is done and can do nothing but throw check downs. And his performance on Thursday was "check down after check down" and not impressive. He ranks the Patriots 9th and brings up the cheating scandal that was proven wrong.

He is so butt hurt over Brady winning in court that he is throwing away any credibility he had to trash Brady.

Here is what Walter wrote about the Pats:

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New England Patriots (1-0) - Previously: #13 - The Patriots are back in my top 10, albeit reluctantly. Despite their victory over the Steelers, they were very underwhelming in the season opener. Their defense allowed big play after big play, while Tom Brady didn't really do anything impressive, tossing checkdown after checkdown against a defense that didn't know how to line up correctly.

Oh, and then there was the latest cheating incident...

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That explains so much... why Belichick even had a Surface, and everything. I'm actually wondering if the government seized Belichick's Surface because they thought the app could be useful to combat terrorism. It's like a very specific EMP. Belichick's not messing around!

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http://walterfootball.com/nflpowerrankings.php

In a week 1 vacuum I agree with King that it was a nice showing. However, I don't see them playing that well anymore at the end of October. Especially Ware will fade again after 5-6 games.

KontradictioN said:

Their defense is pretty good. They did what a good defense is supposed to do which is completely shut down a bad offense and Flacco was constantly getting harassed. If not for Father Time doing a number on Manning, that game would have been a blowout. That said, they definitely should not be #1.

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Not trashing the defense (it was impressive), but you are not going to win a lot of games when your offense is scoring you 9 points a game especially when 6 of the points came off of 50 yard plus field goals in Denver.

I don't have a problem with Denver being in people's top ten, but this is a QB driven league. And whether it is Manning is done or Kubiak's system is wrong for him or both, the Broncos are going nowhere with Manning playing like he did on Sunday even if this Broncos' defense rivals the 85 Bears.

So stupid... "i just saw one good showing by a team's defense, and also that team has Peyton Manning, they must be the best team ever!"

He desperately wants Peyton to get another ring. He has picked Denver to win the Superbowl ever since Manning went there.

Power Rankings in the NFL are stupid. LOL

Rob0729 said:

Granted Peter King is not as an idiot as Walter at Walter Football who has dubbed Tom Brady as a "rotting corpse" who is done and can do nothing but throw check downs. And his performance on Thursday was "check down after check down" and not impressive. He ranks the Patriots 9th and brings up the cheating scandal that was proven wrong.

He is so butt hurt over Brady winning in court that he is throwing away any credibility he had to trash Brady.

http://walterfootball.com/nflpowerrankings.php

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Unbelievable. Let's face it they're just not good anymore

I think BAL is screwed this year. Marc Trestman is THE WORST offensive coordinator in football. He makes crap so complicated. Flacco needs simple, simple, simple. Couple that with WRs that don't know the system it was a perfect storm in DEN.

DEN has a good D but they are not THAT good.

I have to admit that, as the game went on, I was rooting more and more for Denver. Manning looks marginally competitive and, like last year, I expect the defense to wear down as the year goes on. They have be #1 through the end of October for all I care, I doubt they'll be a legitimate threat come January.

Yesterday in his MMQB article, he wrote "I was born in Springfield, Mass., and lived the first 18 years of my life over the border in Connecticut, in a town called Enfield, just north of Hartford. So I’ve got some New England in my blood. And I get why the region loves the Patriots, a franchise that has brought so much pride to a six-state area. But the venom I heard and felt last midweek, in town to cover the Patriots opener, was over the top. It’s football. It’s not a war."

Oh really, Peter? You 're bothered that football fans are upset that their team's championships have been questioned and their HOF QB and coach have been labelled cheaters because of lies, anonymous sources, and false reporting?

In January he reported that he was “told reliably that . . . either 11 or 12 of New England’s footballs . . . (I hear it could have been all 12) had at least two pounds less pressure in them. All 12 Indianapolis footballs were at the prescribed level. All 24 footballs were checked by pressure gauge after the game. All 24 checked at the correct pressure.”

I realize that he has apologized for his errors and mostly come around, but perhaps he should be as upset as the fans for being used and lied to. Perhaps, he should realize the bigger story is who fed him those lies and why.

After a morning where the whole country has poles of "is Peyton done?" Ha ha, too funny, at times he was throwing helicopter balls that you would expect your 7 year old son to throw out in the backyard.

As for Brady? 4 TDs, 288 yards. 3 rooks on the oline. Yawn, unimpressive lol. My lord, what is this world coming to?

I think King thinks highly of Baltimore--ranking them 5th for whatever reason--so by extension a win by Denver is impressive in his mind.

I'm not sure I agree. I think the Baltimore D will continue to be very good, they seemingly always are, but on that side of the ball Manning looked awful, and they just lost Suggs for the season. And I just don't think the Baltimore O is at all SB caliber. Who, exactly, will be catching Flacco's jump balls this season? Forsett is a decent back but not 'Ray Rice in his prime' good. The O-line looks meh. I'm just not impressed, am I missing something?

The entire list is bad, but the Ravens at #5 gives you an idea why he has Denver at #1. Pittsburg outside the top 15 is another head-scratcher, they haven't fixed their defensive woes but starting week three, with Bell back, that offense will be scary good. That combination won them the division last year, I think they're definitely among the 15 best in the league right now.

Just as an aside: 7 of the top 9 are AFC teams. Admittedly the list is garbage, but that stacked NFC from the past half decade is no more. Some very good squads in the NFC but we're far removed from the GB/SF/SEA three-headed monster of a few seasons ago.

Patriot Missile said:

After a morning where the whole country has poles of "is Peyton done?" Ha ha, too funny, at times he was throwing helicopter balls that you would expect your 7 year old son to throw out in the backyard.

As for Brady? 4 TDs, 288 yards. 3 rooks on the oline. Yawn, unimpressive lol. My lord, what is this world coming to?

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It's propaganda. That's the world we are living in. We have no actual truthful reporting anymore, in any circumstance.

Isn't that the same Broncos defense that Brady shred last year?

NashuaPats said:

But the venom I heard and felt last midweek, in town to cover the Patriots opener, was over the top. It’s football. It’s not a war."

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These media guys (who can write anything they want any time they want and think nothing of trashing someone's reputation based on little or no real information) are astoundingly thin-skinned.

NashuaPats said:

Yesterday in his MMQB article, he wrote "I was born in Springfield, Mass., and lived the first 18 years of my life over the border in Connecticut, in a town called Enfield, just north of Hartford. So I’ve got some New England in my blood. And I get why the region loves the Patriots, a franchise that has brought so much pride to a six-state area. But the venom I heard and felt last midweek, in town to cover the Patriots opener, was over the top. It’s football. It’s not a war."

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Agreed that instead of complaining about Patriots fans being mad, King should think about why we're mad

Maybe it's because:

• The jets flunkies working in the NFL conspired with Patriots' rivals to set up a bogus sting operation on the Patriots
• The jets flunkies then put out false information from the failed sting which set off a public firestorm against the Patriots
• The failed sting operation dragged Brady's name through the mud and forced him to spend his off season in court
• The NFL took draft picks (again) from the Patriots for no reason
• The NFL continues to have their puppet station ESPN report unproven deflamatory stories about the Patriots
• The entire saga has attempted to diminish the accomplishments of the players and coaches of one of the greatest franchises in NFL history

So, sorry that we're a little angry, Peter