Tebow Train rolls through the Steel Curtain, Drew Brees tames the Lions from Motown, and a (Crimson) Tidal Wave crashes through New Orleans.
Yet another very predictable week, the Steelers blew out Denver and Tim Tebow 42-9, the Lions pull out a win against the grossly overrated Saints and their Quarterback Drew “the human Asterisk” Brees, and LSU falls to Alabama who were a slightly worse team.
Not so much. Tim Tebow pulls out the best game of his short career, going 10 of 21 for 316 yards and 2 TD’s along with 50 yards on the ground and a TD. Which completely out dueled Big Ben Roethleisberger whose passing stats were 22 of 40 with 289 and a TD with 1 Int.
Now, the stats don’t tell the whole story, but do they ever? If Eric Decker doesn’t drop two perfect passes from Tebow then he has about a 60 percent completion percentage instead of 50. If his receivers don’t get interfered with he has about 70 percent. Now some people might say that I’m making excuses for Tebow, but honestly, is it his fault his receiver dropped two passes or that the Steelers got called for pass interference. Now I’ve seen a lot of people saying Tebow shouldn’t get as much credit as it was all Demayrius Thomas. Are you kidding me!? Who threw the ball to him?
Now, if I told you a team who averaged 41 points a game at home was playing a team that backed into the playoffs as the number six seed that had a problem with committing to many penalties at the worst times, you would probably give the edge to the team that averaged 41 points... Unless that team is the New Orleans Saints and you work for ESPN. All I heard all week was how the Detroit Lions were going to pull off an upset of the Saints because Ndamakong Suh was playing this time. Really, a defensive tackle makes that much of a difference? Of course no one mentioned how the Saints have the best interior line in the NFL or at the very least the best guard tandem in the NFL. Well regardless of what the so called experts think Drew Brees had such an amazing game that honestly, I think Green Bay and Aaron Rodgers would have had a hard time keeping up with them. Not only did the Saints destroy Detroit through the air with 466 yards passing, but also on the ground with 168 yards rushing. It was an all-around thrashing and I expect nothing less against the 49ers in Candlestick this week.
And finally, the part of my blog where the “experts” on ESPN were right, somehow. Despite being overmatched in what should have been a home game, Alabama was able to not only win, but destroy LSU who looked like a JV team playing against the varsity on offense. On defense they didn’t play bad but Bama’s offense played better with A.J. McCarron playing like a man possessed. Now, had Les Miles played Jarrett Lee in the second half, maybe it would have been a different story, but it all felt like Bama was just the better prepared team.
Alright so the experts got one right for once, congrats ESPN.
Yet another very predictable week, the Steelers blew out Denver and Tim Tebow 42-9, the Lions pull out a win against the grossly overrated Saints and their Quarterback Drew “the human Asterisk” Brees, and LSU falls to Alabama who were a slightly worse team.
Not so much. Tim Tebow pulls out the best game of his short career, going 10 of 21 for 316 yards and 2 TD’s along with 50 yards on the ground and a TD. Which completely out dueled Big Ben Roethleisberger whose passing stats were 22 of 40 with 289 and a TD with 1 Int.
Now, the stats don’t tell the whole story, but do they ever? If Eric Decker doesn’t drop two perfect passes from Tebow then he has about a 60 percent completion percentage instead of 50. If his receivers don’t get interfered with he has about 70 percent. Now some people might say that I’m making excuses for Tebow, but honestly, is it his fault his receiver dropped two passes or that the Steelers got called for pass interference. Now I’ve seen a lot of people saying Tebow shouldn’t get as much credit as it was all Demayrius Thomas. Are you kidding me!? Who threw the ball to him?
Now, if I told you a team who averaged 41 points a game at home was playing a team that backed into the playoffs as the number six seed that had a problem with committing to many penalties at the worst times, you would probably give the edge to the team that averaged 41 points... Unless that team is the New Orleans Saints and you work for ESPN. All I heard all week was how the Detroit Lions were going to pull off an upset of the Saints because Ndamakong Suh was playing this time. Really, a defensive tackle makes that much of a difference? Of course no one mentioned how the Saints have the best interior line in the NFL or at the very least the best guard tandem in the NFL. Well regardless of what the so called experts think Drew Brees had such an amazing game that honestly, I think Green Bay and Aaron Rodgers would have had a hard time keeping up with them. Not only did the Saints destroy Detroit through the air with 466 yards passing, but also on the ground with 168 yards rushing. It was an all-around thrashing and I expect nothing less against the 49ers in Candlestick this week.
And finally, the part of my blog where the “experts” on ESPN were right, somehow. Despite being overmatched in what should have been a home game, Alabama was able to not only win, but destroy LSU who looked like a JV team playing against the varsity on offense. On defense they didn’t play bad but Bama’s offense played better with A.J. McCarron playing like a man possessed. Now, had Les Miles played Jarrett Lee in the second half, maybe it would have been a different story, but it all felt like Bama was just the better prepared team.
Alright so the experts got one right for once, congrats ESPN.
