Lenny from Indy

Stop bitching.  The first string Colts played for 2 quarters and change, and only put up 15 points.  It’s not like they never saw the field.  They had time to play.

Would you rather change places with the fans of these teams?

1. St. Louis Rams – 60 more minutes and they have the first drat pick.

2. Washington Redskins – All the money spend on all of those players and  they sit at the bottom of the NFC East.

3. Chicago Bears – The interception riddled QB with no one to throw the ball to?

4. Tampa Bay Buccaneers – The sharp decline this team has felt since 2002 is comical.

5. Buffalo Bills – Been a joke since the music  city miracle.

6. New York Giants – Just played themselves out of the playoffs.

7. Seattle  Seahawks – Mora Jr is the coach.  We’ve seen that movie here with Mora Senior.

8. Cleveland Browns – Nothing good comes from or out of Cleveland.

9. Oakland Raiders – Commitment to Excellence.  Just Win Baby. Buzz phrases + bad drafting = failure.

10. Detroit Lions – Fail. Abort. Restart. Repeating that cycle since 1997.

The Colts are first place in the AFC South, number 1 seed in the AFC, and the road to the Super Bowl comes through Indy.  Take a breath you spoiled brats.

The Vikings nation is loving that former Packers quarterback Brett Favre is now wearing the might purple.

Proof positive is now Vikings fans are writing bad tribute songs.  That’s always the sign of man love for Brett.  They didn’t write songs like this before Brett.  One wishes they don’t write these songs now.

Chad Ochocinco tricked the sports world by planting Bengals fans in one of the end zones so he could do a “Lambeau Leap” after he scored a touchdown!  He found them on twitter!  He’s so bad!  We all fell for it!  Awesome Chad!  YOU TRICKED US ALL CHAD!

Hey Chad, Here’s a trick for you to overcome… Rob Johnson (who didn’t have to change his name from the common “Johnson” to the uncommon “Ochocinco” has a Super Bowl ring and you seem to not have one.  At this point in football history Ron Johnson is the top Johnson.  Tweet that Ocho.

Isn’t there an old saying that says, “act like you’ve been there before?”  I’m thinking the Jets have lost this saying.  I get that 8 years is a long time to beat the New England Patriots in your own home stadium.  I’ve been with the same girl since 1997.  It took until 2002 before I got to have sex with her.  What can I say, I move slow.  To issue a football for fans to buy is utterly ridiculous?  Look at this thing….

As a franchise, do we have nothing else to hang the proverbial “hat on”?  Act like you’ve been there before.  Besides…. IT’S WEEK 2!!!!  You still have a lot of games to play.

Uh oh… Adrian Peterson was limited in practice today.  He was listed on the injury reports.  Fantasy football owners everywhere are holding candlelight vigils.  More than likely they are crying.  Meanwhile, everyone who has Chester Taylor and Percy Havin are dancing in the streets.  Isn’t it weird how people whose parents didn’t give you the genetic makeup to be big enough to play in the NFL play fantasy football so we all know what its like to be Jerry Jones without the gobs of cash?  I know of what I speak of people.  I am a fantasy football player.  Back in the real world, I’m almost positive that Brad Childress has now switched to ultra absorbent diapers.  Brett Favre was wandering the streets screaming, “I CAN’T THROW THE BALL 35 YARDS DOWN FIELD ANYMORE!  I NEED ADRIAN BACK!  ADRIAN!  ADRIAN!  ADRIAN!”

Maybe it went like that… not sure.

Also, when you get a chance out Matt’s blog.  He is JMV’s producer at WNDE.  I bust his chops on how lame his blog is everyday.  He hates me because I’m shorter than him and serving him hot blog death.  This post Matt put up is stellar.  Kudos to Matt.  Kudos to Matt’s family and, future generations of Matt’s offspring.

We observed week 2 of the NFL season.  Here’s the valuable lessons learned.

The Jets beat the Patriots.  I’m not making that up.  It’s the first time in 8 years that the Jets beat the Patriots at home (well the Jets play in Giants Stadium… I guess its home… I dunno).  The city of New York celebrated the epic win by bathing the top of the Empire State building with a green colored light.  We knew that Rex Ryan had a plan.  We talked about this earlier in the week.  Check out what I said about Rex Ryan.

The Patriots are no longer one of the Elite teams in the NFL.  America is happy, very happy.

Bears beat the Steelers in Soldier Field.  Parts of Chicago feel happiness.  The rest of the city wishes the Cubs were still in the playoff hunt.  Steelers kicker Jeff Reed looked sick on the sidelines as he watched Bear kicker Robbie Gould kick the winning field goal.  Jeff missed two kicks today.  The good people of Pittsburgh would like a shot at kicking him today.

Matt Ryan of the Atlanta Falcons will reign supreme in Atlanta for a long time.  “Matty Ice” as he has been nicknamed by teammates, has a unique skill set that will be able to take Atlanta far into the playoffs this year and for many years to come.  Can they bring back the “Dirty Bird” when they score touchdowns?  That ruled back in the day.

Detroit still hasn’t won a game in over a season.  Matt Stafford looks a lot like Peyton Manning circa his first year in Indianapolis.  Flashes of brilliance with a bunch of interceptions and losses.  Can Detroit turn around the massive amounts of failure and damage that Matt Millen inflicted on the Lions?  Check out this guy, here is his “Post game” thoughts on his Lions after today’s big loss to the Minnesota Vikings.

Meet Brett Favre, game manager.  I like this Favre better than the “gunslinger”.  With weapons like Adrian Peterson and Percy Harvin he really has no excuses to make silly mistakes.  Plus Favre’s success kills Packers fans.  It’s fun to watch them squirm, whine and complain.

The Cincinnati Bengals and Buffalo Bills won!  Seriously.  The Bengals had the tougher road as they had to beat the Green Bay Packers.  Buffalo played Tampa Bay.  Tampa Bay needs to rebuild badly.  They have Kellen Winslow.  That’s about all you would want to keep on that team.

The Cardinals bounced back from last weeks loss to wallop the Jaguars, 37-17.  The Jaguars will draft Tim Tebow in the first round in next year’s NFL draft if the ownership would like to stay in Jacksonville.  Do I have to remind you that all of the Jaguars home games are blacked out because they haven’t sold out one of the teams eight home games?  Poor David Garrard isn’t going to know what hit him.  He is a great player among many underachieving players.  A change of scenery might do David good.  Tampa Bay anyone?

Jake Delhomme had a bounce back game.  25 completions for 308 yards, one touchdown and one interception.  However, the Panthers still lost to the Atlanta Falcons.  Maybe a change of scenery will do Jake good.  Tampa Bay anyone?

San Francisco’s offensive can be summed up in two words, Frank Gore.  16 rushes for 207 yards.  Two touchdowns.  It was like playing Madden on the beginner setting.

Matt Hasselback left the game with a rib injury before the half as the Seahawks went down pretty easy after that to the San Francisco 49′ers Gore’s.

Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saint used the Philadelphia Eagles as a doormat today.  I think the Eagles liked it.  Check the highlights…

The Texans beat the Titans.  Lots of offense, whoo-hoo!  The Titans are 0-2.

Who would have thought that the Denver Broncos would be 2-0?  With all of the change and drama they have had in this past off season is pretty amazing.  However, the Broncos beat the Bengals and Browns.  We’re not talking about stellar teams here.  Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels hasn’t had a real test yet.  We took a few shots at Josh’s witty and abrasive style on the blog.  We’ll have to readdress Broncos head coach after he beats a strong team.

The Redskins/Rams game was so overwhelmingly bad that it’s not worth talking about except to tell you that the Redskins won.

In a similar story, The Raiders beat the Chiefs.  People who dress up as Star Wars characters are happy this week.

Phillip Rivers threw for 436 yards today!  Fantasy football WIN!  However, the Chargers lost to the Baltimore Ravens.  Reality FAIL!

The Baltimore Ravens are the team to beat in the AFC North.  Ray Lewis still has mad skills.

Have you heard what they call the new Dallas Cowboys stadium?  Giants Stadium South.  Big win for the G-Men.  A devastating, historical loss for Jerry Jones and his Cowboys team in the new 2 billion dollar stadium that opened its doors to 100,000+ people last night.

Bonus stupidity:  Totally unrealated to week 2 NFL action check out Jake Delhomme and Steve Smith in a commercial.

A commercial with Jake only…

and finally a commercial with Jake and Charlie Daniels.

I’m not sure what to say either…

Brett Favre.  Funny.

Forget the haters.  Tim Tebow is a top NFL Prospect.  While I respect a guy like Mel Kiper, I must politely scream out to Mel, ‘NO MEL!  TIM TEBOW WILL BE A GREAT NFL QUARTERBACK!”

You talk about leaders in the game, Tim Tebow has been a leader since he played high school football.  The old Raiders saying is “Commitment to Excellence.”  Tim Tebow is excellence.

Every year a different NFL team hits the skids.  Every year owners, general managers and coaches are on the hot seat.  Some one is going to be in the top 5 of the draft next year.  Tim Tebow is perpetual combustible energy.  This is something you do not walk away from or left slip to the 5th round of the NFL draft like some of the haters are saying.

Here is this weeks not so scientific top 5 list of who should look at… nay, should be hoping that they are able to land the mighty Tim Tebow in the 2010 NFL draft.

1) Buffalo Bills – Let’s see… Owner really would like to see the team get back to the playoffs.  He’s 97.  Talk about a team that has been failing its owner this decade.  Let’s make Ralph Wilson happy one more time.  The last trip to the playoffs I believe was in January of 2000.  Does anyone remember The Music City Miracle? People in Buffalo call it, Homerun Throwback.  This team is a mess.  Former quarterback, JP Losman now will be playing for the Las Vegas team in the UFL.  Current quarterback Trent Edwards has had a terrible preseason.  He hasn’t looked the same since his week 5 or 6 of last season concussion.  The teams only upgrade was a one year contract for wide receiver Terrell Owens (whose VH-1 reality show is horribly underrated).  For the lovable Buffalo Bills, next year looks like a new coach will be on the horizon, which means a total cleaning out of the coaching staff and some of the horrible draft picks they have made since Jim Kelly retired.

2) Seattle Seahawks – Matt Hasselback is not going to live forever.  They have few options past him.

3) Minnesota Vikings – This might be the best team for Tim Tebow to go to next year.  if I’m right Brett Favre will collapse in the later half of the year and sadly at that point they probably will let go of Brad Childress.  That’s the real shame of the Favre acquisition.  Tebow would be an instant play maker for that team and would undo some of the damage Favre will inflict on this decent Vikings team.

4) Tampa Bay Buccaneers – They let Jeff Garcia go to the Raiders to replace him with Byron Leftwich.  Really?  Keep Tebow in Florida and let the love-fest continue.

5) Washington Redskins – Like they have better in the QB position.  Plus, the way they are headed it looks to be a bad season for the Skins.

Bonus Tebow!!!

Tebow puts Mel Kiper in his place last year.  I can’t wait for the rematch.

Tim Tebow Zone – Ground Zero for Tebow.

Florida Gators/Tim Tebow highlights.

A blackout in NFL football occurs when the team doesn’t sell every seat in the stadium.  According to NFL rules the game is taken off local television.

Last year only Oakland, Detroit and St. Louis had 9 games between them go into the dreaded blackout. I reckon we can see a direct cause and effect. Cause: All three teams weren’t that good last season. All three teams haven’t been competitive teams for the last few seasons.  Detroit being the big winner of these three teams due to the fact that they didn’t even win a game last season.  I haven’t done the research but I’m sure they didn’t blackout games against really good teams.  The point here is that, the formula is pretty simple:  Bad team for a few years = No ticket sales.  Right?

Well  it turns out the 9 games blacked out from last year is only one less than the eight regular-season games the Jacksonville Jaguars alone are expecting to have blacked out this year.  The Jaguars have already said that they will not sell out one game at home this season.

The NFL is not even entertaining the thought to amending the blackout rule, which has been in place for 36 years.

So the Jaguars, Lions, Raiders and Rams have ticket selling issues. Some other teams that have shown signs of having issues selling tickets include San Diego, Miami and Minnesota.  Although, more than likely Minnesota should have less issues now that they signed soon to be 40 year old former Packers/Jets princess Brett Favre.

This has always been a stupid rule. The game being blacked out doesn’t make people go to the game. You are either going, or you aren’t. No one is planning on watching football at home and then finds out the game is blacked out, gets in their car and goes and drops a few hundred to get into the game. BLACKOUT FAIL.

On a unrelated note… The name of this band is Endless Hallway.  Check out the video for the song “Cell”.  It’s not that bad.

After all the will he play or won’t he play Brett Favre signed a one year contract worth 13 million dollars with the Minnesota Vikings.

But you already knew that part of the story.

What kills me is that at his press conference where the newest Vikings player was introduced, he stated that his arm was not 100%.  The fact that the ownership and management of the fine Minnesota Vikings franchise didn’t take him out back and kick the crap out of him 70′s style is but a small miracle.

Now according to ESPN.com he thinks he has cracked ribs and it hurts when he breathes.

Last I checked, breathing is kind of important.  I have to think the Vikings front office tolerance for high maintenance quarterbacks is really being tested by Favre at this moment.

Apparently it’s not stopping Brett from playing as he played for 3 quarters last night as the Vikings took on the Texans last night in a Monday Night Football preseason matchup.

Tarvaris Jackson supposedly is the future of the franchise but the future seems to be even passing Tarvaris by at this point.

Sage Rosenfels.  I’m only but a NFL football fan, I shouldn’t be a harsh judge but let’s remember Sage’s finest quarterback moment when he had a chance to put his former team the Texans on the map a few years ago against our hometown Colts.

You remember the scene.  The Texans somehow ambushed the Colts when they walked into Houston and basically had them beaten down.  The Texans were up by 10 and less than 4 minutes to play Sage goes up instead of down and becomes a helicopter.

Not that one play decides your fate as a player or leader of a team but he had a team in the Colts that was 15 times better than the Houston Texans down and out for the count and one poor decision turned the tide of the game.  The Colts recovered the helicopter fumble and scored I believe 12 points in 4 minutes to put Sage in the land of journeyman quarterbacks.

Sidebar… this is kind of funny…. Sage inspires youtube classics.

Anyhoo…

I love the commitment that the Vikings have for that team to win and win now!  Truth is the Vikings have no Quarterback for right now.  They have basically everything else needed to be a highly competitive team in the NFL.

Brett is not your man!  Brett is for Brett and Brett only.  His motivation to play at 40 years old is out of revenge.  He wants to go up against Green Bay.  Plain and simple.  He wants to beat his old team.  The Vikings gave him 13 million dollars to have two cracks at Green Bay.  I don’t buy his, “I want to win the Super Bowl and ride off into the sunset act”, and neither should you.  He has the Super Bowl trophy, the awards, the records and the prestige that comes with his achievements.

Who loses in all this?  A few people.  Let’s make a list…

1 – Brad Childress – I have to believe that this really good low-key NFL coach has been great for the Vikings but I believe he will be let go if he does not have a DEEP playoff run.

2 – The other quarterbacks -  One year now goes by with no real development of Tarvaris Jackson.  Sage Rosenfels is still hearing helicopters in the distance.

3 – The Minnesota Vikings – They leave a huge void at the Quarterback position if Brett spends only one season in Minnesota.  As we learned with the Jets, Brett will be good enough to not give the Vikings a great draft pick.  They will have a be mid-pack pick.  They have to give up something big at that point if they want to move up in the draft but they will most definitely have to draft a quarterback.  If they don’t get a high draft pick, they potentially could have set the team back 3 years at the position because of “Operation Favre.”

4. The Fans – The Vikings fans did not ask for this, the Vikings fans should not be excited about this and the Vikings fans could be in for another season of swallowing sadness once again.

One group that doesn’t lose here are the Packers fans.  This whiny bunch of douche bags are only happy when they are the center of attention.  “The Super Bowl is named after our coach!”  No one cares.  You make it sound like he was from Green Bay.  He was born in Brooklyn, New York.  Imagine Vince’s surprise that he got a coaching gig in the land of cheese and you didn’t have a decent pizza place for him to eat a delicious slice of pizza.  Instead you immortalize cheese by making hats of it and wearing it on your head.  That’s the dumbest thing in all of sports.  Feel shame Green Bay.

If you’d like, you can go here and check out the NFL.com highlight film of Brett Favre’s time on the field last night against the Texans.  He does get sacked a few times and put a vicious crack back block on Safety Eugene Wilson.  Ummm.. yeah… crack back blocks are illegal and really bad.  Eugene left the game.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d8124baec/Brett-Favre-highlights

You would think he was the only guy to ever play the Quarterback position.

Here is a random list of 10 NFL Quarterbacks who are better than Favre.

1. Terry Bradshaw – Pittsburgh Steelers (1970-83)

2. Joe Montana – San Francisco 49ers/Kansas City Chiefs (1979-1994)

3. Dan Marino – Miami Dolphins (1983-1999)

4. Joe Namath – New York Jets/Los Angeles Rams (1965-1977)

5. Bart Starr – Green Bay Packers (1956-1971)

6. Bob Griese – Miami Dolphins (1967-80)

7. Fran Tarkenton – Minnesota Vikings/New York Football Giants (1961-1978)

8. Johnny Unitas – Baltimore Colts/San Diego Chargers (1956-1973)

9. Roger Staubach – Dallas Cowboys (1969-1979)

10. John Elway – Denver Broncos (1983-98)

Oh yeah… None of these guys were whiny bitches either…. “I’m retired…. no I’m not retired. WAH WAH WAH! ME ME ME! I I I!”

Here are 10 NFL quarterbacks in the league who are better than “Mr. I’m Back Even Though My Arm Isn’t 100%”. And, I’ll even leave anyone with the name Manning or Brady off the list.

1. Drew Brees – New Orleans Saints

2. Jay Culter – Chicago Bears

3. Kurt Warner – St. Louis Rams

4. Matt Schaub – Houston Texans

5. Ben Roethlisberger – Pittsburgh Steelers

6. Aaron Rodgers – Green Bay Packers

7. Jeff Garcia – Oakland Raiders

8. Philip Rivers – San Diego Chargers

9. Matt Ryan – Atlanta Falcons

10. Donovan McNabb – Philadelphia Eagles

And aside from Jay Culter, None of these quarterbacks are whiny little bitches either.