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 Colts continue to roll.  Today was the suddenly surging Titans.  We all know the Titans story at this point.  13-3 last year, this year they started 0-6.  Kerry Collins gets benched and Vince Young returns!  They Titans go on to win the next 5 games.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah…  The Titans are a really good team.  They are a hell of a lot better than the 5-6 record going into today’s game.  We know this.  We get it.  However, today they were to meet division foes, the Indianapolis Colts!

Now I wasn’t there to here him say anything, but Peyton seemed to have a wild look in his eye when he took to the field.  You knew he was thinking of a particular type of beat down he wanted to hand the Titans today.

This wild eyed look does not bode well for the Titans when Peyton is ready to spank a team.

Joseph Addai understood the message and ran for 79 yards on 21 attempts.  he scored 2 touchdowns.  Here is Joseph posing after touchdown number one in the end zone.

Joseph looks like he on a new weight training program.  Looking good Joe!

At this point, the Titans realized that winning this game was futile.  They simply lined up for a spanking.  They presented bum…

When Titans bum presented itself, the Colts obliged and placed the Titans in the position.

At one point in the second quarter it looked like the Titans were starting to enjoy the beating they were taking.  Spanking then commenced.

This looks painful.  Then the Colts defense stopped the mighty Lendale White at the goal line.

Lendale looks like he is enjoying this.  You know not to digress from this riveting game, but I drafted Lendale in the second round of my fantasy league.  Talk about a bust this year.  I had to drop him in week 5.  Anyway, no one cares about my fantasy team.  Back to the game!

Mercilessly the half ended and the Colts up 24-10.  Game plan for the second half was pretty simple.  Run the ball and let the defense do what it does best, shut it down.

Scoring-wise it was pretty uneventful.  What was great to see was the Colts defense looking playoff ready.  This makes Coach Caldwell very happy.  Check out the look on his face during the second half.

He is positively giddy with how great this defense has been playing.

The Colts defeated the Titans 27-17.

After the game, the Colts went to a local club to do some dancing to celebrate the win.  They look really happy.

Poor Jeff Fisher stayed in his hotel room wondering what it was like to feel like a winner…

Next week the Colts take on the Denver Broncos which should prove to be a better game than this one.

I started off hating this guy but the more I see his witty and abrasive style, I like him more and more with each passing moment.  I would rather of seen the Giants walk out of Mile High Stadium with a win but we can’t always get what we want.

The NFL Network, while the greatest network in broadcasting might want to invest in a 8 second delay so moments like these can be avoided.

Check out Josh McDaniels trying to get the team going in the right direction.

What was it? – Undefeated Broncos travel to Baltimore to play a very angry Ravens team.

How did it go? – The Ravens have lost some games recently.  By lost, I mean in the last few seconds of the game.  Vikings, Bengals and Patriots all sealed victories over the Raven in the last minute of each game.  Today was the, “not in our house game.”  Raven spanked the Broncos hard today.  I think the Broncos liked it.

Kudos – The Ravens defense.  My goodness.  The Broncos crossed into Ravens territory only 3 times, and only once into the red zone.

Jeers – Not getting Brandon Marshall the ball.  The Broncos need to realize a simple equation:  Jabar Gaffney = Not a threat.

Moving forward – Broncos host the Steelers on Monday Night Football whilst the Ravens travel to Cincinnati to extract revenge on a Bengals team that beat them at home in the last minute of the game.

I might of said this about Josh McDaniels before the season started.

I might of said this about Josh McDaniels after Week 1 of the season.

Man, I hate this guy.

I guess you would classify myself as a Josh McDaniels “hater”.  I cheered for Jay Culter as he escaped and rooted for Brandon Marshall to make a similar exit before the season started.  Not that I care for Culter at all, in fact F that guy, he’s a whiny little bitch who can’t win big games under pressure.  Brandon however, is on my fantasy team and the thought of keeping him with Kyle Orton as the quarterback brought great pain to my team.  I think it was Josh’s smug attitude that really threw me off of liking the guy.  Say what you will about Denver, Mike Shanahan was and still will be a top rated coach in the NFL.  That’s a big pair of shoes for Josh to fill.

Beating Cincinnati in a fluke win was ugly.  It really didn’t show much of the team in week one.  Then beating Cleveland, Oakland, and a bad Dallas team over the next three weeks really didn’t make me respect him or his team too much.

However, in the last two weeks a win over the Patriots and last night’s win over division rival Chargers brings us to this moment.

Josh, I wanted you to fail like no other coach who has ever been in the head coach position in the NFL.  At this point you have shown that you are a really good coach capable of great things.  While I disagree with your cheeky and abrasive coaching style, I do believe that Denver has most definitely improved at the head coach position.  Please accept my apology.

As of last night, the Josh McDaniels era Denver Broncos now stand undefeated at 6-0.  Next week the Broncos take on the douche bags better known as the Baltimore Ravens.  Best of luck to you Josh and your team.

Developing…

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…

The Colts could use a guy like Brand… Oh yeah… that’s right.

Feel the Bengals not catching a break again.

Aside from all the obvious jokes about New Jersey (What’s that smell?), Colts rookie wide receiver, Taj Smith tells tales of his youth growing up in beautiful scenic Newark, New Jersey.  Click this link to read about the shootings, burning and gang violence.  You read stories like this and you only want to root for a guy like Taj.  Here’s to hoping he’ll make the team.

A few updates from around the NFL:

1.  Kyle Orton is giving Denver fans fits.

I used this link to show the dark room of the Denver man who watched this PASS FAIL in silence.

And not to be a Orton hater, although I think with Denver’s choices at the Quarterback position (Start Simms you buffons) is ultra-mega limited.  What you have here is Kyle Orton’s highlight film, while not 100% terrible, it is marred by his bonehead left handed throw (he’s a right handed thrower) to Seattle’s Defense.  I’m not even sure that whiny bitch Jay Culter could throw a pass that bad even if he tried.

Denver – Don’t fret!  You have a good shot at drafting Tim Tebow next year.

2. The Jets will be starting rookie Mark Sanchez.  That’s dirty.

3.  I have full on man love for Drew Brees.  He’s the only quarterback in the league who has put Jeremy Shockey in his place.  Think about it.  Last year Brees snapped at Shockey on the sideline, taking his ego down to a reasonable level.  Coupled with Jeremy’s injuries from last season, maybe he finally figured out that team chemistry is kind of  important.  Jeremy even showed up to training camp?!?!?!?!?!?!  He even showed up to practices that were not required.  Let’s file this under douche bag grows up.  Kudos Drew on teaching Shockey that there is no “I” in team.

4.  I’ve been watching The Cincinnati Bengals on HBO’s Hard Knocks series.  Definitely check out the HBO trailer.  They edited this team together on this commercial for the show and made them look like a good, solid, competitive team.  Don’t buy into the hype.  They are still in the same division with the Steelers and Ravens.  They are going to be lucky if they win 6 games this year.

From time to time I’ll be keeping a real time top 5 on who is going to draft Tim Tebow.  This first top 5 is working off of last years stats and the first 2 weeks of Preseason.

Tim Tebow Sweepstakes

1.  Denver

2. Cincinnati – C’mon guys… Carson Palmer, while a good quarterback is a mess.

3. Tampa Bay

4. Buffalo

5. San Francisco

Do you think Josh McDaniel was really nervous for his first preseason game and decided to wear a diaper for protection or did he foolishly wear his regular undies only to stain them as Denver Broncos quarterback of the future and Chicago Bears castoff Kyle Orton too to the field?  It has to be a never racking experience as you trade away a quarterback with a cannon for a arm, decent leadership skills, liked by the people who live in the city of Denver and respected by his teammates is traded to the Chicago Bears and in return you get a man who looks as if he struggling to find the laces on the ball so he can throw the ball straight.

Kyle showed off his stellar quarterback skills quickly as he threw for 3 interceptions in the first half.  The third stringers picking off these “passes” for the San Francisco 49′ers have enough proof to go to head coach Mike Singletary and at the very least make a very compelling argument to leap frog the 49′ers second stringers tonight.  It was one hay-maker after another tonight for Kyle Orton.

If it hasn’t sunk in yet Broncos fans, let’s take a look at this very simple fact:  Your team traded Jay Culter for the mystical magical Kyle Orton.

Check out this one Broncos fan and his plea to fix the team.

www.firejoshmcdanielsnow.com

Kyle’s debut:  Fail.