NFL 2011 Week 5

Man, what a game tonight. That's a ton of heart and determination by the Packers' defense to come back like that on the road. 25 unanswered points and Rodgers ties a franchise record with passes completed to twelve different receivers.

Elliottx wrote:

Well Tebow was certainly not a good QB, but he did appear to be a very serviceable wildcat QB. The interesting thing that people should be talking about is how much the rest of the Bronocos stepped up once Orton went out. The Broncos D was considerably more aggressive and had new life in that second half. Not too forget the o-line play where Tebow had 5+ seconds each time to miss his targets. Not to be a Tebow-apologist but it certainly seemed like the Bronoco WRs had trouble catching his throws. I'm not a throwing expert so I'll let someone smarter then me say it was because Tebow threw a wobbly ball or it was a team-wide case of the dropsies.

It's clear Tebow energized the offense (and stadium), but I wouldn't read too much into his passing just yet. The Broncos receivers were dropping balls all game plus Tebow rarely threw a proper ball, so it's hard to know just what was happening. It's not like he was getting reps with the first team (see: issues with the center).

He's fantasy football junk if he does start as he'll keep getting yards on the ground.

I feel kind of bad for Orton in all of this. Denver is brutal to their QBs.

Panthers. Ugh. Two special teams mistakes for the Cats were the difference.

That, and Drew Brees-to-Jimmie Graham.

When do we play Tampa?

Enix wrote:

Panthers. Ugh. Two special teams mistakes for the Cats were the difference.

That, and Drew Brees-to-Jimmie Graham.

When do we play Tampa? :D

I look forward to facing Derek Anderson; Cam Newton is simply not going to survive much longer if he keeps taking hits like he has been. I've been watching a lot of Panthers/Jags/Bengals for rookie QB evaluation (aside; Dalton does look really, really good and A.J. Green is simply ridiculous), and Newton is just getting hammered.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

I'm going to follow up my 5-0 week by making some dumb picks.

Saints
Niners
Packers
Bears

Vikings over Cards

I almost picked the Panthers over the Saints but I need Brees to have a huge game.

Looks like you and I are battling it out for 5-0 this week. I have the Lions.

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MilkmanDanimal wrote:

(aside; Dalton does look really, really good and A.J. Green is simply ridiculous)

Someone asked me about the Jag game yesterday, and my comment to them was that the biggest difference between Andy Dalton and Blaine Gabbert was that on 3rd down, Dalton threw the ball to A.J. Green whether he was open or not, and Green won the battles for the ball and came up with the catch. Meanwhile, Jason Hill struggled to win battles with air.

Dalton's arm strength is still a concern - on the game's only INT, he was going for Green in the "honey hole" gap between the cover 2 corner and safety, and the ball just hung in the air long enough for Dwight Lowery to feast on it. (In Dalton's defense, the wind was very strong at field level and wrecked havok on passes from both QBs).

Aside from that, though, when both QBs missed, they were only mildly off target. Neither of them made dumb or overly dangerous throws.

And Jacksonville has got to go get themselves an A.J. Green of their own.

Jayhawker wrote:
iaintgotnopants wrote:

I'm going to follow up my 5-0 week by making some dumb picks.

Saints
Niners
Packers
Bears

Vikings over Cards

I almost picked the Panthers over the Saints but I need Brees to have a huge game.

Looks like you and I are battling it out for 5-0 this week. I have the Lions.

I'm conflicted about this game. On the one hand, I can go 5-0 with a Bears win but my team in GWJFFLX is almost all Lions so I want them to do well. Luckily, I'm up against Legion who had to play all Jaguars so I only need about 50 points from my eight players.