Let’s be realistic. We’re 1-2. Third place in the division.
Everyone take a breath.
Find your zen, or your secret spot or whatever it is that doesn’t sound like Norv’s whiney-ass voice.
Relaxed?
If you said yes, turn to page 27. If you said no, turn to page 63.
With one quarter of the season complete after this week’s game, we could either be tied for last or tied for first.
At this point, things can only get better, right?
Not necessarily. Look at the Saints. McAllister’s torn ACL points to Murphy’s law for rendering.
I can sit here and second guess Norv and AJ and wish for [...]

Yeah, great, Favre tied the record. We should congratulate him, right?
Congratulate him because he torched a horribly weak pass D?
This team is falling apart, before my eyes.
Philip and LT are yelling at each other on the sidelines. Philip is throwing picks in the 2-minute drill. We are penalized 8 times for 70 yards. We give up passing yards like a volunteer at a food bank gives away canned soup. And Norv is back-pedaling (if he’s not, he should be).
And at 1-2, we’re tied in the division with the Chiefs, who come into town next week.
Maybe expectations were a bit too [...]

We still cannot defend the pass, at least Rivers looks sharp in setting a personal-best with 16 consecutive completions to start the game.

Sure, it’s 9 quarters too late, but better late than never.
VJ’s TD catch was almost as pretty as Philip’s pass.

That loss showed that our preseason was unproductive, if the Bears game didn’t make that clear.
As I’ve said for weeks now, the pass D is pathetic and the battle at the line of scrimmage isn’t positive in our favor.
This coming match up against the Pack is a good one for the Bolts to regroup and win a game against a 2-0 team that would look big on paper. I don’t think the Pack are really that good, as they’ve beaten two poor teams. But a win is a win.

As ESPN classic replays this historic upset, and I watch the opening drive of the Wolverines season, I realize that absolutely NO ONE saw this coming.
Mike Hart just steamrolls his way down the sideline, running over two Mountaineer DB’s, then on the next play he walks into the endzone, untouched.
The announcers say things like: “get used to that,” after big passing plays; “that’s just how they drew it up,” after 46 rushing yards from Hart navigated UM to the end zone; “he is hammered to the ground,” after ASU’s KOR man gets drilled on the answering return.
Oh how it all [...]

After 1 week in 2007, Mario Williams has 1 TD, Reggie Bush has 0. Vince Young has 1.
Mario Williams is a defensive end!
Although his matchup was against the Chiefs, Mario proved worthy of a #1 pick this week, after a year of not doing so. Will this year be a step forward to a hall of fame career?

Isn’t it hilarious how every time there is a scandal, ESPN floods programming with “experts” who predict what will be the final punishment for the sporting criminal, for hours on end, until the actual punishment is handed down, and all the preliminary expert guessing proved to be filler?
It’s rediculous. John Clayton knows. No, Sean Salisbury knows. No, Mark Schlereth knows.
No one knows, except for Roger Goodell.
Please stop killing time with these arbitrary guessing. The analysis of this means literally nothing.
Why can’t “experts” argue about the upcoming games and matchups?
Less Patriot-Gate, more Chargers/Pats talk. Less Belichick, more Turner. Less wasting time, [...]

So some people are surprised that Bill Belichick has underlings doing covert ops?
LT isn’t. 
Neither am I.
But it really doesn’t matter.
If Belichick thinks that will give him an advantage, he’s as stupid as the people that think he’s getting an unfair advantage from taping hand signals.

At it’s inception, sports broadcasting was a profession. It was an art. A broadcaster needed skill to broadcast, literally casting to a broad audience.
Broadcasting has moved from the years of radio, black and white television, nationally-televised games in color, to season ticket packages in HD. And the skills have gone from HD to HOrrible.
Below I note on a few of the worst broadcasting fouls in the business. Feel free to add more.
“when you look at/when you talk about…”
Have you heard this one? It’s easily the most-overused sentence fragment in the business. When broadcasters begin with “when you talk about…”, [...]