NFL - NEWS & NOTES

I think it was Lamarcus Joyner that told the coaching staff he would rather work as part of the stadium's grounds crew than play second string.

It's really interesting to see what the Rams are doing schematically on defense each week. Greg Williams may be a dickhead, but the guy does know some football.

 

Tunsil is out for 'Fins;

Revis won't play for Jets

Dez a game-time decision;

Gates will play...

 

Kesler is an idiot. Gets pressured near endzone and throws a blind pass to his RB and it bounces backwards and goes out the endzone for a safety.

 

Please spell our idiot's name correctly. It's Kessler.

Thank you.

 

*Kessler. My apologies.

 

Ryan Mathews smh. He fumbles the ball at the end of the game holding the ball in the wrong arm on a sweep.

 

PENALTIES:
Eagles: 14 for 111
Lions: 2 for 18

Eagles gave too many PIs and 15-yard penalties but Detroit was really given the homefield advantage here. They are allowed to interfere like crazy.

 

Finals so far...

PIT 31, NYJ 13
NE 33, CLE 13
DET 24, PHI 23
IND 29, CHI 23
WAS 16, BAL 10
TEN 30, MIA 17
MIN 31, HOU 13

 

Dallas is handling the Bengals.

 

And then there was one.

 

Joe, same thing happened to the Steelers @ Eagles, so you have to be able to overcome the refs.

 

Every pass with a defender on the WR was pretty much a no call PI. Frustrating. Ryan Mathews shouldn't have been an idiot but I think you'd have to have watched this one. Stuff needs to be called both ways.

 

ATL 23, DEN 16
DAL 28, CIN 14
BUF 30, LA 19
OAK 34, SD 31

 

Lol Chargers.

 

Chargers got that give it away late thing down pat.

 

Best 3 quarter team in football

 

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) ? The Green Bay Packers got pushy on both sides of the line of scrimmage against the New York Giants.

The offensive line kept Aaron Rodgers clean in the pocket and helped drive the running attack. The defensive line is playing so well that that the MVP quarterback is taking notice.

A little more consistency in the passing game, and the Packers could be a force again in the playoffs.

Rodgers threw for 259 yards and two touchdown passes, and Green Bay's defense disrupted Eli Manning and limited Odell Beckham Jr. in a 23-16 win on Sunday night.

 

The NFL is down to one unbeaten team and, just as everyone expected after Adrian Peterson and Teddy Bridgewater were injured, it's the Minnesota Vikings.

Seriously? Yes, somehow, despite losing the 2012 MVP for at least several weeks and a starting quarterback for the entire season, not to mention putting their best offensive lineman (Matt Kalil) on injured reserve and missing their best receiver (Stefon Diggs) this week, Minnesota is 5-0 as it heads into its bye.

"That's been the greatest thing about this team so far ? just its resiliency," quarterback Sam Bradford said. "We've overcome a lot of hurdles, some adversity early in the year. ... We've had a lot of guys answer the call."

And so the Vikings are atop the NFL with the season roughly a third of the way through.

Not the Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos, who absorbed their first loss Sunday.

Not the Philadelphia Eagles, who also lost for the first time this week.

Certainly not the defending NFC champion Carolina Panthers, who won only one of their first four games and lost Cam Newton to a concussion in the process.

And not the New England Patriots (more on them later).

The main reason, to be sure, for Minnesota's success is its tremendously good defense, chock full of talented players such as Xavier Rhodes, Eric Kendricks and Harrison Smith and overseen by head coach Mike Zimmer. That unit held the Houston Texans to 214 net yards in Minnesota's 31-13 victory Sunday.

 

*THUMBSUP*