Week 4 recap

Well, I missed another week for predictions. Oh well, I've been busy working. This blogging shit isn't making me $$$, so I gotta get that cheddar somehow. I didn't get to watch any college football this week and only got a chance to catch Sunday & Monday Night Football. And I didn't even watch much of those games because holy shit score differences.

So where do we stand? Only Indianapolis, Chicago, and fucking Baltimore are 4-0. Indy and Chi-town aren't too surprising, but Baltimore came out of fucking nowhere and started the season off with a bang. Of course, they only separated themselves from the Raiders and the Bucs and won squeakers against Cleveland and San Diego.

Tennessee, Oakland, Detroit, and Tampa Bay are the only teams with 0 wins. The Titans, Raiders, and Lions fans have some well-publicized hate for their respective front offices and rightfully so. But why Tampa Bay? What's the problem there? The D doesn't look nearly as dominant as they did 4 years ago (hell, even one year ago) and the offense is young and playing for a D-minded staff. Chris Simms didn't look real confident a few times last season, but he's looked downright meek for all of this season with the exception of the last half of Carolina @ Tampa.

In the cases of Tennessee, Oakland, and Detroit, it's fairly easy to find the solution: fire everybody in management, hire some guys who know assholes from elbows, rebuild for a season or two, win championships. It's that easy. In the case of Tampa, though, what the fuck? They have two of the best football minds in Jon Gruden and Monte Kiffen and aside from Keyshawn Johnson's situation a few years ago nobody's pissing off franchise players like the Titans did with "Air" McNair. It's going to take some time to rebuild the Bucs, I'm afraid. It's hard enough to replace guys like Ronde Barber, Anthony McFarland, Simeon Rice, and Derek Brooks, but when they're all on the same unit, holy shit have you got some work to do finding replacements.

But enough of me moaning about the end of the Bucs' season 4 weeks in, Bucs fans aren't the only ones who will have no reason to live come January, as the Dolphins look like ass, too. When you lose to the Texans, that's not a very good thing. At all.

And hell, maybe the Seahawks (along with the Panthers) are going to show everybody what happens when you structure an entire team around one fucking player.

Bah. I don't feel like I can comment too in-depth on this week since I didn't watch any of these games and haven't even seen highlights except for the Jets deciding to play rugby for the last play of their game. I'm gonna fire up the Prognostitron 9000 and make some predictions.