Week 7 QuickCap

OK, I have come to the realization that I don't have the time anymore to go through every game, every week in my recap. Instead, I will try to focus on some highlight points each week in a much more scatterbrained kind of way. Which suits me much better anyways, right?

• Dre can thank the people at Pro Football Focus again. With their help, his picks are just as good as mine! For the third week in a row, Dre was over .500 for the week of picks. In those three weeks, he has gained exactly ZERO ground on me.
• Who'd have thunk that the best team result coming out the NFC South this last week would be Tampa Bay versus the Bye? Carolina and Atlanta both got blow'd up real good and the Saints collapsed late against the Lions....
• .....speaking of the Lions, can they be any more impressive so far this season? If these were the Jim Schwartz Lions, they would have melted down without Calvin Johnson. Instead, they have gutted out a couple wins while their superstar is on the mend. THAT'S what good teams do!
• Apparently, you only need to play 3 minutes of bad football to lose a game, which is exactly what the Texans did on Monday Night at Pittsburgh. The Texans decided to get turnover happy late in the second quarter, and the Steelers turned a 13-0 deficit into a 24-13 halftime lead that they never relinquished. For Dre, it was the second week in a row that his Monday night pick got up big early and wilted. Just those two picks going his way would have been a 4 point swing in the standings.
• Aaron Rodgers might be on to something with his "Relax" campaign. The Packers lit up the Panthers and Green Bay has turned a 1-2 start into 5-2 with only the Lions looking like competition in the NFC North.
• In Chicago, the Bears got throttled by Miami, prompting a brouhaha in the Bears locker room after the game. Apparently Brandon Marshall was calling out some of his teammates, including The Enigma, Jay Cutler. Hard to blame Marshall, how is a team with THAT many offensive weapons looking so inept on offense? They gotta stop stealing that move from the Falcons. By the way, Mike Smith might need to be a goner in Atlanta. Wasn't he a defensive coach? Yeesh!
• Congrats to Peyton Manning for becoming the all-time passing leader in touchdowns during a pasting of the 49ers that I almost nailed the final score of during the podcast (I predicted 40-13 and we got 42-17).
• The Browns started their run of games against the shitbags of the league by looking like total shit themselves in losing to the Jags. Yup, the fucking Jags. Kudos to Dre for nailing that one.....
• ....except that Dre ALSO had the winless Raiders getting their first win against the Cardinals. He went to the well one too many times with that move, and Arizona looks like a playoff contender.....
• ......but not as much as the Dallas Cowboys do. Holy fuck is their offensive line beastly. DeMarco Murray is running through Great Wall of Dallas sized holes and the Cowboys moved to 6 1/2-1/2 on the year. Really, they have played one lousy half of football. That's it. OK, they played kinda crappy against the Rams too, so we'll stick with 6-1. If they turn THIS into an 8-8, Jason Garrett needs to go.
• Seattle hasn't learned to cope with what teams will do against a defending champ. Every week is Super Bowl week when Seattle is on the docket, and the Rams may have razzle-dazzled their way to a win with some special teams chicanery, but a loss is a loss. I think the Seahawks will adapt. I think.

OK, I think that's all I have stuffed in my brain at the moment. Hear us talk about some of this, and a lot more tonight on the IMLD Podcast.

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