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One thing that's cool, is that the NFL has such good offensive coordinating. Even the crappy teams have chances to beat others. Just look @ the Bills today. Or the Falcons today. It looked like the Eagles were going to blow them out. Yet, Atlanta varied things up. Got the ball to their security blanket TE... Hit a few long bombs... Then opened things up with some nice draw plays up the middle to Turner.

Despite losing their starting QB to injury and rolling without Vince Young, the Eagles still had an opportunity at the end to win the game. the right play was dialed in, the receiver just failed to extend his arms out and grab it.

It's awesome to see offensive football with such a variety of plays. Screens, draws, long bombs, play action, etc. Such a difference from BYU's craptastic offense. And so much different than so many college teams who just try to win with their talent alone. The SEC is a perfect example of this. Simple plays go big, because their players are so much more athletically superior than their opponents.

Look at the Pats today, Welker or Woodhead (was that their RBs name?), probably didn't impress anyone in athletic tests. Yet, put them in a very innovative and aggressive scheme, and these guys become virtually unguardable. Billicek could probably grab half the members on this board and turn them into pro-bowlers.

Personally, I think that no-huddle offense might be the "next big thing." Doing that prevents the defense from subbing their bigs and wears them out. It also forces the defense to react quicker and prevents them from being able to get a good feel for formations and plays.

It basically turns the game into a 7 on 7 rapid fire passing contest. Even if you don't have a big play star receiver, you could still be able to connect on lil quick 5-10 yard dink passes before the defense even sets up and knows what hit them. Before you know it, you're knocking on the endzone's door.
 
Charles and Bowe are hurting one of my fantasy teams right now. Hate to admit it, but Charlie Weis appears to be quite the offensive genius. Without him KC looks 2-14 bad.

I picked Bowe very high and I already regret it.

Luckily, as a hunch I picked Carolina's Steve Smith late in the my FF draft. He's had 150+ yards receiving both games. People had written him off; but Carolina hasn't had anything resembling a QB for the last 3 years.
 
Personally, I think that no-huddle offense might be the "next big thing." Doing that prevents the defense from subbing their bigs and wears them out. It also forces the defense to react quicker and prevents them from being able to get a good feel for formations and plays.

It basically turns the game into a 7 on 7 rapid fire passing contest. Even if you don't have a big play star receiver, you could still be able to connect on lil quick 5-10 yard dink passes before the defense even sets up and knows what hit them. Before you know it, you're knocking on the endzone's door.

The Bills went to (and lost) 4 Super Bowls in the 90s with the no huddle offense.

The problem is it burns out your own defense too with significantly less time of possession.
 
I wasn't sold on Cam Newton being a very good NFL QB.

Yet, outside of Tom Brady, who has looked more impressive?

Forget rookie of the year. He might be in the running for MVP!

He is throwing a ridiculous amount of attempts also. Most teams try to protect rookies, but Carolina is giving him full freedom to throw.
 
The Bills went to (and lost) 4 Super Bowls in the 90s with the no huddle offense.

The problem is it burns out your own defense too with significantly less time of possession.

The other problem is that it limits the versatility of your offense if that's what you do strictly. That's really bad for the playoffs, IMO, because all the other team has to do is watch the film and learn the small rolodex of plays that you use for the ENTIRE game.

I think having a no-huddle offense is a very nice ace up the sleeve, but it should be used as such; when it's needed (clock management, throwing off the defense's game plan). Being able to change the play at scrimmage is huge, too. This is why a player like Peyton Manning is inordinately effective and important. Or... was. This is also why the Packers are so hard to contain. They can beat you in so many ways.
 
I had McFadden,Stafford, and Lions D. Also had Charles. I somehow knew he was going to be a bust this year, but took him because he fell to me with the 6th pick.

Exactly. I hated him too based on how poor the Chiefs looked in the pre-season. But I also hated Foster so I went with Charles instead. I should have just gone with Andre Johnson or McCoy who wasn't so highly touted but who can't be the focal point of a defense with Jackson, Maclin and Vick to account for. Reid and the Eagles always have a solid offense. Oh well, hopefully Pitt's D and Witten will help make up the slack.
 
Detroit reminds me of the Rams back in '99. Scary team. I can't wait to see them play the Packers and Bears.
 
Detroit reminds me of the Rams back in '99. Scary team. I can't wait to see them play the Packers and Bears.

I am absolutely in love with them and should be getting my Suh jersey this week. But they're very young just about everywhere and if anything, remind me more of the young Cowboys team who was also young just about everywhere when they upset some BYU qb in San Fran in the NFC Championship game en route to their first title with that core. Like the Cowboys, they seem to have that, we don't care how young and ****ty we've been because we're fearless and more than confident. The Rams were more of a machine really.
 
Detroit reminds me of the Rams back in '99. Scary team. I can't wait to see them play the Packers and Bears.

As a Bears fan, I wouldn't mind Detroit getting stuck in a storm somewhere and having to forfeit both games. Normally I'm excited as hell when the Bears are on Monday night...not so much this year. I have a feeling Detroit will blow us out. The emotion that will be in that stadium will be off the charts. I heard that Bears/Lions game sold out in minutes.
 
The bad thing for Chicago is that their weakness compliments Detroit's biggest strength. The subpar offensive line (and poor pocket awareness of Cutler) vs. Detroit's monstrous defensive line.
 
Detroit has been my NFC team since Barry was there... glad they are having some success.

It helps though also that I have Megatron/Stafford on one of my fantasy teams. Also drafted their defense on 2 of my teams which has paid off.

I slated them as a Wildcard team this year with the Packers wining the division and nothing has changed.


On a side note - Love that the Steelers responded against Seattle... get the Colts next week and hopefully can repeat the defensive gameplan. The Seahawks only got over the 50 yard line once all game. Steelers didn't force any turnovers but when you hold them to either a 3 and out or 1 first down and punt you don't need to.
 
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