The Morning Buzz: NFL Edition

I’m writing the column early today for a few reasons.

First of all, I’m going home later today and I would like to spend every waking moment of the next few days with friends and family. Second of all, I fell asleep by halftime of the Saints/Packers shootout, so I’ve already put in about eight hours of sleep, which is enough fuel for me to write this before my 12:30 bus (hopefully).

While I’m not talking sports for a few seconds, I’m also looking for some fresh ideas to spice things up in the blog once in a while. I was thinking about a mailbag, where you guys could email me questions, and I could answer them right here.

I was also thinking of doing a video segment one week—suggestions would be just fantastic. Now, without further ado, I’m just gonna be running straight through the big stories in the NFL after a great Week 12.

Obviously the big story of the week is the Tennessee Titans failing all over LP Field against the New Jersey Aircrafts. Although the Jets’ victory wasn’t completely unexpected, such a huge margin of victory was.

The Jets outgained the Titans by 128 yards in total, and a whopping 147 yards on the ground (192 yards for the Jets, 45 for the Titans). They were able to get both Thomas Jones and Leon Washington (who scored two touchdowns) going, all while locking up Chris Johnson and LenDale White.

This forced the Titans to try to win the game with Kerry “Yes, I’m Still Alive” Collins and, simply put, he was not able to make up the deficit.

Despite this dominating performance over a previously undefeated team, I still don’t want to hear that the Jets are the class of the AFC yet. Call me a hater if you’d like, but the AFC is just too wide open at this point.

The Titans are still 10-1 and were dominant before their one slip up on Sunday. Pittsburgh is at 8-3, despite losing Willie Parker and Ben Roethlisberger at different times in the season.

Even the Colts and Patriots, who were both looking to be dead in the water early on, are both at 7-4 and looking to grab playoff spots. Once again, I’m sorry, but you’re going to have to forgive me for not wanting to pick against three teams that have won Super Bowls this decade and a 10-1 team at the moment.

If the AFC West just gave up like it should, this conference would be more fascinating than the NFC right now.

Unfortunately we’re all going to have to sit through the 7-9 AFC winners getting pummeled by their opponent on Wild-Card Weekend...great.

Another big AFC game this week was the Patriots at Dolphins, a game in which the Pats sought revenge for their game earlier in the year where the 'Phins unveiled their now-famous “Wildcat” offense. 

The Patriots, of course, got that revenge in the form of a 48-28 win. It’s been very intriguing watching the Patriots change before our eyes this year. Once Brady went down, we thought we were in for a slew of 14-10 games (and that’s what we got at first), until Matt “King of the” Cassel started to dominate. 

He’s thrown for 400 yards in two straight games and has the Patriots at 7-4. He’s finally made a connection with Randy Moss (the two hooked up for 125 yards and three touchdowns in Week 12) and Welker, also.

Remember way back when, when I said I just couldn’t count the Patriots out? I believe I made a good call.

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