NFL Notebook
Just a few quick hits as we we look forward to Week #2 of the NFL season.
One week into the regular season and take a look at the list of players who have suffered confirmed or apparent season ending injuries. Elvis Dumerville, Ty Warren, Leigh Bodden, Ryan Grant, Bob Sanders, Kris Jenkins. Three starting quarterbacks also went down last week – the Eagles Kevin Kolb, the Lions Matthew Stafford and the Browns Jake Delhomme – and could be out for some time.
When you see a list like that, you wonder what NFL owners must be smoking to think the season should be expanded to 18 games. As it is, injuries are one of the biggest factors in determining how a team’s season goes. Extend the season two more weeks and the role of injuries becomes even more prominent.
And when the playoffs start – the NFL’s showcase events — even more stars will be missing and even more backups will be asked to perform as starters. Talk about diluting your product…
Expanding the season will just be a case of the NFL shooting itself in the foot. Bad idea.
Have to laugh at all the media members – both nationally and locally here in Boston – piling on Mark Sanchez over his performance last week. Yeah, he sucked, no doubt about it. But remember folks, it’s just one week and at times this guy was decent last year guiding the Jets to 9 regular season wins and a nice playoff run.
One Boston writer even suggested the Jets would be better off tossing elderly Mark Brunell into the lineup and benching Sanchez. Good idea….bench your first round draft pick from a year ago in favor of a guy who was finished back in 2006.
Media and especially fans place WAY too much emphasis on what happened in the last game. No, The Sanchise is not a top tier NFL QB right now. But he’s not exactly the 2nd coming of Hugh Millen either.
Speaking of the Jets, they couldn’t have asked for a worse start to the regular season a week ago. The Jenkins loss was devastating for them, Shonn Greene probably played the worst game he’s ever played at any level, and Jets management has to be more than a little concerned that Cam Cameron, the Chargers ex-Offensive Coordinator, seemed to be licking his chops while surgically destroying ex-Charger corner Antonio Cromartie Monday night in the Ravens game.
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