TheDood lives in the Columbus, Ohio TV market. Columbus is an odd market, because it only has 7 full-power TV stations, all of which belong to major networks, and on cable, there are no other stations available from outlying cities. I also do not have DirecTV or their bogus NFL Sunday Ticket package, so TheDood is forced to watch whatever free games my local affiliates choose to show. This past Sunday, CBS had a double-header (another odd NFL rule is that only one affiliate can show a double-header [so if WBNS shows two games, WTTE can only show one]). WTTE (Fox) advertised all week on their website that they would show the Saints at the Eagles at 1:00. I was rather psyched because I enjoy watching the Saints offense, as well as the Eagles. I fired up my Panasonic DVD recorder and put a disc in the tray. Well, at the last minute, WTTE's program director chose to show the snorefest Lions-Vikings game. I was completely outraged that they would show such a shit game! I checked the listings of other Fox affiliates in Ohio and it went something like this: WJW in Cleveland showed Saints @ Eagles, WUPW in Toledo also showed Saints @ Eagles, WRGT in Dayton showed Vikings @ Lions, and WXIX in Cincinnati waited to show their game until 4:00, where they showed Bucs @ Bills, another snorefest where they forced their #1 commentating team to call. There are two more Fox affiliates in Ohio (WOHL in Lima and WYFX in Youngstown), but they are either Class-A or low-powered stations that do not have their listings on the web.
Now, both last week and this week, WBNS (and all the other CBS affiliates in Ohio I would imagine) will have a Browns-Bengals doubleheader. I don't really have a problem with showing "local" coverage, it's when the other network's affiliates make their living on putting on snorefest games that nobody will watch (TheDood ended up watching Bengals-Packers, which actually was a game).
TheDood listened to "The Herd with Colin Cowherd" this morning and he was gloating about how great the NFL games were that were on for free in the Hartford/New Haven, Connecticut market (Saints @ Eagles on Fox, with Pats @ Jets at 1:00 on CBS, and Steelers @ Bears 4:15 on CBS).
TheDood can only hope that WTTE's program director(s) read this post and schedule 49ers vs Vikings (two 2-0s) for their sole game at 1:00.
21 September 2009
Touchdown Record Watch
Drew Brees, through the first two weeks of this season, has thrown 9 touchdown passes. That is an average of 4.5 per game. At that rate, he'll have 72 at season's end. The NFL record is 50, held by Tom Brady from 2007.
Fathoming the Jets Win
Since this blog is new, I might as well say that I get alot of football information from pro-football-reference.com (actually, all of the sports-reference.com sites are very good sources of information).
According to them, Brady pitched his 7th worst game of his career where he threw more than 25 passes. He had an almost Ryan Leaf-like 53.1 passer rating and a mere 3.6 adjusted net yards per attempt (in short, the amount of yards gained on every pass attempt). Interestingly, Brady's 6th worst game was against the Jets in December of 2007. No that's not a typo, TOM BRADY ACTUALLY HAD A BAD GAME IN 2007! But what I can't understand is that Rex Ryan's blitz-wacky defense didn't give up any big plays against Randy Moss, Joey Galloway, and especially Wes Welker, whom, at face value, Brady could've dumped-off to when he was in trouble (an easy way to move against blitz-wacky defenses is to throw lots of short passes, this is why the 49ers often beat the Bears in the 80s). Blitz-wacky defenses, although they get to the quarterback and cause turnovers, will give up big plays because receivers will be "singled up" with either no safety help, or one safety to cover the deep middle, whose sole purpose is to help the corner who's covering the receiver with the ball.
On a different note, Tom Brady, through the first 2 weeks of this season, has thrown exactly 100 passes. He is on pace to throw 800 passes this season, the NFL record is 691, which is held by Drew Bledsoe from 1994.
According to them, Brady pitched his 7th worst game of his career where he threw more than 25 passes. He had an almost Ryan Leaf-like 53.1 passer rating and a mere 3.6 adjusted net yards per attempt (in short, the amount of yards gained on every pass attempt). Interestingly, Brady's 6th worst game was against the Jets in December of 2007. No that's not a typo, TOM BRADY ACTUALLY HAD A BAD GAME IN 2007! But what I can't understand is that Rex Ryan's blitz-wacky defense didn't give up any big plays against Randy Moss, Joey Galloway, and especially Wes Welker, whom, at face value, Brady could've dumped-off to when he was in trouble (an easy way to move against blitz-wacky defenses is to throw lots of short passes, this is why the 49ers often beat the Bears in the 80s). Blitz-wacky defenses, although they get to the quarterback and cause turnovers, will give up big plays because receivers will be "singled up" with either no safety help, or one safety to cover the deep middle, whose sole purpose is to help the corner who's covering the receiver with the ball.
On a different note, Tom Brady, through the first 2 weeks of this season, has thrown exactly 100 passes. He is on pace to throw 800 passes this season, the NFL record is 691, which is held by Drew Bledsoe from 1994.
Blog Numero Uno
This is essentially going to be my place to blog about anything football (mainly NFL, but I may throw in some college stuff if I feel like it). Things will be posted on an irregular basis, usually whenever I think about something, or when I have the time (TheDood is actually a busy college freshmen).
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