1/4, .25, 25% analysis

Unlike college football, I wait till at least a quarter of the season is through so I don't have too many knee jerk reactions after 1 week of football. Here are a few

1. Colin- my god. How the mighty have fallen. He looked decent week 1 against the vikings. No mistakes, limited playbook, like Joe Ayoob, he did nothing great and nothing terrible. But since then, his numbers are terrible. 2 TDs (1, rushing  1 passing), 5 interceptions, 50% completion percentage, missed open receivers (yes there have been some drops but ultimately he has missed so many open receivers).  His supporters always point to his bad o-line, yes it's not good, but he had like 8 dropbacks that he had protections longer than 3.5 seconds and finished something like 1-6 for 4 yards, a sack and a first down run(can't remember the stat exactly). 3.5 seconds to an nfl qb should be plenty of time to find an open receiver. During the packers vs chiefs game they kept showing rodgers get rid of the ball in .35 seconds after the snap.....The calls for Gabbert are getting lounder and I'm one of them. Well we won't win with Gabbert or make the playoffs....umm dipshit fans...we aren't going to do it with Kap so lets try something else. Hopefully he can turn it around but it looks like his confidence is shot and he looks like a deer in headlights out there.

2. Analysts- How do these guys keep their jobs?!?!?! Cool you played football so that makes you an expert. Like 90% picked Miami to be a sleeper pick to be better than New England this year, 90% picked the Colts to go to the super bowl, etc. Wrong all the time, and are they ever brought out in front of everyone and said goddamnit you are an idiot- why would anyone pay attention to anything you have to say without laughing at you.

3. Ryan Tannenhill- apparently during scrimmages against the practice squad he's been getting torn apart and the now ex coach philbin told his practice squad players to take it easy on him so that he doesn't lose his confidence. Tannenhilll has been heard yelling at his practice squad players "Enjoy your practice squad paycheck!" Miami Dolphins i'm goign to say are the biggest embarrassment to the nfl. they have suh who is turning into albert Haynesworth 2.0, a caravan of qbs since marino left and a front office and management team that is in turmoil. Best thing that ever happened to this franchise recently is playing in the super bowl in Ace Ventura

4. I don't see ANY reason to say theres a single qb that's going to be the "next great qb." Rodgers is still young enough to dominate for several more years, brady, manning, brees and rothlisburger are all getting up there in age. The next echelon are a bunch of medicore to ok qbs- palmer, wilson, flacco, dalton, newton, etc. I think Dalton has potential to get there but he always seems to fade in the postseason. Luck has taken a step back and I just think those other qbs are ok but none that will literally be able to carry a team like the above have. We are looking at you Goff!!!

5. Nfl officials- I would hate to have the game slow down more, but I think there should be a rules official at each game- so that incidents like the bullshit non call in the mnf game are able to be corrected.How does an nfl official not know a rule or too scared to call it when obviously the player committed the infraction? Seattle should be 1-3 and again got the help of horrible officials.

6. Injuries- the one thing goodell implemented,whether he wanted to or not he still did, was the concussion protocal procedure. I wrote a lot about concussions in college and the ncaa had a huge study before the nfl was doing much about the impact of second impact syndrome, basically how much more susceptitble our brains are to prolonged injuries and adverse effects if injured again before it had a change to fully heal from an initial injury. The way the nfl has a 7 day waiting period, a protocal by a non team doctor etc is one thing i'm actually pretty stoked about. We wont know until a few more years if it has any long term effects but yay NFL

7. What do you think of the new extra point kick? I for one like it, isn't automatic. Makes team really debate on whether to go for 1 or 2 and puts that extra spin on things later in the game when you score the td to get within 1 but your kicker sucks or just the fact that a tie game isn't inevitable.