Week 1 ooohhhhh baby

[kurtsimonw]

There ya go. Just a game of sloppy plays and bad luck.

[kkr]

We nearly won with 6 turnovers is the positive im taking.  Sloppy sloppy sloppy though.  RB's **** us big time, get Jacobs or another vet in now.  Denver next........ gulp!

 

That said all three of our receivers were over 100 tonight.  D looked decent but was gassed at times due to all turnovers and TOP.

[kurtsimonw]

Michael Turner is a free agent, any reason? Injury? Massive demands? 

[ForeroGabe]

Great day of football for me. The jets won and the giants lost

[kurtsimonw]

Who are the Jets?

[kurtsimonw]

Last 2 times we lost to Dallas on opening weekend we won the Super Bowl. Both those years we started 0-2 also. So BOF et al, when we lose next week it's because we let you win, of course.

[leviramsey]

Inline comments in italics... error points are assigned by adding the error in each team's score and doubling if the wrong winner was picked

My score predictor says (expected average scores rounded to the integer):

Ravens 24 @ 31 Broncos => 21 error points; 1-0

Patriots 30 @ 25 Bills => 11 error points (32); 2-0

Bengals 17 @ 15 Bears => 26 error points (58); 2-1

Dolphins 17 @ 16 Browns => 12 error points (70); 3-1

Falcons 28 @ 24 Saints => 24 error points (94); 3-2

Bucs 19 @ 21 Jets => 5 error points (99); 4-2

Titans 21 @ 21 Steelers (coin flip!) => 34 error points (133); 4-3

Vikings 25 @ 31 Lions => 4 error points (137); 5-3

Raiders 15 @ 27 Colts => 8 error points (145); 6-3

Seahawks 31 @ 18 Panthers => 30 error points (175); 7-3

Chiefs 22 @ 17 Jaguars => 21 error points (196); 8-3

Cardinals 19 @ 18 Rams => 28 error points (224); 8-4

Packers 20 @ 27 49ers => 15 error points (239); 9-4

Giants 22 @ 27 Cowboys => 18 error points (257); 10-4

Eagles 17 @ 35 Redskins

Texans 23 @ 23 Chargers (another coin flip!)

[Dante_Lockhart]

I've just recovered from that, frankly, embarrassing game on Thursday night. I think our guys need to practice catching the ball and tackling the players, because we couldn't do either. Our defensive play calling was shocking. Our offensive play calling started well but then went bizarre as we began to lose. 2nd half was a shambles.

 

Hopefully it's a wake-up call.

[BOF]

Jammy **** Patriots

I know they weren't really jammy. Just would've been nice for our main AFC rivals to be playing catch up from week one.

And how 'bout dem Buccaneers :crylaugh:

[BOF]

Oh and the AFC North went full retard this week. Never go full retard

[kurtsimonw]

Packers fans crying about the officiating mistake. I think the first mistake was that it was "offsetting penalties" Clay Matthews should've had at least 2 seperate penalties on that play anyway.

[BOF]

In fairness to Packers fans that was a terrible call that resulted in a TD that would never have happened. So their crying is justified.

[maqroll]

Tampa Bay....smh

[maqroll]

Michael Turner is a free agent, any reason? Injury? Massive demands? 

Fat and slow

[kurtsimonw]

In fairness to Packers fans that was a terrible call that resulted in a TD that would never have happened. So their crying is justified.

I think the officials got the penalties wrong anyway is what im saying. No way should it have been simply offsetting penalties unless there's something im missing.

[leviramsey]

Elway throws seven touchdown passes

-- The Columbus Dispatch headline Friday over the story about Peyton Manning’s seven-touchdown game

I especially like the first two sentences of the game story: “Peyton Manning tied an NFL record with seven touchdown passes, and the Denver Broncos routed the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens 49-27 last night. Elway became the sixth player to throw for that many, and the first since Joe Kapp on Sept. 28, 1969.”

From MMQB.

[tonyh29]

Good start for the Saints on their way to the Superbowl ...

[leviramsey]

Redskins -4: risk 15 units to win 13.63

Redskins ml -190: risk 17 units to win 8.94

Redskins -10.5 +225: 12 units

Redskins +3.5 -330: risk 15 units to win 4.54

Chargers +4: risk 5 units to win 4.54

Chargers ml +180: 6 units

[leviramsey]

Vegas was happy yesterday

The first NFL Sunday of season couldn’t have been scripted any better by the Las Vegas sports books. The rooms were full, creating an atmosphere that everyone in the casino wanted to be a part of. Handle was up, always a great sign that people still love betting football. And perhaps best of all for the books, they came out big winners on the day as favorites tallied a 6-6-1 record against-the-spread.

“We had a great morning session, and the Patriots (-10) not covering against the Bills was the biggest win overall,” Golden Nugget sports book director Tony Miller said. In addition to winning big on that game alone, it also killed a huge portion of parlays, both off the board and on the (parlay) cards, and also teasers.

“Our next biggest wins were the Dolphins (+2) beating the Browns outright and the Raiders (+11) playing the Colts tough and covering. For whatever reason, we had a lot of action of the Browns, and no one was believing in Terrelle Pryor. Most people thought the Raiders would get crushed on the road, and bet that way with the Colts.”

The majority of Vegas books were in the same boat as the Golden Nugget. Their desired result on the day was to knock out one of the two largest favorites of the week, and when neither the Patriots nor the Colts covered, the rest of the day was going to be gravy.

“Those were our two root games,” South Point sports director Bert Osborne. “Those games were the difference in us having to sweat like we normally do in the late afternoon and Sunday night game instead of just treating them like regular games because they didn’t have an extended risk attached to them like usual.”

There were 10 games in the morning (Vegas time, of course) with only two in the afternoon and then the late game between the Giants and Cowboys. With New England and Indianapolis out of the way, the books were in cruise control the rest of the way.

“We had great two-way action on all of the late games,” said Miller. “The only thing we had any real risk on was the totals going OVER.”

The final three games all went OVER the total, but there wasn’t anything waiting to pop with a big payout like the books experienced in about half of the NFL weeks last year when they got beat up pretty good by the public.

“The meter never moved up on the late games like we normally see,” said Osborne. “Every key decision for us came in the morning.“

Pryor wasn’t the only young quarterback that made a difference on the day. Along with a strong defensive performance by the Jets, rookie Geno Smith played well enough to put New York in a good position to cover the spread vs. Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers had been 3-point favorites earlier in the week, and bettors jumped all over them, pushing the game up to -4 by kickoff.

Another young QB that came up big was Jake Locker for the Titans, as they went into Heinz Field and beat the Steelers as 6-point underdogs.

“We actually lost a little on the Titans game,” said Osborne, who opened the Steelers at -7. “The public was all over the Steelers, but the sharp money on the Titans.”

No easy calls for the bettors

Perhaps even better news for the books, no one team looked absolutely dominant on Sunday, and only one team looked horrible. The books need parity to avoid an onslaught of one-sided action, either on one team or against another.

The Patriots have traditionally been one of those teams the public can rely on, but without their two-headed tight end and a group of receivers who don’t have the hands Tom Brady has been used to, there was enough in Sunday’s 23-21 win at Buffalo to put doubt in the bettors’ mind.

The Broncos may be a different story. While bettors jumped off the wagon for Thursday’s 49-27 win against the Ravens, they’ll be hopping back on, beginning this week against the Giants.

As for the teams on the other end of the spectrum, the Raiders, considered by most to be the worst team in the league, showed some toughness on both sides of the ball that no one expected. Pryor was unstoppable on the ground, and that will cause some doubt when bettors go the windows next week. The same goes for the Jets, and it’s apparent the upgrades the Chiefs – a doormat the past few seasons – have made at coaching and quarterback will make an impact in 2013.

The only fear for the books in the near future is the Jaguars. Everyone thought this team was going to be awful, and they proved it in a home, 28-2, loss to the Chiefs. The public will pile on this team until they show something, and the books know they’re going to have to inflate their prices soon to attract at least some action on them from sharp bettors who know what the proper rating should be.

[maqroll]

Who are the Jets?

The team you have to share your stadium with