Monday Afternoon Tellustrator

Thoughts on Sunday's games while watching highlights at the bar in Freddy's Club Casino...

The Minnesota-Carolina game featured the best and worst special-team plays I've seen in a while. The Minnesota fake field goal to tie the game was as perfectly executed as could be, great timing, too. On the other hand, the Carolina punt return cross field lateral fumble was something straight out of the elementary school playground playbook. Completely inexplicable at that point of the game.

After seeing the Giants comeback, I'm still convinced the Eagles are the better team. The comeback required an incredibly remarkable series of random events to go in the Giants favor, and they all did. There's not much the Eagles can do when something like that happens. Their inability to run out the clock in the 4th quarter was the only thing I found to be particularly troubling. It'll be interesting to see how they respond to the Jevon Kearse injury, though. There pass rush has been much better than last year's anemic performance.

I haven't seen this many blocked kicks in my entire life as I have through two weeks of this season. This has been absolutely insane.

The Jets comeback against the Patriots also felt fluky. That wouldn't have been close without a couple huge run after the catch plays, especially Cotchery's crazy play.

Please, do not allow the phrase "walk-off touchdown pass" to enter the vernacular.

I wish more people could understand how surreal it is to see closed captioning attempt to approximate what Chris Berman is saying.

The Redskins still need to pull Mark Brunell. His second half performance against a prevent defense inflated his numbers, which still weren't very good.

That is all.