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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: NFL Begins



Friday, August 25, 2006  

NFL Begins


I'm going to make an effort to not clog the blog with such endless NFL talk this season. I want to spend less time watching/thinking about football (in preference to working on things of actual use) and I want to blog less about it in any event. Watching the first quarter of the Pittsburgh @ Philly game tonight though, I had a thought.

It was obscured in the whole T.O. soap opera last year, but remember when the Eagles lost in the NFC Championship like three years in a row, and everyone talked about how they'd never win until they had something resembling a reliable rushing attack? Now that Owens has taken his media circus off to Dallas, it might be time to revive the old Eagles meme. On their first drive tonight, they threw six or seven times, all short or medium range, with the only rushing play an unsuccessful draw. Can an NFL offense be successful when the opposing defense knows they can stay in the nickle package 95% of the time? I guess, if the passing is good enough, though the loss of T.O. and the fact that they replaced him with no one isn't a real good sign.

By the way, this game is reminding me vividly why I so much prefer to tape NFL games and watch them with fast forward. It's been 45 minutes, and if the announcers have talked about anything other than last year's McNabb vs. T.O. feud, or Ben Toothlessburger's offseason motorcycle misadventure, I must have missed it.

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