1. I feel bad for Patriots tackle Matt Light-who's already back in the game-but if I never see another knee injury in a slow-motion replay, I think I'll be okay with that.
2. The Jake Plummer-Mike Shanahan argument after the field-goal drive: Obviously, I don't know what happened, though I enjoyed Madden's incredibly vague take, which basically boiled down to: "Either Mike's mad at Jake, or Jake's mad at Mike, or they're both mad." But Plummer was catching fire on that drive and the Broncos still had room to work with when they switched into pound-the-ball mode. I'm a big fan of the running game, but if I was Plummer, I'd have been ticked, too. When the Patriots answered with a similar drive right after, they kept the ball in Tom Brady's hands throughout (though the Broncos ended up forcing and blocking a field goal).
4. Lawrence Maroney is a beast. Al Wilson got a good-if-not-great hit on him on a shovel pass. Maroney just absorbed it like it was nothing and ran up the left side for nineteen yards. I've never seen someone do that on a Wilson hit before.
5. On the Broncos' side, I'm happy with the move to Tatum Bell on a full-time basis. Since when does a Broncos tailback make it to his third year without getting a real shot? Tatum Bell has the skills to be a star, though he hasn't put it all together yet. I can't wait to see what he can do if he keeps the job this season.
6. I hope the NBC show "Heroes" fails miserably. It hasn't reached Fox/World Series levels yet, and I don't even watch NBC that much-but I'm so sick of those ads. "I walked through fire and I didn't get burned." Shut up. It would probably be worth fishing shards of glass out of my hands to reach through the TV and try to slap those people.
7. I guess Javon Walker is worth giving up a second-round pick. But he could have left that dance in Green Bay.
2. The Jake Plummer-Mike Shanahan argument after the field-goal drive: Obviously, I don't know what happened, though I enjoyed Madden's incredibly vague take, which basically boiled down to: "Either Mike's mad at Jake, or Jake's mad at Mike, or they're both mad." But Plummer was catching fire on that drive and the Broncos still had room to work with when they switched into pound-the-ball mode. I'm a big fan of the running game, but if I was Plummer, I'd have been ticked, too. When the Patriots answered with a similar drive right after, they kept the ball in Tom Brady's hands throughout (though the Broncos ended up forcing and blocking a field goal).
4. Lawrence Maroney is a beast. Al Wilson got a good-if-not-great hit on him on a shovel pass. Maroney just absorbed it like it was nothing and ran up the left side for nineteen yards. I've never seen someone do that on a Wilson hit before.
5. On the Broncos' side, I'm happy with the move to Tatum Bell on a full-time basis. Since when does a Broncos tailback make it to his third year without getting a real shot? Tatum Bell has the skills to be a star, though he hasn't put it all together yet. I can't wait to see what he can do if he keeps the job this season.
6. I hope the NBC show "Heroes" fails miserably. It hasn't reached Fox/World Series levels yet, and I don't even watch NBC that much-but I'm so sick of those ads. "I walked through fire and I didn't get burned." Shut up. It would probably be worth fishing shards of glass out of my hands to reach through the TV and try to slap those people.
7. I guess Javon Walker is worth giving up a second-round pick. But he could have left that dance in Green Bay.
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