Week 1 Recap

Brian Urlacher. Da Bears star middle LB is out for the season. That's bad for them. He may be getting long in the tooth, but he still knows how to hit and more importantly is the leader of that defense and the team. It is going to be a big loss to that defense.

Rookie QB's. Mark Sanchez looked really good and was even better than I expected, even though I thought he'd play well because he has a good running game and defense. He exceeded expectation. He made a few small mistakes but overall pretty well.

Matthew Stafford. Given he doesn't have a defense or as nice of a running game as Sanchez, I didn't think he was horrible. Yeah, he had 3 INT's, but his defense put him behind very fast. They had to throw so that will happen. I think he will be OK...but Detroit has a knack for bringing in QB's and destroying their careers. Hopefully Stafford can break that curse.

Bad play by veteran QB's. Jake Delhomme and Jay Cutler were horrible. Delhomme has 9 picks and 2 fumbles in his last 2 games after receiving a $42 million, $20 million guaranteed in the offseason. That decision is not looking so good. I know, its only one week, but a veteran has to be better than that. Cutler on the other hand, I'll give somewhat of a pass to. He is still relatively new to the offense and his receivers are very young and not very seasoned. But he doesn't look much better than Grossman and worse than Orton at this time. Not what you want when you trade two 1st round picks, a 3rd round pick, and your own starting QB. He might get better, but I'm not playing him on my fantasy team this week. I'll take my backup, Eli Manning. At least I can trust he won't turn it over 4 times.

Cincinnati Bengals. Did you see how they lost this one? Very few teams could pull out an exciting loss in this fashion against an inferior opponent in my opinion. I know, Denver won, I still think Cincy is better and will have a better season. But its like a sign I once saw, it said "Once a bungle, always a bungle". This was definitely a play and loss only the Bungles could pull off. Good luck topping this loss Bungles...well I've watched enough Bengals games over the years to know that they probably will top it soon. The Bengal getting arrested was funny to me so I put it in.