NFL 2025/26 Season

My raiders are a significantly better team this year

 It keeps me from getting bored. 

 Most of them are salary cap fantasy leagues. I like buying whom I want.

 Good fun. 

 

 

 Hardly. It takes me about two hours a week to pick my teams and check results.

 I play games of cards against the computer more than I do fantasy.

 I write. I cook. I play Fishdom (I'm up to level 14,000 on my daughter's game). I read.  I clean the house...reluctantly...lol. I feed the lorikeets. I have a small garden on my balcony and one in our sunroom, of which I take care. 

 I watch old movies. I reply to emails from my readers. I talk on-line to friends all over the world. I share jokes with the daughter who lives with me. My other daughter rings me on the way home from work every day. Sometimes we have a nice conversation. Sometimes we argue. 

 I watch youtube videos of current events and the late show with Steven Colbert. I have the news on most of the day so I do not miss what is happening, generally. I watch multiple football games from three codes. I play against nine young men in an AFL draft league, plus I play general AFL supercoach. 

 And I still occasionally get bored. 

 

 

 She's stalking me.

 

 

Week 2 saw some significant performances and news.

A few QB's dropped, with the major one being Joe Burrow for basically the season (it is twelve weeks but the Bengals are not playing play offs so that is the season). JJ McCarthy was another who was injured, and Jayden Daniels is doubtful for new week. 

The usual mixing of early form hit, with some teams such as Jacksonville for instance, dropping in performance. The Jags should have won their match but they just seem to not have connection between Trevor and his receivers. 

The biggest shocks of the early season have been Indianapolis who have started 2-0 with Indiana Jones, showing his New York adventure was like searching for the Holy Grail, fruitless. That leverage penalty could haunt Denver as this was a win before the season and that division is tough.

The Eagles won the game against their Superbowl opponents, but the questions on the Chiefs secondary is huge. They really need their suspended receiver back quick smart. Kelce looks cooked and no Worthy either has shown they have very low depth in that receiving core.

Tampa Bay have not played any superbowl contenders but they look like they could make that deep play off run I mentioned in my review, that is if Baker can keep cooking for the rest of the season.

The Dolphins defence showed no resistance when the Patriots caused a rare occurrence and won in Florida. 

Dallas and the Giants played a game that had everything, but maybe not defence as the Cowboys squeezed out an uninspiring victory. Just like to point out that Russell Wilson threw for his highest yards in a match.

Both Pittsburgh and Minnesota came crashing back to Earth as the Steelers got found out by Seattle and Minnesota could not handle the Falcons offense and could not find any offense themselves.

The Chargers beat the Raiders but it was not as good an effort as their first match of the season, but they did have to travel back from Brazil, so at least they won. 

Green Bay looked every bit a Superbowl contender as they dominated the Commanders (I can not tell you how much I hate that name HATE, HATE, HATE). I was not upset because jj your team is the ebst in the league right now. 

  

Detroit showed you can bounce back from a loss to the Packers with a stomping of their former offensive co-ordinators crew as they walloped the Bears, who look like being off season champs once again. How can a fan base in a major city put up with such ineptness in a major sports team. Maybe talk to the Clippers and Mets fans!

And finally Buffalo and Baltimore resumed usual transmission as they did not get out of second gear against division rivals the Jets and Browns respectively.

MVP Award Week 2: I did not have many victories down to one person, so the winners were mostly team efforts on both sides of the ball, so the winner this week was not a dominant head and shoulders above the rest, but he was clutch when his team needed it, congrats Baker Mayfield. I have always been a fan of his. I loved his work at Cleveland, and thought that ownership did him bad through his injuries. Has found a real home in northern Florida and I like the team around him. They have no superstars in their positions but they are a team of very very good starters who do their job and let their leader come in late for the victory. Am liking the way the Bucs are trending!

Best Team Award Week 2: I suppose after what I said above it should be Tampa, but their defense has room to improve and while they have won they have beaten Atlanta who they have dominated the last few seasons and a so far disappointing Houston. Green Bay look like being contenders for this award every week so we will give them their flowers another week. In the end I went with Detroit. With all sorts of doubts (including from myself), the arrival of your former offensive co-ordinator and a head coach and QB under immense pressure to get a home opener win against a hated division rival, Goff St Brown and all the guys showed they are not quite dead and buried just yet. While Chicago may not be as good as we all thought they would be, at least not yet, the Lions really bounced back with good all round performance.

Under Pressure Award Week 2: While a lot of the media in the US are saying Kansas City, I will not lower myself to that, although if the Giants beat them well that is another story. I am going to go with Chicago. This week 3 match up against the Cowboys at Soldier's Field, will show us what they are made off. Huge pressure on all the QB, head coach, the co-ordinators and the defense. They take on a team who have shown they are a good solid team, but not a play off contender. They are coming off a humiliating, dominant defeat against a division rival, and they allowed another division rival to come late and snatch a week 1 win due to poor defense. The ownership did the right thing and spent the money to recruit pieces, and of course a new head coach. The offense has looked solid at points during games but the defense need to stop the opposition, especially the passing game, which they have not done in the last five quarters of the first two weeks. This is a huge match for both teams. If Dallas can go 2-1 that would be a great start for a team who it was thought would not contend and who pushed the Superbowl champs and just squeezed past the Giants. Pressure right on everyone in the Chicago franchise.          

"Buffalo to defeat Miami by 14. Best bet of the week."

Hmm, based on Miami's first drive, could be a lot closer than that. Their OL bullied Buffalo.

The Chargers were just a pass mark. As good as he can be Geno butchered 3 TDs 😰

 He failed me last week. Only 11 points...after 38 the first week.