NFL Week 1 Takeaway.

In Football and Life, When Great Players Line Up Across From One Another, We Love To Effectuate Or Draw On  The thinking Concept Of The “Omnipotence Paradox”(when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object) To Draw A STRONGER picture and Invoke A Provocative Message For The Moment Of Collision Of TWO power. Two Infinite “Stables” Of Forces, Thats How Writers Promoted Last Year's MATCHUP between Colts's Guard Quentin Nelson(The Best Guard In The League) And Rams Defensive End Aaron Darnold, Arguably The Best Player In Football In Week Three Matchup. Not All Forces meeting On Football Sunday Are Physical; Some Are Immaterial. Many Quarterbacks Have Change Team Over The Past two Seasons—I Know “Make an Understatement,” Right?  The Quarterback Markets Enters A Second Life(Moving From Luxury Goods To Normal Goods To Inferior Goods If We Think In Economic Terms). Few Of These Quarterbacks Left On The Best Terms, Especially When you Hear of The Clandestine Dysfunction That Precedes Russell Wilson’s Exit. As Such, A Heavy  Fosage, “Revenge Games,” And  “Revenge Tour” Enter The Football Narrative-Scape. I Think The Athletic Football Podcast Ran A Take On “How Many Wicks(John Wicks) Would Each Quarterback Return Be Worth?” , and “Kill Bills” would Work, Too.  The Football World Wants The  Revenge Plot. Narratives Make The Game More Palatable. “in Football Comeuppance Is Rare,” And Whiles Many Quarterbacks Have Had  Success And Found A New Lease On Foot Ball Life In A New Situation. Revenge Vs. Rejuvenation, Who wins?

Vikings Vs. Packers.

 “All Y’all Out There Got A Problem This Year.”

The Word “Modern” Has Fallen Into The Nominal Overused Category Of Lexicons; Like “Iconic” Did Some Years Ago. Whether Misuse Or  Overuse, These Words Are Stripes Of Their Erstwhile Meaning. Is My iPhone 12 Modern? I Guess That Won’t matter In A Few Weeks. In The NFL, Modern Means Something, Offense Stands In Line With The General Accepted Grading. I Didn’t Quite Understand What A Modern Offense  Would Look Like In Minnesota. I’m Newb In Scheme, So How Would I Recognize The Difference. Well, The Wide Receiver The Vikings Used On Offense Went... How Did LeBron Put It: Not One, Not Two, Not three? Oh, You Get The Point. The Vikings Offense Look “Modern,” So Modern In Fact, The Offensively Out Class The Recent Most Modern Offense In The Packer. You Get My “Up to Date” Point. The Vikings Amassed 403 Total Yards on Offense.

Highlight Justin Jefferson Unleashed. You Think He’s heard enough of The Jamar Chase Comparisons and The Cooper Krupp Exceptionalism. Jefferson Finished with 9 Catches(Three Times as Much as His Next Teammate), 184 Yards, 20.4 Yards Per Catch. He Has This Uncanny Ability To Change gears, Mid Stride. Mind Bending. But Back To The Offense. Compare To The Packers; The Vikings Look Like A SPEED Test between A Mac And Pc. Every Speed Up, With Option Coming From Every Direction. Dalvin Cook Look Like The Best Back In Football.  If I Had One Qualm, Kirk Cousins. He looks better than Aaron Rodgers In An Offense Generally Built On the Same Principle.

Yes, Cousin Dealt His Cards Like a Black Jack, BUt I saw Moment of Last Years Kirk Emerge. The Conservative, Anatomical Kirk. Almost Phasing Into The Picture.  The Packers Forced Several Three And Outs Early, But Kirk Deliberately Took Short Check Down On Third Down. On Third And Six In Third Quarter, Kirk Takes A check Down To K.J. Osborn, Who’s Subsequently Stopped Short For Four Yards. Of course, The Vikings Were Up, As They were All Game, But The Vikings Had A Chance To Step On the Throats Of The Sworn Enemies. Late Game Situations Are When You Iron Out Kinks In The Armor, Not Fall Back Into Bad Habits And Negate All The Good Achieved Thus Far. The Vikings Defense Had Fun Forcing Tension To The Twines Of The Passing Game. Aaron Rodgers Displayed Visible Frustration With His Receiving Unit. 

Brown Vs. Panthers.

I’ve Picked Up A lot Of Interesting Habit From Watching Football And Football Players. One Of My Favorites, Stuffing My Hands In The Collar Of My Shirt While I’m Waiting. If I’m Waiting On The Bus Or If I am Waiting On My Coffee. I sent when I'm Clinching My Teeth On That Waiting For The Verdict Of That “gobsmacking” DM. My Two Hands Are Tuck and Stretching On The Fabric Of My Shirts. When Brown’s Kicker[Insert Name Of Special Team's Dynamo Here] Sent One Last Minute Feild Goal Through The Upright The Camera Pan To Former Brown’s Lead Baker Mayfield, Hands Tuck-Away, Waiting On Promised Revenge. He looked at Glib. Thanks To Numerous Scuff Ups With The Media, He’ll Get No Sympathy(Whatever Good Sympathy Does). The Browns Have a Little Fan Fair Outside Of Cleveland. Two Heels Face Off, Who Won The Matchup? The Browns. One Link to The Chain That Measures the Release Of Deshaun Watson Just Fell. In The NFL, Running The Ball And Playing Ball Control Marks A Long Trek To Victory. That Winding Roads To A Win Gets Easier Opponents Turn The Ball Over And fail To Capitalize On Opportunities—Like The Panthers, With Baker Mayfield.

The Browns Know The Mission; No need To Risk Giving Away A “Gimme” Game, On Media Drive Narrative Revenge Plot, By Resting The Fate Of The Offense In The Unproven Passing Attack of Jacoby Brissett And Chucklingly Effective Receiving corp.  The Browns Have The Fourth Highest Cap Hit Devoted To Running Backs, And They Put Their Backfield Of Dogs To Work. Nick Chubb Bagged 22 Carries, 141 Yards. He Only Averages 6.4 Per Carry and 2.34 RYOE/ATT. I Still Like This Browns Team To Run Their Way Into Position To Earn a Playoff Berth. Some Of His Tote We're Impressive. He Also Collected 4 Explosive Runs And A 191.3 Elusiveness Grade, Tip Toeing His Way Through The Backfield.

Panthers, On The “Other hand,” Need To Take Another “Piece” From The Browns, In The Form Of A Game Plan. Use Your All World Back More Than 10 Times. I Know Matt Rhule Wants To Preserve  Whatever AllPro Vitality Remains In McCaffrey For A Full Season, And Playing The Mayfield Revenge Angle Had A Fashionable Appeal. But Trust Your Back. He Looked Brilliant On The Few Carries. He Bounces around In The BackFeild, Waiting Opening. I think I Count Three Or Four Juke Moves On One Run Before Spring Loading Into A Fair amount Of Production Seamlessly. Give Baker Opportunities To Throw. Trust Him To Turn The Corner On His Mistake. He’s "a fighter," Who’s Mistake Prone, Neither Of Those two Conflicts Are “going to change.”

Give Matt Rhule a Chance To Save His Career In The NFL. But Start With Your Top Offensive Weapon. Even Against The Brown.

Chargers V. Raider

Speaking Of Revenge Games. Under The Ceaseless Rattling Of The  Copy Grinding Machine Churning Away Through Sunday Evening, The Raiders And Chargers Snuck A Competitive Classic Underneath The Buzz Of Opening Day.  “Unfortunate,” The Only Word That Encapsulates The Way The Chargers  Season Ended Last Year. The Raiders Stuffed as Field Goal Through Uprights To End What Looked Like A Draw Between The Two NFL Offenses. The Chargers Had Revenge In Sight And Fortune On Their Side. In Slow Motion, West World Style Shootout, Both Quarterbacks Out Their  Offenses on Full Display. The Top Ten Acclaim Rises By the Day.

Both QB Went Over Forty Drop back And Thirty. Carr Herbert Took A High Volume Of Shotgun Snaps A Push Downfield. By The End, A A 23-19 Chargers Victory Looked Deceptive. This Game Felt Like A Tennis Rally At Times. Carr Outpace Herbert In Yardage But Throw three Picks And Got Sack Five times. He Finished With A Rating Of 69.1. At The Press Conference After The Game, Carr Seemed Disjointed, Unmoved Even. Let Down Are The Raiders Way Of Letting Us Know They, Carr. He Looked Good Throwing To Devante Adams, But Who Wouldn’t? With Adams And Football,  Nothings Change But The Uniform; Ten Catches A Buck Forty One. Adams Got Open Often. But That’s Nothing New. He Provided Easy See Through Throws For Derek Carr 91.3 Rating When Targeted. Both Teams Had The Rush Game Set To Optional. Break In case A Third and SHORT.

On The Other End, Justin Herbert has To Keep Pace With Mahomes For MVP And, Arguably, Every Quarterback Accolade, the Immaterial And Material Ones. The Best Quarterback. The Most Yardage. The highest Passer Rating. The most Houdini Moments. Herbert completed 26 of 34 attempts for 279 yards, three touchdowns Zero Interceptions. Herbert The Ball With The Ease Of A Black Jack On Deck Of Card. He Got Flushed Out Thea pocket A lot, and The Offensive Line Giving Cringe Face Vibes Credit to The Raiders Pass Rush Living Up To Billing. The Chargers Also Lost Leading Receiver Keenan Allen in the first half(hamstring), But Who Needs An All-Pro Like Allen When You Have DeAndre Carter Running Up The Seam? The Chargers Haven't Given us Their Best Yet. A  Three-Day By Kahlil Mack Doesn’t Establish The Defensive Line Turnaround. The Raiders Struggle With Penalties all Game; that’s The Character Of The Team. The Chargers Almost Lost Late after Leading All Throughout The Game and Generally Looking Like The Superior Team.

Broncos Vs. Seahawk

 Sometimes In a Play Or Movie, The Feature Character Gets The Real Revenge. The Resolution of Plot,  The Real Victory. The NFL Didn’t Need Run A Heavy Weight Promotion For This Opening Weekend “Clash.” In The End, We Walk Geno Smith Walking Away With The Game Manager Of The Year And “Clap-back,” Viral Quote Of The Year. He Stepped Into the Moment And Played The Lead Role Like They Wrote The Script For Him. After Deafening Battle To Win The Qb Battle In The Off-season, Geno Smith Not Only Erased The Drew Lock From Mention He Erased Russell From Memory For Seahawks—At Least Briefly.  If Russell And His “Allege” Blimp Size Ego Can’t Overshadow Geno’s Moment.

The Analytics Of The Nathaniel Hackett Fourth Down Break As Such:” Brandin McManus had a 14.2 percent chance to make the field goal(Next Gen Stats. The Broncos Offense had a 42.1 percent chance to convert on fourth and five. Those Odds To Convert Vary From Team To Team Quarterback To Quarterback.  If The Broncos Successfully Convert The Fourth down  (20 seconds remaining), With two timeouts left, If Hackett Choose The Way Of Big Kahuna Mike McDaniel, Denver has a 66.2 percent chance of scoring three or more points. NGS Didn’t State To What Degrees In Success Rate Would  McManus Kick  Climb If The Broncos Advance The Ball. NFL Models Can Adjust For Environment, Temperature, And Circumstances But “Nerves.” Despite 340 Yards Through The Air Night, The Broncos Generated Just 16 Points. Wilson had Moments, But He Teardown Any Misgivings About His Play Style. The Broncos Failed To Convert A second And Long Two Before The Controversial Fourth Down Decision. Seattle, A Team Nobody Suspects Of Success—Playing  With House Money— Deployed “soft” Coverage  Shell On 3rd And Long. Practicality Surrendering Nine Yards To The Broncos And His Way Into Fourth Down Contract Dilemma With Hackett. The Seahawks had no business entering the winning industry ahead of this game. Pete Carroll Played His Match and His Position To Grade. Either He’ll Watch His “Ex-Partner” In Crime  Walk Off In A Dizziness Bliss While He Sits in Guy Wrenching Queasiness Of Giving The Broncos a   Chance To Feel The Chill Of Living By The Wilson sword and Dying By That Very Sword.

What’s More— If I Had To Ramble— Analytics Are Only Summations Of millions Of Possibilities. Take For Instants NGS’s Improbable Catch Tracker. When A Quarterback Uncork A Pass, The Percentage Climbs From zero To An Assume Probability. But that Summation Can’t Correct For Want Transpires In Between The Lines. The Odds Are Only Numbers Until The Play The Runs, And Something Happens To Shift The Odds Even Or Otherwise. The Odds And Philosophy Were Spot On. You Take Your Shot On Fourth. If You Can’t Trust Your Offense To Pick Up 5 Yards On One Down, You Might Have a Bigger Problem. What Will The Bronco's cargo Ship Moving Offense Look Like Amalgamated To Russell Wilson's “Devil May Cry” To Extend Plays and Take What He Wants Not What’s Available?

I’m Not Analytic-Agnostic. You Know Those Who Celebrate The Curated Principle That Analytics Are having A Negative Influence On The Game, Especially As It Pertains to The Commonplace Trends Of Fourth Down Operation. One Possesion, Two Yards, Should You Ho For It? If You Can’t Trust Your Offense To Get Two Yards Can You Trust Them Anywhere.  During Halftimr of The Steeler-Bengals Game, I Snuck Away To ESPN To Check The Box Scores When I Read A Small Note By ESPN Seth Walker. According To ESPN’s Model, The Steelers Win Probabilty Fell By 4.4 Points Because They Choose a Field Goal Over Aggression On Forth Down. I Mostly Dismissed The Notion. The Steelers Were Pounding The Bengals. The Turnover Differtionial Stood at Plus 4(Three Pick,One Fumble) Eventaually Five. When Chris Boswell Field Goal “Doink” Off Of The Goal At 2:22 In OT And The Bengals Secured The Second Possession of The OT I Returned To Those Odds.  The Steelers Ultimately Pulled Out The Win. Mitch Trubisky Finished 21/38, 194 yards. The Steelers Talented Skill Position Players Didn’t Offer Trent Support On The Back End.  Numerous Drops, One Touchdowns. Receiver Chase Claypool Played Better In Running Game. According To next Gen Stats Trubisky Finished With -2.5 Average Air Yards Difference, Second In Aggressiveness 28.9. Both Indicators That Trubisky Performed Well Enough To Put The Steelers Over. Well Enough To Keep Kenny Pickett On The Sideline at Least Another Game. The Skill Position Players Needs To Make Strides(Bengals Defense Aside). “Pittsburgh Wants To Play Aggressive, (Allegedly.)” if The Steelers are Going To Hold Position In The North, Aggressiveness Only A Starting Position. Credit The Bengals For Showing Resilience. Live By The Shotgun, die By The…. They Fought  Back Seemingly Impossible odds To Cough Up A Game They Had  No Business Holding UnTo And Surrendering In The End. A “Strange” Two Minute Fumble Rule Negated what Could Have Been Another Game Winning  Field Goal Attempt. Even Stranger About The Bengals Loss; They Loss, The Bengals Won many Games Under Similar Pretenses Last Year. The Bengals Practically Had Plot Armor Against These Disadvantages Opportunities.

In Football, And In Sports, You Aren’t Alway Worried About Losing Games, Players, Or Down Distance; you Have To Worry About Losing Your Edge. The Bengals Have Elite Skill Players But Joe “Cool” Needs To Shake Ice a Bit. Forces At Odds: “Improvement Doesn’t Mean Better Results.” The Bengals Earned  A Acclaim, On The Ms Puff(SpongeBob) “Good Noodle Board Their Column Got Flushed Out With Stars, Improving The Offensive Line This Off-season. Except All For Not. Joe Burrow Still Hit The Deck Seven Times. 

The Story Of The 2021 Quarterback Draft Has A Long Way To Go Before Anyone Decide Who Stands Atop Of The Six Guy. In Week One We Got The First Of Many Critical Match Up Amongst the Group. The Long Awaited Just Feild Versus Trey Lance. A Match Up Of Two Dynamic Quarterbacks With Two Defenses Controlling The Outcome. Our Blurb-Ish Start Like a Novel. A raining Day In Chicago, The Main Character Taking On A New Promotion At work. For Long Time Throughout The College Year And The Draft Process Justin Fields Stood Above Trey Lance. Feild Enter The Draft A Five Star Recruit, Endorsed by MVP Cam Newton.  A Late Trade, Intrigue and An Unexpected Fall From Justin Fields Push Lance above Up To Number Three in Draft In The later Weeks Of The Process. Not So Opening Day. Trey Lance and The Niners Had The Win In Hand. A Muddied Slow Day On Books, The Niners Run Game To Cut A Shear The Bear Defense. With The Bear Offense Stuck InStall, You Kept Waiting For The Niners To Do More With Their. Pick Up the Pace, “Rev Up The Harley.” But Whether The Elements Or The Bears Rugged Defense The Game Stood Still. Lance Finished The First Half With Edge In Rating(QBr:Lance,90.0. Fields;3.8) But Fields Made Some “Magic”, Like Real Houdini Stuff Happen Out of The Staunchest Of Circumstances. Short Flicks Of The Wrist With Pockets Crumpling Like Foil All Around Him. Or Escaping The Pocket And Extending The Issue. Underneath The Layers Of The  Transgenerational Offense Of Kyle Shanahan, Justin Feilds Took The Game Back To Basic and Made plays. Not The Finest, I Don’t Know, Hour And Half Of Quarterback Only 8/17, 121 Yards But Two Magical Touchdowns and Big Plays. Feilds Threw an Aggressive Interception Over The Middle Early— That Interception You Like But He Kept Swinging. Lance Looked A Little Better On Averages But costly Interception. FRom observation, He’s Still Waiting On The Keys. Looking For Deebo or Running Back Elijah Mitchell—Who Left With An Injury—, Or Kyle Shanahan To Takeover.  He Looked “Clueless”. 

I’m Not Putting the Bears Over The Niners Any day. The Niners Defensive Line Breathed Fire all Game. But I Love What I Saw From Fields. His Presence, His Completeness His Control.