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Hello everyone! Whew, this is the latest that my Monday morning recap will be published, I promise. I recently got back from Orange County and San Diego for a final summer trip for 10 days. We drove home last night in about 7 hours, finally arriving at around 1:30am. Luckily, both girls are in school/daycare for the day so I was actually able to say to Mike, "So will you watch
SportsCenter with
me this morning? I recorded it...I really need to see some highlights!" I don't know who was more shocked, him or me. I have to say, I think after four years of writing this blog I'm actually kind of getting it!
First off, I want to give two shout-outs: One to my
UCLA Bruins after not only the football team but the Men's Soccer team, the Women's Soccer team, the Women's Volleyball team and the Men's Water Polo team ALL won their games this weekend. Go Bruins!!
Second, I've gotta give a shout to my dear friends Rebecca and Sean, who's wedding celebration we attended in San Diego this weekend. What a fabulous time. Good friends, good times. Congrats guys!!
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RG3 |
Ok, so let's get down to the games and goings on of the weekend. Remember our rookie players that we learned about last week? Let's see how they did.
ROOKIES:
Remember
RGIII on the
Washington Redskins? Well, folks, he killed it.
A+. He has lived up to, if not surpassed all of the hype. Everyone at your office will be talking about how great he was on Sunday against the
New Orleans Saints. He became the first player in NFL history to have 300 passing yards, 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions in the 1st game of his career. Amazeballs. This guy is a beast. You will definitely hear more about him in the weeks to come! Congrats! You may now keep all of your sponsors.
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Andrew Luck |
ANDREW LUCK is the also hyped, 1st round draft pick for the Colts who replaced
Peyton Manning. He did...meh. We'll give him a
B-/C+. This isn't college, honey. Look at me sounding so harsh. He had 3 sacks, 3 interceptions and 3 fumbles during his first game. Not so "Luck-y."
Jay Cutler and his
Chicago Bears killed them 41-21. I wonder if the Colts are kicking themselves this morning for dumping Manning considering he looked fantastic and led his new team, the
Denver Broncos, to a win over the
Steelers 31-19. This is after he was out all of last year after having 4 neck surgeries. He also became only the third person in the NFL to get 400 touchdowns in his career on Sunday. Apparently this is a lot.
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Tannehill |
And then there's our poor, poor
RYAN TANNEHILL that we've grown to love from
Hard Knocks (HBO) on the
Miami Dolphins. He gets a
D. Even though I love him
and his hot wife. Tannehill
threw 3 interceptions in less than six minutes in the 2nd quarter. This is bad. On
SportsCenter, they said he had problems with "staring down the receivers," meaning that most QBs sort of look at other receivers when the ball is snapped and then at the last second look and throw the ball to the intended receiver. You know, like a fake-out. Apparently Tannehill was just staring at who he was gonna throw the ball to. As you can tell, this makes it easy for the defense to just go chase after that guy. Sigh.
Another rookie who did even worse than Tannehill was
BRANDON WEEDON on the Cleveland Browns. He gets an
F. I've gotta ask my girl Jenn over at
Sports Stole My Man if everyone in Cleveland is crying today. They played
Michael Vick (who looked almost as bad!) on the
Philadelphia Eagles. BOTH Weedon and Vick threw 4 interceptions and generally just looked terrible. Vick eked out the win for the Eagles 17-16.
In other news, our own
SF 49ers looked great with back-from-retirement
Randy Moss. They beat the
Green Bay Packers 30-22.
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Tom Brady with busted nose |
The
NY Jets scored an impressive 48 points over the
Buffalo Bills, the most ever in franchise history for a season opener. Bill's
Fred Jackson had a cringe-inducing knee injury that may keep him out for 3-4 weeks. You may remember that
Tim Tebow got traded to the Jets...he played a little bit, but
Mark Sanchez was in for the majority of the game.
Oh yeah, and
Tom Brady busted his pretty nose! Apparently it's not broken, but if you look on the replay, this guys shin literally goes right into the open spot on his helmet and slams him in the face. Ouch. Whatever, he's still hot. I bet Giselle is pissed.
There are two Monday night games tonight (a little excessive, I know).
The Cincinnati Bengals take on the Baltimore Ravens at 7pm ET and the San Diego Chargers take on the Oakland Raiders at 10:15pm ET.