It's truly a crazy NFL season.
Here we sit after all 32 have completed over half of their games, and a league hierchy remains very unclear. There are 19 teams in the NFL within 2 games of the .500 mark, and only the Lions, the Chiefs and the Bengals appear completely out of the playoff picture.
Tennessee does remain the only unbeaten team, but they have many doubters, including myself, who feel there comes a point in a season where you need a quarterback to win you some football games, and even a "ten years ago" version of Kerry Collins would struggle to do that, let alone the 37 year old he is now.
Deangelo hall was released yesterday by the "Al Davis show" Raiders, and there will surely be a bidding war between teams with playoff inspirations with trouble in the secondary, talking to you Dallas and New England.
Week 10 will surely answer some questions, more to come on that later.
Several big matchups this weekend. Two that stick out for me are the matchups of New England and Buffalo, as well as Indy and the Steelers.
We all saw on Sunday Night as Peyton Manning, Reggie Wayne and co. stepped up and beat their arch rival of the decade patriots. Obviosuly the matchup didnt carry the hyp it normally did. No Tom Brady, no undefeated teams, combined the teams were only 2 games above .500 coming in, but a win is a win, and the Colts, desperate to stay in the Wild-card race, got one.
They need to continue that desperate feel as they travel to Pitsburg this Sunday. The Steelers are coming off an impressive win against the Redskins, led by fill-in quarterback Byron Leftwich. No word on whether or not Big Ben will be in the lineup yet, but either way the colts are going to have to develop some kind of running game to beat the steelers and their outstanding linebacker play at home.
Heading into week 7, Buffalo was a cinderella story at 5-1. Now they appear to be a team with a lot of holes, and a quarterback who may have been annointed early. The Patriots on the other hand appear to be inproving under Matt Cassel and the offense looks a little more comfortabel each week. It appears that Lamont Jordan will be on the field, and that will ad an element to the New England running game they haven't had in weeks.