Weekend Recap - CFB Week 2 & NFL Week 1

Good afternoon sports fans! Wow. Every year I talk about how I can't wait for football season to start and every year the first full weekend back doesn't disappoint. Don't get me wrong, I love college football and Week 0 matchups are a great appetizer but really nothing compares to having a full slate of college on Saturday followed by NFL Sunday. It truly is the greatest reason to never leave your house for a weekend. I haven't been in school in years and that Sunday Night Football music STILL immediately triggers a "oh shit is my homework done?" thought in my brain before I remember that I'm an adult and now have to worry about things way more difficult than an algebra worksheet. Let's jump into what happened this weekend.

CFB Week 2

You know I'm looking over the scoreboard now and it seems like it was a pretty uneventful week on the college side. Georgia came out flat again on offense but figured it out, Tennessee struggled against Austin Peay but was able to get a win still, and it looks like every top 25 team won...oh wait that's right one went down. The University of Alabama Crimson Tide fell to the Texas Longhorns on Saturday night after Texas was able to rattle off 21 points in the 4th quarter. This game had everything my wet dreams could ask for after it too: Saban saying he got out coached, Texas fans chanting "We want Georgia", and a video coming out of Alabama fans being the trashy people that some of them are. I'm not saying I called this when I told y'all Quinn Ewers buzzcut told me he meant business this season...but I didn't not say that 2 weeks ago. This is the kind of game where Nick would normally be red and yelling on the sidelines for the last 30 minutes of the game but it seemed to me like he's kind of resigned to the fact his team is not as dominant as his teams from the past. There's no doubt in my mind he still has the ability to build and coach a team that can win a national championship, but I'm not sure what this year's team will be able to accomplish if they aren't able to figure out their identity on both sides of the ball. Between that and Georgia showing some signs of weakness on offense, the non-SEC teams are thinking it could finally be their year to end the narrative. I'm waiting until SEC play to make any public statements on my feelings of the Georgia QB room, but let me just say that I discovered the second most damning picture of Carson Beck ever published this morning (picture is below, you'll have to google "carson beck snapchat" to see the worst because I don't want to include it on my page) and I might be ready to hit the Brock Vandagriff button. He failed the green line test AND chose to do a broke boyfriend pose, it's hard to look at. Outside the SEC, schools like Florida Stata, Michigan, and USC are starting to believe it could be their year after rolling through the first two weeks. College Football is at its best when more teams think they have a real shot at winning a championship so I'm excited, hopefully we have some more top 25 upsets this weekend with conference play starting for more teams and we can see how the teams shake out. 

(credit to @jackmacbarstool)

NFL

Similar to college, it seemed that most of the NFL was business as usual this weekend. It's the first week so you had some big names go down who we didn't expect, the biggest being the Chiefs on Thursday night and the Bengals during the 1 o'clock slate, but both had valid excuses and lost to teams who could very well end up in the playoffs too. We had some close games too but looking back at them I can't even remember exactly how most ended. Saints-Titans and Raiders- Broncos were one point games but I couldn't tell you what Derek Carr, Ryan Tannehill, Jimmy Garoppolo, or Russell Wilson  looked like in the fourth quarter of their games. The only QB list those guys will end up at the top of is "whitest QB names in the league". The big winners of the week are the Dolphins for getting a huge road win against the Chargers off of a late touchdown drive and the Packers for debuting Jordan Love with a 38-20 divisional win over the Bears. Tua looked like an MVP quarterback and was throwing to an unguardable Tyreek Hill going up against Justin Herbert who was slashing through the new Vic Fangio defense with ease up until the final drive where the defensive line for Miami was finally able to take him down. While 1 week out of 17 isn't going to decide anything, these are the games that could decide the playoff teams in a stacked AFC this year and are certainly important for a Dolphins team who has two Super Bowl contenders in their division. We've got one more game until we're all done with Week 1 and those two contenders are facing off tonight, I'm hoping for a big game and an even bigger let down from Josh Allen and Aaron Rodgers if I'm lucky. Have a great week everyone!

-Joe