Soy un Perdedor

I love the numbers, and one of my favorite parts of every Monday is heading over to the NFL stats pages to pour over who is where. Now as part of my weekly contribution to Cold Hard Football Facts, I get started on Sunday afternoon. For the record, I enjoyed researching that Texans/Jags game. Seriously. After covering three straight Texans games, I now no longer fear them at all. Demond rightly compared them to the 2001-2002 Colts team. Lots of fire power, really shaky D.

Here's some of the feel good numbers after three weeks in the season.

Peyton Manning:

#2 in passing yards (8 behind Rivers)
#2 in Passer Rating at 117.7 (Brees is at 118.1)
#1 in YPA
#4 in comp % at 68.8% (Roethlisberger is at 71.6)
#2 in TD passes with 7 (Brees has 9)

Reggie Wayne/Dallas Clark

4th and 7th in receptions with 20 and 18 (Moss has 26)
1st and 4th in yards with 325 and 284
tied for 2nd with 2 TDs along with Garcon as well (Colston has 3)

Dwight Freeney is third in sacks with 4 (Antwan Odom has 7)

Antoine Bethea is tied for fourth with 2 picks (three with 3)

The Colts are:

4th in total offense (1st in passing, 2nd in yards per play)
5th in defensive yards per play
3rd in fewest points allowed.
8th in sacks, 6th in defensive passer rating, 2nd in passing TDs allowed.
31st in 3rd down % allowed. The Colts D gives up 50% of all third downs. I definitely believe the injuries in the secondary are hurting this number.

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Did Bob Kravitz actually write this?
written by Bob M, September 28, 2009

Good thing he's an accredited jouralist with a HS diploma.

From his weekly Dopey Report Card, about the JAddai Master: "We’re starting to see the old burst, and if both him and Donald Brown can stay healthy, look out."

Let's just remove Donald Brown from the equation for a moment, shall we? (Because the number of items in a list does not change them from nominative case to objective case.) Without Brown, what he might have said was "If... him can stay healthy...."

Indeed. Doesn't this guy have an editor? An inquisitive 6th grader at home?

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written by Monkey Business, September 28, 2009

Isn't the rest of that line "I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me"?

Freeney
written by Westside Rob, September 28, 2009

FO Injury Guy Tweeting that Freeney has a TORN quad: http://twitter.com/injuryexpert/status/4451582393

That can't be good and I suspect IF it is true it might be season ending. Though it's hard to imagine someone could walk off the field with a torn quad.

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written by DZ, September 28, 2009

Chill, man. I'm where it's at.

All I need to rock is two turntables and a microphone.

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written by DemondSanders, September 28, 2009

Another f**king season wasted.

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written by J.C., September 28, 2009

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey

DZ:

Did you know he was saying Soy un Perdedor since 94?

I won't believe you if you say yes.

And Rob:

Tom walked of the field with an ACL and MCL. Went on IR two days later.

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written by DZ, September 28, 2009

I had my first Spanish class in 2nd grade in 1984. By the time I was a junior in HS (1994), I had already taken about 8 years of Spanish.

So yes, I knew what he was saying in 1994.

I love that monkey line.

Demond is saying what I'm thinking. I feel sick about Freeney.

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written by DemondSanders, September 28, 2009

I can't possibly be the only one who has been hitting refresh on his browser for the past hour looking for news.

Sorry if I over-react (as if that were possible), but when they lost Freeney in 2007 it was effectively lights out. There was no way they were beating the Pats without him. He is the most important player on that side of the ball... by a lot.

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written by Monkey Business, September 28, 2009

Sounds like a torn quad, depending on the severity, is anywhere from a 2-4 week out to a season ender. HOWEVER, if it were a season ender, he wouldn't have been able to walk off the field last night. So, pencil DFree in for after the bye week.