Well, for anyone worried that this season might end up being too different, put your fears to rest. The Jets are very much still the Jets.

Surprising absolutely noone, Gronkowski with his 17th 100yrd receiving game.

Well done by the Falcons, especially Julio Jones.

Dallas did pretty well overall I thought. I heard late in the week that Jeremy Mincey, the best remaining DE for Dallas was out of this weekend due to concussion, at that point I should have changed my pick to be honest. With Gregory hurt and Hardy still to return, that was simply too much to handle for a full game. We even saw it in the way the game worked out. Dallas D started out pretty good, but with no real chance for rotation (and Hayden getting hurt but having nobody to bring in really), they started giving up the run game bigtime, and from there the writing was on the wall.

I think with Mincey back, they have a solid shot against a terrible NO team next week, but then you have the Patriots, which is a guaranteed L. So that's 1-2 for this stretch, leaving Dallas at 3-3 with 6 games to play without Romo, but with Hardy, McClain, Gregory, and Mincey back. Looking at that series, 6-6 is possible as a record coming into the final 4 games with Romo and Dez back. If they ran the table to end the season they'd probably be NFC East champs. We will have to wait and see who in the NFC East can get it together enough to present a threat.

But overall, still not bad. It would be like facing Atlanta without Matt Ryan, without Julio Jones, without their best 3 defensive ends, without their best Sam linebacker, and without their best slot corner (I'm probably missing some guys, but that is good enough). An intact Dallas team (or any credible upper tier team like GB, NE) would destroy Atlanta if they were that injured, and almost certainly beat them with an equal injury count.

Well the Titans just fucked that up

Lol who would have thought 2 NFC South teams would start 3-0

So the Cowboys were able to score 28 points in the first half, then weren't able to score anything in the 2nd half.
Meanwhile, the Atlanta offense was on a tear in the 2nd half. This is usually a sign of good adjustments and coaching, as they were able to completely dominate the 2nd half of this game. I really liked the hire of Dan Quinn and he seems to be doing a pretty good job as first year head coach. To be fair, almost anyone would have been better than Mike Smith (if anyone watched 4th quarter one possession Falcons games last year, you know exactly what I mean). After reviewing the Falcons remaining schedule, it looks relatively easy. They have games against the AFC South (nothing's a given in the NFL but it's the weakest division in football); their toughest games from a glance are 2 against CAR, vsMIN, and @SF.

The Eagles weren't the dumpster fire I thought they were. I let 'em off the hook...

Yeah I think the Falcons should be favorites in their division at this point.

The second half domination came primiarly from the Cowboys lack of depth thanks to incredible injuries. Hardy was the #1 DE, but he is suspended until game 5. Gregory was our starting DE, he got knocked out in game 1. Mincey replaced him, and was ruled out for todays game due to concussion, and then Hayden got banged up during this game, but they had nobody to rotate or replace him with. The defense got gassed trying to keep up with a very fast and physical Atlanta O, and with no starting-caliber DEs even to start the game, they couldn't really do anything to pressure Matt Ryan.

I know Julio Jones had some hamstring issues, which makes his play all the more impressive imho.

Lol. Kap starts the game with 2 pick sixes in the first 5 minutes of the game. Ouch.

Man fuck the Rams Only reason I'm not perfect so far.

The rams defense must be something else if the Steelers could only score 12 points. Meanwhile the Cardinals have already scored twice, looking like another high scoring week for them.