Headline: Texans Look to Deepen Jets Wounds on Monday Night
The Houston Texans will look to remain perfect on the season when they travel to New York to take on the completely dysfunctional Jets. It is a tale of two franchises – one going in completely the right direction and the other sliding down that slippery slope in the wrong direction – I will let you decide which franchise is going in which direction!
Headline: Unflattering 2-1 Teams Meet on Monday Night – Bears at Cowboys
Two teams that had lofty expectations heading into the 2012 NFL season meet on Monday Night Football with their eyes on a 3-1 record and top spot in their division.
Headline: Surprising Seahawks Host Packers on Monday Night
The Seattle Seahawks will host their second straight Eastern Conference Heavyweight on Monday night looking for their second straight win. The Packers rebounded nicely in Week 2 after a substandard Week 1 while the Hawks flexed their muscle and rode the 12th man to an impressive win over Dallas in Week 1 after a disappointing Week 1 loss at Arizona.
Heavyweights Do Battle Monday Night – Broncos Visit Falcons
Quarterbacks will be in the spotlight Monday night when the 1-0 Denver Broncos fresh off an impressive opening week win over Pittsburgh travel to Atlanta to take on the Atlanta Falcons who also looked very good in their initial game of the 2012 season. It is one of the marquee matchups on the Week 2 schedule – too bad we have to wait until Monday to see it!
Bengals Travel to Baltimore for key AFC North Clash
The Baltimore Ravens begin their 2012 season on Monday night with high hopes of getting over the hump and getting back to the Super Bowl. In their way in Week 1 is one of the teams that they will have to better – the young guns of the AFC North, the Cincinnati Bengals.
Chargers and Raiders conclude Week 1 on Monday Night
The AFC West takes center stage in the final game of Week 1. For those of you in the East, you will probably rely on Sports Center for the results. For those of us in the West, we may actually see a good game between two teams looking to get off on the right foot this year.
One of the biggest surprises in the NFL this season has been the emergence of the San Francisco 49ers under new head coach Jim Harbaugh. A
The Seattle Seahawks will try to keep their ever so slim Wild Card playoff aspirations alive on Monday night when they take on the St. Louis Rams in Seattle.
The NFL season is a marathon, not a sprint. If you don’t believe that, then just ask Norv Turner and the San Diego Chargers.
Like the car company that the team’s stadium is named after, the New Orleans Saints have the power to take it from 0-60 in seconds when playing at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, and have proved it with four straight wins to open the home portion of their schedule.
It wasn’t very long ago that when the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings met, it was a battle between two future Hall of Fame quarterbacks, with the intriguing sidebar of mentor versus student and all of the excitement that went down in Wisconsin along the way. For years it was Aaron Rodgers learning behind Brett Favre in Green Bay.
Do not look now, but the Philadelphia Eagles are heating up. For all of those critics that bashed the “dream team”, we could very well be witnessing the same thing that NBA fans saw with the Miami Heat team that went to the NBA Finals a year ago.
There may not be anything more annoying this NFL season than the radio ads that they relentlessly run to hype the fact that the San Diego Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs are set to meet this Monday Night Football on Halloween night.
While a handful of projected AFC contenders have started slow out of the gate, the Baltimore Ravens are right where they expected to be at the top of the AFC North after winning four of their first five games.
The New York Jets entered the 2011-12 NFL season with their goal to finally get through to the Super Bowl after consecutive AFC Championship game appearances in head coach Rex Ryan’s first two years with the team.
How about them Detroit Lions? Few would have projected that the only team to match the perfect record of the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers through the first four games of the season would be Detroit, but heading in to their return to Monday Night Football against their division rival Chicago Bears, that is exactly how the story has played out.
