Thoughts of the week

Another week in the books, time to throw out some reflections of the week that was.

• Division Champs baby, how bout those Giants, 2 years ago they had to win the last game of the year to clinch, this year the Giants clinch with 2 weeks to go, setting up the rotation and making sure everyone is well rested for the DS.
• Reds clinched as well, congrats to them, they also helped the Giants by beating the Dodgers.
• American League is hot this is gonna go down to the wire, I stick to my picks last week.
• Iowa and the rest of the Big Ten sucks.
• Never thought I'd say this but the weakness on the Redskins is the defense, been terrible the last 2 weeks.  The safety play alone is mind boggling.
• The Redskins need an offensive idenity, yesterday they went to the option and walked down the field but they can't throw out of it so they need to work on it.
• The officials are terrible, the end of the Vikings game was just terrible.
• I think the announcers need to continue to berate the officials during the games to embaress the NFL
• The problem with the officials isn't the calls, it's the procedures they keep giving teams extra time outs, marching out the wrong distances on penalties, they don't control the players.  I know nobody is perfect and the regular officials aren't, but at least they keep the game undercontrol.
• Starting from 28th, driving to the front before lap 100 and dominating the race Denny Hamlin showed he's the guy everyone should look out for.  Lots of people can start up front and stay up front but to drive to the front on a mile track inside of 100 laps shows your a great driver and a great team.
• 3rd in points 7 back of 1st if Denny can weather the storm the next 2 weeks he'll take this thing.
• The Cardinals are a good team, beating New England and Philly back to back.
• Parody is at an all time high in the league this year, the Vikings beat the 49ers who everyone thought are the best team in the league. 
• Houston is awesome and I think are the favorites in the AFC
• Atlanta is good but they are front runners, they get a lead but don't knock you out in the 2nd half, that could come back to haunt them.
• 3 weeks in and no Tebow, how long the Jets gonna wait?
• The Saints have something wrong, more than Sean Payton, something bad.  I thought KC had no chance after the way they played against Buffalo but the Saints let Jamaal Charles just rip them.

That's all for this week, after week 4 I think I'll try a power rankings for the NFL post, so look for that next week.  In the mean time follow me on twitter @derekbredeson or read some of my older posts.