Our boys in red scared us for a while there by imitating a competitive team, but old reliable Matt Cassell came through at crunch time to keep our hopes alive! Cassell currently has 3 TDs and 5 INTs that’s a great recipe for disaster and barometer for a legit terrible team. The next two weeks will either seriously boost or hurt our campaign's chances as the Chiefs take on 2 other 0 win teams in Indy and up next Minnesota.
Biggest Obstacle to top pick: A once thought uber tough schedule is suddenly looking much easier than originally thought and provides many opportunities for fluke wins derailing the top pick campaign.
Biggest Help to top pick: Also their schedule. The Chiefs literally control their own destiny for the top as they face just about every major contender for the top pick and losses to those teams would go far in cementing their place as the first loser.
Minnesota Vikings 0-3
The Vikings started strong and then improbably snatched defeat from the jaws of victory after jumping out to a 20-0 lead and even leading 20-10 into the fourth quarter with one of the top running backs in the league and still managed to lose. Two of the three remaining undefeated teams are in the Vikings division (Green Bay and Detroit) normally making this a team in grand position to march towards the number one pick. However, Adrian Peterson gives us hope. The former Sooner is a perennial fantasy favorite for good reason and you have to figure that behind his strong rushing the Vikes will gain a handful of victories, hopefully starting next week.
Current QB situation: Donovan McNabb (starter) Christian Ponder (drafted in first round last year). Highly unlikely the Vikes take Luck even if they do possess the number one pick. Chance of drafting Luck: Nil
Biggest Obstacle to the top pick: Two words; Adrian Peterson. A contender to be the best back in the league will always make the Vikes a threat to win any game and keep them from the top pick.
Biggest Help to the top pick: Two words; Donavon McNabb. Once a super bowl QB, Rush Limbeau’s favorite player appears to be at the end of his career but no ready to admit it. Worse is that the Vikes seem to support his delusional appraisal of his ability to still play at a high level as they refuse to even think about letting Ponder get any playing time.
Miami Dolphins 0-3
The fish again came up just short and fell to the Browns this week to remain winless. Chad Henne looked so promising against New England, but couldn’t overcome 5 sacks a pick to victory. This was one of the easier games on the schedule for Miami and a loss here certainly makes them our main adversary to the number one pick. Might Nov 6 at Kansas City be the Luck Bowl?
QB Situation: Chad Henne. Chad has shown flashes of brilliance to match frustrating inconsistency. The Dolphin management showed their lack of true faith in Henne in their offseason pursuit of Bronco’s QB Kyle Orton. Chance of drafting Luck: Bank on it.
Biggest Obstacle to top pick: Chad Henne. Henne knows this is his last chance to make a case to be a starter whether thats on this team or another. Expect him to never stop trying to win and prove he deserves to be a starter in this league.
Biggest Help to top pick: Schedule. The AFC East is just silly hard and Dolphins get to see all those teams twice.
Indianapolis Colts 0-3
The Colts looked a lot like the Chiefs this week as they matched up against a power team in the Steelers and nearly stole a victory. Hopefully they can keep this up, but the injury to Kerry “I was at the Alamo” Collins seemed to knock them out of their competing ways. On the bright side Indy has the easiest schedule of all the winless teams so the odds of a few fluke wins are high.
QB Situation: Peyton Manning (seriously injured and old), Kerry Collins (seriously bad, maybe injured, oh and really old). It was revealed that reserve QB Curtis “I’m the answer to that trivia question” Painter never takes any snaps in practice w/the team as Peyton runs all the practices. This has set off all kinds of wake up calls around Indy with Peyton’s injury as they suddenly realize how ill prepared they are for the post Peyton era, an era that could come much sooner than later. Chance they will draft Luck: Suddenly very high.
Biggest Obstacle to top pick: The return of the man. This is a team still stocked with plenty of superstars on both sides of the ball and once they figure out how to get just adequate QB play they should contend for a handful of wins again and take themselves out of any serious top pick contention.
Biggest Help to top pick: OC Experience. Let’s face facts offensive coordinator for the Colts was a dream job before Peyton went down. Now suddenly their OC and staff has to stop chilling on the sideline with Mai Thais watching Peyton do it all and game plan?St. Louis Rams 0-3
QB Situation: Sam Bradford. Sam is the league’s last overall number one big money man and his initial play has done plenty to back that payday up. Lately injuries have set him back but he is in no danger of losing his job. Chance to draft Luck: Are pigs flying?
Biggest Obstacle to top pick: Their division. We're talking about a group that put a division winner in Seattle in the playoffs with a losing 7-9 record last year. This group would fear a road game against the Bearcats.....of Northwest Missouri State. Expect a few easy wins in the Rams future.
Biggest Help to top pick: The injury bug. This team just can't seem to stay healthy as every week they lose a productive player to injury.
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