11
Oct
2009
NFL WEEK FIVE LIVE GAME BLOG: BRADY VS. ORTON EDITION!
By TheDarkHorse
Week Five of the NFL season is upon us. One of day’s most-anticipated matchups features legendary Tom Brady and the New England Patriots against good ol’ boy Kyle Orton and the Denver Broncos. David vs. Goliath!
You may recall the Friday phone call we recorded between Brady and Orton back in mid-September. Who knew, back then, that Denver would be undefeated? WE DID. (OK… no… we didn’t, but we’ve always liked Orton’s devil-may-care style and grace… and we like their chances at home today.)
If anybody has doubts about Orton and his mountain boys, this game is an opportunity for Denver to silence the critics. We’ll be keeping an eye on this game–and every game–all day long.
Check out the “Comments” section for live game commentary.
Big upsets coming today across the league. Just about to tune in.
Is Eli starting, or what? I need to decide between Eli vs. Oakland or Tony Romo vs. Kansas City.
Guess who WON’T be starting on my team: Manningham. I like the guy, but he KILLED me last week.
Loved C-O-U-R-T-N-E-Y’s Favre-potato story.
Eli is going to start. But my guess is he’ll get pulled relatively early.
Smith is clearly Eli’s go-to guy. Manningham is more of a big-play receiver, which means he’s going to be a boom-or-bust play every week.
“But my guess is he’ll get pulled relatively early.”
Based on this, I am starting Romo.
Will there be snow in Denver?
Super-windy in Buffalo: Derek Anderson could be an interception machine.
It’s not snowing today in Denver. Just cold.
Redskins force an early fumble by Deangelo Williams and Portis converts with a TD.
Dante Culpepper! Big scramble for the Lions against PIT
AP puts the Vikings up on the Rams early with a 5-yd run
McNabb LAUNCHES one to Jeremy Maclin for a 51-yd TD.
Eagles over TB 7-0
I gather teams will be rocking the pink throughout October? Great cause, it’s just still a little shocking to see.
Giants go for it on 4th and goal from the 1, Ahmad Bradshaw gets in for the TD.
Brandon Jacobs had 3 tries to get in but got stuffed, so they went with the smaller Bradshaw on 4th down. Jacobs has been criticized of late for tip toeing at the line of scrimmage …
Kyle Boller dropped the ball on a drop back and Jared Allen scoops and returns it 52 yards for a TD. The Rams are just awful. 14-0 MIN
Minnesota’s having quite a season.
Fired up for Broncos/Pats.
Giants up 14-0 on Bradshaw’s 2nd TD of the game. If Eli starts the 2nd half, I’ll be surprised.
Cleveland has two offensive plays: Buffalo has figured them both out.
Ed Reed picks off Carson Palmer and takes it to the house!
7-0 Ravens
Manning to Manningham for a 30-yd TD. 21-0 Giants.
Looks like Bradshaw is getting all of the carries since that goal line series.
Is Romo just average? Have we accepted this yet?
Browns have had like 22 runs and 3 passes.
Chansi Stuckey fills in for Braylon Edwards well —– with a drop on 3rd down.
The Giants are making the Radiers look like the Red Raiders.
Terrell Thomas sacks Jamarcus Russell, Tuck recovers. Manning converts with a TD to Hakeem Nicks.
28-0 Giants.
Giants are making the Raiders look like… the Raiders.
Chiefs up 10-0 after Mike Vrabel catches a TD pass .. has there ever been a more prolific TD scorer than Vrabel? He must have like 12 career catches for 12 TDs.
KC got the ball after Romo fumbled the snap. Eli will probably outscore Romo in the first half alone. Sorry.
I am watching — honestly — the worst Browns football team I have seen play in 25 years.
It is hard to describe.
7 minutes left in the 2nd quarter and the Browns have ZERO passing yards.
and yet they’re up 3-0 somehow.
They took the ball over at midfield and ran it 5 times.
Anderson is 0-6 for ZERO yards.
Trading Braylon has worked wonders — we’ve REMOVED the cancer from the offense, alright.
Big Ben just got picked off by the Lions who returned it for a TD.
14-13 PIT
The Giants just got robbed by the refs. They stripped the ball from Justin Fargas and picked it up and returned for a TD, but the a-hole refs had blown the play dead, so it wasn’t reviewable.
Not that it matters in this game, but when will the refs learn to let the play finish before they blow the whistle?!??
The “blow-the-play-dead-whistle” is deeply annoying at times.
David Carr is in the game for the Giants. before the half.
Browns: 11 yards passing at halftime.
How bad are the Dallas Cowboys?
if only COURTNEY were here to let us know.
Bengals just go ahead 17-14 with :22 seconds to go.
Every 3rd down conversion on that drive was via penalty – Ray Lewis got flagged for a huge hit on Ochocinco.
The red zone channel is a mezermizing drug.
Miles Austin may have just bailed out Tony Romo.
Cleveland has thrown for 23 yards in an entire football game — and is beating the Bills 6-3 with 23 seconds left.
BROWNS WIN!!! BROWNS WIN!
Dwayne Bowe ties it for the Chiefs! This thing is going to overtime.
… and we’re back!!! It’s been a glorious Sunday thus far. I’m 3 beers and 10 wings deep, and feeling good.
Some good football this afternoon. Effing Cowboys pulled it off. Miles Austin won that game almost single-handedly.
Don’t look now, but the Bengals are 4-1.
Since we haven’t heard from him in hours, it’s possible that TheDarkHorse is on a Browns game-winning celebratory bender.
Note that we haven’t even mentioned the headline game for this blog – Broncos/Patriots.
I think it’s because the Broncos unis are so nauseating. Mostly just the socks.
It’s turned into a pretty nice day in Denver today.
Why does Randy Moss have a rattail??
Patriots lead 17-10 and driving in the 3rd.
The Browns win was nothing to celebrate… I am actually MORE concerned about the team now, more than ever before. They are inept.
Broncos unis are bee-throwup.
The Seahawks are putting it on the Jags. Garrard is having an awful day.
It’s a melt down in San Francisco. The Falcons have exploded on the 49ers today.
Andre Johsnon is unbelievable. Houston ties it up with Arizona on his 2nd TD of the day … he ran through 3 guys at the goal line. Just nasty.
Broncos driving across midfield trying to tie it up. Orton looks like he’s in control, and Knowshown Moreno is picking up chunks of yardage.