Week 1 has essentially started already, with the Patriots/Steelers game. We all know what happened there.The interesting games in my mind are, Giants/Cowboys, Seahawks/Rams, Saints/Cardinals, Lions/Chargers, Baltimore/Denver.Giants have Wr's and a Hb I like in Andre Williams. Actually, Victor Cruz is hurt again and out for this game. Cowboys have that Oline. I'm looking forward to seeing what that looks like. Seahawks picked up Te Graham from the Saints, and of course hb Lynch. Rams have lots of D including Mark Barron still on the roster!Saints have Drew Brees against a pretty good D, and then the Cards have some O that should have gelled by now.Lions have a bunch of Hbs to go along with their passing attack. Their D has matured; they are one of the top teams, finally!(I don't mean to be cheering them on; I'm being sarcastic . . .), against a Chargers team who might get beat on week one, but will be a surprise team this year. Ravens against Peyton Manning. If nothing else, it will be interesting to see how much Peyton has left in the tank. Raven's number one pick Wr Perriman is unfortunately out.Some of the other game have their interest. Some might like to see the Colts with all their new weapons. Will the Texans D have Clowney to go along with J.J. Watt? Blake Bortles vs Cam Newton? Cleveland D vs Jets D, I'm a little interested in seeing what rookie Wr Amari Cooper can do against the Bengals D, I'm thinking the Vikings are a top team this year as well. Their D with mlb Kendricks should prove interesting. Then, the Vikes also have another rookie I liked in Stefon Diggs. But, the other really interesting game, if for no other reason than we have two rookie Qb's going against each other, and were picked one/two in the draft, both Heisman winners, like it or not, this is an interesting matchup! Getting back to the Pats/Steelers game . . . The Steelers were a little rusty or unprepared mentally to face the Patriots. I just find the Pats/Steelers game interesting for what could be coming for the Bucs/Titans game. I don't expect our D to be that mentally off against the Titans. The Bucs D has already shown growth and functionality towards the end of last year. Well, we do have a rookie mlb, but a talented one. The Bucs brought in Melton amongst others which should improve the D more than anything else. It'll be interesting to see what the Titans choose to do with Mariota - play college game, or pro-game. Either way actually, I'm thinking we're going to be alright. The question is Jamies and the Bucs O.I'm pretty confident in the Bucs rushing attack. The passblocking oline might not be so bad, but the Te's against two pretty good passrushing linebackers seems a little bit of a probem. But, we've got Dirk Koetter, who can make the Oline look even better, and probably will do something to deal with two 260 plus pound passrushers. Either hb's or te's in the passing game to make those passrushers think of something else than passrushing. If the Titans put the safeties on the Tes/Hbs, our Wr's are likely pretty open . . . deep! I'm hearing all kinds of, we don't want Winston passing; I'm seeing, let's pass the ball . . . and run the ball. Almost certainly, the gameplan will be to manipulate those to edge rushers. It will be interesting to see what Dick Lebaeu can do to stop receiving hbs and Tes; you just know the guy wants to passrush those two guys. I'm thinking the Bucs are almost built to handle 3-4, with the pass receiving Hbs we've got.
