Welcome back to Five Hot Takes, where the LWOS staff posts weekly features from the NFL’s hottest weekly takes with confronting opinions of my own. Week seven is the hottest it’s been in a while, but only five takes are worthy of this article.
Five Hot Takes From Week Seven
Let’s cut to the chase and begin Five Hot Takes From Week seven.
1. The Sunday Night Football Game Featuring Seattle And Arizona Was Bad
Not normally a hot take, but this is the old double standard from NFL fans. Many complain that today’s game lacks any defense. Once a defensive showdown breaks out and the game ends at 6-6, people complain that it’s boring. Which one is it?
If anything, the hilarity of the shanked kicks in overtime made it completely worthwhile, and plays during this period were being made by David Johnson and Doug Baldwin. Contrary to what people think, it was a really entertaining game.
2. Davante Adams Has Broken Out
How can we be sure of this when the majority of his career has been garbage? The 100+ yard two touchdown performance can put some credit in Adams’ stock for actually catching the ball, but the second touchdown was the result of blown coverage in the end zone.
3. Matthew Stafford Had Little Help Sunday
Are you sure? Half of the time he was forcing inaccurate throws that were fortunate not to be picked. Marvin Jones was a beast as per usual, and Jim Bob Cooter dialed up a great game as well.
Stafford really turned it up on the final drive, and even then he should’ve had an interception. Golden Tate and Anquan Boldin were still around to grab a hold of Stafford’s passes. Had he been playing with more efficiency, we could have said the absence of Ameer Abdullah, Theo Riddick, and Eric Ebron would have been why.
4. What Options Do The Texans Have Besides Brock Osweiler?
Anyone. Anyone could be better than Brock Osweiler has this season. You can get Tom Savage to not throw receivers open, checkdown when he isn’t supposed to, take little care of the football, not handle the football, and be turnover prone without having to pay him $72M.
The idea that this question exists suggests that people really get blindsided by the Texans’ 4-3 record. It doesn’t help that Bill O’Brien likely won’t bench him anytime soon. Against tougher teams, that’s going to be an issue for Houston.
5. Bryce Petty And Christian Hackenberg Aren’t Ready Yet
Then what was the point of drafting them? Ryan Fitzpatrick has been awful, and Geno Smith is done for the season with a torn ACL. When you draft two quarterbacks in two years, you don’t just sit them on the bench and expect them to develop. It doesn’t and shouldn’t work that way.
If Petty and Hack aren’t ready yet, that’s on the Jets front office for mishandling the draft. The team is 2-5 and running out of room for excuses. One of these two QBs should be starting over Fitzpatrick so they can see what they have in them.
