THE 5 WORST TEAMS IN THE NFL - WEEK 1

Opening weekend had a lot of ups and downs with teams looking like they were in mid-season form and others looking like they never even had a training camp at all.  The bottom 5 teams in the power rankings week 1 without question if you ask me are…………

5. Cincinnati Bengals - Carson Palmer looked like a deer in the headlights all game long. I know they were playing the Ravens but these are not the same Ravens that won the Super Bowl in 2000.  Carson failed to reach 100 yards passing which with that team and receivers is pathetic as well as slap in the face of the Bengal Fans.  When Joe Flacco a Rookie from a Division II school Delaware and a Ravens team without it’s top Running Back hold you to 10 points and not a single offensive TD they are lucky they’re not in the bottom spot.  Chad, T.J. and Carson need to step up and produce like they should be able too.  We all know the Bengals don’t know how to play defense but with that offense they need to start trying to out score their opponets or they will be on the outside looking in again year after year with that team.

4. San Francisco 49ers - Frank Gore didn’t have any help on Sunday what so ever. It was like he was the only player playing in the Division Match Up between them and the Cards.  Frank Gore ran for 96 Yards and a TD on only 14 carries, and not to mention catching 4 balls for 55 yards as well.  If the 49ers didn’t turn the ball over 5 times yes 5 times in week one they probably would have pulled out the victory.  No one could stop Frank Gore when he had the ball the problem was he didn’t have enough chances at all since the 49er D was always out on the field.  When the San Fran Defense is out on the field 15+ more minutes that the Cards you will more than likely loose whether or not they committed 5 T.O.’s  Some parts of the 49ers offense looked good but overall looked just disgusting and in-experienced.

3. OAKLAND RAIDERS - When you play for the Raiders and Al Davis is your owner, and you open up a brand new season AT HOME on MONDAY NIGHT against a Division Rival you need to come up with more than 14 points, PERIOD!!!!!  When the Raiders’ leading reciver has 39 yards and it is your Fullback, that is horrible.  Going into the season the Raiders were high on their QB since they took him Number 1 overall last year, you need to give him some decent targets to throw too.  When the only WR who had TD for the Raiders is a disgruntled Ashley Lelie that is not good.  He might not be disgurntled now but just wait a bit, every team he has been with has been happy to get rid of the headache called Hurricane Lelie.  The running game looked decent for the Raiders, too bad it wasn’t the guy who they wanted to do most of the running looking great. Run DMC (Darren McFadden) hurt his shoulder in the game a little bit and is expected to be back at practice on Wednesday.  Justin Fargas who gained over 1,000 yards last year looked decent and personally made me question taking McFadden since they have so many other needs and problems.

2. Washington Redskins - New Coach, New System, Crappy execution of it all.  Jason Campbell didn’t even complete his first pass until there was less than 2 minutes in the first half.  Campbell made it look like he wanted to call it a night during halftime.  The Redskins didn’t have a drive last over 2:50 until their 9th drive of the night and it didn’t even end up in any sort of score at all.  The Skin’s defense played 2 different games between the first and second half. The Giants scored on their first 4 drives and were shut out in the second half which if you have to try and find something good for the skins, I guess that is it.

1. St. Louis Rams - Where to start????? The Rams only had 46 plays fro if you ask mem scrimmage which is just pathetic. 0-11 on Third Down Conversions which might even be worse.  Steven Jackson had 14 rushing attempts and only had 40 yards as well as 3 receptions for 34 yards, not very good for a top 5 back in the league. Not having Orlando Pace really hurts the Rams as does loosing their link to the Los Angles Rams in Isaac Bruce. Not having these two players hurt Jackson, Holt and Bulger more than we knew from training camp it looks like.  When Randy McMichael, who is a good TE granted, but when he is your leading receiver that is not too good for the Rams or their Offense.

Josh Hammer - Overtime Sportz