Eagles fast start, Texans fast finish caps off crazy Week 1 of NFL; Winners, Losers, and Stinkers of the week

                 Monday Night Football summed up Week 1 of the NFL perfectly:
Unbelieveable Hype, Big Suprises, and Crazy Comebacks to say the least!
Here's SportsEffectLive take on Week 1 in the NFL.

Monday Nite Results:
Washington, with a ruckus crowd & a hyped up RG3 came into the game and was immediately smacked by costly turnovers, blunders, and a Eagles team who ran 53 plays (more than half of the NFL teams didn't run that many plays in their entire game). After the Vick turnover on a backwards pass, the Eagles scored 33 straight points, getting new Coach Chip Kelly his first win in his NFL coaching career, and spoiling the home opener for the Redskins. RG3 looked a little rusty, but didn't make excuses at the post game interview.

Houston started off like the Redskins, and it seems that the Chargers and Philip Rivers would get their first home victory as they held a 28 to 7 lead late in the third quarter. But the Texans kept fighting and after a Rivers interception return by Cushing the Texans stormed back to tie the game, and eventually won it on a last second FG. Afterwards Rivers took the blame. No Norv Turner on this one!


Heres our Week 1 NFL Winners & Losers

Baller of the Week - Peyton Manning , Broncos
7 Touchdowns. Nothing else needed. Enjoy fantasy owners!

Stinker of the Week - Brandon Weeden, Browns; Jacksonville Jags
3 INT's and a loss at home to a team u felt u was better than? Grrr!
Jags scored 2 points, @ home vs Chiefs? With Maurice Jones Drew? Yikes!


Winners: Colin Kaepernick - Anquan Boldin duo
This group tore off the Packers, and had Clay Matthews so mad, he wanted to rip Kaepernicks head off. Literally!

Losers: AFC North- All four teams lost (Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, & Baltimore) which is never happened the first week of the season since forever. Last year considered the best division in NFL, could it possibly be the worst division in the NFL this season?

Winners: Coaches- Andy Reid, Chip Kelly, Sean Payton, Rex Ryan
Reid smacked Jags in his debut wit KC.
His sucessor (Kelly) at Eagles pulled a suprise W with his fast break offense;
Payton, after a 1 year hiatus, led his Saints to a late win against Atlanta Falcons.               Rex Ryan will take wins any way he can get em, as Jets get a huge break to win over Bucs.

Losers: Running Backs - Only 2 RB's reached the 100 yard barrier this weekend, and one is already injured (Vereen, Pats). Shady McCoy reached the 100 plateau and that's it. So unless your running back can catch the ball, don't look for fantasy stardom from the RB's.

Winners: Terrelle Pryor, Raiders; Tyrann Mathieu, Cards, EJ Manuel, Bills
While his team didn't win, Pryor did rush for over a hundred yards, throw for over 200 more, all the while having the Raiders with a chance to beat the Colts in Indy.
Mathieu, or well known as honey badger, played well and also caused a fumble on apparent touchdown run to keep the Cardinals in the game. Known for is explosive plays with LSU last couple years, and also for failing a drug test, he looks to be a immediate impact player, which will be good for the Cards.
Manuel came off minor knee surgery and kept his Bills squad leading up until the final minute against TommyBoy and the Pats. Throwing for over 200 yards, he was rock solid in his debut.

Who do U feel were the winners & losers in the NFL this week?

Comments are welcome

Weekend Review: NFL Week 1 Recap; Knox Indy vs Ohio Challenge;

SportsEffectLive.com brings you the hottest events going down this past weekend.....With NFL week 1 goin down, the Knox vs Indy Challenge along with the Dayton Revival Festival, there was plenty of great things to do in the Miami Valley and beyond. 

                      Heres our SELIVE HOT 5 SPORTS WEEKEND RECAP

• 1st Annual Knox Pro Am Indy vs Ohio Challenge a HUGE Success

   With local NBA ballers such as Norris Cole, Daequan Cook, and Chris Wright flexing their hoop games, the hoop challenge at Trent Arena was a battle down to the finish. With thousands in attendance, the people was treated to great basketball from not only the Ohio legends, but from the Indy ballers as well. There were live music performances, raffles and giveaways from all of the NBA players in between TV timeouts, with Wolfie Mr. Sportsknowitall providing the commentary. President Carlos Knox felt like that it was a success as well, and looks forward to this being a yearly event in the city.
Look for the SELive TOP 5 plays from the event coming this weekend.


NFL Week 1 goes down 
   NFL week 1 is over, and it brought some of the biggest suprises - and dissapointments - to ever start a season in history. Here are some of the highlights and lowlights of the week:

•   Highlights: Cowboys set the tone: Dallas is the one franchise who has supposedly wasted the most money and talent in trying to get to the elusive Super Bowl. However, with a revamped secondary, they shut down the Giants and won 24-17. Can they do it at the end of the season when it counts?

•  Highlights: Mark Sanchez, Jets  - Sanchez, who has been ridiculed to no end since having a sub-par last season, and pre-season; However Sanchez led the Jets to a 48-point outburst, leaving the haters in the rear view, for a week at least.

• Lowlights: Bengals get smashed by Ravens

  This is the season that the Bengals can change their culture, but if they play like they did against the Ravens Monday night,  the only thing that will be changing is their fanbase. Now granted, the Ravens are Super Bowl contenders, but even without Terrell Suggs in the lineup the Ravens snatched the Bengals up and tossed them around like a fresh salad. The Bengals will have to bounce back next week. Or they could be in some real trouble this season.

• Lowlights: Browns Rookie QB Brandon Weeden 

   I guess you could say that Weeden looked lost from the start, as he inexplicably got swallowed up under the Flag on the field during the pre-game ceremonies. Once the game actually started, looks like Weeden never found his way out. His stats? 12 -34, 4 INT's and a fumble. And when he had a chance to take the Browns down for a Game Winning FG? No chance. Management feels he will get better. I hope so. Because you have a better QB (Colt McCoy) sitting behind him wondering why he didn't get the chance.

• Highlights: RG3 lights up scoreboard, beats Saints

  The only thing Robert Griffin III didn't do on Sunday was wear his Sunday's best at the press conference; He decided that his first interview would be done in his Skins uni, which was fine considering the day he had in it; 19-26, 320 yards, 2 TD's and 0 INT's, and most importantly, leading the Skins' to a 40-32 win over the Saints. In watching RG3 you seen a confident, cool customer who looks like a franchise QB. And yes he will have bad days, but on this day? He showed his worth, outlasting future hall of famer Drew Brees. Redskin fans are foaming at the mouth right now....He definitely outshined #1 pick Luck and his other rookie QB counterparts...And was the only one to get a W as well.

• Highlights: Referees do a good job.

   When it was first announced that there would be "scab" refs due to discussions about the new agreement for the refs, most thought it would be settled by Week 1. Not so. And after all the complaining and whining, it seems that Principal - I mean Commissioner -  Goodell is deciding to stick with the new blood. Although everybody and they mama feels like the old refs are better, the new refs (which includes female refs as well) have been steadily getting better. Question is, how long will Goodell go with the newcomers, as the longer it goes, the more antsy the other refs, along with the coaches and players, get?

• Lowlights: Referees do a bad job.

   Although some of the refs did a good job, there were a few instances that were not as good. Like Victor Cruz being held on a obvious play in the Cowboys game, which might have cost them a TD; like the refs giving the Seahawks a extra timeout during crunch time against the Cardinals; And so on; The point is this: The refs are HUMAN, therefore they will make mistakes. It happens. As long as they man (or woman) up, and don't make any amazingly bad mistakes, then the replacement refs will and are doing a good job.

• Highlights:  Fantasy star RB's get their money

 
   If you took one of the 3 best RB's in the game (Arien Foster, Matt Forte, Adrian Peterson) you did well....All three of those performers did their thing and scored TD's and ran for a lot of yards, and caught for plenty of yards. Look to add Maurice Jones-Drew to that list for next week.

• Lowlights: Fantasy Star QB's dissapear

 
  If you took the likes of Mike Vick, Matt Stafford, or Eli Manning in fantasy, then it was a uneasy day for you. Although Stafford and Vick were in Top 5 in yards, they both threw too many INT's for you to capitalize on it. And although Eli was solid, he wasn't spectacular. Vick and Stafford tled their teams to comeback W's, so they will probably come back with vintage games. I'd definitely play em.


Highlights: Serena Williams, Andy Murray hoist US OPEN trophies

Serena Williams is showing why she could be considered the GREATEST FEMALE TENNIS PLAYER EVER. Williams continued her amazing season with a comeback win over #1 Ranked Victoria Azarenka, giving her another Slam this season.On the other side of the spectrum, Andy Murray held off former US champ Djokovic in five sets, giving him his first ever Major Championship, and second consecutive major victory (if you count the Olympics); when Murray lost Wimbledon to Federer, he told the English faithful "im getting close"...well he wasn't playing, and this could lead to Murray making his own spectacular run.

 
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